The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ryan is whole team and red dash
board
Ryan always gets there according to |
advertisement
The governor viii take long rest |
before he calls another mass con ven,ion. |
Wool is quoted n Boston at 50 TO is
cents with downward tendency.
The saloon keepers down at Chanute
are tumbling to the conviction that The
fear of the law is the beginning of wis
DOM
Guiteau probably begins To realize
that his success as a dead-beat will not
stand him in stead when it comes TO
cheating the gallows.
The center of population of the Unit
ed States has emigrated from Ohio and
taken up its abode near Taylorsville,
Kentucky. Ohio cannot have every
thing.
A drug clerk at Bridgeport, Conn,
thought he knew German salts from
oxalic acid, but the coroner says he
didn't The clerk is very sorry, OF
course.
Senator a. r. Greene is not making
much noise III presenting his claims as
a candidate for state treasurer, but he
seems to be getting there in very good
shape all the same.
Kansas City Journal; There is no
question that Col. John "A. Martin, of
Atchison, ought TO be the next governor
of Kansas. He would be worth a dozen
st. Johns to the state.
Thomas McElrath, of Marlboro, New
York, has not slept a wink for thirteen
years. We have heard before of awful
judgments being visited. upon men who
persistentlY refuse to attend church.
DR.. Boynton, who became so well
known TO the country during the illness
Of the late President Garfield, is build
ing one of the finest residences in Kan
sas on his farm near Baxter Springs.
Sister Ann, woman who had lived
the life of nun for forty-eight years
threw herself into a cistern at Galveston
and was drowned. 1t seems that matri-
mony is not the only source of misery in
this world
Seth Green is OF the opinion that
Providence filled fish with bones 10 save
the American people from becoming a
race of dyspepIcs. There is a certain
enforced leisure in disposing of fish
that is beneficial to the system.
The Republican is doing great deal
of talented keeping still about Mr.
Ryan. We suppose, of course that this
fact is entirely devoid of political
significance.
Kansas City journal: There is
enough congressional timber in Kansas
for whole congress, with reserve TO
fill vacancies. And it Is very good TIM
Der at that.
We never suspected that Senator
Hackney had any real estate interests in
Lyon county until Hon. Geo. r. Peck
asserted at the Coolidge last night that
he had come to Emporia to look after
his fences.
The net result of the Americas con-
vention, it seems, was the reputation of
Eskridge's resolutions and the endorse
ment of the delegates appointed by the
central committee. The governor al
ways was that kind of power"
The editor of the Clay County Dis
patch admits to having been educated
at the Missouri State University. This
confession is doubtless made in Justice
to the compositors who have heretofore
been held responsible for all errors
which have appeared in that paper.
Some of the "bosses" in this strip of
timber who had made ready to admins
ter upon the political estate of Tom
Ryan will probably recognize the ex-
pediency of exercising more discretion
in the future in their selection of a
corpse.
The gloomy announcement that Eli
Perkins has made his journey through
New Mexico and Arizona without ieop-
ardy to his life or scalp will have a ten
dency to stimulate the popular preju-
dice existing in this country against the
noble red man.
1t can hardly be regarded in the light
of marvel that the Eskridge resolu-
tons at the Americas convention fell
still-born. 1t was scarcely to be ex-
pected that even with their great vitali-
| ty they would be able to SURVIVE the
protracted accouchment which their de-
livery involved.
1t seems that Gladstone does not find
it any easy task to please ali the people
whose interests he is trying to conserve.
His efforts to conciliate the Liberals stir
up Tories, and any concessions to the
latter bring the former about his head
like swarm of yellow-jackets. The of
fee of Premier seems to be almost as
satisfactory position as the editor of a
newspaper.
Henry Inman says that Booth has a
larger following than Peters, and that
glaring misrepresentation have been
telegraphed to the papers regarding the
relative strength of the two candidates.
The fight seems to be one of giants so
far as personal popularity and real mer.
1t is concerned
The Sandusky Register is credited
with the statement that fortunate gen.
tleman named Fred Mussey is going to
marry Anna, the daughter of Governor
Foster, of Ohio, and that he will not on
ly get very charming girl for wife,
but big pile of money in the bar gain
DAMAGE FROM FROsrs.