The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

JOhh ID. Gougn Is delivering temper
ance lectures in Illinois.
1t Is announced that Anna Dickinson
will soon appear in the drama at To-
peka.
The New York Tribune thinks the
Democratic party needs less backbone
and more brains.
Bob Ingorsoll used 10 be u school
teacher. That profession has au awful
score to answer for
Clarence Seward, the second son of
the late VIM. H. Seward, is candidate
for the supreme bench.
Edwin P. Whipple is lying extremely
Ill at his Boston home, having received
serious injuries last week in fall upon
u staircase.
| President Arthur wrote very grace
full and kindly response to the letter OF
resignation of Mr. j. Stanley Brown as
Private Secretary.
Mr.. Beecher evidently believes in life
insurance. He has taken out another
policy for which the premiums amount
TO nearly $4,000 per year.
The palI-bearers at the funeral of the
| late Clarkson N. Potter were his seven
brothers, who laid his coffin in the grave
and covered it with earth with their own
hands
Flora EIice Stevens, a Kansas City po-
etess, will soon issue volume OF her
writings under the title of Leaves"
The book will be published by Ramsey,
Millctt s. Hudson.
HalEBreed Republicans of New York
have decided to make Collector Robert
son their candidate for governor, in the
expectation that COnkling will head the
Stalwart ticket.
Secretary Folger the other day refused
to write his uame in an album that con-
tanned Guiteau's autograph, and gave the
man who brought it TO him a lively
dressing down.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sturgeon devoted The
$4,000 presented to them at the recent
anniversary of their wedding TO the en-
dowment of an orphanage for girls. They
had already established one for boys.
F. A. Trittle, the new governor of Ar
izond, is Pennsylvarian who has long
been lawyer in Nevada; he is II broth
er-in-law Cfex-Senator Hereford, of West
Virginia, and an intimate friend of Sen
ator Jones, of Nevada.
1t was President Fillmore who ap-
pointed Brigham Young as the first
governor of Utah, and the public will
be glad to hear that the President, after
retiring from office, regarded the ap-
pOintment as a great mistake.
The name of Sidney Clarke has of
late been conspicuous for Its a1sence''
in the papers. He has come to light
again, however, this time as dealer in
mines and stocks at No. SO Broadway,
New York, in company with A. w.
Callen, formerly of Junction City.
Mr.. Arthur said to Kentuekian a
few days ago that he had been annoyed
more by the applications from Ken
lucky than from any other state, and it
seemed as if large portion of the popu-
lation were abandoning business. home.
families and friends to pursue the phan-
tom of office.
Professor Huxley says that those who
have taken an active part in science
should be killed at sixty, as not being
flexible enough to yield to the advance
of new ideas. He is himself nearly 81.
We should suppose that after a man had
toiled nearly a life time he would like a
few declining years to enjoy the results
Sturdy "Tom" Hughes is about to ap-
pear in Il new character. He will soon-
it is said, accept an appointment as q
Metropolitan Police Magistrate in Lon.
don. There could hardly be a better
post for writer who likes to study
character; but it will be somewhat
trying one for man of Mr.. Hughes
kind heart.
Wendell Phillips, The Boston Courier
says, remains closely at home this win
ter, having declined all lecture engage
ments. He will be obliged to leave hi.
old home in the spring, as the extension
of a street will render demolition neces
sary. Mr.. Phillips is constantly Occu
pied in writing-possibly his promised
: autobiography.
Mrs. Garfield has expressed herself a
pleased with the bronze plate that viii
be placed on the casket containing thu
: remains OF her husband Its size is 10,
! IS inches and the inscription, in raised
letters, is: Garfield, 1891" The plat
is of heavy, solid design and possesse!
such intricacies of carving that Ovel
three months were consumed in tn
work.
William II. Taft, the son of ex-Judg
Taft, who has just been appointed CO.
lector of revenue at Cincinnati, is onl,
;. twenty-fOur years of age. He wa
. graduated at Yale in 1878, where h
was the best boxer, the best "rusher
and the most popular man in his class, a
we'll as the class orator and salutatoriaI
He was graduated from the Cincinna
:, Law School in 1880, standing first. q
then began the practice of his profession
He weighs 225 pounds, and is about fiy
feet eleven inches in height.
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