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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Gen. CroOke assumed command of the
department Of the Platte Oh Tuesday.
Thomas C. Woodward, of Iowa, has
been appointed Examiner in Chief Of the
Patent Office.
Julia Ward Howe is President of a
new Woman's Suffrage Club, just organ
lied at Boston.
The New Orleans Louisianian suggests
national convention of cOlored editors,
to be held in Cincinnati Aug. 2.
Somebody has been around Atchison
cuse National Bank, of New York.
Germany is now supplying Russia
with large proportions of manufactured
goods formerly furnished by England.
A party of ten thousand persons left
Yankton on last Saturday to- join the
SiouxCity expedition for the Black Hills.
Ten and twenty dollar notes of the Ma
tional Hide and Leather bank OfBostOn,
with fictitious signatures, are in circula-
ton.
The Louisiana Legislature has adjourn
ed. The Spanish Government has paid
$4,000 Of the $4,000 of Virginius in
demnity.
Agents of the French Government
have made contracts in Bohemia for the
supply of 10000 horses TO be delivered
next June.
The London revival is increasing. Sew
eral hundred ministers we're present at
one of Messrs. Moody and Sankey's meet
ings last Tuesday.
The Cuban insurgents continue to de
stroy small plantations, and Captain
General Valmaseda is sending out troops
to protect property.
No other book sold out of Guizot's IL
brary brought so high price as Commo-
dore Wilkes Narrative of the United
States Exploring Expedition"
The grangers are going to start new
magazine to their interest, to be publish
ed by John p Jewett, who brought out
Uncle Toms Cabin" twenty-five years
ago.
Legal proceedings have been COM
menced by the Prussian government for
the removal of the prince bishop of Bres-
lau, for violation of the ecclesiastical
laws.
The citizens of Brownsville, Tex, deny
the charges of the Mexican Minister at
Washington that exCOnfederate soldiers
have been concerned in the recent raids
ON the Texas border.
A temperance meeting under the au-
spices OF the Catholic societies of Phila-
delphfa, was held recently in Barnums
in that city. Upward Of
10000 persons were present.
Prot. Max Muller is about to publish
a volume entitled Language as the
True Barrier between Man and Beast"
1t will likely afford much food for
thought to upholders of the Darwinian
hypothesis.
In dispatch from Brussels it is stated
that Prince Napoleon will shortly estab-
lish newspaper in that city in the in
terest of the Bonapartists. A we'll. known
Partisan editor will assume the charge of
the new organ.
The Massachusetts, State Temperance
alliance has adopted an address to the
people to take advantage of the clause
in the new liquor law, affording local
option as a protection against the Ii
censed sale of liquor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

thereby losing many Of the truths con-
corning that study, his knowledge OF it
will be of little value because it is not
properly connected. If the daily regis
ter shows pupil to he irregular in at
tendance, almost invariably that pupil is
making very slow progress.
From irregular attendance also comes
the necessity of repeatedly reviewing the
same study. The other fact which works
greatly against the best interests Of the
pupils, is that we frequently find two or
three text books on the same branch and
Of the same grade, but by different au-
thors, used in the same school at one
time. Evidently every one who has Civ
Gu this subject thought knows what
caused such state of affairs. But |
question whether all have duly consider
ed the effect produced by it. Certainly
every parent ought to know that it is
not only detrimental to the progress of
his own children, but also to that of the
whole school. to send his children to
school with different series of text books
from those used by the rest of the school.
If the teacher is obliged to hear two or
three recitations of the same grade in the
same study, just because the text books
are by different authors, he will be
obliged to crowd them into the same
time that he might otherwise devote to
one. As consequence, he has not as
much time for explaining and demon
strating as he should have. This multi
plicity of text books does injustice both
to teachers and pupils. But is there no
remedy for this evil? There is, and it is
within our reach, too.
What mean Sec. 46 and Al of our
School Laws if not to prevent this I'M
happy state of affairs? Sec. 46 reads:
'.The district board shall require a uni
form series of text books to be used in
each seperate branch in each school"
Do the district boards comply with the
requirements OF this law? In no case
have they done so where l have taught.
The directors themselves, not knowing
what books predominant in their schools,
send their children to school with old
books that they used when they were
boys shack in Indiana"
In cases parents are unable to provide
books for their children, Sec Al steps in
and offers them friendly relief. 1t reads
thus: 1.-THE district board shall provide
text books at the expense of the district,
for INDECENT children, and the children
uf parents who are not able to provide |
text books" Tine rigid enforcement of
these laws would remove from our
schools two of the greatest detriments
which hang over them. A little legisla-
lion on the price of text books, would
render valuable aid in this matter. For
/. is an undeniable fact that school books
are sold at exhorbitant prices. The law
might regulate this matter, thus bring
my text books within the reach of most
IF our farmers, to whom the srasshopper
mi chinch bug have become burden.
J. +. GARRISON.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

