The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-15
HERE AND THERE.

The Ohio corn is reported to be in bad
shape from the cold weather.
Cyrus W. Field was once A. T. Stew
arts office boy at a salary of 81 week
Preparations for the grand military
encampment at Indianapolis have com.
menced.
There will be convention of colOred
journalists in Washington during the
present month.
The cheering announcement Is made
by the Capital that water is plenty at
Topeka again.
Now that Lawrence has had a lynch
ing the next thing we are likely to heaI
of will be bull-fght at Boston.
Strikes are still the fashion. The fel
lows who water stocks and engineer
rObbing schemes sit back and smile all
the same.
An African M. E. Bishop says n strong
voice is of more importance to the col
ored Methodist ministry than good
grammar.
A Milwaukee lady will be a martyr
to principle, and will go to Jail for If
teen days rather than pay a dOg.licsnse
of five dollars.
The Decoration Day contributions to
the Garfield monument in Washington
City were $4,000. The subscription list
included over 1900 names.
Not less than 100000 men in various
parts of the country have struck for
higher wages since the 1st of June, and
are now waiting for the increase.
Members Of the chorus of the Boston
Ideal opera company are not allowed to
wear any jewelry on the stage. No
modern servant girl will ever join that
company.
The Aristocraiic locality of London
known by the not very euphenious nor
appropriate title of Rotten Row." de-
rives its name from q corruption of the
words "Route du ROi," meaning way OF
the king.
The horse Of Colonel Ellsworth, one
Of the irst to shed his blood in the war
Of the rebellion, is still alive and recent
ly appeared in the procession at Me-
chanicsville. The horse is now twenty
nine years old.
From the large number of excursion
Sabbaths in Topeka, we infer that the
ordinance requiring the saloons to be
closed on Sunday in the former city,
must be quite vigorously enforced.
According TO Commissioner McFar.
land, Of the general land Office, larger
amount of public lands will have been
disposed of during the year ending June
80, 1882, than during any other year since
the cstablishment of the general land of
fee.
A federal court in Little Rock has
awarded plaintiff $4,000 damages
against railroad company, for putting
him off the train because the time OF his
excursion ticket had run out. The rail-
roads are learning something all the
time.
The fact that three hundred pies are
sold each day to the newly arrived i'm
migrants at Castle Garden, Is encOurag-
ing, because if the immigrants can
stand the common railroad station pie,
they will certainly go safely through
the very worst phases Of American ex-
istence.
The authorities of several cities have
already issued prOclamatiOns prohibit
ing the firing OF cannon, guns, pistols.
fire-erAckers and tOrpedOes on the
Fourth of July. A destructive confia-
grafton is coming TO be regarded as q
high price TO pay for little shooting
cracker fOOlry.
The Turk seems to be fully master of
the situation He has cOOlly Informed
the powers that conference at the pres
enI time will interfere will his policy
in Egypt. This means that he thinks
he can take care Of Egypt without their
l0eddling. The conference is therefore
to c postponed, and doubtless indefln-
iIely. The Turk Is doing extremely well
for sick man.