The Iola register., 1880-09-10

each be given to both Of. Jackson and DR..
Morton. DR.. jackson was ut one period a
colaborer with DR.. Morse, the reputed in
ventor of the telegraph, and claimed to have
suggested to the latter the main features of
the telegraphic device patented by him.
COMMERCE. AND INDUSTRY.
The excess of United States exports,
at specie values, for the month ending July
81, was $13, 71S, ,3O3, against So, Ga $40 in the
corresponding period of last year. For the
twelve months ending July 81, this year, tho
excess was $151, ,754, PAT, against $263, ,643. .264
for the same period Of 1879.
THE Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company have determin-
ed to extend their road from Binghamton to
Buffalo, N. Y, thus securing through line
from New York to the West, in competition
with the Central and Erie.
THE wheat crop along the Northern
Pacific Railroad, although three weeks later
than last year, it is believed will turn out in
good condition.
THE first passenger train over the
New Orleans and Texas Railroad arrived at
Houston on the 31st ult. An artillery salute
was fired.
THE public debt statement issued
Sept. shows the reduction Of the public
debt during August to be ST., ,027, ,167; cash
in Treasury, $196, ,66S, 1892; gold certificates,
800; silver certificates, $13, ,13S 040; Ger
tificates of deposit outstanding, $11 .3O0, 900;
refunding certificates, 81, ,1O6, 40; legal ten
ders outstanding, $346, ,6s1 ;016; fractional
currency outstanding, 81, 1s1 1896.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
j. S. MORGAN, a well-known Cincin-
natl job printer, committed suicide on the
3Oth. Financial and other troubles are at
tributed as the cause.
JAMES BENNETT, a fireman on the
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, was shot
and killed at San Antonio Station, Colo,
while standing in his cab, by q party Of
roughs. Several arrests were made, and a
lynching party was thought likely to be held
that same evening.
THE Rev. D. M. DeHughes, Meth
odist minister of Cinnamonson, N. j., and
publisher of the Christian Herald at that
place, committed suicide on the 3Oth by
jumping from a ferryboat while crossing
from Camden to Philadelphia. He left q
letter addressed to friend, the contents of
which were not made public.
ELLA PRICE, the young and accom-
plished daughter of DR.. Price, of Graham,
Tex, committed suicide by taking arsenic,
on account of q disappointment in love.
Tom MCDONALD, desperate charac-
ter of Pickaway County, O., who had for
several years been the terror of the neigh
borhood in which he lived, on the morning
of the 1st was taken from his bed by party
of disguised men, dragged across the fields
by rope halter tied around his neck, and
finally hanged to q tree. 1t is believed
death resulted from the rough usage he re-
ceived previous to reaching the place select
ed for his execution. The wretched man
was literally blind at the time the outrage
was committed, having lost his only
remaining eye in an affray with CONNER
cial Point aloon-keeper few days previous.
WHILE battalion of troops were
testing pontoon bridge over the river
Ebro, near Logrono, in Spain, the bridg
broke down and ninety-seven men were
drowned.
FOUR dead negroes were recently
found lying in watermelon patch in Jasper
County, Ga, the proprietor of which, Mr..
Golsby, had poisoned number f the mel
ons with arsenic in order to put a stop to
thieving.
THE steamer City of Vera Cruz, of
the Havana and Mexican Line, which sailed
from New York, August 25, for Havana and
Vera Cruz, is believed to have been lost with
all on board. Portions of the mail and
cargo have come ashore on the Florida coast
and also five bodies. It is supposed she was
struck by the hurricane that prevailed of
the coast on the night of Saturday, the 10Th
ult-, and foundered. The passenger list of
the Vera Cruz numbered twenty seven, and
she carried crew of forty-nine.
THE cupola of the Courthouse ut
Flemingsburg, KY, fell on the evening of
I'd, while number Of workmen were en-
gagged in repairing the roof, which it went
through with q crash, killing Hiram Ham
mer, the contractor, and injuring three of
his employees.
ANOTHER attempt to undermine the
railway near Charkoff, Russia, over which
the Emperor was to pass on his way to Liva-
dia, was discovered and frustrated.
STEPHEN RICHARDSON, colored, was
hanged at Wilmington, N. c., on the Sd. for
the murder Of his mother -in-law. He pro-
fessed religion and announced himself ready