The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-31

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An unfortunate bootlegger is caught
ow and then at Hutchison.
There is q violent epidemic Of hay
holera around Cunning
A young lady does the soliciting and
for the Paola Times.
An-ice factory win furnish GOODNESS
or Arkansas City next summer.
Blake the weather prophet predicts a
most prosperous year for Kansas.
There are said to be thirteen candi-
iates for the Lawrence post Office.
Governor Humphrey has already /
Oardoned two men from the peniten-
;iary.
A legal hitch promises to put stop
TO further work on the Wichita sewer
for while.
His admirers in Wichita presented |
General Murray Myers with a fine
cane the other day.
Winfield mourns tie loss of the rail-
road eating house which has been re-
moved to Wellington.
There is fellow at Salina thaLcan cor
rect any deformity from knock kneed
boy to pigeon toed girl.
The Clay Center Dispatch thinks
there's millions in a sugar and a can
ming factory for that burg.
The CALIFORNIAN club of Wichita cell
ebrated the Burns anniversary Friday
night with grand banquet.
A Leavenworth girl is stage struck,
and viii soon display her dramatic tai
ents in abbreviated costume.
Kansas has more old soldiers on the
pension rolls IN proportion to the pop
ulation than any other state.
In LeaYenworth 40 divorce suits are
pending. Helen Cougars smile when
she reads this will be heard mile.
No won,ler the solons kick about a
Ineager salary of So. a day when beer
at Topeka sells at one dollar bottle.
Pawnee Bin still threatens to march
lieve he will go. People are not all
crazy.
1t is rumored that the notorious re-
former Mrs. Emma Molloy has lately
married a leading citizen of Salem
Oregon.
The clerk in the postoffice at Well
ington is named Love, and it is said
that the girls call there just for Love.
*. G. Star.
D. F. Spencer of Madison Green
wood county died few days ago at
the age of Sc. He was a native OF
Rhode Island.
Governor Humphrey has already had
some valuable experience with craDks
The last one reported advises him to
prepare for war.
Ohio republicans have inaugurated a
movement for each state to present to
Kansas flag in honor of her 81, O0C
republican majority.
There is a growing growing opposi-
ton in Kansas to the states giving the
Kansas Farmer a monopoly of stray
notices, Let the agitation agitate.
1t requires desertion for one year to
establish ground for divorce in Kan
sas. A man cannot get divorce from
his wife when she is six months gone
Troy Chief. .
Twenty-Five of the forty members OF
the senate are not members of any re-
ligiouS denomination. It's good deal
of job to mix politics with religion in
Kansas.-Butts.
What ehumps the ice cream and milk
shake men must be. Instead of clos
ing up last fall. they might haveskept
on doing rushing business nearly all
winter.-Hutchison News.
If the proposition be carried out to
n4N40O AbOhO OO0AOyi W HI
have the best local claim for the neV
asylum since not only Easley but tie
entire News force will go crazy.
Down at Wichita they called in the
aid of fortune teller to unraveI the
mystery of E. T. Browns murder.
| That was evidently a scheme of Muir
docks to throw contempt on the
"mets."
Mr.. Fairfax is the colored member OF
the Kansas house. He offered resell
ution the other day for the purpose o1
giving those school districts the bene-
| 1T of the railroad tax that do not lie
contingent" to the roads.-K. c.
Star.
The Kansas legislator who wants tC
sweep on to crimson glory and indy
ing fame should provide some means
which will prevent the introduction OF
not more than twenty-five bills on the
same subject and couched in exactly
the same language.-Cap. Com.
A Chicago crank who would be q
| shining star among his brethen of this
state brings messages from Hades tC
prince of darkness has suspended the
! use of sulphur and birthstone, anC
banked up his fires while experiment
| ing with electricity as a more efficient
agent with which to carry on his bust
ness. SO says monsieur crank.
1t is town talk that an important
witness in the penitentiary scanda
last week was paid 5000 for his silencG
in the forthcoming investigation. No
body is prepared to vouch for the trutf
of tins statement, but it is fact tina
the individual in question had a biz
roll of money on Saturday which h
spent very literally, part of it at {
prominent Missouri valley dry good
store. The gossips go further and give
the name of the man who paid Jht
money, and say that there is witness
who has stated that the money wa
given as hush money. If the story
true, it indicates that somebody ha
committed the ostrich act.-AtchisoI
Globe.
1t is an unfortunate fact, not true il
some instances in this city only, but il
every other town in America. tina
there are men and women who start il
life upon a common plane of Intelli
gence, of industry, of honesty and O
enconomy gradually separate. the hus
band becoming more polished by tn
friction of Dbusiness and constant in
tercourse with the ways of the world
while the honest wife, working ant
Flooding, and saving at h)me. burie
her intelligence in the napkin of dom
esticity, having no friction, no polish
no added information, and, coDse
quently, being at standstill, so far a
improvement is concerned. until at tn
end of ten or fifteen years of marie
life, the husband out in the world is
very greatly enlarged, improved edi
ton. while the wife is at the same oil
status OF the initial number.-Atchiso
Champion.
A meeting of leading citizens wa
held at Madison Monday evening t