The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-04-24


st. JOSS ph, Mo, must be waking up.
Tue people of thtt town have ju,t
raised by private subscription $4,000 to
give to the Iowa & Southwestern railroad
TO induce it to come 10 that point
No member of tie Concord, IN H }
police fore. US. tobacco or liquor. We
don't see why Mr. Barnum and Mr..
Forepaugh should be ransacking Siam
and the Islands OF the sea for curiositIes
1t Is stated tina: VIM. 81 Eytrts never
laughed out loud in his life. 1t is quite
evident that the great American jurist
meyer saw 3 tat woman in a travelling
ulster, running to catch a railroad train.
1t is cheering TO note that place with
the possibilities of future growth pos
sesscd by Kansas City ,ls not under the
dominion of a corporation like the Jack
son County Horse Railroad company. g.
The Duke of Argyll thinks that every
thing IN America is on gigantic scale.
from the feet of the women of Kansas
City, up to the prospects of the Demo
cratic party for defeat at the presidential
election.
Already ninety two members of con-
Eress have declared their intention TO
make speeches ON the Morrison tariff
bill. We should think Morrison would
"give it up" He must be man OF tx
traordinary hopefuluss..
The Atchison Champion says that ex-
Governor Fenton. of New York, is pros
pecting in Sedgwick county; but as we
have received no Extra" from the office
of the Wichita Eagle announcing this
fact, we think ii must be mistake.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: The
Berner Jury is teIng thoroughly in
quired into. In each peighboIhood
where a juryman resided there is an iu-
QUESTION, and juries may as well take
no,ice that they are all to he inves,i-
gated.
A postal card has ju been received
from Nebraska at the Topeka Common
wealth office which was dated February
10th. II isS well for the postoffice de-
partment that this delay did lot occur in
the case Of letter ccn'a'n'ng subscrip-
tion money.
Over thirty-tve and half million of
dollars have teea contributed to colleges
aud universities in this country during
the past ten years. There is no country
in the world where so much money is
expended for educational purposes as in
the United States.
Father Baker, of the Commonwealth,
goes so far as . intimate that even an
officer OF a national bank is Ineligible as
a presidential clectOr. If this Is true we
are fearful that Kansas will stand a
slende. show of representation IN the
electoral college.
Mr.. Beecher rather unkindly says of Mr.
Tilden, the great Democratic champion,
that he is no more 70 be compared to a
full grown, able bodied man than a
fitch OF bacon in a smoke house to an
active young pig in the woods Mr..
Beecher is nothing unless hgurative.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: A con-
temporary observes that the "star. eyed
goddess of reform" has strayed away
from the Democratic household. She
can be easily found and recovered,
though. She has Democratic straw
berry mark on her nose which will
"give her away" TO any experienced de-
| tective
= The Junction City Union has put this
and that together and concludes there is
a political war brewing in AtchIson-
that Ingalls, cannot be elected senator,
Martin governor ind Horton chief jus
tice, all from one town. IL say some
body is going 10 get sucked in and
probably the bsst view of the fun will be
from the fence"
The cattle int, res. of this country hfs
of lats years become enormous. II is
claimei that It nov represents over 49,
600 900 head of live stock, worth in the
aggregate 1,5CO 900 900. and yet there is
an occasional editor who thinks that all
this immense interest must be kept sub
Ject to the ravages of dis ase-that there
must be no "cow doctor provided, nor
no balm in Gilead tor cows
The Boston Adv,r,iss CONSIDERABLY
says of Blaine's book: This history, OF
series Of sketches, or glowing record
however the book may be cIsssi feds
not dull, nor elumsily written, For want
ing in pre-eminent tact. IL Will be
rated as quite III keeping with Mr.
Blaine's versatile ability, and might
safely be read eut re in the Chicago con
vention. Like other spring openings
this history is full Of sweetness and
light"
The Uait, d States senate is composed
OF Seventy-six senator's. ReIiginUsly an
alyzed this body contains twenty sever
PresbyteriaDs twelve Methodist, sever
CongregationalIsts. fourteen 3aptists
sixteen EpiscopaliaDs. FIVE UnitsrIans
four Rom an Catholics aud one jew
We clip the above from Deacon Geo
Martins junction City Union. and a
there are ten more in theSrligious analy
SIS than there are senators, we conclud
he has sort Of doubled up on the Pre- shy
terians-
Kansas City Times: 1t is gratifying
to know that the Kansas City Pythial
Dramatic ASSOCIATION has been cuttinI
an unusually wide sWsth in Kansas al
circles. and is returning with the wreatl
of laurel around its brow. The Del
term tnc' al Damon and PythiasD
said - havr n en- one Of the triumphs c
a dec sde- IL Is even limited thar Col
, 81. w,sA ~ nnrehase lot adjoinin
she Jalaa- hrk estates in Empori,
which Is coming species &C Yves
minister Abbsy for his,rionic talent. l
view of the lamentable failure of Ii
Cincinnati Ideals OF Kansas City. v
have lattsrly sung uific low on Il
subject Of local art Blooms, bat we ba,
plucked up courage. and warmly adv
u cate the appearance 81 the PythIans
the Cincinnati dramatic festival.