The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-29
pERsoNAL Aan P0LIrlcAL.

PERSONAL AID POLITICAL.
Col. Henry Inmam is running the
weather 10 Kansas this year
Bob Burdette learns that Maggie
Mitchell is twenty seven again this sum-
mer.
Some of the state papers have dis
covered indications of stampede from
St. John 10 Thacher.
The Sedan Times pronounces Hon.
Alfred Fairfax the best informed color
ed man in the state.
1t Will be safer to gamble on the di |
mensions Of the gubernatorial booms in |
Kansas after the 18th.
At this distance from the seat of war
it looks as If it would be quite As safe to
bet on the field as to gamble on Peters.
Sheldon, of the Eldorado Times. seems
20 be haunted with the suspicion that
some one will take him for a St John
man.
1t is reassuring to learn, al the present
stage of the congressional contest in the
southwest, that Newton has mad
stone.
Stanley Huntley. the "Spoopendyke"
writer OF the Brooklyn Eagle, writes the
Lakeside Musings" of the Chicago
Tribune.
The Commonwealth predicts that
Governor st. John will wear Il '4sHW-
buck" in front of his title after next
January.
Oscar Wilde says there are no ruins
in America. 1t is very evident that the
great apostle of estheticism has never
seen Sid. Clarke.
| Col. Jennison has become permanent
resident of Caldwell. 1t wouldn't be 8
bad scheme TO make the colonel mayor
Of that town.
Commonwealth A Fort Scott paper
thinks the fonr congressman TO be nOm-
mated will not be unfriendEy to ST. John.
This is drawing il pretty fine.
If matters keep on as they are going
at Caldwell, it will be pretty hard to fill
the municipal offices at that place with
out shipping in men from Ohio.
Mir. Whittier, the poet. thinks we
shall have trouble and annoyance in
4 heaven. Itseems that there is never to
be any end 10 the vexations of the news
paper fraternity.
Delegates for Henry Booth for con-
gress were selected last week in Paw
nee, Ford, Pratt, Comanchs, Clark,
Hamilton, Meade, Edwards. Gray and
Kesrney counties.
Chicago Tribune: MIR. Belmont is
investigating South American affairs
again. Mr. Belmont will be remember
ed as the gentleman who sowed the
wind and reaped Mr.. Blaine.
An exchange says that Mr.. Brand has
been speaker of the British house of
commons for nine years, at salary of
$25, 600 a year, but fails TO state in what
section OF Ohio Mr.. Brand originated.
tits proposed by some of our cOtem-
poraries to make Col. d. Il. Anthony, of
the Leavenworth Times, chairman of
the state congressional convention
which meets at Topeka on the 28Ih.
We second that motion.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe says that
Everything that ought to happen IS go
ing to-" If Harriet is correct the fulfill
ty of putting n Democratic candidate
for president in the field for 1884 be.
comes readily apparent.
The beautiful Miss Langtry is coming
to America. The fear is expressed that
her visit will prove more disastrous tO
the country from u financial stand pOint
than a southern river and harbor apprO-
priatiOn or a western cyclone.
Of all the eulOgies on the late Cover.
nor Dcnnison. these words from the Gin
cinnati Gazette seem most appropriate:
"a thorough gentleman, an excellent
neighbor and friend, and an earnest and
Woodworking public servant. his mem.
DRY will be cherished with afectionate
respect"
A man named Gene Bich, living in
WOodson county, quarreled with his
wife, and with her full consent took
strychnine. After he had swallowed il
he repented and called for grease, OF
which he swallowed about a quart
which, with tobacco freely administered,
brought him around.
We take pleasure in communicating
to the public the agreeable intelligence
that Bent Murdoch, of the Common.
wealth, will address mass meeting on
the evils of red liquor. at Topeka next
Sunday evening, at early candle lighting
1t is intimated that all the railroads
centering in that city will offer special
rates to persons who may desire to avail
themselves of the opportunity of hear.
ing this great temperance evangelist.
Vennor, the alleged weather prophet,
has stated the grounds of his predictions
to be as follows: First, on the principle
of recurring periods in the weather al
irregular but ascertainable intervals
second, from a close study of charts OF
the winters for past seasons, embracing
period of fifty years; third, from up
ward of eighteen years out-of-door and
camp life. and original observations of
the habits of birds and animals; fourth,
from impressions intuitively formed and
not describable.
Hon. T. Dwight ThacheR delivered
a very interesting and eloquent address
on Territorial Days" at the dedication
of Lane university, at LecomptOn on
the 21st. There is no man in the state
who has a more intimate knowledge of
the early struggles of Kansas than Mr..
Thacher, or whose sympathies were
more fully enlisted in the success of
those great principles for which the
pioneers of the state fought and died.
The subject is one worthy of the best
powers of the speaker, and his address
on that occasion was one Of the finest
that has ever fallen from the lips of that
| talented orator.
An Elegant Wedding.
The Council Grove Republican gives
| the following description of the Frey-