The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.

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The charges against Supervising
Architect Hill are overpaymept of con-
tractors, ring corruption, currupt adj
minisiration Of patronage. employment
OF unskilled employees and crooked
award OF contracts.
Hiawatha World: He who writes a
history of Clicks administration must
make frequent trips To Nebraska in or
der to get at the bottom facts" We
are only ten miles south Of the line
and shall spare no pains to secure all
official documents 10 their original
form.
Collectively, the RepubiIcan party is
afraid of whisky; Individually, the case
is different. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Collectively, the Democratic party is
not only not afraid of whisky, but 1t
courts the society of its most leprous as
sociates; individually, the case is the
same
The new laws passed at the last SEES
SION of congress readJustIDg the salaries
of postmastcrs and the fees for transact
ing the money order business, reduces
the pay of postDsst.rs very materially.
The postmaster at this place informs US
that he thinks his pay will be reduced
about six hundred dollars. At this rate
the postmasreTs will have to stand most
OF the loss resulting from the adoption
of two cent letter postage.
New York Times: Western papers
are pointing out surprising rcsem-
blance in the phraseologY of the Arbor
Day proclamation Issued by Governors
Dawes, of Nebraska, and Click, of Ran
sas. That of the former is dated March
Both, and the latt.r's April 4th, but
whether one quoted from the other, or
both, like Gov. Butler, of Massachusetts,,
had access to a previous proclamation
that seemed appropriate, is not ex-
planned.
A new heresy has been proclaimed in
Bohemia, where table-rapping and kin
bred manifestations have taken such
hold of the popular imagination that
it has been found necessary TO announce,
under Episcopal authority, that whoever
persists In spiritualistic devices will be
refused absolution, even after confession.
Table rappIng is objectionable nonsence
the world over, but TO make it an unpar-
donable sin in Bohemia Is to give it .
rank which IL doesn't deserve.
There are 10000 negroes 10 the Dis
trIct of Columbia. "They have their
castles of society" says a Washington
correspondent of the Cleaveland Leader,
land the lowest scramble for the higher
grades, as among The whites. Quite a
number of them are wealthy. Senator
Bruce and Fred Douglas probably lead
ing the list. Many Of them are edu-
Gated, and the professors of Howard I'M
iyersity here Will rank with the average
college man throughout the Union"
In the February number of the Off,
cial Postoffice Guide decision from
the postofIice department was published
forbidding the forwarding of postal
cards, after they had reached the Office
10 which they had been originally ad-
dressed, without attaching n one cent
stamp 10 them a later order has been
issued, which treats postal cards as first
class matter and allows them to be for
warded from one office To another the
same as letters. Newspapers and circu-
lars cannot be forwarded from one Office
To another unless the postage is prepaid.
The old reading room of the Philadel-
phia Merchants Exchange, which was
recently closed for lack of patronage,
has somewhat Interesting history. 1t
was established in 1888. Before the
days of railroads, telegraph lines, steam
ships and telephones, it was the CLUB
at which the business men of the city daI
ly anu mighty assembled. When a ship
captain relched port he hastsned to the
Exchange, and the superintendent would
deliver thu Intelligence he brought u
70 the crawl AL news was received
'herr, aud for long time the various
omnibus lines had their headquarters II
the building. All the exchanges were
then joined into one, and corn
drugs, STOCK, every muun6T u
goods. IN fact. were dealt IN side
by side James Buchanan, upon return
ing from Eaglend, the minister to that
country, made one of his famous cam
paign speeches in the reading room
This was before he was elected Dresiden
and while he was known far aud wide
as "Ten Cent Jimmy" Old Davy Crock
EFT, III the height OF his fame, made 1
speech from the Dock-street porticO o
the library TO vast crowd. 1t was il
this roam that the old navy yard wa
sold for 100000. The sale o
the Pennsylvania Canal Wa
also consummaled therein. Stephel
Girard and Stephen Baldwin were fire
quenters of the reading-room, al well a
many other well-known business mel
now dead President Grant passed
few hours in the room iucog. During
the war tEO regiments of northern sol
diers encamped two days and nights il
the room, and spread their beds anon
the musty newspaper fiies.