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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01


STA.
A DISEASE resembling in mild form
the epizooty of 1872 has attacked the horses
in Boston, nearly all of which are affected.
They are not generally rendered incapable
of work.
The statement that an instruction
had broken out in Herat and that the Gov
ernor Of the city had been murdered, is un-
founded.
An adjourned meeting was held at
st. Louis, on the evening of the 21st, to hear
the report of committee previously ap-
pointed to examine into the legal questions
involved in the projected settlement of the
Indian country. Ex-Mayor Joseph Brown
presided. Ex-Judge J. NJ. Krum read the
report of the committee of lawyers. It was
to the effect that at least that portion of the
Indian Territory west Of the ninety eighth
degree, embracing II, 0O0, 600 scres, is open
to presumption by actual settlers, as
the Indians had only the right Of
occupancy, and that was given up in 1855.
Another committee was appointed to fur
Their, by every lawful means, the opening
and settlement of the territory.
The Cabinet-workers' Union Furni-
ture Factory at Tell City, Ind, together
with number of dwellings Of employees,
was burned on the night Of the 10th. Loss
about $sOO, 200.
The latest advices are that . great
combination movement Of the Mexican
American troops is taking place to catch VIC
torio and, II possible, end his career.
THE Indians about the Agency near
Fort Reno and also those at Wichita Agency
are reported q being restless and ugly and
threatening trouble, on account Of alleged
insuficiency Of food.
TROUBLE is said to be brewing be-
tween the Mexicans and Americans at Quay
mas, the Mexican terminus of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
THE family of II. Taylor, lawyer at
Danville, Ind, partook Of bread for dinner
which had been by mistake mixed with
arsenic instead Of baking powder. The
quantity Of the poison taken was 90 great as
to induce vomiting, and no fatal results fol-
lowed.
MEMPHIS had . grand celebration on
from the yellow fever. There was process
sion three miles IN length, representing
nearly every branch Of business and trade,
and the streets and buildings were gayly
decorated. Thousands of vhitor were In
attendance.
GALEsBURG. H., has recently been
enjoying . social sensation Of unusual mag
nitude, being nothing less than the elope-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01

DARWIN must be right. Halt the
people OF the present are tale-bearers
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01

between Galveston and London, touching at
New Orleans. The vessel will bring out iIn-
migrants for Texas, and take back cotton.
Arrangements have been made for the recep-
ton and location of the Immigrants, and the
Texans expect to derive many advantages
therefr0m.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AARON STEVENS and Clara E. Trask,
of Beverly, Mass, were struck by locomo-
tive while crossing the railroad track in q
carriage and both were instantly killed.
A TERRIBLE disaster has occurred re-
Gently at Naini Tai in India, caused by a
land slide. Among the persons killed are L.
Taylor, Assistant Commissioner of the Road
Police; Rev. Mr.. Robinson, Chaplain; Maj.
Morphy, 10th Regiment; Mrs. Morphy; Mr..
Morgan, Road Overseer; Mrs. Turnbull,
Capt. Frederick Goodridge, Surgeon j: B.
Hanna, Capt. Haimes of the Royal Engi-
neers; Capt. Baldestien, Lieut.. J. E. Sulli-
van, DR.. HatcheI and Second Lieut.. j. b.
II. Carmichael.
AT Las Vegas, N. Mex, on the 22d,
Samuel Matthews, while under the influence
of liquor, killed his girl and then committed
suicide.
MISS SADIE WHITE, aged 10, daugh-
ter of Hugh White, prominent citizen of
Richmond KY, was found dead in bed on
the morning of the 22d, with her throat cut
from ear to ear. Temporary insanity is at
tributed as the cause. The girl was gener-
II. - - r. l@1l~ - IL
grass region of Kentucky.
ALFRED SMITH, correspondent of the
California Associated Press at Sierra City,
was recently murdered, and his body depos-
tied in house which was fired. Thos. De-
vine, his next neighbor, with whom deceased
had long-standing lawsuit over land til
tie, was arrested for the crime. The de-
New York.
The boiler of Charles Loose & Sons
fruit drying factory, at Monroe, Mich, ex-
ploded on the oath, demolishing the factory
and burying in the ruins sixteen women and
eleven men and boys. All but two, Henry
O'Brien, the engineer, and Leonard Martin,
a boy, were taken out alive, but several were
severely injured, one or two it was thought
fatally.
A COLLISION occurred between pas
senger and freight train on the Vandalia
Road at Harrington Station, about nine miles
west of Terre Haute, Ind, ON the morning
of the oath, causing the death of two men,
Oscar Rankin, engineer, and William Saun-
ders, fireman of the passenger train. Three
postal clerks were injured, one quite seri-
ously.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake occur
red at Valparaiso on August 10, causing con-
siderable damage. It was reported that the
town of Illapel, in the interior, had been de.
stroyed by the shock and 200 lives lost.
The bodies of the men who persisted
by the caving in of the Hudson River Tunnel
at Jersey City several weeks ago have finally
been reached.
The steamer Florence Meyer, from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, while attempt
ing to land at Bullitt's Bayou, few miles
above Natchez, on the 24th, picked up
snag, which struck her amidships, and she
sunk in a very few minutes to her hurricane
roof. One passenger, two of the crew and
two roustabouts were drowned.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.

