The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-20
PERSONAL AHp POLITICAL.

commonwealth: The new j ORR 1rI-
bure, lay Gould paper, says the rail
roads are for BIT. John. 1t ought to
know
Keely has used up $15O,OOO of 9TH
or peoples money on his motor. Keely
seems to possess more financial ability
than ibe public have given him credit
for.
DIR. Swinburne. the Republican candi-
date for mayor of Albany, New York,
was former resident of Topeka This
is the only point which the opposition
have been able to raise against him.
The wife of DR.. FELTON,, OF Georgia, ia
said to be the best politically informed
bands most intimate political adviser,
and accompanies him on his canvassing
tours.
We have every TeGssa to believe that
when VIM. L. Chandler consented to be-
come secretary ofthe navy he had no
pTemonition that wood-cut of his face
would be published in the Leavenworth
Times.
The fact that Charles Francis Adams
is not above little skirmish with the
bunkoists would seem to indicate that
he has not yet surrendered all hopes of
political preferment at the hands of the
Democratic party.
Persons who have heretofore neglect
ed to take the precaution of digging cy-
clone holes, may be interested to learn
that Sam Wood will make canvass of
the state during the summer in behalf of
the Greenback party.
Sheriff TImberlake has been the OBJ
ject of considerable censure for offlciat-
ing as pall-bearer at the funeral of Jesse
James. We fail to see in what line of
duty he could haye more acceptably
served his constituency.
The president RECALLED his guests with
six different brands OF wine at the recent
state dinner, given at the white house.
Mr.. Arthur seems determined to atone,
SO far as he is able, for the alimentary
delinquences of the Hayes administra-
ton,
It will be a source of infinite satisfac-
ton to the public to learn that Vennor
is confined to his bed and is bowling
with rheumatism. In the long run the
ends of justice are seldom defeated, even
in a world as wicked as the one in
which We dwell.
The death of Mrs. Ida Greeley Smith
leaves her husband a widoWer for the sec
ond time. AS he is said to be the hand
soonest man in the United States, we in.
fer that no effort will be spared by his
friends of the gentler sex to console him
in his sore affliction.
1t is said that the people of India did
not take kindly te Joseph Cook, the Dos
ton mctaphysician, and that his mission
to the orient was failure. We have al
ways suspected the statements regarding
the benighted condition of that country
were grossly exaggerated,
In passing Judgment upon Charles
Frances Adams for allowing himself to
be fleeced by bunkoists it should not be
forgotten that he had the virtue to resist
the entreaties of his fellow statesmen to
become a candidate for president on the
Democratic ticket in 1879.
Prof, Daniel B. English, formerly Of
the Kansas State University, is in trpu-
BILE. He has of late been a resident Of
New Jersey, where he lately married,
He has LEFT New Jersey, and stories are
rife that his departure is on account of
a possible prosecution Cor seduction.
The Chinese minister has gone TO
France, but leaves his wife at home to
look after the spring house cleaning.
And yet it is claimed with considerable
tenacity that it is quite Impossible for a
Ghlnamsu 10 ever thoroughly assimilate
himself with American institutions aud
qsages,
1t is said Queen Victoria is rapidly
growing old in appearance, and her
health is more infiFm than the layal
press of England cares to make known
to the world, Her visit TO Mentons is
because OF her increasing feebleness,
and in all probability there will a
change in the English crown in the
course of the next two years. -
Gath remarks sstraige that two
mehiof the cold temperament and lofty
ethicsOf Charles Francis Adams and
Don Piatt should both have been taken
in by the bunko-meni Take me out OF
that cfowd,A said Charles Francis Ad.
ans TO the Dolly Warden convention Of
1872. Yet he gave his check to the bun.
komen with the resignation of a phil.
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