The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-01-09
NEWS Of THE WEEK.

The Wisconsin Legislature met las;
Tuesday.
New Hampshire holds her election for
Cover or and Members of Congress in
March next.
The New York Assembly organized or
the 9Th inst.
There are said to be six medical col
leges in Cincinnati.
Governor Tile is partial to blooied
fist hcrses-he drive :iu trotter.
The Gu ans in New York are reporte,.
to lie fitting ont another expedition.
R.M. 7. Hunter is writing history
o. the late "anpleasantness between the
States.
General Longstreet is expected to l." :
cnme permanent resilen; OF tame
vile Georgia.
The Indiana Legislature commence.
January It'll when the senatorial pot viii
fairly boil over.
A bill for compulsory education has
lust been introduced j., the Ohio lun'e
OF Representatives.
Ice in the Mississippi at st. Louis la
stopped navigation, and the big brIi='
is in constant use.
Hiram Roberts has been nominated by
the Democrats of New jersey a' thei.
candidate for Governor.
Mrs. JOIN Jacob Aston has.. given 500
to be distributed in priz,s 1T the inter
collegiate literary contest.
Colored pupils are said to have attend
ell one of the Oils High Schools in Ne"
Orleans for several years without any
trouble arising thereirom.
Two Committees are investigating The
Vicksburg troubles, one representing the
Federal Congress, and the other the
State Legislature. The Congressional
Committee holds an open session and
seems to be striving after truth.
At the re-assembling Of Congress, from
Committee on Public Lands. Sir. Phil
lips reported bill amendatOry Of the
act of April Z, 1869, for the relief of set
tiers on absentee Shawnee lands in Kan.
sas. After explanation by Messrs. Phil
lips and Cobb, the bill passed.
The tone of the Italian press toward
France has undergone marked change
within the last few months, having be
| come far more friendly than it was inl-
mediately after the Franco-German war.
The Italia, in particular, dwells with I'M
disguised satisfaction upon the friendly
relations now subsisting between the
two countries.
One of the most noticeable things in
the acknowledgements this morning OF
contributions to the Tribune Dollar Sub
scription for the relief of Kansas 9nd Ne
braska sufferers, is the list of names from
Charleston, South Carolina. The time
! is fresh in the memory of men yet young
when Charleston, South Carolina, sen t
messages of another kind to Kansas and
Nebraska.-N Y. Tribune.
At a cabinet meeting last Tuesday the
condition of affairs in Louisiana was the
subject of much discussion, though not
with view to giving any additional or.
ders or instruction to the United States
military authorities at New Orleans than
have been already issued for their guild
ance. The Administration is we'll salts
fed that Gen. Sheridan is in every way
competent to carry out the ideas of the
General Government. There is now I'M
derstood and contemplated an indorse-
ment of the report of the recent Return
ing Board, and of maintaining the au-
thority of the Legislature reported elect
ed by that Board.
In speaking of Gerritt Smiths religion
General Cochran says:
"He was not christian in the ortho-
dox view. He did not believe that
Christ was God, but he did believe that
he was the best of men, and he daily
prayed to his God. He had family pray
ers every morning. He would read a
chapter in the Bible. and kneel down
and pray with his family. Lately he
has repeated the chapter from the Bible
from memory. He would throw back
his patriarchal head, close his eyes, and
in that rich sonOrous voice for which he
was famous, report the words of divine
| wisdom"
at was the most solemn of scenes. As
he grew old he gave up the practice of
kneeling, and PRAYED sitting in his chair.
His one rule Of life was to do good To
Others, and this is certainly the funda-
mental principle of christianity"