The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-14

out which is being played in the New
York legislature has exertcd no effect
whatever on the mercury at Albany.
The Talbot boys, of Nodaway county
Missouri, have confessed to the crime oil
numbering their father, and it is thought
there will be no further interference with
the course of the law in their behalf.
Mission Ridge. near Chattanooga,
was the site of one of the most decisive
battles of the civil war 1t was wild,
rugged place, worth a dollar or SO al
acre. Now it is covered with orchards.
Whisky is smuggled into Canada in
barrels painted the color of oil barrels.
Several are tied together, and as they 60
almost entirely under water, they are
lowed across. In case of alarm the bar
rels are anchored.
New York Herald: There is very lit
tie glory gained by misapplied courage.
A western bull demOralized a whole
menagerie yesterday and a locomotive
besides, yet the dispatches do not say
what became of him.
The report that Guiteau has long
been an ardent sympathizer with the
Greenback movement, will he promptly
recognized as dodge on the part of his
friends TO establish the plea of mental
alteration q his case.
A French Feyalist journal says that ga
haa 81. In,
of treating him as sovereign" The
American people will not appreciate the
honor in the degree our transatlantic
contemporary specifies.
The theory that Guiteau's crime is
the natural result of office seeking is
effectually exploded by the fact that in
the entire history of the government no
Ohio man has ever been arrested for a
violent assault upon the head of the
nation.
II is said that when Gniteau WAS first
shown u paper embcllishcd with II wood
cut of himself he saak down in AFFECT
despair, eXclaiming: "lSelribu:i,.n has
ovcrtaken me! Garfield is avenged I!
Now let me die, for the penalty at my
crime is greater than can heai -
An alderman of Ottawa has made a
flying machine which is somewhat less
of failure than most inventions of the
sort. Starting from an elevation of fifty
feet, he was able to keep III the air for
distance of about quarter of n mile.
The contrivance has wings Worked by a
crank.
The fact that the physicians attendant
upon President Garfield have ordered II
refrigerating apparatus from the east TO
cool the temperature in the Executive
Mansion, probably gave rise to the rumor
that Charles Francis Adams had been
summoned 10 put in an appearance at
the White House.
The real cnOrmity of Guiteau's crime
does not become fully apparent until we
pause to reflect that had his attempt to
Rssassinate the. President been successful,
ftewould have precipItated upon the
country the dangerous experiment of
endeavOring to run the government with
out an Ohio man in the extensive chair.
The Paris papers have a big insight
into American politics. They explain
the attempted assassination of Gen. Gar
field rs an effort tn secure a third term
for Gen. Grant. As an instance of pO-
litical accumen this Interpretation easily
corners the flour market, the back town.
ships yet to hear from TO the contrary
Notwithstanding.
: Griscofh. the Ciicag6 raster, is c0lS
sumed with the pangs of hunger and is
depressed over the financial failure of
his venture. AS there is no statutory
provision in this country TO prevent men
from making resplendent asses of them
selves, it is we'll enough that the natural
law of retrIbutiOn is so adequate in sup
plementing all delihquencies in this di-
reetiOn,