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The Republican journal., 1881-09-22
Name Miscellany.

A COMBAT WITH A PUMA.
A correspondent, writing to the Boston Journai
from Washington, Me-, gives an interesting 81
count of terrible contest which took place on
Monday between two young men who were hunt
ing partridges in the vicinity of the Medomac PoLd
and a savage puma, or North American panther.
The young men came suddenly upon the beast,
and it is difficult to tell whether they or he were
the more frightened. The puma, after giving
terrible growl, slowly retreated, when one OF the
sportsmen, Professor A. L. Jones of Washington,
fired at him the shot taking effect in his side
This only served to lnhame his anger Turning
quickly, he came with mighty bounds straight
at the sportsmen. 9ney had only time to fire one
shot when the animal was upon them With
leap he crushed Prof Jones to the ground, when
his companion Il. Stickney. all amateur sports
man of uallowell, Me, with wonderful luickness
inserted a shell into his gun, and placing the muz
zle against the animals head discharged 1t with
deadly effect and killed the animal instantly
Without doubt Mr. Jones owes his life to the nerve
and cooluess of his friend having fortunately escap
ed with few slight scratches on the lower limbs,
and large cash on the breast which leaves a scar
he will carry to the grave. Several farmers OF the
neighborhood have lately found the maugied re
mains OF number of their sheep and lambs, and
this animal probably the one that destroyed
them The panther measured six teet and four
inches from tip TO tip, having claws nearly two
inches long
The Republican journal., 1881-09-22


lake from the full and interesting reports
Vt thr Lewiston journal
TIE DAIEl EXHIBIT.
Last Years State Fair Dairy exhibit
"as 4 failure. This years is magnii
o-nl display. There are about fifty lots
butter, and over forty cheescs. TO a
.pug suffering people tired Of cheap but
iI, this room was 4 refreshing sight, and
onc cnvied the committee men with their
exploring tasters. \ journal quill driver
happened to meet Mr.. Read of Bowdoin-
ilaln, a robust, CHEEKY faced farmer and
"ne uf tie leading butter-m kers in the
state. Mr.. Reads butter exhibit is in IA
A"d cubical refrigerator with a glass
Front, of his own contrivance 1t is de-
clpHs shade of butter yellow, and in the
'lapeIy octagon blocks and prints, looks
'rry tempting. He also shows a dish OF
sianIated butter. OF course, the Quill
.Ili0er interviewed Mr. Read.
We keep from eight to ten cows
ald Mr.. Read "ten on an average.
Ihey are all full blooded, registered Jer-
>tyS. We sell all the butter we make at
= cents a pound, every month in the
Year That is our uniform price, YOU
understand. We supply twenty or twen-
N-hTe customers and have had the same
set of customers for about five years
We weigh out each customers butter
and pack it in our refrigerator before
starting out. Our ten cows will average
i pounds a day, apiece, all the year
round. We have four cows which we
nave been sorter' experimenting with,
lor two weeks. Two of them calved
early in the winter and the other two
ralved about two months ago. They
nave averaged two pounds day apiece
We have one cow which we think has
made three pounds day. We get about
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
Cinnamon Flocking to Australia.

Within the last fortnight upward of
1900 Chinese have arrived, and there is
now a very large number afloat en- route
from Hong Kong to this colony. The
Chinese who are here explain that the
exodus from the home country is occa-
stoned by the great depression which
exists there. The newcomers are
ignorant people, who are unable
to either read or write. It is
only by great self-denial that they
are able to scrape together enough
money (about f8, we believe,) to pay
for their passage, and the great part Of
them are almost penniless when they
land here. Some of the Chinese mer-
chants in Sydney believe that before
the year is out $1,000 Chinese will land
at this port unless some check can be
put upon the inflow. Instead of
being, as many people think, q
source of profit to the Chinese en-
ployers of labor here, the immigrants
prove a serious burden, for they have to
be housed and fed until they can be sent
or forced to 90 into the country. The
majority of Chinese merchants and resi-.
dents in Sydney are averse to the whole.
sale importation of Chinese to this colo
ny, such as is now taking place.-Syd
seu Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

