The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-15
EDY-oRTAL NOTES.

ing against consultations win hoin'eo-
paihic practitioners.
II is stated that majority of the
members have signed pledge TO vote
for the house railroad bill.
Topeka Commonwealth: The best
platform the coming year Tor the Re-
publicans OF Kansas will be the record
of the present Legislature.
The house has concluded u hold
evening sessions and the proprietors Of
"pie stands" are discussing the expedi-
cncy of putting on night runs.
The Capital says that the house is not
yet ready for evening sessions. This is
the first intimidation We have noted
Of the presence at Topeka OF ballet
troupe.
The members If the Kansas house
seem to have run out of bills, but the
fond hope has been vsntured that they
will catch their second wind by the first
OF next week.
It requires an awful sight of money
to enable the star reuters to prove that
they are not guilty. They are begin
ming to think that lawyers are great
evil, though very necessary.
There are ia tue United Stat IS twenty
thousand wells producing petroleum
and one hundred thousand persons en-
gagged in handling il. This oil is used
all over tue civilized world.
The New York Sun startles the pub
lie with the announce ment that US
senators have bren known 10 drink
whisky during night sessions. The Sun
alWqy lad weakness for anciCnt lis
tory.
BY the adoption OF Il new boundary
line, Rhode I,lInd loses forty-five acres
of its terri ofy, aud measures are now
being taken to quarantine what is left of
the state against State Treasurer Vim
cent, OF Alabama.
The Washington correspondent of the
Kansas City Journal says that u con-
gresham at home and at Washington
are two different persons We have no
doubt but That this rule invariably holds
good with the married members.
A PitIsburg detective says that the
worst criminals care mostly small-sized
men with light complexions." The fact
that the champion ACCORDION player of
tho United States is an under-sized
blond stands as a triumphant vindica-
ton Of the Piltsburg mans theory.
The Atchison Champion pronOunces
the State Historical Society building on
the capitol grounds at Topeka speci-
men of "medi9val architecture" We
move TO amend by striking out media"
from the qualifying word and substitute
ing "i' for'"a' in the las; syllable.
Englishmen complain that there is no
privacy for ladies in the American press.
This cluses Americans Ia smile when
they read in the English papers months
in advance that VIctoria's daughters
and daughters law, and other ladies
are said to be as "ladies love to be who
love their lords"
The legislature of Wisconsin has just
passed law exempting men from LA
legislature Of Kansas should not lose
'sight of this valuable pointer when Il
comes to carry out the recommendations
regarding immigration contained in the
message of Gov. Click
The conviction that the people of
Kansas have some rights which the rail-
roads arc bound 10 respect seems TO se
gradually iiltering even into the minds
of those jealous menIals Of the carrying
corporations of the state who have
hitherto been waiting in expectant
silence for the shower To pass over.
A California miner has devised sys-
tenn by which he beats faro every whack,
and his winnings have been so enor-
nous that he has been barred oct OF
every camp in the state. His recent oe-
cupatIon being gone, he contemplates
moving to Colorado and going TO the
U S. senate from that state in 1885.
Some female prohibiuonists who
called On president Arthur TO urge him
to dispease with wine at the Whit
House, received poit, refusal, but as
the chief executive addressed them az
'yOung laiies" aud gave them some po-
Sizes they went away delighted with HIM
and tolerant of his bibulous tendencies
Atchison Champion; Tne career o.
Major j ohm n. Edwards, with his Soda
lila Dispatch, was very brief. The paper
was an excellent one, ably edited anc
fall ~ 4 tot
the Democrat. After rather brilliant
career of about three months, il suspend
ed, having lost, il is SAID, nearly $1,000
Chicago hotels are q be provided Will
Chinese gongs to be employed in watkins
guests in case of fire. We seriously
question whether an overwhelming ma
jority Of The travelling public would moi
suffer cremation with cheerful vlicrity
rather thaa endure, for t. single moment
the exquisite torture which can be in.
average porter
The Commonwealth admonishcs the
people of Kansas To- look out FOL
Hoods IN the spring. The fear of water
mania with that paper. Indeed. we
have heard it intimaied that MIR. Muir
dock, the pious partner of the Com
monwealth, was biiien IN his early
youth by dog which afterwards mani
tested confirmed SYMPTOMS of hydro
phobia.
The day of vindIcalion of the much
abused southern carpet bagger has ar
rived. Nothing like the recent rob
berries of the public treasures of thu
south was ever perpetrated even by thu
vile Moses. Treasurer Polk, of Tennes
see, got $500, 900, and now comes State
Treasurer Vincent, OF Alabama, will
another little defalcalion OF from secs,
900 To 100000, maybe more Demo
Gratis, of course. Pretty soon the soutl
will be ciamoring for carpet bag govern
ment to establish their finances.
AS an oiTS,t TO the victories gained il
the courts of Illinois by the Western
Union telegraph company, in which
defeats both the Mutual Union compa
ny and the bucket shops, there arises b
state license theWeslern Union telegraph
company of Illinois, whose continue,
existence would prevent the old compa
ny doing business in that state. BY thi
clever piece of strategy the old comps
ny is forced to settle in some way, an
no doubt to the advantage OF the aud,
cious projectors of the scheme.
The Kansas press is expressing II
admiration OF the manner in which To
Methodisis of this city provided for III
payment of the large debt on the
handsome new church on the day Hf il