The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-16
EplroRIAL NEWS NOTES.

pyramid.
Letters directed to the U. 8. marshal
of Kansas still continue To reach me Mt
the old stand."-BepiamIn Franklin
Simpson.
A slight fall of snow Is reported In
New York. We wonder II it Is posi-
bile that Mr.. Tilden has been making
contribution to the conscience FUND.-.
The divorced Senator Fair, now
abroad, Is down for another marriage.
Tabor should brace mp II he doesn't
want TO lose sight of the band wagon.
We always knew that Writ Walton
was ambitious, but We are disposed to
dIscredit the report that he went 30 Tar
as 10 try on Jim Smiths shoes the last
time he visited Topeka.
Notwithstanding the great food which
came near washing Cincinnati away
few month"; ago, that city has just had
million and hall OF water melons ship
ped IN from the south.
81 sec that Ben Butler is credited with
the statement that the vice presidency
Ia the short cut TO oblivion do not
see how il can we'll beat the first place
on the ticket."-R. b. Hayes.
We were shown this morning by j. NJ.
Perkins a crab apple grown on the farm
of James Heacock which measured
seven and one-half inches in circumfer-
ence. Will the editor OF the Wichita
Eagle try his teeth on thatf
With all that has been said about the
Asiatic cholera and yellow fever 1t seems
almost criminal that the national board
of health has taken no decided steps in
connection with the cold ticket"
Rev. DIR. Phillip Krohn, of Atchlson,
has just returned home from sojourn
of some weeks IN Colorado. The
wicked partners" of the city will take
their vacation some other year.
Kansas City Times: Honorable bud
ley G. Haskell is now coming out in a
series of enthusiastic Endorsements of a
dandellon tonic. We knew Dudley
would surge TO the front If he were only
let alone. We will prepare for the cam
paign on dandelion issue.
Captain Boynton once thought of go
ing through the Niagara rapids in his
rubber suit; but he numbered several
railroad ties and sent them through.
When they were recovered below the
whirlpool and Boynton saw their scars,
he packed up his rubber suit and left
Niagara.
The Baroness Burdette- Couts, accord.
ing to a chronicler, is very simple in
her attire. She recently appeared at a
party in London with but single orna
ment. That was plain black velvet
band around her neck, fastened at the
throat by q solitaire that was worth
$4,000.
1t may be an idle fancy. but we can
cot dispel the conviction that there has
been just shade of conversatism in the
tone of the Fort Scott Monitor on the
question Of prohibition since General
Rice discovered a black snake five feet
long rustling among the exchanges IN
his sanctum.
Kansas City Times: In the spiritual
controversy now waging between En-
poria and Wichita, the former offers as
final argument, sort of corp de grace
as Mr.. Hudson would say, that Wichitl
women have big feet and chew gum.
Ten days allowed Wichita tn file a mo-
tion for a new trial.
The Commonwealth says that the frs
thing that Mother Eve did after com.
pleting her costume of fig-le ayes was II
purchase fan. Father Baker is never
so engaging and meyer compels such en-
tire confidence among his readers a.
when he sets out to elucidate the mys
teries of the female toilet.
Judge Hoadly has apparently determ
ined TO pursue the policy of "silent con
tempt" In relation to the statement tina
he purchased the Democratic nomIna
tion tor governor of Ohio by an OUTLAY
of $4,000. But this is nothing compar
ed with the contempt which the peopl
are beginning to feel for Hoadly. Thu
latter is monumental.
Atchison Globe: It is q fact worth,
of note that the old Kansas Mutual Ad
miration Society is gradually falling l.
pieces. We anticipated this calamit
when Web Wilder, the president of tn
society, so far forgot himself on a recen
occasion as to refer in complimentar,
terms TO a newspaper that had onl
been in existence ten years.
The Newton Republican says il tn
railroad commissioners fail TO face tn
music and decide that il Is not worth q
much to haul wheat from Beloit to Atch
ison as from the latter city to New Yorl
they will be universally condemned, an
At the same time open the way for III
election of an almost communIstIc leg
islature and state government.
Rev. Mr.. Bishop, a Virginia clergy
man. preached very strong sermo
against duelling at Kansas City on sur
day. 1t was his purpose to deliver tn
same discourse at Topeka, but a
anonymous communication from this
place warning him against the extrem
= temerity of such defiance q
popular sentiment resulted in the car
collation. of his engagement at the Kan
sas capital.
The following circular has been IL
sued by Traffic Manager ]. F. Goddard
"For the purpose of encouraging imm
grafton and the greater development G
the resources of the country trIbutar
20 this line, the department of immigrs
tion is hereby created. Mr.. G. B. Schmid
heretofore European agent. is appOinte,
commissioner of immigration in charg
of this department, with headquarters
At Topeka. Appointment % take effec
this date"
Atchison Champion: Senator Plum
says he has no particular preference 70
president-he is for the man the Repul
licans want This Is the average senti
Ment anImating all Republicans jus
now. There Is not going To he, in tn
next national convention, bitter con
test for the nomination. leaving behin
It ranking soreness and discomfort. Tn
Republicans are going TO remember this
the nomination is of secondary impor
tance 10 the election.
President Arthur is finding out Lhs
this n a great country as he ride
through the Wild and wondrOus west O
the outside of a spring wagon drawn b
four mules through a region of sag
brush, swarming with antelopes, sag
hares, and mule rabbits, while gayl
clad Indians dash over the plains an
festive young squaws whirl about o
horseback. II Is far way from tn
Bowery TO the land of the ShOshonc.
yet the Star-Spanglcd banner floats owe