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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-05-02
More About the Internal Machines.

New YORK, April 3O.-The police are at
work trying 10 discover who sent the in
felnal machines to William IL. Vanderbilt
and Cyrus W. Field. As already related,
two packages were sent through the post
Office yesterday addressed TO Vanderbilt
and Field. They were placed in q bag and
sent to the uptown district. On the way
one OF them exploded, badly burning the
letters in the bag. The other package was
taken in charge by Postmaster Pearson, to
whom the facts were reported.
The infernal-machine men were not salts
/ fed with paying their compliments 10
MesSrs. Field and Vanderbilt, but included
4 superintendent Walling, OF the police
force, in their list John A. Davenport,
who lives four doors from Superintendent
Wahng, on east Nineteenth street, and
who looks very much like him, has found
| that this resemblance is likely TO prove
dangerous. He went home about half
past O'Clock on Saturday evening and
left the outer door Of the yestibule open. as
he had found it, but closed the inner door.
Shortly after he heard an explosion in the
yestibule. The explosion was so loud that
II was heard in Second avenue, go feet dis
tant. He opened the door which lac had
Just closed, and found a parcel wrapped
in a newspaper blazing in the yesti-
bule, and setting fire to the mat.
Plenty OF water put out the fire and
deluged the parcel. The parcel was found
10 consist OF a cigar-box. A stout wire
secured the whole. At the end OF the
cigar-box was a small hole, through which
fuse had evidently been passed. The
box had been placed in the yestibule inn
mediately after Mr.. Dayenporl's entrance.
Mr.. Davenport conceiying that this imita-
ton OF an internal machine originated in
the malice OF the mischieyous boys OF the
neighborho0d, thought little OF it until he
read in this mornings papers that Super
intendent Walling's name had been found
on the box mailed TO Cyrus W. Field. Ii
then occurred TO him that he had been mis-
taken for the Superintendent OF Police,
and that the Internal machine was intended
for Mr. WalIing.
Postmaster Pearson to-day found that
the explosive contained in the Internal
machine sen. TO Mr.. Vanderbilt was gun
cotton, and IL is Inferred that the contents
OF the exploded flask designed for Mr..
Field were the same. The gun-cotton Is
very closely packed In the flask that remains
intact When closely packed Ii IL an ex-
plosiye OF four times the force Of gunpow-
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
The American Mother

The American mother-the mother of
the men who usually become our PreSi-
ients-knows nothing of matchmaking.
of laying bats to catch eligible young
men of marrying her girls off. She may
not watch them as European mothers do,
and may trust too implicitly in their
good sense, but, at least, she never tries
to getrid of them.
She is no more averSe than the mother
in the Cotter's Saturday Night to see
"her BARN respectt like the lave;;" to
have gentlemen polite to her." but
when the respect and '.politeness'
turn into downright counting, and she
sees the danger signals ahead, and some
body comes one day. hat in hand, blush
ing like peony, to mention that ''if she
has no objections, Jane hasn't" she is
in despair. To lose her girl by matri-
mony is fearful blow. Why, the Cir,
is her own! The little baby that slept on
her bosom and held her finger tight in
its crumpled rose leaf hand was all hers.
The child that toddled after her, copying
her in miniature as she went about her
household duties. and who must have a
toy broom, and a tea kettle that held a
tablespoonful of water, and the scraps of
dough to make a tiny loaf of bread with,
and doll to be treated in all respects as
mother treated the new baby, was more
and more her own little Janey.
The bigger, Janey, who grew so fast and
helped so with the little children, and
was her mothers right hand always,
was her very own, morning noon and
night. And now, the pretty young lady,
so capable and bright, so stylish, in
her ''best things" who has stopped
taking lessons, and plays on the pretty,
upright piano in the parlor, who can cut
and make everything for the younger
ones. who helps her, and of whom she is
proud, is she not also her very own, to
love and boast little about? Jane, her
daughter, her one grown-up daughter
shall young Smith, or young Jones, or
middlc-aged Tomlinson, take her for his
own. and carry her off to live elsewhere.
and have other interests?
The mother can not bear the thought.
and when that happens which does hap
pen to most pretty girls, though she
cannot wish her daughter to "be an old
maid" her heart almos: breaks and she
feels sorely injured. People congratu-
late her, but she can only sigh.
Mothers like these, often nice, plain.
country mothers, are not given to much
reading of fashionable foreign news;
but if they should, by chance, take to it
in despair after all their girls are mar
ried, think they would be astonished
by the glimpses of the mothers forever
plotting and planning to get their daugh-
tiers off their hands, marrying them to
anybody who has money, and always in
a hurry to get the eldest off that the
youngest may follow in her steps. That
is a phase of domestic life of which the
faithful American mother knows moth
ing.-N Y. Ledger.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

