The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


Sea foam has a declining tendency
Capital.
Wen bet the Capital a new dress that
there are fifty places in Topeka where a
man can get all he wants of it for the
asking, all the same.
Adam HedgcOx, negro who claimed
to be over 100 years of age, was
buried at Mckinney, Tex, on the 1st
inst, the funeral being one of the larg-
est ever held in that town. A good,
steady liar is always respected in Texas.
A California evangelist advertises that
he is "the equal of Moody in exhorting
AMI better than Sankey in singing"
Notwithstanding the richness of his
gifts, he is willing TO "leave the matter
of pay to the generosity of the breth-
rem"
The Western linton Telegraph COM
pany has capital of $4,000, 900, oper-
ates $4,000 miles of wire, and its net
earnings are about $4,000, 900 annually.
The capital stock is said to have been
which makes net income on the actual
investment of about 10 per cent.
A Cowley county man rushed into
printing Office and said he had raised
451@ bushels of wheat to the acre,
whereupon the Sedgwick Jayhawker
jumps up and says that's nothing. A
farmer eight miles south of Sedgewick
raised 5314 bushels of wheat to the acre.
There ought to be limit to this thing
somewhere.
a mysterious and very fatal cattle dis
ease is prevailing in some parts of
Pennsylvania. The beasts die within
fifteen minutes after being seized, drop
ping dead, and speedily becoming very
offensive. The bodies swell, are cover
ed with black spots. and are contagious.
The epidemic, which is worse than the
rinderpest, needs looking after.
A young man was killed by lightning
while sitting alone under a tree III New
Orleans, La, three or four days ago. and
it was some time before any mark could
be found On his body to establish the
cause of death. Finally, after close
scrutiny, the hair on the left side of his
head was found TO be singed. and just
below the hair were found two black dots
like powder burns.
According to answers given by MIchi-
gan candidates for school teachers
places, there had been twenty-five presi-
dents of the United States, the word
"man" was "maskaline noun" and the
three divisions of the federal government
were the "mOnarchial, aristocratical and
democratic" The Sweet Singer of
Michigan evidently has mole relatives
than people imagined.
A lady correspondent complains of
the treatment of the sex in England. She
says: "1'he inferior female sex appears
to me to be sat upon and suppressed in
almost every way in England Men are
waited on first at table. saw n row of
perhaps dozen ladies at dinner with
one man near the center. The walters
went past the ladies ut each side of him
TO attend To his wants first. lie was
superior being"
A remarkable scene was witnessed at
the Faith Cure camp meeting at Old
Orchard Beach, Maine, on August B.
More than 600 invalids presented them
selves to be cured of the diseases by
prayer. One by one they were taken
before DR.. Charles Cullis, the manager
of the meeting. Dipping finger of his
right hand in OIL, DR.. Cullis laid his
hand upon the head of each, uttering a
fervent prayer. Some departed from the
meeting declaring themselves cured of
their diseases. From 2: 80 TIL 5 O'Clock
the procession filed long. All ages
were represented, some lettering on
crutches, some in invalid chairs, the
dwarfed, the crippled and the blind.