The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-05
PERSONAL AID POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Hon. Geo. R. Peck has locked horns
with the mumps.
The Queens knee, it is said, has gone
into second mourning.
Mrs. David Davis starts married life
with twelve dozen pairs ofsilk stockings.
Gen. Sherman is distantly related to
William n. Evarts and Henry Ward
Beecher.
Butler and Sprague would make
rattling presidential ticket for the De
mocracy in 1884
The fact that Judge Hanback, has
taken up his residence in Osborne coun-
ty, is said to have no political signifi-
canoe.
Gath: Payne's bones are here while
A. T. Stewa,'s are not, though the latter
dwelt in marble halls and the former
had no sweet home at all.
Dukes. the Pennsylvania seducer and
murderer, seems to have taken the place
in the popular heart which was vacated
when Guiteau was suspended.
Lowry G. Gilmore, an old NEWS typo;
will issue the first number of the Fall
River Echo next week. Lowry has the
ability to make good paper, and we
shall await the appearance of the Echo
with interest.
Philadelphia News: A Philadelphia
man called on David Davis and his
bride recently, and directed the servant
to explain that gentlemen wished to
see the independent party. Mrs. Davis
came down.
Mics Anna L Davis, daughter of the
senator, will it is said. occupy an edito-
rial position on the Evening Journal, of
P;usfieId, Massachusetts. Even news
psper work seems preferable to living
with u young step-m.other.
Governor Cleveland, of New York.
has pardOned man upon the condition
that he drink no liquor for five years.
| 1t is no wonder that the Democrats Of
the Empire state are so bitterly disap-
| pointed in their new executive.
Thug Dukes has at last come to a re-
alizing sense of his infamy. "My whole
life," he says, "is blasted can expect
nothing now but shame, and if so, why
not remain in Fayette county. Its as
good place I'd die in as any other"
Ex-Governor Rout, of Colorado, is the
Republican candidate for mayor of Den
yer. Next to the drink habit it seems
that there is nothing so difficult to over
come, when II is once thoroughly con-
firmed, AS the propensity for holding Of
fee
The crops throughout the state look
well, immigration is booming, spring
trade is picking up, and all that Kansas
lacks now to make her perfectly happy
is the appointment of Col. John A.
Martin to the position of postmaster
general.
The quadrennial revival of Samuel
Jones Tilden Is again approaching. 1t
is safe to assume that ice will form un-
der the equator when Sammy's arm be-
comes SO paralyzed as to disable him
from shieing his castor into the politI-
cal ring.
The removal of T. C. Henry, of Abb
lene, to Denver and the determination OF
Mr.. Hoffman to remain at Ent ,rprise is
one of those gloomy and inexplicable
dispensations of Providence which is
now trying the faith of the afflicted PEG.
pie of Dickinson county.
]. Clarence Hll6ebrand has become
halloween and associate editor of the
Strong City Independent. Mr.. Hide
brand has a natural "hankering' for the
newspaper business and his talent in
this direction is already beginning to
manifest itself in the Independent.
The CELEBRITY with which Queen Vic
toria recovered from tho ministrations
of the corps of physicians who envi
roned her upon the occasion of her re
cent accident justifles the prediction. thai
the eldest son OF the Prince of Wales
will be the next sovereign of England.
Rev. Mr.. Talmage, In lecture on the
eye in Brooklyn the other day, told hi;
audience that his eye winked 90,00C
times day. We know now how it is
that such large proportion of the pro
!, prietors of soda fountains in that city
are able 70 sport diamond breast-pins.
Another fanatical humbug in the
cloak of religion has turned up il
Brooklyn A fellow called Rev. Monck
processes TO cure afflicted people by lay
ing his hands sn feeble heads. Such
things. together with claims of faith
cures of all kinds tend to bring religion
into contempt. If they concerned only
the idiots who believe in such foIlies il
would not be worth while t. notice
them, but they undermine the natura
: reverence OF young people for sacred
things and multiply skeptics.
The Topeka correspondent of the
Kansas City Journal states that John
Coulter, late associate editor of this
Capital, will likely accept position or
some eastern journal We should great
: ly regret to zee Mr.. Coulter leave Kan
sas. He knows almost every man o.
any prominence in the state, and posses
, ses a fund of information regarding
\ Kansas affairs that 10 invaluable to
: man identified with the press of thii
, state. His fine order of talent, however
. and his wonderful capacity for worl
; will promote his success wherever h
may 60, and the paper that secures hi
services will be fortunate indeed.
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