The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Coy. Click, up TO date, has approved
fifty-one bills.
Maggie Mitchell is at st. Louis this
week. The public will be at a loss to
know which to pitY-the town or the
actress.
It has probably not escaped the notice
of the public that none of the various
candidates for U. 8. senator from Mich
igan can lay claim TO the name of Eli.
The retirement OF David Davis from
the presidency of the senate gives color
TO the rumor that the independent party
Is seriously contemplating matrimony.
Old Bender has been discovered to be
in Texas. As Texas and Tophet are in
terconvertible terms, this ought to OBJ
viate the necessity of issuing a REQUEST
ton.
Scarcely fortnight has passed since
Elk. Governor Jewell, of Connecticut,
passed away, and now the dispatches
announce the death of his widow from
heart disease.
The real name of Mr.. Modjeska is
Count Charles Bozenta Chespowski, but
owing to the excessive rates of transpor-
tation in Europe. he never takes it with
him when he goes out of Poland.
The Leavenworth Times says that Col.
ID. X. Anthony is in Washington eagerly
watching the progress of the tariff bill.
Mr.. Mckee, of the same town, seems to
have abruptly lost mis- interest in that
measure.
The Kansas solons of the Hoffman
type, who want the house railroad bill
or nothing, arc something like the fire.
man who said he didn't care 'cuss"
what color they painted the hose cart,
only so it was red.
General Mcclellan expresses the opin-
ion that in order to prevent floods trees
should bel planted as fast as timber
land is cleared. In this view of the
case the sooner VIC abolish arbor day in
Kansas the better.
Vim. II. Vanderbilt, who has an in
como of at least $40 100000 year, sent
the Ohio flood sufferers $4,000. The re-
port that Mr.. Vanderbilt was threatened
with enlargement Of the heart is evil
IDENTIFY inaccurate.
Boston had John Kelley, Kate Clax-
ton and ex- Governor st, John all in ono
week. Persons who regard as authentic
the Sodom and GomOrrah story will be
troubled with serious misgivings regard
ing the moral atmosphere of the "Hub.'
The discovery of new comet will
tend to confirm Ben Buffers faith in his
presidential prospects for 1884. The
belief that these celestial wanderers are
harbingcrs of disaster seems to be found
cd on something more tenable than
mere idle superstition.
1t is said that Sarah Bernhardt will
play ROsalind in English in the U nitet
States next year. Waving ali consider
atoms of dialect it is a matter of grave
doubt whether Sarah's limbs are suff
GENTLY talented for the successful per
sonation of that trying role.
We are pleased to note that Senate
A. r. Greene, of Douglass county, hai
been appointed inspector of surveys b.
Secretary Teller cal" is one of thu
very best institutions of Kansas, and thu
Secretary of the Interior has honoreC
himself by this appointment.
Col. Robert Ingersoll, who has devot
ed all his energies to beleaguring tn
walls of Zion for the past ten years, ad
mits that he feels impelled to raise thu
seige since he has learned that a promi
nent citizen of Leavenworth denie(
himself the pleasure of taking in thu
opera of "MerrY War;" on account o
Lent
The senate has agreed to the reques
OF the house for conference on the IN
ternal revenue bill, and Speaker Keife
has appointed Messrs. Mckinley, Kel
ley, Haskell, Randall and Carlisle a
conferreers on the part of the house,
The time till adjournment is short, bu
it is not yet too late for congress to es
cape condemnation by passing some
practical measure for the reduction O
taxation and regulation of the tariff.
Col. Rose Field, the talented manag.
ing and minion editor of the Kansas
City TImes, is credited with saying thai
he will marry a Missouri girl when he
Is assured of the present of $15lOO(
house. We are seriously disposed &c
question the accuracy of this statement
From what we have seen of jackson
county women and know of Mr.. Fields
tastes We apprehend that at least one
cipher has been omitted in stipulating
the alleged amount.
The statement that the members of the
United States senate are worth an az
gregate of $500. OOO. 900 is not without a
disgraceful significance when We con-
slider that il has become possible to dis
honor the splendid traditions of the
American Republic 10y admitting TO the
halls which are still fragrant with the
memory Of Webster and Clay and Sum-
ner. such coarse saiircs on statesman
ship as Tom Bowen and old Tabor of
Colorado.
The Tropical and artistic liar of the
Wamcgo Democrat CLAIMS Michael Ma
loney IS . citizen of thaf place, and
makes Eli Perkins turn blue about the
gills by asserting that be (BIikel was a:
one time prosecuting attorney of Potta-
wAtomie county. II the member of the
state board Of charities from Emporia
should mysteEiouAly disappear some Of
these ane days, We know Of at least
three edstoFs In Kansas who would be
Immediately arrested on a charge of
abduction.