The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Gen. Sherman and family are summer.
ing at Oakland. Md.
Judge Thacher is receiving a most en-
couraging support for governor.
There seems TO be no opposition tn
Judge Brewer for associate justice of
the supreme court
Mrs. Langtry is to receive $500 u
night and all expenses OF herself and
maid for 100 nights in America.
The San Francisco Evening Post says
the denomination of Congressman Rose
Grams was simply a compliment, for
the Democrats have no hope of electing
him."
The South Carolina bourbons, having
fixed up Congressional district with
about 25, 900 Republican majority mag
unanimously propose to make no nomina-
tions in it.
Governor Foster vouschafes the assur-
ing intelligence that Ohio will have no
regular candidate far president in 1884
This is the first intimatIon we have
heard of the death of John Sherman.
The trouble with the glorious De-
mOcraGy is that the people are in the
habit of considering what bold and
uncOmpromising set of civil service re-
formers they would be after they had
once got into powerl
Four of Iowa's eleven Republican
candidates for congress have already
been nominated by acclamation. 1t is
this spirit of concord and unity of senti-
ment, coupled with patriotic intelli-
gence, that makes the state so solidly
and reliably Republican.
Senator Ednunds will not return 10
Washington this summer on account
of the death, last Saturday, of his
younger daughter. She was long an in
valid, and sought restoration at many
health resorts in vain, and was at last
taken home 10 the Green Mountain state
TO die.
1t is asserted that governor st. John
IS not without aspirations in connection
with the Republican presidential ticket
for 1884. There is well developed |
suspicion in some quarters that His Ex- |
celicncy is connected by the ties of con-
saneuinity with brass foundry.
Speaking of British politics. Mr. !
Goodwin Smith, who reached home |
from Europe last week, says that he |
considers the Irish business good deal |
worse than the Egyptian, and the disor-
| -
owing 10 the Gecadence of party govern
ment. considerably worse than either
The Republicans and Independents of |
| Alabama are heartily united ON the Goa |
litiOn ticket and will make an earnest |
effort to elect it. In circular sent out |
by the chairman of the Republican state |
committee the party is urged to support |
sOlidly the movement for fair elections, |
free schools and an abolition of the con- |
vict labor system.
Petitions are being circulated III Rice |!
county asking the governor to close the |
saloons at Topeka during the session of
the Republican state convention. The |
people of the coyote districts can secure
the story, in pamphlet form, of the old |
lady who ,ried to sweep back the sea
with broom. by forwarding ten cents
to any OF the leading book stores.
The Mereden, Mss, Mercury evident.
ly signs over departed days in true Bour-
bon style: 1.-THE Fourth of July is q |
day for the Yankees and negroes in the |
south to celebrate, but il has lost its |
significance for us. To US the buzzard |
Is u filter emblem of the filthy govern |
ment that makes fellow citizens of peO- |
pie of African descent and to the utmost |
of its power now puts them above the |
white men"
Congressman Morrison's friends |
recognize the necessity of rejoicing |
him if he is TO continue in the field as
candidate for the Democratic p-esiden-
tial nomination in 1884 The ST. LOUIS |
Globe has dispatch from Washington |
saying that Mr.. Morrison has been
promised large pecuniary aid, and that
neither money nor work will be spared
TO make his election sure. He acknowl-
edges that the nomination of General
Kut finer, his Republican opponent, Is
the strongest that could have been
made.
The old reputation of Bedford Springs,
Penn. of being rallying place for po-
litical sche mers, was strongly revived
the other day, when ex-senator Simon
Cameron, Governor Hoyt, and Boss"
Mechanics were seen together, in closc
cOnclave, on one of the hotel lawns Mr. |
Cameron is moi now enjoying his usual
good health, and the gossips say he is
worrying over the political fluctuations
of his son. II go, he wears II good mask,
for he looks and speaks the old spirit Of
flight them from the WORD GO" He re-
Gently predicted that General Beaver
defeated would be nominated for the |
presidency in 1891.
IL is thought by observers that the Re |
publicans have fair prospect of elect |
ing their candidate for governor IN Ar
kansas. The c0rrupiions in the Demo |
cratic state government have weakened
the party sensibly, and its failure to do
anything for the material advancement |
of the state has also caused much dis
satisfaction. The Republican candi- |
date for governor is the land commits
siOner of the Little Rock aud Fort
Smith railroad, and has been largely in
strumental in drawing immigration tn |
Arkansas. lie will :Iave the aid of the
railroads. and with solid party vote |
his chances of election are believed To |
be good.
Arabi Pasha recently gave orders to
have the life of Napoleon l. translated |
into Arabic, saying to his friends: ma |
pOleon is my model. 1 will do what he |
did-nay, will do more; will found |
an Arabian empire" He has also tried |
to play The role of prophet by fire.
Quently quoting the Koran, and profes- |
| sing to have familiar interviews with
the ghost of Mahomet. One day, a
month ago, while on his way to the
Mosque. he suddenly stopped and stared
wildly at the air, as if seeing a vision.
Then he stamped upon the ground and
cried that gun was buried underneath
| the spot. Excavations were afterward
made. and. surely enough, a gun was
found at depth of several feet
We are getting utterly discouraged
about Hanlan. 1t seems to US he goes
around continually, winter and summer,