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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
SCHOO NOTICE.

There will be a Public Examination
of Teachers for Allen County, Kansas, at
the School House in lola, commencing at
9 o'clock A. NJ, on Saturday Dec 9th,
1876. FRANK ROOT,
Supt. Pub. Instruction.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

Mrs. r. A. Armstrong died of consum-
ton at her home in this city last Sabbath
afternoon. Her funeral was preached at
the Methodist church on Tuesday morn
ing by Rev. H. K. Muth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

w. C. Thrasher will now be found
behind the counter at Northrup's store,
and the smiling countenance of james
Mcclure will hereafter be seen at Yates
cash dry goods store.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

lola Grange No. 343 will meet at
Masonic Hall, Saturday evening, Dec.
9th, 1876. A full attendance is expected.
J. p. BOYD, Sec'y.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

FOR SALE OR TRADE.
Two fine BULL CALVES, 10 months
also few Choice POLAND CHINA
PIGS. r. COOK.
lola, Kansas. Wv
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

What is the use Of taking quinine and
other poisons into y,ur stomach to cure
the chills when you can use Bancroft's
Discovery on the back of the head and
down the spine anu make permanent
cure. 1t is a sure thing. Sold by John
Francis. lOv2lyrl
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

~THE BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF
HOLIDAY GOODS AT
STEVEN SONS
Is BEING FAST TAKEN UP. GO
NOW AND PURCHASE WHILE
YOU HAVE A CHANCE OF A
LARGE STOCK AND PLENTY OF
TINE TO SELECT.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

G. A. Steele has fine lot of Holiday
Toys on hand and is selling them at re-
duced prices. Don't fail to give him q
call.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

BRUSHES BRUSHES
Large and complete assortment of
Brushes of all kinds just received at
JOHN FRANCIS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

D~C. A. Steele is selling the w. P.
Samms' Sorghum Molasses. The best
ever brought to lola.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
WANTED.

1000 bushels of corn. delivered at my
place, for which l will pay the highest
market price. A. L. BEAR
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

D6Smokers, when you want a good
Cigar try The LOG CABIN CIGAR,
sold only by
C. A. STEELE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
ROAD NOTICE.
10. G. Adams, eft. als.l

10. c. Adams, ct. als.l
State Of Kansas, "a
Allen County,
The state of Kansas to whom it may concern:
Whereas, application has been made by petit
ton to the Board of County Commissioners of
said county, for locating county road As fol-
lows, to-wit:
Commencing where the Leavenworth, Law
renee and Galveston railroad infersects u county
road established on the section line dividing Sec
tlon one ny and two f9 in township - range IL
thence along the west side of said railroad to
within u few rods of Deer Creek thence between
the trestles Of said railroad thence across Deer
Greek thence to the section line described above.
And whereas, James Dunlap, Moses Stricken
and u. Vesey, viewers, and q. Dewitt. county
surveyor, Of said county, have been ordered by
said county commissioners to view, survey and
locate said road.
Therefore, you are hereby notified that said
viewers will proceed on the 10th day of December,
ls.6 at 100 o'clock at the place of beginning of
said road to view survey and locate said road and
perform whatsoever other duties are required
Of them by law; and unless you then file a writ
ten application with said viewers, giving Q
description of the premises on which you claim
damages or compensation, your application for
the same will be barred.
Witness my hand at my Office in lola, in said
county. this 10th day of November, A. d. 1876.
T. :. SLOWER,
4sw2 County Clerk
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
SHERIFFS SALE.


