The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

LongfelloW was 70 years old Friday.
The Missouri Democracy are troubled
about losing their grip on that state.
Scoville's modesty only seems to he
riValed by that of Guiteau.
Tilden counsels compromise between
the Tammanyites and regulars at AL
bany.
| Gov. Crittenden will not call a special
session of the Missouri legislature to re
district the state.
Miss Brewster, the daughter of the at.
torney general, is q graceful young wo-
man, with delicate features and brunette
complexion. She wears becoming cos
tunes of ruby color at her mothers re-
ceptions.
The Rev. DIR. Paxton, of Washington,
has been offered $4,000 year to be-
come pastor of the West Presbyterian
church, in West Forty-second street,
New York. $4,000 year has awfully
attractive qualities and we reckon the
DR.. will accept.
An autograph letter of George Wash
ington's, taking strong ground against
slavery in this country, and expressing
fervent hope that it would soon be
blotted out, is said to have been found
among the papers of the late W. E.
StoughtOn. With it were other original
and unpublished letters Of Washington.
IA.
weekly, to be edited by Mr.. Albion w.
Tourgee, author of fools Errand,"
will shortly begin publication in Phila-
delphia. Great things are promised for
it.-Exchange.
The judge will find, before he gets
through with this enterprise, that he
has entered upon another Fools
Errand."
John Roach, the ship-builder, is be-
coming almost as familiar q figure in
Washington as any member
of Congress; and he is
well known in New York, Balti-
more, Philadelphia, Boston and Chica-
60 as we'll. Whether making a tour
through his works, spending an evening
at home, out at a dinner, or button
holing Congressman in the Riggs House
at Washington, he is almost invariably
seen in the same heavy pilot cloth suit,
including the sack coat, or, as the
sailors term it, the "pea-jacket." Any
one who met him when he landed here
from Ireland at sixteen years of age and
was searching for employment in a ma
chineshop might be slow to believe
that he can now count his wealth by the
millions, and that he owns the largest
bodybuilding works in the country.
The walls of the aesthetic Senator
Pendleton's new drawing room at
Washington are covered with blue silk.
Mrs. Garfield, eldest daughter of
General Lewis Cass, died recently in
New York. Only one child of the gen.
eral survives, Mrs. Henry Ledyard.
Senator David Davis gave the first Of
q series of dinners in Washington 6atur-
day, among the guests being President
Arthur, Speaker Keller, ex-Secretary
Blaine, and Chief Justice Waite.
That most genial and kindly of men,
LongfelloW. grows even gentier as he
grows older. He said Of Oscar Wilde
the other day: "Well, Mr.. Wilde has
written some good verses; he cannot be
an ignorant man."
The Cincinnati Enquirer enumerates
twelve Ohio statesmen-six of q party
who travel about with presidential
rods in their hats, hoping TO
attract the electric fluid. Twelvei We
venture the assertion there are not less
than thirty.
General Burnside's large silver punch:
bowl. presented 10 him by his staff off,
Gers, Was sold in Providence the other
day for &425. His silver was widely
scattered, forks and spoons and ladies
being sold separately TO people who
wanted relics of the dead senator.