Charlie did not 20 home until tea-timo.
lie would not have gone then. but thas
his pin-wheel and the rockets were
under his clean shirts in the bottom
drawer of his bureau, aud must be gone
for.
Up stairs : ne ran. as gay as cricket ses.
they are in this one. Bother! Where
did / put them?''
What are you looking for, Charliep"
"What are you doing in bedF'
Taking your place."
"Papa said if I would take your
place, You might 60 out; and girls do
not care much abont the Fourth OF
july" said Mary. cheerily.
.sAnd YOU have been in bed all day?'
"Of course; papa said you we're to
stay in bed all day. and I am taking
your place"
But you are not me-"
"Rut am your substitute.
"Oh, Mary, you dear, dear. darling
sister! you are better than all the
grandmothers and aunts in the world:
catch them going to bed q whole day
for q fellown' cried Charlie, kissing her
proudly.
81 am very, very glad I took your
place. Charlie"
"You get up now, Mary, and I'll
give you my pin-wheel and my rockets.
and you and Ella Bates can fire them
all of. 1 wouldn't be so mean as to
let you lie there any longer" said
Charlie, beginning to remove his coat.
"That will do, Charlie said papa.
coming into the room. ''Get up, my
little daughter; Charlie has learned his
lesson, am sure"
Indeed 1 have, papa, and I am real
sorry"
That same evening Eddie Bates was
Boosting to a crowd of boys about his
grandmother having saved him from an
evening OF sorrow in his own room,
when Charlie spoke up:
"Grandmas and aunts are all well
enough, boys, but sisters are heap
better You just listen" And in
voice of pride and love he related his
sisters generous act.
And the gay little crowd gave Mary
three cheers and a tiger, besides firing
off nine starry rockets simultaneously
in her honor. E.. Barr, tn HGr-
per's Young People.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

Did you ever see q raccOOn? / am
going to tell you about one that was
sent from the South as q present to a
lady whose name was Isabella. He was
called Zip Coon, and very wise coon
he was.
Zip had long, low body, covered
with stiff yellowish hair. His nose was
pointed, andehis eyes were bright as
buttons. His paws were regular little
hands, and he used them just like
hands.
He was very tame. He would climb
up on Isabella's chair and scramble to
her shoulder. Then he would comb her
hair with his fingers, pick at her ear
rings and feel of her collar and pin and
buttons.
Isabella's mother was quite i'll, but
and eat her dinner from tray On her
lap. She liked to have Zip in her room;
but, if left alone with her Zip would
jump up in the chair behind her and
try to crowd her off. He would reach
around, too, under her arm and steal
things from her tray.
Once the cook in the kitchen heard q
brisk rafting OF tin-pans in the pantry.
She opened the door, and there, on .
shelf, was Zip. There were two pans
standing side by side. One had Indian
meal in it, and the other nice sweet
milk. In front of the pans stood Zippy.
He had scooped the meal from one
pan into the milk in the other pan, and
was stirring up pudding with all his
might. He looked over his shoulder
when he heard the cook coming up be-
hind him, and worked away all the
faster. as if to get the pudding done be-
fore he was snatched up and put out of
the pantry.
Zip was very neat and clean. He
loved to have a bowl of water and
piece of soap set down for his own use.
He would take the soap in his hands,
dip it into the water and rub it between
his palms; then he would reach all
around his body and wash himself. 1t
was very funny to see him reach way
around and wash his back.
One day Isabella, not feeling well,
was lying on her bed. Zippy was play
ing around her in his usual way. Pretty
soon he ran under the bed, and was
busy long while reaching up and pull
ing and picking at the Stats over his
head. By and by he crawled out; and
what do you think he had between his
teeth? A pretty little red coral ear
ring that Isabella had lost several weeks
before. lips bright eyes had spied it
as he was playing around under the
bed. So you see Zip Coon did some
good that time.
When Zip grew older he became so
cross and snappish. that he had to be
chained up in the wood-shed in front of
his little house. On the door of his
house was printed in red letters, Zip
Coon: ne bites" -Nursery.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
A Remarkable Career-The Author OF
"Kathleen MavOurneen."

