The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.
New York State taxes are $500, OOt
less than last year.
Jay Gould is now the controlling spir
it of the Kansas Pacific.
There are 700, 900 women in the order
of the Patrons of Husbandry.
Savings banks deposits in New Eng.
land in 1874 equaled $685., "a, 1873.
In III the State of New York had
163,OO7 inhabitants, including blacks.
Portugal has passed law abolishing
the last vestige of slavery in that king
dom.
indianapolis is going to get up grand
musical festival in imitation of Cincin-
natl
A. T. Stewart spent for advertising
last year over eight hundred thousand
dollars.
The Pennsylvania University has re-
Gently received gift of over million Of
dollars.
The Hebrews of Baltimore are about
to erect forty thousand dollar orphan
asylum.
Cincinnati now proposes to construct
mammoth music hall to cost half mil
lion dollars.
Sixty thousand ounces of gold were
melted in the San Francisco mint one
day recently.
The total value of the imports of silk
manufacturers at New York during May
was 81 ,315, 096.
There has been an almost constant and
regular decline in the yield of gold in
Australia since 1866.
Thirty-seven foreign nations have
signifed their intention of participating
in our great Centennial.
The Connecticut iron furnaces which
have been idle for some months past will
soon resume operations.
More than one-half the children born
in Boston in 1874, numbering 11,717,
were of foreign parentage.
New Jersey has always been noted for
her vigorous laws. The last one forbids
the selling of milk on Sunday.
The national temperance convention
held at Chicago, the other day, voted 70
to 81, against woman suffrage.
Among the shipments from Indianap-
oils to New York one day recently, was
a car load of old boots and shoes.
There has been decrease for the year
30 far, in the coal produced by the Penn
sylvania mines of 1,8OS, SO7 tons.
A wonderful mammoth cave has Just
been discovered in Colorado, with floors
and Frescoes of stalactites and stalag-
mites.
The printers who recently struck in
the Washington Ciro.,icle Office are pre-
pairing to publish daily morning news
paper.
Gov. Hardin of Mi. ouri, about whose
!. asshopner proclamation 50 much has
been saiu, is not q communicate in any
church.
One man in Missouri will be sorroy
when the hoppers go. This is Prof
Smart, of Warrensburg, who eats them
regularly.
A monument is to be erected in Wood
AXE Cemetery, Elmira, New York, over
The graves of 1000 Confederate soldiers,
buried there.
The Director of MINIS thinks, in view |
If the recent fall in silver, that it will
,oon be in circulation in place of frac-
.ional currency.
The exodus of negroes from Tennessee
20 the west is causing much concern
lmong those whose business is dependent |
lpon their labor.
The saying "money talks" will have
its signii. canoe when one can
gain jingle a handful of it in ones |
rouser's pockets.
Emperor William has conferred the
rider of Civil Merit on Hon. George
Bancroft, historian, and Henry w. Long
elbow, poet, of America.
Information has been received that
he Mexican government has at last
ent two regiments to watch the Rio
1rande border to prevent raids.
President Eliot, not satisfied with in
military exercises at Harvard,
Ias headed a petition for q similar limo
alton in the Cambridge High Schools.
Somebody thus hits the nail on the
ead: Our Public Schools, neither Ro-
nan nor Protestant, neither Democratic
lor Republican. Sustained by all, free
o all, Independent of all.
Gen. Buffers new granite mansion at
Washington will be completed soon, and
70 expects to move into it next tall.
,urrent reports say it will be the finest :
rivate residence in the city.
A San Francisco company which man
extensively paper barrels, has
gently shipped some Of them to China
nd Japan, filled with sugar, and they
eemed as good when they reached their
estimation as when they started.
The President has directed that all
snds living cont uous to the Mississippi =,
iyer, within Twelve miles of its mouth,
e re erved for military purposes under
he act authorizing Capt. Edas to con-
.ruct jetties for deepening the channel.
A man and his wife are two. In New
!ork Mrs. Allen drew 81, $50 of Mr.. Al
EMS money from a bank without his
onsent. The bank has since been COM
elled by a court to pass him an amount
lual to that drawn by his unprincipled
life.