The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-26
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

Charles OConor wears the worst hat
in New York.
Ben Butler is going into the manufac-
ture Of stockings.
The Chicago Public Library now num-
bers 10000 volumes.
Mrs. Tilton is going to commence pro-
ceedings for divorce.
Does it follow that the law is cheap
because it is had at cost?
The session of the italian Chamber Of
Deputies has been prorogued.
Gen. Shields is about to commence the
practice of law in Kansas City.
The New York banks hold 81, 900, 600
less specie than this time last year.
Ex-senator Harlan is going to build a
big livery stable at Mount Pleasant Iowa.
The members of the Commission to
the Sioux are to receive 50 per day and
expenses.
The New York Tribune says that up to
this time the presidential election Of 1876
is "anybody's race"
Tennessee bonds are below fifty cents
and the treasury has no money to pay
the July interest with.
Somebody said the nomination of "Old
Bill Allen" in Ohio, "wOuld raise an
earthquake"-andi it did.
Mary Jane Boyer wants the Indianap-
oils Sentinel to pay her SIC, 900 for saying
that she had Spotted reputation"
The best t:aing we will have to exhibit
at the Centennial Exposition will be a
happy and united Philadelphia
Press.
The Old Guard, of New York, a COM
pany which took part in the Bunker
Hill Centennial, carried flag valued at
$1,000.
Robert T. Lincoln, of Chicago, has
been appointed guardian of his mothers
estate, she being insane, under bond of
$3.50, 1000.
Five thousand couple attended the
at Kansas City on Sunday.
Sixty barrels of beer were absorbed at
the pic mic.
journalistic statistics show that during
last year the sum of at least $4,000, 900
was lost in newspaper enterprises in the
United States.
At Mankato, MIMI, they dug a
trench and buried IL, 900 bushels of grass
hoppers on the graves of the Indians ex-
ecuted there in 1862.
The st. Louis Times says that William
Tueton, former boy of that city, is now
in Australia, and is reported to be worth
I've millions Of dollars.
Some people are prophesying all sorts
Of calamities and hard times this season.
They are the ones that think Heaven is
not just as it should be.
The Nation believes that "the Repub-
leans of Ohio have reason to hope for a
victory in consequence of Democratic
and corruption"
The quantity of iron to be used in the
of the Centennial Buildings
will aggregate about six thousand tons,
# which more than tive-sixths will be
The published report of the Texas
investigating committee
ully sustains the charges of cruel and
punishment Of convicts in va
ious forms.
A terrible drouth is prevailing through
ONE portions of Central New York,
which threatens to cut down the grass
ully one-half, and to very greatly dam
ge other cereals should it continue
much longer.
The recovery OF editor Carruth, of the
vineland Independent, from the effects of
he pistol wound in his head, is pro- |
Ounced q great triumph for homeopathy,
e having been under the charge of ply
icians of that school.
Dark blue is the color of the new five
ent stamp, and the contractors are
rdered to commence printing them at
nee. The Department is now prepared
0 receive and fill all acquisitions of
ostmasters for these stamps.
Scotland is going to bridge the Firth
f Forth with the largest bridge in the
orld. 1t will cost S10,000,000; have
DO spans, $50 feet long, with the excep-
on of the center one, which will be
600 feet long, or nearly one-third of a
Tile.
Has it occurred to the Prohibitionists
lat Henry Wilson for President and
Colfax for Vice President
ould make them a strong ticket for
,76? Both are cold water men, and
elieve in putting whisky and things I'M
sr the ban of the lay.-Cincinnati Com
erciai.
The terrible depression in the iron
ade is Strengthening the English Capt.
lists numerically. Probably there are 7
veral hundred millions of dollars in
lived in this matter, directly and in
rectly, and the end is not yet. The
feet will reach tens of thousands of
orking people and cause great distress.
The Independent voter may be left to
ke care Of himself without special
ct nurse. If he pinned his political
it'll on any of these new nOndescript
gans he would be as servile as when he Y
lowed them as organs of the Republi-
n party. Independence in politics con-
its in following ones own judgment.
is as abject to be guided by on organ
to accept the dictation of a party.-M
Herald.
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