The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-05-22
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.


Judge Dillon will sail for Europe on
the 18th inst.
The Catholic cathedral in Boston has
cost 50 far 81, 100000. :
Peterborough, Mass, is prospecting for
gold ore in its neighborhO0d.
The Texas Republicans will hold their
State Convention on the 18th inst.
California horses are being slaughtered
by the hundred. Cause: CHAMBERS.
Buffalo Bill gave tone to the Beecher
trial one day recently by attending.
And now Mr.. Secretary of State Fish
is TO retire on the 3Oth of June next.
TIE recent conAagration in Pessawar,
India, leaves $1,000 people homeless.
Pope Plus TX. is eighty years old, and
promises to live another quarter century.
Louisiana will raise 200, 900 barrels Of
rice this season or twice as much as last
year.
The captive Indians left Fort Leaven-
worth for St. Augustine, Florida, on
Monday.
The Indiana State Editorial Conven-
ton meets June 10th and 18th at Indi-
annapolis.
Humans distillery at Terre Haute,
Indiana, recently closed is the third
largest in the world.
The rates by the present Atlantic Ca
BILE were reduced to fifty cents word on
the first of this month.
James Beck, of Kentucky, is a candi-
date for the United States Senate on q
pure imitation platform.
"Old Abe" the famous war eagle of
the Eighth Wisconsin, attended the SOL
diers' reunion at Chicago.
A society has recently been formed in
England to bring about the suppression
of the opium trade in China.
The main Centennial building is to be
of white granite, the lightest cOlored to
be procured in this country.
Gov. c. H. Brogden of North Carolina,
is very anxious that his State shall take
an active part in the centennial.
The consolidation of the well-known
Boston magazine, Old and New. with
Scribner's Monthly has been effected.
Jesse D. Bright, ex-senator from Indi-
ana, is lying at the point of death in Bal.
timOre from rheumatism OF the heart.
1t il said that Edwin Stanton, son of
the War Secretary, is to be PierrepOnt's
assistant in the Attorney Generals office.
The James farm, in Clay county, Mis-
souri,, is offered for sale. 1t has been ia
nous for raising big crops-of murderers.
Five new National banks were autho-
rized to commence business in various
parts of New England on the 18th inst.
Ex-President Theirs attained his 10Th
year ON the 18th ult. The occasion was
celebrated by dinner and a private re-
union.
The cattle trade of Texas is extending
so rapidly that the practice of killing for
hides and tallow, it is tt ought, will soon
be abandoned.
1t is thought that the suppression of
prize-fghting in England has lead to an
increase of wife-beating. A man must
pound somebody.
Hon. Daniel D. Pratt, the new COM
missioner of Internal Revenue, says his
hour of commencing business is five
o'clock in the morning.
The British Admiralty is directing at
tention to the importance of affording
means whereby all seamen in the service
may be taught to swim.
The Maine Republican thinks it their
duty to carry the State this year by
majority larger than usual. And Mr..
Blaine expects they will do it.
The Hon. Schuyler Colfrx has informed
a reporter of the South Bend Tribune that
his receipts the present lecture season
have aggregated over $4,000.
A dispatch from Salem, Or, says:
Gov. Glover will call a special election
October %, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Congressman LaDow.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
remarks: The whisky investigation, it
seems, began in st. Louis with one Col
oney. 1t will end, probably with several
settlements.
The fifty.ninth anniversary of the
American Bible society was held at Far
well hall, Chicago. on Tuesday night,
President VIM. H. Allen was in the chair.
Several addresses were delivered.
A bill for the introduction of the bal
lot and woman's suffrage into the Isle of
Man has been read before the Manx Leg
islature. 1t is expected, however, that
the proposal will meet with much oppo-
sition.
The investigation into the operations
of the so-called silk conspirators show
that of the silk placed upon the market
in New York the government was de-
prived of revenue to the amount of
81, 100000.
The fifty-first anniversary of the Amer
lean Sunday Schools was celebrated on
Tuesday evening at the Academy Of
Music, New York. Addresses were made
by Rev. DR.. Hunt Robinson, of Louis
vile, and others.
The Prince OF Wales, according to Col.