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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08
A Chinese Banquet in Chicago.

On SATURDAY. last each of the Chinese
residents of Chicago received note,
neatly written in Chinese chirography,
as follows:
"Plioul: XII ], j.d uu uni. nj kj jtp eusw-
kpkp; NIB gill 10, kim wegifrdwqdj II a o
Duck xif-eqpl."
Translated into English the note
reads:
yourself and ladies are requested to at
tend at Greenebaum's tiall on morrow az
ternoon grand sacred concert and feast"
About four hundred gentlemen re-
sponded to the invitation. There being
but one Chinese lady in town, she was
hardly enough to go around, and did
not appear. In company with police
man q Times reporter dropped into the
banquet hall at about o'clock on yes
terday afternoon. The scene was GER
tainly q queer one. Huddled about 8
dozen tables were the feasting Celestials.
Nearly all of them had their square,
crowned hats on, and most of them were
seated with their feet resting on the
front rungs of their chairs. The viands
were served in capaciOus tin pans, and
everybody was helping himself out OF
whatever dish suited his fancy. There
were no individual plates, and the chop
sticks were flying with the greatest rap
idity. In the gallery at one end of the
hall was the orchestra. 1t sounded like
thomas orchestra. Reference is made
to Mr.. Thomas Cat. One of the mu-
sicians kept up a sustained tone on his
one-stringed fiddle, the body OF which
rested on his knees, that resemb!ed
closely the squeal of bagpipe. This
was the most numerous instrument IN
the band, beside which a yellow clar-
ionet on drunk wouldn't be circum-
stance. Another twanged away on q
big-bellied Chinese banjo, while an
other thumped tomtom, and
still another at regular intervals
would produce noise in some
mysterious manner that sounded like q
ladder falling down on a pavement. It
seemed to be sort of go-as-you-please
affair, each performer being more pre-
vious than the others. The reporter,
standing in the doorway. only had time
to take in the scene and stop his ears.
when there was buzz throughout the
hall which was heard above the racket
in the gallery, and one of the Cinnamon
beckoned to the policeman to come in.
He did so, the reporter following. Inn
mediately there was cessation OF the
movements upon the part of the ban
queters, and all eyes were turned upon
the intruders. The one who had called
the policeman in rendered him tiny
cup filled with Kentucky sour mash,
which the policeman refused, and then
explained who the reporter was, but the
almond-eyed master Of ceremonies said,
in good English: " He had better 60"
BY this time dozen or more pig-tails
had surrounded the reporter, and that.
individal acknowledged at once the wis.
dom of the English-speakipg, son OF
Confucius, and went. The cooking for
the feast was done on the floor below.
The dishes seemed nicely prepared and
scrupulously clean. There was no bread
to be seen, but there were dozen diff
ferent dishes, comprising almost every
thing that enters into the diet of the ter
restrial Mclean man. A half-bushel OF
tea grounds attested the beverage of the
banqueters. Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

The Albany IN. W Grand Jury has
indicted Senator Sessions of the State Legls-
lature for bribery in connection with the
Senatorial election. He is held in -, OOO
bail. Counsel for Sessions demanded an
immediate trial, and denounced the whole
proceedings as being instigated by partisan
motiveS
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

GENERAL ORD, recently returned from
Mexico, speaks encouragingly Of the pro-
gressive spirit manifested by that country,
and predicts a steady improvement In all
directions.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

JOHANN Most, editor of the Freiheit,
London, convicted of melting to murder, has
been sentenced by Lord Chief-Justice Cole
ridge to sixteen months imprisonment at
hard labor. Lord Coleridge said the prison
er's offense was detestable and cowardly,
and, but for the jurors recommendation to
mercy, he could have inflicted sentence OF
penal servitude. Herr Most, on leaving the
prisoners dock, exclaimed, "We might as
well be in Russia
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

