The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18

cut, is tie only man thus far enlisted in
the srmy as a private thathas been elect
ed to the United States Senate.
Mr. Ross, the father of the lost Char
ley, says that the only way in which his
son can ever be identified is by the boys
recollections of his home and his abduc-
ton.
| The supreme court of Illinois has de-
cided that the game laws cannot prevent
| the sale, in the close season in the state,
of game killed in other states and ship
ped there.
The Rev. T. T. Kendrick, recently ex-
PEELED from Stapp's Methodist Episco-
pal church, in Decatur, Illinois, has
been admitted to the Methodist Protest
ant church
1t is now said that if Stanley Mat
thews, of Ohio, is not confirmed as as
sociate justice, the president will send
| in the name of ex-Attorney General Taft,
| of Ohio. The state is inexhaustible.
The building occupied by the Electric
Manufacturing company of New York,
burned on the Sth, and it was with diff
Guilty that the employees, including 160
men and 80 women, made their escape
from the flames.
The Republican executive committee
of Virginia adopted, by vote of 10 to
z, an address calling upon Republicans
to stand by the party organization. This
action is considered victory for those
who oppose an alliance with the read
justers.
Since the once promiscuous Oneida
community has settled down to real
marriage fifty new sewing machines
have been purchased and only one set of
fine furniture. Sentimentalism has de-
parted from the Oneida community and
all is business"
Rufus Hatch, in an interview with a
New York Tribune reporter, expresses
an intention To continue the fight against
the telegraph consolidation. He says
the companies have not done thing
which is legal, nor can they get the sew
eral states to legalize their action.
The new senator, Van Wyck, of Ne
braska, has lived in that state only eight
years, bat bought the land near Nebras-
ka City, whereon he now lives, more
than twenty years ago, intending then
to some day becomea Nebraskan- He
has beautiful home and a fine farm.
Wilson. of Iowa, is the favorite of the
politicians of his state for place in the
cabinet, but Garfield, il is belieyed, is
personally inclined toward Allison.
There is likely 10 be a warm fight in the
Republican party of Iowa between the
southern and the northern portions of the
state
Nearly $4,000 citizens of Minnesota
over 81 years OF age have thus far signed
the petition to the legislature asking
that women be given the ballot on all
questions affecting the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors, and that the local option
law be made applicable TO cities and in
cOrporated towns.
The cabinet spectators, after weeks
of arduous drafts on their imaginations
for their facts, are forced To- admit that
with the exception of Mr.. Blaine, no
member Of the cabinet has yet been de
cided upon. All of which is fresh
tribute TO General Garfield's ability to
keep his mouth shut
A gentleman recently returned 10
Washington from Mentor says General
Garfield expressed his intention of Civ
ing Robert Lincoln, of Chicago, some
fitting recognition, not only on his own
account, but because he should take |
pleasure in making so graceful an ac-
acknowledgement 10 the memory of his |
father.
An ancient barn, recently destroyed |
by fire. near LitiZ, Pennsylvania, was
used as a prison for the captured Hes |
SLAMS during the revolution. Baron |
ohHSu tic al
half ago, and the buildings were occu- |
pied by the army under Gen. Washing |
ton during his campaign in that section |
of the state.
Senator-elect Conger is suffering from |
u curious ailment. At election time he |
had a run round" ON the little finger of |
his right hand, and the clasps and shak- |
ing administered by the people who con-
graduated him were so emphatic and SO |
many that the trif1ing trouble was great |
ly aggravated He has been forced 20 |
carry the hand in a sling for fortnight. |
On the 9Th, the Poo. Canadian Pacific |
railroad freight sheds fell the entire |
length, over 200 feet, from the weight of
the snow. No one was injured. Work |
has been suspended on the first hundred |
miles of the Canadian Pacific railroad, |
west, and most of the men have returned |
to the city. 1t is believed the suspension |
is but temporary and greater portion of |
the men expected to be re-engaged under |
the syndicate.
If all the money which has been appro-
priated for rivers and harbors during the
past twenty five years were TO be accum-
ulated in piles OF silver dollars and
dumped into the rivers and harbors
aforesaid, it would be impossible TO float
anything but fiat-bottomed boat IN any
one of them One of the most admir-
able qualities of this great and glorious
country is tine extreme amiability with
which the people pay for the privilege
of swindling themselves.