The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-02
HERE AND THERE.
The insanity plea must go.

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There were no cranks on the jury.
Scoville's sOphistry was all wasted.
The theory of "divine pressure" is
badly demoralized-
Now let the hanging proceed in de-
cency and good order.
The names of the jurors in the Gui-
teau case will Ego laundering down the
ages"
The star route cases seem 10 be pro-
crossing with a conspicuous degree of
deliberation.
The little discrepancy of opinion be-
tween Guiteau and the jury which sat
upon his case is highly gratifying to
the American people.
Late statistics show that there are 49,
600 insane patients in the United States,
which would be at the rate of one to ev-
cry TIT of population.
"No, sir" said the :Texas editor, II
don't suppress the story OF the Brown
scandal out of regard for Borown. 1 did
it for myself. Brown can fight"
With Neal, one of the Ashland fends,
and Guiteau both standing in the
shadow of the gallcws, the conviction
is Impressed upon the public mind that
there is such thing as justice in the
world after all.
There is some significance in the fact
that a son of Orson Pratt, one of the Or
iginal Mormon Apostles is among the
bitterest opponents of the Mormon sys-
tenn. His mother felt the curse of its
influence and taught him to hate it.
Mayor Harrison has ordered that
gambling houses in Chicago shall
hereafter be closed at z p. M. ON Saturday
evenings, SO as TO keep employees from
the temptation of stalking their wages.
He also forbids them supplying refresh
ments, solid or liquid.
1t is said in Denver, Colorado, that
the ice dealers there will be compelled
to flee to the mountains" for their
stock of Ice this year, as last seasons
stock is already exhausted, and there
is no prospect of hard freeze. 1t Is
lucky for the Denver people that they
have the mountains as a reserve in such
an extremity.
Among the queer things that happen
at Washington was the following, long
ago: A lady made an earnest appeal to
congressman for an Office for a friend.
He could not grant the request. Where
upon the lady promptly said: "Sincc
you can't grant that request, won't you
please give me an order on the congress
ional garden for your share of bou-
quets?"
The following queer thing comes from
Washington:
The bullet fired by Sergeant Mason
at the assassin, Guiteau, and which fat
tened itself against the wall of his cell,
is discovered to have formed a striking
profile likeness of the wretch. A mold
of this bullet has been made, from
which fac SMILES are manufactured.
A number of these have been sent 10
various museums throughout the coun-
try.
w VI AGo0NIl1Cg
alone from trip in the Indian coun-
try, found himself freezing to
death in a binding snowstorm
on the Grand river. Remembering
that he had heard old travellers on the
plains talk about the latent heat IN
snowbank, he dug deep hole in drift
witk his hands and -crawled in. Pres
emily he began to feel more comfortable,
and the delightful but ominous drowsi-
ness which precedes death by freezing
stole over him. He fought against it in
vain, and at last became unconscious.
The next morning he awOke, not in
eternity as he had confidently expected
to do, but in the snowdrift. as warm and
snug as the traditional bug.