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The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-03
FISH.

We have large stock of
Mackerel,
Lake Herring,
White Fish
Goldfish,
And will as usual supply the trade al low
er prices than elsewhere.
TINGLE 81 ISHAM.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-03
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE,

In the District Court Of the United states
TOR the District Of West Virginia, In the
matter OF william III. ri. sber. Bankrupt.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT CLERK y OYYICEl
AT WHEELING, W. VA, June ~, ls16L (
Notice II hereby given that a petition
has been, TO wit: on the Stu day of Jam
nary, ls76 filed in said District Court by
William II. Flesher. OF Parkersburg, In
aid district, who has been heretofore duly
declared bankrupt, for a discharge and
certificate thereof, from ali his debts and
other claims provable under the United
states bankrupt act, and that the LIST day
Of August 1876, at 10 O'Clock a. m, before
said Court at the Office Of George E Boyd,
Esq, one OF the Registers In Bankruptcy,
at 80. %, Twelfth street, Wheeling, In said
district, has been assigned a. the time and
place Tor all creditors who have proved
their debts, and other persons In interest
10 appear and show cause, II any they
have, why the prayer OF the said petition
Test: JASPER Y. MOORE,
iy2oayr Clerk ID. C., u. b ID. W. va
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-03
FINANCIAL AND. COMMERCIAL.

Nxw YORK., Avg l2-MoNEf-Clossd
easy at 200 persent. Prime mercantile
paper SiS4 Der cent Customs receipts
S3iSOO0. TbeSAs!istant Treasurer disc
bursed Sl,42S,OOO. Clesrings $lS,OOO.'
600. Sterling weak at 4S9 G4S9&
GoLD-Opened and closed At Ills
with sales duringth day at III. carry
ing ratssl} to s per cent, Loans were
also made flat
GovEsNMENTs-Strong, with active
demand.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-03

ABIG rush for those Ladies' fine Kid
Side Lace Shoes at L. v. RLoNp's.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

In an article in the St. Louis Times
commenting on the results of the cleo.
ton for President, Hutchins said, 1--WE
will have Tilden or fight" The New
York Tribune answers this as follows:
This is language fit for the insane
asylum or the Jail. If the words come
from a person legally and morally re,
sponsible, they entitle him to protection
against himself in straight jacket II
they come from one who knows their
meaning, they entitle him to place in,
side the first hangman's moose that may
be prepared for those who get up a
eight" against the United States. He
may rest assured that the loyal people
who were willing to forgive those who
took part in the rebellion of 1861, will
see to it, if another rebellion should Oc.
cur, that treason shall be made odious BY
the punishment of some of those who
engage in or incite it.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

JUST ~ this time there is much dis
cussion among politicians and the people
generally as to who counts the vote for
President. The electors in the different
States meet on . certain day and cast
their ballots, sending the result to the
President Of the Senate. In reference to
the counting of these electoral votes,
Judge Kent-who is accepted as good
on Constitutional law-says
The Constitution does not expressly
say by whom the votes are to be counted
and the result declared. In the case of
votes, and closely contest
ed election, this power may be all-im-
portant; and, l presume, in the absence
OF legislative provision on the subject,
that the President of the Senate counts
the votes and determines the result, and
that the House are present only as spec
tators, to witness the fainness and accu.
racy of the transaction. and to act only
if no choice is made by the electors.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
THE RESULT.

