The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-16
HERE AND THERE.


Chicago expects 100000 people will
come there to stay this year.
Oscar Wilde don't like the American
newspapers. They deal too much in
ridicule
Thomas Arthur, said 10 be cousin TO
the President, died suddenly at st.
Louis.
Abuse is the argument of bad heart
calm reasoning is the logic of e good
head
Mrs. Garfield spent several hours
Saturday at gainesville, Ohio, giving
orders for portraits of new design of
the late President.
The consumption of iron for 1881 is
stated at the enormous figure of $780,
600 tons, or nearly fifty per cent. more
than in 1880
The gross earnings of the Union Pa
cific road, during January, aggregated
81 ,961 .0SS; and those of the Central Pa
ciic 81. $4,000.
Anna Dickinson is moving onGKan-
sas. She will reach this state about the
first Of next month, and will play Ham,
let in several Kansas towns.
The old Knickerbockers complain that
the California element" is demorali-
zing New York society by vulgar ex-
travagance and ostentation.
The dividends from the Nevada mines
in 1881 were $6,194, COO, while the assess
ments amounted to $6.6S9, 900. The
gross yield of the mines was 81, sos, 600.
The gross sales of merchandise in Gal
weston, Texas, last year reached the
grand total of S37, 754 $50, which is a
capital showing for city Of 1920 in
habitants.
| Judge Tourgee says that he has been
told that the cover of Scribner's Monthly
was high art. He cannot see it, but
thinks it closely resembles a dish OF
vermicelli soup on a piece of brown pa.
per.
1t is maikable whst 3 "hankering''
the railroads are getting for newspapers.
It is now said the stock of the Denver
| Tribune has passed into the hands of the
Chicago. Burlington Sc Quincy railroad
That will be good place for the C. B. &
O., to sink some of its earnings.
The art of junketing at the expense Of
taxpayers has made extraordinary pro.
gress in Boston during the last foul
years. In 1873 The city council expend
ed for refreshments and carriage hire
$6,057O6 while last year the sum o.
$50, 1885 was not sufficient for thess
purposes, and bills amounting to about
81 500 await an extra appropriation.
The Agricultural Society of France
proposes to substitute the red beet roo
as wine-producing plant for the grape
vine, in consequence of the ravages o
the phylloxera. The experiment ha:
already been tried, and alcohol of a su
perior quality and wine quite as good al
many of the wines of the Southern vine
yards have been produced.
A colored man IN Randolph county
West Virginia, cOntrived to engage thu
affections of the daughter of his EN-
ployer, a buxom rural belle OF 20, and
the two eloped into Pennsylvania, ant
were married by justice of the peace
Upon their return to Randolph county
the father of the bride undertook to re
claim the infatuated girl, and in tn
fight that followed the negro shot hin
dead, and he himself was captured ant
lynched by mob of white people.
The Bloomington (In.) papers are au
thority for the statement that Mis-
Caverly, of Ottawa, that state, will no
accept any of the $4,000 lately awarde,
in the celebrated suit for damages. Al
ter duly compromising the lawyers, sh
will ask that the balance be approprl
ated to some charitable objects. Tn
suit, as far as she was concerned, was TO
; vindicatIon, and. having obtained this
she is reported to be disinclined to hav
the payment of money to her associated
with the vindication.