State of Kansas,
County of Allen. CO.
j. r. Campbell and A II. Holmes,
partners doing business under the
irm name and style Of j. p. Camp
hell 4 Company, plaintiffs.
Against
J. P. Mccoy, Defendant
Before j X. Boyd Justice Of the Peace in and
for lola township in said county and Stale.
BY virtue Of an execution in the above entitled
case to me directed and delivered, I will on
Tuesday, December 18th, 1876,
at 2 o clock p. m. of said day what is known
IS the Marvel Farm a miles west and mile
south Of lola, Kansas, offer for sale at public
auction to the highest and best bidder for cash in
hand the undivided One-half interest i'm and to
-Four Fat Hogs-weght about pounds each,-
and Nine Shoats, weight about 80 pounds each;
also one Mccormick Reaper and Mower. Said
goods and chattels have been levied upon as the
property Of j. p. Mccoy the above named de-
PENDANT and will be sold TO satisfy said execution.
Sherif's Office, lola, Kansas, Nov. 18th, ls.6.
j. l.. WOODEN,
49w2 Sheriff Allen Co.. Kansas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

Go to Jno. Francis for your PAINTS.
He has the largest stock in Allen county
and j. selling at the LOWEST Prices.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

~GREAT BARGAINS AT
n@L. L. NORTHRUP'S STORE.
I have concluded to close out my entire
stock of goods and will sell them at
reduced prices. All wanting goods will
find it to their interest to call and exam
inc for themselves. Now is the time to
secure bargains.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02
THE OLDEST AND BEST RESTO-
RER is FOUND IN USING 1T

RER is FOUND IN USING 1T
WOODS IMPROVED HAIR RESTORATIVE is I'M
like any other and has no equal. The improved
has new vegetable tonic properties; restores gray
hair to glossy, natural color; restores faded,
dry, harsh and falling hair; restores, dresses,
gives yigOr to the hair; restores hair TO prema-
turely bald heads; removes danhruI, hunors,
scaly eruptions; removes irritation itching and
scaly dryness No article produces such Won
derful effects. Try it, call for Woods Improved
Hair Restorative, and don't be put of Nth any
other article Sold by all druggists in This place
and dealers everywhere Trade supplied at man.
ufacturers' prices by c. A Cook 4 Co, Chicago,
sole agent. for the United States and Canadas,
and by all Wholesale Druggists. lO:56yrI
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

%King's Ague Cure at Stevenson's
drug store. Warranted to cure.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-12-02

All kinds of DRIED FRUITS at
JNO. FRANCIS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

SOME of the rabid Republicans here,
Davis at their head, are discussing the ques-
tion of defeating Tilden's election by in
volging Texas in trouble. They claim that
if other States are carried by decided major
tiles, and failure is made in rejecting
them they will turn their attention to Tex
as, as having forfeited its statehood in
adopting its present Constitution. This
was tried once, and late. Attorney General
Alexander wrote latter to Washington at
tempting to bringlt prominently before the
authorities, but his communication was
treated with utter neglect. Texans and
the people of the South are not the only
ones interested in the Inauguration of Mr..
Tilden. He has been elected by an I'M
mense popular majority, and by decided
electoral majority, and the American
people are not prepared for great political
revolution in the interest of some thousands
of otficehoIderS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

it need sewers and thorough purgation.
The city engineer is devoting his at
tention to the matter, and city fathers
are counseling about it, and now
that the Federal elections no longer
monopohze attention, a share of ge-
MUS for tasks of municipal government
may be directed TO this most important
subject. Fire insurance rates have been
greatly reduced because of good deeds of
Messrs. Chandler, Mather and their associ-
ates, and rates made by the Life Association
of America might we'll be lessened in like
manner if proper earthen pipes convey from
vaults and homes and offices and from the
Capitol grounds the accumulated filth of a
quarter of century. If city fathers would
be thoroughly instructed on this subject
and comprehend the importance of sewer
age, we have a series of articles, repub-
lished in book form, that appeared in the
atlantic Monthly, giving all desirable infor-
nation. It should be read as part of the
next mayors message before the city legis-
lature.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

