The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
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HERE AND THERE.

/ Jesse Barbour, sentenced TO be hanged
at Winsboro, 8. c., has been respited
Jesse is not a colored man.
Two Chicago girls have been arrested
for horse stealing. st. Louis will hav'
to brace up if she beats thst.
The Vienna, Berlin and st. Petersburg
missions are vacant. Is Ohio losing
her grip on pivotal state?'
Julian F. Scott, the original of Mari
Twain's Colonel Sellers, !" was drowned
last Saturday while fording river.
The only feasible plan Of securing AZ
ice crop now seems to be the appoint
ment of Charles Francis Adams as com
missioner of agriculture.
The temperance reform movement in
Indiana seems 20 have taken the "up
ward curve" In that state they blow
up saloons with dynamite.
| A woman eighty years old recently
committed suicide At Akron, Ohio. The
fact that her age was known may fuc.
nish the cause for the rash act.
Little Nellie Arthur does mot like the
White House. She says tia lonesome.
a well-regulated step-mother would in
fuse . great deal of life into the execn.
tive mansion.
From the ardent manner in which 81.
Louis raVed over Patti one would be
led to infer that the daily coHsumptioa
Of beans in that townfs fGlly - great q
it is in Boston. -~ ~, ~.
The New Jersey Senate adOpted SiYes;
olution yesterday demanding the pun
ishment of Guiteau for his crime. The
state OF Camden and Amboy is thorough
ly orthodox On the hanging question.
A Maine man who didn't care, two
shakes of a lambs tail about the news
paper, rode fourteen miles through .
fierce snow storm to get q copy q 8
weekly that spoke of him as "promi-
nent citizen"
No snow has fallen in Dakota this
year, and the mild weather ia unprece-
denied. Unless she can help US out on
the ice crop, Dakota may ss well give
up all hope of being admitted at this
session of congress-.
A somewhat remarkable occurrence
is reported from an Iowa village. Three
boys while INDUCING in rifle practice
suddenly had their guns turned into
harps of the most approved pattern.
They used a magazine containing 500
barrels of powder as target.
An eight-ounce gold nugget recently
found in mine in Sierra county, Neva.
da, was very nearly in the form of q
human being. The legs and feet are al
most perfect, and while the LEFT hand lies
on the breast, the right arm is hanging
down by the side.
A New York paper, describing Oscar
Wilde's appearance on the lecture plat
form, says: "His upper and lower parts
were picturesque, and his middle section
mathematical and commonplace Mr..
Tilden will have to take good many
upward curves" before he can hope to
beat that.
Some one has discoVered oil in the
Black Hills. 1t oOzes out of the ground
in several places, and one man has re-
fined 200 gallons as an experiment, and
considers it as good petroleum as Ia found
in Pennsylvania. As the presence of
petroleum Is evidence of the existence
of coal, the Black Hills may turn out to
be. the Pennsylvania of the west. 49,
A Brooklyn girl named Annie Mckee
YER, had her ears pierced in anticipation
of receiving a pair of earrings for q
Christmas present, and erYsipelas set,
ting in she died shortly thereafter from
the effects of the operation. In view Of
the prevailing mania for diamonds
among the ladies, judicious husbands
will cut this item out and preserve 1t for
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