The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-05
HERE AND THERE.

Riddleberger, of Virginia, will be
the youngest man in the senate, and
pledges his support To all administration
measures.
Potter county, Pennsylvania, has not
mile of railroad In IT, but it can alwsy S
be counted upon for rousing Demo
cratic majority.
Between Frank Hatt0n and the al
legged discovery of gold al Ottumwa.
Iowa is claiming very fair measure of
public attention these days.
Hon. w. II. Snallwood, ex-secretary
of state of this state, is nov editing the
Klickitat Sentinel, publ ished in Golden
dale. Klickitat county, Washington Ter
ritory.
The bills for medical attendance in
the case of the late President GARFIELD
are: DR.. Agnew. $4,000: DIR. Hamil-
ton, $25, 700; DIR. Bliss, $1,000; DR.. Rey-
burn, 5000.
Tom Desher married Della Rose at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the father
and brothers of the bride, armed with
shot-guns, carried her of. 1t is not
every man that is. as lneky IS Tom.
The marriage of Mrs. Jane Grey
SWisshelmAs daughter is announced.
The name of thsherOic young man who
has grappled with such malignant case
OF mOiher-in-law is not announced.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes the
fact that there is lady in Nebraska no
can talk 200 words in q minute. The
uame of her wretched husband is sup
pressed out of consideration to the
wishes of the family.
Forty seven members of the present
house of representatives were born in
New England, thirty-six in New York,
thirty-three in Pennsylvania. twenty
seven in Ohio, two in Illinois, one in
Michigan and one ia Iowa.
at seems to be pretty well settled that
JEFF Davis didn't get away with that
Confederate coin, after all. We were
impressed with the idea when we lead
his book that he was very stupid sort
of person."-Cashier Baldwin.
Prof. Huxley is kind enough to admit
that there is "a great deal of moral gran
deur in the Bible" We presume that
Providence will be highly gratified at
such a concession from an Englishman
ana an advanced" scientist.
This administration Is becomminR
more and more one chiefly conspicuous
for widOwers. The president, the vice
president, the secretary of the treasury,
the new judges of the supreme court and
the new postmaster general are all wife
less.
London, with population Of nearly
four millions, has only thirteen daily pa
pers. What they seem TO need over
there is a little of the heroic contempt
for perjury which enables nearly half as
many journals to live in village like
Topeka.
Chauncy 1. Filley is accredited with
the prediction that Mr.. Arthur will make
the best President the country ever had.
1t may be proper 10 add, however, that
this prophecy was ventured before TIM
Othy Z. Howe was appointed post
master-geneFal.
81 see that f ars are entertained all
over the country of short ice crop.
There is no telling how popular l may
become with the American people If
there is no marked depression in the
mercury within the next two months"
Charles Francis Adams.
Charles Dudley Warner, to employ a
western aphorisnn, plugs the center" as
follows Although there arc scatter ed
throughout the land many persons, | am
sorry to say who are unable to pay for q
newspaper, have never yet heard of
any one unable to edit one"
The papers reiterate the story that
| Queen Victoria isanxious for her young
est daughter to Hasrry an American. 1t
affords us the most profound gratifoa.
ton to reflect that we have always spoken
in the highest terms of the Princess
Beatrice and her royal mother.
/ A Virginia father has eleven children
named IN the consecutive Latin numer.
ais from "Primus" to "Undecimus; :"
at the birth of his tenth boy the latter
was named "Decimus Ultimus," or tenth
and last, but, somehow, another son fol
lowed, and was dubbed "Undecimus."
There are $40 disabled soldiers in the
National Home, at Hampton, Va; 1924
in that at Togus, Maine, and 1877 in that
at Milwaukee. The Home at Dayton.
Ohio, has over 1900 inmates, so that the
four branches of the Home now shelter
nearly six Thousand disabled veterans of
the war.
The press of the country should not
be too liberal in its structures on Mr..
r. B. Hayes for refusing, upon the plea
Of penury, to subscribe to the Garfield
monument fund, in the light of his
statement that he is out of pocket $3.50
on a wheat speculation in the Red river
country. -
The colored principal Of a negro pub
lie school in st. Louis brings suit foI
damages against a manager who recent
ly excluded him from certain part Of
his theatre. The supreme court of Mis-
souri, has heretofore decided that the
manager of q theatre may refuse TO ad
nit anybody whom he chooses.
| Itrequires about twenty per cent. Of (
congressman's salary TO send home pov
| .,,s,, ss.;olray, ,o,,aRlfna-Sa 49,. -, Q,
Washington seeking appointments
There is always lot Of men tkere ready
to 'strike" felloW-citizen for q loan. I
is about as cheap to send them home a
to have them always on haad e boz
rowers.
II is stated that more drunken mel
were seen on the streets of Washington
the day following Christmas than eve
before in the history of that city. An
yet we believe personal liberty" hs
never been outraged by even an attemr
in the direction of prohibitoFy legisli
ton at the national capital.
The Globe Democrat thinks that u
experience of the Guiteau trial shsul
be utilized in every state in the unto
in the framing Of laws to requisite. nit
gate or abolish expert" testimony
murder cases. This is the most sensibI
observation we have seen in that papt
SINCE Mr.. Blaine retired from the cal
met.
Boston claims 70 have 302 unmsTrie
women who are worth over q millio