WHEN it is finally known that Tilden is
President, Snd that justice, right and free
dom and local self-government are to be
reproduced in the South, the people should
accept the great change with that modera-
ton of action and expression that becomes
greatness and proper sense of self-respect.
We will have achieved no more than our
just due, and do not propose to act unwor-
thily of re e-acQuired freedom. Morton aud
the rest have said that Tllden's victory
would be the signal for outrages done
blacks. On the contrary, the relations be-
tween the races in the South will be great
ly ameliorated when loyal league organiza-
tions become profitless to dirty knaves.
When the class sent into these States to
hold Federal offices is changed, as 1t may
be even If Hayes be President instead of
Tilden, there should be no such wild dem
onstrations of delight as would induce the
North to believe that Morton and Blaine
and 1ngersoll have spoken truthfully of US
when they said that Tilden's triumph or
the practice of justice to citizens of the
South would be the signal for revolt and
reproduction of the Southern Confederacy.
If we deserve victory We will accept it as
due to right and justice and to truth, and
not as insane zealots.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

may be true that negroes have
been bribed or duped or misled by divers
arts peculiarly adapted to phases of African
intelligence. Bands of music have in
veigled the innocent creatures into wrong
parishes and districts at the very time that
they should have been ''repsGting'' in be-
half of Kellogg or Chamberlain or Hayes,
and the wrong done by whites in deluding
these voters is no greater than that perpe-
trated when each negro votes as often as
asked by the E. J. Davis of the hour and
locality. 1t is a pitifHl state to which the
country is reduced. It is degradation un-
mixed and deplorable when the high
est interests and aspirations of a once
proud people must be shaped or deter
mined by such pitiful and debased
agencies. And when it is determined,
whether honestly or not, by those who
count the votes, it is with shame-facedness
that every intelligent American-the word
''citizen" has lost spectability-mustc con.
fess his own degradation involved in this
degradation OF the whole country. Africa
and African stupidity give to America it's
foremost chief magistrate, and because
fraud and malpractlces are necessarily re-
sorted to where proper mateIMs suggest
their exercise by both political parties,
neither can complain that it is grossly
wronged unless that party be cheated that
opposed from the beginning, the degrada-
tion of the right of suffrage and of citizen
ship and of States.
There is one consolIng reflection incident
to all these facts: While Tilden would
make the better President, and is better
fitted for the office, and would enforce re-
forms of which Hayes is incapable, still
Hayes is confessedly an excellent citizen of
excellent worth and ability, and the moral
effect OF such an election so hardly won
will compel degree of conservatism in
his administration which Morton and
Chandler and Blaine could not couuteract.
But Tilden, and not Hayes, will be the
President
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
THE CHE APEST AND MOST VAL
UABLE OF MUNICIPAL LUXURIES.

A good cistern cut in the stone of one of
these hills about Austin costs with the gut
tering and pipes and pump and fixtures,
5000. To clean it and refill it costs time
and money once each year. If there are
fetid vaults around it, as commonly hap
pens in this undrained town, it must be
cleansed again and again or typhoid fevers
are generated. A servant or the housewife
loses an hour each day pumping and carry
ing water. Her time and labor are worth
500 per annum and taking the chances of
sickness and doctors bills, to come of water
from foul cistern, each of these recepta
cles for water represents an investment for
each family of st least $500. The interest
on this is S3o-and even after paying this
there is no sufficient supply of water in the
cannot have, as every decent family should,
daily baths. The supply of water will not
admit Of the indulgence of such q needful
habit. But the water company gives
all this, and all the water family can con-
sumo, for eighteen dollars per annum. It
is little enough, and the best and cheapest
investment family can make. Health, de-
cency and good morals sre only compatible
with purity Of person, and AUSTIN should
congratulate itself that the Colorado, rush
ing down from mountains and plans, gives
the people the best beverage and delight
full opportunities for the practice Of the old
Roman virtue Of cleanliness. Il is not the
less painful to reflect that while the people
themselves, at this tnning cost, viii SURELY
be clean, the city smells like rotten mack-
erel BY moonlight, and fsarfully does
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

THE government of Lerdo, if recent ad-
vices be trustworthy, is about to be over
whelmed, or rather fall to pieces. He is
betrayed on all hands, and every placeman
hies away towards the rising sun of some
new chieftain. The country is in desper-
ate condition, and If there be no speedy
change disasters as terrible as those that
have wasted Cuba must befal the hapless
republic. Our stake in the event is hardly
less than that of Mexieans, and interven-
ton may become an unavoidable necessity.
We want nothing that the Mexicans have.
Least of all would we have more provinces
for more satraps; but railway from Aus
tin to San Bias or Mazltla and uninter-
rupted commercial intercourse with coffee
and sugar growing districts of the unhap-
py country are imperatively demanded by
the commercial necessities of the United
States. We cannot dispense with both
Cuba and Mexico, because robbers and ad-
venturers and ambitious military upstairs
would plunder towns or reign unrestrained
in wretched provinces. There must be
peace and order at any cost across the Rio
Grande, or there can be none east of it.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
1T MAKES PATRTOTISM WEEP.