For the last two years, says the Balti-
more correspondent of the New York
Express, there has lived in an out-of-the-
way street in Baltimore a man who, by
his literary and musical abilities, has
two continents. He is F. Nicholas
Crouch, the author and composer of
Kathleen Mavourneen. He is at
present engaged as a varnisher in q fac
tory near his home, and by this pursuit
he is enabled to support his large fami-
ly. In appearance he has a marked and
expressive countenance, sinewy form
and iron-gray hair. He is apparently
an ordinary mechanic, but the brain
which was once so fertile with ideas can
still conceive thoughts worthy of the
man. His history is interesting because
of its numerous successes and failures i;
it is peculiar because his talents have
raised him almost to the height of fame
only to bring him eventually to his
present lowly position. Mr.. Crouch
was bern in England on the 31st of July,
1908. He comes of very good family,
the members of which had often distin-
guished themselves In the various pro-
LESSONS. From an early age Mr.. Crouch
had evinced love of music, and at nine
years of age played bass-viol at the Royal
Coburg Theater in London. From this
starting point he worked himself into
His Majesty's Theater" and played a
solo on the violoncello before Rossini.
Bockra, then in the zenith of his glory,
was conductor of the opera, and was SO
pleased with the boys devotion to his
profession that he made him his pupil.
At the age of twenty, strong indications
of vocal excellence manifested them
selves and Bockra transferred his pupil
to William Halves, master of St.
Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Alb
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
A Miners Romance.

At Amherst College, in the class of
'53, there were two chums, who had
stuck together ever since they had first
entered college. They were fast friends,
and no trouble had ever disturbed their
friendship. One was the son of rich
parents, and the other of country min
lister. When they graduated the rich
mans son went into business with his
father in New York, and took his friend
with him as an employee. Things went
on smoothly for some time, when that
common accident of life happened
they both fell in love with the same
girl. The fight in the heart of the en-
ployee was long and bitter, but, con-
trasting his position with that of his
friend, the difference in the advantages
he could offer the woman, he yielded,
and, with scarce word of parting, with
one of explanation, he left New York
and went West. A year afterward
found him in San Francisco, and he
soon joined the gold-diggers. His for
tune was varied, at times rich, at times
poor; afterward, in Nevada, he followed
silver-mining, and when the silver.craze
struck Leadville he went there. There
he was successful, and this spring, q
rich man, he determined to return East
for the first time in twenty-four years.
Friday, as he got off the Southwestern
train, at Wilton, Iowa, and went to get
on the main line train which was to car
ry him to Chicago, a lady who was try
ing to turn seat attracted his attention.
Stepping forward to help her, he at first
looked with wonder, then joy, to see
that it was the woman he had run away
from so long ago, a woman now past
forty, but handsome yet. He talked to
her timidly at first, and uncertain.
When he learned that she was yet I'M
married his questions came faster yet,
and her present condition was soon
known to him. Her parents had died,
and, depending on her own exertions
for support, she had taught school, and
at present was principal of q school in
Western Iowa. The old love still lived
in the miners heart, and he soon found
that he had not been entirely forgotten
by her. To make long story short, it
was a very happy looking couple
that got off the train at Chicago that
night looking for minister, and still
happier one which registered at the
Sherman as Mr.. and Mrs. -, Lead
vile, Colo.-Omaha Herald.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

forests. His remains will be inferred
there for the present, for the reason that
it is impossible to obtain transportation,
but in the fall they will be exhumed, to
be brought here to Louisville and laid
beside those of Maj. Throckmorton's ia
Their in the family lot at Cave Hill. The
nature of his illness has not been learned
C0urier-J0MrnGl.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
TAKING HIS PLACE.

