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

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give Judge Cox.
POrter's ''long boDy finger" got in its
work with excellent effect.
It's tolerably certain that Gniteau will
not be a candidate for president in 1884
The mills of the gods are 3 trifie
slow but they are pretty safe TO count
| on.
1t is stated that Corkhill only gets
| $40 for his work of eleven weeks in
prosecuting Guiteau.
The New York Democrats seem To be
running the legislature of that state in
the interest of the Republican party.
Guiteau will fill the only opening that
the world has for him when his polluted
body is lowered TO its last resting place.
Senator A. r. Greene, of Douglas
county, is mentioned rs u candidate for
state auditor. He would make "a good
one.
Boss Kelley is sitting so easily and
gracefully upon the New York Democ-
racy that his position may BE- termed
almost aesthetic.
According to Jefferson Davis the i'lOst
cause" is ONLY sleeping. The nrobabil-
ties are not radiant that 1t will ever be
troubled by insomnia.
1t is announced that Speaker Keller
wants to go to the Senate. Our opinion
is Kelfer is getting rather numerous for
man of his theft"
The announcement of1hc return from
Europe of Rev. Joseph Cook, it is
thought, will create something of boom
in the dictionary market
A poetical correspondent Of the Port
land Argus, in panegyric on Peter
Cooper, prOnonnces The old man "a
beautiful dimple on the face of society,""
1t is funny to see Dan VOORHEES, ap-
pear as the champion of the Union sol
diers. During the war he called them
"Lincoln's dogs" He can't repeal his
record.
1t seems that with all that has been
said concerning the physical infirmities
of Justice Ward Hunt, he has been suf
ficientlJ robust to draw an annual sal
airy of $1,000 for the past eight years.
Vassar has one smart girl who will
hereafter be heard of in women's rights
societies. She described STRAW" as be.
ing hollow thing with ten cent man
at one end of it and a twenty cent drink
at the other end.
English and Bookwalter are suggested
for the Democratic ticket in 1884, upon
the ground that they are fellow sufferers
and fellow-sympathizcrs. In view of
past events it is safe to say that it would
be an awful ticket for economy and re-
form.
Eugene Field, the Denver Tribune
primer man, and formerly paragrapher
on the Kansas City Times, is pro-
nounced by Oscar Wilde as the greatest
American poet living or dead. Eugene
should hasten to lay his lilies at the feet
of the great aesthetic.
Tilden is not backward in giving no.
tIce that 1884 will be a good time to
vindicate him. But somehow the Demo
cratic papers do not respond to the ap-
peal made by the Sage of Gramercy.
They are little hard of hearing, though
they do not cry "louder."
Gov. Gear, of Iowa, never put on any
style while he lived in Des Moines, yet
he told a friend when he retired from
office last week that he was going home
| 5000 poorer than when he came to the
capital. We are satisfied that is about
the way honest office holding goes in a
majority ofinstances.
General Hancock is said TO have heen
| in Washington for a week in "consulta-
ton with leading Democrats" and the
inference is that the subject of the con-
ference was a presidential nomination
| in 1884. 1t is said of him that he has
| never recovered from his attack of presi-
Dental fever, and that it is raging as
| fierceiy as ever now.
Oscar Wilde received a setback at
Washington the first time he went out.
He took in the house of represen-
tatiYes, and during the proceedings
sent his card to Speaker Keller, evil
IDENTIFY expecting that gentleman would
adjourn the house, or perhaps announce
the sacred presence of the aesthetic and
notify the members to brace up. But
what the speaker did do was 10 send
word to Mr.. Wilde that he did not re-
celve callers during the sessions of the
house, and this caused Mr.. Wilde TO go
off in a frame of mind.
Speaking of Washington german,
the Star says: THE sensation of the
evening was when, at a late hour, Rep
resentativc Robson and his wife (who
was looking regal IN a tot let OF garnet
velvet, rich lace, and diamonds) entered,
accompanied by Oscar Wilde, no less,
who wore ullevening dress of black
cloth, the vest low in front, knee
breeches, black silk stocks, and low
shoes, with pointed toes, exhibiting in
all their ugly angularity a
pair of thin and crooked legs,
an excuse for 50 emphatically defining
the irregular lines of which it is diff
ficult to imagine. His pale, sallow face
whose profile forms an acute angle
| from which forehead and chin recede !;
long, thick, bushy hair, prominent teeth,
and eyes cndeavoring to roll with poetic
fervor, shared with his lower extremi-
ties and style of dress the untaVorable
criticisms of majority of those who
saw him. Curiosity was manifested, but
no interest or admiration were expressed
Inv either ladies or gentlemen