INevery State they have their draw
backs. And the news now comes from
Memphis of great destruction of horses,
mules and cattle by buffalo gnats, thou
sands of dollars worth of stock having
been killed in the vicinity of that city.
There has been heavy advance in the
price of mules and horses, causing great
loss and Inconvenience to planters.
Probably Tennessee can row furnish a
heavy emigration to California where
they don't have such pests.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
LAST Tuesday an immense multitude

LAST Tuesday an immense multitude
gathered at St. Patrick's cathedral in
New York to witness the ceremony of
comforting the Barreta on Cardinal Nc.
Closkey. it was grand and imposing
one, such As has never before been wit
messed in this country. In addition to
the embassy sent by the Pope from
Rome, eminent men in the Catholic
Church drought the United States were
present. After mass the letter from the
Pope giving his reasons for comforting the
title o! Cardinal on Archbishop McClos-
key was read in Latin. to which the Arch
bishopreplied in the same language, when
the cap was placed upon him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
A Brush With the Cheyen :es.

WALLACE, KAN, April 24.-On last
Saturday we had intimations hat In
disns were around. Company III. of the
Sixth cavalry, were ordered here from
Fort Lyon, near Kit Karson, to go on a
scout. They arrived at Wallace on Sun
day evening armed and equipped for
their mission, under command of Second
Lieutenant Hendley, of said company.
They left here ct daylight on Monday,
and struck the trail of the Indians about
five miles from here. The trail was then
two days old. Lieutenant Heneley, with
the confidence of a veteran at once aban-
doned all of his supplies, leaving them
under charge of a sufficient guard, and at
once proceeded to the business on hand,
and which he effectually done to the sat
isfaction of all hunters and border men,
which he told in his own words as fol-
lows:
Under date of the oath inst attacked
at daylight yesterday on the north fork
Of Sapp creek, party ofsixtv Cheyennes
which believe to be some of those who
have not been at the agency. 1 cut off
twenty-seven from their ponies and de-
manded their surrend r. My demand
was answered by vo,ley of rifles. 1
then attacked them and after desperate
resistance they were all killed. Nineteen
warriors, including two chiefs and med
icine man, were found among the dead,
the balance, eight in number, being In
dams not engaged in the fight.
We captured over one hundred and
twenty-five ponies, the remainder es-
capped with small portion of their stoeF.
burned their camp consisting of twelve
lodges and all their effects. Sergeant
Papier and private Tens of my command
were killed. The above severe lesson
given to the Indians. it is believed will
be the means Of saving great deal of
trouble to settlers in this country during
the present season.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

IT is reported that President Grant
and Attorney General Williams are
somewhat troubled to know what to do
with an Indian for killing another, as
the Indians are not subject to our laws.
We think the suggestion of the New
York Herald good one. that when an
Indian is caught who has undoubtedly
killed an other, he should at once be Civ
en- new gun and five dollars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
Post-GfIiea Changes in Kansas.

