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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
Badly Frightened.

The effect upon one of a nervous tenn
permanent, who had read stories of men
dying from the bite of a tarantula, is
told by the Sacramento Union:
A party of Sacramentans returned
home last evening from trip to the
mountains, bringing with them two
deer-skins, one wildcat skin, and few
other trophies, including two tarantulas
dead ones. The tarantulas, for lack
of a better receptacle, were enclosed in a
cigar-box when caught about ten days
ago, and this box, carefully tied up,
was deposited beneath the seat of the
vehicle. While they were jclting
through the canyon, the seat slipped,
and two of the men 'occu, i g
it found themselves drO I'd
suddenly into the bottom of
the wagon. One of them struck the
cigar-bOx, crushed it, and Immediately
felt that something had hurt him. A
glance showed him that he was resting
on the tarantulas, and with yell of
"I'm stung! I'm stung!" he jumped
from the wagon, and dashing his hands
behind him he ran wildly along the
road, then turned and made for the
wagon, shouting to his amazed and
greatly alarmed companions:
"Whisky! Quick! I'm dying!
Why don't you hurry"
The other three men-there were four
in the party-reached simultaneously
for the demijohn, broke off the cork in
their haste to pull it out, and, in an
effort to break off the neck of the demi-
john to save time, broke the entire con-
Germ, and nearly all the contents were
lost.
About pint of the liquid was saved,
however, and the person who was bit
ten swallowed it. Soon he began to
feel better, and eventually felt so re-
markably well that it was evident the
poison had been forced to succumb.
Then the work of strengthening up
the contents of the wagon was COM
menced, and the tarantula box was care
fully lifted out and examined, when, be-
hold! the IS bugs" were found perfectly
lifeless, and so dry and stiff that it was
evident that they had been dead more
than p hours, while two tacks in the
broken cover of the box conveyed very
good hint as to the nature Of the injury
which the bold hunter had declared to
be tarantula-bites.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
MINOR NOTES.

A late Guatemala dispatch says: A topi.
of absorbing interest is aconspiracy to MUIR
der the President Of Guatemala and his ad-
vIsers, and to overthrow the Government,
which was discovered on the LIST inst, In
time to prevent it, by the arrest and execu-
tion of Il of the ringleaders, including Maj.
Kopesky, in charge of the artillery barracks,
Capt. De Leon Rodas, second in command,
and Gabriel Aquilar, arich priest.
The following are the sentences passed
upon Cardoza, Smalls and Carpenter in
South Carolina: Francis L. Cardoza, ex-
Treasurer of South Carolina, for conspiracy
to defraud the State, two years. imprison-
ment in Jail and s. 900 fine, and one years
Imprisonment added il the fine is not paid
at the expiration of two years. Smalls,
Member Of Congress, for accepting 5000
while member of the State Senate, three
Years at hard labor in the State Peniten-
tiary. L. Cass Carpenter, formerly proprie-
tor of the Columbia Daily Union, for
forgery in raising amounts for publishing
the laws in his paper, two years in Jail and a
fine of 81 900. Appeals will be made in all
the cases.
Bishop Enoch NJ. Marvin, of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, died at his residence
in st. Louis on the 10Th. He was born in
Warren County, No., June Il, 1923, and en-
tered the ministry when only IS years of
age. The disease from which he died was
pleuro-pneumonia.
Robert L. Case, late President of the Sc
curity Life Insurance Company, of New
York, convicted Of swearing to false re-
turn made to the Superintendent of Insur-
ance. has been sentenced to five years in the
State prison.
The murderer Rand was removed from St.
Louis to Galesburg, Knox County, H., on
the 57th, where he will be tried for murder.
Mrs. E. P. Shall, boarding -house keeper
at Columbus, o., was fatally burned on the
18th, while kindling fire with coal-oil.
The desperate Rand has been identified
as a man known as Charles A. vanzandt,
who was sentenced to the Northern Indiana
Penitentiary in 1872, for the term Of five
years, for burglary committed at Lafayette,
Ind. He was discharged in May last, upon
the expiration of his sentence.
A colony Of about 30 persons left Pitts
burg on the 2Sth, ON fatboat, intending to
60 to Arkansas by water, but as they en-
tered the Ohio River the fatboat became I'M
manageable, and striking fleet of coal
barges, was completely wrecked, the whole
party being thrown into the river. A Swiss
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

