The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-31
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.


Luke Short is remaining away from
Dodge City for the benefit OF his
health.
Prentis is writing up his Chihuahua
haunt for the Atchison Champion. he
is a peerless travelling companion, even
on paper.
It's nov thought that Ingersoll may
complete his argument In the star route
cases by The time the Keeley moter is
perfected.
The sensations of the car are doubt
less very similar TO those OF a man who
has incurred the displeasure of his
molher-in law.
The rapidly growing bank account of
Martin Van Buren, Bennett spikes the
time-honored lie that all prohibitionists
are impractical dreamers.
JEFF Davis vouchsaies the opinion that
Gen Mcclellan was the best general Of
the rebellion on the union side. 30 he
was-for the confederates.
Dorsey, the star router, wears polka
dot shirt. And yet, it is not at all Ger.
tain that the jury sitting in his case will
bring in q verdict of conviction.
Hon. d. G. Haskell has been quite i'll,
but il is now hoped by his medical att
tendant that he will be able TO attend to
business and to Prof. Garfield in a few
days.
Jay Gould Is said TO be rabid Ho-
meopathist. His belief in this school
OF medicine has been constantly grow
stronger ever since he was salivated by
Jim Keene.
Ben Butler, Tilden, Mcdonald, Cleve-
land, Hendricks & Co.. find just cause
for mental disquietude in the fact that a
very prominent race horse in Kentucky
has been named after Dan Voorhees,.
1t has been stated that President Ar
thur never appointed a relative TO Office.
It will be remembered that the president
did not marry into the Dent family, and
that his wife was not an Ohio woman.
The acquittAl OF Phil Thompson and
the nomination of j. Proctor Knott
promise 10 be enduring monuments to
Kentucky civilization in the year of our
Lord. one thousand eight hundred and
eightY-three.
The fact that the late lamented LYDIA
Plnkham spent $4,000 year for adj
vertIsing will go great way toward
strengthening the belief of the newspa-
per men of the country in the doctrine
OF future rewards
To employ the language Of Joe Bag
stock, Governor Cleveland IS so "devil-
ish sly" about his presidential boom
1t is quite apparent that there Is nothing
exciting about Cleveland.
We see by the Lawrence papers that
John Walruff, OF that city. has just re-
turned from attending the brewers con-
vention at Detroit We had always sup
posed from the label on his goods that
John was a patent medicine man.
Matthew Arbuckle, the celebrated cor
netlst, is dead. II must be q source OF
consolation to his friends to reflect that
he was not summoned to his last &C.
count before he had passed beyond the
amateur stage in mastering his chosen
instrument.
Judge Chester A. Krum, of st. Louis
is still missing. He was the admins
traitor OF two large estates, and the fact
that no irregularities have been discov-
cred in his accounts strengthens the
theory among many of his friends, OF
mental ALTERATION.
Luke Short is said to be gentleman
of highly aesthetic tendencies, and yet
he seems to manifest very decided
hostility TO the plan OF ornamenting any
of the lamp posts at Dodge City. This,
however, can be satisfactorily explained
on psychological grounds.
Johnny Gilmore, of the Wilson COun
" Citizen, still persists in printing the
names of counties in the byphen
ated and abbreviated style, which is thu
solitary Objectionable feature of his pa
per. In all other respects the lite OF oul
esteemed contemporary is singularly tre'
from reproa3h.
An electric light, about the size of {
small bean, has been constructed ant
used successfully in Illuminating thu
interior ofthe human body. 1t is barrel!
possible that this wonderful achieve
Anent of science may result in the ser
vice OF an injunction on David Davis By
the proprietors of the Mammoth cave ii
Kentucky.