The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-31
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.


1t is said that Mr.. Tilden feels the
death of Lydia Pinkham very keeniy.
The New York Tribune thinks Uncle
Tilden's barrel wss tapped when Gould
sold the World.
A shower OF eggs recently fell near
Baltimore We inter that Eli Perkins
is lecturing IN Maryland.
The Atchison Globe says its candidate
tor presiden, in 1884 is any man who
fayors free trade. Here is chance for
Prof. Canfeld.
John Bright is 20 years old and Is go
ing to marry young WIFE A good
many old widowers in this country seem
TO have Brights disease.
MIR. Evarts is said to be troubled with
govt. This shows the versatile charac
ter of the man. His ability at pub
lie dinner is by no means confined TO
speech making.
The Grand Duke Alexis, who had the
honor of visiting Kansas some years
ago, and of being received by our state
legislature, is now admiralin-ehief Of
the Russian navy.
John Dillon, it IS stated, Is going te
California for his health. Ii we are &C
curatelY advised as to the nature o
Johns ailment, be had better go u
Maine or come to Kansas.
The Kansas City Journal has with
drawn Eugene Field from the stage anC
has assigned to him a highly lucrative
position On the Chicago News. So ia
as we are advised, Mr.. Field himsel
has not been heard from up to thi
writing.
Henry D. Mcdaniel, the present gov
ernor of Georgia, is very bad STAN
merer and cannot talk We know Of lot
of Democrats who might haYe becom
great men if they only had been SO for
tunate as to be born with al impedI
ment in their speech.
The discovery has bc1n made the
President Arthur has seventy pairs Q
pantaloons, A woman w,th that man.
dresses would excite mild Suspicion Q
extravaganza In the public mind an
might be classed by advanced ethnoloG
lists as belonging to the genus butterfly
The Topeka Journal says that Ere
Click has invested large sum Of none
| in the cattle business in Oregon. Thi
! is very prudent considering the absolui
: certainty of a vacancy after next year i
/ the place at present occupied by Fred 4
/ the Kansas state house.
President Arthur Is reported to hay
said that under no conceivable circun
stances will he be candidate for So
/ ond term. We have known the "declil
: ing' business, where It has been faitl
! fully followed up, to De attended wit
: highly satisfactory and effective result
1t is asserted than Fanny kellogg
i the prima donna who visited Empor
last winter with Brignoli, has becon
insane. We were apprehensive that h
reason was failing heF when we learne
some weeks since, that she had marie
> Max Bachet, the aquiline Hebrew, WI
acted as her manager last season.
There Is considerable gable about
!, duel between Freddie Gebhardt and Il
: fellow who slapped his mouth the 9th
;. day. It is said that Freddie slapp'
: back, so that there is decorated "honol
on both sides demanding a poQltice
real red gore. 1t is pity they did n
slap with sledge hammers, and it
wonderful how much attention a coup
= = of wealthy but empty-headed and il
u pudent popinjays can attract in til
y country when they set about 1t.
: 1t is a source Of the keenest pleasu
TO note the Last Words" of Profess
:, Garfield in the Lawrence Journal in
: discussion of the tariff question. T
= Professor is not quite 90 handsome as
was before he locked horns with CO
> gresham Haskell, but it is gratifying
- note that his loss of comeliness has be
- largely supplemented by an accumu
- ton of valuable knowledge.