The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
HERE AND THERE.

NC texas CdJLlO crop lulS year
amounts to 100000 head.
The boom in confederate bonds is a
soft thing for the Republican candidate
for president in 1884.
1t is some relief to hear that in the re-
furnishing of the White House the
Steamboat style" will be abandoned.
When surveying the melee at York
town, Mr. Blaine remarked: "This has
all the horrors of war without its
glory"
A news item says it is intimated that
Hanlan is trying to avoid race with
Trickett. We sincerely hope he will
succeed.
The coronation of the Car of all the
Russias will take place the 1st of next
April, Providence and the NihIlists per-
hitting.
Women are not partial To postal cards.
Their objection to them is that they cir
cumscribe their capabilities in the way
of postscripts.
The Ohio courts have grappled with
the railroad business. The contest will
be watched with breathless interest by
the entire country.
Henry Brewer, aged 80, died in New
York on Wednesday from blood poison
ing, resulting from a bullet wound re-
ceived during the war.
An Ohio paper quotes confederate
bonds at $3.50 per ton. That is more
than they will ever be worth under a
Republican administration.
A recent dispatch taxes the credulity
OF the public by the announcement that
Chief Justice Boynton, of the Ohio SD.
preme court, has resigned. Such thing
could never have happened in any year
but 1881.
Leavenworth Times: 1t is painful to
say that the prohibition law is very
loosely enforced in Marysville. The
planet Jupiter was watched half the
night lately by the inhabitants under the
impression that it was Professor Kings
balloon
A colored man in Springfield, Ohio,
needing not the sad experience of
long line of predecessors, undertook to
cultivate the acquaintance of a buzz saw
at . coffin factory. The doctors sewed
him up and his employers lost the sale
of coffin
The brigands of Greece are in a very
had THAR
imminent at the hands of the govern
ment troops. The Missouri State Board
of Immigration might find it winning
scheme to establish few branch Offices
on the other side of the water.
A Methodist conference In Iowa has
made a mistake, in our humble judy
ment, in arraignlng one of its members
for going TO a circus. If preachers
must occasionally see the elephant let
it be under circumstances which will
encourage them in confiinng their OBJ
servations exclusively to the geological
phases of the brute.
The Commonwealth of yesterday
says: "The devil has one redeeming
trait. He never gives Doarder a cold
room" We are not so sure but that the
evangelical flavor of the Sunday edition
of that journal would be improved by
giving the wicked partner of the in
stitution "lay-ofa' from Saturday till
Monday.
Clay County Dispatch: Capt. Henry
KING Is beinp mentioned Inv many west.
ern papers as worthy successor 10 the
versatile DIR. Holland, in the editOrship
of Scribner. This is true, but the west
does not wish TO lose her most promis-
ing literary light How would T. Brewer
Peacock strike the bTethrens
The "boy preacher" is getting numer-
Ons. and one Of him has recently come
to grief at Canton, Illinois, where hs
has been on trial before the Methodist
conference on charges Of Swearing,
drunkenness, lying, smoking and claim