The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-14

eide at Topeka tor two whole days
speaks forcibly for the growing desir-
ableness OF that city as place of resi-
dence.
The communion VINE OF the Chris
tian church AT Usage Mission was stolen
last week. We hadn't heard before that
old man Christisncy was visiting IN
Kansas.
The fact that Iowa has had lyAehing
will tend To strengthen the belief in
many quarters that the Democrats have
n lighting chance for carrying that state
next fall.
The new system of enuDeratlng time
by numbering the hours cOnsecutiVely
from 10 "a. has been adopted by an
Ohio railroad The last train leaves at
% ia O'Clock.
Chicago Times: 1t ia estimated thai
the crowning of the Gear of Russia cost
$4,000 600 fact which the woman
who wants new bonnet Will moi let her
husband forget.
Twelve new bu,inrss hincks were erect
ed in that placc during the past year,
aud nm addition Was buhL Ia Writ Wal
TOMS livery stable.
Atchison Giohe: There were some
aerial disturbances out to wards unction
City yesterday. aerial disturbances"
is the scientific expression tor zephyr
which rips up an entire county.
1.-The womcn's Temperance Union of
Kansas has ipaGgurated an active I, m
pa-aace campaign. Mrs. Foster, of
lowa, VIII spend week in the state CIV
ing good stlrt To the movement
The powder magaziue explosion al
Hutchinson Tuesday night was about
tie nearest approximation 10 an earth
quake which Kansas has experienced
since the Click ground swell last fall.
Sheet lightning Is simply the. illumi-
nation produced by distant thunder
storms The illumination of an Ordina-
~ thunderstorm at night, when there ls
no moonlight. has . radius of forty
miles.
The Blaine movement seems 10 be
rapidly gaining strength In the south
aud ia number of the eastern states.
We are prepared To sec the st. Louis
Globe Democrat invent its column-rule'
any morning.
Tho recent burning of Barnum's cir
Gus tent Al Chicago has raised the ques-
ton whether the benefits of the most ut
lractive advertising will offset the ex-
pense and risk attaching to the commi9-
sian Of arson.
a movement Is on foot TO reopen the
Otis house at Atchison. This project is
quite in keeping with the deadly hos
tility which the proprietOrs of that cara
vansary always seemed TO entertain for
the travelling public.
The partial destruction of two cireuses
last Tuesday arnum's at Chicago, and
Ne,an's, at Suspension bridge, N "
VIII tend to convert many Intelligent
ncople To a belief in the fateful prophe-
cies touching the year 1888.
Luke Short and the car of Russia
still seem to 'hold the edge" on their
would be destroyers. "There is a di-
ylnilY that doth hedge king" and the
same may be said OF gentlemen of sport
ing procllvIties in the far west.
We learn that the st. Joe board Of
trade is considering the propriety o
substituting hue grass for rag-weed or
several OF the leading thoroughfares o
that city. Such evidences of municipal
enterprise are highly gratifying.
II is said that there is q prospect of (
libel suit against the Las Vegas Optic
for printing damaging articles agains
Freddie Click during his jaunt 20 Chi
huahua. Freddie's pass, 1t will be re
mcmbcred, was for himself and one.
Religious intelligence from the WITCH
tia Times: "Iteverendess Lowry, tn
wildcat of Michigan, has been preach
ing in the Methodist church for severa
days. 40 far as we can learn the me
all like her, and the women all hate her.
Col. Thomas Porierhouse Ochillre,
the George Alfred Townsend of Texal
will sail tor Europe in few days. Ii
rumored thai while he Is abroad he wi
Alp over into Asia and visit the grave
Of his remote ancestors, Ananias an
SapphiTa.
The proportion of shoemakers VIII
become preachers is much larger tina
among any other class of mechanic
who turn to The harmed profession
there seems to b. natural bent anon
tick knights of the wax-end AMI last {,
saving soles.
The Lawrence Journal Is authority {,
the statement that 'Ihe voice OF one
the late contestants for tue oratoric
prE q vi the state university was a trii
'suh-'" Col Dan X. Anthony will LEI
for lny when he reads this phonetic 8
nouncenent.
An Iowa woman who recently bong
heavy mourning explained To the mill
or that her husband WA net we'll, q
mignt pop oir al any time when It mig
not suit her 10 come 10 town. Fossil
with similar iorclhought she went 10
underwriters.
The Damrosch cnncert company DIR
sOrth an Audience Of 100 people al X
Bas City This Iailuret Ia fire the must
populace ol The Kaw metropolis II
tributed Ia an awkward blunder OF
manager in having his combination
pear mt the Coates opera house inst
al al Humps hail.
s well informed contemporary v
u,nsibly remarks that "if civil reform
male successful and popular, the
publican party must carry Il thior
but when it is done the camp-follow
Democrats will claim all the credit,
"point with pride" 10 Mr.. Pendle
It's pemocretic parent
The following paragraph from
Champion leads US to infer that
spartners OF Atchison1 are enj9,
quite business boom: %The Nal
which some oil the young men of
city are going leads US to infer that
curtail the familiar scriptnral ad
and read IL: MY son, If sinners eI
thee, consent.'P