The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
"That little chip is still ON my shout
der".-H. VennOr.
Mrs. Garfield has been elected TO sue
| coed her husband as a trustee of Hiram
College.
The conviction seems TO be taking
root III the public mind that Hanback,
will be one of the "big four"
The Chautauqua Journal gives vent
to the suspicion that the Johnson boom
is being delivered to John A. Martin.
The Republican majority in Oregon
| figures up about 5000. This is doing
moderately well for a"dOubtful' State.
The Kansas City Journal lets Sam
Wood down easy by saying of him that
''he is an able man though somewhat er-
ratio"
The Walnut Valley Times is still for
John A. Martin for governor. Sheldon
always was pretty leVel.hsaded sort of
q fellow.
Ex-Vice- President Wheeler has de-
clined to serve on the tariff commits
sion. II is evident that the fishing is
good this season.
Each congressional candidate seems 10
be cOnfidenL-TOpeka commonwealth.
Yes; that is one of the strange peculi-
arities of the disease.
A lOng-suffering public Is finally get
ting even with Lydia Pinkham, she hav-
ing been recently obliged to take the
poor debtors oath.
Butler county organized seven prOhi-
bitiOn clubs last week. 1t looks as il
st. John were making preparations 10
| continue business at the old stand.
President Arthur is a late riser and
rarely breakfasts before 10 o'clock. II
is pleasant Ia know that even the Office
Of chief executive has ITS cOInPensa.
tions.
With characteristic depraviiy Guiteau
has dropped into poetry" and has just
completed an original poem. This
seems an awful thing tor q man To do
whom eternity is staring in the face.
1t is said that of the dozen or more
aspirants to the seat of Senator Chilcutt
OF Colorado, all are milliOniares. We
have heard it intimaIed that the butch.
ers of the centennial state take pretty
lively hand in political matters.
A BelVidsre, Illinois, woman was mar.
ried and deserted by husband No. 1;
married husband No 2, whom she in
time deserted, and recently she was re-
united TO husband Ne. l. Some women
make history faster than nations.
Ex-Congressman De La Matyr is lee.
turing on temperance in Iowa towns.
He Is described as wearing faded but.
ternut suit of clothes and carrying q
much, Travelled gripsack." To report.
or he said: "The Greenback idea is as
strong as ever"
Senator Plumb has secured the passage
of bill through the senate compelling
the Union Pacific railroad TO take out
patents on their lands and pay taxes
like other people. We presume Con-
gresham Anderson will take up the
bill and pass it through the house.
A. L. Redden, of FL Dorado, is report
ed to have announced himself as can
didate for congress, and is working for
the Butler county delegation. We dOn't
suppose that any person has the leisure,
at this season of the year, to ascertain
whether all the townships from the
southwest have yet been heard from.
Fred w. Newburgh, who secured $780,
COO, iIOm the Ohio State treasury by
forgeries, pleaded guilty TO two out of
flfty-twO indictments, and was taken to
the penitentiary for six years. The in
generation of an Ohio man at the pres
ent stage of the political canvass in that
state is something really too utterly pa
lhetic to dwell upon without tears.
There seems to be truce To hostilities
| Just now between the advocates
of the third term movement
and the friends Of Captain johnson.
The monkey and parrot time over the
gubernatOnal question will probably
not set in until after the congressional
convention at Topeka on the 18th. If
the fur doesn't begin 10 fly then the
weather indications are terrible decep-
tiOus."
The Imperial apartments at Gatschina
are warmed only by open fires Of wood,
and = continental correspondent of The
London Globe tells the strange story
that the Gar is SO fearful lest some ex-
plOsive material be introduced into the
flames that he prepares al the fuel with
his own hands. A daily scene in the
immediate vicinity of the palace-prisOn,
he declares, is that Of Alexander III. in
his shirt-sleeves, saving and splitting
huge pine logs into firewOOd, while his
son, tho Grand Duke Nicholas, conveys
the same to the Imperial WOOd-clOset.
Il is difficult to estimate the love at life
or the dread of death in . man who will
saw wood as q means Of selEpreserV-
alton.