The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-20
HERE AND THEE.

The number of emigTants from Ger
many to this county dnring the first
eight months of tbs year has been 100,
900 against 65,OGe for the same period
OF last year.
The total expense Of the late PTesi-
dent Garnslafs sickness and burial
amonts to $250O0@ DR.. Bliss bill is
$25 ,OOOS DOs. Agnew and Hamilton $24,-
900, and Dg. Reyburn $1,000.
There viii be a vacancy before long
in the post Office at Fremont. Ohio.
The report that r. B. Hayes will be a
eaAdidate for that position is probably
inaccurate.
The prOhibitionists in Ohio were
sOundlY whipped at the recent election.
They met the fate. which all deputy
Democrats who muster under the BAN
ner of pretended. reform so richly de-
serve.
Jefferson, jackson, Van Buren, and
Tyler were Widowers when elected to
the Presideney, while Buchanan was a
bachelor. Ar. Arthur is therefore the
sixth President who goes wifeless into
the Executive Mansion.
In some. parts of New York they are
paSing as high as fifty cents a gallon for
EAter. We can't understand why people
will stay where they have to purchase
the free gifts of nature when thene is as
wet place as Kansas to emigrate to.
It is stated upon excellent medical
authority that it is very detrimental to
health to sleep in the day time. Minis
teEs who are in the habit of preaching
longer than thirty minutes should mani
fest sufficient interest in the sanitary
welfare of the public to cut this item
out and paste it in their hats.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll is going
with all his family to New Mexico,
where has become interested in some
silver mines He is quoted as saying
that the Indians are so dangerous in that
neighborhoOA that; he and his family
prefer THAI ift one must run the risk all
should d.. SO. that they may live or die
tOgetheas
DIR. HAmInond is credited with the
stateaant that whatever mistakes may
have, been made by the physicians. it is
plain' that President Garfield must have
dsed!frOm the effects of his wound. This
concession is entitled 10 all the more
weight in view of the fact that the Doc
tors proffered services in the Presidents
case were declined by the cabinet with
thanks.
No fewer than Eve Contemplating show
men" have visited Cleveland in the hope
of purchasing the funeral car which
conveyed the remains Of President Gar
field. and have offered very large prices
for it--$5O. 900, it h said, in one case,
The persons in autksg1ty have refused
even 20 listen TO sucA e1Fers. The car is
to be enclosed IN a handsome case con-
strucaed in large part Of plate glass and
preserved in the cemetery.
Mrs Abraham Lincoln, who is at the
C1arendon Hotel, New York, is too sick
% see callers During the greater part
Of the day she lies in bed. Her face
shows the marks Of age and sickness
aAd she is No longer ne picture that she
seemed TO be wheA presiding 1T the
White House. Her physician. Dr.. Seyre,
ssys that she Is in besaez health than she
Was last spring. SAe will remain in
New York for n few days only.
Amer infinite paias and much ter
roT the occupants Of = AOael IN Madison
Wis, succeeded in killing snake which
had been discovered snHgly coiled upon
. cushioned settee. Before the first
glory Of the enterprise had faded q tFav-
elleF descended from bis room with an
Anxioas and careworn look upon his face
and asked tbs landlord If he had seen
anywhere shout q pet snake which he
was in the habit Of carrying in his coat
tail pocket. but which. had mysl erioasly