The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

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The Hiawatha World has made the
discovery that John Peter st. John does
not look upon himself as shelf goods.
Sarah Bernhardt, It is said, expects &C
quit the stage for some weeks about the
first of June. It is intimated that this
step is not entirely devoid of political
Significance.
Fred Douglas has been single now
over . year, and is about to marry q
young lady several shades lighter than
himself. Fred is only upwards of sixty
years old, and has waited a long time
in single blessedness. considering his
age.
And now Platte county, Missouri,
man declares that he has seen and con-
versed with Jesse Jnmes within the past
three weeks. 1t seems that the only
man in this country who is indisputably
and unequivocally dead Is Mr.. R. D
Hayes, of Ohio.
The Commonwealth is authority fol
the statement that Samuel Jones Til
den will consent to be the Democratic
candidate for president in 1884, provid-
ed the Republicans do not put up Mr.
r. B. Hayes, We should think that
that about settled it.
The Lesvenworth Times must be mis-
taken when It says the anti Haskell free
trade club was organized at Lawrence
on Sunday. We predict that bud Has
kell will be ION deck" when the pr opeE
time comes and it will take sever al
free trade clubs TO buck against him sue
cessfully.
Senator Sherman, says the Cincinnati
Enquirer, wishes it distinctly understood
in Ohio that he will not be butchered to
make Democratic holiday. The truth
of the matter is that the Ohio Democ-
racy is not little alarmed lest the sage
from Lancaster should take it into his
head to run this risk.
Senator Tabor's first wife, writes
one who knew her in earlier days, was
the banker for the miners who worked
with her husband. AT times she had
thousands of dollars of gold-dust in her
bosom wrapped in little buckskin bags
each labelled with the name of the
owner. Tabor himself was always be.
Iieved to be as scrupulously honest then
as he is known to be generous now.
Judge W. T.. Campbclrs political
representations are as follows: /. Geo
r Peck will be the next governor. 2
The railroad commission will end in 6
farce. 3. ingalls, wall be his own sue.
cessor. 4. Haskell and Perkins will
not be reelected. 5. Sam Wood will be
given Peters seat. This last prediction
il would seem, renders the prospects OF
Peck and Ingalls, extremely outrageous
Senator Bowen, of Colorado, tells the
following story about himself: On his
return from Washington some weeks
ago he was riding through Iowa on the
Chicago, Burlington Sc Quincy road
and late at night passed Creston, little
town where Bowen lived when boy.
At that point an old man, Deacon Elihu
Baxter, boarded the tram, and Bowen
recognized him. OF course the ven.
cradle Deacon didn't know Bowen
from anybody else, and when the two
fell into conversation and Bowen gave
out he was from Colorado, he had the
Deacon all at disadvantage. From
Colorado, eh? ?" said Deacon Baxter
"Their new senator, Tom Bowen, is an
Iowa boy-did you ever meet the cuss ~
well, yes; ofrn'on," replied Senator
Bowen, rather nervously. "Thev tell
heaps o. yarns on him" continued Deacon
Baxter, IAN some o. the stories is purity
tough. But guess most on 'em is true
for knew him when he was boy, an il
my recollection serves me right, he was
a Ieetle the orneriest cuss ever seen. p