The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1878-05-25
GENERAL BREvITIES.

GENERAL BREVITIES.
THE present of Secretary Sherman to
his niece, who married Senator Don
Cameron, was check for s., 900.
WoMAN's rights have been so far
recognized at Fort Edward, N. Y, to
make Mrs. Sarah T. Cook Pound
mistress.
MELANcHoLIA, which has struck the
Car of Russia, is said to have affected
every aHtocrat of his family after the
age of so.
Mrs. ALLINGHAM, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, dropped dead from heart dis
ease last week, from seeing q fight be-
tween her two sons.
Mrs. SAMUEL WILLIAMS, of West
Cambridge, w. Va, recently gave birth
to a child which is doing well, though it
weighed but one and half pounds
when a week old.
Mr.. CARLIN, of Mason, Texas, is said
to be the largest sheep raiser in the
southwestern portion of the State. He
has herd of 10, 900, and his annual clip
has just yielded him 5O,OOO pounds.
THE San of Hartwell, Ca, claims dis
tinction for Hart County, on the ground
that there is not General or a Colonel
in it, rare thing in the counties of
Southern States. It has, however, a
large number of one-armed and one-leg-
ged soldiers.
A TRAMP stole ride from San Fran
cisco to Council Bluffs by slowing HIM
self in freight car loaded with bales of
sheep pelts reaching to within two feet
of the roof. He got out at the latter
city by breaking hole in the side of the
car.
SOME months ago man named Pack
er organized large colony of emigrants
in Allegheny County, Md, collected
considerable money from them to pay
for handsome homesteads in Nebraska,
and conducting them as far as Omaha
disappeared, leaving them penniless and
friendless.
ANOTHER death from fright was that
of Bryant Foley, WATERFOWL IN. W
young man with a broken leg, who got
so strong an impression that the carbol-
ic acid used as wash had poisoned his
system, that, though he was apparently
well at o'clock in the afternoon, he was
a corpse within three hours.
A SPAN of horses drawing a carriage
ran away in Chicago, and the driver
was thrown off. Three women in the
carriage screamed for a dozen blocks
without bringing any body to their res
cue. Then one of them broke the win
dow in front, crawled through the aper-
ture, reached down to the loose reins,
and stopped the horses. Her compan-
ions saved her from falling over the
dashboard BY holding to her legs.
Mrs. GEN. r. L. WILLIAMS contrib
utes the following TO the Mt. Sterling
Ry.) Democrats collection of mon
strosities: On last Sunday one of her
hens laid three eggs within Is minutes
of each other, and she has another hen
that has under her charge 81 young
ducks. Mrs. Williams also has fuchsia
which has attained the enormous height
of IA feet.
A NEW Irish organization against
England is the United Sons of Liberty,
which has spread throughout New Eng
land. The Head Center is William
Connor of Lawrence, Mass, an exile of
'4S. He says that the members intend
to arm themselves and be ready to make
an onslaught on England at the first IA
vorable opportunity. He is soliciting
contributions from mill-hands with con-
siderable success.
HENRY ALTRoCK, of East Delaware,
o., died of grief, on learning of the ruin
of his daughter Anna by Israel W.
Fowle, a married man and prominent
railroad official, under whom Mr.. Al
trock was employed, and to whom he
had often confided his daughter when
going to visit her sister in Hamilton, o.
The mother of the young girl is also
completely broken down with grief, and
it is feared that she too will die.
A DISPATCH from Quebec says that
the people on the Labrador coast whose
fisheries failed last fall are living on fish
offal and dog food, and even the dogs
themselves, and that there have been
many deaths from starvation. OF 5
families consisting of 40 persons in one
parish only 5 survive. Scurvy is cpl
demic. The Lieutenant-G General of Que
bee has ordered food, clothing and med
icine to the coast.
A NORTHERN New York town has had
remarkable suit for possession of
brood of chickens. A hen of a fancy
breed laid the eggs upon neighbours
premises, where hen belonging to an
owner of the land took possession of the
nest and Matched them. The two neigh
bors quarreled for possession of the
brood, but the owner of the hen which |
Matched the eggs sold it, and Court |
has since decided that his hen was legal |
mother of the brood.
GEN. SHERMAN proposes some very
radical changes in the equipment of the |
regular troops. He is in favor of doing
away with the bayonet, the Sergeant's |
sword, the cartridge-box, belt-plates
and knapsack, and substituting in their
stead good revolver, leather pouch
for cartridges, knife, rubber blan-
ket and provision-sack. He says that
the blanket will contain all the clothing
necessary for long march, and should
be worn across the body from shoulder
to waist.
THE Rev. w. G. Haskell has preach
ed his farewell sermon in the Episcopal
Church in Medford, Mass. The parish
requested him to resign. He says that
his downfall is the result of an unfortun-
ate combination of circumstances. One
evening he took large dose of Medford
rum to cure a cold, and went to bed;
but he had scarcely fallen asleep when
surprise party of young folks took
possession of his house. He had to get
up and entertain them. The rum and
the sudden awakening dazed him, and
he created the immersion that ho mos |