The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-22
PRRsoNAL Am poLTTIoaT.

Governor Click went to Leavenworth
on Saturday to celebrate "St Patrickss
day in the mornin'"
The Fl Scott Monitor thinks that
Judge Humphrey, OF Junction City, will |
be the member Of the. bUard of railroad |
commissioners from eastern Kansas.
An effort is being made to start
Free Methodist church al Clay Center
II is shrewdly suspected that Writ Wal |
ton Is Al the bottom of this scheme.
1t seems to be pretty centrally conced-
ell tnaI while Mr.. Virgins Is a will :
allure as weather prOphei, ire woUld
make model witness as III ,xIer, in
Kansas whisky case.
Fsom the kindly manner ia whici Ea-
Prreidrnt Disz tackles 10 st Louis. We
infer that his physicians have advised
him 10 svoid all excitement, and SEEK,
Is far as possible. rest and quiet.
John Mccullough, the eminent ira
gedian, Is Ill at Cleveland. Ohio. and his
engagements for the present week have
been cancelled. Saturday night was the
first time that Mr.. Mccullough ever dis
appointed an audience.
1t has not yet been determined by
Dukes, the Pennsylvania murderer and
sedueeF. whether he will lecture or run
for Congress. AS the season for addled
eggs is approaching IL Is hoped that he
may decide ia favor of the rostrum.
philadelphia News: L: is reported
that Fred. Gebhardt is losing his mind
Il Is also reported that a country editor
has lost a cluster diamond ring, $500
watch and box containing 100000 in
government bonds We do not believe
either story.
The Fl. Scott Monitor has given space
recently to several interesting commu-
nications on the subject of grammar.
Popular surmise is divided, as 10 the
authorship, between Ex-Governor ST.
John and the late Mr. Hoffman, of
Dickinson county.
At Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mrs. Ann
Rutland was burned to death, on Satur.
day while saying her prayers. 1t is not
At all probable that record of this pain.
full occurrence will be handed down to
posterity by any OF the Sunday school
lIterateurs of the country.
| A Toronto man spent days of unre-
hitting toll digging through the frozen
ground to provide refuge from the
storm predicted by E. Stone Virgins.
The tornado failed to connect, but the
man found it very convenient to crawl
into the hole and pull it in after him,
all the same.
| Noble Prentis, after an absence OF seY-
eral months at Topeka. has resumed the
tripod IN The office of the .Atchison
Champion, and the readers of that ex-
cellent paper will turn with eager de-
light to his interesting column of "Notes
and Opinions" IN which the brilliant
powers of the writer find such generous
scope.
"Bob Hart" once popular negro
minstrel at $500 a week, Is now the
Rev. j. 81. Sutherland, supporting him.
self, wife and child on $50 month. In
this connection we may also state that
Mr.. Talmsge, who began life as min
lister of the Gospel, iS now popular
acrobat in Brooklyn, drawing q salary
of $4,000 per annum.
Kansas City Journal: One of the
jurors who acquitted Dukes. the in
famous murderer Of Captain Mutt, was
attacked by mob at Belle Vernon, Pa
Friday night and fatally injured. The
. coroner's Jury which sets on him can
conscientiously bring in verdict OF
suicide. This is the one great oppor.
tunity of the century for coroner's
jury.
President Arthur betrayed great emo
ton on hearing Adslina Patti sing
"Robin Adsir" not long since In Wash
. ingtOn. 1t seems that the late Mrs
Arthur was an amateur vocalist of rare
sweetness and power, and that "Robin
Adair" was one of her fsyorite songs
to which she was accustomed to give &
pathos not to be surpassed.
Mr.. Hoffman, Of Dickinson county, II
. speaking of the railroad bill passed by
the Kansas legislature, on the occasion
, of the recent reception rendered TO him
and Mr.. Burton, at Abilene on their re
, turn from Topeka, made the startling
; announcement that it "was 'droYe
through under the party lash.9 The
deep-rOoted aversion of Kansas reform
ers for the scienoe of syntsx is exciting
large measure of attention among the
casuists and linguists Of the country.
President Arthur recently received a
dozen bottles of whisky, with a note
from the agent of it, requesting him to
taste of 1t and Kindly send his opinion
of its quality, 10 be used as Rn endorse,
ment. The agent received the dozen
bottles by express two days thereafter,
and a letter by mail from Mr.. Phillips,
the presidents secretary, stating in
somewhat satiricAl language that the
president was Indifferent as to the
merits of the whisky, and declined to
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