"Oh, Charlie! Why did you do it?
On my birthday too! am so sorry.
for now you will miss all the fun of the
Fourth" And as she spoke, Mary sat
down dangling her broad hat by one
string, and looked disconsolately at her
brother, who had been sent to bed as q
punishment.
"How was I to know that just little
bunch of fire-crackers like that was go
ing to smash the goblet? 1 did not
think it would do anything but just lift
it up some"
''Who told you to do such a thing,
CharlieP'
Nobody; thought of it myself. Oh
dear! wish 1 had grandma, or an
aunt, or somebody like that!''
"What for, Charlie? I am sure no
body could be half as good as mamma. :"
81 like grandmas and aunts. Eddie
Bates has a grandmamma, and she al
ways gets him out of scrapes; and Tom
Taylor has an aunt that does lots of
things for him. People ought not to
get married if they don't have mothers
and sisters to make grandmas and
aunts for fellows who are always get
ting blamed for nothing at all.
"But, Charlie, you did break the
glass"
mo, didn't either; the fire. crack
ers broke it. Oh, dear! dear! 1 wish
there wasn't any Fourth of July, nor
fre-crackers, nor nothing! What's the
use of fre-crackers. if fellow can't
fire them off? 1t was real mean to let
me spend all my money on fire-crack-
ers, and then not let me have any fun
with them. There my pin wheel, too.
promised Bates to fasten it to the top
of the highest clothes-pole in his back
yard tonight"
81 am 50 sorry. Charlie dearr'
"And, Mary, am so dreadfully hot.
have got raging fever; l know 1
have"
"Why do younotsay youare sorry?"
suggested Mary.
didn't say .so?-over, and over,
and over. And father just said he
thought bed was the best place for
boys who exploded fire-crackers under
goblets. If was father, and wanted
to kill boy, I'd do it out and out, and
not roast him to death in bed on q
Fourth of July. Wouldn't for millions
of dollars send poor boy to bed on his
sisters eighth birthday" But what
particular attention was due to his sis
ter's eighth birthday Charlie did not ex-
plain.
"You knew the crackers would break
the goblet
"No, 1 didn't; I never saw them
smash one. Didn't they bang. thought
And at the recollection Charles eyes
grew bright, and adelighted expression
illumined his somber little face. The
next moment, however, he was crying
bitterly; and Mary, having watched
him q moment, ran down stairs, Just in
time to stop her father as he was going
out.
"Papa. please forgive Charlie. He
is so sorry, and he wants to 90 out so
muchr'
HE must have a lesson, Mary. that
will teach him not to be So destructive.
But he added, smiling, IF you choose
to take his place, Charlie may 60 out
Mary bounded away to her brothers
room. "Papa says you may 60 out,
Charlie. Get up, dear"
Charlie needed no second bidding,
and he asked no questions. Five min
utes later he was explaining to Eddie
Bates the principles upon which he had
blown a goblet all to smithereens in his
back yard.
What q glorious Fourth it was!
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

Queen Victoria has been presented
by the Ashantees with golden ak, as
companion piece to King Koffee's um-
brella sent to her at the close of the last
Ashantee war.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

Prince Bismarck has given, says the
London Globe, q reluctant assent to the
marriage of his son Herbert to the
Princess Carolath. This lady is de-
scribed as very handsome, and gifted
with all the accomplishments of her
race, the Hartzfeldts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05
Gar iOung Folks.
Il SONG FOR a BIRTHDAY BOY

Once. uron a winter night.
When the snow lay cod and white,
UrOpi ed a ,aGy from the skies,
WIKI Il pair of big brown eyes:
Without clothes, or food, or name,
hight into our hearts liz came,
Andwe loved 1t IRON that minute
AS if there were millions in it."
Soon happy year had flown:
lie could creep, and stand alone,
Know mamma and ROo and ritz,
Do , hundred pretty tricks:
He was sweet. but still u tartar.
So we cal ed MIN little Arthur,
per. aud = airing" Love-" and pride "
And hundred names beside.
When another year went BY,
Could tell if should try
Halt how lovely he had grown
Wa king like man. alone,
Talking with such babbliny words
Like the cooling of The b rds,
With tangled crop of curls
Hanging round him-like girls.
Three years old: now look for squalls,
Trials, troubles, cries and falls!
Up and down like any rocket
In his dress a little pocket,
Filled with tops. and n ills, and strings
And some fifty other things;
Three feet tall, or taller, maybe
Can this be my little baby?
Still another birthday: dear,
What fOur-year colt is here!
Leaping, running. skipping, prancing,
In and out on swift feet dancing,
Handling marbles, spinning tops,
spending cents in candy-ShOps;
In killed Skirt and buttoaed Jacket,
Always ripe for fun and racket!
Now. as sure as I'm alive,
That outrageous boy is five!
Send him of to school at once
We don't want 10 own a Ounce!
Full OF tricks as any marten-
Get him to kindergarten;
There he'll learn to use his wits,
without any ugly fits.
Six-and what do behold
No more waving curls of gold,
But little wig of brown,
Closely cropped about the crown;
No more SKIRTS but little breeches
Full of many seams and stitches:
Growing, every single day,
In the most surprising way.
Seven to-day: Boy at last!
Time and tide have travelled fast;
There he sits, so fine and tall,
Jacket. trousers, boots and all:
He can spell, and read. and write,
He Is good, and gay, and bright,
AND his life goes bravely on,
Blu, where is my Baby gone?
So now hOpe-what do I hope? Oh, scores
and scores of things!
I hope he learn to comb his hair, and tie his
own shOe-strings;
/ hope he'll never catch cold in hail, or snow
or rain,
And grow to be full six feet high without one
growing pain:
/ hope he'll keep his clear bright eyes, and his
quick sparkling wits.
And never, NEVER, tell tale on Jack, or Rob,
Or Fritz:
And never lose his merry laugh, or smile SO
gay and pleasant.
And lay up money in his box to buy each one
present;
In short, hOpe-tO end my rhyme. and not to
make it longer
Not only may my darling grow both better.
wise and stronger.
But be. in heart, and mind, and soul, In all his
walks and ways,
A "COuld not be q better"* boy, through all
his happy days.
%"COuld not be better is the highest mark
given to the best boy each day in the Chauncy
Hall School, where the Birthday Boy belongs.
WIDE AtUdke.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

