The Iola register., 1876-04-08

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State, has become editor-in-chief of the
of the Burlington, Qewa) Gazette, q
straight out Democratic paper.
Packages of beet sugar seed are being
| Distributed among the farmers of Oregon,
and factory will be located in the sec
tion showing the largest returns.
1t is thought that when old Ben Wade
finds out that Hayes cannot have the
Cincinnati nomination, he will give his
old friend Morton all his strength.
Parson Brownlow thinks that Tennes.
see could be carried by the Republicans.
if Hill and Tombs could be induced to
stump the State for the Democracy.
The Indiana Democracy have definite
ly decided not to nominate Landers for
Governor. Holman, Niblack, or Judge
Turpin will probably receive the nomi-
nation.
Secretary Taft has determined that
hereafter no post-traderships will be
| given to any person except on the recon-
applied for.
Judge Jerry Black, Of Pennsylvania
one of the ablest Democrats in. the coun-
try, says it will take something more
than the Belknap affair to float the Dem
ocratic party into power.
Ex-Governor Herschel V. johnson,
who ran for Vice President on tine ticket
with Steven A. Douglas in 1860, is very
likely to receive the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor of Georgia.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church of the United States have
appointed Friday April 2S, as general
day of fasting and prayer for the men,
bers of that denomination.
The Centennial authorities have pro-
vided thirty aquaria for the display OF
the fish of our rivers. lakes and seas, and
parties so desiring may also exhibit fish
in tanks of their own construction.
The troop ship Himalaya, the largest
in the British navy, has been sent to
Bombay to bring home the numerous
horses, tigers, and elephants presented
to the Prince of Wales during his recent
tour.
This sentence of George William Cur
tbs ought to be kept standing: ''Fine
professions of reform with candidates
who are themselves constituent parts OF
the thing to be reformed will not carry
the country"
Blaine's friends arc advised that fully
two-thirds of the delegates chosen by the
Pennsylvania Republicans are in favor
of him after Hartranft is withdrawn.
This will give Blaine the solid vote OF
the delegation, As the majority rules.
The Catf,oIic Telegraph thinks that Al.
fonso will soon be compelled to retire
from the throne upon which he is obvI
ously only figu:2, head, and thot some
new man, able to drive the chariot OF
Spanish rcgality, will take his place.
The $4,000, 900 in silver bullion ws;;.s,
Flood 4 O'Brien intend to exhibit at
the Centennial would make 4 solid block
ten feet long, ten feet thick. and eight
and one-tenth feet high containing SlC
cubic feet, and would weigh nearly 294!
tons.
Bristow is the son of an old.time
Northern Abolitionist, studied at Il
! Northern college, and, the Springfield
Republican says. sis believed never to
have known cxperimentally what the
sensation of voting Democratic ticker
is like"
Prince Bismarck celebrated his 62d
birthday on Saturday. He was person
ally congratulated by the Emperor, the
Crown Prince, the Diplomatic Corps,
the Federal Council, and the Legislative
Deputies, serenaded by the band of the
Imperial Guard, and received congratu-
lations by telegraph from the King OF
Bavaria.
The Christian Convention at the Hip
podrome in New York is one of the larg-
est if not the largest meetings of clergy
men ever held in this country. The
clerical and lay delegates number 1850,
representing nineteen states and three
hundred and fifty towns. They have
come together to learn from Mr. Moody
the secret of his success as a Christian
teacher.
Dyer's testimony before the whisky
1raud investigating cOinniittee proven
great disappointment TO the Democrats.
1t was expected that he would tell a har-
rowing tale of interference by members
of the administration with the prosecu-
tion of the trials at ST. Louis. But he
didn't. He admitted that he had once
been suspicious of everybody save 'Secre-
sary Bristow and Bluford Wilson, but he
now felt certain that his suspicious were
groundless.