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Tho second race was ;fino ono and created
considerable oscItoment, 1t hcicg wolf contested.
9. bryant. OF I.oiiisvillo, Ky., had a
ilne yon,R hay go1ding that, WITH tho work
shown hoto, promises t'oNn into the tNsntie4 be.
tho lead In cach selld on, bit ar ho warmed III
TO hts work, strode forward to sin, chilling forth
tho plaldita Of tho crowd. Tie nasBe was a160
for forsas that norcr trottcd llettor than 230,
tIiru = . ST. "Fr' "
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

canal has broken below the city and
swept FIVE thousand bushels of wheat
into the river. People living on the bot
tom lands are moving their families,
fearing IN inundation. At Ironton the
Ohio river is rising five inches per hour,
and also rising rapidly at Cincinnati,
where it has also invaded the lower sto-
ries of houses ON Water street and bids
fair to go o. high q ever known before.
A special to the same paper from New
Albany, Ind, says that trains on the
New Albany Il Chicago r. r. have been
taken off to-day. At Gosport the track
is covered by the food from White Riv.
er. q distance of three miles. A heavy
force of men is engaged trying TO pre-
vent the large railroad bridge from float
ing away. The White River at this
point is twelve feet higher than ever
known before. Trains south from Lafay-
cite 90 no further than Charlottesville as
the track is washed out in many places.
A special to the some paper from Athens
Ohio, says that at midnight the river at.
tanned a height of eight inches over high
est water ever known before. The gas
works are flooded and the people have
to return to candles. The people of the
asylum across the valley have built a
boat and ferry provisions over, all other
modes of communication being impossi-
BILE. No trains are running on any of the
roads and no mails have arrived since last
Saturday.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.

The South has put its foot down, and
will neither be c0axed nor driven into
making hard-money or soft-money the
main question in the next presidential
election. That's fixed fact.-CnarLcsto1
Ne,rs and Courier.
The New York Tribune infers that the
currency question will, after all, be the
one about which parties must reorganize
It is certainly the uppermost one al
present in national politics and in the
general public thought.-Portland Id
rertiser.
1t is but reasonable to suppose that
history will deal generously with Presi.
dent Grant, as it has with the majority
of his predecessors. Probably he will
not be shown up as man without faults
or entirely devoid of prejudice-but, by.
and-by, we shall begin to see that his
faults were but minor affairs when
weighed against the good things he has
done.-Albany Express.
Those who are continually talking
about the ''party lash" and the 'dictation
of party leaders," and prating of their in
dependence of any, and all parties. are
not to be relied on, and sooner or later
become thoroughly demoralized, having
the confidence ONO one.-Houston Tsras)
Telegraph.
Mr.. Delano is politically dead, and
nothing can save him. He is repudiated
by honest Republicans everywhere. and
Cabinet Ministers who have the conf.
dence of the country, treat him with
contempt. In the face of this he hangs
Cincinnati Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

Prominent actors in the history Of
our country are one-by one passing away
In the army and navy long list Of off
GERS who took leading and important
parts in the war of the rebellion are
gone. Among those who held high civil
positions that have passed away are Lin
coin, Steward, Sumner and Chase and
now Andrew johnson follows his prede.
cessors to the silent and unknown land
beyond the grave. At one time a very
bitter feeling against ex-President John.
son prevailed throughout large portion
of the country, but for years it has been
growing more kindly, and his return to
the U. s. Senate was hailed with salts.
faction by many of his former opponents.
Against his personal integrity not even
his enemies ever brought a charge, and
his death is generally looked upon as q
national loss.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