"A pew in DIR. John Halls church.
New York, sold the other day for g.
600.
"A Massachusetts, woman has made a
bequest of $1,000 to Boston University
-.for the purpose of clothing worthy
theological students"
I'm Prussia they appreciate the value
of health and the necessity of exercise to
maintain it. The minister of education
has ordered that the boys in all the
schools be made to play athletic games.
The Singing Pilgrim philip
Phillips) and his son, who now sings
with him, are shortly to return home,
after successful tour of song through
out the British Isles. Mr.. Phillips and
his family will visit the West Indies
until April next.
From March 1 to November 1 the
American Sunday School Union estab-
lished 49S new Sunday schools in the
Northwest and brought 2,O2S teachers
and 16, 120 scholars into them. besides
aiding 1903 old schools, which have
5,149 teachers and 44,109 scholars
Chicago Times.
The First Presbyterian Church in
New Albany has a deacon, John Bush
nell, who has held that responsible and
honorable Office for fifty years. A few
evenings ago the ladies of the church
celebrated his seventy-eighth birthday
rs a mark of respect to his integrity
and Christian Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
Tight lacing has often been attacked
as injurious to the health, but now it is
said to be injurious to morals. A Phila-
delphia parson recently preached a SER
mon on the subject, and argued that the
divine truth could not find its way into a
heart squeezed and cramped by corsets.
Philadelphia Press.
The teachers in the public schools at
indianapolis have been in the habit OF
sending out pupils to ascertain the
whereabouts of absentees. BY entering
houses where scarlet fever was raging
several of the scholars contracted the
disease, and now the School Board pro-
pose to put stop to such use OF the
pupils.
1t is said that curious old gentle
man in New York has been collecting
sermons until he now has about l2,00C
of all sorts. He began nearly thirty
years ago. He laid up bound volumes
at first, but later he preserved the ser
mons he found in pamphlets or fully
printed in periodicals. In order that he
might arrange his material, he learned
book-binding, and for all these years he
has given his nights and holidays to the
work of arranging, indexing and sys-
tematzing his materially. 7. Times.
-Chunder Sen, the leader of the Free
Brahmins in INDIAN almost Christian
sect, opposed to idolatry and caste is a
man of unusual attainments. He is a
graceful orator, both in English and
Bengalese, and a profound scholar in the
philosophy and sciences of Europe. He
has travelled much, having visited Lon
don and been presented to the Queen.
Personally he is of striking and hand
some appearance, being more than six
feet tall, and in the prime of life. He is
very wealthy, and at his own expense
maintains a large church in Calcutta.
and edits and publishes a paper called
The New Dispensation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
suv.rstitions About Love.

