The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-16
HIRE ANp rHERE.

liner OCe0u. 0ult03u wants 10 marry
and lecture in England We should
not think his engagements would per-
nit
1t is alleged that Gould and Wander
bilt prevented fearful panic in Wall
street last week by throwing in 10000
coo to relieve the market.
Anumber of Western farmers win
make an attempt to use the Scotch po-
tatoes now being imported into Chicago
for seed for the coming season.
The debt Of New York city is $es.
OOO,O0 Cincinnati borrowed go, OOO,-
900 to build single railroad. and
Chicago owes only $13.0O0,0OO.
The postmaster general has decided
that the alleged ~irade Journals" which
are really nOthing but advertising sheets,
are not second-class matter, and cannot
be mailed a. regular newspaper rates.
The Peoples church, of New York,
has just received an accession in the
shape uf u ChiAaman, who was duly
baptized, attestiDg his belief in the. Lord
Jesus Christ with all his heart.
Forty claims to gold mines have been
flied with the secretary of stale for
New York. during the past month.
bnt nobody has yet seen any gold or
even found out where ths mines are
located.
Ten thousand Russian Jews are ex-
pected TO arrive in this country In the
next thirty days. 1t is estimated that
$780, 900 will be required to aid these
impoverished people SO that they may
afterwards help themselves.
Snakes are evidently very bad in Chi
cagO, because the other night when Mr..
Beecher was taken suddenly i'll several
healthy looking Chicagoans came to the
rescue with TASKS we'll filed with snake
bite antidote.
Canada has 100 900 Indians and mana
Res 10 get along. without any massacres
The Rhode Islanders pattern their
campaigns after the size of the state.
The coming one will he three weeks
long. l
The Kansas City Evening Star is an
accommodating paper. Il says if the
Republicans will nominate T. B. Bull
lene and the Democrats Geo. NJ. Shelley
for mayor, lit will be delighted with
the opportunity To support both of
them"
NJ R,neaau kDotyn no G.Ilu1l pm ~
states in q letter in the London Post
that Charles Reemelin, author of e book
on America published in London, is
Eat present governor of the state of
Ohio," having been Sd created in 1871
by President Hayes"
A talented lady who lectured before .
Brooklyn literary association on Monday
evening, speaking of Job and his pa
thence, remarked that all sympathies
went out to Mrs. Job, who made the
poultices. York Commercial.
Sort Of romance from Topeka. Tow
anda. Pa. belle visiting Topeka before
marrying ToWanda man; fell In love
with L. Lewis; Topeka man went TO
Pennsylvania and married her; Tow
anda young man gave couple house and
lot.
An official states that when the AIis-
souri, Pacific is in operation between
Atchison and Omaha the force of grad.
ers will be put to work grading for an
extension north of Omaha, with a view
of occupying the country not now be-
longing to any system.
1t cost the staid old city of Phlla-
delphia $24, 600. 900 for drinks in 1881,
and in the same time the people paid
$23, 600, 600 for rents-more. for whisky
than for homes to live in, and yet Phila-
delphia IS probably not the worst place
in the world for guzzling.
In the year 1777 considerable interest
was manifested IN an announcement
that six stoves had been completed in
Philadelphia. The annual product of
the stove foundries in that city is now
valued at $4,000, 900. and the industry
supports about IL 900 people.
The good people Of Oberlin. Ohio,
have endeavored for long time to sup
press the sale of liquor in their town,
and have struggled persistentlY with the
proprietor of q drug store who would
not be prohibited. The fight is ended,
however, by the interposition of Provi-
! dence, and the drug store is in ashes.
There is a sad condition of affairs in
Michigan. Several congressman are in
danger OF being remanded to private
life by the Encouragement of the congress
| sional districts in that state. One plan
places Representatives Lacey, Spauld.
ing and Webber in one district.
The Philadelphia Press furnishes a
large number of authenticated instances
clearly demonstrating that the detec.
lives of that city are in league with the
thieves, and making it evident that it is
time for decisive, unmistakable and
thorough work on the part of the au
thorities. -.-
AN "ORGAN.'-"Young Subscriber
wants to know "what is an organT Il
Is the opposition paper, my son; the
vile and trucking sheet through whose
venemous nav, tetid with vice and fes
tering with the loathsome corruption il
which it daily wallOws, the other party
blistered with the plague spot of politi
cal leprOsy, sewers the noisome filth o.
its residential ideas. Gur-r-rlH That's
Vhat an organ is, my boy. Our own pa
per is q fearless and ou:spoken chAmpi
on for the truth. Youmay have noticed
that.-Burlington Hawkeye. z.