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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-11-04


The unusual drought in Florida has
had the effect of drying up Sibley Lake
to such an extent as to leave only a few
slush spots here and there, and in these
alligators sought refuge in large num-
bers, digging huge burrows into the
ground. This has furnished great sport
to the settlers in the neighborhood, who
have gone in crowds to these spots and
fished with fine success for the 'enor-
nous reptiles. The manner of catch
ing them has been to thrust long rods
with hooks at the end into one of the
cavernous burrows and stir up the oc-
cupants. One of the alligators would
snap at the rod, jerk would fasten the
hook into the soft part of the lower jaw.
and it would then be easy to draw the
animal out and kill it with hatchets. It
is not every year that such fishing can
be enjoyed, even in Florida.
The most important export of Ice
land, next to Goldfish, is wool. Consid-
ering the amount of wool required to
keep a sheep warm up here, says q
writer, this is more of q temperature
index than a sheep census. In Iceland
the sheep are never shorn; the wool
gets ripe and is pulled off quite easily,
without causing the animal any pain.
1t may. in truth, be said that wool
grows in Iceland. The annual export
amounts to 100000 pounds. and,
though when it comes off the animal il
is the dirtiest wool in the world, it goes
to market the cleanest. Near Revk.
jarik there are number of boiling
springs, where all the household wash.
ing of the town is done. To this spring
all the plucked wool is brought and
washed in the steaming spring, then
taken out and dried on the grass in the
sun.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

The Senate session was very brief on Tues
day, the 18th inst. Mr. Voorhees, called up his
luton asking the Attorney General for the of
Deputy Marshals appointed to guard the polls OF the
October election in Indiana. 1t amended 80 as
to call also for information to the necessity for
their appointment, and in its new shape was adopted
An attempt was made by Mr. Pendleton to call up
his reorganization resolution, but 1t failed, and the
Senate adjourned.
Senator Edgerton, Of Minnesota, took his
seat on Wednesday, the 10th inst. A resolution was
adopted calling for the correspondence between
Mexico and the United States from 1859 to 1861, In
reference to a proposed treaty. The Democrats
went through the motion OF calling up the organize
ton resolution, but did not attempt to press Il to
a vote There little hbustering on
the part Of the Republicans after which the Senate
adjourned. The President nominated s. Dana
Horton 10 be Secretary TO the Commission to attend
the international Monetary Conference at Paris.
Also the following Postmasters: William III. Hart.
man. Waterloo, Iowa, ard George Il. Reichneker,
Wynndotte, Kas. Surveyors Of Customs: John X.
Leonard, indianapolis, Ind, and Joseph l.. CASTOR,
Chattanooga, Tenn, and b. j. Watson To be Naval
Officer at San Francisco.
The credentials Of Senator Edgerton. of Min
nesota, were presented to the Senate on Thursday.
March II, and he took the oath Of Office. Mr. Pen.
dleton said he had received information which In
duced him to believe that IL would be impossible TO
obtain voc upon the pending resolution this morn
ing, and he therefore moved to adjourn. Agreed to-
The appointment Of Hon. James A. wildman as
Postmaster at Indianapolis was sent 10 the Senate
this afternoon by the President. Col A. f. Rock
wei was also appointed ne Commissioners Of Public
Buildings and Grounds.
The Senate was organized by the Republi-
cans on Friday. the 18th inst, Malone voting with
them, and David Davis with the Democrats. The
vote stood 81 to 81, Edmunds and Vance being
paired, and Vice President Arthur gave his casting
vste in favor Of the Republicans The committees,
40 arranged by the Republican caucus, were then APP
pointed. Al soon ~ Senator Frye was sworn In,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

The Cens1s Bureau has isssed bulletin
Allowing the relations of native and foreign
born persons in the several states As to Iii
nois, it shows that, OF its population Of a,07S,-
769, 2, 496,177 are native and 6SS, 500 foreign
born, or about IA, $50 foreigners to every lO0,-
600 Of population In no State does
the foreign element equal tho native,
although in many It bears . very
large proportion. In the United States AZ
whole there is relative decrease OF the for
eign element. The increase Of the foreign ele-
ment has been in New England, where the
growth has been In the direction OF manu-
factures in Dakota and Oregon, whose wheat
fields have invited settlement and in Colorado.
and New Mexico, where extraordinary develop
ment Of the mining industry has taken place
since 1871.
The largest number of foreigners Is in New
York., oil 438 the next largest in Pennsyl-
vania--5S7, 538; Illinois comes next and with
almost as many then follow Massachusetts,
Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and California The
largest number in any Southern state u in
Texas but in all the South there are not Al.
many foreigners as in Wisconsin alone.
The following table will exhibit the relative
number Of natives and foreigners in 1880
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

