The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
HERE ann THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
Il begins to look little as if Russian
Nihilism and American communism
might be at least first cousins.
A Kansas man has named his daugh- |
ter Ohio, in the hope that he may some
day be the grandfather of president
The Buffalo Express says: General
Simon Cameron is MacVeagh's father
in-law; but he couldn't be more opposed |
10 him politically if he were his
mother-in-law."
"I'll be hanged if I wouldn't rather
have that Raymond woman and the
Lockwood both in my hair than to stand
another tilt with that internal new re
cruit from Virginia."-Ben Hill.
Persons who are fanatical on the ques-
tion of Sabbath desecration will doubt
less find food for moralizirg in the fact
that the Car was returning from Sun
day parade, when he met his horrible
death.
Cadet Whitaker, it Is said, is about
to try his hand ut writing novel. There
is wholesome sentiment against mob
violence in this country, but we fear the
knight of the mutilated ears is crowd
ing the margin.
The prompt and efficient steps taken
by Senator Malone to divert public
interest from Russian to domestic af-
fairs, furnishes pretty conclusive EVIL
dence of his active sympathy with the
Monroe doctrine.
The assassination of the Russian en-
peror is said to have SD shattered the
nerves of Queen Victoria that she is
afraid to even run across the back yard
to her nearest neighbours to borrow q Ia
BILE spoonful of saleratus.
The Rev F. D. Power, the clergyman
in charge of the Washington church at
tended by President Garfield, is young
man only thirty years old and remark
ably brilliant preacher. He was once a
professor in Bethany college, West Vir-
ginia. -
The death rate in New York City last
Gotham are wholly given up to niger
sollism, the revival meetings which are
) being prosecuted under the auspices of
Beecher and Talmage should be attend
cd with reasonable measure of success.
"When Mrs. Hayes portrait was pre-
scented to General Garfield" says a
Washington writer, Mrs. Garfield, in a
very dark green velvet walking suit, with
soft lace at her neck and with brown
gray hair, stood by her husbands side
enduring a crucial test with the picture,
and she came out If the ordeal without
loss"
1t is said that the experience of Presi
dent Garfield at Mentor, while beleaguer
ed by the army of ofIice-seekers who
kept Lawnfield in state of seige fol-
three entire months, did much to recon
cile the late Gear of Russia TO the perils
by which he was surrounded, and ena
bled him to exercise degree of philoso
ply which rendered comparatively
peaceful his last days upon earth.
1t is announced by one of the leading
; theatrical managers of the country thai
Anna Dickinson will shortly favor the
public with an impersonation of Ham
let We have no doubt that her con
ception of the work she has under
taken will be abundantly intellectual
but isn't the role of the Melancholy
: Dane u Etriffle too effeininate TO afford
adequate scope to the stalwart capabili.
ties of that strong-minded ladyG
The Chicago Inter Ocean is rather dis
= posed to censure General Hancock fol
, failing to call upon President Garfield
!. during his recent visit to the national
capital. Our stalwart contemporary
should not be too exacting on this score
, We are not advised of any system of Ell
quette or rule of war which requires
! the under dog in the fight to stand by
: and grin and wag his tail while his vic
tor with the brass collar gnaws the con
/. tested bone with insolent complacency
4 4 bill has been introduced in the Hi
c nois legislature which is enough to make
all the romancers in the world rise il
arms. 1t is nothing more nor less thar
a NE tsure to prohibit elopements De
> tails as to its provisions are not at hand
e and no description is given of the cir
i, cumstances and personal characteristic:
4 of the prosaic legislator who introduced
t it.; bnt the common opinion will un
t doubleday be that man who would
I father such measure is no. fit 10 fathel
5 anything more human and interesting.
: Springfield Republican: "The cor
3 respondents who describe the elder Mrs
D Garfield with picturesque respect claim
3 that she is the first mother who has seer
D her son made president. Mrs. Jesse r
Grant. of Jersey City, without doub
e could contest that claim. There ought tC
be something written about PRESIDENT
: mothers; the wives have always beer
t talked about, but excepting the moth
or of Washingto, who gave him tender
: farewell IS he set out for New York Il
$ be inaugurated as the first president, thl
Il mothers have had little said for them"
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