The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Ben. Butler scouts the idea that he
could be 50 lost TO decency as To accept
retainer from Guiteau.
Senator Davis, of Illinois, continues to
reiterate that he will not be u candidate
for reelection. David is evidently anx-
iOus for the ravishing TO begin.
From the fact that Zolo, the French
romancer. is said to be writing another
novel, we infer that the sanitary interests
of Paris would be subserted by reor-
ganizing its Board Of Health.
The conviction is prevalent in some
quarters that very large proportion of
the vitality in the atmosphere pervading
the Presidents sick chamber, is alb
sorbed by DIR. Bliss mouth.
Il scarcely requires the foresight of
Mother Shipton TO predict that Mr..
Conkling will not go into the Republi-
can National Convention in 1884 with
the New York delegation in his pocket.
The governor of Missouri has given
the Winston train robbers fair start.
If they are apprehended now, it is 10 be
hoped that they will not be SO utterly
ungraieful as TO reflect upon his execu-
tive clemency.
A strict sense of candor impels us TO
say that it is not likely that Mr. Conk-
ling's mantle will have 10 be olet OUT on
the shoulders or ''cut away under the
| arms in order to allow Senator Lapham
to don it with convenience and comfort.
A magazine writer says: Ideal phys
ical beauty is incompatible with mental
development" The amenities of the
profession impel us to resent this insid-
uOus aspersion upon the intellectually
of the handsome editor of the Leaven-
worth Times.
The man who desires To obtain en-
plOyment which cannot be interfered
with by the mutations of politics, and
| who wants dead open and shut ON a
lifelong job, should start out in quest of
bigger idiot than the Governor of
Texas
The Chicago Times sees bright fu-
ture for Roscoe Conkling, and wouldn't
be surprised if the whirligig of time
should make him the next Republican
candidate for Pr esidcnt The Times
occasionally flies off on very romantic
tangent.
Guiteau's moral complexion does not
suffer by comparison with that of the
man who is so lost TO all sense of hui
mainly and decency as to speculate on
the Presidents condition by manipula-
ting the stock market with the aid of
bogus dispatches.
1t is said that Mr.. Noycs, the retiring
minister to France, recently declined a
banquet rendered him by the American
residents of Paris. The apocryphal
character of this report becomes readily
apparent when we remember that Mr..
NOyes is an Ohio man.
The public will regret to learn that
Guiteau used to tell fortunes in Texas.
The future of the most abandoned sin
ner on earth, even from strictly Ortho-
dox standpoint, can hold in store no
very painful surprises for man who has
lived in the Lone Star State.
A telescope of great magnifying pow
er is being constructed at New York I'M
der the supervision of the most eminent
astronomers of the country. AS soon rs
it is completed it is hoped that with its
| al svf HNo oh
regarding the whereabouts of T. Plat
The anti polYgamy plank of the plat
form adopted by the Iowa Republicans
was inserted through the inference of
some 10000 anti-polygamy MOrmons,
who abide in the southwestern part of
that state. They hold the original
tenets of the Mormon church, but are
strongly opposed to the favorite institu.
ton of the church as it is conducted at
Salt Lake.
The Rev. DR.. Talmage is reported to
to have said the other day that modern
young ladies were not the daughters of
Shem and Ham, but the daughters of
| Hem and Sham. If this is authentic
the Doctor should have sixty days in Jail
on bread and water, and be obliged to
read at least one of his own sermons ev-
cry day during his term of imprisOn-
ment.
1t seems that, although Mr.. Conkling
may be said to be down, he still Yields
his old weapon with tOlerably fine effect,
as the following choice exhibition of
irony goes TO prove. On being interro-
gated recently regarding his future plans
he said: "With the permission of White
law Read, John Hay and Henry Water
house. 1 shall practice little law and
attend to my accumulated correspond
ence"
The London World in speaking of the
professional politician in America, adj
mits that such person does really exist
in England, and that nc sits on one side
or other of the House of Commons.
Some of the finest spirits in the United
States, refusing to take part in the pub
lie life of their country, have, says the
London World, sought refuge in liter
AZURE, whose presiding spirit and genius
have as little as possible in common with
the actual affairs of American life. The
same thing, says that journal, will
| oontr in ENGLAND