THE Virginia republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Lynch
burg, August 8. The Readjusters claim to
have carried their point in naming the place
for holding the Convention,buta most stub
born fight for supremacy in the Convention
is inevitable The State Committee reor-
ganized and chose j. w. Cochran, colored
man, as Chairman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

VENNoR predicts a hot and stormy
July, with frequent disastrous storms OF
wind, hail and rain throughout those sections
in which the June storms have been so Sc
yerely felt.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

GENERAL GRANT called upon Presi-
dent Garfield at Long Branch on the 10Th.
The two shook hands cordially, but beyond
the ordinary courtesies Of the OCCASION no
conversation took place. .
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

Mrs. Estella Marshall has recovered
q verdict for $1,000 against james h.
Brown, . Grand Rapids, Mich, drug
gist, for putting up the wrong medicine
for her.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

CONGRESSMAN kEIFER, of Ohio, has
been in Washington recently, as report says.
working up his prospects as Speaker OF the
next House. Seven other Republican can
didates are said to be: Kasson, Of Iowa;
Hiscock, of New York; Robson, Of New
Jersey; Burroughs and Hubbell, of Michi-
gan; Reed, of Maine, and Orth, of Indiana.
The Democrats will put forward Randall,
Blackburn or S. S. Cox, and Kelley, OF
Pennsylvania, is mentioned as the Green
back candidate. Should the Democrats and
Greenbackers unite on a candidate for
Speaker, he will be Laid, of Maine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Evsuta

HARVARD defeated Columbia in the
eight cared race.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

The President and members OF the
Cabinet returned to Washington from Long
Branch on the 9th.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

THE recent terrible accident on the
Morilos Railroad in Mexico occurred near
the village of Mailpois, where the railway
bridge spanned the River San Antonio.
Owing to heavy rains the supports Of the
bridge had become weakened, and as the
heavy train, drawn By two locomotives and
heavily laden with soldiers, passed upon it,
the structure suddenly gave way, the entire
train pIunging into the abyss. Fire added
additional horror to the scene, a car OF
brandy being ignited and consuming most OF
the debris. Seventeen officers and 1871
privates, together with thirty-seven
women and five children, were either
killed outright by the fall or roasted
to death, while fifty others received
hurts of more or less serious character.
This is not inclusive of railway employees
or the wives and children of soldiers, mum.
Der of whom were upon the Inflated train.
The dispatch says: "The dead and living
were wrapt in sheet of flame, and slowly
burned before the eyes of the survivors, who
were unable to save them" The MoriloS
Road is narrow gauge line built by Gov.
eminent subvention, and is entirely the work
of Mexican engineers.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

"A blacksmith is always on the strike
when he is not blowing. @.f
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

The United States Attorney General
has furnished the Secretary Of the Interior
with his written opinion regarding the
rights and duties Of white settlers in the In
dian Territory. All persons, other than
Choctaws and Chickasaws by birth or adop-
ton, are considered by the law as intruders,
with the following exceptions: Govern
ment employees, their families and servants; ;
employees of internal improvement COM
panies; travellers; temporary sojourners;
holders of permits from the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw authorities, and
white persons who are employed
under the laws of said Indians as teachers,
mechanics and skilled agriculturists. The
Indian ''Permit" laws are declared valid,
but the duty of removal of unauthorized
persons belongs to the Department and not
to the Indians. In accordance with the
above, the Commissioner has instructed the
Indian Agent at Muscogee to notify all par
ties interested, and advise them that meas
ures will speedily be taken to enforce the
law,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

