The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-29
Personal AND POLITICAL.

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ut his very strength may prove his
Teakness.
Hanback, seems 10 stand a moderately
air show of "raking in" share of the
,ersimmons.
For town which has no candidate
is very handsomely reptesen-
ed at Topeka.
1t is reported that Governor st. John
was very much surprised and mortified |
TO learn that Mrs. Malloy had fell"
There are predictions to the effect that
Morrill,, of Hiawaths, will draw first
blood at the congressional convention.
The Commonwealth is authority for
the statement that no candidates have
yet Withdrawn from the congressional
contest.
II would be safer to tackle three
card-monle man at his own game than
TO gamble on the personnel of the big
four.
Mrs. Garfield has strengthened her
claim upon the respect and admiration
OF the American people by refusing 10
see Mrs. Scoville.
The regularity with which Prentis, of
the Atchison Champion, spends his Sun
days at Topeka is not supposed to have
any political significance.
Mr.. John A Halderman, United
States consuLgeneral in Siam, has re-
ceived the honorary degree of L. L. ID.
from Highland university, Kansas.
Gen. John A. Halderman, OF this state,
who has been consul general at Bang
kok, Siam, for several years past, Is to
be appointed minister resident at that
place.
The Marion Record says that lorna
does hatch in the southwest. There
seems TO be at least one point Of analogy
between cyclones and candidates for
congressmen-atlarge.
D. s. Moore, elected mayor of Galena,
is unable TO hold the Office, having
served in the Confederate army and
never having had his disabilities re-
moYed, as required by the constitution
of the state.
We notice by the papers that Oscar
Wilde is 10 spend few days with JET
ferson Davis at his plantation home al
Beauvoir, Mississippi. The north, aft T
long years of patient waiting, is finally
avenged.
Mr.. Blaine has telegraphed $1,000 to
the Grinnell sufferers. We shall be sur.
priscd if the St. Louis Globe Democrat
doesn't recognize in this act deep-laid
scheme to undermine the present ad.
ministration.
A preacher in Providence defined the
soul as "the no0atomic centre of physhiC
| force" and used il as defined all through
his sermon. 1t is that kind of folly thai
inspires contempt for preaching and
empties the churches.
st. John said in his speech in COun
Gil Bluffs last week that the next session
of the Kansas legislature will pass {
state constabulaTy law and take the exc
cution of the prohibitory law out of the
hands of the local authorities.
Marion Record: Several Kansas ed
itors are claiming the honor of being
the youngest editor in the state. w,
might successfully compete for Iha
prize, but it Is not our yOuthfulness VT
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An exchange says that Senator JnhI
Sherman has abandoned the idea o
again becoming a candidate for presi
dent The sensational character of thi!
item becomes readily apparent when vi
remember that John is an Ohio man.
Gov. Blackburn, of Kentucky, wa
converted through the powerful exhorta
tions of Rev. Geo. Barnes. Our knOwl
edge of Bent Murdock's aversion for I
hot climate leads us to hope that Mr.
Barnes may be induced to visit Topeka
The fact that the cyclones with which
Iowa has recently been devastated, wer'
coincident with the visit of Governor
st. John to that state in the interest o
prohibition, is not supposed to have any
significance from q scientific standpoint
Hon. o. s. Munsell, of Council Grove
has been suggested as a suitable candi
date for lieutenant governor. Mr.. Nun
sell will be pleasantly remembered il
Emporia as the gentleman who respond
ed to the address OF welcome by Presi
dent WEIGH upon the occasion of the re
cent visit of the Kansas editors to thu
State Normal.
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, hai
issued full and free pardons to II. c
Pate and his associate gamblers whC
pleaded guilty under the Johnson Law
some days ago and were sentenced t.
six months Imprisonment in Jail
Whatever else may be said about Demo
cratic officials. they are always true Il
the interests of their constituency.