The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-04-29
GENERAL NEWS.

. The Irish rife team will sail for ia
United States in August.
'aCosntry cousins" are already invad
ing PbAadelphia in droves.
Australia exported iu 1875, gold dus
to The amount of $l5 1888, SIS.
The Black Hills fever promises to reviv
the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Counterfeit American FIVE dollar gold
pieces have appeared in France.
. There are 1S9. 1886 houses in Philadel
phia, as shown by the late census.
The amount so far expended on the
Centennial exposition is q, SOS. 1854.
The site on which Cincinnati is built
was sold for less than City dollars in 1887
Six hundred clerks are noon to be dis.
charged from the Treasury Dep artment
WIN. NJ. Eyerats aud George VIM
Curtis have been suggested for the Eng
lish Mission.
Scalping by the redskins is another Of
the attractions offered to Black Hill.
Adventures.
An unknown philanthropist in Man
chester, England, has given $500, 900 fol
an art gallery.
The first locomotive in China has made
a trial trip of one mile on the tramway
near Shanghai.
There are 60, 900 Sunday schools in the
United States, with soc, 900 teachers aud
5000. 600 pupils.
China and Japan are bound to be civ
ilized. They have begun to import
California whisky.
The inhabitan IS of Greeley, Colorado,
have secured $4,000 school house by
contributing SO apiece.
Speaker Kerr has decided not to be a
candidate for reelection to Congress on
account of his poor health.
The New York Tribune says: The
Presidents veto of the salary reduction
bill meets with general approval.
A geography printed in London one
hundred years ago describes California
as an island surrounded by water.
An American flag made of silk, and
costing $1,000, will float over the ma in
entrance to the Centennial exhibition.
"Facts from FOoldom,n is the signifi
cant title given by the Chicago Times
to its dispatches from the Black Hills.
A Liverpool firm recently divided
$2OO,0O among their employees who
had been with them five years or more
The Hon. John s. Payne, q full blood
ed African, and a native of Richmond,
Va, has been elected Governor OF Libe-
ria.
Montana TALES for Blaine, the Repub-
lican Territorial Convention having
instructed its delegates for the Maine
candidate.
Nine Presidents have served in the
Senate prior to election, but not one of
them passed directly from the Senate to
the White House.
An apparently well posted correspon-
dent of the New York Tribune, says that
the Chinese population OF California
cannot exceed $1,000.
The House passed the bill to transfer
the Indian Bureau to the Wsr Depart
ment, on the 2ist inst, by the large vote
of 139 yeas to 81 nays.
Capt Sumner, of the U. S. navy, has
negotiated treaty of peace between the
Republic of Liberia and the native tribes
with which it was at war.
The Big Horn country is said to he the
gold region of the future-an immense
cornucopia emigrauts will all get
rich there, iu Big Horn.
A manual labor school, under the
name of the Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, has been built a.
Bryan at a cost of $4,000.
The water in Troy, n. Y. seems to be
accepted for drinking without much
mplaint, but the laundrymen say that
its dirtiness spoils their work.
OF the seven children of John Hall of
North Troy, New York, four of them, all
under fourteen years of aye, weigh ex-
actly 200 Founders, and each has ten
fingers, two thumbs, and twelve toes.
BARLEY, who invented the story about
DiiSCO" . cVHhCItPh ohSSCN hSh~
lucky distillery cases, appears to he a
hummer of the worst type. He is one
of the bad and busy BIS 50 numerous
this year.
Robert H. Crockett, leading lawyer
of Arkansas, and grandson of the
famous Davy, will visit the Centennial,
taking with him his grandfather's rifle
and watch and an authentic portrait of
the old pioneer.
1t is said that Bob Toombs has at last
surrendered. To enable him to argue q
case before the supreme court Of the Uni.
ted States, he took the oath to support
the constitution of the Unified States
before Chief Justice Waite.
The Philadelphia Councils have sensi-
bly, decided not to repair the old Inde-
pendence bell, believing that it is more
an object of interest in its present his
toric condition than it would be if made
spicx and span new, so that it could be
rung.
The Supreme court Of Louisiana has
recently decided that the two and one
half million of State bonds ~ the Mobile
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