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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-11

color of dirt, that dug them up every
little while to see whether they had
changed already. And they had.
Lizbeth's beautiful white stomacher be-
came brown, and those gold spots on
Baby's shoulders were getting to be
very dull.
One bleak day in January, I carried
them both, in my coatpockets, to the
studio of Mr.. Church, the artist. I
wanted him to draw their portraits.
He made some pictures of them, but
unfortunately Lizbeth took cold, and
became quite i'll. Fer two days she
languished. She took no interest in
anything. On the second day
thought I might divert her by letting
her do some of her tricks with tooth
pick. She took the tooth-pick in her
little hands and breathed her last.
Troubles never come singly. On
the next morning but one, found
Baby's box on the floor of the library;
the dirt was scattered over the carpet,
and, on her back, under the center
table, lay poor Baby! The kitten bad
been playing with her, had tumbled
her about the room, had rolled on her,
and paved her and killed her!
Alas! Though the spring shall
come, with many beetles and bugs in
its train. it will bring me only sad re.
, membranes of my little friends, the
. horned 1izzards.-George Houghtos, IL
. st. Nicholas.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-06-11

Unsolicited testtasONy to fhe Edtc1cg ~
E.rOc SI0ryis' seminal PNSftltes, fNSese
from Letters received from Patrons:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
Putting the Churn in Mourning.

Yes, Mr.. Spicer,'' said the Colonel,
there were quaint characters enough
in the Confederate service to have fur
nished recruits for your Spice column
for a long time if could recall them all
There was old DIR. Lance, one of the
most skillful physicians in the South,
and well and faithful he served us as
in his profession the Doctor was care
less of his personal appearance, and
often oblitious OF his Surroundings Re-
turning after Il brief furlough which he
had taken to attend the funeral of a rel
alive, the Doctor rode into camp mount
ed on his well known sorry white steed,
and wearing on his head, instead of the
customary slouched head-covering, a
tall white hat with two-thirds of the
crown encircled with rusty Grape.
"Now, a plug hat of any kind was
a rarity In the army, but such peculiar
plug as the Doctors could not escape
observation, and many gibe was lev
eled at it unheard by the absent minded
Esculapius until soldier who had more
whisky than discretion in him laid hand
on the Doctors bride and greeted him
with:
".Hello, Doc!'
"Arousing himself, he bestowed a
freezing look and Sir!' upon the au-
dacious one.
"In no way disconnected, the soldier
cheerfully remarked:
".Well, Doctor, the old cow has died
at last, hasn' she?''
"Cow! What do you mean, sir,'
said the Doctor sternly.
"'Meanp' drawled the son of Mars, as
he stood back and bestowed long look
of mock pity at the Doctors tall white
hat; why, | supposed the old COW must
be dead, as you have put the churn in
'"-Bosto,s Commercial BAL
Ietin.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

of his earnings for liquor. Mrs. Lane was
an intelligent woman, of good family con-
nections, and it is said eloped from home to
be married.
AT Brule City, Dakota Ter, recently,
Jim Somers, known from Yankton to Bis
marck lawless and dangerous man, had
an alteration with his uncle, NJ. Somcrs,
which resulted in both being shot dead.
BY the explosion of boiler In Barton
& Babcock's distillery at Peoria. ILL.,, on
the 18th, John Sill, fireman, and an I'M
known man who had just come in to inquire
for work, were instantly killed: REM. Bah
cock, one of the proprietors, and John Rich
ardson. an employee. We're fatally injured,
and three others We're badly hurt. The eX-
plosion was caused by pumping cold water
into the boiler, which had been allowed to
get nearly dry.
The boiler in John +. Thompson's
steam mill at Randolph, n. H., burst on the
18th, destroying the mill and killing Elden
Page. Roger johnson, Mr.. Prescott and a
French workman. and badly injtiing :. +:
Hewcy.
Notwithstanding the Presidents proc
lamatioh it is said that an organized invasion
of the Indian Territory from Southern Kaii-
sas will be made ut an early day.
The officers and members of the Ter
rtorial Legislature of New Mexico made a
pleasure excursion over the newly completed
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to
Kansas. They were publicly entertained at
Atchison, Topeka and Leavenworth. e.
Page Wallis, colored, who was under
arrest for committing an indecent assault
upon 4 white woman. ON the 18th was taken
from. the Sheriff at Point of Rocks, Nd,
carried across the river to the Virginia shore,
where the offense was committed, and
hanged by mob, after which his body was
riddled with bullets. 4
A passenger train on the Bellaire and
Railroad off trestle
thirty-five feet high, nine miles southwest
of Bellaire, o., on the evening of the 10Th.
Some twenty passengers were injured, sew
eral fatally, as supposed, and most of the
others severely.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Turkey.
Thomas j. Dougherty and John F.
Cassiday, firemen, were killed by the fall
ing Of the roof of burning building in
New York City on the night OF the Goth.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

