The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-03-08
psRsONAL AND POLITlcAL.

Inc RAILROADS. Will probably negoIiale
with Mr.. Hoffman, Of Dickinson county,
when they adopt the use Of animated air
breaks.
A New York Sun correspondent
names Abe Hewitt as presidential can
didate. That is as soft u thing as the
Republicans could ask for.
MIR. Hoffman, of Dickinson county,
should secure 4 few pointers from ex-
Cadet Whitaker on theE pruning OF
ears before making another run for the
Legislature.
John Mckee, of LeavenWorth, has been
appointed to succeed Col. DR.. Anthony
as postmaster of that city. There is q
popular suspicion that McKee wrung in
u cold deck ON Col. Dan.
One of the best testimonials Gen. HaZ-
en- has received is that he has incurred
the emniiy of Dana, of the New York
Sun, compliment To any honorable
man.
The tendency of the star route trials
seems 20 be decidedly unfavorable to
Dorsey's sore eyes Generally speaking,
it may be said that this tendency is good
for sore eyes.
Governor Butler appOiGts April 5th
as fast day in Massachusetts,. AS he
Assigns no reason it is inferred that it is
to be an expression Of contritIon for
electing him.
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| 1t is intimated that E. Stone Virgins
will endeavOr TO ascertain when MIR.
Hoffman, of Dickinson county, proposes
Ia again give vent t. his flowing and
exuberant mouth before he predicts an
Olhcr wind storm.
Hon. j. ID. BoWersock, The present
mayor of Lawrence, has consented to be
a candidate for reelection at The request
of large number of tue citizens OF that
place. Lawrence is we'll served with
such municipal head.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says
that Mrs LAngtry's was the "most fraud
uIent dramatic engagement ever perpe-
trated in that city" la its lucid inter
walls the q. ID. "geis there" with very
comIneudabIe precision.
MIR. Palmer, of Detroit, knocks the
nelsimmon in the senatorial contest IN
Michigan. His predecessor will not he
apA 80 regard this as Ferry satisfactory
Termination uf the dead lock WHICH has
continued throagh 81 ballots.
IAN eastern clergyman advanceslthe
heresy that God is the moral aud physi-
cal canfel. of the universe. Its wonder
ful how little man knows who has
never heard OF my elevator at Enter
prise. Hoffman, All Dickinson county.
MIR. Holman, OF Dickinson county,
let loose his alleged mind on the daily
press of Kansas 10 tue lower house ofthe
legislature yesterday When this gen.
iieman gets up GA his ear he reaches an
altitude that is truly dizzy TO contsm-
plate.
"Mr. Mckee may secure title to my
old shoes from the president. but his
claim must be approved by the senate
before it eau he accounted valid. TO
employ vulgar parlance, there is more
than one way of skinning a cat."-Col.
ID. Il. Anthony.
James Gordon BeAnelt, 0f the New
York Herald, has made an additional
subscription of $1,000 to he diYlded
among the sufferers nf seven designated
towns devasted by the floods. ,Newspa-
per men knew how 10 give-whan they
have il.
We trust the country has not so utter
ly exhausted its sympathies on the flood
sufferers AS To be unable toextend to the
unhappy lady who married old thirty
.lay Tabor at Washington last evening,
1he commiseratiOn which her mournful
laie should excite in all humane bOsnms.
Col. Tom Bowen, the new Colorado
SENATOR, enjoys the glittering distinction
of h:in.: the best poker player in the
country, but the public will prudenuy
hold its verdict in allegiance until the
western statesman plays a few games of
ten-cent ante with Gen. Robt. Schenck,
at Ohio.
De BraZZa Is going out {" the Congo
country AS IL missionary. The French
gOVeTnmeni has kindly consented to
give him "A commission in the army. and
TO aid him in converting the heather,
has furnished him win 100000 rifles,
90 900 swords, 100 tons &C powder, and
company of M Srrine sharp shooters.
-, f,;,,, TI>; -,,..a. IT,. xp;sa III.
Solomon said Though Ihou shouldest
BRAY fuol in mortar among wheat,
with pestle, yet will mt his foolish
ness depart from him. Along toward
harvest time the experiment might be
tried with Il pile-Girivtr over in Dickln-
son county. TIL, re- is much virtue in a
pile-drIver, which WAS not known in
SolOmon's time.
Morgan, of Alabama, is the talking
member of the senate No matter what
the question, or whether lie understands
or has any interest in it, he is bound to
talk, or as the boys pnt ii, "shoOt off his
mouth" Another Democratic senator
declares that Morgan is the only man in
congress who can wind mp his mouth
and leave it to talk while he goes out to
see IA man or take a lunch.
An English society paper states Mrs.
Hicks Lord is shortly to be married to
wealthy nobleman of England "She
is worth" it says, ''two millions of
pounds herself, and has survived three
husbands, Mfr. Hicks, MIR. Lord and MIR.
Charles o. Conor, an eminent lawyer. 1t
is not known whether she ia now marry
ing for love or in the interest of some
cemetery association"
A special disnaIch to the LeavenwoEth
Standard from Washington says that the
name OF John Mckee came up in the
senate on Wednesday for confirmation
as postmaster at Leayenworth. but the
appointment being objected to by one of
the Kansas senators il went over, thus
i disposing of the matter for this term,
the present incumbent now holding over
till the next session of congress. We
thought when we read of McRee's ap-
pointment that the weather was most
too mild for Mr.. Anthony TO get left.
The Cleveland Ohio Herald notes
the fact that "an example of the ruling
spirit strong in death" is now furnished
In the account of the death of Samuel
Aiedill, late managing editor of the
Chicago Tribune. When at almost his
last breath a copy of the Tribune was
shown him combining an extended ac-
count of the Braidwood didaster, with
the remark sour boys have beat them
on the BraidwOod disaster he turne.l
his face TO the wall and peacefully died
The triumph of scoop" in a matter
of news smOothed his dying pillow.
A Baptist minister, recently returned
from Leadville, expresses the opinion