The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-29
EpEToRIAL NEWS No7 rs.

joke.
Hon. James r. Legate IL booked for a
lecture on temperance at Atchison this
week. The people of that city are very
partial To comedy.
: The Chicago News says that the giant
and gianiess who were married At Pitts
burg the other day both stand very high
in the community.
The Wyandotte Herald office is run by
water power This is worthy of note in
view Of the fact that the editor Of that
paper is a Democrat.
The wife of Sunset Cox is AN Ohio
woman. We appreheDd chat Ia about
as near as Sam will ever come tD being
speaker of the house.
There are nnsteen pianos aud fifty
seven organs in Peabody. We have Of
ten wondered why 1t was that that town
didn't show a more rapid growth.
An Ohio exchange has discovered that
the running mate on the Republican
ticket for president must he a soldier Of
reputation If the former is n CIVILIAN.
With the "big jaw" prevailing among
the cattle at Kansas City, and hydrophO
bia among the dogs, the number of
vegetarians Al that place is rapidly in
creasing.
A California man has established IA
mule farm in Sedgwick county. If any
one hears a peculiar noise floating up
from the southwest they will know what
il is
An interesting phase Of the temper
ance question Is presented at AtchisOn
where the saloon keepers and druggists
have locked horns. Revolutions never
go backward.
A man can manage To get along IN
Kansas City ii he hasn't been placed up
on diet of beef by HE physician and
is so situated that he isn't obliged to
ride in the street cars.
The 1t. Louis Globe Democrat is he
ginning to open mp fire on Jim Blaine
The friends and admirers of Joe McCul-
lagh will be granfiei to note this EVIL
dence of his convalescsncs.
1t is no longer en- regle to kiss the bride
at n wedding We have been wondering
why it was that so many marriage cere-
monies now WIRE being performed by
Justices Of the peace instead of clergy.
| men.
Miss Josephine Reilly did not score
much of success in AtchisOn ash uliet.
To give thoroughly realistic interPre-
tatiOn of that role an actress must be
either thoroughly eallow or exceedingly
| artistic.
The Kansas Railway Commissioners
have brought the Missouri Pacific rail
road company to time. Let them fol-
low up this good work. The neople are
with them, and the people in this conn
try are sovereign.
The latest report from Gramercy Park
Is that Mr.. Tilden now takes his nOur-
ishment through a straw. IL this intel.
iigence fails to fire the Democratic
heart, the 'old ticket" may as well
throw up the sponge.
We are intensely graiified to note the
continued boom in the Industrial inter.
ests of AtchisOn. A man in that town
has invented q dsnce-the Bohemian
Mazurka-which he is teaching with
highly encouraging results.
Mr. Abram Hewitt makes lucid con
fession TO the effect that he Is "by M
means for free trade hut for freer trade
The views of the average Democratic
politician on the tariff question are al
ways more OF less explicit.
Anna Dickinson has finally becOm,
persuaded that she made a mistake
when she unsexed herself to give to tn,
world a new Interpretation of Hamlet
1t takes married woman with sub
missive husband to appear to any sOr
of advantage in Irowsers.
1t seems that Rey. DIR. Phillip KrOhr
although an ardent prohibitionist
draws the line at Van Bennett and jim
Legaie. At least he was cOnspicuon
. for his absence at a temperance meeting
1
son on Wednesday evening.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: II is lie
MED an behalf of Postmaster Genera
Gresham that he is suffering from insom
mia. The fact remains, however, that h
> is altogether too wAkefui tn suit tha
class of individuals who have crOOke
: designs upon his department.
a Complaint is made of the coroner q
n AtchIsOn that he orders inquests q
\ provO0aiions much too slight to jusiif
4 the expense which they entail upon Ii
!. countv If Tom Moonlight has an
. business at Atehlson he had better pI
il into the hands OF his lawyer
u Carlisle's main hope OF election to II
h speakership Is from practically soli
d south. We trust that all the shoigri
IL statesmen will combine upon HIM.
e is about time that the Confederate
q should take command Of the party
y which they are the home, sinew an
o brains
u The postmaster at Wichita IA deep
II afflicted by reason of the TACT that
- package Ofstriped stOckings-fulI lengt
arrived hy mail at that place the 9th
day without so much as scratch of
" pen to indicate for whom they were Il
l. tended Marsh Murdoch has a NIGH
l. tender heart If you know Just where
he strike il.
' Council Grove Republican,: Kans
70 City Is q growing town" and st. Lou
" does not have ponderous reputation
Ao a "rEstler;" but We wish to record
~ deep seated conviction that the form
10 will never outstrip the latter In the ra
Tor commercial supremacy so long as
~ pOurs out big audiences tor "Ban(
y King" and permits John McC ullough
play to empty seats.
!, The Kansas City Times of yssterdi
10 contained an illustratioH-mAde by d
Ia special artist Of that paper on the sp
To- of the head OF a steer afflicted wi
"a "lumpy jaw" which was recent
"a slaughtered and sold by one of /
OO butchers Of that city and the prObabillti
are that not an ounce of beef will
eaten by any of the readers OF that I
,es per for the next twenty yeAEs.
lot Charles Summers old home In Wa
r., ington Is now a hotel "annex !" Edws
NC Everett's Is occupied hy war depa
Ito ment office; and so is the house
lta which Seward was nearly murdered
nd the time of Lineoln's assassinatI.
in. Chass's "Edgwood" stands emp
ur- StantOn's and Hamilton Fish's hou
tbs are boarding houses DOW, and Dan
by Webster's former residence has b
hat converted into beer saloon,
by The Democrats IN Virginia. a. well
be q 1ro.1 MANY outsida If IL Asnnur<