When it becomes necessary to provide for the
ultimate disposition Of the fund q meeting OF
subscribers will be called.
The Philadelphia Press prints letter
from Gaboon, west coast of Africa, giving news
about Stanley, the explorer. Stanley's party,
when last seen in November, were on the Ogowe
river, far in the int erior Of Africa. They were
in mountainous country, and obliged to travel
overland for the river was full Of rapids.
Their progress was slow. There are no pro-
visions to be had where they were. The men
were eating rice and the donkeys corn and hay,
all brought from Europe.
The names of the contributors of
S169, 900 Of the fund for Gen. Grant, raised by
George Jones, of the New York Times, have
been published. ]. W. Mackey, Jay Gould and
William II. Vanderbilt contributed 900
each.
A company has been organized il
Philadelphia to drain the Everglades of Florida
and reclaim IL, OOO, 900 acres of the richest land
in the world. The scheme involves the digging
of ship canal across the State.
The Directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company. at recent meeting, decided
to distribute the residue of the common stock,
amounting to nearly 10000 shares, which
has been held in the company's treas
ury since the reorganization in 1875.
This issue completes the total amount of
common stock authorized by the plan of re-
organization and by the act of incorporation,
$40, 100000. The reason for the distribution
of the stock is said by the officers of the COM
pany to be the anxiety of the persons entitled
to receive it to realize their profits at the pres
ent market value of the stock. The chief
opponent of the issue has been the President
of the company, Frederick Billings, who was
unwilling that the stock should be issued any
faster than the road was completed and &C
copied by the Government.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
LObSters.

Over four hundred men and boats, and
probably over 40, 900 pots, are engaged
on the Massachusetts, coast alone in the
lobster fishery, and at least 5000, 600
Holsters are distributed here yearly, over
one-half of which came here from Maine,
which State sends us her primest fish,
the poorer being used in the canning fac
tories. These are nearly all taken in
pots in the summer near the rocky shores
and lodges and in the harbors, and in
winter from seven to thirty miles off
shore on rocky bottoms by schooners
fitted for this fishery. -Ne,o York Tines.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

A recent Washington telegram says |:
President Garfield said yesterday to Senator
from one Of the Middle States that he would
send very few nominations to the Senate before
the adjournment Of that body. He would only
oil vacancies. II would be sixty days,
at least, before he began to make any
important changes. He also outlined
the policy that he intends to pursue in the So
lection for offices in the different States. He
thinks the best judges as to who shall be Sc
ected for such positions are the Senators and
Representatives most interested. He said that
they knew better than he possibly could who
should be appointed and he intended to rely
in the main in making his selections upon
them"
Ex-Chief Justice Cation, of the Illinois
Supreme bench is in Washington urging the
Senate to reject Stanley Matthew'S, on the
ground that he Is not resident of the circuit
and the people of Wisconsin. Illinois and Indi-
ana don't want an outsider put over them again
as United States Judge.
Senator Lamar 10 the only member of
the new Judiciary Committee who favors the
confirmation of Stanley Matthews as Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court. The President
is reported TO be decidedly apathetic about the
result
Private letters received in Blooming
ton from Senator David Davis deny that he
mas any intention Of resigning the Senatorship.
He means to serve out his full term, which ex-
pires March s, 1883, and then to return to
Bloomington to manage his privat to business.
1t having been reported that Gov.
Cornell, of New York, would not call an cleo
ton this spring to I'LL the vacancy caused by
the death of Fernando Wood, Gov. Plaisted,
VI Maine, has assured the Democratic leaders
that he viii not call an election to fill Senator
Frye's place until one is ordered in New York.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