THE Missouri River Improvement
Convention, held at Kansas City on the 21st,
adopted resolutions urging upon Congress
the duty Of bestowing upon the Missouri
River o consideration commensurate with
the interests to be subserved by its improve
ment, and to this end thorough survey Of
the river should at once be entered upon,
with the view Of determining the speediest
and most economical plan Of deepening
its channel and protecting the property Of
citizens along its banks. It was further
recommended that all political parties refuse
to nominate for Congress men not known to
be in sympathy with the Improvements here
suggested. A permanent organization was
effected and committee appointed to pre-.
pare a memorial to Congress.
GEN. ROBERTS, of Texas, and some
other prominent residents OF the State have
completed negotiations with the owners Of
the Great Eastern to run the mammoth ship
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-10-01

ed summer tour over the ground covered by
the unfortunate crews in their explorations,
although glance at the map will show that
their base was in q far less favorable position
for such an undertaking than that Of the great
majority of the numerous searchers who pre-
coded them. 1t performed the last sad rites
for the few remains Of the lost crews. Owing
mainly to the favorable circumstances Of q
OF the search and the conspicuous contrast of
the bleaching bones with the brown clay
stones composing the fat coast Of King Will
lam Land and the adjoining main land, do
not hesitate to state that not q single unburied
man of Franklin's unfortunate expedition
probably exists. Where nature had not an
ticfpated my party, which she had in the
greater majority Of cases Of the Us men
known to have abandoned the ships, or the re.
treating crews themselves performed the
burial, my party completed these sad Offices.
From the tncompleteness Of the skeletons,
their fnextricable confusion and widely-scat-
tertd condition. It Is hard to place close esti-
mate upon the number inferred, which,
roughly speaking, varies between twenty and
forty. 1t established the loss of the records of
the franklin party beyond all reasonable
doubt, as these alone have been the main i'm
centives to the many expeditions since d..
Ross, In 1854, who established the lose OF the
party. This success, although unfortunately
OF negative nature, 10 of no small character,
since this loss, coupled with the loss OF the
prrty and the burial Of their dead, must neces-
sarily settle the Franklin problem in Ill in Inn
portant aspects"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
More residences are being built and

More residences are being built and
more land is being enclosed and broken
up, at the present time, than we have
ever known before in the parish of st.
Landry. This is not confined to any
particular part Of the parish, as far as
our observation extends, but seems to
be general. 1t is not the result of i'm
migration, but Of the natural increase
of population. The population Of the
parish is already between forty and
fifty thousand, mostly engaged in agri-
cultural and such healthy occupations
as favor full natural increase. When
the railroad is built to this place, there
will be considerable addition to our
population by immigration. The terri
tory Of the parish being large, and most
of the land being good and easily
brought into civilizations, it would not
surprise us, if its population should be
doubled during the next ten years.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