A Galveston dispatch of the I'd says
that up to that date nothing has been
heard from Lieut. Bulls and Col. Young,
who some time previously crossed the
Rio Grande with detachment of United
States troops in pursuit of thieving Ii
pans and Mexicans. 1t was believed that
they had either been killed or captur-
ed. A fight between the adherents
of Lerdo, under Gen. Amador, and the
Government proper under General Fall
con, had taken place about 25 miles
from Matamoras, in which the insur-
gents were routed and many killed. The
result is said to have been part of an
deliberately planned revolution by Esco-
bedo, which was to be developed stimuli
taneously along the entire border, but
was frustrated by the energy of the Gov
eminent commanders.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

joy to the World.-The afflicted may
now rejoice. A safe, certain and enectusl
antidote to malaria has been found. CLIF-
FORD's FEBRIFUGE IL . perfect remedy
against all diseases caused by malaria. Il
not only breaks the chill, but thoroughly
eradicates the poison. Its action IL truly
wonderful; 1t cures malarious diseases Of
Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Pc
riodical Headache and Bilious Fevers Of all
kinds. 1t IL purely vegetable and as HARM
less as water. Try il and be convinced.
j. G. RICHARDSON, Prop'r,
For sale by all Druggists. st. Louis.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

AMONG the antiquities found in the
new quarter of the Castro Pretoria al
Rome were several stone tablets an
GENTLY used by idlers in games of chance.
These tablets were of marble, either
carved or roughly scratched. They had
three horizontal lines equidistant from
each other, and each of these had twelve
signs, such as circles or leaves. Many of
them had words instead of signs, num-
bering mall thirty-six letters, and so ar
ranged that each line contained twelve,
these signs and letters being used to de-
note the points made in throwing the
dice. There were two players, and the
three lines were divided into two parts, in
each of which the player marked his
points.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

lords OswcgO Starch mas become Sc popular
IN account Of its great strength and purity,
Qiat another enlargement to the mammoth
factory has been made, containing, in its
over IL acres of flooring, and
procuring over 81 tons daily Of the best
starch made in the world.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

A STATUTE of Michigan requires all
promissory notes and other negotiable
instruments given in whole or part pay
ment for the right to make, use or sell
any patented invention, to have promi-
nently and legibly written or printed
upon the face thereof the words, +" Given
for patent rights" Such notes are also
declared to be subject to the same de-
lenses in the hands of any subsequent
holder as may exist against the original
holder. So far as patents are concern
ed the statute attempts to abrogate the
rule of the law merchant which protects
bona fiide holders of negotiable paper,
who have acquired it for value and be-
fore maturity, from defenses of which
they are ignorant. 1t imposes condi-
ton upon notes given for patents which
is not imposed upon notes given for
any other kind of property. This con-
dition obviously tends to lessen the val
ne of the rights of patentees in Michigan.
On this ground the Supreme Court of
that State has recently adjudged the
statute to be unconstitutional and void.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
The Queer Of The oven.

A breakfast biscuit or tea-roll made with
DooLEY's YEAST POWDER is certainly the
queen OF the oven-sO light, white and delic-
ious. You Lift it tenderiy, break it open gent
waiting to be gracious. After breakfasting on
biscuits made with DOoLEY's YEAST POWDER,
what man would contemplate suicide, or grum.
bic because his wife asked him for moneyl
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

The public debt statement issued De-
cember shows a decrease in the debt
since last months report of s1,323, 634.
The total debt Qess s152, sos, SAG cash
in Treasury is s2,O46, O21, O65. The
amount of coin bonds is 81, 21, 1854, $50;
legal tenders, 1851, 4O3 $3.50.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

A WORCESTER urchin was recently
observed by another in the act of stand
ing q third and small one in an invert-
ed position; whereupon the second one
cried: oh. don't Johnny, his brains'll
run into his head!,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
CURRENT EVENTS.

The Senate Judiciary Committee have
reported favorably upon the nomination
of Gen. Harlan, of Kentucky, for Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court. The
nominations of Gabriel c. Wharton,
United States Attorney for Kentucky,
and w. Fitzsimmons, United States
Marshal for Georgia, were both report
ed adversely. An adverse report was
also made by the Foreign Relations
Committee upon the nomination of h.
S. Sanford, Minister to Belgium, and q
favorable report upon that of H. Will
lard, Minister to Brazil.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
The Universal soosher!