It is related of Persian mother, on
giving her son forty pieces of silver as
his portion, that she made him swear
never to tell lie, and said, $50, my
son I consign thee to God, and we
shall not meet again till the day of iudg-
ment."
The youth went away, and the party
he travelled with were assaulted by rob-
bers. One fellow asked the boy what
he had, and he answered, with candor.
that surprised his questioner:
Forty dinars are sewed up in my
garments.
The robber laughed, thinking the boy
tested. Another asked him the same.
question, and received the same an
swer. At last the chief called him, and
asked what he had. The boy replied:
81 have told two of your people al
ready that have 40 dinars sewed up in
my clothes"
The chief ordered his clothes to be
ripped open, and the money was found.
"And how came you to tell this ?"
Because" replied the boy, 81 would
not be false to my mother, whom SOL
emily promised never to tell lie."
Cnllu, salu tue chiei, art tHOu SO
mindful of thy duty to thy mother,
while am insensible, at my age, of the
duty / owe to Godp Give me thy hand,
that may swear repentance on it." He
did so, and his followers were struck
with the scene.
"You have been our leader in guilt"
they said to the chief, "be the same In
the paths of virtue"
And, taking the boys hand, they took
the oath of repentance on 1.-THE Little
Gem and Kindergarten.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

The of the Tralee Land-Leaguers
have been adjourned to the summer assizes, a.
the present jurors are said to bs members Of
the organization.
Cypress trees have been Battle-Ground
the spot where tho Gear fell, and sacred pict-
ures with lamps burning before them have been
placed there.
President Grevy will send representa-
tives to the Yorktown centennial celebration,
In accordance with the invitation Of our Gov
eminent
The British House OF Commons voted
80, $50, 900 to defray the expenses of the Boer
war.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

The new amendments to the constitu-
ton Of Indiana, which we're voted upon by the
people Of the State on Monday, March IA, have
been adopted by - majority estimated, at this
writing. at 1o0,0O The vote was very light,
probably. not one-half as large as that cast In
November last. One OF the amendments pro-
vides for changing the time Of the State cleo
ton from October TO November.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
South.


The people Of Greensboro, N. O., cele-
brated the centennial anniversary of the battle
Of Guilford by parades and speeches.
A South Carolina lad named John Car
roll, while playing with some friends on Table
rock, in Pickens county, lost his footing and fell
1900 feet
Col. A. G. Hodges, of Louisville, KY,
one of the oldest editors and Masons in the
South. is dead.
George S. Davidson, once a Lieuten-
ant in Lathams Confederate battery, who fired
the first gun at the battle OF Bull Run, died At
Estellville, Va.
On the ground of insanity, Capt. Ed
ward r. Ames, of Baltimore, has been aoquit-
ted of shooting at M. W. Hodgdon. The ac-
cused IL q son OF the late Bishop Ames, and
was sun-struck while an officer in tho army.
He has been returned to private asylum.
On plantation near Florence, 8. O.
Joseph Biggs was simultaneously killed and
buried by lightning. His corpse was only dis
in sight.
Western Texas threatens to secede il
the Legislature passes the Temperance and
Anti-Rsilway laws.
The boilers of the towboat John Means,
Of the st. Louis and New Orleans Transports
ton Company, exploded near Osceola, Ark. The
boat sunk immediately, and four Of her crew
arc supposed to have drowned.
In an attempt to execute James Black,
at Marion, S. c., the rope broke after he hao
been hoisted thirteen feet into the air. He
was restored to consciousness by means OF
whisky and hanged as speedily as new hemp
could be procured.
The training stable OF j. S. Offut, in
Paris, KY, was destroyed by fire and several
valuable horses burned to death.
A boiler in Tyler & Harrod's saw-mill,
near Frankfort, Ky, exploded, killing three
persons and wounding six.
The revenue officers recently raided
the moonshiners on Runnet bog and Shooting
creek, Va, and had lively time Of it. A good
many shots were exchanged, but nobody was
hurt.
A flood at Rome, Ga, has caused the
destruction OF nearly half million dollars
worth of property
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
WHITES, NEGROES AND CHINESE.

