The Iola register., 1875-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

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Ralph Waldo Emmerson is seventy two
years old.
The Beecher trial began on the fourth
Of January.
Judge Dillon sailed for Europe on the
26th Of May.
The history ofthe Missouri newspapers
is to be written up.
Vienna and its suburbs las q popula-
ton of about 81, zoos
The Japanese recently celebrated the
2535th anniversary of their national ex-
istence.
immigration from Ireland into this
country last year was II, ,21S less than in
in 1873.
There is said to be over 10000 alliga-
tor skins tanned in this country annu-
ally.
The International Typographical Un-
ion is to have an annual session at BOs-
ton this month.
The table on which Pemberton signed
the capitulstion of Vicksburg, is doing
duty in beer saloon.
The Commissioner of Pensions will re-
trench by discharging thirty clerks on
the 30th of this month.
The physicians say that Boss Tweed is
suffering either from heart disease or an
affection of the kidneys.
An island, eight acres in extent, is
said to have suddenly appeared in the
Mississippi river, at Pass-a-POutre.
The Postmaster General is string up
the Pacific mail contract system, and
some of the contractors will probably suf:
fer.
A meeting of the Emperors of Austria,
Germany and Russia has been finally de.
cided on, and will probably take place al
Ems.
1t cost the taxpayers of Massachusetts,
81, 100 for banquet to the President and
party, forty in all, or more than $27 per
plate.
Mai. Gen. Irwin Mcdowell, command
ing the Military Division of the South,
will spend the summer at Frontenac,
MINI.
John v. Farwell, the rich dry goods
merchant of Chicago, has gone to London
to join the great revivalists, Moody and
Sankey,
The Mormon Temple, at st. George
Utah, is nearly completed. Over six
hundred laborers are employed on the
structure.
Major Harboard has been dismissed
from the British army for cheating at
cards. The army regulations insist on a
square game.
1t is announced that President Grant
and Governor Tilden will attend the ap-
preaching Commencement exercises of
Cornell University.
Attorney General Pierrepont has is
sued strict orders for economy in the
conduct of the United States Courts, in
order to make both ends meet
Between the months Of May and Octo-
Der, last year, 1850 Russian convicts
were banished to Siberia, and 2, ,349 wom-
en- and children accompanied the exiles.
The Indian population of the United
States does not exceed perhaps 300, 900.
This includes men, women and children.
These Indians are grouped by tribes upon
reservations.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says
the Russian Government will await the
replies of the several States to its com.
munication in relation to the conference
upon the usages of war.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
structed the Assistant Treasurer of the
United States at New York to sell $780,.
900 in gold each Thursday during June.
Total amount to be sold, $2,OOO,OOO.
The next State election will be in
Kentucky in August then follows Maine
in September; California, Colorado New
Mexico and Wyoming in September and
October then comes the November cleo
tions.
Osaka is the city of churches in Japan.
It has population of three hundred and
thirty thousand, and for the religious &C.
commodation of this number of inhabi-
tants, it has over nineteen hundred places
of worship,