"A wealthy lady who occupies . cot
tage at Mount Desert had q Jewel case
made in imitation of q Bible. A bur-
glar visited her premises, of course, and
holy water. he carried of the silver
ware. but left the diamonds and their
fellow jewels safely in their meek re-
treat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

The Chinese are passionately fond
of kite-fying. On the ninth day after
the ninth moon the inhabitants of en-.
tire districts assemble, often in the
greatest crowds, comprised of all class
es, from the court dignitary to the
poorest laporer. to watch the sport.
The kites are made in every conceiva-
BILE shape, representing birds, insects
or fishes, and on a fine day the air viii
be quite full of them. Great skill is
shown in keeping half a dozen or more
going upon one string.
1t is gradually dawning in the
minds of Englishmen that the United
States is rapidly taking its place as the
first Nation of the world. The London
Times in a recent editorial admitted
this as one of the inevitable events of
the near future. 1t says that Russia's
80, 600, 900 are not to be compared to
the 50, OOO, 600 of the United States, as
the latter population are intelligent peo-
pie, with the same aims in life-they
are q unit, in fact, while Russia's APP
parent strength is really source Of
weakness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-08-05

nv love Tor MN. learned 10 nate MN.
Before had followed about after him
because worshipped him. Now l de-
termined to follow him because he had
scorned me and because hated him as
intensely as had loved him. I sought
to teach him contrition, but he was too
proud to repent, too stubborn to seek
my forgiveness, and was too resolute
to forget my purpose, and SO day after
day and night after night l have been
upon his track. l have suffered and so
has he"
Upon the occasion of this trial Ellen
Goodwin stood the examination and
cross-examination of the counsel for the
prosecution as firmly as she had carried
out her purpose of teaching John
Throckmorton that woman scorned is
a woman wronged. The jury, without
leaving their seats, decided that the de-
PENDANT was q sane woman, and the
Court promptly dismissed the petition of
John Throckmorton, asking that she be
committed to the lunatic asylum. This
trial, however, parted Throckmorton
and his ghost. Ellen Goodwin declared
that she had exposed her faithless lover
sufficiently and gave up her intention of
teaching him contrition.
Information received in this city yes
terday announced the death of Maj.
Throckmorton. He died on plantation
owned by Col. NJ. Lewis Clark, Jr., in
Mississippi, whittier he had gone for the
purpose of looking after Col. Clark's in
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-09-29
Southern News.

Tennessee is now the second pea
nut producing state in the Union.
The whisky dealers OF Mississippi
pay annually 100000 privilege tax.
The Jewish citizens of Fort Worth
are taking steps to build a syna-
gogue.
The Louisville authorities have
resolved to put down rowdyism,
even il they have 10 arrest every po-
liceman on the force.
The malady of Senator. Hill, Of
Georgia, in the opinion of some of
his home journals, may Oblige him
to retire from the United States SELL
ate.
A Christian medical college is to
be established i'll Baltimore-that is,
n college to which only processing
Christians will be admitted. Ladies
are TO be admitted and dentistry is
to be taught.
Messrs. Erlanger, of Paris, have
Just obtained the necessary author
ity for laying the submarine cable
between Trieste, in Austria, and the
island of Corfu, us well rs the pro-
prietary right to the said cable for
period of years. The new cable
will facilitate telegraphic commune
cation between Austria and Egypt
The cost is stated to be estimated nj
one million flOrins.
Reports received from forly-sevel
rice plantations on Combahee and
| Asheepoo rivers, Rantoless creek
| Edisto river and the eastern ano
western branches OF Cooper river
South Carolina, show that the in
Jury from the recent storm to boil
plantations and crops has been very
| serious. OF the whole numbeI
mentioned only three places ESCAPED
with light loss.