The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-12
here AND THERE.


Cholera stricken Damietta has about
1000 population.
53.411 applications for pensions were
fled during the fiscal year just ended.
A great many free-traders are wild for
the principle. but don't want it enforced
The anti-monopoly conventiop seems
TO haYe "died q bornin'" At least we
don't hear anything about it.
East st. Louis is worried about q debt
of $505, 900, and don't know whether
there is that amour of property left by
the flood or not.
II is estimated that the miners and
mechanics of Butte, Montana Territory,
have on desposIt at the three banks Of
that city about 5000, 900.
A Chicago pawnbroker has received
verdict for $4,000 against the Herald
OF that city. We reckon the editor will
beat 'em on execution.
II is claimed that the corps of college
graduates Is unusually good this year,
there being fully 1000 of them to dis
tribute among the bar. the pulpit and
the base ball clubs.
The Kansas City Journal has placed
Eugene Field on the road toward Chi
cago again. We would like to see this
thing settled sometime. and If Eugene
is detained in Denver for want of q
pass or little money or anything else
OF a trivial nature, and will so inform us
we will see that he becomes an assisted
emigrant'' at once. We don't care much
about il. but we would just like to help
spoil one of the Journals staple minIon
paragraphs, that's all.
The list of suicides for the past six
mans who commit suicide nearly out
number those of all other nationalities
added together. Many explanations OF
this curious fact have been attempted,
especially as IN numerous cases OF
suicide by Germans no motives have
been discovered. Some physicians at
tribute it TO the effect of excessive beer
drinking, which produces that state of
maudlin melancholy known In Ger
many as Bier FGntGsie.
At his Fourth of July dinner at Bel.
mont for the Philadelphia newsboys,
Mr. George w. Childs had 1872 guests.
They were a good natured company OF
urchins, but not particularly devoui
one, and when they were all seated at
the tables the Rev. p. c. Davis found il
advisable to ask the shortest kind of q
blessing The boys knew what they
were there for, and performed the bust
ness in hand in an uncommonly shorl
time. They were at the tables only hall
an hour, but IN that brief period they
disposed Of 800 pounds of meats, 4OC
quarts of ice cream, three large tubs o.
lemonade and vast quantity of bread
vegetables and fruit.
Wall Street Daily News: There is ont
farmer in Indiana who will be safe from
certain annoyances for the next year Il
come. Last month piano man CAM
along and put piano into the parlor OIL
trial. He was followed by the man will
the parlor organ. Then came three dif
terent sewing machines, $500 must,
box, three $50 oil paintings, a parlol
suit, a $75 mirror, a melodeon, a bool
case, either, two accOrdeons and sew
eral other articles which he could pa,
for In monthly installments if he saw iii
The old farmer welcomed every sort O
an agent, and they left every sort of in
strument ever devised by mortal man
until the farm house was a vast museum
OF natural curiosities. When the las
agent disappeared the old house tool
fire from a defective fiue and was burn
ed to the ground, and not single art
Gle left by the agents was saved. -'SOm
call it one thing and some another,
said the old man as he pocketed the IL
surance on the house and goods, "but
dunno. Providence sometimes work
in Gurus ways. My gittin' burned GU
will give this district rest for a hui
year to come"