The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-25
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ii begins to look rs if St. John and
Captain Johnson had both blossomed too
early.
The Usage County Chronicle supports
d. w. Eastman, of this city, for state
treasurer.
James Wick, the we'll known florist
and seed man, is dead. He was sixty
three years old.
until Guiteau finds out whether or not
Ingersoll is off his base.
"Tke people thought l didn't know
what was talking about when 1 pre-
dicted wet summer."-H. Vennor.
It is estimated that Jay Gould's in
come Is one dollar per second. 1t may
be proper to note, in this connection,
that Mr.. Gould is the owner of several
daily newspapers.
Senator Plumb made an elaborate
argument in the senate, on Tuesday, in
favor of the bill TO pay the states five
per cent. on the sales of public lands
within their borders.
They are beginning to 'slOw down.
on Guiteau. The wretched assassin is
now only allowed to receive preachers,
congressman and English tourists. The
mills-of the gods, &c.
New Haven is awarding prizes to
those who can blow the largest soap
bubbles. The alleged proprietor OF the
Republican should lose no time in enter
ing for the leading purse.
81 see by the papers that marriage
has been arranged between my sister-in-
law, the Princess Beatrice, and Prince
Frederick William of Hesse. Poor
ed!"-Marquis of Lorne.
II see that Senator Logan has recov-
cred from lumbago and is coming back
to Washington. The General is a su-
perb fuldllment of my ideal of lively
corpse. "-Fitz John Porter.
al have no particular objection to
having my name embalmed in history,
but it strikes me that every man should
have the privilege of selecting his own
biographer. "-General John II. Rice.
1t is said that Mr.. Bennett transferred
to Mrs. De Long four per cent. bonds TO
the face value of sea, 900 when the
Jeanette sailed, and that afterward he
doubled the amount. II takes news
paper man to do the nice thing.
MIR. Poke Wells has been convicted of
murder in the first degree and will
doubtless hang III due season for his
bloody crime. The first families OF Mis-
souri, seem to be in awfully hard luck
this year.
Marion Record: 1t is charged" that
Mr.. Blaine has made three hundred
thousand thousand dollars by recent
investment in Colorado mining stock.
Wish some one would charge us with
something of that kind and prove it.
Kansas City Journal: Anderson and
Ryan will have an unobstructed walk
over in the congressional conventions of
the first and third Kansas districts, and
Haskell may be expected to have the
same prospect in the second district,
though the county convention season
has not yet begun there.
Lady Frederick CAYendish is reported
as saying that she would not grudge the
sacrifice of her husbands lite if it only
leads to the pacification of Ireland. The
cheerful resignation with which some
women become widows for the good OF
their country is enough to dwarf the
patriotism of Kansas politician.
Rev. DIR. Lotion, the st. Louis preach
er who was charged with dIsgrsceful
conduct toward a lady on a sleepIng-cal
few days ago, is the victim of over
work, and will be unable, at present, t.
accept the call which was promptly ex
tended to him from a Brooklyn congre
CATION upon the development of thu
scandal.
Gen. RObt. C. Schenck, ex-minister t.
England, has, he says, been entirely cur
ed of what appeared to be a fatal attach
of Bright's disease of the kidneys by
plentiful indulgence in SKINNED milk
The immunity from that ailment o
persons who live at boarding houses, i
so general as to inspire large degree o
confidence in General Schenck's specific