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


Ben Butler win enjoy an aniimonOp-
oily Of the popular vote in NOYember.
The Wichita Eagle is booming Az
thur In q mild, little-one-For-a-cent sort
of way.
A call for 8 temperance couvention
has been signed by $4,000 voters in In
diana.
As between Tilden and jackson, it
must be admitted that the former lie the
fresher corpse.
The Tribune il getting up fresh air
fund. 1t will be needed If Tiiden ID
nominated at Chicago.
1t Is intimated that Abe Hewitt is be-
ginning to entertain misgivings about
the star.eyed goddess industry.
The depositors Of Grant & Ward srsI
trying to fud out the difference between
banking ana bunco, and At latest &C.
counts they had given up the ccDun-
drum.
Miss Lula Hurst, of Georgia, can move
furniture and things without touching
them. Lula should be able to at least
make her board during house Cleaning
season.
Outside of New YORK last week there
was sn increase OF bank ciearances
amounting 10 2 3 per cent over the cor.
Responding period Of LAST year.
Only one Of the new Methodist bish-
ops. NJ Wslden-is an OHIO man
Aside from this the general conference
has made no serious mistakes IN Its de-
liberatiOne.
Indiana hires more than 1000 teach.
ers. Over 1000 OF that number are fe-
males, and they get but an average Of
$3.50 per month, while the male teach
ers receive $5740 per month.
The Richmond Dispatch announces
another Democratic victory In Danville.
1t was expected, indeed, and 1t was as
certain as the verdict Of not guilty in
the Copish murder.
A big diamond measuring nearly two
inches IN length and an inch and 8
quarter in its shorter diameter, has been
unearthed in the Kimberly mines, South
Africa. The miners are still digging
for the remains of the hotel clerk.
tits authoritatIvely stated that no news
paper men were caught IN the Fect NJ fur
ry in Wall street. Newspaper men are
a sagacious set of 1nauciers, and meyer
get mashed up in that way. They al
ways keep their money in-weli, it's no
difference about that. -,..-e
A Friend Quaker was struck violent
ly on his cheek by an ugly neighbor,
who tainted him to follow out his prin-
clples and turn the other cheek. He did
SO, and received like blow on that.
Now" said he, 81 have fulfilled the
whole law, and am going 20 give thee
an awful licking" And he did.
The time has come 20 sit down on
bank managers who are also specula-
tors. The trouble in New York was
not caused by brokers or outside speca-
lators, but by bank and railroad officials
who prostituted their positions for spec
ulstive purposes. The thing for the
public to do is TO keep clear of railroads
and backs managed by such people. .
Henry Ward Beecher in his sermon
Sunday on the parable OF the Good
Samaritan, spoke Of the place mentioned
| in the parable in which the victim was
left stripped and naked as 1.-The Wall
street OF Palestine" So 1t may be ssen
mankind has not changed very much in
his practices and lobists after eli since
those early days.
The Hon. Daniel Voorhees,, of Indi-
ana, has accepted an invitation to deiiv-
er the regular annual address before the
Pioneers Association of Butler and War
rem counties, Ohio, at their meeting next
August. Mr.. Voorhees, expects to take
his mother, who Is now in her S1st year.
Mr. voorhees, was born In Butler coun-
ty, near Monroe, within . hSlf-mi Of
the grove in which he will deliYer his
address.
We understand that A. B Campbell
denies the report autographed from To-
peka to the Kansas City Journal . few
I
days ago, and published in that paper. to
the effect that he would resign his presl
dencY of the State Temperance Union,
and that he and Ex-Governor St. John
had advised Judge Thacher 70 withdraw
as candidate for governor. The Jour.
nal will be able to give its authority, We
suppose, for this report, If called upon to
do SO.
Last week, when about to break up
for the holidays, Mr.. SpurgeOn dismissed
his young men with q caution: "Don't
get counting. That is not good for stu
dents. Come back, as some one puts it,
with your hearts and manners uncrack-
d. Walk in the fields like Isaac, by all
means, and mediate, but don't lift up
your eyes for RebeccA. She will come
soon enough" That's all very well in
theory, bus when the picnic season
comes we guess the boys will suspend