For burns, bruises, cuts, sprains, etc., PKRRY
DAVIS "PAIN killer" Is the popular RENE
dy. It soothes the pain, produces . healthy
muscular action, and restores the proper har-
mony TO the parts. There Is NO telling when
accidents will occur, and It d well to have
hofflA NJ IL
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

An analysis of the vote Of the House
of Representatives on the repeal of the
Resumption act shows that 105 Demo-
Gratis voted fer the repeal and % cast
their votes in the negative; and that %
Republicans favored the repeal, while
80 were opposed thereto.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue., in his annual report, gives the fol-
lowing figures: Collections for the past
fiscal year were S11S,S7O,9 1897, and for
the months Of July, August, September
and October, present fiscal year, $685.
as, 1888, grand total of S157, ga, $50
collected since the beginning of the last
fiscal year. Amount of tax collected
from capital and deposits of banks for
year ending May 81, 1877, 1856, 299 !;
value of stamps imprinted on checks,
$1,277,776; amount of adhesive stamps
sold for checks, S6ll,55S; amount of
tax collected from matches, $685., 275.
The Commissioner recommends that the
tax on matches be removed, and also
the 2-cent impost on bank checks, in
case the Government can dispense with
the revenue collected therefrom. The
Commissioner recommends that the rate
of taxation on spirits and tobacco be not
changed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

The National Grange at its recent
session at Cincinnati, adopted resolu-
tons in favor of the resumption of sill
yer and the repeal of the Resumption
act. The vote on the silver proposition
stood As to 9; on anti-resumption, 80 to
IA
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

The foolish man will ask if her baby
is not trifie cross-eyed; but the wise
man will take the cars to the next town
and make his inquiries by postsf-card.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08
nbeum asism Quickly Cured

"Durars,s Rheumatic Remedy" the great In
te1nnI .Hedicne. will positively cure any case OF
rheumatism on the face Of the earth. Price 81 q
bottle. Sold by all Druggists Send for circular
to Helphenstine 4 Bentley, Warrington, d. @.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

The political situation in France, ac-
cording to dispatches of the 9th, was
approaching crisis. The newspapers
discussed the question whether the army
would support MacMahon or the Repub-
lie in case of a conflict. Manuscript
placards, insulting or threatening Presi-
dent MacMahon, were posted through
out Paris. Hundreds of persons were
arrested for drunkenness, raising sedi-
tious cries, and insulting or resisting the
police.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

Don't fail to procure Alsa. WNsL0ws SoorH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases Of teething in chill
dren. It relieves the child from pain, cures wind
collie regulates the bowels, and, by giving relief
and health to to child gives rest to The mother.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

SOUTH BOSTON.
ME- STEVENS:
Dear SirI have taken several bottles OF your vEGE
TINE, and am convinced IL Is . valuable remedy for
Dyspepsia Kidney Complaint and General Debility Of
the System. can heartily recommend 1t to all suffer-
ing from tho above complaints
Yours respectfully,
MIS- MUNROE PARKER
Vegetine II Sold by All DruSSisss.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

BEATTY Piano, Organ best a Locki aaxtiins
Den neWA Organs, II stops $S5. Pianos only $50
-coss $3.50 Cir. Free Daniel Beatty. washingt0nNJ
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-12-08