According to the tables Of the Census De-
partment, the white population of the United
States has increased since 1870, from 33, 500 245
to 43,4o2, 40S, or nearly 20 per cent the col
ored population from 4,sss,3s7 to 6,577, 497, or
nearly 35 per cent, and the Chinese popula-
ten from 63,254 to 105,679, or about 81 per
cent. The following table shows the number
OF whites negroes and Chinese in each State
and Territory:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

In theater in this country some time
ago disappointed man in the audience
threw q goose's head at an actor. The
latter came to the foot-lights with great
GOODNESS, and said Gentlemen, per-
ceive that one Of you has lost his head
but he need have no fear /; am willing
to return it to him at the conclusion OF
tho performance"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The subscription to the perpetuai
fund to provide for a life income for the oldest
ex-President Of the United States has been
completed. 1t amounts to $3.50, OOO Of which
s21G, 900 has been paid ur, and 80 invested that
it will yield an annual sum of S13, 100. George
Jones, of the New York Times, who
was chiefly instrumental in raising this fund,
says that an analysis of the list Of subscriptions
il his possession shows the following distribu-
ton of amounts
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

While the foreign-borns of no State equal
the native-borns, yet il the minor children OF
foreign parents born in this country were sub
tracted from the native population and added
to the foreign it would give the latter the ma
jority in Ill probability in Minnesota snd nearly
half in Wisconsin.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

Rev. Father Edward Pagan, of Wi
mona, Mimi, committed suicide in Chicago a
few days ago. The deceased had frequently
manifested symptoms OF insanity.
Charles Cram, of the boot and shoe
firm Of Doggett, Bassett q Hills, OF Chicago,
was shot and killed by William Seymour, a
Board of Trade clerk 10 years of age, who sub
sequently commit d suicide. Seymour was
sutton for the hand Of Mr.. Grams daughter
but had been forbidden tho house He forced
his way into Mr.. Grams residence and the
tragedy ensucd.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25
Total. "a 4O2, 4Os 7,577. 497 lOs,e7!

IUtHI. ..'..'' zee. 'fJ,fUz,fU5 ',oW,4yI IUo,b'v
In California, the Chinese population has in
creased in ten years from 49.3l0 to 5,122 in
Arizona, from 20 to 1,G32; in Oregon, from 8, $50
to 9.508; in Washington Territory, from 234 TO
1927. In Idaho, the Chinese numbered 4,274
in 1870 and 1878 in 1880.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

WHEN one gets so much humility that
he is proud Of it he is just too good to
live
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-03-25

When it becomes necessary to provide for the
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The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-01-08
Died Poor.

at was a sad funeral to me-"
said the speaker, "the saddest l
have attended for many years"
THAT of Edmonson?"
YES"
"How did be dep
"Poor-poor as poverty. His life
was one long struggle with the
world, and at every disadvantage.
Fortune Knocked him all the while
with golden promises that were
destined never to know fulfillment."
yet he was patient and endur-
ing" remarked one of tue COM
pany.
"Patient as a Christian-endur-
ing as a martyr" was answered.
"Poor man! He was worthy Of a
better fate. He ought to have sue
ceeded, for he deserved success"
Did he not succeed?" questioned
one who had spoken of bis patience
and endurance.
mo, sir. He died poor, just as
| have stated. Nothing that he
put his hand to ever succeeded. A
strange fatality seemed to attend
every enterprise"
Il was with him in his last mo-
mcnta." said the other, land |
thought be died rich
mo, he has left nothing behind"
was replied. "The heirs will have
10 concern AS to the administration
of his estate"
He left a good name" said one,
''and that is something"
"And a legacy of noble deeds
that were done in the name of hui
manity,' remarked another.
"And precious examples" said
third"
lessons Of patience in suffering;
Of hope in adversitv, of heavenly
confidence when no sunbeams fell
upon his bewildered path, was the
testimony OF another.
"And high truth, manly courage
and heroic iortitude."
"Then be died rich," was the
emphatic declaration. "Richer
than the millionaire who went to
his long home on the same day,
miserable in all but gold. A sad
funeral did you say? No, my
friend, it was a triumphal process
sion. Not the burial of a human
clod, but the ceremonies attendant
on the translation of an angel. Did
not succeed? Why, his whole life
was a series of successes. In every
conflict be came off the victor, and
now the victor's crown is on his
brow.-Er.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-01-08
WhaI Cooperation Does.

The following tabular statement
which is based upon actual expert
ence and is far below the success o
many cooperative stores in thi
country, will show the advantages of
Patrons having their own stores and
buying from themselves. The calcu-
lation is made for Fl years, beginning
with an investment of $40, allowing
10 per cent interest per annum, pur-
chases to the amount of 500 annu-
ally, 10 per cent net profit on sales,
and 20 per cent accumulation:
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1881-01-08
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