The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-19

The reutels of pews in Plymouth
church Brooklyn amounted to 81, l6s.
F. W. Palmer, ex-member of Congress
from Iowa, has been appointed one Of the
Commissioners to tpeat with the Sioux.
Dispatches from various points in
Maine, Newhampshire and Connecticut
indicate heavy frost last Sunday night.
aud considerable damage to crops.
The headquarters Of the National
Grange of the Patrons of Hasbandry will
probably be removed from Washington
to Louisville, KY, in short time.
The Interior Department has very
wisely postponed the sale of Kansas land
indefinitely because Of the Strengthened
condition of finance in this State.
Hayti is having two costly gunboats
constructed at Philadelphia, and several
more are nearly ready in New York.
The Salt Lake Mining Gazette esti-
mates the gold and silver production of
the States and Territories during the
past twenty-six years at 1850, $50. 4S5.
Reports from New Jersey say that the
heavist frost known for many years at
this season, occurred last Sunday night,
and the damage done to growing crops Is
great. 1T
w. w. Corcoran and others, of Wash
ington, have furnished the silver set they
gave Baron Gerolt BY paying only g, geo
for it and being sued for another 500
on it.
A schedule of the assets and liabilities
of Abraham jackson, the Boston lawyer
charged with being . defaultef, shows
his liabilities to be e417 ,42O and assets
$151, 61S.
A Prohibitory State Convention has
been called, to meet at Des Moines June
%, to decide whether to form prohibit
tory party or combine with one of the
present parties.
The Treasury Department has decided
that tobacco scraps are subject to duty
at the rate of 80 per cent I'D yalorem, un.
der the provisions of the tarifffor unman-
ufactured tobacco.
Chief Justice Cockburn, in inaugura-
ting an Art Expedition at Southampton,
spoke of the study of art as necessary to
complete the culture opened to the hu-
man mind by literature.
Money Order rates after the LIST ofJuly
will be rs follows: up 10 $l5, fee ten
cents; from $l5, tn $50, fifteen cents
from $50, to $40, twenty cents: from $40
to $50, twenty-five cents.
An order has been issued from the I'm
perial Chancellery prohibiting the circu-
istiou of the Catholic Gazette, of Balti-
more, for two years, within the bounda-
ries of the German Empire.
Victor Emanuel has been petitioned
to exempt priests from serving in the
army and teaching school. The petition
ers request that the sacred ministers be
left exclusively in charge ofthe churches.
The kind of literature that pleases the
Parisians is MacMahon's reviews. Thirty
six thousand troops were inspected by
him the othey day. Such holiday rec
reations make Bismarck bite his NOUS
tache.
The King of Spain has, by royal de-
cree, created a junta of ladies, whose mis-
sion will consist in aiding the authorities
in the hospital service. The Princess of
the Asturias is appointed President of the
new body,
Congressman Shanks is overhauling
the accounts of the Indian Agents at the
Kiowa and Comanche and the Wichita
and it is rumored that in con-
sequence thereof the chief clerks of said
agencies have been rendered unhappy.
The gold diggings at Cape Coast, AT.
RIGA, are turning out immense quantities
of the precious metal. The last shipment,
valued at more than quarter of mill
ion, lately arrived in England. Some of
the nuggets weighed over nine pounds.
News has been received at Havana, by
way of St. Thomas, of terrible earth
quake in New Grenada. The destruction
was great in the Valley of Cucula, on
the Venezuelan frontier. 1t is reported
that $1,000 lives were destroyed by the
calamity.
At the end of the first week of its ex-
istence, the Sedalia Republican says
"A weeks work dOne-thank God" A
number of his brother editors have quite
q curiosity to read what the editor of
this new paper will say at the end Of his
second week.
A recent examination of the Treasury
records of the expenditures made under
the treaties made with foreign powers
shows that the United States Government
since its foundation, had paid to Mexico
for various claims an aggregate sum OF
s4O, 100000
The Spanish Government officially de- |
clares that from the present time the |
electoral period is open, and that conse- |
luently the press is entitled to discuss |
ali constitutional questions, on condition |
that it does not attack the monarchial
principle and the representative system.
The James boys are creating much |
in Liberty county, Mo.
Mr.. Samuel Hardwick, who is suspected |
by them As being Pinkerton's detective,
has felt obliged to gbandon his farm aud |
move to town. He goes from his house |
10 his Office armed with two revolvers, q |
and . shotgun. The "boys"
we're seen in Liberty on last Monday.
The result Of the inquiry ordered by |
Non Tovrv into kha an rrro, vno1a h., |