The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-12-19
CRUMBS SWEPT UP.


The lola REGISTER.
CRUMBS SWEPT UP.
Congress adjourns to-day until January It'll.
Atchison claims to have shipped, the past
year, 45i ,S2l hogs.
Congressman Haskell must be sick of post Of
fee fights by this time.
The necessaries of life have advanced nearly
thirty per cent. since last May.
What does the Independeat think Of the Maine
conspiracy? Straddle that fence.
Blaine is the first choice of Kansas editors for
President. Grant second in the list.
The Prussian government proposes to take
charge of the railroads of that country.
Ten thousand colored exodusters in Indiana
will swamp the Democratic ticket for 1850.
Chicago has q elevators with an aggregate ca
,acity IL 600 900 bushels, 4, Ss car loads Of
grain.
It is said that Chicago now has the largest ele-
yator in the world. Its capacity is 500, 600
bushels.
Gen. Mahoue has been elected by the Virginia
legislature to succeed Mr.. Withers to the United
states Senate.
The weather is reported terribly cold In Mime
s,ta and several instances of persons freezing to
death are reported.
Large quantities Of American goods are being
shipped to Mexico, and French merchants are
becoming alarmed
Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the NJ. Z. Church,
WAS reported seriously i'll with malarial fever, in
Mondays dispatches.
One hundred colored emigrants from North
Carolina are their way to Indianapolis. More
are preparing to follow.
senator Blaipe's strong position against agita-
ting the currency question will add to his al
ready great popularity in the West.
If 1t were not for the ''Monday Club and
society sangaree" we should be able to get
few items out of the State paper, occasionally.
The law of Maine says the Governor cannot
I.eddle with certain officials; whereupOu the
I Democratic governor declares the law unconsti-
tutional.
mammoth coal company is to be organized
as Williamsburg, for the extensive mining of
c,aI. Vigorous operations will commence at an
early day.
BY special request of Senator Ingalls, the tele-
gra'.h company have agreed to give up all tele
grams sent and received by him during tie SEN
aforial election.
seven thousand soldiers and sailors have petit
r. Toned Congress to pay them the difference be-
tween gold and currency at the time they re-
ccived their pay.
At the town of Red Rock, Pa, on the 18th
list. three hundred families were made homeless
u ire caused by the ignition of gas well.
Rivers of lire flowed through the streets.
In the libel suft>sf Carlotta Patti against the
- Louis Dispatch, the members Of her troupe
. testified to her being a temperance woman
rever drinking anything stronger than ginger
ale.
Col. John A. Martins pame is mentioned as a
candida tie for Governor next fall. Wen throw
IL, our hat for Col. Martin this time; and do
what we should have done two years asotr
tjierea bouts.
Present indications at lyashinston point TO a
rev alliance upon the rart.of the South with the
money power OF the East. Leading southern
politicians are endorsing Senator Bayari's bill
i i'll position upon the finances.
-Four prisoners escaped from Fl. Scott Jail |
-f,nday night. The names of the prisoners who /!
hoSeS 10y, with hoisc |
-tGaiing; J. 1. johnson, burglary; and Vim. |
= re and J. a. Mills, confidence men.
IN Tuesday Gen. Grant received splendid re-
r.ltion at Philadelphia. The procession was six |
hours passing given point. The streets were
:,,autifully decorated and scores of distinguish |
ei men of the nation were present at.the pageant |
\ Boston detective claims to have information |
Rat Rev. Z. ID. Winslow, the forSer, is in Buen-
5 Ayres; under the assumed name of W. ID. |
Love, and publishing the Buenos Ayres Herald |
ii"manfests great interest in religious affairs. |
Congressman Bragg has introduced a resolu-
lion into Congress providing for the re-instate-
rnclt of Fitz John Porter as a. Colonel in the
;.rmg, reyoling all past findings of court mar
ais, and providing for the payment of arrear-
-..-s,es 81 pay.c
nathan Price, Of Doniphan county, who has
an mentioned favorably for attorney general
IS the state, declines to run. There are few
men in the State who would crelitably ill the
o. ice and we are sorry to see that he will not be
!, 2andidate.
ia the Supreme Court at Topeka on the 10th,
tbs rnandamus suit to force the Commissioners
Of Mitchell county to recanvass the vote by which
tea thousand dollars of the bonds of that county
w.re recently voted to the X. p. road, was dis
missed at The request Of large number Of the
citizens of Mitchell county.
Recent comparative measurements of the era
LA Of eminen. B.en and of criminals show that,
while capacious intellect requires a large
saGii, large Uranium is not alway s::attendedb by
high order of intelligence. The crania of
Considerable number of criminals were.found to
have a capacity much above the average.