The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
wAsHISGrOs NOTES.
A Lyon County Boy at the National
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WAsHINaroE, Feb. II, 1889

WAsHINGroE, Feb. Il, 1882
The excitement incident to the Quit
eau trial has almos. entirely subsidized
and the crowds who used to throng the
court room without regard to
srace, color or previous con-
dition of servitude" are now
compelled to seek diversion elsewhere
Scoville and j. ". Guiteau have both
left the city, and the prisoner, in the Sc
elusion of hts cell, is decking himself
out in new suit of clothes preparatory
20 his release, which he confidently de-
clares will take place after his case has
been argued before the court IN 6duc.
The plan of exhibiting his dead body,
the announcement of which disguised
the country last week, Is not likely to
be carried out, Notwithstanding SEQ
ville's readiness to agree TO it
J. w. Guiteau has said that he will
never permit it, and the assassin himself
has declared that in case Of his execu-
tioh he prefers to win his body to some
medical institute. Your correspondent
was much surprised to meet in this city
with many intelligent, thinking persons
who, after attending the trial in its vari-
Gus stages, have come to the conclusion
that Guiteau is, and has been, really IN
sane and should not be hanged To
those who have gathered all their in
formation from the kilograms this may
seem strange, yet is an actual fact and
it shows us that even 10 this question
there are two sides.
Mormonism still threatens to be the
leading question here this winter. It
was reported sometime ago that Can
non, the Mormon delegate from Utah
had set spies at work to search the hid
den immoralites of congressman with a
view to silencing their broadsides against
the remaining "twin !" but Cannon has
come out in letter to Washington pa.
per declaring that he will use no such
disgIaceful means to accomplish his
purpose; that he will battle only with
the weapons of truth and justice, etc.
etc. There are those who assert that il
he did seek to expose congressman, he
would have no mean array of charges
to offset the denunciations against
| MOrmonism.
The steady rain of the past week, add
ed to the melting snow with which the
streets were already filled, has made the
city almost Venetian. And how it does
rain in Washington! Not the quick,
dashing showers that sweep over Kan
sas prairies, deluging everything in a
few moments, and then disappear, leav-
ing clear skies and sunshine behind
them; but steady drizzle that lasts for
days together without stop or change
and always makes one think that it is
only q fog and is not raining at all
The unwary stranger will venture out
unprotected and wonders why every,
body on the street has an umbrella, but
comes home to find himself soaked to
the skin.
Washington seems to be the natural
headquarters for cranks and human cd
dities of all kinds. Not to mention Gui
teau with his Inspiration theory, Inger,
soil with his atheism, and Dio Lewis
with his bresd-and-water theory, it is
enough to mention DIR. Mary Walkers
presence in the city to prove the asser
tion. Your correspondent, while walk
ing near the capital the other day, was
told that "that gentlemen in a beaver
just crossing Third street was DIR. Mary
Walker" She is not a very tall man, i:
slightly stOop,shouldered, and wears, al
everybody knows, the same mans appar
ell that any doctor would wear wher
visiting his patients. Her features arr
small, her eyes look rather weak, hel
countenance has an imbecile expression
and indicates none of that strongmind
edness she is commonly supposed &c
possess. PRoFsKI.