The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS,

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Barnum is going togive Linda Gilbert
the prison reformer, benefit.
Tsaetine, son of Prince Chun, has been
pronounced Emperor of China.
An Englishman in Cleveland is going
to start oyster beds in Lake Erie.
The Illinois Legislature has passed a
bill allowing women to become nOtaries
public.
A Brooklyn sinner says that Wilson's
sickness is nothing but repressed bad
temper.
/ A dispatch from Cairo says that the
country of DarfouT has been annexed to
Egypt.
The rules respecting the carriage Of
petroleum and cotton on steamboats, are
promulgated.
Women bid fair to be the poets of the
future. They write good share of the
readable verses of to-day.
Gen. Butler '.got even" with Mr.. Young
Brown. The latter might as well try to
fight threshing machine.
The private library of the late ex-Pres-
ident Walker. bequeathed to Harvard
College is valued at $4,000.
1t is is claimed that no decent woman
can be a member of the Washington lob
by. What about the men?
The Rev. DIR. DeKOven, of Racine
College has been elected Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Illi-
nOis.
The British steamers George Batlers,
for Gibraltar from London, Is supposed
to be lost, with twenty-One persons on
board.
The Committee on Vice and Immorali-
,y, of the Pennsylvania Legislature, will
report in favor Of tie repeal " local
option.
A petition signed by the representative
men of Salt Lake is in circulation, ask
ing the establishment of branch mint
at that city.
Yale has turned cut two hundred
Congressman. There must be much in
its system of education that needs to be
investigated.
Rev. Leighton Coleman has formally
declined the Episcopate Of the Northen
Wisconsin Diocese, to which lie was
recently elected.
Nothing. however venerable, is; safe
from assault in Kansas. The MAMA
Republican deuounces The grUundLOs as
fraud.
Mr. Dawes says unless the House
passes the tariff bill the Treasury will
fail to meet its demands, and an extra
session of Congress will be necessary.
The Nebraska Legislature has voted
$4,000 for the purchase nj seed etc, FOR
the grasshopper sufferers ia Nebraska. A
Board Of Distribution has Leen apPaiMtsJ
ed. 800 sd
The Connecticut Democratic State coneI
vention organized At iierti,rd d; Iu4pi
day, and rsnominateI, by acclanation,
the old ticket, healed b. Gov. Charles
Il. lngersull.
The funeral of the late Senator Buck
inghan, ut Connecticut, w.ls !a-gly atten.
died by official delegates from both
HOUSES of Congress, The State Legie..a-
ture, AID by private citi:cns.
A resolution thanking Congressman
Brown, of kentacky, l,r his defense If
the South and his denunciation OF Mr.. !
Butler was introduced in tie North
Carolina House of Representative US
terday.
The Bishop o.' :5trasburg having issued
4 charge To hi. Clergy in which he alleges
that the Church i, prosecuted, the Ger
man authorities have siezed tie copies
and forbidden the PRONUNCIATION Of the
document.
Gov C.,..Iplwli, of Wyoming, has been
Uttered AMI will accept the position of
Third Assistant Secretary Of State. He
WAS selected by the President and Secre-
,ary Fish. without lis OWE suggestion or
that of any of his friends. He will enter
On his duties of the LIST of March.
Re-. Father Bvrne, president of the
Catholic Total Abstenance Union of
america, at New York has written a
letter advising that the organization
should not take part il the parades of st.
Patrick's day partly on the ground of
excessive expense and PARTLY for the
reason that the parades detract from
religious associations of the day.
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