The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-01
Personal. ANn paIIrlnAL.

Guiteau is Ia be hanged by New
Jersey man. We woniier ii tiie assss.
sin doesn't l,egin to daubt thai he is
Gods man"
President Arthur has a iist af two
hundred gentlemen wha are all strongly
recommended Tor appointment on The
Tariff Commission
A stale convention OF colorcd men
has Lern called 10 Ass, inlels in Topeka
on the 3ist. The meeting may and-then
again II may noi be in The interest Of
81 john
Guiteau is reported 10 be much de
pressed because he is no lenger permit
ted To receive visitors. lie will feel
considerable uf a depression tuward
ii,e end of next nionil.
Since ,bey have got IN the way of
calling Blanche Douglass tIIat lady" in
r,e Mallcy trial, il has become more cv-
ident fIan ever that the English Ian
gutgc needs enIarging by some word IA
take the place Of lady"
Lieutenant Dneniioger says the north
f,ale viii yet lie reached Possibly he
is correct At least there are plenty
men who will always b. willing Ia risk
their lives Ia find it as long as the gov
ernmcnt or James Gordon Bennett viii
| furnish them with the means of con-
hitting suicide in the interest of science
Lieutenant Dtncnhower is nov in
New York, and is being li.nized TO an
extent which may perhaps compensate
f,r tIe dreadful sulTerings he has under
gore. When Mrs DE Long met Lieu
| tenant Dsnenhnwcr. it being The first
opportunity she had had Of communities
ting dir, city with one of her husbands
associates ia his refilous ami fata! en-
tcrprse, she was completely overcome
with emotion.
Richard King, known all over Texas
and the west Is The Cattle King" is
small, swarthy freshman, with limp
ing gait. His lam, ness is due 10 the
careless way in which broken leg was
set His flucks OF sheep and goats, his
herds OF cattle and his troops of horses
and mules are estimated at 500. 900 head
in all! His rancho, the Santa Gertrudas,
is seventy five milts in length and in
eIudcs nearly the whole of two eoun-
ties in southwestern Texas.
The Democrats and Greenbaekcrs of
Maine are evidently getting ready TO re
peat their tactics of 1880. Ii will he
remembered that they then reserved
their campaign funds for disbursement
until Il few days b.fore election. Now
they are trying 10 create the impression
| that they viii have no money, and 50
throw the Republicans of their guard.
The Connecticut Democrats, ii is re-
ported. will make opposition TO the tenn
perance laws passed 1T tho last session
of the legislature the main issue in the
coming campaign. The Republicans,
white not disposed Ia be pnt upon the
defensive, will not object to meeting
this issue, and have no fear. of the result
of an appeal 10 the people ON the ques-
tion of controlling the liquor Traffic
President Arthur's mail averages
about 600 letters day. Ii may be just
as well after all that the chief executive
persis:enlly refuses to run the chances
en- second matrimonial venture. The
most vigorous female constitution in
the world would scarcely be able to en-
dure the strain which going through
the pockets of u man whose correspond
ence reaches The shady side of thous
and letters Il day, would involve.
John 4. Martin: If this country ever
drifts. MS some good people think it will,
into anarchy, and frum anarchy to its
natural sequence, dcspotism, one of the
leading causes Of such II result will he
the multiplication Of the terms Of chief
executive officers. The Champion be
lieves that the constitution of the United
States and the constitution OF all states
ought 10 prohibit the election oi presi-
denis or eoyernnrs for mere than two
terms And in The absence of such pro
hihilion, public 81 nlinent ought 10 be
50 strongly aroused on the subject that
no president or governor could hc elect
cd Far a third term.