The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-02-21
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
]. s. DanFord has become an Ohio
man. He Is now on the road again to
success.
Queen Motorists talking Of general
and gratuitous distributions of her book.
Poor England.
A prominent politician Of Illinois de-
slares that General Logan is not in the
presidential race. VIII the central Of
fee please give US Mrs. Logan?
The ladies Of Brooklyn are hopelessly
"crushed'' on Geo. c. Min. We fear it
will be q long time before Mr.. Milu
wholly looses the preacher in the actor.
c. c. Glare, city editor of the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil. has become insane
through grief al the loss of wife, child.
brother and mother within the past
year.
The tariff crank of the Kansas City
Times is building large amount of very
substantial fence for Farmer Funston in
the Second district. The Senator is TO
be congratulated upon securing such
cheap hand.
A special TO the Kansas City Times
from Washington says that the railroad
interest is lobbying against the appoint
ment OF Judge Brewer, Of Kansas, to
succeed McCrary. If that lie authentic,
Brewer is our man.
The president has accepted the resig-
nation of John c. New, assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury, to take effect from
to-day. The spectacle of an Indiana
man surrendering the emoluments of a
fat Office under the government is in
deed New.
Mr.. Albert Griffin, OF the Manhattan
Nationalist, has come out against the
reelection Of Ingalls, to the United
States senate. This fact will run at least
another strand of wire around Mr.. In
CALLS fences and double the present
number of posts.
The Kansas City Star says that John
A. Logan is nursing his boom for all it
is worth. The impression has some
how become established in the public
mind that it is the wife OF the general
who has charge of the offspring of the
Logan household.
Old Tccumseh's candidacy would, no
doubt, stir up more enthusiasm than
that of any other man in the country
Usage Free Press.
It is boom and the World made IT.
Hiawaths World.
o, don't say that. 1t was the Wichita
Eagle that made Sherman what he IS.
Henry Ward Beecher, at the conclu-
sion of a recent lecture at Montgomery,
Ala, took occasion to say that he had
never uttered a word against the Con-
federate soldiers, and that had he lived
in the south when the war broke out, he
would probably have been Confed-
crate. Mr.. Beecher is probably the most
artistic straddler for the length of his
legs in this country.
Wichita Eagle: GilIett is a number
one man for the place, competent in
every particular aud one who cannot be
swerved from his convictions or judg
ment. He has been state senator and
was talked of as a probable candidate
next fall against Ryan. He was not a
candidate for commissioner, and his
election took him by as much surprise
as it did the balance of the state.
The Rev. John D. Knox, of Topeka
heads communication to the Kansal
Methodist, "a Letter to Ignorant Peo
pie" We are surprised that such {
thrifty man as the president of the de
funct National Marriage Aid -AssocIs
ton should indulge IN such a wantol
waste of paper. II there is man il
Kansas who Is not "onto" John D. Kno,
he is not worth enlightening.
J The death OF Henry Guyot, the distin
euished scientist, removes a man who
next to Agassiz, was probably the mos
learned and useful in his line that W
} have ever had in this country. His serv
ices were manly rendered as professo
in Princeton College, with which inst
tuition he was connected from 1856 to III
I IlAuC u Aio OCdIu OuI hC dloO CAbChOO
his teachings by means of his georgrapt
2 les and other works into practically al
f the school houses of the land, and hi
name is a familiar one everywhere. TIL
, loss of such q man is national calam
? itv.
The sermon of Henry Ward Beeche
on last Sunday was magnificent tribut
+ to the character and memory of Wen
dell Phillips. Two passages which W
y quote below show that the great preacl
!, er's powers are as strong as ever. H
a said: He confronted the spirit of Ii
e nation and the spirit of the age as If
e had been a decree of God, oYerTidin
! all things" And, HE was not ma
o that tempered himself upon an orche
8 ira of an hundred instruments. The nj
Y tion slept, and GOD wanted trumpe
i large, understanding, intense; and TIL
q was Mr.. Phillips"