From the earliest times no event in
human life has been associated with a
more extensive folk lore than marriage.
Beginning with love divinations, these
are of every conceivable kind, the anx-
ious maiden apparently having left no
stone unturned in her anxiety to. ascer-
tain her lot in the marriage state. Some
cut the common brake or fern just above
the root to ascertain the initials of the
future husbands name. Again, nuts
and apples are very favorite love tests.
The mode of procedure is for girl to
place on the bars of CRATE nut, re-
peating this incantation:
II he loves rue. pop and fly:
If he hates me, lie and die.
Great is the dismay if the anxious face
of the inquirer gradually perceives the
nut, instead of making the hoped-for
pop. die and make no sign. One means
of divination is to throw lady-bird into
the air, and repeating meanwhile the
subjoined couplet:
Fly away east. and fly away west,
Show me where lives the one like best
Should this little insect chance to fly
in the direction of the house where the
loyed-one resides, it is regarded as a
-
most favorable omen.
Another species of love divination
once observed consisted in obtaining five
bay leaves, four of which the anxious
maiden pinned at the four corners of her
pillow, and the fifth in the middle. If
she was fortunate enough to dream OF
her lover. it was a sure sign that he
would be married to her in the course of
the year.
In selecting the time for the marriage
ceremony precautions of every kind
have generally been taken to avoid an
unlucky month and day for the knot to
be tied. Indeed, the old Roman notion
that the May marriages are unlucky sur
wives to this day in England. June is a
highly popular month, Friday, on ac-
count of its being regarded as an inau-
spicious and evil day for the commence
ment of any kind of enterprise, is gen.
orally avoided. ~
In days gone by Sunday appears to
have been popular day for marriages.
1t is, above all things, necessary that
the sun should shine on the bride, and it
is deemed absolutely necessary by very
many that she should weep on her we'd
ding day, If 1t be only few tears; the
omission of such an act being considered
ominous of her future happiness.
In Sussex, bride on her return home
from church is often robbed of all her
pins about her dress by the single women
present, from the belief that whoever
possesses one of them will be married in
the course of a year, and evil fortune
will sooner or later inevitably overtake
the bride who keeps even one pin used
in the marriage toilet.
"Flinging the stocking was an old
marriage custom in England. The
young men took the brides stockings,
and the girls those of the bridegroom.
each of whom, sitting at the foot of the
bed. threw the stockings over their
heads, endeavoring to make it fall upon
that of the bride or her spouse. If the
bridegroom's stockings. thrown by the
girls, fell upon the bridegroom's head,
it was a sign that they themselves would
soon be married, and similar luck was
derived from the falling of the brides
stockings thrown by the young men.-
Something to Read.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Boston flirt, on receiving an offer
of marriage, rushed into the hall and
called up stairs, Mother, am engaged
To- anybody now?'
-Metamorphosis extraordinary: A
young man who was supposed to be I'M
commonly soft, has been found running
away from his tailor as hard as possible.
The JulQe.
That's a lovely necktie you have
on,"sh remarked. ''Glad you like it;
l thought it rather neat myself" Eyes,
it would look so well in the silk patch
work quilt l am making. "-ELerGted
Railroad Journal.
The mushroom crop is so scant this
fall that gatherers think there is mush-
room for improvement. Meanwhile
hasty pudding is safer thing to put on
your table. Hungry children have lots
of mush Pittsburgh Telegraph.
How can keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence to get into my
garden at night?" said an Austin man
to neighbor. THAT'S easy enough"
.But how can l keep the cattle from
breaking down the fence?n '.By leav.
ing the gate open. - 7eraS Siftings.
The sting of bee, it is said, when
compared with the point of fine needle
under a powerful magnifying glass, is
scarcely discernable. But the trouble is
that when a man gets a bee sting, he
forgets to compare it with a needle;
hence it always is observable, and by a
large NATURALIZATION Transcript.
-"'Tis a poor rule that does not
work both ways. Yesterday was at a
dinner party, when glass of wine was
spilled on the table. Herr Meier put
some salt on it and no one said n word.
Subsequently the salt-dish was capsized,
and poured a grass of wine on it,
whereupon l came near being thrown
out of the house. FTiegende Batter.
The smallest county in PENNSYLVANIA
is the most modest. Its strong point is
its Lack-o'-wannaty. The most evenly
balanced county in its profit and loss ac-
count is Lose-earn. The rag-pickers'
county is Alley-gainy. The most stall
wart county is Armstrong. The most
disreputable county is Snider. The
deadest county for education is Schuyl-
kill.-Philadelphta Bulletin.
An humble Sausage thus Addressed
naughty Seal Skin sack: .'How does 1t
Happen, my Friend. that you do not
Recognize me, when it was only Two
Months ago that you Used to Skin up a
Tree whenever Iapproached?' To this
the Seal Skin Sack saucily Replied:
''You had None the Better of Me then,
Mr.. Sausage, for while l was SHINING
up the Tree, you forsooth Were Sailing
down the Street with a Tin can tied to
four Tail. "-Denrer Tribune Fables.
Then you are thinking of build
ing a residence next season." sug-
gcsted Flub to one of our heavy
pockets. ''Yes l thought / should get
up something in that line'' "What
stvle of architecture-Gothic, or Doric,
Or Corinthian, OPP 20. little of
everything MY wife inclines to the
Mary Ann style; but l guess I'll put up
a genuine Betsy Jane cottage, with a
eizarro all around it. That'll suit me
well enough. Chicago Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
A Dog With Two Tails.

