The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-16
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

KEhSOnAL AND kOLIT1CAA.
Murat Halssead has been connected
with the Cincinnati Commercial for
twenty-nine years.
James Keene is said to have given in
structions for the building of a $500. 600
cottage" at Newport
Mr.. Allen T. Rice, editor of the North
American Review, has fallen heir to
$5O0,OOO. That editor is in luck.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, while in
London recently subscribed $1,000 10
the relief of the Hebrews exiled from
| Russia.
The strongest proof that the liberal
movement in Kentucky is becoming
| formidable is the effort of the BouEbOaI
organs to belittle it. -
Ex-Governor LuciHs FAirchild, of Wis
consin, late minister 70 Spain, arrived at
his home in Madison last Thursday,
after an absence of line years.
Francis Murphy, the Pennsylvania
temperance advocate and originator OF
the ''blue ribbon movement, has been
conducting successful temperance mass
meetings in Manchester, England.
The Democratic papers are filled with
strong denunciations of gerrymander-
ing in Republican states. They main
tain y silence quite as strong about the
same process in Democratic states.
The failure of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture to pass a prohibitory law will make
the question an issue in the next state
election. The temperance ticket polled
eleven Thousand votes at the last election.
Portraits of George Washington and
Martha Washington are now coDspicu-
GUS objects in the "Blue Parlor" at the
White House. They were painted in
1706, and were brought from England
recently by their owner, an Englishman.
Stephen N. Clifford has been clerk of
the Massachusetts house of representa-
tives for twenty-five years. He is Re-
publican, but since the first year of his
election there has never been a vote cast
against him.
The Washington correspondent Of the
| New York World says: "a society col
umn here prints the announcement of
an engagement between Harry Garfield
and Miss Rockwell, the 17-year-old
daughter of Colonel A. F. Rockwell.
The Greenbackers and temperance
folks united and carried the municipal
election ct Paw Paw, Mich. The latter
get the saloons closed at 8, p. IN, and
the former-well, they are thankful for
the small favors.
While the Republicans of South Caro-
lima will probably put no state ticket in
the field, they will not abandon the con-
gressional contests. AS they are pro-
tected at these elections by federal
laws, they hope to make creditable
showing.
John B. Coughs last engagement for
the present season will be filed in Balti-
mere, about the first of next month, and
he will then, it is reported, retire per-
manently from the lecture field, in
which he has been so prominent figure
for forty years.
MIR. John g. Whittier has contributed
$50 to the relief fund of the sufferers of
Haverhlll, Massachusetts, and has writ
ten q letter in which he expresses the
belief that courage and energy will
speedily counteract the effects of the
fire.
That faction of the Georgia Independ-
ents who wish to run Alexander Fl.
Stephens for governor still affect 20 be-
lieve that he will consent to become
candidate. There is q suspicion, how
ever, that they are using his name to
strengthen themselves with the people.
This is about the time of year when
the generous Democratic papers pub
lished in Republican cities are saying
that 1.-THE time has come when we must
throw off party restraints and put our
very best men in charge of our city aE
fairs" No such disinterested spirit
seems to actuate them where the city is
under Democratic control.
1t is related that when Patti demand
ed 5000 for each concert from Mana
ger j. II. Haverly, he remarked that it
would be equivalent to $50, 900 9 month,
and said, soto voce: "The president of
/ of the United States works year for
that amount" "Well," responded the
diva, promptly, get the president to sing
for you"
Senator Garland, of Arkansas, is be-
lieved to desire reelection. but as he is
an anti-amendment or debtpsyIng Dem
ocrat, and as the majority of his party
are amendment or repudiating Demo
Gratis, he has desperate fight before
him. We believe it is conceded that
Mr.. Garland has made good senator.
The senate has one good, old Bourbon
left in the person of Mr.. George. He
made speech ON the Chinese question
in which he in effect conceded the right
of the people of the Pacific coast to settle
the question of Chinese immigration to
suit themselves, and asked that the
white people of the south have the
same privilege in regard to negro suf-
frage.
The heightened Democratic governor
of Arkansas got too much investigation.
He is out of luck. 1t was discovered
that he was about $3.50, 900 in debt to the
state, and he, with a great show of indig.
nation, demanded San immediate and
searching investigation" He got it, and
the committee by whom it was made re.
port that the charge is true, and show
by system of double-entry book-keep.
ing that the governor has expen ded
something over $100, 900 that he cannot
account for.
| Ex-senator Milton 8. Latham died in
New York last Sunday night. He was
president Of the New York Mining and
Stock exchange. Milton s. Latham was
born in Columbus, Ohio, May Esd, 1927.
He was educated at Jefferson college,
Pennsylvania, graduating in 1915. Sub
sequently he went to Alabama, studied
law, and was clerk of the Russell county
circuit court in 1880. Removing to
California, he became clerk of the re-
coFder's court Of San Francisco, and
was district attorney of Sacramento aRd
Eldorado counties in 1S5051. He was
elected q member of congress, serving
one term, and then became collector for
the port of San Francisco, 1857. He
was chosen governor Of California in
1850, and was a United States senator
from 1661-67.
The Globe Democrat makes . slight
ina aIlnsinn 20 Sanafnr Harrison heinn