The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-12
RDIToRTAL NEWS NoTEs.

next week, and q number OF prominent
citizens are boiling down their houses
some paper has started on Its rounds
the msstodonic joke that too much
s.aristocracy" Is complained Of at Lar
ned.
The announcement Is made that house
rents have advanced forty per cent. at Je-
rusalem. This is obviously important,
If true.
Atchison elected Democratic mayor.
1t will now be in order for the Little
Globe to enlarge 10 the expansive pro-
portions OF the Wichita Eagle.
Kansas will have 20 elect few more
Democratic governors before she can
ever hope to secure representation IN the
cabinet Of Republican president
at begins to look as If the other fell
lows were taking all the tricks In the
little game OF freeze-out which the rail.
roads are playing at Topeka and EN-
porIa wv. B. Strong.
Chicago Inter- Ocean: The star-rOute
trial has lasted eighteen weeks, with no
prospect Of an immediate conclusion.
1t Is about as tough on the jury as the
result will be upon the defendants
Now that the spring elections are over
In Kansas the press OF the state will ap-
ply itself with redoubled vigilance TO
the vital task OF demoliahing the peach
crop and resurrectlng the 'chinch bugs.
The incendiaEy. though agreeable,
prediction Is ventured that Carter Har-
rison, who was reelected mayor Of Chi
cago on Tuesday. will be assassinated
before serving out his new term OF ONCE.
American lard sent TO Havana has
been pronounced spurious, and the
Leavenworth Times pertinenily inquiries
what in the world could be- found to
make that commodity which is cheaper
than hog fat.
We believe that one object OF Captain
Warren's administration as mayor Of
the city will be to refute the ISLANDERS
which have been circulated by his
enemies regarding his alleged sympathy
with the law-breakeTs Of this city.
The gloom and turbulence ususally
Characteristic of Democratic congress
will be somewhat mitigated the coming
session by the presence OF the New
Mexico delegate, who rejOices in the
very charming name OF Tranquillno
Luna.
1t is said that MIR. Bl4ine's new book
will be handsome in its treatment of the
South and Southerners. II will not
shirk speaking of Mr.. Conkling and
other compeers of MIR. Blaine, but will
be without malice, dealing with all his
equals with generous and apprecia-
tive hand.
Atchison Champion: The most mon.
otonous spell OF weather ever known in
Kansas occurred last month. Il was
cloudy for eight days In succession and
the wind blew without change from the
northeast. Eight days without sunshine
Is enough to make Kansan forswear
his country.
The Democrats got away with the
baggage In the municipal election al
Kansas City. One of the burning issues
of the canvass, as we understand IL, was
the improvement OF the streets, though
we think IL would prove much more
exacting test Of executive ability 10
make them worse instead of better.
A new publication has been started al
Lawrence called the Morning Sun. II
10 well known fact that the humane
people OF that tpwn all make point
Of taking in their cast irnn dogs out OF
the cold on these bitter days when a
new paper Is NOT launched upon the sea
OF journalism at the historic city"
A marriage was announced TO take
place at Washington, Kansas, church
last Sunday, AMI the merry friends Of
the groom distributed large number Of
printed bills announcing An April foo
party NJ the church at the hour named
Tor the cermony. With Us 1t is a very
serious question whether weddings and
funerals are proper subjects for levity.
Hon. Geo. ID. Orner, of Barber county
Kan, has been appointed temporary
special agent OF the Interior Depart
ment, for examination into fraudulent
entries of public lands. He is assigned
to duties In California, with headquar
tiers at Los Angeles. Mr.. Orner is tn,
fourth member of the late Legislature
who has received Federal appoint
ment.
The agreeable intelligence of the ad
journment of the Missouri legislator,
has scarcely died away on the popular
ear before the gloomy announcement i!
made that "Orpheus G. Kerr" has AGAR
come to the surface and is to write
story for the Continent called "Onct
There was Man" The Joys and sor
rows of this life seem t. flow 10 pretty
even currents.
The Atchison Patriot, with 6rokeI
heart and . contrite spirit, expresses il
deep regret over the bitter asperities int
which It's editor and others have bsel
drawn during the canvass which
has just closed in that city
When the Patriot has beel
on the turf as long as THE News 1t viii
learn that personal abuse always acts a
boomerang, and that the editors VIII,
are careful not to fracture their under
linen during the heat Of a political cam
paign generally repose. after the battle
in Els bosom.
Several eminent English geologis,
think that Wales Is to he the new E
DnradO. Small pieces OF gold washet
away from the hillsides have been fount
in the valleys OF Llanelltyr, and the,
say IL there are nugguls of gold in tn
valley or Ia the course Of old river1beds
then there lie gold quartz In the noun
tains. II some OF the mountain range
were tapped, IL is likely a real gold fiel,
would be found there. From the run O
the hills in North Wales, the gold reef.
II they were worth working, run iron
the coast line across Merioneth, Mort
Montgomery, part OF Shropshire an,
Cheshirs, into DeFbyshire.
The heavy fall Of "a St Louis man di,
not at frat seem to have hurt him. bu
he soon found that his mind was singu
larry affected. He could not recall th
names Of his wife and children, and hi
eyesight was so strangely impaired tina
objects seemed To be several inches Z
the left of where they really were. Th
physicians pronounce his case remark
able one OF amnesic aphasia. In ord
nary ataxic aphAsia. the patient .emem
hers few words so as to speak them, bu
IL able TO readily understand any thin
that he sees written or printed. Thi
mans eYesight was In sympathy wit
the rest of his disability.