gan spoke in favor of it. Mr.. Morrill, moved
that the senate take up and pass the House
bill admitting free of duty certain contribu-
tions from abroad in aid of colored refugees
in Kansas. The bill had been referred to the
Fiuancc Committee, and he had obtained the
consent OF the members of that committee
during the afternoon to report it favora-
bly, and ask its immediate consideration.
Mr.. Pcndleton objected account of
the irregularity of such procedure.
MIR. Voorhees, nj 50 objected, but said he would
not oppose the bill on its merits. Mr.. herman
urged that the bill lie passed. Mr.. Voorhees, i'll
sisting upon his ol,ie rtious, no action was
taken and the senate adjourned till Monday.
Honse-A resolution was adopted, calling on
the secretary of the Interior for information
as to the amount of land subsidy granted
to the st. Joseph and Denver City Railroad
Company, the disposition made of those
lands, and why said road has
not been completed to junction
with the Union Pacific Railroad mt kearney,
Ncb. Mr. Phillips ID, Mo- offered IL resolu
ton which was adopted, instructing the Com
Inittee on Appropriations to include in the
civil sundry bill an appropriation of 200 for
the benefit of the widow of the late Repre-
sentative \. NJ. Lay, of Missouri.
Mr.. King ID, La introduced bill dividing
Louisiana into judicial districts. Referred.
The Revision of liulrs was further considered
in Committee, and the House likewise ad-
jOuIned till Monday.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

1t is said that an entire family of nine,
women and children, whose house stood
upon the bank of Mayield Creek, near May
field, n.y., were drowned during a freshet
on the 18th. The house was washed away.
The Empire Storage Warehouse, 1873
204 South Market Street, Chicago, burned
on the night Of the 18th, with all its valua-
BILE contents, consisting Of liquors, dry
goods, fruits, etc., vauled at $4,000, most
of which was covered by insurance.
Rev. Andrew Andreen, for ten years
past pastor of Swedish Lutheran Churches
at Berlin and Swedana, Henry County, ILL.,,
hung himself at Rock Island on the 18th,
while temporarily insane.
A Tucson (Nev.) dispatch of the 9th
says that Captain Rucker, of the Ninth Cav
airy, commanding one of the columns prIr-
suing the hostile Indians, had been routed
by the latter and forced to retreat, with the
loss Of several men and horses and all his ra-
tons.
At Syracuse, NY, on the night of
the 18th, Amelia Mantz shot and killed her
cousin and lover, Julius G. Mantz, u well
known musician, and then committed sui
eide. The parties had maintained an Illicit
relationship for some years, and the shoot
ing was in consequence of the mans refusal
10 marry the woman whom he had ruined.
KAT Cambridge, Lancaster County,
fasIcvi Lane, aged "a, murdered his wife
anu ,ne child, consigned another infant
emu , death from starvation, and then
e"iii'hi'>d suicide by taking poison. A little
boy, aad 3 years, was for some
uiaceouh'ble reason spared the fate
Oh 'ne oser members OF the fam
yen discovered by the neighbors the
'.uie 1e'roN as nearly dead from starva-
,lpn '"a cold, p feet and legs being so badly
8 10 hesssitate amputation. Lane
"zy ana Worthless vagabond, who
HNed y doing odtiol,s and spent the most
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A John SHERMAN CLUB " has beer
| OF furthering Mr.. Sherman's Presidentia
prospects.
The Chicago Inter Ocean, by authori
y OF the Hon. 4. Is: Washburne, announce
, n' ~ nv = -. i O. .ne ,esiue"cy
his'' '"''' "'" al
Inc M, .'nie /, 81
;, 80 -io'e ,oo.n.,'i'-Uo vi E,eo'ionS
n;s,r;1. - po,,,,,,,a.;. ~,
lx ~, =. !. rms mia ~i.i i1poi' III law,
.be d;striet tor = nau- a,oa,ion A' pe'p'' VI
..'a o 80 iii'"o INC ooii'
,N. Ma n". VI $1,000 py Tue VIII Vi .he
.a.. W. Doi,e VI niiaueiPn,a me entire
attached 10 ,be.wiII IL ,;st Of Iecacia. wh J,
the testator desired to be paid in the even,
that his wife should make no other disnosi.
tion of the nronertv Cen Grant n mn,
down for $40 600 in this scbeduIe
M, I.urs n Tuo,.o a.
ro,irod lie, 90 ~, ,or,,,.,,.
- - Is g.. =. ~ - ioi h''iioer
: a ,,-,,-,o' 80 IN ."e i ''n
elected coxor,. 30 a., c. -,
nos nIa,,ioo
,en,nt-Covernor of Rh,da IsIand ton :
short time United states senator from that
State, and the author of a history of Rhode
Island, died on the 18th.
REv En- Krxxrnv od;tor of 81,
c,,,I. t.,- nv
inent citizen of Macon. Ga. died on the 18th
of apoplexy, aged forty
THE Kansas Ronrb,;oo, c.o.o w..
vention ,vi,rho ho,d ~ Toro,a 49, o. ~, =,
- VIM 0 N'U al A'peN" oh Inc 'is' Vi
Ir ia announced that Mr. J.rs n
FAR ,vbo l. .,sn u,i,,;a.;ro -
Fr.n.isco viii ,.on,os, NJ Shara., >. -. 80,
frn,,, Zovad.. 20 a. T,;,., So 80
Mr. Fair Is TO he r,,,, hr tha Domnnr.,s
'~
s,.;,,, -;,;.,- :. O.. II, - '
u,,set md ,bro,,, ~ ~. Va
a level valued at 3 On Gao With -, ,a,as,
accounts b,d nj hao, fo,,,,,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
The Werewolf of-Superstition.