OF gOOO moran CnaraCteT. HI tHtS TtSDcCt IL
differs not from all license laws which bestow
privileges upon tit and proper persons max
ing application therefor: These laws have al.
ways been sustained" Here the sale OF liquor
being allowed for medical purposes. druggists
who deal in medicines were properly named
as suitable class to whom to entrust such
sale. The law does not attempt to prescribe
who NAV and who NAV not become druggists.
That question each individual settles for him
self 1t simply SAWS that only druggists shall
sell liquor. 1t is like a law which should for
bid any but licensed engineers from running
the engine of p .ssenger train, any but Ii.
censed attorneys from appearing for client
in court of record, any but medical gradn-
ates from engaging in the practice OF neal'
cine No law of this kind interfereS with in
dividual liberty in its true sense. they only
protect the public in matters involving r1sk
and danger from the acts OF unit ana I'M.
proper persons. They can not be adiudSed
class legislation in anv objectionable and I'M
constitutional sense of the term.
We pass now to the second branch of these
cases, the inquiry as to the scope and extent
of the'statnte. What liquors. using that term
in its broadcast sense, are included. The first
section prohibits the manufacture or sale OF
! "any spirituOus, malt, vinOus, termented or
Snaae is broad and Comprehensive. "Other
intoxicating liquors" extends the scope SO as
to include every liquor which comes within
the general definition of intoxicating liquor.
And vet If this section stood alone there
would be little doubt as to its meaning. IL
would only include such liquors as are used
rs a beverage. No one would think OF ex-
tending it to cologne, extract of lemon or any
of those many preparations which. although
they contain alcohol, the Intoxicating factor
in all drinks, are never used as beverages.
1 Rut Section 10 casts the doubt upon the stat
ute. 1t reads: "All liquors mentioned in Sec
! ton one of this act, and all other mixtures OF
liquors thereof, by whatever name called,
that will produce intoxication snail pc con-
| sidered and held to be intoxicating liquors
within the meaning of this act" This sec
| ton, whose languagei is unfortunately chosen,
| and has tended to create SO much prejudice
| against the statute. For its letter reaches 70
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

believe the Legislature has the power to pro-
in il. The constitutional guarantee of "life,
liberty, and the pursuit OF happiness" Is not
limited by the temporary caprice of a present
majority and can be limited only by the abso-
ture never intended such a sweeping prOhibi-
ton. The use of intoxicating liquors as
beverage was the evil. and the statute must
be read in the light thereof. 1t intended to
put stop to such use and limit the use to the
necessities OF medicine.
Now the cases before us group themselves
into three classes. And the same division is
far. reaching and of general application. The
first embraces what is generally and popular
ly known as intoxicating liquors, unmixed
the sale of brandy is charged. The second
includes articles equally well known, stand
ard articles, and which. while containing nj.
cohol, are never classed as intoxicating bev-
erages. Their uses are culinary, medical, or
for the toilet. They are named in the United
States DiSpenSatOry and other similar stand
ard authorities; the formula for their prepa-
ration is there given; their u-es and character
are as well recognized and known by their
names as those of horse, spade, or an arith-
metic The possibility of their different and
MED and established character. A particI.
lar spade may he fixed up for q parlOr Orna-
ment but the spade does not belong there.
So essence of lemon may contain enough al.
prOpOrtiOnately than many kinds of wine or
beer 1t is possible a man may get drunk upon
it, but it is no Intoxicating liquor. Bay rum,
cologne, paregoric, tinctures generally, all
contain alcohol, but in no fair or reasonable
sense are they intoxicating liquors or mix
lures thereof.
ratiOns in which the alcoholic stimu1ant is
present, which are not of established name
and character. which are not found IN
the United States DispensatOry, or, other like
Standard authorities. and which may be
purely medicinal in their purpose and effect,
or more substitutes for the usual intoxicating
beverages. If not intoxicating liquors, they
NAV be mixtures thereof" within the scope
of the statue. Here belong many of the naE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-07-08

