The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-20

Matthews was connrmeu ASsoclaLe JUS
tice of the United States Supreme Court
in the Senate yesterday.
An English banker says that the very
best class of people in the United States
are the rich money lenders of New York
city, who have little respect for the aver
age politician and great regard for the
government.
A new contribution to the conscience
fund has been received at Washington.
1t is source of profound regret that
the envelop in which it was enclosed is
not embellished with the card of ex-
Senator Dorsey.
Susan B. Anthony should not grow
weary in well-doing. A germ of lively
encouragement to the womsn's rights
movement is Vouchsafed in the fact
that two female Migrants are employ
ed on the city rock pile at st. Louis.
The Dutch delegate 10 The monetary
conference proposes long list of ques-
tons for debate. Won't he be astonish-
ed when Evarts hands in his list? 1t
wilfbe the most difficult lesson in Eng
lish syntax those foreigners ever took.
1t is fair to infer that the trainers of
the constitution had no premOnitiOn of
Senator Conkling, or they would have
incorporated a clause defining the pre-
negatives OF the President in connection
with Collector of the Port of New York.
Charlie Ross, the lost Jeanette, and
the bones of A. T. Stewart are still Wy
ing with tolerable success as popular OBJ
jects of search with the friends of Cor
ham, the admirers OF Brady, and the
mysterious individual that struck Billy
Patterson.
The President of Cornell University
has been invited to resign because he re-
Gently refused to entertain Mr.. Beecher.
1t does seem little tough to eblIge q
man of Henry Wards ardent social quail
tiles and decided domestic proclivities
to put up at a tavern.
Boston Transcript: So there is to be
mo annexation of Mexico, after all.
Well, that is blessing. There aren't
enough officers TO go round as it is; and
then we could no longer speak of Next
canizing the government, which would
have demoralizing effect on political
speakers.
The New York Herald has opened its
batteries on Garfield The flexible edi-
tor seems to be preparing tO discount
the record which he scored as political
craw-fish after the election returns came
| in from Indiana and Ohio last October.
Bennett is the champion topper of the
American press.
Professor Proctor makes the startling
announcement that the world cannot
possibly last more than fifteen or twenty
million years longer. And yet there are
intelligent men who confidently believe
that the Kansas City custom house will
be completed and in running order when
Gabriel blows his trumpet in the morn.
ing"
A Washington dispatch says that the
fight for the election of senate officers
will not be renewed at present, it having
been virtually decided by the Republi
cans to let it go over until December
Taking his present condition as basis
Of speculation, it is extremely doubtful
whether Gorham will keep till that tins
without putting him on ice.
The advent of new vegetables. fresh
strawberries and spring chickens seem.
TO have put an effectual quietus upoI
} the fasting lunacy. The only case Of
! prolonged abstinence from food that ha.
: been recently recorded. is that OF {
Leavenworth man who has been in {
cOmatose state ever since going into tn,
Standard Office, some four weeks ago, Il
look over the files of that paper.
1t is a significant fact that the sapien
individuals who persisiently denounc,
the temperance law as a dead letter, ar
the selfsame models of consistenc,
, whose exuberant yawps are always turn
ed loose upon the prohibitory amend
ment as piece of sumptuarY Legislation
which interferes with the exercise of in
dividual rights and aims deadly blov
at the principle of popular liberty.
1 The original deprayity Of the nobl
red man Of the forest is manifestinl
a symptoms of ebullition In Colorado
n where q hankering for Caucasian scalp
is animating the soul of the festive Uts
a Another band Of aborigines are repoEte
= Is having taken the war path in Texa,
and all things considered, we regard
) Is an uncommonly suspicious momer
4 for Sam KirkwoOd to relieve the publ
a suspense in regard TO his Indian polio,
y Chang" the Chinese giant, says
n @After the show season is over I have
b most magnificent idea. will seek a
l. Introduction into New York society An
Is buy q mansion ON Fifth ayenu
h Then 1 will turn it from top 10 bottou
st into a Chinese palace. Everything aha
5. be Chinese, and in the most perfect tast
Is I viii then give Chinese meals, serve
y by Chinese maidens and boys, to u
best people of New York have ne