The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-07
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.


II can't be that she died for the sake
of the advertising. queries the Boston
Post anent the late Lydia Pinkham.
Mr.. Z d. Purcell has advertised the
Santa Fe New Mexican for sale. This
is trying season for railroad organs.
Next!
A HINT to the people who are "boom-
ing'' Mcclellan as presidential candi-
date: "The mill VIII never grind with
the water that ID past
General Mcclellan recently assured a
reporter that lie was out of politics and
had no views. 1t Is awfully hard to
pump any news out Of those military
fellows.
Governor Click is i'll with ehills and
fever. Fortunately he lives In town
where snakeIOot and the vehicle for its
conveyance to the scat of disease are OBJ
tainable.
Belle Payne. the AtchIson amazon,
has escaped from the Kansas City work
house. 1t would be moderately safe now.
for Henry Inman TO predict acyclons in
eastern Kansas
The Boston Herald says: There is
talk OF superseding Senator Ingalls,. of
Kansas, by Ex-Governor Ss John" The
report that the funny man of the Herald
had gone abroad for short vacation
is evidently inaccurate.
Senator Fair is said TO have thought
his wife too plain, too dull, too uninter-
esting to occupy the head of his table at
his banquets. All this may be changed
since she has received verdict of ST.
100000 aiImony against him.
Judge Muse Is said to entertain con-
gressionsl aspirations. The Judge, it
will be remembered, came from Ohio and
his perennial patriotism justifies the in
ference that he has been back on visit
every year since he came to Kansas.
1t is said that Jay Gould reads the
Greek and Roman poets with great ia
cility. If this report be accurate we
can't understand why it is that the To-
peka Capital should manifest such IN
tense hostility to the dead languages.
II is stated that Congressman Han
back now rises with the lark and plows
two rows of corn every morning before
breakfast. This is the first intlmation
conveyed to the public of the revival of
of the granger movement in the north
west
The name of Mr.. r. B. Hayes has been
run up by several ONO papers as a can
>didate for governor of that state at the
fall election. And yet Rev. Joseph
Cook persists in agitating the public
mind with the inquiry: "Does Death
End AIl!"
Ex-senator Conkllng is engaged in a
law suit at Kansas City, and the local
meteorologists take keen interest in
comparing the present action of the mer-
curry with the record kept by them dur
ing the recent visit of Chas. Francis Ad-
ans TO that city.
Mr. James Russell Lowell Is suffering
with the govt. We made the prediction
when the United States government sent
that talented gentleman to the court of
st. james that his course would be such
as to command the respect and speedy
confidence of the English people.
Commonwealth: 1t is understood
that Capt. Henry King will shortly go
to ST. Louis, where he will become one
of the editors of the Globe Democrat.
The captain has been doing editorial
will soon join the regular force
Herbert Hackney, formerly of Topeka,
who graduated at Cornell in 1879, has
just made an engagement as civil engin
ecr at Portland, Oregon, by which he
will receive a salary of $4,000 a year.
The friends of Mr.. Hackney grow pallid
to this day when they remember that he
once contemplated embarking in the
| profession of journalism.