The condition of the whole country, as
defined by telegraphic dispatches, consti-
tutes a terrible commentary upon the vices
and crimes of the party that has shaped
the fortunes of the Republic since 1866.
In any other country under the sun the
presidential contest could not be decided
by States that arc neither more nor less
fitted for the conduct of government, as
populations exist and vote, than they who
devour missionary steaks in the remotest
western ocean. Africa makes or unmakes
a President of the United States. The re-
suit of presidential election depends upon
the houdouing practiced by black priest
esses, or upon the arts or force of cunning
applied to the fears and prejudices of be-
sotted ignorance. Having deprived wide
districts and States of the South of civil
lied governments, and then invading these
States in opeA violation of the country's
laws, to repress disorders necessarily gener-
ated by social systems wrongfully establish
ed, then having sought to use savages, COM
pacted in secret societies and invested with
every right of citizenship, to secure the votes
of States, and, failing, then these shameless
plunderers of the people, robbing and de-
stroying and desolating the South aud bring
ing down hopeless poverty upon the many
of the South, think it enough to cry out
Ku-kluxw "Ku-klux" They give us
social and political systems in which knav-
cry, in all local elections, always triumphs.
They have so organized society here
that the balance of power in almost
every town is held by q purchas-
able body of idiots or knaves, and it
is true of certain States, that must
determine finally whether Tilden or Hayes
shall fill the highest office in the world, as
of the city of Austin, that ignorant, inca
pable and purchasable sGRs eUilOtss must
finally settle the question and give the
country a President even as Austin was
given a mayor. We are pleased to see
these things. The lesson to the country's s
intelligence and patriotism is worth more
than the defeat of Hayes or election of Til
den. We will have a President at last
chosen for us by Tmbuctoo. II he be Til
den every Republican win be exssperated
that he was betrayed by ignorance and
stupidity; il Hayes, every Democrat In
America must know that be was cheated
OF his choice by the knavery of those who
rule the so-called States that Grant IN
vades at will, and are the playthings Of
Kelloggs. Ames, warmoth and Cham
berlains. II the great States and parties of
the North 60 to war with one another
rather than suffer themselves to be de-
frauded by lAwless. savage Stases and semi
savage populations, Of plumber and power,
the crime and resulting calamity are their
own. lis none Of our fault though con-
fessedly, our greatest misfortune. L
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

THE Galveston Nesos, in reviewing the
history of the yellow fever epidemic In
Texas, says that in 1857, when it was so
fatal along the coast and far into the inte-
rlor, that sit broke out in Harrisburg and
Austin in August" The reference to Aus
tin is undoubtedly a typographical error.
Houston is the place referred to, but the
NeDs should make the correction. In 1867
cases of yellow fellow were brought to
Austin from the lower country, but our
people waited upon these with impunity
and the disease was conveyed to no one
here. 1t is regarded that Austin is above
and beyond the yellow fever district, and
such instances in 1867, and at other times,
has about proven this presumption as prop
erly founded.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
CONGRESSIONAL FOLLY ILLUSTR A.
TED BY EVENTS IN EGYPT.