OUR RA1LRoAD.-Track is laid east
of Lake Charles IS miles, and west Is
miles, or 80 miles in all. Ten miles of
track to be laid between Houston and
Lake Charles, and track laying going
on daily. 100 men employed on the
Calcasieu river iron bridge, and its
construction is progressing rapidly.
The brig Holden, and schooner Yellow
Pine, have arrived at Galveston with
miles Of track to be laid between V1 s here
and Orange. Track laying resumed
yesterday east Of Pine Island, and will
be pushed vigorously towards Vermil-
ionville. Weather splendid for work
on the road.-[Lake Charles Echo.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
Railroad News.
liberia Sugar Bowl, Jan. 20th.l

liberia Sugar Bowl, Jan. 2oth.l
As this subject is one of the highest
interest to our community, we return
to it often, believing that every one
of our readers wishes to know how fal
the work is finished and what progress it
is making. A large quantity Of steel
rails we hear have been bought to re-
place iron cnes on the track between
Morgan City and Algiers. It is stated
that a portion of the rails removed will be
employed in building the Opelousas
branch. which will be completed by
midsummer. Work on the line between
New Iberia and Vermilionville continu-
es as usual. The termination of the
track is now within short distance of
Vermilion Bayou. The work on Yer
million bridge advances with rapidity
which reflects great credit upon the con-
tractors. We observed two car loads Of
hands going up from New Iberia, on
Tuesday, to aid in the track laying at
the upper extremity of the line.
will be running regularly from Lake
the engineer of the iron bridges of the
the Western Louisiana Railway ran an
engine and train over the Sabine river
bridge from the Texas side into Louisi-
ana thus inaugurating the union by rail,
of South Louisiana and Texas. The
Sabine river bridge is said to be one of
the best, most substantial and costly
structures of the kind in the South.
When the work on it is finished, the
hands employed at that point will be
transferred to the Calcasieu bridge.
We notice from our exchanges that
the attention of the authorities of sey-
eral towns along the route, has been
called to the fact that the facilities of
which they will now
enjoy with New Orleans and other
points will suffer a drawback by the
closer contact into which they will be
brought with contagious diseases of
any kind that may arise in those places.
The alarm felt by other towns, may af-
ford profitable hint, and induce cor
porate officers to put the streets of the
of the towns in our section, connected
with the line, in proper order, improve
their drainage and inforce sanitary mea-
sures in time.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

Prospects, or existing facts, have
lately had some influence in Opelousas.
Previously there were the usual COM
plants among dry goods merchants and
grocers that business was dull. But
lately two dry goods and grocery stores
combined have been opened, and another
one soon will be; and three or four
purely grocery stores. Whether this
denotes that there was already enough
business for so many stores, or points
to the supposed prosperity which the
railroad is to bring this year, we are
unable to determine. Another livery
stable has been opened, which makes
two. We have two homemade dra-
matic-operatic companies, which give
entertainments at short intervals, be-
sides the travelling shows and theatres
that occasionally visit us. And Just
now we have the Star Alliance Opera
Company, which is to give series of a
weeks performances. Business has been
brisker than usual also in the sporting
line--cock fighting and trenty- one being
mostly in demand. But times are hard
and money is scarce. Many a poor
devil can not pay his board bill, nor
his washerwoman; because if he did, he
would not have money enough to go to
the show, and win a fortune at t,centy
one, or at that other wonderful game
brought here the other day by Haley &
Cooper's Great Consolidated Show and
which relieved so many Of our people of
their surplus cash.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
God Bless KOu,

How sweetly fall those simple words
Upon the human heart,
When friends long bound by strongest ties
Are doomed by fate to part.
You sadly press the hand of those
Who thus in love caress you,
And souls responsive beats to soul,
In breathing out " God bless YOU
God bless you." all long months ago
heard the mournful phrase,
When one whom | in childhood loved
Went from my dreamy gaze.
Now binding tears flow thick and fast
| mourn my long-lOst treasure,
While echoes OF the heart bring back
The farewell prayer, " God bless you.'
The mother sending forth her boy
To scenes untried and new,
Llsps not studied, stately speech,
Nor murmurs out "Adieu."
She sadly says, between her sObs,
"Whene'er misfOrtunes press you,
Come to thy mother, boy, come back"
Then sadly sighs, God bless you.''
"God bless you" More of expressed love
Than volumes without number
Reveal we thus our trust i'll Him
Whose eyelids never slumber.
l ask in parting no long speech,
DraWled out in studied measure,
I only ask the dear old words,
So sweet, so sad, "God bless you"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
"In Providence we trust st''-everybody else casl
We publish an articles from the Ne

