The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-01
HERE AND THERE.

Cape Colony supplied the world with
$225Oo,00o worth of diamonds last
year
Ten thousand people witnessed ihe
close of the May festival at the music
hall in Chicago.
The Pullman palace car shops were
burned Saturday, at New Orleans. Loss
$4,000 Ensured.
Six hundred aud seventy Methodist
church organizations have filed charters
with the secretary Of state.
Kate Chase Spmguc has at. last bee n
granted Il divorce, and cn Saturday re-
sumed the name Of her distinguished fIl-
Their.
The spring races meeting Of the
Louisville Jockey club ended Saturday
with the largest race program ever PIE
sentcd on the American course, ten
events on The card.
The Universal Peace Union com
menced It's annual convention Sunday
at Washington, Alfred II. Love presid-
ing, and will lie followed by the nation
al arbitration league.
IL seems that II step backward in travel
is TO be taken by the abolition of The
system of through trains between lead
ing eastern and western points The
reason for this is not clear
There is a strong probability that the
st. Louis Rolling mills, which employ
$500 men and pay out $1i,0O0 per
month. will shut down soon ON account
of demand for increased wages from the |
wOIkmen.
The expenses OF the great festival
of music which has just closed at Chica- |
go were $4,000. The orchestra alone |
was paid $4,000. The receipts lacked |
| s., 900 Of making both ends meet, which |
the financial committee thinks is getting |
out very well.
We don't know as we would go quite
as far as The ST. Louis Post, which holds |
that no man can habitually indulge in a |
telephone and lead consistent Chris |
tian life, but we have great sympathy |
| toF the man.
The Greenbackers held convention
in Delaware on Thursday OF las4 week |
Ii is cheering to reflect that there is DC
casionallY public gathering which
that state Is sufficiently capacinus to ac-
ccmmodate.
The wall of a Texas e,lIior's sanctun |
| IL .T,ulI
which Is inscribed the iollnwiDg explain |
atory notation: This is Jones, who |
started out TO hunt up the man who
wrote that piece and found him.
Whittier uttered Il deserved compli. |
ment when he wrote "And What Is SO
Rare as a Day in June =" but Lowell hit
the nail more exactly ON the head when
he called May "pious fraud of the al
MANAGES, CHASTITY parody of real spring"
Edward S,abler, of Sandy Springs,
Maryland, claims To be the oldest post
master in the country lie was ap
pointed to the office he now holds by
President Jackson, fifty years ago, I'M
der the first postmastergeneral who
was cabinet officer
Reports from all parts OF Georgia and
South Carolina show that an enormous
oat crop has been made ''The planters"
says The Augusta Chronicle, will be in
better condition next winter than mt
any time since the war. If they will fol
low the same plan next year they will be
independent"
1t is said that an agreement has been
arrived at between The postmaster gen.
eral and various railroad companies
whereby the time of transporting the
mails between New York and San
Francisc" will he reduced twenty nine
hours.
Circulars from the National Republi-
can Congressional campaign committee
were received by employees at the Capt |
tai Saturday, in which each employee at /
Washington is asked to contribute two |
per cent. Of his annua! salary toward |
the campaign fund to be used next fall
The suicide OF Thos Sweet, the Atch-
IsOn jewelcr, was confirmed Saturday bv
the finding of his body in the Missouri
river. He left note some days ago
saying he was about TO kill himself, but
it was difficult to account for his sui
eide except upon the theory that he was
deranged. He WAS doing fair business,
was not financially embarrassed, and
was man of excellent habits.
Rev. Robert Collyer believes in doing
tue fair thing in the way of reciprocal
ing fav0rs. He spoke the other Sunday
night in the Church of the Messiah,
upon Emerson" When he rose 10 be
gin his lecture he said: Il see Il. T.
Barnum sitting in a back pew of this
chuTch, and / invite him To come for
ward and take seat in my family pew
Mr.. Baruum always gives me a good
seat in his circus, and want to give i
him good one in my church" Mr..
Barnum took the seat amid the smiles
of the congregation. Mr.. ColIyer then
began his lecture.
a colony of sparrows in Sharonville,
Ohio, were lately aroused To- stale of
bWlItcIlHS excitement over the conduct
of one of their number who had taken ,
forcible possession of cosy habitation
TO which, in the opinion of the COMMIT
nifty. he was not entitled The case was
debated ut length before the committee
of the whole, and rs every member was
determined to be heard, il was not until
evening that II conclusion was reached.
Blu; the moment the hearing closed sen
tencc was executed. Tho intruder was ;
elected, and, as he emerged from his
apartment, was rioteusly hooied by
the indignant populacc, The next
morning he was found hanging dead
from limb of the tree by piece of !
string which had been wound twice /
around his neck About noon a com
mittee of six sparrows pecked the string
in two and the body of The malefact0r !
fell to the ground amid = chorus of dis d,
NAL ehirps. {
The despair" which threatens I
"the heart of the Southern Democracy"
can only be prevented by the union of t
Markham Democrats in The bOusn a.