The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-09-21
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g, 900 600. It seems that the liquor traf-
ic In England is conducted mainly up
IN the credit 81 stem.
One of the star route jurors has mys-
disappeared. There is a sick
sning suspicion among his friends that
he has wandered off to meet Ananias. |
Vermont holds up her head magnifi-
Gently. A Republican majority of g.
900 in a total vote Of $1,000 is next to
as Mrs. Parington might |
say.
Another batch of informations have
been filed at Wichita against the saloon
lists of that place. We infer that Rev
Bernard Kelley has returned from his
trip to the east.
Six Kentucky statesmen are clamor-
ing for the honor of rattling around in
]. Proctor Knott's congressional shoes,
the latter having leveled his optics on
the governorship.
D. Gratz Brown has apparently aban-
doned the old Democratic hulk. He
hurls out broadside bombs agaiDs; the
filthy old thing in his fiery prohibition
speeches in Indiana.
There seems to be startling unanim-
ity of opinion that IDgersoll's and Nc
Sweeney's eloquence in the Star route
cases was supplemented by something
more quiet and powerful.
The st Louis Globe Democrat has not
yet ccused Mr.. Blaine of carrying
away anything from the state fair at To-
peka. The political editor of that paper
must be away from home.
The government expended $500, 900
for wind and witness fees in the star
route cases, and yet the efforts of Brady
and Dorsey to break ialo the peniten.
tiary proved wholly unaVaillng,
The latest statistics show that there is
one insane person to every go of the
population Of this country. And yet
the Greenbackers talk of putting a ma.
tional ticket in the field In 1884.
Blame went up to Maine few weeks
before the election, looked things over,
and then tenderly gathered in the con-
fuslonists. The victory has all the veni,
yidi, Yici characteristic abOutit.
Dennis Kearney has declared hImself
a Democrat. This Is about the only en-.
enlargement the Democracy have re-
ceived this year. He should be prompt
ly interviewed on the sumptuary bust
ness
The Kansas City Journal says Dem
OcFatic candidate Is never SO strong as
on the day he is nominated. Such per-
sonalities must be extremely distasteful
to gentleman OF Ct. w, Clicks sensi-
bilities.
Alexander H. Stephens has compile
ted his history of the United States. 1t
is cheering to reflect that the invention
of specifics for insomnia keeps even
pace with the spread of the disease in
this country.
The blind postmaster general of Great
Britain, without the aid of eYesight, is
able to manage the postal affairs of the
kingdom SO that, with its postal tele-
graph and postal sayings bank system it
nets revenue OF nearly 1000, 900 over
all expenses,
Balthasar Guen, the noted socialist,
committed suicide by hanging, while
in prison at Hanan. This philanthopic
act will rather tend to weaken the
theory that every phase and product of
communism is inimical to the peace of
society.
The fact that Ben. Buffers nomina-
ton for governor by the Democrats of
Massachusetts was heFalded by the new
comet will arrest public attention but
probably none but superstitious people
will attach any special import to the
coincidence.
The fact that as opulent lady as the
"Widow Callahan" who has 90. 900 head
of fine sheep scattered oyer the fertile
ranges of southwestern Texas, is desti,
tute of husband, is only explainable
upon the theory that she lives with her
mother and has wart on her nose.
Kentucky's delegation in the last con-
gress was Bourbon with single excep-
ton. In the next she may not be so
solid. In fact. if the Louisville Courier
Journal is TO be believed the Republi-
cans have lighting chance" in five
districts, with a fright smart" chance of
success in three.
It is stated that the Joy attendant up
on meeting her husband threw Mrs.
Engineer Melville into a delirium, from
which she may never recover. 1t is re-
assuring to reflect that such proofs of
marital devotion are not SO common as
to warrant any apprehension of an cpl
demIc in this direction.
We are afraid that G. Washington
Click will have to give it up. Even the
Indians are becoming prOhibitionists.
Some of the men at the Pine Ridge
Agency, Dakota, have asked the agent
to post notices offering $50 reward for
evidence by which any person is con-
victed of furnishing liquor to Indians,
and the savages themselves will pay the
money.
Financial troubles caused Mr.. A. d.
Tucker, an Ohio man, to commit sui
eide by putting a bullet through his
brain. In the light of the advanced
stage of the political canvass in the
Buckeye state this uniimeiy occurrence
seems to present all the features of one
of those gloomy and mysterious dis
pensations of Providence which can
only be penetrated by the eye of faith
The dispatches report that Miss Clara
Eckstein, of Peru, Indiana. who bias
been for many years a sufferer from spi-
nal complaint, was recently severely
scorched by lightning, and is now in en-
joyment OF perfect health, her backbone
being entirely free from weakness or
pain. Road Commissioner Hayes, of
Fremont, Ohio, should put up his light
ning-rod and begin hunting a thunder
storm at once.
George Washington Click announces
his intention to canvass every school dis |
trict in Kansas to advocate the repeal of |
the prohibition law. We do not desire |
to discourage any effort which has for
its end the vindication of personal lib
erty," but we greatly fear that the
bearer Of the Kansas Democra-
cy will find the ''deestricts'' pretty gen.
orally pre-empted by party by the
name of st. John.
An exchange says: "The bluegrass re
gion in Kentucky is proud of sunflow
er weighing four pounds, and foFty-two
inches in circumference; but Marietta,
Ga, steps to the front with one which
measures four-feet one-half inch in cir
and Sendersville, Ga. has one /