for its permanent improvement.
SOME farmers of Searcy County, Ark,
the other day got into a difficulty with herd
ers who have brought cattle from Missouri
and elsewhere to feed upon the range. A
pitched battle took place, in which George
Youngblood, aherder, was fatally wounded,
and others received slighter wounds. The
stockmen held the ground at the close Of the
fight.
CONCLUSIONS at Cambridge Observa-
tory are that the comet now visible has
passed its maximum of brightness and is
moving away at the rate of 800, 900 miles per
day. 1t will be visible for several months.
The public exhibition of placards of
emigration agents or of foreign steamship
companies has been prohibited in Germany,
and bill impeding emigration will be in
troduced in the next session of the Reich
stag.
JAMES B. DOYLE, the counterfeiter,
has been sentenced at Chicago to ten years
in the Penitentiary. Doyle is the man who
was arrested with more than 100000 in
counterfeit Government bonds in his pos
session.
THE children of Godfrey Baugh, OF
Stanford, Ky, during the absence of their
parents at church took down the old rifle,
and Julia, aged IA, was shot through the
head by her brother Ben, aged II, causing
instant death. They "did not know it was
| loaded"
A MYSTERIOUS railway murder has
| occurred in England. A retired business
man, named F. J. Gould, while returning to
Brighton from London, where he had been
to collect dividends, was killed and his body
thrown out of the compartment of railway
carriage. 1t was found in Balcombe Tunnel.
the throat cut, and stabbed in various places
! A fellow-passenger Of the murdered man,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31
Animal Life In other Planets.

The eminent geologist, DR.. Hahn,
has, according to the London Tele-
graph, definitely solved two interest
ing problems, which have long per-
picked the scientific world. These
questions are, FIRST, whether or not
celestial bodies, other than the earth,
belonging to our solar system, are IN
habited by animate beings, and sec
.ondiy, whether the meteoric stones,
from time to time cast npon the sur
face of this globe, emanate from vol
canic planets or from incandescent
comets, as has been conclusively dem
onstrated that they no time formed a
part Of the earth itself.
DR.. Hahn has recently completed a
series of Investigations upon some of
the huge meteoric stones that fell from
the skies in Hungary during the Sum
Iner Of 1866. Thin scales of these
mysterious bodies. subjected to exam
ination under powerful microscope,
have been found TO contain coralIine
and spongeous formations, and to re-
veal unmistakable traces OF the lower
forms of vegetation. All the organ
isms, animal and vegetable, discov-
erred by DIR. Hahn iii the delicate stone
shavings he has examined, indicate
the condition of the planet from which
they come to be one of what is tech
nically termed primary formation !"
The presence of water in that world is
proved by the fact that the tiny pet
rifed creatures revealed by the magic
of the lens, belong, one and all, to the
so-called subaqueous classes of ami
mails. They could not have existed in
comets, if the assumption be correct
that these are in state of active com
bustion.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31
A Mule that Ate Fire Crackers.
Nevada Transcript.

An Oregon exchange says: A bad
little boy in Portland lit pack OF fire.
crackers aud threw them into the
street to see them ego off," One of
Ike Bateman's mules came along aud
swallowed them before they "went off,"
The mule walked about fifteen feet and
stopped. Things were not acting Just
right inside. He began to taste the
smoke of the fire-crackers. He laid
his left ear around against his ribs
and heard something 1t was the
crackers having fun. The mule pick
ed out about three and half miles of
straight road and started. A negro
met him about a mile the other side Of
the alms-house going south, white
with perspiration, with streams Of
smoke shooting out of his nostrils,
mouth and ears, while his tail stuck
straight up, and stream of blue-and-
green smoke about ten feet long fol-
lowed in the rear. Ike found his mule
next morning halfway through a farm
house near Paddy's Run still smoking.
The man got his family out and put
them up in trees. Ike hauled his mule
home, when he got cool enough, on a
dray. The man is going to move his
house further back off the road, and
his wife and oldest daughter will be
baptized when the water gets warm.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31

Poetry makes hope a formation,
grief makes it a solace, and desola-
tion makes it the brightest flower that
adorns earthly creation, while even
disappointment and delusion whisper
darkness out OF the sky of to-day in
to the sunshine Of tomorrow. Sob
bing sorrow may crush and cripple
the soul, but hepe gives it new elias
ticity. Nay, it may be humiliation in
the dust, but hope will raise it up
again. Hope is mans birthright,
which, after all his Establishments, de-
lusions and mockeries, never maketI
him ashamed to hope on, hope ever
Airy fancies may allure him, and
smiling faces beguile him into treach-
cry, but hope fits eternal round the
human head and breast and hangs the
rainbow on the blacklist cloud on all
the chaste sparhlings of an angel from
Immortal light.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31
Cooking by Electricity.