Still we are unable to announce to our
readers the result of the late Presidential
election. In one of the doubtful States,
South Carolina, the Returning Board
have finished their labors and adjourned.
Hayes carried that State. In Florida
and Louisiana the Returning Boards
have not yet completed the count, and
both parties still claim to have carried
those States. So far as the vote has been
counted in Louisiana Hayes is consider
ably ahead, but there are number of
parishes in which the vote is contested
and it will take the Board in that State
some time yet to complete their work.
The Republicans are feeling confident,
and the Democrats are continually pro.
testing aginst everything as though they
knew they were goners. The people
throughout the country are quietly await
ing the official count, and those hot
heads who talk about fighting are de-
nounced by the great mass of both par
ties.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

In Europe the wa. cloud, so far As
England is concerned, has lifted some.
what. The Car has informed the Eng
lish government that Russia has no de-
sire for the conquest of either CONSTANT.
nople or India. He assures England that
Russia desires no conquest. CONSTANT
nople is considered the key to India and
England cannot afford to have the Rus
slams hold that city; but the assurance
of the Gar that he has no such intentions
is favorably received by the English gov
eminent, and perhaps if he will guaran-
tee them that city as their part of the
spoils they may consent to his carving
up Turkv.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

LAST winter the Legislature passed a
law for taxing dogs that proved miser
able failure, and its enforcement was not
attempted except in one or two counties
in the State. The defects in that law
should be remedied this winter and the
law should be so amended that the mon.
ey raised by the dog tax would be kept
a separate fund by the treasurer of each
county for the purpose of paying for all
sheep killed by dogs, where the owner of
the sheep failed to recover damages from
the owners ofthe dogs doing the damage.
One great obstacle to wool growing in
this State is the liability of sheep being
killed by worthless ours that roam over
the country. With such law the sheep
would soon greatly out-number the dogs
in every county in the State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

THERE has been so much said about
illegal and fraudulent voting since the
late election, and the attention of the
people has been so called to the iIpor-
lance of the freedom of the ballot and
fairness OF elections, that we believe law
making it an offense punishable by death
or imprisonment for life for person
to be found guilty of attempting in any
way-by polling illegal votes or other
wise-to prevent the will of the majority
from being expressed through the ballot
box, would meet the approval OF the
great mass of the people of the United
States,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

PETER COOPER has lived some sixteen
years beyond the allotted life of man, and
has, or should have, no personal enemies.
He has spent long life in honest indus
try, and has so literally distributed the
fruits of his labor for the benefit of his
fellow men that his name is destined to
be one Of the brightest on the pages of
history. His scattering vote for Presi-
dent was not because the American peo-
pie do not respect and admire him as a
man, but because they recognize the folly
of third party movements.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

WHILE the people generally anxiously
await the announcement of the result of
the vote for President their anxiety is
nothing compared with that of the office
holder and the Office seeker. In the event
that Tilden is President there wi be
at least sixty thousand official heads
chopped of, and among the Demo-
Gratis there are from ten to twenty aspi-
rants for every position thus made va
cant-men who have been among the
outs for sixteen years, and who in their
scramble for place would crush and de-
YOUR each other. So while the average
American awaits with interest the result
of the official count in the doubtful
States, Office holders and seekers-and
especially the latter-are decidedly ner-
vous, and some of them we'll nigh frantic.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

ACCORDING to the certificates of cleo
tion issued by the Returning Board of
South Carolins the Republicans will
have a majority of one in the Legisla.
ture on joint ballot. The Board refused
to issue certificates to the persons claim
ing to have been elected from Laurens
and Edgefeld counties on account of al
lodged frauds in the election. The Dem
ocrats got an order from the Supreme
Court of the State requiring the Board
to issue certificates to the parties appear
ing on the face of the election returns to
have been elected in these counties. but
by the time they got around with this
order the Board had completed its bust
ness and adjourned sine die. The Lisla-
ture in that State counts the vote for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
KANSAS.