LAST Saturday, at Mansfield, Ohio,
Senator Thurman made q speech in
which he declared in favor of hard mon.
ey. He denied the charge that the ma
jority of the Democrats of Ohio are in
favor of imitation. He endeayored to
make his own position harmonic with
the State platform and the men who
stand upon it. That part of his speech
is good illustration of the fact that ne.
cessity is the mother of invention. The
Senator has made his financial opinions
ions too prominent to give them up in
obedience to the trainers of the State
platform, so it was necessary to interpret
it to suit his own views. The Senators
speech as relates to finance was a good
illustration of the slang phrase "too-
thin" If the Democratic platform of
Ohio favors anything it favors imitation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

stupendous system of pike roads, and
was beaten in consequence. In 1889,
with his usual pertinscity, he tried it
again and was sent to the Legislature.
In 1910 he had become conspicuous
enough to be on the Democratic ticket
As q presidential elector and fought
through the hard cider campaign on
the losing side. In 184l he was elected
Q State Senator and in 1913 he was sent
to Congress and remained there by sue
cessive elections till 1858. He does not
appear to have made q national reputa-
tion there, but he strengthened his hold
in Tennessee, for in 1858 he beat Gusta.
vus A. Henry, the eagle orator., for
Governor, and in 1855 he was reelected,
beating Meredith P. Gentry. In 1857
twenty-five years after he had started in
as alderman, he was elected to the
United States Senate for the full term of
six years."
Mr.. johnson was in the U. 8. Senate
at the breaking out Of the rebellion, and
the conspicuous part that he took in its
suppression is we'll known to all. He
had great power over his fellow men, and
his achievements prove him to have
been no ordinary man. Whether or no
he is entitled to be ranked among the
Statesmen of our country we don't think
it proper now to discuss. He had his
faults and made some sad and grevious
mistakes, but his jealous labors in behalf
of our government in its hour of greatest
need were such as deserve to be grateful
ly remembered.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

CHARLES NORDHoFF, some of whose
letters from Louisiana gave 80 much com.
fort to the Democrats, in writing about
the "Whits Leagues" of Louisiana,
says:
"They are gamblers and political bum.
mers; they drink whisky and swagger in
bar-rooms armed with revolvers and
knives, and it was for some years their
habit, when they needed excitement, to
shoot . Niger They are mainly the
descendants Of the overseer and negro
trader class in the South, and naturally
despise honest labor and take readily to
brute force. They have often sufficient
education to make q political harangue,
and they are q curse to the community,
1t was these wretches that
Sheridan called 'banditti.' To have
hung them by the dozen would have been
the first duty Of q good ruler in Louisi-
ana"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
THE INDIAN TERRITORY.

At the request Of large number Of
the Cherokee Indians Col. E. G. Boudi.
not addressed large assembly at Caddo,
on the 4th inst. His speech is said to
have been an impressive and eloquent
one. The following resolutions, embed.
wing the views of Col. Boudinot were
adopted at the close of the meeting:
l. That the U. S. courts should be es-
tablished in the Indian Territory, with
such jurisdiction - is authorized by
the treaty of 1866.
2. That We recognize the Grand Coun-
Gil which meets yearly at Okmulgee,
Creek Nation, as the legislative body for
the Territory granted by treaties of 1866
and that its power should be enlarged in
the manner provided in the treaties, and
we recommend the Superintendent of
Indian affairs to select some point on the
railroad as more convenient place for
holding its session hereafter.
3. As the treaties provide for a Dele
gate in Congress, We are in favor of such
legislation by Congress as will enable
the Indians to elect such a Delegate
whenever they be disposed to to 50.
4. The interests of all citizens of the
nation are the same, and we characterize
the attempt of any one to array the full
bloods against the mixed bloods and
white citizens of the nation as contemp-
tible and degrading, deserving the oppo.
sition of all true friends of the Indians.
That any legislation by Congress with
reference to this Territory should pro-
vide for prompt and equitable settle
ment of all just claims and demands
which each or any of the different tribes
to be effected by such legislation may
have against the United States.
6. That we protest against the settle
ment of any other Indians not belonging
to tribes already legally resident within
the limits of this Territory without first
the consent of the people
among whom they are to be located.
The people seem aroused to the neces-
sity of free expression of public opinion,
and are in earnest to secure the enforce
ment of their political and proper rights
under the treaties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The Secretary of the Interior, Delano,
is trying to clear himself of the odium
that naturally attached to him from the
charges of corruption among the Indian
agents made by Prof. Marsh. The Sec
Rotary says the statements made by the
Professor TO him were not the same as
are now embraced in his charges, and in
proof of this he brings forward one John
Easton. There has been great deal of
talk of late about Delano resigning. and
We think it would be we'll for him to
step down and out and let the President
appoint some man after the style of Bris-
tow.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The progress of the good work of re.
form has been impeded. if not entirely
checked, in the State of New York by 8
decision of the Court that the Frauds
Commission of that State has no power
to punish for contempt. and consequently
Mr.. H. D. Denison. of Syracuse. will
have to be discharged from custody
The Commission will carry the question
to the Court Of Appeals for final decis
ion. 1t is to be hoped that the decision
of the lower court may be reversed, and
that the exposure of rascality may con
tinue.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
STATE NEWS.

