The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-04
pERsoNAL ANp PoLIrICAL

( The rumor HAT Blaine and Belmont
have selected their Weapons lacks con
frmaiion.
/ ST.. Miller, of The Troy Chi,f, aIlndes
- Darwin the man who discovered
The process o. making men out Of
n,aqkeys.
We shonld not be surprised To see the
staIwart papers run upon the name of
Belmont as a candidate for vice prpsi-
den, IN 1854
EISin b 9th Is going TO undertake
the experiment of playing an engage
meat through Germany with German
speaking support
his positively asserted that Bob Ford
will not lecture while Frank James and
the Widow Samlels are meandering
around in mourning.
Commons ealth: Senator Plumb's
$500 donation 10 Baker University will
greatly aid the Methodist brethren To re-
lieve the institution from debt.
The dreadful possibilities of inter.
necine strife will never be fully realized
until Blaine and Belmont meet some
dark night up back alley.
Speaking of congressmeu-a at large,
Judge Peters. Of the great and growing
southwest, seems To stand mod erately
good chance of getting there.
Mr.. Blaine apily sums up the nature
and habits of the fellow Shipherd. when
he says that "Shipherd makes lying an
employment aud perjury FASTING"
The Atchison Champion says that
senator's Ingalls, and Plumb had a pro-
tracted interview with the president on
Wednesday concerning Kansas inter
ests
at seems that Mr.. Blaine has unique
fashion of putting on his hard gloves
when lie appears before the ShipheId
investigating committee. Judge Bel
mont
Il see by the papers that Ralph Wal
d" Emerson IS suffering from acute
pneumonia, and his physicians fear he
cannot survive. This seems TO be a hard
, 80 SA 10 iltCIaiD llSn IL. DTOWSE
/ Peacock.
tt is reported that the liger5s belong
ing 10 Coup's circus have been wearing
their tails betwe en- their legs ever since
it WAS publicly announced that the
Widow Samuels would travel with that
aggregation.
Troy Chief: The Topeka Capital will
rlease take notice that a party named
5 :. Benedict is a candidate for gov
cruor. Hasn't Benediet been engaged
IN selling whisky 10 the Indians down
in the territory?
The Kansas City Journal pronounces
Writ Walton the handsomest man in
Kansas. Il is very evident that the as- !
thetic editor of that paper has never
toasted his optics upon the comely ex-
terror "f Milk Reynolds
The Atchison Champion is up TN
CoD&r sinln Haskcll's collar, so to
speak, for vp,ing against taking up the
contested case of Lynch VS.. Chalmers, |
in The house. 1t would seem that there |
is a fac opening just now for ii ''card''
from Dudley
1t WAS reserved for Blaine t0 relieve |
the intolerabie tedium of the Shipherd |
investigation, and 10 impart flavor ofin- |
lcrest to even as wearisome proceeding
AS the gu'inO expose at Washington. We !
don't wonder that Ga,h characterized |
The cx-secretar5 II state rs al sparkling |
eiIcrvcsctncr''
The convention for nominating con-
ressmcp-ai-iarge will take place at To-
pcka on the 2S;h OF June. Two solid !
months is a pretty long stretch to keep
the majori'y of the voting population of
kanses ON the ragged edge of suspense
regarding their chances for political
prefe'ment
General Hancock gets up at O'Clock
in the morning SO as to have little time
during the day, as he expresses it, when
folks will let him alone and enable him
to enjoy his own society This is val.
liable pointer Ia young men who buy
their clothing and cigars and get their
washing done on lick.
Jay Gould has established an expert
mental farm on The Staked Plains of
North Texas. The section is known
more Familiarity as the "Great American
Desert" and the general idea is that it
Is sterile and uninhabitable. Mr.. Gould
and others think that the whole section
may be turned into a fine grain-produc-
ing country.
The Most melancholy development of
the preseat political situation is 10 see
| two such old and devoted friends as Capt
King, of the Capital, and Noble L. Prem
lis, of the Champion, locking horns over
the gubcrnatorial question, when 1t is
known by everybody that they entertain,
at heart, such an entire unanimity of
view in regard 10 the third term adj
date
The newspaper fight on the guberna-
torial qucstiO:, which has heretofore
been mainly confined TO the Common
wealth and Capital at Topeka, has as
sumed triangular form and is vastly
more Interesting since the editor Of the
Aichison Champion SHE'D his castor
INTO the ring There is good deal of
point 10 Martin when he gets warm un-
der the collar.