The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-07
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


II is moderately safe TO Persume that
Gov. Click didn't leave very much of
his Thanksgiving turkey to warm over
Friday.
Anna Dickinson is said to have re-
solved never TO appear upon the dra-
matte stage again. Il IL never too late
to mend.
Pere Hyacinthe says: Ideal marriages
arc rare, perhaps impossible - 1t will
be remembered that Pere married an
Ohio widow.
GoVernor-elcct Grant, of Colorado, is
a native of Alabama and but thirty years
of age. 1t is a pity he is Democrat.
He might be such useful man.
Tom Young, of Ohio, is to write
magazine article on Civil Service Re
form. Tom will have to put on a curb
bit to get himself down to magazine
PAGES.
Senator Davis. of West Virginia, de-
clines to be u candidate for reelection.
He says he is now engaged in lumber
ing. farming. banking, and mining, and
he finds business more profitable than
politics.
Bent Murdoch, OF the Topeka CON-
monweaith, who has been under the
weather" for some weeks past Is now
cOnvalescing and is able To do some
ponderous sitting around at the Wind
sOr hotel.
David Davis authorizes st. Louis re-
to be interviews with him are apOc-
ryphal. David may want to be ''inter-
viewed" in an emergency some of these
times, And may not be believed.
1t is not likely that Mrs, Langtry will
come farther west than ST. Louis. In
decd, il is, in our judgment, matter of
serious doubt whether the Jersey Lily,
with all of her reputed loveliness, could
begin to shine among the corn-fed girls
of the remote Occident.
The San Francisco Call refers to the
great tidal wRve which left but one Re
publican head above water-that of
Blaine. of Maine, apd says that "mOre
than any other Republican, he possesses
the qualities of leader, and is just the
man TO lead fOrlorn hope"
In spite of the statement that Mr..
Blaine will not be a presidential candi-
date in 1894, his friends in Pennsylvania
are doing all they can to forward his
chances in that state. A club has been
formed in Philadelphia in Mr.. Blaine's
interest and others are to he started all
over the state.
Mrs Scoville is still tn tue ring, so to
speak, and sane enough to figure in a
new trial which has been granted her.
| The Scovilles and the star reuters infest
the country rs persistently as the small
pnx. 1t will be a blessed day when the
curtain of Oblivion hides them forever
from the public gaze.
Among the candidates for speaker of
the house at the approaching session of
the legislature is Hon. Geo. w. Orner, of
Barbour county. Mr.. Orner is a gentle
man of fine attachments, was good sol
der, and comes from a section of the
state which has not been favored with
recognition by the bestowment of Influ-
entail political positions.
Men have their ups and downs. At
least John Tobin, of New York City,
has been up and is now down. A few
years ago he was a Wall street leader
worth $5.OOO,OO The other day he
was arrested for drunkenness in that
city, The crash of 1878 finished
him, and since that time he has been a
pauper and Il drunkard.
MacVeagh is still writing letters ex-
planaiory If the causes which impelled
him to insist upon the acceptance OF
his resignation as attorney general. In
view of the fact that the public never
demanded such thing as an apology
GOr his action in retiring from the
cabinet there seems to be q gratuity
about these communications which is
extremely unique in a gentleman of the
ex-secreiary's frugal habits OF life.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has recently
fallen heir to legacy of $4,000, willed
to her by a wealthy lady OF Boston, who
was believer IN woman's rights and
entertained a sincere admiration for the
talented lady who has labOred so earn
estly for the elevation of her sex in this
country. This windfall may have a
tendency to stimulate other women &c
, grapple with the enervating fallacy that
the chief end Ct the sex is to sew on
shirt buttons and fry beef.steak.