Of the many curious things certain
to be seen at the forthcoming exhibit
ton Of electricity at Paris, not the
least remarkable will be the electrical
cookinr range Of MIR. Salignac. That
ingenious gentleman is going to fit up
his apparatus in the grill room of the
restaurant, and intends to furnish a
great variety Of meats which have
been cooked by heat generated from
electric current. At the last Paris
exhibition, NJ. Mouchot roasted NUT
ton in condensed sunshine, and Liter
ally turned his spit on the hearth OF
the sun; but an enthusiastic admrer
might say that M. Salignac had far
surpassed this by broiling steaks by
| lightning and warming coffee with the
aurora borealis AS matter of fact
the electric current is as well fitted to
produce heat as it is to produce light,
and just as electricity will. in all prob
ability, be made to yield the principal
artificial light of the future, 50 will it,
doubtless, be applied to household
heating. The same machines which
light the house by night will heat and
cook by day, besides performing other
duties such as driving a coffee mill or
sewing machine.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
~ |, the undersigned, will apply to the
Hon. Board of County Commissioners of
Boise County, Idaho Territory, at its next
regular session in July, A. D. 1881, for a
license to maintain a toll road beginning
at Clawson's toll gate and running N a
northeast direction to the left of Sam
Johnson's summit and thence in the same
direction to Robes gulch, at or near Ro-
bie's old mill site. SAID road being about
six miles in length, and to collect toll
thereon. IT. b. WILLIAMS.
May 81, 10S1.-1st Mond. July.
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COUGAR KILLED-Last Sunday Mr..
D. A Turner, residing at Hood river,
in this county, sent his little boys out
to the pasture, some distance from tie
house, TO get the horses. They dis
covered young blooded colt missing,
and the dam badly scratched. The
boys, returning to the house and re-
porting this state Of facts, Mr.. Turner
repaired to the place. He found where
the colt had been dragged some dis
tance in the brush, and finally came to
the carcass partly devoured Mr.. T.
then procured his rife, went to neigh.
bors and got two bear dogs, and start
ed on the track of the animal. About
200 yards up the bill he came upon a
large cougar, which the dogs had
treed. Mr.. I. then leveled his towling
piece, and the animal was brought
down from his retreat, dead. On meas.
urment the cougar was found to be 6
feet inches in length The DalIes
(Oregol) Times.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31

American competition is seriously
iiapalrins the popularity Of free trade
among British manufacturers, farmers
anil artisans. According to London
dispatch from L. L. Jennings, the man
ufacturers. while opposed TO duties on
breadstuffs as tending to increase the
cost of production, assert that it Is a
mistaken policy to open the British
market to nations which levy almost
prohibitory tolls on British goods.
This reasoning is very strong, aud it
is not at all improbable that protection
may be ultimately restored in GIea,
Britain as necessary measure of self
defense.-[ Chicago Jour. Commerce.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1881-05-31

Americans are of practical nature.
When an Illinois farmer who had got
rich was visiting in Switzerland they
dilated to him of the beauty of the
surrounding scenery. EYES," he re-
piled, "as scenery it's very good. But
it strikes me the Lord has wasted a
lot of space on scenery that might
have made level and good farm land
They wanted TO lynch him Boston
Post.
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5laha Semi-meeklg marld
Published
tuesdays 81 Sc Fridays
HEMAN and CHAS. E. JONES.

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