During the week ending April "a, 1878 A;
furnished by VIM. Van Velk, of the
Post Office Department:
D-Connersville, Decatur
Co.. Frank Kimball Postmaster; Coop
ersburgh. Rice Co, Robert Copper Mar
tin, Ellis Co, Phranda d. Robinson ;
Norman, Phillips Co., John E Mundell +;
Sweed Creek, Marshal Co., George H.
Russell.
PosT-MAsrERs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Cowley Co., Mrs. Sarah A Williams ;
Waconda. Mitchell Co. Charles H.
Hayes.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

THE Russians have made great bell
from the brass cannons captured by the
Germans from the French in the late
war. 1t weighs fifty thousand pounds,
and the clapper is so heavy that it re-
quires the strength of thirty men to
swing it. The Emperor has had it ap
propriately inscribed and presented to
the cathedral at Cologne.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

THE New York Herald published, the
day after the centennial celebration at
Lexington and Concord, the completest
account to be found anywhere of the
events which made the 10Th Of April,
IT'S, famous day. 1t also reproduced
the papers of that day, containing ac-
counts of the battle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

WHO shall be the next Governor of
Ohio is question that is now troubleing
most of the editors in that State, and i;
is one by the way that is of national in
terest, for if in addition to their late vic
tories the Democrats succeed in carrying
the State this year it makes their chanc-
es of success in the Presidential cam
paing in 1876 quite probable. The Dem
ocratic Legislature that has recently
adjourned was extremely partisan in its
acts, is said to have been the lowest av-
erage of men ever assembled as law
makers in the State, and it made itself
generally obnoxious to the people. The
present Governor, Bill Allen, has done
nothing to strengthen his party. Under
the plea of reform" he removed from the
of penal and benevolent
institutions tried and successful officers
and put in their place political friends
many of whom have proved inefficient
and been disgrace to him, and for the
illegal removal of the Superintendent
of the "Reform school for Boys" he is
involved in the courts. There is great
dissatisfaction with the management of
the State under Democratic rule and
strong reaction in favor of the Republi.
cans, SO that to be successful it is only
necessary for the Republican party to
drop side issues, such as temperance and
the third term hobby, and unite upon
such questions as will bring to the front
the better and the heroic elements of the
narty
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

WE have received the first number of
the indusirialist. neat little paper issued
weekly by the printing department of
the Kansas State Agricultural College.
The President and members of the facul-
ty are editors, and it is published in the
interest but not at the expense of the
E,l1.na
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

E. w. MAJORS, Treasurer OF Crawford
county, was tried for enlightenment at
the late term of the District Court in
that county. The jury failed to agree
and the case was continued. defendant
Majors-to recognize in the sum of three
thousand dollars.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

THE latest from California is to the
effect that there are more people there
than can find employment. and the pa
pers are advising no more to come
unless they have plenty of money or
know for a certainty where they are to-
get EMPLOYMENT Still they go.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

On the morning of the 2Sth inst. a
fire broke out in Oshkosh, Wis, which
destroyed the opera house, the post office,
all the hotels but one, and nearly all the
business portion ofthe city, burning over
space one mile and a half long and a
half mile wide. Hundreds of families
are left homeless,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

ACCORDING to the st. Louis Globe Sec
rotary Delano was rich man when he
entered the Cabinet and has not increased
in wealth since. One good reason why
he should remain at the head o. the De-
partment of the Interior.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

THE Texas State Fair will be held at
Houston from the 1lth to the 18th Of
this month. In this latitude an agri-
cultural show in May would be out of
the question, bat we guess it is all right
for Texas
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

CARL SCHURZ sailed for Europe last
Thursday. In reply to the many rumors
as to his future home and occupation, he
announces that his home will still be in
st. Louis, and his occupation a journalist.
He will be a good representative of
America in Europe.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

AND now we have woman telling a
true story about the new United States
Treasurer, J. C. New, which she begins
by acknowledging tina: up to the date of
its publication she has lied promiscuous-
ly and persistently. Such 'true stories
have become disgusting.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

DURING the week the Missouri river
has been very high, the water being
nearly as much above low water mark as
during the great flood near three years
ago. An immense amount of property
has been DESTROYED.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

IT Is the opinion of the Cincinnati
Commerciat that the Democratic party
should, '.for its own good, be defeated"
And for the good of the people we hope
that it may be done
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

Ben. WADE says he does not want the
office of Governor of Ohio. and we be-
lieve that is one reason why the Repub-
licans should nominate him. 1t is en-.
couraging to find a man who does not
want an Office.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
STATE OF KANSAS,
OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF STATE,
TOPEKA, April 25, 1875.

