The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-29
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Boston imports 100, 900 bushels of pea.
nuts annually from Africa.
About $4,000 persons are authorized
to vote for French Senators.
The late conAagration at Peshawur,
India, leaves $4,000 people homeless.
Gov. Evans of Colorado is to be a can
didate for the United States Senate.
The Chinese tailors in San Francisco
arc reported to have organized strike.
Attorney General Pierrepont is stated
to be putting sharp edge on his official
ak.
The opening of Lake Champlain this
season was the latest for the last sixty
years.
The taxable wealth of Texas is said to
have been increased thirty-three per cent.
in four years.
John G. SAKE calls his forthcoming
collection of his recent poems, Leisure
Day Rhimes."
An ordinance to prevent hucksters
from ringing door bells, is before the
Baltimore Councils.
Newspapers weighing less than four
ounces can be sent to any part of Europe
for two cents after July l.
A train on its way to the Black Hills
has been faced about by body of caval-
ry, and started for Fort Randall.
Mr.. John G.. SAKE will read poem at
the grave of Admiral Farragut, in Wood
lawn Cemetery, on Decoration Day.
The Leavenworth Herald dominates
Hon. Thos, A. Hendricks, of Indiana, for
President on the Democratic ticket.
The new Palace Hotel at San Francis
CO will require seven tons of locks and
keys, and four thousand doors to it.
A fund of S13, 900 has been raised by
the women of Richmond for the erection
of monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The International Congress at Nancy,
France, in July, will discuss the history
of America before its discovery by Co.
lumbus.
The plan of the fortifcation of Paris is
a ring fforts seventy-seven miles around
and costing $4,000, 900, to be finished in
three years.
Baltimore stands chance of securing
the Inman line of twelve or fourteen
steamships. to ply between her harbor
and Liverpool.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks Sec
rotary BristOw is entitled to the credit of
being the champion of "Seizure-ism"
about these days.
The Southern newspapers are getting
some comfort out of their dull situation
by calling Harpers Weekly the journal
of Snivelization."
1t is feared that the Government
will be unable to arrange any modifica.
ton of the Sioux treaty with the Indians
now in Washington.
Gilmore has secured Devy, the great
cornet player, for his band, which is to
play this summer at the Fourth Avenue
concert gardens, New York.
Joe Jefferson made his farewell ap-
pearance at the Boston Theatre last Sat
urday evening. He is now preparing for
his two years vacation in Europe.
1t is stated that Forbes, Sala, Russell,
and Henty will accompany the Prince of
Wales to India, to write his journey for
the London Ners, Telegraph, Times and
Standard.
Dubuque is arranging for two decora-
ton days this year. The American pop
ulation will decorate on the goth, but
the Germans propose to observe the Both
Sunday.
From every section of Georgia, accord
ing to the local papers, the cheering It'd
ings come of unexceptionable stands of
corn and cotton, and promising crops of
small grain.
A gun factory in Upper Austria is
making 100000 rifles for Germany, and
a Vienna firm is reported to be execut-
ing a German order for 10000 900 cart
ridges tor delivery in June.
Gen. Pope has the men at. Fort Leav-
drive the grasshoppers into big
heap and then turns steam from the fire
engine on them. He got a "goOd scald'
IN wagon load of them Sunday after
noon.
The st. Louis Republican has been
sued for libel, by one J. W. Mitchell.
The Republican had called him shyster,
md he sought refuge in the courts. The
damages awarded to him we're one cent
Ind costs.
The Herald the New York organ of the
Pope, says that there is an impression
hat Archbishop Bayley, of Baltimore
will receive a red hat. Archbishop Bay
ey, like Cardinal McC losky, is an Amer
can by birth.
Madame Ancelot, literary celebrity
# Paris, has just died at the age of "a.
t was she who said: 81 am the happi-
st of women. l have a son-in-law of
whom everybody is talking, and adaugh-
er of whom no one has ever said q word"
Ex-Gov. Powers, of Mississippi, was
brennan of Grand Jury in Noxabee
ounty, and after the final adjournment
le found that his pocket had been
licked of S75. He vows he will never
AIRY cent into Grand Jury room =,
gain.
Montgomery Blair has writteDa letter :
indicating his brother, Frank p, from
spersions cast upon him by Gen. Sher-
nan in his autobiography. Blair talks
straight from the shoulder" and says
hat but for his brothers courage the
march to the sea would have been a dis :
strous retreat.