The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-01-03
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whist soirees, furnish intellectual
amusement for the dwellers in Paola.
The Paola Spirit notes the fact that
births are very numerous there OF late.
There are ffty-three convicts IN the
pen, under sentence of death by hang
ing.
An infurated bull killed Col. j. NJ.
Jones of Cheyenne county last Satur-
day.
The democratic postmaster at Flor
ence resigned in favor of republican
friend.
Atchison has four wards and wants
two more since the city limits were ex-
tended.
The Wichita Beacon kicks against
the ''snide shows" that visit that
town. Ditto here.
Jim Legate gives it out that he will
not play the bull in the china shop as a
legislator, this winter.
j. W.-Ady and j. c. Strong are in
the lead for u. 5. district attorney,
with the chances in favor of the first.
Speculative journalism in Kansas is
now discussing the proper length of
editorials. Short or long is the ques-
ton.
DICh w dlkCE anu Dill AlO
principal contestants for the post OF
u. S. Marshall, Buchan leading per-
haps.
One reason for new state constitu-
ton is that the members of the legisla-
ture may increase their pay from 80 a
day to s. or more.
Work in a telephone Office is said to be
hard on the hearing. For this reason
girls don't general continue at it more
than couple of years.
The oldest thing in Wichita is a
watch made in Liverpool 225 years ago.
Two raps and three scratches give
you the entree to Wichita joint.
The Knights of Pythias of Burling-
ton will give a graLd ball tonight.
The Emporia orchestra, with Frank
Romaine as prompter will be there to
give tone and finish to it.
Council Grove is seeking for pros
perity in a canning factory; After
that it will clamor fer a creamery, soap
factory and sugar factory, each in its
turn. What hard matter it is TO sat
isfy peoples wants.
Wichita has Carlyle Literary club.
which claims that it has proof that
| Goethe. Nothing is said of a cryptic
gram. But is it not queer business for
a Carlyle club to be engaged in?
This may be a decent winter or it
may not. So far it has behaved well.
1t deserves commentator. Let it
keep on so, and no man or woman Will
withhold admiration for its exception
ally good character.
Charlie Scott who purchased the
Lawrence Tribune five months ago soon
sickened of his bargain and sold out
Monday to Learnard of the Journal.
Scott goes to Washington, it is said. for
the Topeka Capital.
Here is a foolish paragraph going
the rounds about Wichita judge who
says to those seeking his services in a
| favor of this arrangements" OF course
they are. and say so, when he adds,
''well, you are married" This is prob
ably Hutchinson joke.
The Atchison Globe cites "a well
posted republican politician" as
authority for the statement that the
Rev. Bernard Kelly has the sinch on
| the pension agency, having the en-
dorsement of both Senators Plumb and
Ingalls,, Governor Humphrey and Con-
gressmen Morrill,, Ryan, Peters and
| Perkins.
| a young man in a short talk before
the Y. NJ. G. A. yester lay afternoon
| electrified his audience by statement
that a friend of his had during the day
made an attempt on his own life, first
with a revolver and then with a knife.
He had come home drunk, and his
| wife, whom he had recently married,
| declared she would leave him. This
worked upon his feelings to such an
extent that he attempted suicide. The
| speaker did not give his friends name.
| Inquiry at the Y. M. G. A. rooms fails
to reveal the indemnity of the speaker;
no one seems to know him.-AtchisOn
Globe.
A Hutchinson tramp braced up to a
back door in this city and asked for a
hand out. The lady of the house gave
him palataOle meal with the generos-
ity for which Wichita ladies are cele-
brated and to wash down the crumbs
handed him a mug of cider. The
tramp tasted of it and handed it back
to her saying 81 can't drink 1t mum,
it has been workin. Wichita Jour
nal.
A politician of high degree said at
the union depot this morning that Col
Dick Walker has the sinch on the Uni
ted states marshalship, and no Others
need apply. He further stated that
the grab for the United States pension
agency is very determined, and so bit
tir that old friends are arrayed against
each other. At Topeka the statesmen
seem to think the prize is their meat,
and that it is presumptious for John A.
Martin. S. II. Kelsey, and Major Cad
well to put in their demands. Gen.
John G. Caldwell, of Topeka, an
appointee.of Gov. Martins, is moving
heaven and earth in his efforts. and
close behind him is Tom Anderson
who hopes to sing himself into the
place. These two are in the
lead, with an army of small
fellows shouting themselves hoarse
The chances of Major Cad
well of Beloit are regarded as hopeless
but by being prominent in the tight he
may lift himself into a small consulate
or something of that kind. Everybody
admits John A. Martins fitness for the
place, but he has called on the fellows
] so often for help that they think he
ought to get out of the way this time
and his appointment would cause a
great roar among the faithful. a stray
statesman named Hess, who apparent
ly dropped from the sky into Kansas
two or three years ago, embarkIng in
the mortgage business at Topeka, sets
up claim for the Office of revenue col.
lector. He served in Harrison s regi-
ment, and has goie to Indianapolis
after the promise of the place. 1t is
not believed that John Fl. Rice has any
show. The newspaper fellows are
making great noise in behalf of G.. S
Gleed for United States district attor
ney, but the politicians are holding the
place in reserve.-Atchison Globe.
j FlLE-MYERS.