The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-05
HERE AND THERE.

children.
ri Here's consolation for the bald.heads
: A local scientist has made the discovery
1 that no idiot was ever bald headed.
hsnumber OF Internal revenue dis.
4 trIcts has been reduced forty-six. TIL,
anHsal savirg will be 100000. Tn,
/ new arrangement will take effec
August LIST.
The Arkansas plan OF hanging iraiI
robbers IN groups Of three or fur ol
{ more, e. occasion serves, will probsblS
make that form OF enterprise unpopular
The Arkansas method is in striking con
trast with the Kissouri s. stem.
A remarkable case of thrift Was shown
this week by ut reasuTer from one OF the
northwestern counties. He brought
! his county funds, amounting TO $40,
dOwn 10 the state treasurer, and drew
see mileage. He travelled ON pass.
"Cronln's nose" is about "a cut fig
ure la politics again. The Republicans
OF Ohio prop0se TO show up Hoadley IS
coDnrctl0h with the Oregon contested
election case In 1876 They viii I'M
doubiedly make IL Interesting for Mr..
H..
The fame of the Rev. Henry Craw-
ford Tucker never spread beyond the
boundaries of Georgia during his life
time. but now thai he is dead we learn
thai he married aud buried more per
sons than any ten other men in thestaIe,
and that he was the father Of thirty -oue
children by three wives.
George w. Peck the Milwaukee hu-
morist, Is apparently about forty years
OF age, Is of Medium stature, dresses
nOdestly. has light complexion, yell
lowish hair and monstache and sharp,
blue eyes. He is quiet in manner, aud
his conversation, according to Eugene
Field, who recently met him, IS that of a
shreWd business man rather than that
OF q literateur. He is exceedingly alb
stemious; il is hrs firm belief that no
man who dIssipales can succeed in any
thing. His paper, Peck's Sun, has
circulation OF $4,000.
Sunday trains for business and occa.
sional excursions are now run on all the
principal railroads in Connecticut. a
few Sundays ago the superintendent of
one of the roads (who is one of the lead
ing men 10 the Young Mems Christian
| AssOcIation) that runs a milk train on
Sunday, said 10 his little boy who was
playing with toy train of cars: Don't
- To AL
should not play with your cars on the
Lords dayy' The boy stopped, looked
thOughifully q moment, and replied
Eyes, papa, but this is a milk train"
There died the other day inthe Cincin-
natl hospital. miser seventy years old,
Charles Doehring by name, and a rag
picker by occupation. Words are in
adequate to picture his crooked and at
tenuated frame. his CRIME and rags and
general decay, aud his Wretched manner |
of life for many years. But on his per-
aOa Was found e97O. and in the hooks
and crannies Of the attic where he lived |
was hidden &701.75. Stranger, however.
than the discovery of the money, was
the discovery Of VIII beQueathIng it |
sll TO the German Protestant Orphan |
Asylum at Mt Auburn.
The friends Of Judge Hoadley and of |
Gen. Durbin Ward are playing the pot |
and kettle game In OHIO. Wards |
fFleads say thai H0adlsy ias cot Inush of !
Democrat anyway; that he was Re- |
publican until 1872, and not mich of
anything ever since. HoadleY's friends |
retOrt that Ward was Wing before and |
Republican during the war, and that |
the old Bourbons are "down" on him on |
account thereof. 1t is TO be hoped that |
the record of Hoadley will be- written |
up" by Wards friends, and that Hoad- |
leY's friends will return the compli-
ment. employing portion Of Tilden's
literary bureau for the purpose.
The wiId-eYed scientist Is "on deck" |
for the summer vacation, and the pro-
gram for the Concord School of PhilQs- |
Ophy is out, and il makes US feel awful. |
ly jolly to notice that "Man's Immortal |
ity in the Light of Philosophy and Re |
ligion" will receive some attention dur |
ing the coming summer, while that the |
"Ground of Certainty is Deeper than
Skepticism or AgnostIcIsm" will be |
clearly shown, and some very nice points |
will be made in the "Dislinction of Re |
ality and Potentiality from True Actu-
atty" 'SelfexIstent Energy" will still
be found 10 "UnderlIe All Change" and
the "RelatIOn of the Infinitely Absolute
70 the Negation of Philosophy" will be
discussed with a fnllness heretofore I'M
known. No doubt there will be de-
lightfully cheerful session, and that cart
loads Of wisdom will emaaaie from Con-
cord for winter reading.
An exchange thus pays its compile
ments TO the jury system; The whole
jury system is honey-cOmbed with rot
tenness. 1t is disgrace to our civiliza-
ton, and blot upon our Jurisprudence.
Any kind of system which bars the
| prison doors against the entrance of per-
jurers and thieves, and which rescues
| cold-bloOded murdereTs from the offices
of the executioner, ought not to be toll
Grated In this age of enlightenment
Any system which makes the courts
hiss and q Teproach, and converts justice
into a mere mOckery, ought to be tram
pied out of existence. Any system
which selects the ignorant. the vicious
and the deprsved, and the seorners Of
the soiemniiy of an oath, TO try cases in
volvlng property. liberty, life, health and
honor, Is an offense against both God
and man.
An adventurous scribe invited ex-
senator David Davis home the other
day. and tried TO interview that states
man. or course he 6rst asked who
would be the next presidential candi
dates. and insisted upon an answer, for,
"Yon must have some idea, Judge" he
said. ayes" replied the other, AZ have
an idea-that your question is too broad
TO be traveFsed IN one lifetime" "But
IL the Democrats were 70 urge you to ac-
i cept their nomination, what would you
sayf" "My dear sir, should say that
it ives none Of your business. Excuse
me for being rude. but / can't be inter
viewed" The reporter went. then; but
in parting he asked the ex-senator why
he had such 9 strong, massive fence
4 around his property. "Why," was the
reply, "the 'buzzards of the press say
that am always sitting on it, SO it
seeds TO be pretty strong"
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/ The Democrats are uneasy at The
changing fFnat Of the Irish Americans,
who ara breaking away from The party
. in this country so thoroughly in accord
, with the free trade aristocracy of Eng
, land. This dIsintegration must con.