The old Ottawa Journal is to be revived.
The Cof1ey County fair begins Septem.
Der 18th.
Cowley county had ripe tomatoes on
the 10th inst.
Judge Lowe, Chief Justice of Utah, is
in this State on q visit.
The late big rain falls were not condu.
tive to big grain crops.
Five prisoners escaped from Fort
Leavenworth last Tuesday morning.
"Announcements" for county offices
are beginning to loom up in the papers.
The Brown County Fair will be held
at Hiawatha on the 9th and Sth Of Octo-
Der.
The Kansas exhibition at the Phila.
delphia Centennial is to be made by
counties.
Kansas is four hundred miles long from
east to west, and two hundred wide, from
north to south.
The baseball club from Quincy, Ill.,,
scooped the clubs at Atchison and Tope-
ka the first of the week.
Three offices wiped out in Leaven-
worth county because the population
falls below certain number.
Kansas has three papers with lady con-
ductors, and they are among the most
prosperous journals in the State.
A Leavenworth fellow named Slime,
who started out to destroy the churches,
is now in Jail for stealing chickens.
Ex-senator Schurz will return to this
country in October. He is soon to
write political history of America.
Potatoes weighing pound apiece (by
the bushel too) are reported by the Par.
sons Sun, as having been raised in that
vicinity.
A fiat boat will soon leave Arkansas
City loaded with wheat for the New Or
leans market. This is another move for
cheap transportation.
Mrs. Judd, on Rock creek in Chase
county, has two and half acres of corn
that, it is claimed, will yield two hun
dred and fifty bushels.
1t is significant fact that Barnum's
stray balloon has not yet been discovered
in any part of Kansas. Every other
state has had it two or three times, but
Kansas is always last.
The Girard Presssays: Mrs. Fichtner
raised eight bushels of onions on patch
of ground eight and half feet vide and
thirty-five feet long, the largest of which
weighed pound. Who can beat thatf
In Crawford county there will be cleo
ted this Fall "a officers, from representa-
tive down to township clerk. Besides
these there will be about IS road over
seers. This will give aspirants chance.
The heaviest yield of wheat the Bur.
lingame Chronicle has heard of is that Of
Alex. May, living on Salt creek. He
threshed, few days ago, crop of three
acres, which yielded him 1872 bushels of
clean, plump grain. on an average of A
bushels per acre.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The recognition of the Cuban Govern.
ment is again being talked Of The Gu
bans have for long time kept up what
they call war for independence, and the
Spanish Government has been using just
force enough for its suppression to keep
up a continued sacrifice of life and prop
erty. The best portions of that once pro-
ductive island are now barren. For
eight years a most cruel and inhuman
war-especially on the part of the Span.
iards-has been in progress, and surely
it is time tor other. nations to interfere
and put an end. to it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
THE FLOODS.

