The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

A mineral spring has been discovered
in Nemaha county.
They think they want Moody and San
key in Washington.
Nebraska last year planted over L..
O00, 900 forest trees.
The Government has ordered the sale
of 81, 900 gold this month.
The Centennial Board of Finance want
another million of dollars.
The harvest prospects are Frightening
in England while ours fade.
The population of Rhode Island hal
increased "a, l67 since 1865.
A jaw three feet long has been un
earthed at Goshen, Indiana.
Ohio once had a Democratic Treasurer.
Result: Treasury short 1858, 900.
The potato crop of Minnesota will be
the best and largest for many years.
There is talk at Washington of abol.
ishing the Office ofSupervising Architect
Prof. Huxley il of tall stature, but
bears unmistakable traces of hard work
William P. Ross, principal Chief of the
Indian Territory, has not been assassin.
ated.
A new quarterly review, to be called
The Mind, will be started in London in
October.
The Prohibition party of Pennsylvania
expect to poll $1,000 votes at the coming
election.
It is reported that Robert Bonner has
bought q controlling interest in the New
York Tribune
The present Pope of Rome is eighty.
four years old, and is in the thirtieth
year Of his Papacy.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Committee has issued an address to the
voters of the State.
The French National Assembly has
voted Is, 0O0, 900 francs for the supplement.
tary war expenses.
Fifty cotton mills have been closed in
Ashton, England, and 5000 operatives
thrown out of employment.
It seems to be conceded that the
Southern delegation to Congress will
name the Speaker of the House.
The Turkish Government has issued q
decree authorizing q free circulation OF
the Bible throughout the Empire.
More than two million dollars worth
of cattle have been stolen from Texas by
Mexican raiders since January LIST.
Secretary Robson is a good deal talked
of in New Jersey for United States Sen
ator in place of Mr.. Frelinghuysen.
Under Democratic management, Gin
cinnati is in the worst financial condi-
ton of any city in the State.-Toledo
Blade.
The Maryland Democrats having de-
clared for hard money, it is the imitation
lists turn to take charge of the next con-
vention.
Complaints have been made to the
Treasury that the fractional currency is
becoming scarce. More so cent notes
will be printed.
The Government majority of the Aus
tralian Parliament has been reduced to
one, and change of the ministry is ex-
pected in consequence.
Gen. Spinner's father was q German
priest, and his mother q German nun.
Love settled it, and they came to this
country and got married.
Disestablishment is proposed in Japan.
The Progressive party demand that the
funds which now sustain Buddhism be
diverted to educational purposes.
Alabama farmers talk of making the
best crops this year that they will have
had since 1860. Corn promises an unus-
ual yield, and cotton is excellent.
Crooked whisky still continues to turn
up in different parts of the country, and
the whisky war is yet waged upon the
guilty parties who have been engaged in
the frauds.
Quite recently nineteen American
horses were sold in Liverpool at . good
price, thus marking, perhaps, the COM
mencement of . new trade between Eng
land and America.
Mrs. futile, who has been teaching
school at the Quapaw Mission, in the
Indian Territory, says that Modoc chill
dren excel those of any other tribe in &C.
quiring knowledge.
The heavy rains in Ohio have in many
places washed the wheat and oat crops
entirely away. The streams are full Of
floating grain. The loss is frightful. and
extends all over the State.
Chinese emigration to California is
pouring in at an unprecedented rate.
Ships and steamers are bringing from 400
to 900 every trip, according to accommo-
dations which are all taken.
The Winnebago Indians are becoming
rapidly civilized. One of them killed his
sauaw the other day, out of jealousy, and
then committed suicide. A white man
could not have done better.
The Jepish Messenger says that some
Israelites in Rome are discussing the feas-
ability of erecting q rabbinical seminary
in that city, and the indications are that
soon, in the vicinity of the Vatican, al
college of Jewish ministers will be estab-
ished.
The startling discovery has been made
by q section of Tammanv, that profess |
sional gamblers and law-breakers are not
fit leaders of the Democracy" the result
being a request to Mr.. John Morrissey to
'step out" What is to become of the |
party?
Gold discoveries reported by Profs.