The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-05
THURSDAY. APRIL 5, 1888.
RDTT0RTAL NEWs NOTEs.

Col. D. Il. Anthony will retire from
the LeaYenworth postof1ice within the |
present week.
The candy and corrosive sublimate |
were kept on the same shelf in Ne |
braska store. One man was killed.
Gail Hamilton says that Mormon is |
= husband who harnesses his wives |
abreast, and a man who has been wild
over three times is one who drives them
tandem.
Col. Dan r. Anthony's man for mayor |
makes the landing at Leavenworth. The
Times came out of the postofice fight
with Mckee slightly dishgured, but it
seems that It is still in the ring.
The preparations for the Cars coro-
nation are of enormous magnitude.
Moscow glass factories and polteries
have received orders for 100000 brandy
and liquor glasses OF strong make and
various colors, stamped with the i'm
perial arms.
The Philadelphia Times which sup
ported Governor Pattison In the election,
now says there is not county in the
state that would instruct for his nomi-
nation to-day, and not a dozen of the for
ty counties which gave him majorities
last fall would vote for him against any
even tolerably reputable Republican.
An acrobat gives an exhibition in
Chicago that for daring surpasses any
thing ever seen. He balances himself
e . n frfxr fact hfUh
and, without support from either hands
or feet, remains for fully five minutes
eating and drinking in this inverted
position. He then makes the trapeze
SWING sideways.
The new compulsory education law of
Rhode Island requires that every child
between the ages OF and Is years shall
have sixteen weeks of schooling each
year. No child under 10 is to be allow
ed to work in any manufactory, and no
one under II who cannot write his name,
age, and place of residence, or read
some part of the state constitution. .
Having arrived at Tozer, Tunis, Count
de Lesseps announces that all he needs
for turning Sahara into sea is 100 ma
chimes. equal in power TO 100000 men.
Should the veteran engineer really add
this to his other exploits, the triple tri-
umphs of Suez, Sahara and Chagres
ought to be enough to retire upon, if
his Unsuitable ambition for excavating
would permit.
If the decision of the Illinois su-
preme court. in favor OF the manipu-
lators Of wheat corners" offers any i'm
petus to that kind Of speculation, 1t is
to be regretted. The court decides that
30 long as the operators keep within the
rules of the board of trade, it cannot in
terfere. The case grew out Of an at
tempt to enforce contracts arising out
OF the July wheat Corner" The dc
q tense, that the contracts were in the ma
turO oil gambling and against the pub
lie welfare, was not entertai ned by Tho
court, which compels their fulhllmen
under the decision of the board of trade
committee,
Tuesday seems to have been a pretty
good day tor Eli. Col. John Hammond
"got there also. He was reappointeC
by Governor Click as state house com
missioner. The Colonel's face wa
"wreathed in smiles this morning, ant
his form was arrayed in unusually I'm
apparel over the result. His neighbor
were rejoicing with him because it
known that Mr.. Hammond has made
most efficient, faithful and able ofice
having saved the state $4,000 at on
sitting last year, by defeating rim
bid. Governor Click certainly did tn
right thing in recognizing Mr.. Han
mond's worth by reappointIng him I
this important work.
The extreme free traders in the Den
ocratic party are not disposed to hee
the warnings of their more conservatiV
brethren and hush up the tariff contr,
versy, for the present at least. The
have not worked themselves into flgh
ing mood for nothing and dom; propol
70 calm down until they win or al
beaten. The Charleston News says
''wants the fight to go on. A Democra
ic victory in 1884 Is greatly to be desire
But If a manful adherence to the pri
ciple of tariff for revenue only is
bring US defeat, then the News is reaC
for defeat. We have borne it often b
fore. We can bear it again" There
evidently to be fight for a funeral
the Democracy.
1t Is great relief to find that publ
spirit is not dying out in Ohio. Tn
state has figured at Washington so lit
during the past year that it was to
feared that its citizens had lost intert
in national affairs. But the death
Postmaster General Howe has arous
them TO the necessity of injecting sor
Ohio wisdom into the cabinet. Wi
this end in view certain lndiYidui
haye already had patriotic and pray'
full interviews with the president. oh
has done so much for the people at lar
- by furnishing material to plug
official holes with that there is geneI
willingness to refrain from draining h
any more, but 1t seems that her desire
serve her country is inexhaustible.
The sale of Boston's big organ is o
of the most startling events of the tir
the more startling from the sudde
ness with which it is announced. If,
is suspected, the big organ is not on
TO be taken from the Music Hall, b
wholly out OF the city, the affair /
comes still more confoundIng. +
many years this famous instrument b
had its home in the great hall devot
to music and slx-day walking matcht
and only an announcement that som
body had bought and was going to car
away the common could have been me
surprising. But Boston still has h
John L. Sullivan; and strangers here,
ter arriving there, instead of being as
ed If they have heard the big organ, cI
be advised to see Sullivan.
In Philadelphia the Society for Il
Prevention of Cruelty TO Children b
found other institutions besides thcatI
TO look after. Among the mills at d.
by It lately discovered bobbin boys VI
were also bobbing boys. for their hea
bobbed. say the agents of the socie
and their hands dropped the spoC
through sheer excess of fatigue duri
the night work. One child of thirte
years told the agents that she went
work at o'clock every night, and toll
at the looms until @ the next mornir
Il is made part of the duty of one m
to keep the children from falling asle
over their work during the long mig
hours. To ind field for missiona
work the people of Philadelphia are L
obliged to go to Africa or India.
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