The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-14
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

lifts TO be.hoped that Col. Cockerill
in deciding whether he will lecture o
run for congress- will decide TO do tn
latter
1t is onsoling TO learn that the new
Sunday law in New York and Brooklyn
will not interfere with Mr.. Beecher's en-
,ertainments at HE Plymouth Taberna
Gle.
Chicago Tribune: In his message u
congress the president recommends TIT
reduction of letter postage to two cents
This bid of Mr. Arthur for Private
Dalzell's vote is TOO apparent.
John c. BIeckinridge's son, hardi,
old enough TO sit IN congress, viii rep
resent Arkansas as congressman-at-iarge
We hope he will have more patriotism
and sense than the old man had.
The Atchison Champion concludes
that the facts ali go to- show conclu-
sively that Mr. Clicks vote was made up
as follows: Democrats, 5000; Repub-
cans, 19, eco !. Greenback, 4.OOO-making
the total, in round numbers, of 50, 600.
The champion clog dancer of the
world died The other day at Kansas City.
1t may seem superfluous To add that no
event since, the untimely removal of
Jesse James, has cast such "a cimerrian
gloom over that .estheiic community.
President Arthur shows more IL
telligent appreciation Of the necessity of
a national bankrupt law than would be
naturally expected from man who en-
joys immunity from the purchase of
Partisan bOnnets and seal skin closks.
Elder Hollis, Missouri evangelist
who is preaching at Ottawa, is described
as "whirlwind OF gesticulation." Will
some one possessing an aptitude for pic
turesque comparisons please skirmish
around for a smile which will do jus
tice to Mr.. Talmage?
The Independence Tribune vaults to
the front with the assuring intelligence
that St. John is not politically dead
We are forced To cOacede that the eli
mate OF Kansas, supplemented with the
iudicious employment of salt petre, is
almost an infalhble fertilization against
decay.
The startling intelligence is wsf,td
from Baltimore that Emma Abbott as
seized by lunatic AT hotel in that city,
the other day, and Rugged until she
tainted. Some Oae has evidently been
letting the amusement editor of the
Kansas City Times out of his cage.
A story from New York is tina
Madame Nilsson was assigned TO rooms
in the Windsor Hotel above those of
Madame Patti. She considered herself
snubbed and refused to occupy them,
though they had been specially prepar-
cd for her, and chose others on the op-
pOsitc side of the house, but on the
same floor as Patti. She could not get
them and went to the Victoria the same
day. She certainly ought 10 have been
satisfied to be above Patti.
Col. Bob Ingersoll has drawn crowds
10 hear his lecture on "The Mistakes of
Moses" We are induced to think that
a solemn humorist might play win
ming card by "A lecture ON the mistakes
of the doctors. The last example is the
treatment Of the late DIR. Updegraf, NJ
C., for Bright's disease, instead of stone
in the bladder, of which he died. The
case of ex- Senator Hendricks, who was
treated for profoundly scientific dis
ease when he suffered only from "bile,"
had more elements of humOr i'll II. A
snpplemt ntary topic to the above would
be, is there anything in the science of
nedicine?' AT all events, it is mani
fest that there is much TO be learned to
make it curing science