The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-01-18
PERSONAL AND PnLTTIcAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
II begins t. look little as if Miss
Garrison furnished the rope 10 tie the
pig.
II is mot stated whether Miss ZerelGa
win lecture or go on the
stage,
sheldon. of the Walnut Valley Times.
says thar the snii Plumb movement has
woodbined
General Butler concedes that he is to
be.Ihe Democratic candidate for prcsi-
dent next year. This, Of course, settles
the matter
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid owns large pro
portion of the stock of the New York
Tribune Mr. Reid seems TO be quite
welded TO the newspaper business.
Dir. Graiz Brown is leading the as
sauii of the prohibiiianists in the MIS-
souri, legislature. This seems to be an
off year for the temperance cause.
Min, the agnostic actor. finds The
stage hard road 10 travel There are
easier things in the world than TO make
first-class actor out. Of a third-raie
preacher.
The chilly reception OF Oscar Wilde
upon his return TO his native shores
should admonish the Jersey Lily 10
provide extra flanneis before setting sail
fer England.
Swinburne Will shortly visit the
United States and lecture on the art of
poetry. The people who persisted in
the Newhall holocaust made fortunate
escape after all
1t Is said that Mrs. Langlry skates
worse than she acts; stiIl we believe q
very respectable majority of the Ameri-
can people would prefer seeing her on
ice than ON the stage.
Gen. w. T. Sherman prefers TO live IN
st. Louis than TO run the chances of as.
slssination by becoming president of
the United States. There is no account
ing for tastes in this world.
State Treasurer Polk now threatens to
make some damaging revelations .
These defaui;ers are always loaded, but
some how they kick harder al the breach
than they shoot at the muzzie.
Senator Logan,thinks that The action
of the senate Tuesday is the last of the
Porter bill. He says it cannot be reached
in the house; that il will die in this con.
gress, and that the senate will never
again pass il.
The Sterling Bulletin brass band has
been organized. But Brother Timer
will have to accumulate a tavern and a
livery stable before he can show up
hands with Writ Walton, of the Clay
Center Dispatch.
Prof. Virgins, the Canadian weather
prophet, says the great wind storm
which he predicts for the 9th of next
March will travel from east to west
This announcement relieves Sam Wood
from all responsibility in connection
with the impending tornado.
Ed. Nagle, real estate, loan and in
surance agent at Girard has vanished,
taking a thousand dollars of other peo
pies money, and leaving two or three
thousand dollars of debts behind. 1t is
not stated what New Jersey bank Mr..
Nagle sweptOut when he was boy
Governor Sprague was present at the
banquet given to Gov. Butler, at Bos.
ton on the 9Th, and is now training with
the great unterrihed. The prediction
that the present year will prove one oI
disaster TO the Democracy is being veri,
fed, it seems, with alarming celebrity
A prominent New York stalwart and
a personal friend of President Arthur
is represented as saying that the latter
is thoroughly tired of the presidency,
and wishes he was "Out of it," Never.
theless il is a fact that the country has
entirely too many men who are anxious
to get Unto it,
Scion Chase has evidently grown dis
couraged over the prospects of Geeen-
backism. He takes a doleful view OF
the stu alton in The latest issue of Them
Steers. "The Greenback party" he
says. has clasped hands with the Bour-
bon Democracy in the north and with
carpet-bag Republicans in the south
until in the judgment of most all the peo
pie of the country it has found the sIeeE
that knows no waking" 1t is reassuring
to know that there Is an occasional
Greenbacker who knows q corpse wher
he smells it,
Congressman Blackburn, leading Dem
Ocrat of Kentucky, announces that he i:
opposed to the civil service bill. He re-
CARDS it as a meaningless fraud and {
worthless attempt at reform. There hal
been no anxiety to learn Mr.. Blackburn.
views on the subject, it being taken FOL
granted that he was a statesman who be
lieved in the old Democratic doctrine o
1.-The spoils for the victor" But as thG
drift OF his patty is so evidently agains
the civil service measure Mr.. Blackb burr
doubtless wants 10 let 1t be known tha
he keeping up with the procession.
The New York World is very sever,
On Mr.. ADderson's postal telegraphy bill
and says: Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas
has promptly brought forward a meas
ure TO nullify Mr. Pendleton's civil ser
vice reform bill. Mr.. Pendleton's bill
proposes to take some 10000 persons
employed in the civil service out of pol
tics. Mr.. Anderson's bill proposes tc
make $4,000 or 10000 operators, linemer
and other persons engaged in telegraphy
into politics and under the control OF the
Postmaster General. If this bill were
not in this way highly mischievous il
would still be highly idiotic"