and many other celebrities were educat-
ed), ordered all the boys pockets to
be sewn up.
HUaHEs, mate of the schooner "Lo-
la, }" from Vallejo to San Francisco, saw
every thing clear for letting 60 the an
Choir in four fathoms of water the other
day, and sung out accordingly. He was
standing by the /" cathead" at the time,
and when the anchor went the mate
went with it, feet foremost, an anchor
buoy line having viciously taken turn
around his leg. By the time the anchor
reached bottom, however, Hughes had
opened his clasp knife and cut the line.
He shut the knife and put it in his pock-
ct before coming on board to report.
A LARGE peculation has been discov-
cred in sthe administration of the
Russian relief fund in Montenegro.
During the last is months as much as
$4,000 roubles monthly, making total
of 800, 900 roubles, has arrived from
Russia for the relief of Montenegrin fam
lilies rendered destitute by the war, and
the support of the 9OO, 900 Herzegovina
anrefugees atpresent in the Principality.
OF this sum, which arrived in the form
of Napoleons, over soc, 600 roubles have
been applied to other uses by the agents
employed in its distribution. To state
the matter in plain English, money sent
from Russia to Montenegro for charita-
BILE purposes has been employed by
Russian diplomacy in buying political
influence in the Principality, the object
of this lavish corruption having been to
secure more pro-Russian party among
the Montenegrins than at present exists.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16
DESIGNS OF GERMANY ON BELGIUM
Lcndon Tablet, Nov. "a.

That the bold and unscrnpulous intellect
which created and directs the new German
Empire is content with what has been already
achieved, and believes in the .fnality OF the
limits by W hich the Imperial Power is at pre-
sent circumsoribed, there is every reason to
doubt. Only last week an evening contempo-
rary called attention to the revival of Prince
Bismarck's designs upon Belgium. And we
have good grounds for believing that the
statements to which we refer were made upon
ufh hcient authority. When we speak of the
German Cbancellor's designs upon Belgium, 1t
must not be supposed that be INTENDS TO con
uuer or violently to annex it. He only wants
to Absorb and Rssimiate it. He asks the Bel
gians, with the utmost politeness, to walk
into his parlour, and about any So bsequent pro-
ceediugs he is delicatey silent as the sg:-
is said to put it in this way In the event Of
a war between FraRoe and Germany, Belgium
wonld not be able to enforce respect for her
neutrality, and England, the only Power
which cares for her Independence would not,
or could not, help her. Therefore, as Germany
| would not allow Belgium to be occupied by q
French army, she would occupy 1t herself and
would not Belgium prefer, rather than be oo-
cupied by foreign invader, to be already q
| part of the all-powerful German Empire, in.
dependent of it rs regards her own internal
administrstion, but protected by it against all
| foreign complications whatever This is not
| the first time that similar overtures have been
beard of; bot this time we are told that, W hile
| they rejected in certain high quarters, they
| are approved in quarters higher still. And
| there is family connection which may per-
hsps eventually favor the success OF some sucn
| scheme the future Queen of the Belgians is
| q Hohepzollern Princess. sister OF Prince
| Charles of Roumana. We suspect, however,
| that the arrangement would be intensely dis
tasteful to the Belgian people, and as long as
| this is the case the efforts # diplomacy will
not be of much avail. The logic of facts is
the only argument which can overcome strop
| popular opposition.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16

CosT OF THE MAGNIFICENT NEW CATHEDRAL
IN NEW YoRK.-Two Sundays ago, Very Rev.
Father Q1inn, Vicar General of the Archdio-
cese of New York, made q statement in st..
Patrick's Cathedral concerning the cost of the
new Cathedral and the manner in which it
was proposed to raise the funds necessary for
its completion. He said that up to the present
time about Sc ,000. 900 had been expended upon
it, 81 400, 900 of which had been subscribed by
the faithful. When completed it will be the
fnest structure of the kind on the American
continent, and superior to any that has been
built in Europe for the past one hundred and
fity years. 1t will be open for divine worship
within two years, very probably eighteen
months from next May. The principal altar is
beiuR made in Rome, and the side altars in
France. His Eminence the Csrdin al deferred
for more than ayear having collection taken
Nd but was at length compelled in order to
meet the demands made upon him. He had to
give mortgages on the property and building
| in order to keep the work going on but, as it
would be rash to give any more, he had no
other course for him to pursue than to order
a collection so as to help to pay the interest,
The various churches of the archdiocese pay
annually from 81 900 to S., 900 a subscrip
ton, which is made up by monthly subscrip
tons. The Cardinal bimself, he said, from
his own slender means, has already subscribed
about $50, 900. From partial returns received
it was estimated that the gross amount col
looted Sunday at the special collection ordered
by the Cardinal was between eighteen and
twenty Thousand dollars. st. Patrioks Cathe'
dral and st. Stephens Church, two of the
largest congregations in New York, each raised
about four hundred doll0rs. In the ffty-three
churches in the city proper the collections
will probably average two hundred and fifty
dollars each. The remaining seventeen
churches in the archdiocese are located mainly
! in country districts, and the collections will
be small. Sundays collection falls about
twenty per cent. below that taken up two
years ago for the same object. Before the
church reaches condition to be dedicated to
divine service an expenditure of about one
hundred thousand dollars must be met. Once
the church is in use the revenue from the
sale of pews and other sources will be looked
to for the completion of tho spires and the
narfectine of the interior decorations, the to-
tai cost of which will be nearly $500 600.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16