The official vote in this State Is all in
except two counties, Barton and Pratt,
and they will only increase the Repub,
lican majorities. Kansas undoubtedly
stands at the head of the list among the
Republican States.
Hayes received 1850 votes, Tilden
S7,E1; majority for Hayes 4O,O39. An.
thongs majority over Martin is 22.665.
and his majority over Martin, Hudson
and Paulson, is 1924. Phillips major
ity in the First Congressional District is
1882. Haskell's majority in the Sec
ond District, over Goodin, is 5,27O, and
5,2OS over Goodin and Knox. Ryan's
majority in the Third District, with those
two counties to hear from, is 1855.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

In the Leavenworth Times OF the 23d
inst. D. r. Anthony insists that George
T. Anthony ran behind his ticket II 1872
in the State, and to prove his statement
gave what he claimed to be the number
of votes he fell behind in each county in
the State. At the head of this list
he has Allen county with George T. 2ls
votes behind his ticket, while the official
vote of this county shows that he was
only 80 behind Hayes. He comes with
in 119 of telling the truth in reference to
the vote in iris county, and that perhaps
is as near the truth as most of the state
ments he made against Geo. T. Anthony
during the late campaign.
In Louisiana the Returning Board be.
gan canvassing the returns from the diff.
ferent parishes in the State last Monday.
A committee of five Northern Democrats
and like committee of Republicans are
allowed to meet with the Board and
watch the count. The returns from the
parishes where there we're no contests
were taken up first, and before opening
the returns the chairman of each of the
committees we're allowed to inspect them
to see if they had been tempered with.
The chairman of the Democratic com
mittee has filed protest to almost every
action of the Board. 1t looks as though
the Democrats considered their case hope
less and are preparing to ease themselves
down by crying fraud"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

ONE of the New York Tribune CORES
pondents interviewed Tweed when the
vessel on which he is sailing, the Frank
lin, anchored for a time at st. Thomas
island. The Boss still had hopes that he
would be returned to Spain in response
to the demands of that nation. He said
that Tilden wanted to make political
capital out of his (Tweed's) arrest and
confinement. If the worst comes to the
worst, the Boss thinks he can let out
secrets enough to place his former asso-
ciates in the same boz with himself
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

In commenting on the temperance
vote polled at the late election the Law.
renee Journal says:
The vote for the so-called "temper.
ance" ticket, in this State and in the
country generally, convey lesson that
should not be overlooked or lost. 1t
would be humiliating to suppose that
those who voted that ticket comprise the
whole or even any considerable portion
of the temperance people of the country.
II ey do not. 1t only shows that the
temperance people refused to follow an
extreme leadership. in the attempt to
carry the temperance question, or rather
the prohibition question (for the two are
very differently into politics.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
STATE NEWS.

Marshall county has voted bonds fol
building a Jail.
Trees are being planted throughout the
State by thousands.
They have an anti-horse thieving so
ciety at Independence.
The Coffeyville journal has been en-
larged to an eight page paper.
Albert Griffin offers his paper, the
Manhattan Nationalist, for sale.
Ex-Gov Robinson defeated John SpeeI
for the Senate in Douglass county.
The Baxter Springs Republican has
been removed to Columbus, Kansas.
Twenty-Five thousand cattle will be
shipped from Coffeyville this season.
The State Sunday School convention
meets at Wyandotte the 5th of Decem.
Der.
The Russians near Hays have broken
fifteen hundred acres of prairie this sum.
mer.
The Neosho County Record is to be en-
larged from five column to a seven col.
umn paper.
Wheat is growing so rapidly in some
parts of the State that it has to be pas
tured down.
The fax crop in johnson county aver.
aged from eight to twelve bushels pei
acre this year.
Prof Riley predicts that silk culture
will one day be one of the richest indus
tries in our State.
The last accounts from the snake den
near Concordia is that they have killed
some 5000 of the "varmints."
Eight years ago Montgomery county
was the home of Lo, the poor Indian, and
now it has Is, 900 inhabitants.
In Labette county the farmers have
organized a Protective Association to
prevent prairie fires till spring.
The Lawrence Spira-and it has had
experience enough in the matter to know
says that Reform and Democracy don't
fuse worth a cent in Kansas.
Diptheria is very fatal in some parts
of the State, and a number of deaths,
mostly children, have recently occurred
from this malignant disease.
A. J. Mowery, of Doniphan county,
who left the Legislature so suddenly last
winter, and who was going to be "vindi.
Gated" by a reelection, was-defeated.
The Peter Cooper party in the State
should have their photographs taken in a
group, and exchange with those two 252
resolute supporters that Peter had in
New York City.
The Parsons Sun has suspended. Reyn-
ODDS does not give as a reason however
that he quits issuing the paper because
he was defeated for the Legislature, but
because it didn't pay. The citizens Of
Parsons will miss the Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

