The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-22
Personal AND POLITICAL.

The favOrite flowers of the late well
.nown florist, James Wick, of iIoches-
cT. were pansies and yialeis.
''ssomchndy please quoie for me those
,cautiful lines by Moore, beginning,
Twas ever thus &C. V. E.
The latest fashion novelty in London
is tho Spurgeon corset. Mr.. Beecher
should he looking tO his laurels.
Allen b. Lennon has become sole
proprietor of the Newton Republican.
having purchased the interest of Messrs.
Muse and Spivy.
Senator Piumb's family have lett
Washington City for Ashtabula. Ohio.
where they will remain until the ad.
tournament of congress.
"He was the most perfect gentleman
/ ever saw" said Kentuckian of Hen
Ty Clay. "When you wen, to see him
he handed you the whisky bottle and
then turned his back"
General w. B, aazen, now known as
"Oid Probabilities at the head of the
weather bureau. was among the origi-
nal property owners of Wichita, and
used to be there quite often.
1t is said that Senator Ingalls, has CON
sented TO permit the publication of his
sketches in book form, which will b..
done as soon as he completes two or
three new ones now IN hand.
The Sumner county Press is the latest
paper To take up the cock-and bull story
That ST. John will not permit his name
TO go before the convention. That yarn
too is entirely gauzy To travel in Kansas
The Commonwealth says no new can
didates for congress have materialized
since Sunday. We infer that the recent
heavy rains and winds have cut off COM
municatiOn between the capital and the
great southwest
Rev. DIR. Boyd, of st. Louis, preached
very eloquent and fervid discourse last
Sunday night against horSe.racing. Ii
is proianely intimated that the Doctor
bet on the wrong horse during the re,
cent races in that city.
Deacon Eskridgc was quietly sat down
upon by the Emporia convention. Re.
forms for personal ends are not the re
forms the Republican party is encourag
ing just now Kansas City Journal.
The editor of the journal must know
the governor from sway back"
The political campaign of 1882 has
opened auspiciously for the Republicans
All the indications at present are thai
the grand old Democratic party will have
to sit on the fence and snifile about civil
service reform, etc, for a while longer
Atchison Champion: In view of the
reluctance elsewhere To accept places on
the tariff commission, why does not the
president try some Kansas men. OuI
fellows had rather Inconvenience them
selves than the president. They will
accept, Mr.. Arthur, you may be sure OF
that.
President Arthur is expected to arrive
at Long Branch for the summer on July
l. The cottage he will occupy is now
being furnished AMI upholstered for his
use. 1t is situated on Cedar-ave., OppO
site the lodge gate of Hollywood Park
and is considered to be the largest and
handsomest summer villa IN the West
| End.
Commonwealth: From a casual peru
sal of the Emporia papers we should
jude the Spoon river statesman's
| ''Sorrel hair stood right mp straight
after the county convention, Saturday
"Oh! what to him were all his lots
In rich EmpOria town.
if he failed of vInd:cationy
II is said that Oscar Wilde so i'm
pressed a young man at WOcO, Texas
that he constantly wears knec-brceches
black stockings, a velvet coat and sun
flower. This will strike the averag,
reader as slightly apocryphal, coming
from state where men have beer
mObbed for wearing rufiled night shirts
The Commonwealth intimates that TIT
gubernatorial canvass will open in earn
est next week. We trust the order-lovin.
citizens of Topeka will recognize thu
propriety of forestalling personal en-
counter between the editor of that pape
and his local contemporary of the Capt.
tai after the campaign becomes fairly in
augurated.
Gail Hamilton goes for the scalp o
Carl Schurz in an article in the las
number of the North American Review
We always thought the country would
get even some day with the man who
frittered away four years in the idioti'
experiment of making good Indians
without inaugurating an exodus to thC
happy hunting grounds.
The regularity with which the people
sit down upon every effort which the
Republican makes to avert the terribl,
calamities which are hanging over OuI
beloved country is trifle discouraging
but if the fellows who are furnishing thu
"sinews of war" to run a morning papel
IN Emporia in the interest of politica
reform can stand it, don't know that
have any reason to squeal.'-C. V. Esk
ridge.
When Schuyler Colfax was asked
what position he held on the proposed
female suffrage amendment to the Indi
ana state constitution he said: ~ intend
to vote for the equal suffrage constitu
tional amendment, for many reasons
chief among which is that as women
are subject to taxation, and the peniten
tiAry and all other civil and crimina
laws, equally with men, it seems bu
just that legislation on such subject!
should be with consent of the gov
erned.'" La
Milt Reynolds, in his Washington let
ter TO the Commonwealth, says: "a gen
tleman from Kansas, who is we'll in
formed, informs me that the impression
is very general that Lucien Baker viii
be one of the big four This, it woulC
seem. is in accordance with the eserna
fitness of things. You need to sent
smart fellows here. The old members
with their great strength and experience
will inevitably and unavoidably snow
them under unless they are pretty wei
finished off in the upper story.
Kansas City Journal; Judge Thacher
would be a strong candidate for govern
or of Kansas if nominated. so far a
named the proposed candidates agains
st. John are not of the dress parade sort
AS for Judge Thacher, he is one of thu
strongest and most consistent temper
ance men in the stale; a man worthy o.
the support of the most uncompromlsins
prohibitionist, and a man who wOulC
bring honor, ability and complies
knowledge OF the affairs of Kansas tc
the gubernatorial chair.
WONDERFUL PROGRESS.
Leavenworth Times: The progress O
Kansas in population and wealth durin:
the past ten years has been extraOrdi