The ceremony of opening the dykes and
gateways of canals along the banks of the
Nile occurred not many days ago in the
presence of great multitudes in Egypt. The
valley is submerged at will, and layers of
fresh alluvium are diffused. Great throngs
are gathered in the Kings presence to share
in coins scattered among the people and
rejoice that che source of Egypt's wealth
still supplies. as in by-gone ages, marvellous
crops, expended now, as in the days of the
Pharaohs, in works of barbaric splendor.
Then, mighty pyramids were uplifted; now,
railways are built and canals excavated.
Strangely enough the works of the Phara-
obs were only in imitation of those of a
race as much older than the Shepherd
Kings as they are older than Egypt's pres
ent extraordinary ruler. There was a Les
seps older than Moses, in whose path the
French engineer of our time followed mod
estly enough, and there were coeval cngi
neers on this continent, OF whose works
Humboldt tells, as constructors of q canal
designed to subserve ends attained by that
of Tehuantepec and by the Panama rail
way. In fact, the very modes of promot
ing productiveness in the valley of the
Nile to-day and practiced through endless
ages was resorted to by unknown and ex-
tinct races once inhabiting the valley of
the Mississippi. Numberless artificial drains
leaving the river at many points below
Cairo attest the toll and wisdom of those
whose imitators were assembled few days
ago at the base of the Pyramids of Egypt
to assert gratitude for natures beneticence.
The earliest white inhabitants of the lower
valley of the Mississippi gave names to
these artificial drains significant of the pur-
poses of their excavation, and of these
there are nearly two hundred on the western
side of the Mississippi, between the Ar
kansas and the Gulf. There are traces of
canals broken in twain and filled by the
earthquake of 1S11-12, connecting the
Mississippi with its lateral tributaries that
the superabuudaut water coming down
from Pixies Peak might be distributed and
made harmless. and then utilized not only
for purposes of navigation, but in spread
ing over farms an alluvium more valuable
than gypsum or guano. Modern occupants
of the river valley began to protect it by
earthen walls, and the higher these are
lifted up the higher they must ever rise,
and at last Congress is asked, in the pres
ence of facts occurring only few days sgc
in the old world, to expend thirty millions
in rebuilding and perfecting these earther
walls from Cairo to the sea.
1t were wiser to accept lessons iBculcste6
by events recurring through unnunbered
ages in Egypt, and instead of levees Of
| dykes to hedge in the resistless river, tC
construct canals, as did primevaI races o
America across the lowlan6s of the Missis
sippi, and while lessening the burdens O
taxpaying populations to aggrandize be
yond computation the towns and citie
along the shores of this American Adriatlc
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16
GRAssHoPPEBs AND WHEAT.

Col. A. NJ. Hobby, of Galveston, one of
the most thorNughly-informed gentlemen
in Texas, writes letter, published in the
Ncscs in which some very good advice is
given to farmers. He says:
I have heard the view generally expressed
by farmers, that after the month of October
it would be too late to sow wheat. In
come wheat sections the farmers have post
poned sowing, on account of grasshoppers,
and they are inclined now not to plant at
ALL Planting wheat IN November will yield
a better result than if planted in September
or October. Too much to the acre is
planted as rule; and it should not be pas
tured during the winter. Seed should
never be replanted on the same field which
grew the wheat. The same law prevails in
the production of cereals and cotton that
exists in the animal kingdom. Nature
seems to forbid the system of Sin and in"
breeding. A violation of her law is low
production on the one hand and inferior
stock on the other. Every cotton producer
knows the importance of exchange of seed,
even in the same neighborhood, from sandy
post oak lands to aliuvial bottoms, and rice
Uersd Wheat that is planted late in No
vember will not be far enough advanced to
be injured by the grasshoppers in the spring
when they first hatch out, before they can
fiy.- 1t is we'll known as soon as they have
wings they resort TO the air and migrate.
In Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, where the
grasshoppers have made almost yearly visi-
tations for the past ten years, the wheat
crop has rarely, if ever, been destroyed or
seriously damaged.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-11-16

EVEN if TIlden be counted out by
knavery in Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina, it is cleary shown that the plat
form of hate and of sectional animosities
can never more be serviceable. 1t has been
condemned in each of the great States Of
the North, and Morton and Cameron are
subordinated by the voice of the Northern
people to men of moderation and wisdom
and justice. The people have administered
lesson to Radicalism that must give way
to Republicanism, and the moderate wing
of the party of Hayes, if the South act
wisely and temperately in the midst of
causes for infinite JOY, becomes most potent
within that party, and whoever may be
President, public events must derive their
coloring from the fact that extremists have
lost caste, and moderation and decency
have shaped the result of the election