The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-07-10

There is more money and less hard
ship in good corn-field than there is in
the whole Black Hills.
Sir Charles Dixie is coming to Ameri.
ca to learn Republicanism.: Wherein he
shows admirable sense.
The Bostonians have decided that
Pomeroy, the boy-fiend, must die on the
gallows. A wholesome decision.
The grand jury of the July term of
the Criminal Court, of Chicago, consists
of eight negroes and sixteen white men.
Reports from the various cotton-grow-
ing Districts Of the South represent the
cotton crop to be 10 first rate condition.
The University Of Pennsylvania has
received during the past year gifts
amounting to more than million of dol
lars.
Subscriptions for the memorial to
LORD Byron in England are coming in
rapidly. A large sum is expected to be
raised.
The subscription list opened by Presi-
dent MacMahOn for the sufferers in the
Valley of the Garonne now foots up
$3.50, 1000.
A Michigan editor has been sent to
the penitentisry for year and half,
and it wasn't for publishing base ball
items, either.
There are four parties in the field in
California: Republican, Democratic
Peoples Independent Reform, and Tenn
perance Reform.
The sailors of Milwaukee refuse to
ship for the price offered in the grain
trade, being $l.5O to LIS per day, and
are on a strike for 50.
The suspension of the South Carolina
Bank and Trust Company, of Columbia
is announced. The State Deposits
amount to about 100000.
Henry Thompson, of Iowa, the man
who married his stepdaughter, has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment
under the laws of that state.
The indianapolis papers publish a ru.
NOR that Robert Dale Owen has gone
crazy over spiritualism, and has been
taken to his sons in Indiana.
The New York Times contains an mp
and-up statement of the Beecher case in
two columns, which covers all the
ground from beginning to end.
1t is reported that there is a prospect
of the Northern Pacific railroad being
set on its feet again, SO as to secure the
interests of all parties concerned.
Last year the arrival of immigrants in
Canada were 1000 in round numbers,
of which 10000 remained, the other
Al, 900 coming across the border.
1t is asserted that New York cat has
been taught to play on the piano by
note. This is simply a diversion of the
talent residing in the musical cat-gut.
Tweed has failed in his endeavor to in
fuence the Judge to quash the in
dictments against him, and must now
expect to be CD trial for the rest of his
life.
Minnesota too, looks forward to pros
porous times. No year, says the local
papers, has there been such a bredth of
grain sown as this, and never did wheat
look better than at present.
There are contradictory reports from
the Black Hills concerning the prospect
for gold there. One side says there is
abundance of the precious metals; the
other that there is but little.
Vice-President Wilson will spend the
Summer at Saratoga, where he will de-
vote himself to drinking the waters and
writing on his history of tie "Rise and
Fall of the Slave Power in America"
The Assistant Treasurer at New York,
has been instructed to sell $4,000, 900 of
gold during this month. If the present
premium of. II per cent. continues, the
government will receive $3.50, 600 in
greenbacks as premium.
Cortina has been arrested and placed
under guard by Col. Manuel Parrat, of
the Mexican regular cavalry. Cortina's
police have been arrested, disarmed, and
imprisoned. There is greal excitement
in Matamoras, and trouble is anticipated.
1t seems that the Shah of Persia was
somewhat bettered by his visit to Eng
land. He has begun paying his debts.
has chastised his subOrdinates for malad-
ministration, and has granted the right
of petition to his subjects. The world
moves.
The Baltimore Gazette, a Democratic
paper, finds Gov. Allen of Ohio, worth
lust about this much powder: "Gov.
Allen is not the man the people took
him to be, and as far as Presidential as
pirations are concerned, he is not the
man he took himself to be-"
The Nationil Council has voted q, 900
francs to defray the expenses of the
proper representation of Swiss products
and industries at the Philadelphia Cen
tennial Exhibition. Of the larger Eu-
ropean States, Russia is the only one
which has declined to encourage partici-
patton in the exhibition.
The spirit of re emerges free. its
chains of malice and hatred broken, and
bids us come to Philadelphia, and as one
free, and equal and independent people,
unite in the grand celebration. We are,
from the lights now before US, heartily
in favor of accepting the invitation and
cordially NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. (Ala.)
Times.
Speaking of the prospects of trade, the
New York Express says, the impression
grows stronger day by day that we have
not only reached, but passsd the turning
point, and the future is likely to bring
with it general improvement through.
out the country. 1t is sincerely hoped
that these favorable declarations and an