The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gen. Brady, of star route fame, lost
500, 600 by the failure Of Flax s. Hatch.
Truly. every cloud has silver lining.
An Indiana widow who is keeping
the grAYes of I'VE husbands green thinks
Of taking the lecture field as an advocate
of cremation.
There Is some curiosity to see at which
terminus Orthe wind instrument the free
trade Democrats will present themselves
for exit at Chicago.
1t appears that the great observatory
var of Yale College is over. Students
can now give their undivided attention
TO boating and base ball.
Assertions are made in several quarters
that the rag baby shows signs of life.
Possibly there Is q little free-trade chin
panzee inside of the tattered tOggery.
The Democratic congress IN bouncing
Peele and Mckinley seems to have pro-
ceeded upon the hypothesis that might
makes right.
It will not surprise the public to learn
that Tom Mast, the cartoonist of Har-
per's Weekly is for Tilden first, last and
all the time.
Galveston News: A Kansas City pa
per sOlemnly notes the fact that notwith-
standing his recent failure in WaIl
street, Keene's performance of Richard
III last week was better tban ever
before.
Mr. Edmunds is an exceedingly strong
candidate with college students who are
not old enough to vote, and with we'll
TODD men of leisure who meyer find time
to vote.
a number of English and Scotch cap
i;slists have bought $4,000 acres of min
ersl lands near Chattanooga. Tenn. and
will soon begin the srec.ion of Two blast
furnaces on the tract with a capacity of
$50 tons.
We see it stated that General Jackson,
the author of the oath ''By the Elernalr'
claimed that there were circumstances
under which swearing was not only jus
titiable but necessary. We never knew
before that Andrew was a practical
printer.
About this time of the year the college
graduate begins to tap his universal
wisdom and knowledge, and let it flow
over the world. II does not hurt the
world nor the young man, and makes the
commencement exercises interesting.
Ferdie Ward is getting more fame
lie Is being mentioned in sll the papers
as the Occupier OF the same cell in the
New York prison which was occupied
by ReIOrmer Tweed. Ii 1t was fame
Ward was after We should think his
longings were being gratified.
Mr.. Bcecher thinks that President
Arthur is the only man whe can pull the
Republicans through, and Henry Irving
says if his vote could elect Arthur he
would be his own successor The "busi-
ness men" seem to be standing together
on the presidential question.
A Boston paper says that Col. Inger-
soil is Misunderstanding Arthur. but he
is especially bitter against Senator Ed.
munds. Speaking to group of admir-
ers the other day he said: 81 couldn't
get up any enthusiasm tor Edmunds.
Why, If he were nominated and l was
called upon to cheer for Kim, should
expect to have my right arm frozen stiff
over my head"
St Louis Globe-Democrat: 1t turns
out that after all the racket about reduc-
ing the surplus, Mr.. Randall is the only
man who has done anything practical in
that direction. He made the motion to
authorize the printing of uudelivered
speeches On the Morrison bill, and that
has resulted In the absorption of about
$4,000 of that Troublesome balance in
the treasury.
Philadelphia Press: Who will elect q
Republican as the next president?
The great body of Republican voters
in Republican states.
Who, then, ought to be nominated by
the Republican convention?
The choice of Republican voters in
Republican states.
Who is their choice?
James G. Blaine
General Grant is seriously affected
physically by the trouble of Grant &
Ward. A relative said yesterday that
the mental strain on the general had
been so great that he must hereafter be
counted an old man. He has been con
fined TO the house for several days We
have been expecting to hear this. The
man who could whip a gigantic army
who could stand all the hardships o.
army life for years, is broken down by
adversely in business.
Manhattan Nationalist: 1t Is safe Il
say that two-thirds OF the prohibitloI
Republican papers in Kansas are in ia
vor of John A. Martin for governor, anC
among them will be found nearly all O
those that persistentIy advocated tn,
adoption OF the amendment. In view O
this fact, is 1t not smusingly Presumptu
Gus tor those who enlisted after the cit
adel had been captured to lecture ant
berate real veterans because they thinl
best on the whole, to accept still newe
recruit as one OF many standard bearers
Hold up mirror, gentlemen, and looI