WHEN it is fairly settled that Hayes
is to be our next President the newspa-
pers of Kansas will commence to agitate
the question of United States Senator
and State Printer. Our legislators elect
nave not been receiving the usual
amount of advice from the newspapers in
the State, but they most not flatter
themselves that they will be entirely
NEGLECTED.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

STANLEY HUMPHREY, of London, q
minister of the Society of Friends, has
recently been holding religious meetings
among the Indians in the Territory. The
Friends are manifesting considerable in.
terest in the civilization of the Indians,
and some of them are willing to make
sacrifices in aid of the work.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

PETER COOPER received in New York
City-his home-the immense number
of 252 votes. No wonder the old man
took sick after reading the election re-
turns. In commenting on the vote the
Peter Cooper party received IN that city
the New York Herald says: "This shows
that the raper money canvass has a great
future before it. Its chances are all in
the future. Its glorious successes are
there. Its magnificent triumphs are no.
where else.n
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

NEVER before in the history of the
Government has the attention of the
people been called so clearly to the cum
bersome manner and round about way
in which a President is elected. Next
Congress will doubtless pass some such
amendment in reference to this election
as is proposed by Senator Morton.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

PERSONS in New York City who have
bet money on the result of the Presiden-
tial election are gettitg very uneasy. 1t
is claimed that under law of that State
the charitable institutions there can con.
iscate this money, several millions of dol
lars, which is on deposit. They are being
strongly urged to do so, and gamblers are
getting in hurry to know who is to be
our next President.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

The Younger brothers, Jim, Bob and
Cole, in their trial in Minnesota, plead
guilty to the indictments charging them
with murder, and have been sentenced
to the penitentiary of that State for life.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

The December atlantic in point Of
ability is fully UP to the previous num-
bers and those who wish "solid reading
will do we'll to glance over this number.
For 1877, the publishers announce an
unusually attractive list Of articles, prose
and poetical.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

LAST Wednesday large number of
the Democrats of Ohio met at Columbus
and "resoluted' in reference to the pres
ent situation, denounced Grant, and vol
unteered their advice as to what was
necessary for the preservation of a free
government. They are not happy yet,
but this was the best they could do un-
der the cjrcums tances .
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
ALLEN COUNTY,
KANSAS.
ITS ADVANTAGES
HOME FOR THE IMMIGRANT
Land at Pioneer Prices Without any
Of the privations Of Pioneer Life!

AMONG the many localities in Kansas
which offer peculiar advantages to the
Home-Seeker, Allen County, as regards
Location, Soil, Water, Timber, Cheap
Land, Convenience to Market, Facilities
for Transportation, Towns, Settlements
and Society, stands second to no other in
the State, as brief reference to the above
mentioned particulars will show;
LOCATION.
This county is second from the East
and third from the south line of the
State. 1t is one hundred miles south
east from Topeka, seventy-fve miles
south from Lawrence, one hundred south.
west of Kansas City and twenty five
miles west from Fl. Scott and lies mainly
within the celebrated Neosho valley.
SILL.
The soil of the uplands is q black or
dark red calcareous loan of great depth
and inexhaustable fertility, while that
of the bottoms is the black alluvial de-
pOsits usually found in such localities,
and varying from four to ten feet in
depth. No better soils for the successful
production of all the grains, grasses,
fruits and vegetables of this latitude can
be found in the State.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

The morning after the election the
Democrats were so confident that they
had carried Wisconsin that most of the
Republican papers conceded that the
State had gone Democratic. Tie official
vote of the State. however, shows that
Hayes has majority of 6, III.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
BUILDING, FENCING
AND FUEL.