William Mccarthy, who lives few
miles from Soda Springs, received as a
present few days ago dog whose pecu-
! fiarities are more marked than those of
the ordinary canine and which is attract
ing no little attention. The dogs tail is
| double, both parts reaching to the spinal
column and both attached to it by some
natural movable joint. They are entire
| ly disconnected with each other and there
is no power of moving them both at the
same time, except that of shifting the
base from right to left and vice versa
This does not appear to be voluntary, but
is Occasioned by the feelings of the dog.
When the tail on the right side is in the
position of direct continuity with the
backbone the dog has no power of moving
the tail on the left side or left branch of
the tail, whichever it may be, and when
the left side tail is in the same position
there is no power of motion on the right
side. This remarkable freak of nature
is heightened in its singularity by the
sympathy, if such it may be called, which
exists between the separate divisions of
the dogs tail and the sensations which
exist in the brain. The right side seems
to have monopoly of all feelings of
pleasure. Whenever the animal is pleased
the right side tail is switched on and
wags gaily in expression of happiness.
While in this position harsh word from
his master or anything else which causes
him sorrow effects most wonderful trans
formation. The right tail is showed aside
by the left tail which assumes COM
manding position and at once drops be-
tween his legs.
This odd creature is of the size and
build of the ordinary pointer dog, but his
hair is longer. He is white with large
black spots. His pedigree could not be
learned, but he was born and raised on
Cobbs rancho, near the mouth of Hard
scrabble Creek, between Pueblo and
Canon. Cobb is a brother-in-law of Nc
Carthy and presented him the dog during
a recent visit-LeddrWe Chronicle.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
Depend, on Ii. Cotton Crop.

According to the ARPeal of that city.
the society season in Memphis depends
upon the cotton crop. The same causes
which make cotton late tend to delay
society gatherings, and thus have per.
ceptible effect upon the number of mar
riages. Some philosophers hold that the
wheat crop is 30 intimately connected
with the question of marriages, that it is
possible to calculate the ratio between
the number of bushels raised and the
number of marriages to take place. In
the Southern States this ratio depends
upon the cotton crop. The consequence
of the destruction of half the cotton crop,
ordinary business men tell US, would be
to double the price OF calico, but the
disastrous effect upon marriages, and con-
sequently upon the inci ,ase of population
no one has been bold enough to state.
Who would think that love depended
upon the cotton crop?
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
The had BoY at Breakfast.

Eyes" said the boy, with vacant
look, II take no interest in the pleasureof
the chase any more, though l did have
fast table. You see pa is the contrariest
man ever was. If l complain that any
thing at the table don't taste good, pa
says its all right. This morning l took
the syrup pitcher and emptied out the
white syrup and put in some cod-lver oil
that ma is taking for her cough. put
some on my pancakes, and pretended to
taste of it, and l told pa the syrup was
sour and not fit to eat. Pa was mad in a
second, and he poured out some on his
pancakes and said l was getting too
COMPOUNDED particular. He said the
syrup was good enough for him, and he
sopped his pancakes in it and fired some
down his neck. He is gaul darned
hypocrite- that's what he is. ! could see
by his face that the cod-liver oil was near
killing him, but he said the syrup was
all right, and if / didn't eat mine he'd
break my neck: and by gosh l had to eat
it, and pa he guessed he hadn't got much
appetite and he would just drink cup
of coffee and eat donut. like to dide,
and that think makes this disappoint-
ment in love harder to bear. But l felt
sorry for ma. Ma amt got very strong
stummish, and when she got some of that
cod-fiver oil in her mouth she went up
stairs, sickern horse, and pa had to help
her, and she had the neuralgia all the
morning. l eat pickles to take the taste
out of my mouth, and then laid for the
hired girls. They eat too much syrup,
anyway, and when they got on to that
cod-liver oil and swallowed lot of it,
and one of them an nirish girl, she got up
from the table and put her hand on her
corset and said 'howly Mosesp and went
out into the kitchen looking as pale as
ma does when she has powder on her
face, and the other girl, who is Dutch,
she swallowed pancake and said, Mine
Gott, vas de matter from me, and she
went out and leaned on the coal bin
Then they talked Irish and Dutch, and
got clubs and started to look for me, and
/ thought l would come over here. The
whole family is sick, but it is not from
love, like my illness, and they will get
over it, while shall fill an early grave;
but not till have made that girl and the
telegraph messenger wish they was dead.
Pa and are going to Chicago next week
and I'll bet we'll have some fun. Pa
says need change of air, and l think
he is going to try to lose me. It's a cold
day when get left anywhere that Ican't
find my way back. Well, good bye, old
potatoes.-PecEs Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22