We publish an articles from the New
Orleans States, on the Inspector nui-
sance. The last protection against
dishonest sellers is the self-interest of
the buyer. Most persons soon find out
if they receive good measure, and the
seller soon establishes a character for
honesty or dishonesty in any community;
inspecting his measures or goods there
fore does no good, but simply makes
more public offices at the expense Of a
tax-ridden people, and sometimes legal
ICES swindling as in case mentioned in
one of the articles we reproduce from
the States.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
A CAR ID.
NEW ORLEANS. Eel

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1st 1850.
Referring to card in the ST. LANDRY
DEMOCRAT of Jan, 24th signed James ii,
Houston and Son." am constrained to reply,
lst Because did make statements derogatofy
to the busines standing of said firm; am res
ponslble for such statements and can substan-
tiate them. Cd. did so repeatedly, deliberately
and openly III order to warn friends and clients,
who sought my advice, from entrusting business
to their care, Knowing James III. Houston, the
senior member of said firm to be wholly unre-
liable, untrustworthy and notoriousy dishonest,
hnom and can prore him to be q hicf and a
base beftWYer Of sacred trusts 3d. Because the
card referred to is signed with the firm name,
doubtless with view of shrking individual
responsibility and l am left without other
redress, at present.
0. FL. VIOLET,
Feb. Tit 100 Common St, New Orleans
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

Two ladies belonging to different cir
cles of American society in Paris met
lately at reception. "Have you been
long in PARISH" asked the first, who
considered she belonged to the first set.
Several years." responded the second,
who is sure her set is first. "Strange," !"
from the first, that / have never met
you. in society," "You fatter me-"
smiles the secOnd,n
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07
How Prince EHcien Nur:at
Pleaded His Case i'm Court.

Abont Prince Lucien Murat various
anecdotes are told. He married Miss
Caroline Georgina Frazer, of Borden
town, and seems to have inherited the
recklessness, and perhaps the roughness
OF his father. a groom who was 50
lnsolent to him was suddenly elected
from his stable by Murat, and brought
suit i'll consequence. Prince Murat
defended himself in the following
speech:
"MY LORD DE JUDGE AND GENTLEMEN
OF DE JURY: Dare has been great
efforts and much troubles to make
everybody believe me p very bad man,
but dat is no consequence. De man
tells you | kick him six times-six times
so low as possible. | very sorry of the
necessity to make him show how low it
was, but | could not avoid it. Now, my
lord and gentlemen OF the jury, you see
this part of the human skeleton (taking
huntlng-cOat a human pelvis with the
os cOccyX complete and articulated with
wires). Here are de bones.
Desc lcedle bones vat ynn see here
(shaking them to the jury like the end
Of rattlesnakes taiD, desc leedle
bones are de verv place we're de tail of
de animal shall grow; dat is to say, if
de man who sue me were to be a
veritable jack-vat you call it?-ah
jack horse, and not only very much
resent bic dat animal, Wy you see deese
leetle bones if dey were long enough
would be it5s tail" The court was
convulsed with laughter, and the
Prince, being extremely acute and
knowing he had the best Of it, drew his
speech to an end by stretching out his
enormous leg, armed with his sporting
boot up to his knee, and clapping his
hand on his massive thigh so that it
resounded through the courtroom,
exclaimed: "My Lord and gentlemen,
how absurd to say l could give him
even Won kick vid dat, and not break to
pieces his leetle tailn'
It was some time before the Judge
could gather enough dignity to sum up,
when the fellow got six cents damages
and the Prince three checrs.
90 was not aware that You knew him."
said Tom Smith to an Iriss, friend the
nt tQp dow II him, H.,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

AND Office at New Orleans La, Jan. 6,
AZ 1880. Notice is hereby given that the fol
lOwingnamed settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support of his
claim. and secure final entry thereof at the
notice, viz: Joseph Heurtevant. of ST. Landry
parish, La, who made homestead application
No. 1887 for the W. Sec. % TSSR w. w
Dist. La, and names the following as his wit
ncsses viz: Augustin Gullory and Andre
Guillory, both of st. Landry parish La
WM. NJ. BURWELL,
Jan. "a -ot Register
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

