The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-18


coming up to the scratch.
The Illinois State Journal thinks the
Democratic party will not be content
with having FiIz John Porter available
as presidential candidate 50 long as
JEFF Davis remains ineligible.
The rumor is again waltzing around
over Kansas that the Governor intends
10 call an extra session ofthe legislature,
bu; we would not advise any of our
readers to gamble on its accuracy.
1t seems that the nomination of young
Bill English, the soa of his father, the
late distinguished. etc, as congressman
from the indianapolis district, was ac-
complished upon purely cash basis.
Senator John A. Logan has entirely
recovered from lumbago and is again on
deck at Washington. Providence seems
10 have kindly spared the Illinois states
man to fight The Fitz John Porter bill.
Carl Schurz will deliver an Grafton at
Harvard university On the 29th of June.
Alr. Schurz, it will be remembered, was
more or less identified with the admin
istTatiOn of the husband Of AIrs. X. 3.
Hayes.
Jubilant in his success in the United
States, Oscar Wilde intends going TO
Australia to wresIle with the Blshmen
He thinks primitive minds more i'm
questionable 10 art than those hardened
by contact with chromos and patent
medicines.
The court in banc have agreed to sus-
tain the verdict of the lower court in
the Guiteau case, and there will be no
postponement on account of the weath-
er of the neck-tie picnic announced to
take place at Washington on the 3Oth of
June.
j. w. Sussman, a pOGr uphOlsterer of
Atchis0n, has fallen heir to $4,000 by
the death of a near relative in Germany.
In the words of an EmpOria clergyman,
''life is made up of sorrow and satisfac-
tion," and the AtchisOn man seems TO
have encountered a dispensation in
which these elements are pretty evenly
divided.
81 see that Rome celebrated her :, 635th
birthday at the beginning of this month.
Dear old city of the CRsar,s? How well
l remember the morning that Romu
lus got hot because Remus leaped over
the earth-works that his brother was
throwing up around the village."-Su-
san 3. Anthony.
1t is now stated that Peters will get
every vote IN the state convention for
nominating candidates for congressman
at large, from the southwest. For while
Booth will have not TO exceed six or
seven, the same votes will also be cast
for Peters. The Judge" seems to be a
whole team and red dash board.
The young mems Democratic club of
on the table the resolution proposing
the nomination of Samuel J. Tflden fer
governor. They probably proceeded
upon the hypothesis that if they wanted
corpse for a candidate they would take
one who never went back on his income
tax or was mixed up with the cipher
dispatches.
Allen J. Cummings, OF New York, who
accidentally pricked his thumb ON the
18th of April, died few days ago in
great agony from blood poisoning in
duced by the slight injury above named.
Young men whose best girls adhere TO
the barbarOus custom of wearing pins in
their belts should cut this item out and
paste it in their hat
1t is pleasant to note that amid all
the aSperities which have been devel-
oped at Topeka in the editorial discus
sion of the third-term movement, Meth
er Bent Murdoch, of the Common
wealth, nor Captain King, of the Capt.
tai. have been accused of sleeping with
their socks on or using BEARS oil on
their hair.
Miss kellogg says she is in no hurry
to get married and when she gets ready
to change her name the public will
know about it. We rather expected the
valOr of Mr.. Whitney had been overes.
tImated by the papers which reported
some months ago that he was about TO
annex Clara Louise and her mother, who
is her constant companion.
General Weaver denies that he ever
wrote letter to Senator VOORHEES, pro-
posing a coalition. of Indiana Green
hackers and Democrats. The fallacy of
attempting to decide a question of
veracity between the Iowa Greenback
apostle and the tall Sycamore of the
Wabash without retaining Phlladel
phia lawyer, will be readily conceded
by discriminating public.
DIR. A. Burke, the brother of the assas
sinated Under-Secretary Thomas Burke,
lives in Lafayette. Indiana. He says
of his dead brother that he twas noble
man in every sense of the word. To my
aged mother he had been the most de-
voted of scDs, and under his roof my
father passed away quietly and serenely,
surrounded with all filial love could
gather around his last days. To his
brothers and sisters he was a father
more than brother, for he insisted on
them all living together in his palatial
residence, thus sharing with him all the
luxuries his eminent political position
entitled him to-"