The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-10-26
HERE AND THERE

Judging from the number of copies
sold, Will Cartoons "Farm Ballads" is
the most popular book the Harpers have
published for many years.
Barnum's show has just closed ITS
summers campaign at Chester. Penn
sylvania, and is as the result the
three PROJECTORS pocketed 5000, 900.
The Topeka Commonwealth tries to
make US believe that the attendance at
Baker university will reach $500 before
Christmas. And the saloons closed, too
Anybody who watches Venus and the
moon for the next few days-CommOn-
wealth.
What! Can you see the moon now
by day light in Topeka with one eyes
Diphlheria is devastating Pennsyl-
vania county, Virginia. In radius of
six miles, six physicians report $50
cases, and 145 deaths. In one family
three children were buried at one
funeral.
Mr.. Henry Willard, the president of
the Northern Pacific railroad, has offer
ed to endOw Oregon university with
$4,000 if the state will increase its an.
nual legislative allowance from $2,5O0
TO 5000.
An impious reporter says that Wash
ington clergyman, endeavoring to i'm
press his congregation with his learning,
repeated the names of several brands Of
champagne as Latin quotations, and that
the deacons recognized the deception at
once.
After Frank James had been disposed
of in Missouri still unhanged-he
will probably be called for by the state
authorities of Minnesota. The people
of that state will hardly waste any senti-
mental slobber over him it they get hold
of him.
Where's Hubbell? In the United
States circuit court at Portland, Oregon,
Judge Deadly called the attention of the
grand jury TO the law regarding politi-
cal assessments, and instructed the Jury
that if any violation of the law could be
found it was their duty to indict the Of
tenders.
Personal liberty" has received an
other severe stab. The Pan Handle
railroad company has issued an order to
the effect that any employe of the road
who visits saloon or gambling house,
either when on or off duty, will be
promptly discharged from the service Of
the company. Other railroads could
follow this example with the assurance
that the travelling public would heartily
endorse such action.
William Van Antwerp is about to
have built on the northeast corner Of
Fifth avenue and Seventy fourth street.
New York, four-story residence, in
the baronial style of architecture. II
will be trimmed throughout in rose.
wood, ebony and other hard woods, and
the windows will be of stained cathe
dral glass. The building will cos
$4,000. Is Mr.. Van Antwerp q rail
road magnate or stock gambler:
! A Texan stGck=raiser, named George
T. Reynolds, living at Griffin, during 4
fight with Indians sixteen years ago wa,
hit by an arrow which passed through
the abdominal cavity. Such wound il
almost invariably fatal; but he pullec
the shaft Of the arrow out, and although
the head broke off and remained in tn.
body, he astonished everybody by re
covering within ten days. 4 few day
ago he felt pain IN the back near III,
spine. and a surgical operation brough
to the surface the steel arrowhead tia
had taken sixteen years to work its wa,
through his body.
The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, late o
Detroit, but now of indianapolis, make
q vigorous protest against rented pewz
He maintains that in the early times O
christianity all places of worship wer
free, and the services voluntarily con
Quoted by ministers and others who hal
no stated salary. IN those days tn
Lords people paid the expenses b,
voluntary gifts Mr. PieTson claim
that renting or selling pews introduce
human and ungodly proprietoFahil
into the Lords house; that il fosters
selfrighteous spirit in The ungodiy VII,
pay pew rent. and that it tends to meas
ure and weigh men by the money stand
ard. He would have free-will offer
ings brought every Sunday. such as tn
people can fairly afford. and the expen
ditures limited by the amount Of thes
offerings. Mr. PiersOn is also eaEnea
in his opposition 70 'unconsecrated cir
Warbled by paid chciFB under the 81
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