Among the countless superstitions of
the Don Cossacks there is very curl
Gus reproduction of the medieval belief
in the Werewolf" or human beast of
prey, gifted with the power of taking at
will the form of either wolf or man. The
Cossacks give to these horrible half
breeds the name of Vov-Kulal," and
have the firmest belief in their prefer
natural powers. 1t is no uncommon
thing to hear a gray-haired peasant on
the Don tell, with bated breath and
nervous glances over his shoulder, how
some local hunter lately killed prowl-
ing wolf, and how an old man of evil
reputation was found dead in his bed
next morning. The African exploits of
DIR. Livingstone and Mr.. Stanley when
first noised abroad in Russia, were :. as
cribed by popular superstitioa to their
supposed power of transforming them
selves into wild beasts. Only three years
ago an unfortunate traveller was
seized in one of the Cossack villages, On
suspicion of being Il 'VGv=Kulak," and
dragged before theslocal ma gistrate by a
mob of infuriated peasants who clam
ored for his life. The ready-witted
Judge a.'suredsthem that Justice should
be done, but suggested that it might be
well to prove the charge first, and turn.
ing tothe prisoner babe him make the
sign of the cross. The man at once
obeyed, and the Cossacks, taking this
as "a clear proof that he could be no
demon, embraced him with yells of de-
light, and carried him off to celebrate
the occasion with a prolonged drinking
bouf
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
A Sample Of the Exodus Investigation.

WASHINGTON, February IL.
The Senate Exodus Committee. re-
sumed examination of witnesses this
morning. +. F. Loftin, from Kinston,
N. c., was called and corroborated the
testimony of previous witnesses regard
ing good treatment of colored people by
whites in North Carolina, and stated
that white Republicans generally in his
county Oenoir) are opposed to the ex-
odus of the blacks.
j. H. Russell, an undertaken from
Indianapolis, testified that up to JAN
uary %, or within a period of two
months, there had been inferred at the
expense of the county in which the city
of indianapolis is located from twenty
five to thirty men, women and children
from among colored emigrants who had
arrived at indianapolis from North
Carolina. They were all buried as
paupers at an average expense to the
county of five dollars and fifteen cents
each. From reports brought to him by
men in his employ and from his own
observation. he could say there was
great destitutiops among emigrants in
indianapolis. He mentioned an ex-
treme case that he saw. himself, having
visited house to attend to the burial
of one of the children, where a family
of nine lived in a small hut. having but
two rooms, and where there was no
furniture and nothing for bed but
pile of straw and blanket. He thought
it a shame and an outrage both on the
emigrants and the people of Indiana to
bring these poor, destitute people to
that State. He believed the people OF
Indiana generally were opposed to it,
but thought some leading Republicans
were assisting the movement for polit-
zeal purposes.
james E. Baker, of Indianapolis,
Democrat, and Clerk in the State Aud
TORS office. was examined, and testified
that he had an interview with colored
emigrant from North Carolina named
Heath. in which he deceived Heath by
representing himself as a Republican,
and that he induced Heath to make
sworn statement, which was produced
and identified by witness. Heath in
this statement says, among other
things:
We have been instructed to get away from
North Carolina by the LIST of next June QSS0),
So that our numbers will show In the next
census.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