lady sister, and Ton B. is mighty hard one
to keep up with. His sister had a b-au the
other night, and just IS the conversation be-
came interesting the little brother walked in
well" said his sister, what do you want
here!' Il want to whisper something to
you" was the reply. "'Tisn't polite to whis-
per In company; speak right out like a little
man." but / don't like to-" YES, but
you must, so Mr. J. eau see how bright you
are" "Ail right, then. Brother Tom told
ire to ask you what was the date of your last
hustle, for he can't find to-day's paper high
nor low, and he left It I'm your room Just be-
fore sup err" Tom left on the miinight
train for trip South. and his house is not
expecting him back before the 1st Of May.
The young LAZY may recover by that time
TIE Drummer
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
Didn't Know His Wife's Name.

The pretty custom of parents address
.ng each other as papa or 'tmama" in
she presence of their children soon be
comes s confirmed habit, even when the
youngsters are not around. Some time
ago weli-known New York journalist,
with his wife, acted as sponsors at the
christening of child, and at the con-
slusion of the ceremony. the minister
isked ''Mr. BLANK, what is your wife's
Christian namer' The newspaper man
hesitated, ssammere0, and then turned to
ais helpmeet, saying, "Mama, what is
four first name?" of course every body
laughed; but when that journalist got
home his wife gave him blessing minus
he beuediction.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
A Reasonable Request.

An Austin young man has been boring
young lady with his attentions fol
some time past, although on various and
sundry occasions she had given him to
understand that he was distasteful to
her. A few evenings ago he assured
her that he was anxious to fulfill her
every wish.
us it reallya fact that you will do
whatever l ask of you?''
"Your slightest wish is law. Com
mand me, and shall obey"
'Well, then, wish you would see if
you can induce my mother to marry
you. Sheis widow, and is not as par
ticular about whom she marries as
am" -TeIds Siftinqs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
ImpOrtant.

When you visit or leave New York City
save baggage and expressage and carriage
hire. and stop at the Grand Union Hotel,
nearly opposite the Grand Central Depot. 45c
elegant rooms, single and in suits, fitted up st
an expense of one million dollars. Rooms re,
duced to 81 and upward per day on European
plan. Elevators. Restaurant supplied with
the best. Horse cars, stages and elevated
railroad to all depots.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
AlmOst Persuaded.

II Is not TO he wondered at that chronic dys
peptics are peeviIh, cross and nervous. The
disease poisons the blood, weakens the kid.
neys and skaters the nervous system. To
those who feel almost persuaded to try that
never failing cure for dyspepsia and general
weakness known as DIR. Guysott's Yellow
Dock and Sarsaparilla, we desire to say you
make great mistake by delaying. Now Is
the time. 1t will positively restore you tc
health, strength and vigor 1t 10 the prescrip-
tion of an eminent phys clan and is compc sed
of Yellow Dock, Sars p rrills, Juniper, lion.
Buchu, Celery and Ca.isaya.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22
Personal!

The voLTAIC BELT Co, Marshall, Mich,
will send DIR. Dyes Celebrated Electro-Voltaic
Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thir-
" days TO men young or old who are afflicted
with nervous debility, lost vitality and kindred
troubles guaranteeing speedy and complete
restoration of health and manly vigor. Ad-
dress as above. N. B.-No risk is incurred,
as thirty days. trial is allowed.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-22

A Missouri woman, after completin O
lecture recently, missed the trsin on which
ehc was to be carried to another town. With
her daughter she tried TO get throu yh on the
freight train, but was informed that no pis-
eengers could be taken. She then demanded
to be shipped as live stock, and as there was
no rule against this, she and her daughter
xere weighed, tcketed and billed to Q con-
sirnee as cattle.