The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-09
HERE AND THERE.

John Bedweli has shipped 100000
pounds of fruit from California this
Fear.
The Virginia legislature, also, is
with the temperance ques-
ion.
The price of salt at Saginaw, Michi-
gan has been reduced from s1.15 TO 20
cents per barrel.
The almost unanimous verdict of the
press is that Mr. Blaine's Grafton was
of lis kind.
Prof Swing says that the Chicago
are afraid to tackle the polyg-
amy question They sell toe much cal
leo in Utah.
In New York City last year 2,682
building permhs were granted. The
estimated cost Of new buildings was
S4S. 100000.
When a man and woman are made
one, the question (which ~ is a
bothersome one until it is settled, as it
soon is.
The Philadelphia North American
thinks the cause of public justice would
be better served if jury trials were abol-
ished altogether.
Major Cole, Chicago revivalist, is
converting people in Talmage's Tab
ernacle, Brooklyn. The hope is cx-
pressed that he will catch Talmage him
self
According TO Vennor we are to have a
spell of weather this month. That's
pretty good evidence in the minds of
perverse people that the weather will
continue good.
We might add the names of seven or
eight more candidates for congress,
whose names have developed in the last
few days, but this thing is getting old.
a great anti-Chinese demonstration,
held in San Francisco Saturday, was at
tended by 10000 people who passed res.
olutions declaring that the Chinaman
must go.
Already $S7, 600, 900 in railroad subsi.
dies have been promised by the govern
ment of Mexico. We may look for the
organization of the Mexican National
Anti Monopoly party before long.
Official statistics show that 769,919
bushels of potatoes, valued at $438, 461
have been imported into the United
States since last March from Ireland
Scotland, Nova Scotia and Canada.
The rapid accumulation of capital in
the country is strikingly illustrated in
the demand now being made in several
western states that the rate of interest
be reduced from ten to six per cent.
1t is said that some New York mer
chants, rather than comply with the law
requiring them to furnish seats for
clerks, are discharging the ladies and
putting young men behind the counters
Oscar Wilde says that Berndardt told
him "that there were only two things in
America worth seeing; one was Clara
Morris, and the other me dreadful
way they have of killing hogs in the
Chicago stock yards"
Hazael, the winner of the walking
match in New York, has received rid
ing whip mounted with diamonds, and
$50, 900 in gate money is to be divided
among the six competitors. Walking
matches are obsolete in the west, but
seem still to be popular in New York.
= An unusually lively wedding scene
occurred up at Ottawa, Canada. While
the marriage ceremony was in progress
at the Notre Dame Cathedral, it was in
terrupted by a lady walking up the aisle
bearing a marriage certificate to the
would-be groom, with two children as q
proof of the union.
Here's a singular storYg Some time
ago Mrs. Brown, of Allen coungk Ken
lucky, gave birth to twins. Nogwith.
standing there is but four mInutes diff.
ference in their ages, yet one was born
in 1881 and the other in 1882, one in De
cember and the other in January, one on
Sunday and the other on Monday.
Norristown Herald: Clara Louise
Kellogg says she can make good hash,
and Annie Louise Cary announces that
she can make delicious buckwheat
cakes. This is all we'll enough as far Us
it goes; but can either one of the sweet
singers sew on a suspender button to
stay two days in one inning, and make
fire without getting SCOT on her nose
The Mormon legislature of Utah has
called Il convention for April 10th to or
ganize state government in the terri.
tory. This is the most remarkable
piece of impertInence that was ever re-
corded. Congress alone creates states,
and as long as the Mormon theocrary
exists Utah will remain a territory, IN
der the control and subject to the legis-
lation of congress.
Several popular lecturers have lately
been comparing notes, and they all re-
port that each time they face an audi
ence they experience feeling of reluct-
ance that well nigh induces them to run
away and not appear at all. The de-
cline of the lyceum system is doubtless
due to the fact that too many lecturers
have declined to obey the promptings of
this feeling.
The New England Free Love League,
(what suggestive name) met in Boston
the other day and adopted resolutions
declaring that the perfect solution of the
family question lies in the natural liber-
ty of the sexes, endorsing Mrs. Scoville's
appeal to Mrs. Garfield, declaring that
the hanging of Gaiteau would be an in
excusable gibbeting of the nations hon.
or and be "the hanging of one rogue by
cowardly majority of rogues," and en-
dorsing polygamy as practiced by Nor
mons.
There is q chance that the United
States consular reports for 1881 may
bear fruit in Parke county, Ind, if os-
triches can be called fruit. A number
of men, beguiled by the recorded profits
of ostrich farms in Australia, are plan
ming to go into the business themselves
and have already figured out magnlh-
cent results, somewhat after the manner
of the milkmaid in the spelling book.
They intend to import the eggs and
hatch them by artificial means, and are
sanguine that the climate of Indiana
will be favorable to their enterprise.
This time it is Columbus, Ohio, that
has the romance in real life. Twenty
three years ago girl was born at the
Neil House under circumstances not
agreeable to the parents, who were tenn
porarilY at the hotel. The babe was put
In a shoe box and secretly carried to the
depot. There the box and babe were
found by Silas De Witt, policeman on
duty. He carried both TO the Home for