Witness spoke of this statement rs
one "of the first darby affidavits cap
turcd,'' and gave testimony which
showed that Democrats had praeticed
similar deception upon .emigrants in
other cities.
Scott Ray, editor Of the Shelbyville
Und.) Democrat, testified that there
was but one other newspaper, Re-
publican journal, published at Shelby
Vile; and which had never opposed the
exodus movement, but, on the con-
trary, had encouraged immigration to
Indiana by setting forth that there was
a good demand for labor in that State.
The opposite to this he believed to be
the truth as regards the labor demand.
He produced and read memorandum
of a conversation he had with a lead
ing Republican of the county on the
25th of January last. The paper was
admitted in evidence, and was as fol-
lows:
had a conversation with Henry s. Byers,
ex,thair f Of the Republican Central Com I'm
city of Shelbyville, in the presence OF Edward
Small and George NJ. Gouldink, two of the
said: There is no Disgusting the fact, Ray,
the exodus movement of colored men to In
loan party, as know it to be fact. We in
tend to carry Indiana with the aid of the
hegro vote, and if the Republican party had
taken my advice six years ago they would
them here long ago. We tttend. to bring
eight Thousand of them into the State fr time
for them to vote this fall and will place them
IN close Congressional districts. While it h
tather expensive, it is cheaper for the party
than to be Compelled to buy votes on the day
of election, as We have always had to do" I
asked him if he was id position to know
whether it was an organized effort of Repub-
lican managers to bringsthem into the State
for political purposes, and he said he was, and
then produced letter with the heading OF the
Republican State Central Committee printed
upon It, but refused to read its contents.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
A Bit Of Secret History.

The following telegram from New
York appears in a recent issue OF the
Washington Cd. CO. Post: In connec-
ton with the Posts late biography of
Governor Seymour and the statement
contained therein that he received on
frequent occasions the warmest eX-
pressions of gratitude and appreciation
from President Lincoln and his Cabi-
net. curious piece of political histo-
~ has been made public. In 1864,
when Lincoln. supposed it was not i'm
possible that Judge Chase would de-
feat him for the Republican nomina-
ton, he looked about for patriotic
and popular Democrat for whom the
whole strength of the Administration
could, in an emergency, be thrown.
Mr.. Lincoln not only distrusted Judge
Chase's fidelity to what he considered
cardinal principles, but his judgment
as well, and was known to have ex-
pressed to a number of personal friends
the gravest apprehensions in the event of
his being placed in the Executive chair.
Mr.. Lincoln, therefore, wrote to Mr..
Seymour, who has it now in his pos
session, a long letter in which the
proposition was made and urged upon
him with great force and logic that he
should become candidate for the
Presidency on as high a party
plane as possible, so that he could
receive the support of such Re-
publicans as considered the sue
cess of the Union cause paramount
in importance to the schemes of
mere political tricksters or Southern
haters. This solicitation of Mr.. Lin
coins was joined in by Secretary STAN
ton. and, as may be readily inferred,
the reasons given for selecting him
were of the most complimentary char
acter. Mr.. Seymour received the sug-
gestions with his usual modesty, but
declined in most peremptory manner
to consider it, urging that his duty to
the people of the State of New York
required him to serve out his term rs
Governor, and precluded his seeking or
permitting other honors to be imposed
upon him. To Mr.. Seymour's answer
MIR Lincoln replied in second letter,
urging that the craftsmanship then re-
quired demanded q higher duty than
party consideration of State pride, and
reiterated the confidence of the people
in Mr.. Seymour's honesty, loyalty and
fair dealing to all classes and interests.
Mr.. Seymour was proof against all
these solicitations, and it was upon his
intlexible refusal to become Il candidate
that Mr.. Lincoln addressed himself Ia
the task of securing the denomination
of his own party and defeating MIR.
Chase's ambition. There are gentle
men in this city to whom, under the
seal of confidence, Mr.. Seymour has
shown these two letters, and it is sup
posed that they will only he given to
The public when his "reminiscences of
the war period. which it is understood
he is leisurely compiling, shall be pub
liShed.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
Precipitating Rainfalls by Scientific
- Means.