Hon. Thomas A. Osborn Governor:
DEAR SIR: In answer to your letter
Of this date would say that no bonds of
Ness, Kingman and Pratt counties have
been registered in this office. There has
been no organization of Clark county,
and no bonds issued. The reports re-
Gently published that six hundred thou
sand dollars had been issued in bonds by
these and other new counties were SO
malicious that they did not seem to merit
an official denial. Very truly yours.
ID. w. WILDER, Auditor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
SATURDAY, MAY l, 1875.

The resignation of Attorney General
Williams having been accepted by the
President he appointed to that position
Judge Edwards Pierrepont, of New York.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01

STATE OF KANSAS,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Topeka, April %, 1873.
Hon. d. W. Wider, auditor:
DEAR SIR: have seen newspaper
article, credited to the Kansas Farmer,
charging that, among others, the
counties of Ness, Pratt and kingman,
have issued quantity of fraudulent
bonds. l wish you to inform me wheth-
er any bonds of either ofthe above named
counties have been registered in your
office and if any, what amount.
A telegraph dispatch published in
many of the papers states that Clark
county has issued some fraudulent bonds.
Please inform me if the statement is cor
rect. Very respectfully yours,
THOMAS A. OSBORN.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-01
Bogus B3HDS.

There have been a number of sensa-
tional articles going the rounds of the
press to the effect that the East is flooded
with bogus bonds issued by some of the
of this State. Those who have
had any anxiety about this matter may
be somewhat relieved by the following
correspondence taken from the Topeka
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-12
News and Other Items.

Cincinnati brewers pay their foremen $4,000
year.
Colorado has 100000 square miles of coal
lands, larger space than in all New England
One of the chief exports Of Egypt is cotton
seed, the amount sent out of the country,
mainly to England, having risen from 1890
cwt. in 1860 to 8, 3,49O, ,OS0 cwt. in 1873
The notorious George II. Butler, who made
for himself an unenviable record as Consul
General at Cairo, got into an alteration with
john Morrissey, Saturday night in New York
Butler ired two shots and was Knocked down
twice. Unfortunately they both live.
A Syracuse girl declined to engage herselft
the object of her affections until his father had
given her a written guarantee that his son was
not only sound Sin wind and limb" but Of
good morals, gentle, and warranted to behave
both in "single and double harness." The girl
did not intend to be seen in divorce court.
About thirty of the old members of Mosby's
command in the Confederate army during the
rebellion, held meeting at Baltimore a few
evenings since, and took measures to organize
what they call veterans association" The
New York Post remarks that considering the
brutal and Infamous outrages psrpetrated Of
ten by Mosby and his men on nou-combatants,
they rather oughtto to pray that the memory OF
their service might be forgotten.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-12