adjourns without some peaceful solution We
may find ourselves, when we come back again,
com PEELED to vote upon questions of supply
for military operations.
Mr.. Reagan favored modes of peace, but
intim ated that the free zone was an obstacle
to commercial interests
Mr.. Cox, of New York thought the matter
should be settled diplomatically. Mexico was
our neighbor-our sick neighbor. He was at q
loss to know why Gen. Diaz had not been
Mr. Mills, of Texas, admitted that diplomacy
was proper between civilized nations which
had strong Gsvernments upheld by their peo-
pie, but that was not the condition of society
in Mexico. The people there recognized 10
government. Since the republic had been
declared in 1874, there had been four rulers in
Mexico. That country had broken treaties
with the United States, and be protested
against another treaty being made only to be
again broken. The people of the Mexican re-
public were an etfervescent people, and the
Government of Mexico was in q constant state
of ebullition. Was it not madness to treat
with such a people and such a Government :
He was not in favor vi war; nobody was
The Texan people loved peace and order, bns
to be chanting "Peacel peace !" through the
halls of the American Congress, when COM
mittee of the House had reported that for the
Of warfars 1she border.
Mr.. Wood, of New York, did not believe thai
the Executive desired war. He (Mr. Wood
thought that the President desired to pre-
serve life and property on the border. The
country wanted peace; it wanted to take ad
vantage of the present peaceful condition o.
the country to revive it's surken industry and
enlarge its power. He could not for q moment
think that there was the least danger of war
Resolutions introduced: By Mr.. Rea, of Mis-
souri,. Proposing an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for the election of Senators
by the direct vote of the people.
By Mr.. Turner of Kentucky For a tax or
incomes; also reducing the salaries of all pub
lie officials which exceed 81 500, twenty five
per cent.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16
PAPAL STATISTICS.

The journal of the French Statistical soce-
to publishes some statistics concerning the
Popes which at the present time cannot but be
read with the profoundest interest. The
reignipg Pontif, Pus TX, is the 257th Pope.
of whioa wonderful array Is were French, -
Greeks, 8 Syrisns, 6 Germans, 5 Spaniards,
Africans 2 Savoisiens, Dalmatians; England,
Portugal, Holland, Switzerland, and Canads al
rest. Since 1923 sll the Popes have been Sc
lected from Italian Cardinals. Seventy Bish-
ops of Rome, belonging. with very few e1oep-
tions, to the epoch preceding the establish mens
saints. The ten last centuries have seen only
nine Popes ssncti6ed. OF the 256 successors
of st. Peter, eight died within Q month OF
their elevation to the Pspacy, 40 within q
year, % were seated between one and two
years, 81 from two to five years, 81 from five to
len years, 81 from 10 to Is. 19 from Is to 70
years, and nine more than 20 years. Plus TX.
in the years of bis Pontfcate surpassed in
1874 ali The Roman Pontltfs. In respect Of
age, be has been surpassed as yet by some cf
his predecessors. There died between 80 and
90 years, John XII, Pope of Avignon (13l6t:
BAY, Clement XII. (173040); and at the age of
100 years, Gregory TX. Q237 4D, nephew of
Innocent III. Up to the present, no Pope has
died between sc and 90 years of age; the only
one who surpassed 90 died g centenatian.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-12-16

Referring to the recent illness of Cardinal
Manning in Paris, the Liverpool Times OF Nov
30th, says:
Glad to learn from u lCtter Just received from
&onsignor Rogerson, still continues to i'm
prove. He is, however, emerging from ex-
treme prostration, aud it will be fully another
fortnigbt before be will be able to return
home by slow stages. A life so valuable to
the Church in England, and in so enfeebled
and critical position, must awaken the deep
est anxiety throughout the Catholic world