The heavy rains The latter part of last
and the first of this week destroyed an
immense amount of property in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and a portion
of Iowa. We publish below dispatches
from these States giving some idea OF the
immense damage done to property:
CINCINNATI, August "A special to
the Times from Athens, o., says the
Hooking valley is completely submerged
and the rise within three inches of the
highest known, crops are total loss and
the reports of other los es are constantly
coming in. No trains on the Hooking
Valley road to-day. The water is over
the track of the Marietta and Cincinnati
road below town, where two trains are
blockaded-one q passenger train, filled
with people, stood completely isolated
for some time. The loss at the Salina
salt mines will be heavy. One bridge on
the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad,
west of here, has gone down. The heavy
bridges are standing the strain we'll.
I" Reports from all parts of Ohio to night
south of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago railroad, confirm the accounts
heretofore given in these dispatches, of
loss and damage by floods. 1t is thought
by tomorrow, or Wednesday at the
fartherest, most of the smaller streams
will commence falling. The Ohio and
Mississippi and Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton roads are reported unbroken.
A slight break was reported in the Indi-
annapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette near
North Bend, which has been repaired.
No trouble is reported yet upon roads in
Kentucky.
IND1ANAPoLIs, Aug. 2.-The contin-
ued rain storm since Saturday night has
been very. damaging to railroads west
and south of this pOirt. The White river
has continued to rise slowly since Friday
evening, and is now fully as high as the
flood OF 1858. IndianOla, on the west
side of the river is all atoat. An i'm.
mense amount of damage has been done
to property on the west side of the city,
and in the bateau lands along White
river. The Vincennes railroad has suf.
fered severely in the neighborhood of
Martinsville. The track is submerged
for miles between that city and Gasport.
The Vandalia suffered the loss of the new
iron bridge near Cartersburg; one end of
the bridge at Amos also being lowered
and the truck considerably damaged at
several points.
CHICAGO, Aug. 2.-Specials this morn
ing report that heavy and damaging rains
prevailed in Central and Northern Hin.
ois and q portion of Iowa during the past
forty-eight hours. Crops are almost en-
tirely destroyed in some of the low lands
sections, and even high lands have suf-
fered to a great extent. Railroads have
been washed out at some points, but no
very serious accidents are reported yet.
Troy, NO., August 2.-The streams
in hiscounty were higher yesterday than
ever known before. The Quivere river
opposite this place being nearly two
miles wide, and reaching two feet higher
than high water mark of 1923. Much
damage is done the farms, in some cases
the crops being entirely destroyed, and
stock drowned.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 3.-The Illness spe-
cial from Chillicothe says the rain con-
tinues and the flood gains strength. The
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

TIE annual meeting Of the State
Teachers Association will bel held at
Topeka, August Oath, 18th, 18th and
9th. Hotel accommodations will be
furnished to members attending at from
one to two dollars per day. Papers will
be read and addresses be made by a num-
Der of prominent teachers and expert
enced laborers in the cause of education.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

CARL SHURz, who is now in Europe
but will return to this country in OctO-
Der, has spent much of his time lately in
the examination ofdiplomatic correspon-
dence affecting the infancy of the United
States. He is preparing for his contem-
plated political history of the United
States, which work will doubtless be
of much advantage to the political and
Historical literature of our country.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

On the morning of the 4th inst. fear
full storm of wind, rain and hail passed
over Omaha. Great damage was done to
standing crops, and thousands of panes
of glass were broken; plate glass five
eighths of an inch thick was shattered.
Some of the stones are reported to have
weighed from one pound to one pound
and half. The storm was the heaviest
from Sioux City to Brownsville, Neb.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

In Pennsylvania and Massachusetts,
the Democrats clamor for protection for
home Industries, while in the West they
make an equally loud demand for free
trade. Seldom. if ever, in the history of
tie country has the Democratic party in
q campaign so near the Presidential con-
test been SO divided.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The Constitutional Convention ofMis-
souri, has closed its labcrs, the members
have COVE to their homes and their work
is nov before the people for discussion.
So far but few papers have spoken in
favor of the new Constitution, and the
Republican and many Democratic jour
mails denounce it most bitterly.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

FROM the present activity of teachers
and promoters OF education, this depart
ment will be second to none in value and
general interest at the Centennial. The
display of school books and apparatus
from this country at Vienna was such as
generally surprised the Europeans. A
full representation in this department
will be of great value to our people. and
the indications are that it will be made.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
Postal News.

