The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
poLIrIcAL ANp PERSONAL.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
One thing is settled. If Carter aar-
ison is to talk to the Iroquois club any
more he will not be left 10 "bring mp
ne rear"
Peter Cooper was not only his own
he built his own monument,
and did not make it of useless stone. like
TOO many rich men who do not know
the potentialities Of their money.
Mr.. Abbey reports that for the "a weeks
in which Mrs Langtry has been playing
in this country the receipts amounted to
1926. e63. Outside of New York the
largest weekly receipts were in Phila-
delphia and were $l5 100.
1t is said that Ex Senator Kellogg, of
Louisiana. is SO far victim of super
stItion that, although wealthy man,
he has never yet made will, believing
that If he did so his death would imme-
diaiely follow.
When General SPINNER was asked by
a Florida man few days ago how old
he was and if he was in good health yet,
he said: 81 am 81 years of age, still IN
good health, and believe / can whip men
of my size yet"
Not much reliance is placed in the re-
port of Jay Gould's retirement from
active business, by the "boYs" in and
about the charmed precincts of Wall
street. They regard II as possible but
highly improbable, and likely TO prove
mere penitential dodge on his part.
New York Times: Mr.. Bayard. at
Chicago, addressing the country
(through the kindness of the press), is as
dull, empty. pretentious and cheap as
any of the long line of candidates whose
brains have been put to sleep by the
buzzing of tue presidential bee in their
hats.
Sam Woods friends have not yet
given up the idea that he will be given
Peters seat in congress.-EE-
No; the game isn't played out yet,
and won't be till Sam pockets the hand
some sum which he will get as contest
ant. That's what Sam stared IN for, and
he will get that money before he quits.
Ex-senator George W. Jones, of
Iowa, has just celebrated his 10th birth
day at his home in Dubuque. The
Times of that city says that for his yeaFa
he is a remarkable man. He is in good
health, vigorous, active and strong, and.
except for his snow-white hair and
beard, would pass for man of so. He
has resided in Dubuque and vicinity
filiy-seven years.
New York Tribune: Oliver Wendell
Holmes wrote of the kaiydid:
Thou mindcst me of gentle folks
Old gentle folks are they;
Thou sayest an undisDuted thing
In such solemn way.
Judging from the tone of the press OF
the country on Senator Bayard's recent
speech, he has only to make few more
such flights of eloquence to earn the
title of the Katydid of Democracy
Ex-Vice President Wheeler's health
is not good. About the holiday season
his eyes became infiamed by exposure &c
the glare of the sun and snow, and fol
weeks he was confined to the house, I'm
able to use his eyes at all. Lack of ex
ercise then brought on insomnia and
other troubles. With the arrival o
spring weather his ailments have in 1
measure disappeared, but he is still fal
from we'll.
General George B. Mcclellan and I
party of friends visited Richmond, Va
> on Thursday. We are glad to hear tina
George has at last visited Richmond
We have faint recollection that during
an "onpleasantness" that existed som
years ago George tried several times II
visit the capital of Virginia, but some
thing always occurred to prevent tn
contamination Of his desires at that time
We are truly glad to know he has q
I last Ego. there" As an Ell it may b.
E said that George is slow but sure.
Senator Bayard, in his speech at tn
!, Chicago Jefferson love feast, stated tina
! he 'was standing upon the uplands c
vision" A "tariff for revenue only
was the most important thing he saw
from tina: eleyated position. and that, ii
4 his opinion, should be the Democrat
keynote until the contest of 1884 is dc
eided. This, coming from the ables
representative of the Democratic party
is in itself significant, but more so whe
it is considered that in that sentimen
he has the support of nearly all of tn
prominent leaders OF his party. Ur
questionably he has sounded the res
e democratic keynote.
> The famous Greeley farm in Chappa
qua, N estchester county, N. Y, has bee
advertised TO rent, and will before Ion
be sold under the provisions of Mr..
y Greely's will. Col. Nicholas Smitl
. who occupied the farm until recent,
u has removed 10 Kentucky with his thre
children, and Miss Gabrielle Greeley
y who, with these children, is heir TO th
property, is living in New York. TIL
" farm contains eighty acres, and has seV
L eral buildings upon it, including NJ
e Greeley's big stone barn. The oil
homestead, where BUSY Life" and tt
u History of the Rebellion were writer
u was destroyed by fire.
Barnes, the Kentucky mountain evan
;. gelist, is in London seeing the sight
and doing the city before he begir
: preaching to the people He says nea
~ ly sll the people he has seen hay
If blazing ale, gin, and erapdy compile,
r ions, but look more healthy than Ii
- - sallow faced American. He finds tn
> Londeners the illest dressed people ]
At ever saw, men aud women and childrel
d Nobody's clothes fit The body on whiC
v they are hung. He sees London goir
on two wheels-leaving out the omn
buses and hackney coaches, all the re
!. arc hsusOms, dog carts and donke
- carts. Barnes is graphic letter write
T. and his style of correspondence is bett
u than his preaching, If the latter has bee
~ correctly reported.
The PaOla Spirit is still stirring 1
:, the Osawaiomie insane asylum folk
:, In its last issue it says: "The fu
expenses at the Osawatomie insane as
lum for the two years ending June so,
!, 1882, were $i3, 42S 20, an average expen
of $6,71400 per annum. This mig