One of the special advantages which
this county possesses over the treeless
plains of Western Kansas is found in
its timber, coal and stone. The average
width of timber belts is half a mile OF
more, and the quality is excellent, fur
nishing a reasonable supply for all prac.
teal purposes, as is shown by the fact
that the price of good hard wood in the
towns seldom exceeds %. so per cord. In
the eastern and less timbered portion OF
the county coal of fair quality is mined
in quantities sufficient for domestic
purposes, and will no doubt be devel-
oped as the wants of the county require.
For building and fencing stone of an
excellent quality abounds in many local
tiles, yet SO disposed as to interfere but
little with the cultivation of the soil.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

THE Commonwealth suggests that the
Legislature of Kansas this winter gives
its patronage to men who are Republi-
cans, not any of the half and half sort,
but full fedged Republicans. A good
suggestion.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
KETS.

The Lenvenworth, Lawrence & Gal
weston railroad traverses the county
from north to south. passing through the
towns of lola and Humboldt, and affords
direct connection with Lawrence and
Leavenworth in Kansas and Kansas City
in Missouri. This last is one of the best
markets in the country and is but six
hours from lola, the county seat.
The NJ. X. 4. T. passes through the
s. W. corner of the county, touching at
Humboldt, and affords an outlet to the
mining regions of the west, and south to
Texas and the Gulf.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25

The receivers recently appointed for
the Kansas Pacific railroad, Charles s.
Greeley ard Henry Willard, took posses
sion of the road on the 21st inst.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
WATER.

The county is watered by the Neosho
river, which flows through it from N.
W. to S. E., and by its tributaries in the
middle and western portion and by the
Marmaton and Usage in the east. Each
of these streams is skirted by belt OF
excellent timber and flows through fine
alluvial bottoms from half mile to a
mile in width. Water for domestic pur-
poses is found in springs and wells OF
moderate depth.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
PRODUCTS.

As elsewhere stated this county is well
suited to all the productions of this
latitude, but is especially adapted to the
growing of wheat, corn, fruit, and to
stock raising; all of which succeed ad-
mirably, and particularly the last. The
inexhaustable supply of native grasses
both for pasturing and for hay-offers to
the stock raiser most inviting field, and
makes this one of the most certain and
remunerative branches of husbandry
that any one can engage in.
II All RRAAnS ANN ~ n.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
OFFICIAL PAPER OF COUNTY.
THE majority for Haskell over Goodin
in this district is 500.
THERE were SO distinct varieties Of
chickens on exhibition at the Centennial.

The miscreats who recently attempted
to rob 70 grave of President Lincoln have
been captured.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1876-11-25
CHEAP LANDS.

Notwithstanding the county has been
settled for many years and contains q
population of over 1000, large bodies Of
unimproved lands are yet for sale. These
lands belong to the L. L. & G.. and NJ.
X. & T. railroad companies, and are
offered for sale cheaper than such lands
can be bought any where in the United
States where equal advantages exist.
Land capable of producing twenty to
twenty-five bushels of wheat or so to Il
bushels of corn per acre is sold at $500
per acre for cash, or $4.O0 on time. Al
most any year, after being reduced to
cultivation, q single crop will pay the
entire cost of the land.
During last season many parties in
this county with less than half their
land in cultivation raised corn enough
when sold at 25c. bushel to pay for the
whole tract. Any one looking for new
location can not fail to appreciate this
fact, especially considering the fact that
these lands are surrounded by old SET
Elements, and are convenient to railroads,
towns, mills, school houses, churches and
all the appliances of civilization. Land
at pioneer prices, without any of the
privations of pioneer lite.
These lands are sold by Messrs. SCoTT
& BOwLus, local agents.