Post-office changes in Kansas during
the week ending July 8, 1875. Furnish
ed by VIM. Van Week, of the Postofice
Department:
POsT.OFFICEs EsrABLIsHED-Aur0r
Jewell county, Francis NJ Jim; Cabin
Valley, Cowley county, Mrs. Emily J.
Cayton ; Jeddo. Allen County, John ].
Chamberlin; Plum Grove, Butler coun.
ty, VIM. G. Holden.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Washing.
ton county,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

THE Junction City Union favors max
ing the question of herd law the issue
in Davis county this fall. In a contest
of that kind it would of course be neces.
sary to lay politics aside. If the people
of a county believe that grain raising il
more profitable than stock raising herd
law is the proper thing for them.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

UNDER the late postal laws or agree
ment between this country and Canada,
which went into effect the first of this
month, money orders not exceeding fifty
dollars can be exchanged between the
two countries.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The mortality among children in the
City of New York during the month of
July is estimated at two per cent. of all
the children under five years Of age.
The greatest fatality was among the
Germana
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

Great curiosity was felt in Washington
circles to see Treasurer News autograph.
Several of the clerks found 1t ON each Of
their desks the other morning, with . po-
lite note, and then they didn't like it 90
we'll.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

There will be Q meeting Of the Republican Cen
tral Committee Of Allen County at Lola, Saturday
August 2lst, 1875, 1t O'Clock P. n. full At
tendance Of all the members 10 desired.
W. G. ALLISON, Chairman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07

The returns from the election in Ken
lucky last Monday have come in 50 Glow.
ly that the Democratic majority is not
vet known.
Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-07-22

EN-coNdREssMAN LoFLAND FOLLOWING THE FIXES
IpEsT-HE rs PRESUMED TO GET NO coNFoRr-
sE' RETAAY BRIsrow DESIRES NO CHANGE.
Although it was pretty we'll settled, a week
ago, that the President, feeling that he had been
deceived in the representations which were made
to him concerning U. s. Collector PrettymAn and
Marslal Dunn, has decided not to remove them,
and that Secretary Bristow and Attorney Gener-
al Pierrepont strongly advised their retention,
still, as report goes, efforts we're made to infu-
ence the President against them. Letters were
collected from several OF those in Kent and Sus-
sex most unfriendly to DR.. Prettyman, urging his
removal and on Friday night ex-Congressman
Lofand, with his pockets well filled with such
documents this the politicians report-csme up
on tlIn mixed train from down the State, on his
way , interview the President, at Long Branch.
Where the Honorable James has been since
Friday night, report does not precisely state. 1t
ia pI .aumel that he missed the Presidapt lVAo
ing and went at once to Cape May with pr1-
waite party on the cutter Hamilton,) and had to
wait till he returned to Long Branch, on Tues
day: Probably Mr.. Lohand was enjoying the ,
and waiting with what patience he
might, i'll the goodly company Of j" Boss v
Shepherd. At any rate. last evening, he went
South on the Delaware train, no doubt wiser
and apparently sadder man. The President
they say, was not to be influenced either by his
eloquence or his letters, Deputy Collector
Isaac J. jenkins, interested, no doubt in the ra-
suit OF his visit by the sounding sea, went down
and interview ed Mr.. Lohand, while the train
paused at the depot, but representative OF the
COMMERCIAL was panied to see that tie meeting
was dull ahd disconsolate.
It may be added that Collector Prettyman Ia
assured. in the most authoritative manner, that
Secretary Bristow endorses him as an officer OF
the revenue, and would entirely dissprove any
effort for his displacement.