General Daniel Ruggles, of Virginia,
at the request of the Senate Committee
on Agriculture, appeared before them
the other day and briefly explained his
method of precipitating rainfalls by
scientific means. His method tor which
he has recently been granted a patenD
is to send up to the cloud realm car
tridges of dynamite or similar explosive
materials in skeleton balloons, and to
explode Them either by time-fuses or by
magncto-electricity, through light me-
tai wires connecting the balloons with
the earth. General RuGgles, as the
result of many years of study and in
vestigation on this subject, claims that
the different mists passing over arid
regions, or localities suffering from I'M
usual drought, may readily be CONSOLE
dated into rainfalls by conclusions and
vibrations thus artificially produced; ;
and he has therefore suggested to the
Committee that Congress might provide
a small appropriation for expenditure
by the Commissioner of Agriculture to
test the practicability of aiding the
agricultural interests in this manner
The Committee listened to General Rug
gles's statements with much interest and
requested him to prepare an amplilied
memorial on the subject, with view to
their taking it more fully into consider
alton at an early day.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

PosTMAsTER-GE KEY has is
sued an order to Second Assistant Post
master General Brady, directing that
the "star" service on all routes be cut
down to one trip per week, after March
L; also directing that the service placed
on new routes since July last be dis
continued, in case the foregoing reduc-
ton is not sufficient to bring the cost of
such service within the limits of the ap-
propriation,.as required by law. =. !.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

The House Committee on Territories
have agreed to report favorably on Mr..
Vests bill for the organization of Ter
ritorial form of government in the In
dian Territory. The Senate Committee
on Territories will also report in favor
of similar bill, and it is probable that
the matter will be acted upon by both
Houses during the present session.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28
CURRENT TOPICS,

THE Baroness -Burdett-C outts intends
to devote S2,5o0,OO0 to the permanent
relief of the Irish. The project is to
expend the money for the purchase of
land in the district of Conemara, County
Galway, to be leased to farmers at low
rentals and on long time.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

The National Blaine Club" has been
organized in Washington, and it is said
that similar clubs are to be organized
throughout the country, to actively pro-
mote the interests of Mr.. Blaine as a
Presidential candidate before the Chi
cago Convention.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

The California Legislature has passed
bill providing for the enforcement of
that clause of the new Constitution
which forbids the employment of Chi
nese labor by corporations organized
and doing business under the laws of
the State, and the Governor has affixed
his signature to the same. There is
considerable opposition to this law on
the part of some of the large corpora
tons, however, who propose to test its
constitutionality by bringing it before
the Supreme Court of he.United States
as soon as a test case can be made.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

PROF. NEvIL STORY MAsKELYNE, of
the Mineral Department of the British
Museum, writes to the London Times
announcing the entire success of j. Bal
lantyne Hannay, of Glasgow, Fellow
of the Chemical Society, London, in
producing diamonds. Hannay's proc
ess will soon be announced to the Royal
Society.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

lana in Congress to use their influence
to have the duty on printing paper,
chemicals, and materials used in the,
manufacture thereof removed or materi-
ally reduced
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

A PITTsBURG inventor, Mr.. r. j.
McTige, claims to have discovered a
a process for transmitting TIN physi.
cal wave-force Of light electrically SINH
lar to the transmission of sound b. the
telephone" Among the somewhatre-
markable feats the inventor expects =.
accomplish by his discovery is the pho.
tographing at any distance of persons
or other objects, and the transmission
or exact reproduction at any distance
of any printed or written document, AS
for instance, one entire side of a news
paper. The "telephote - is the name
given to the invention
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

THE exkhcdive has arranged Il grand
tour which will embrace Rome, Paris,
and London. But before starting or
he has sent an envoy to the Vatican r.
ask an audience with the Pope. If
granted, this win be one of the most
noteworthy meetings in history.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-02-28

A PAPAL encyclical, just published,
argues in favor of the removal of the
rite of marriage from all civil jurisdic-
ton whatever, and declares that Christ
elevated it to a sacrament which
only His Church can ad-
minister The, attempt made
under various guises by the. modern
spirit of irreligiont 70 rob the Church of
her right either to bind or loose the
marriage tie must be resisted by the
whole Catholic world.