"Oh, I'm just delighted with George ~
said a soft-hearted maiden to an older
and more matter-of-f fact brother. "He's
just too sweet for anything. The last
time he was here he was so full of fun /:
didn't you think SO, brother?n "He
may have been full OF fnn, sister, but
he acted more to me as II he was full of
beer,n Tableau.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

Last summer when the question was
in every ones mind whether the Crescent
City was again to be afflicted with yell
low fever, the whole country was
startled by the announcement that
among its half dozen Or more victims
were first the lovely young wife of the
brave Confederate General j. B. Hood,
followed by the death of the General
himself, leaving ten little babes to the
cold mercies Of the world. The women
Of the South and North alike arose to
this appeal to their charity and
subscription list was opened, but with no
great result comparatively. The late
warrior was on the point of publishing
his Narrative of Personal Experiences
in the United States and the Confeder-
ate States Armies. The book has just
been published by his comrade General
G. T. Beauregard, the entire proceeds
going to the sole use and benefit of
"The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.-" as
is set forth in another column.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

The entire proceeds arising from the sale OF
this work are devoted to The Hood Orphan
Memorial Fund, which is invested in United
States Registered Bonds for the nurture. care.
support and education of the ten infants de-
prlved OF their parents last summer at New
Orleans, (the melancholy incidents of which
| sad bereavements are still fresh in the public
mind)
The book is an elegant octave, containing
800 pages, with fine photograph likeness and
a line steel engraving, made expressly for this
work, four large maps of battle fields bound
in handsome gray English cloth, So, or in a
fine sheep binding, with marble edge $3.50
lin half bound, morocco, library style, 81 or
i'll best Leyant Turkey morocco, full gilt sides
and edge. S5.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail, or express, OF the amount in a registered
letter on by postal order, bank draft, or check,
a copy will be Immediately sent free of postage
registered as second class matter.
The volume is published in the best style of
Typography, ON elegant paper, administrations,
executed as highest specimens of art
The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike
render it worthy place in every library-on
every desll-or upon the book shelf of every
house in the country.
agents wdnted IN erery torn and county in
the United States. and Il preference riH be gircis
to hoHOrnb{y discHdrged reterdns from The 01'D,y
To-the ladies' who feel q desire to express
their sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memo
rial Find, the sale of this book among their
circle of friends, will afford an excellent way
q cause.
For terms, rates to agent, etc, address with
full particulars,
GEN. G. T. .BEAUREGARD, Publisher,
On behalf of The Hood Memorial Fund,
Feb, Ism New Orleans, La,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

e" was not aware that you knew him.
said Tom Smith to an Irisa, friend the
other day. "Knew him!' said he, in a
tone which comprehended the knowl-
edge of more than one life, q knew
him when his father was a boy."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

Judging from the work we have seen
lad out for the present legislature, that
body will never get through its labors.
1t is and old and truthful saying that
" the world is governed too much :" this
has not been the case here, for often we
have had practically no government at
ALL But the State has been taxed al
most to death to pay for lot of worse
than useless legislation, and we can not
feel assured that the same thing will
not be repeated under the new consti-
tuition until the legislature has adj
joulned. The people know very little
about the laws that are made to govern
them, even the lawyers, the "doctors' of
the laws are often ignorant of some and
disagree about the meaning of others
because so many are made and unmale
at each session Of the legislature, and
so many are made on the same subject,
and some only partially repeated, re-
naming partly in force, overlapping
each other and interlacing with each so
to speak, as to make confusion worse
than confounded, ard leave the great
body of the people without any definite
idea at all of the laws that are made
for their guidance, except those natural
laws in regard to murder, theft, etc,
which mans ingenuity can not change.
And for this chronic chaotic condition
Of their laws, the people have had to
pay dearly. If they find relief from
this under the new constitution, it will
be happy deliverance but unless the
moral and intellectual character of the
legislature is greatly above what it has
been, the tinkering at law-malling will
not be abandoned to any great extent.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-02-07

&RRa week in your own town. Terms and
sDOUs5 outfit free. Address, ''D %'-'
H. Hallett & Co., Portland, Maine,