The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-12
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Lis a. bs llnpsd that Pat Cs'oney will
not assume the proportions Of = pOiiIi-
cal issue in Kansas In 1884.
Inter Ocean: May be McGeOch will
be able 70 pay of In trade dollars If they
keep on as they have started.
Atchison Globe: When you are buy
ing a watermelon and are in doubt As to
its quality get the raggedest boy you
can find TO thump 1t.
Mrs Langtry's engagement In Aus
tralia does not commence until the fall
Of 1884 We were awfally in hopes it
would commence this year.
Three billion pins are produced in
this country every year, and il Is esti-
mated that there will be no check to
this industry 80 long as babies and long
| party dresses continue 10 be fashiona-
BILE.
| Gas is being reduced IN $50 and 81
| in many OF the eastern citles. When
the cost of manufacturing is taken into.
account il will be found TO be very
profitable oven at a less price than
above quoted.
The eye of Captain w. II. Ward, which
was very abruptly closed at Topeka the
other day by Major Tom Anderson, is
now putting on half mourning and there
is a tendency toward relaxation in the
beef market At the state capital.
1t is stated that the star ronte service
10 the Pacific sectiOn, which cemprises
two-thirds Of the United States, has
been thirty-ibree per cent less during
the year just closing than In previous
years.
The undertakers of the country are
beginning 10 employ the "PersonAl lib
erty" argument as . means of staying
the tide Of popular sentLWent against
tho manufacture and sale Of the toy PTS
t0l.
Iuter Ocean: In Ohio they speak of
Il us 1.-The old and new Democracy" The
new Democracy has not been made
| long, We presume, but the OutcrY on the
liquor question leads one to believe IL Is
"dry." rs usual.
The coroner of Shawnee county and
the undeItakers of Topeka are precipi-
tated into the depths of zimmerman
gloom over the rumOred reconciliation
between Major Tom Anderson and Capt,
W. ii. Ward.
The New York Sun (surprIsing) sug
Gesls this as an appropriate Democratic
platform: "ResolVed, That we want
the offices" That hits the nail squareiy
ON the head, and no embarrassing mis-
takes in printing 1t could occur.
Gov. Click, il is SAID. spent the Fourth
of July purchasing = BUNCH of fine Cat
tie t0 place ON his stick ranch. We
have always claimed that His Excellen-
cy possessed n more commanding intel
Iect than he is commonly accredited
with
1t Is evident already that HOadIey
don't know what 70 give Democratic
audience For instance, he got up at
meeting the other night IN Cincinnati
and Dragged about the excellent quality
of the water In his neIghbOrhOOd.
HOadlsy's . tsuderGOoL.
The receipts OF Abe late exhibition OF
railway ApplsancSs in Chicago Aggre-
gated $I23, 1898. and lhe expenses $685.
0S3, leaving deficiency Of about &c.,
600. The receipts for admission aggrc-
gated about $GS. 600, so that about 272,-
COO tickets must have been sold.
The government will make up largely
what IL l.'s,.s by the reduction of letter
postage tn two cents by reducing the
salaries of pOstmastcrs. We presume If
the poslmasleTs had known this was TO
be the result they would not have ia
vored the reduction.
Jno. NJ. Steele, SD we'll known over the
state as one OF the leading and most &C
tive citizens of Wichita ever since IL
was established !, will leave that city and
gotO Puget Sound. The Arkansas val
lev will lose one of its wheel horses
when John leaves.
An address by Il. B. Hayes at Wood
stock, Connecticut, and between seventy
FIVE and one hundred fatal casualties
from toy pistols, will probably include
all of the serious disasters attendant
upon the celebration of the Fourth of
July In this country this year.
The editor of the Philadelphia Times
must be q broad minded statesman and
philosopher. He cheerfullY solves the
food question in the west by declaring
that "the farmers must abandon the bot
tom lands, WHICH are subject to overflow,
and settle upOh higher ground"
The Providence Journal says that as
between the temperance fanatlcism and
the free rum arrogance, the people of
Rhode Island viii aide with the tenn
perance zealo.a. This appears to be the
determination OF large number OF peo-
pie In many other states than Rhode
Island.
II has been asceEtained that Elam and
Beirne. the Virginia editors who re-
Gently met on the CORY field OF "honah,"
weigh respectively 1877 and 22S pounds.
We should now be pleased to be in
formed concerning the discrepancy in
avolrdupoIs between Father Baker, OF
the Topeka Commonwealth. and Mayor
Hudson, OF the Capital.
Judge s. o. Thacher, of Lawrencr.
who is travelling with his family in Eu-
rope, has been to see q bull fight In Ma
drld, but a. he has witnessed a number
of senatorial elections at Topeka, We
are not surprised to learn that the
spectacle 10 him was not iraught with
that measure Of helligerent interest
4 ham lsaA m ri ia
from all thai he read of those taurine
encounters.
The insurance. companies say that the
fires caused by fireworks during 1882,
in the United States and Canada, footed
up $425, 600. Including the cost Of the
pyrotechnIcs themselves, the country
pays very liherally for its patriotism. Il
Is little strange that on the 9Th of July
we turn our properly, the accumuiations
of yearS, over to the boys and hOodlums,
without objection
The Commonwealth says that Sam
Wood Is going 70 Oklahoma 70 take up
. | a homestead with view OF growing up
with the country. If the United States
T government cherishes any sense OF graf.
itude toward Kansas for the yeoman
servicc which she did In wiping from
, the escutcheOn of the nation the foul
blot of human slavery, it viii not drive
D him out
: A meeting Of capitalists interested In
the narrow guage railway system was
! held in indianapolis last week, at which
e a proposition was made and approved
: to build 1000 miles Of this kind OF road
d which would require q capital of $500,
:, 100000. AS yet only $4,000 of THU
: sum has been subscribed. 1t seems likI
too much Of an undertaking. We shoulC