The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-17
HERE AND THERE.

0AN
Il sthetic Boston guzzled TAI ,6O4 bar
rels of beer last year.
According to reports the body of a. T.
Stewart has been found again. 1t is ev-
identity time for Charlie Ross and the
Blenders to vault to the front.
1t seems that the laws in the District
of Columbia are so framed that the
greatest rogue can slip out of very
tight place on the smallest kind of
tcchnicality.
Mr.. MacVeagh, Corkhill, or who ever
was responsible for the manner in which
the star route prosecution was conduct
ed in Brady's case, seems to know
mighty we'll show not to do it,"
Delaware only turned out 100000
baskets of peaches this season as against
100000 last year. We should be
pleased to see that state raise more
fruit and less Democrats.
The announcement that Boston nan
had three of his ribs broken by falling
from his bicycle the other day will tend
to ameliorate, in small degree at least,
the popular prejudice against these We
hicles.
The first concert of Madame Adelina
Patti took place in New York on
Wednesday evening. This celebrated
prima donna made her debut in that
city on the evening of November Gath,
1850.
A score or more of new witnesses were
furnished Guiteau by the government
on Thursday. 1t will take more than
the defense can examine in a whole year
to convince the American people of the
assassin's insanity.
Governor Littlef1eld, of Rhode Island,
at the risk of being branded a howl
ing idiot by Sol. Miller, of the Troy
Chief, refuses his sanction to the bills
for wine at the French banquet at New
port, Monday evening.
The st. Louis and Kansas City dailies
are so filled with local criminal news of
murders, gambling hells, forgeries and
defalcations, that they have not found
room to publish any editorials against
prohibition IN Kansas for nearly two
weeks.
The Globe-DemOcratic, while vcntur-
ing the hope that there may never be
mob law in st. Louis, intimates that if
there is any place where Judge Lynch
might with propriety exercise jurisdic-
ton, it is among the cut-throats of
that city.
VIM. F. Ramstall, clerk of the coal
firm of Cherry q Co., of Chicago, has
decamped with 5000. We don't sup.
pose that Baldwin, the magnificent de-
faulter of the Newark bank, would per.
NIT such a common thief to "shine up
his shoes.
In a single county in Texas there are
100000 acres of unappropriated land
There are good many people in this
country, who, while they are apparently
reckless regarding the great problem Of
future punishment for the wicked, still
manifest a very pronounced disposition
to keep out of Texas.
We regard it safe to say that the
effort to prove the insanity of Guitear
upon the ground that he once fell vic
lently in love with an Indiana woman
will prove abOrtive. The instances
where taste is founded upon reason art
exceptional, and this is especially tru'
1 affairs of the heart
The question occurs, if the Kansas
City Times reporter and the clerk of Ii,
: st. James hotel were close to Russell
the murderer, when the fifteen seconds
interval occurred between the SECOND
and third shots, as related in our tele
graph report, why they did not sieze hin
and prevent the murder.
The liquor traffic is unusually brisl
: in the neighborhood of large cemetery
: but rarely intrudes into the premises q
: at Evanston, Ill, where five bar rooms
3 were open within the graveyard bounds
1t was a common sight, before q recen
reform. to see drunken men lying on tn
, graves, and in some cases they wer
, mourners gone astray from funeral prc
: cessions-
A The anti-prohibihon candidate 70
sheriff in Leavenworth county was Will
t ped out OF his boots, Notwithstanding
i the fact that the county gave majorit
G of over 1000 against the adoption of th
n temperance amendment a year agS
Straws show which way the wind blow
a Queen Victoria completed on Octobe
# 25th, reign of forty-four years and on
r. hundred and twenty-eigh; days, whic
a is just the length of time that Quee
Elizabeth sat on the throne Victori
:, has now reigned longer than any oths
q English sovereign except George III
Henry Ill, and Edward III.