Blu. it will remain true that in this year
1875, ten years since the war closed, our peo-
pie will not tolerate much longer continu-
ance of military rule in the South; that the
situation in Louisiana is disgrace and a
peril, and that it is the first duty of Congress
to follow the path of true craftsmanship in
which Senator Carpenter bravely took the
lead, two years ago, and last year.-N Y.
Mail.
We hope the Louisiana Investigating
Committee will be able to get at the bed
rock oftruth about the Returning Board
how it was organized and how it acted.
Here all the mischief lies, If there be any.
1t is reported that the committee have come
into possession of facts discreditable to the
board, but this may be untrue. The A meri-
can people are in state of supreme disgust
over this whole Louisiana muddle, and they
are anxious to have the blame properly fixed,
whether upon friend or foe. They will stand
any amount of good, wholesome truth on the
subject.-St. Louis Globe.
"The country is as 100 to one against US in
this matter, and unless some prompt meas
ures are taken to correct the mistake that has
been made in the Louisiana question, the
Republican party will suffer irreparable in
jury.''-Vice President Wilson.
The main question to be tried there is, by
what authority or pretence of right the army
of the United States was used to break up
the organization of the Louisiana House of
Representatives by expeling certain members
claiming seats therein. This is not party
question, although vast political consequen-
ces hang upon its decision. 1t is question
of the supremacy of the law, and right de-
cision is of infinitely greater consequence
than any party triumph.-Boston Aduertis-
er.
The issue lies here: Shall the laws of the
nation be overridden by the President, and
the rights of the people be trampled upon by
the military in time of peace? The question
is one that must be met and decided, and
now.-BostOn Globe.
81 do not doubt the legal right of the
President to send troops into any state; but
I view with apprehension any armed inter-
ference by the Executive even of a state to
dsperse legislative body if it has not, by
violence toward other citizens, become a
mob. .'-POstnsoste Je,veU.
The Portland daily press., 1875-01-12
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM In ADVANCE.

A food of cant, whine, drivel and vitupera-
ton will be the inevitable consequence of the
excitement which has sprung up about the
Louisiana imbroglio. Some good worthy men
will pervert the lessons taught by great apos-
ties of free government in resistance to tyranny
by applying them to an act which is highly
meritorious because impelled by the wish to
repress turbulence and prevent massacre. A
far larger number of noisy declaimers will
grow hoarse in apostrophizing the Goddess of
Liberty in apparent unconsciousness of the abb
surdity of representing her as the patron Of
butchery.
The Tammany Hall people were indecoIously
rapid in trying to turn this incident TO practical
account. The very day Sberidan's first despatch
was published, subscription papers were passed
around all over town calling for an indignation
Meeting. 1t is creditable to the good sense of
our citizens that so many of the best of them
refused to abet any such proceeding. Most of
the signers are Democrats and not few Of
them were just s"indgnant'at the audacity of
Lincoln in resisting the demands of South
Carolina for the surrender of Fort Sumter, as
they are now at the usurpatioR by Grant of au-
thority to interpose to protect the lives of
Lousianans They revied Lincoln as an ape
Stanton as fend, Grant as a butcheri The
war was to their minds an Outrage" the eman-
cipation proclamation bare faced robbery, the
arming of negroes piece of refined savsgery
and the fifteenth amendment an indefensi5ie
invasion of the rights of the Southern people.
There never was measure in the interests of
justice and humanity which the Constitution
did not, according to their Interpretation of it,
prohibit, nor a measure of oppression aud
wrong which the same instrGment did not sane
tion. They applauded to the echo when els
of United States soldiers surrounded Boston
Custom House, mounting guard over fugitive
from The lash OF slavery-when judges stopped
beneath the chains within which they held
their defeDceless prisoner-and when the dis
NAL procession marched past FaDeuil Hall TO
the wharf at which lay the Georsia-bound ves-
sci which was to convey fellow man to hope
sss bondage. They have not changed during
these fifteen years Of revolution and progress. .
Nor have they forgiven any man who bore a
conspicuous part in suppressiDg the rebellion.
They don't like Grant, nor Sherman nor Sheri-
dan. They would be glad to embrace any OPP
portunity to impair the fame of either or all Of
these popular idols.
Very likely for while there will be some
misconception and error ia the public mind.
The newspapers of New York city are nearly
all wrong, some of them mistakenly but more
Of them Indignantly. However, newspapers
are Of small account now in shaping public
opinion. The sense of the people is superior to
such influences. / cannot be brought to believe
20 meanly of nv couutrymeu as to suppose
that when the word Of gallant, glorious Phil
Sheridan is to be weighed against any number
of White Lesguers. in Louisiana or elsewhere,
there is any doubt but that the rebel lot will
kick the beam. YARMOUTH.