The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


'asn't id niger. R.
'hslmers.
Poor Mrs Scoville seems 10 manifest a
morbid desire to compete with her hus-
'and in leciuring to empty seats.
The "colored troops" at Topeka seem
% be fighting nobly for party by the
name of johnson.
The only child of Grace Greenwood.
Miss Lippinco,t. is TO make her debut in
opera next winter in America.
The next time the anti-monopolists
get ready to blow up Vanderbilt they
had better let out the contract to his
mother-In-law.
The Fredonia Citizen says there is no
opposition 10 Congressman Haskell.
Was Sid. Clarke ever before so utterly
ignored?
indianapolis News: Mr.. Blaine might
say with Sam Weller: as there any
other gemmen as wants TO ask me a
kvestiOn?'
The startling discovery that brown
bread and beans are susceptible of adul-
teration may afford solution of the
failing mental powers of Charles Fran
els Adams.
Senatorial cOurtsey" is defined by
the New Orleans Pycyune as "a sort of
dry rot that robs the statesman of life
and usefulness"
Congressman Belmont graduated at
Harvard in 1872. How to come In under
the wire ahead of Jim Blaine is evident.
ly not a part of the curriculum of that in.
stitulion.
Robert JeIierson, u prominent and in
telligent negro of indianapolis, who has
always claimed TO be an illegitimate son
of Thomas Jefferson, died in Indianapo
lis Thursday
Oscar Wilde's managers have beer
steadily losing money lately and the
gang is about TO break up. This is {
highly gratifying commentary upon the
hard sense of the American people.
Senator Logan's health has been grea
ly benefited by his sojOurn at the Ho
Springs, and the chances for his becom
ing political possibility in 1894 hav'
greatly improved in the last four weeks
Chicago Inter Ocean: A newspaper
speaks of hedging on Blaine" Hedg
ing is no word for it; the fellows whC
have been after Blaine say it wa!
"barbed wire" eight strands between
posts.
Why Topeka should be shrieking fol
a glucose factory when every other maj
you meet at the state capital is walk
ing taffy factory Logging for office, il
one of those things which no fellow car
find out.
Mr.. Barnum together with many othel
curiosities now owns Charles Dickens
oVercoat-the one which he wore while
in America the last time. 1t was pre-
scented to Mr.. Barnum IN Philadelphi;
the other day by Mr.. G. w. Childs.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett, in letter OF
the proposed Dramatic Festival at Gin
cinnati, says that he is proud to observe
that his art is the object OF so much ad
venlurous enterprise lin this age of ma
terialism and selfish gain"
The current report that the late Jess
James was responsible for the death o
nearly one hundred men was probably
the foundation for the erroneous state
nlcnt in the eastern papers that he wa
a practicing physician.
w. p. Hackney, of Cowley II. c
Sluss, of Sedgwick; S. r. Peters, o
Harvey. and II. Il. Kelley, of McPher
son, are all candidates for congressman
atlarge. The southwest is, politically
speaking, the most prolific section o
Kansas, not excepting Shawnee county
Mr.. Lynch in congress: Mr.. Lynch
was dressed ina well-fitting black suit
Prince Albert coat, buttoned clOsel.
around him, a white standing collar ant
scarf completing his outfit. 1t was gen
orally agreed that a better effort had no
been made on the floor of the house 70
many years.
Nine. Christine Nilsson ozaud is no
pleased to find that her property, whicl
her husband had not lost, as she i'm
agined, must be divided between he
husbands relatives, the French law Civ
ing them two thirds of it. This is rathe
discouraging, yet, if the lady does no
lose heart she can easily accumu,at
another fortune.
The Capital claims that the Republi
can state committee, the majority O
whose members are opposed to 81. John
was slYly inveigled into doing exact,
what the governor desired in the matte
of calling two conventions. 1t seem
then, that for once in the annals of Kan
sas politics everybody is satisfied and al
factions are happy.
The Chicago Times, Democratic
newspaper, very appropriately philOsc
phizes: "The departed soul of tina
body of political idolatry called tn
Democratic party, is past praying fol
1t is a lost soul of a dead cause; a ghos
of the receding past, which no spell @
political necromancy can bring bacl
from the sepulcher of Bourbonism I
animate the present or the future.
While dissipating at Erie, Pa, Job
l.. Morgan, Of Newburg, O., caused
letter to be sent to his parents detailing
his death and asking for money to shi
the corpse. The mourning mother al
rived on The scene with an undertake
and a casket, and upon finding her Sol
alive and we'll, was rendered well-nigl
insane by the shock. An Ohio man
always a safe person to appoint on
committee of ways and means.
Killed by Cattle Thieves.
DENVER, Col, April 29-The Tribun