The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-20
HERE AND THERE.

n pig was suustroke IN Georgia one
day last week. Fhe Topeka editors
ought TO be extremely careful
Prosecutor Bliss, of Washington,
does not seem to have added many iau-
rels to his fame in his prosecution of the
star reuters.
The St Louis preacher who Rugged q
woman in sleeping car last spring, and
pleaded emotional insanity, has left The
pulpit, aud will go into business, Such
insanity is not so disastrous IN business
circles
A frac;Ious horse kicked the dash
board off General Grants carriage the
other day At Long Branch. The General
complacently watched the operation
with cigar in his mouth, but he took a
back seat.
Ohio has got there again in good
shape: A young man by the name of
Crew, of Wilmington, Ohio, carried off
the prize at Princeton; being cash and a
scholarship valued at $1.70O. A second
prize of 5000 was captured by Hills
boro, Ohio, lad named Hibben.
The report of the assessors of Coying-
ton county, Dakota, of the growing
crops of 1882 shows the following acre
age in July: Wheat, 3i,4O0 acres; oats,
%, 800 acres; barley. Ill 200 acres; rye,
5000 acres; fax, $3.50 acres; corn,
500 acres; potatoes, 800 acres; total
100, $50 acres. Covington county is one
of the newest counties in Dakota.
1t has been long time since we heard
anything of General George ID. McClcI-
Ian, and it was thought that he had sunk
permanently out of sight. But the fol-
lowing item resurrccts him for an in
slant: General George B. Mcclellan
is visiting, in official capacity, the Uni
ted States military asylum at Togus,
Maine" George has a military asylum
of his own. and ought to know how to
run 'em
The following incident in the life of
George William Curtis is perhaps more
honest than fashionable. 1t is CON-
mcndable: In 1855 he became a
silent partner in the firm of Dix,
Edwards & Co, the publishers of
Putnam's Monthly. He invested $780,
900 in the concern, but had no part in
its management. Two years later the
| firm failed, and Mr. Curtis, through some
informality in drawing up the articles
of partnership, was declared to be le-
gally responsible for portion of its
debts. Many OF his friends held that he
was in no way bound beyond the $10,-
600, and urged him to test the question
in the courts. Mr.. Curtis refused, al
though his decision involved the
assumption by him of a debt of $780,
900. He surrendered all his property.
In sixteen years, by most arduous labor,
writing and lecturing, he paid the last
dollar of the debt.
An inmate of the Camden county in.
sane asylum at BlackwoOdtown, New
Jersey, Henry Clark by name, recently
completed forty-one days fast, which
he undertook in the hope that it might
I-SlOTC his lnCuidl ldsulllGS- DAuBuldIIJ
enough that result is likely to follow, in
the opinion of the attendants at the
asylum. The man was watched day and
night, and every effort was made, short
of violence, to induce him to eat. but
the evidence is pretty conclusive that
for forty-one days nothing went into his
mouth except air and water, and only six
quarts OF the latter. His condition va
ried considerably at different periods of
the fast. On the forty-secOnd day he
asked for and drank cup of coffee, and
thereafter for fortnight he lived upon
Il simple vegetable diet, consisting prin-
cipally of Strawberries and milk. 1t is
confidently expected that he will be dis.
charged as a cured patient within q
short time Just what share the fast has
had in his recovery it is of course I'M
possible to say, but the case is one of
interest to the medical profession.