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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23
FREEMAN Bios.

Go to Beggs for prices on Boots &
Shoes, they are always bed rock.
A full line Of Buntings at Free
man Bros.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

Elk Point, Aug, 81, 1882.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

Freeman Bros. have received the
finest and most complete line
of Boots and Shoes ever display
ed III this country. Ladies genuine
French kid, common sense walk
ing Shoes" Gents fine shoes, in fact,
anything from the cheapest to the
best.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

Freeman Bros. have just received
their first installment of spring hats,
with more to follow at once. Don't
forget.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

Children's under wear at Beggs
only 40 cents suit.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

Hats & Caps in all shapes and
styles, at Beggs.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-08-23

The following counties, through
their conventions, have declared for
Hon. George II. Hand for delegate
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
Adulterated Preserves.

According to the correspondent OF
an English trade journal. it is mistake
to suppose that fruit is absolutely Heces-
sary to the manufacture of preserves
He describes visit to large jam-pro-
ducing factory. in which he found that
the work was being brayely carried on
without the aid of fruit at all Jams of
various kinds were being produced be-
fore his eyes-currant. plum, apricot,
strawberry, raspberry and gooseberry.
Yet neither currant, plum, strawberry,
apricot, raspberry nor gooseberry was
in the building. Turnips served the
purpose of the fruit The favoring
matter was extracted from coal tar, and
the resemblance to raspberry and
strawberry jam was further produced
by mixing the boiling compound with
small seeds with some cheap innocuous
herb. A common form of sugar is used.
and this is the only honest ingredients
of the mess. These preserves are Of
fered as made from '.this seasons
fruit"
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The estimated wealth of the State
Of New York is put at $1,000, 900, 600.
Pennsylvania produces about one
the United States. The total yield for
the year will be over II 600. 600 bushels.
The two underground lines of rail-
way in London carry ITO, 600. 600 pas
sengers every year, and the Metropol-
itan alone carries 10000. 900 for maxi
mum charge of one penny.
Fulton County, Pennsylvania. has q
hog 9years old as large as an ordinary
cow, and which, if fattened, would
weigh about 1900 pounds. Its tusks
are like those of an elephant. Chicago
Times.
The capital stock of all the National
banks in the country is S46S, 40, POP.
The assets claimed by life insurance
companies, and there are but few of
them as compared with the number of
National banks. is S45S,54l, 1913.
I'm the commonwealth of Massachu-
sets there are now twenty-one cities.
with total valuation for the current
year of 81, 149. 1882, 625. showing gain
of S28, O33. 224 over 1881. Boston alone
shows gain of nearly S7,0O0,0OO.
The cost of treating free gold ores
in twenty stamp-mills on the Pacific
coast during the year 1877 was $40 per
ton. In 1873 it was reduced to % per
ton, and in 1879 to 81 per ton. In some
districts the cost now ranges from S1.25
to $1.50 per ton only, which shows
remarkable progress in the right direc-
ton.
AT the recent Cincinnati exposition
7,467 men aggregated 1,15O, 1OS pounds
weight, an average of 154. OF, and H.
6SS women weighed 1,922, 1873, an aver
age of 130.87. Classified, Ohio men
averaged 1888 pounds, those from
Southern Indiana and Illinois 1882,
and Kentuckians 15S.43 pounds. As
near as this came to being unanimous
vote" that of the women was still
closer, Ohio women averaging 1886,
Kentucky 1873. 76, and Southern Indiana
and Illinois ladies 133. %. Detroit Post.
Some idea of the great slaughter of
deer which annually takes place in Cal
ifornia, Nevada and Oregon, may be
gained from the trade statistics of the
hide dealers. One export house in San
Francisco has a pile containing 5000
deer-skins in its warehouse. 1t handles
annually over $4,000 skins, and esti-
mates the annual number of deer killed
at 20O,0 The largest portion of the
skins come from Northwestern Nevada
and Southeastern Oregon. In Oregon
and California large numbers of the an
imals are left TO rot, the skins being all
that is desired. Chicago Herald.
Ono of the largest ropes in thick
ness and length ever produced in En-
glands that recently manufactured for
service in New Zealand. where it is to
be employed in hauling up ships when
they run aground on the soft mud bot
tom there, which is occasionally the
case. The rope in question is twenty
Qne-inch white MANILA hawser, 10
fathoms long, and composed of nine
strands of SIG yards to the strand.
Another rope. intended for the same
|, purpose, is a fifteen-inch hawser, of the
same material and length, and COM
posed of nine strands. with 164 yards to
the strand. Twelve-inch ropes are the
largest size ordinarily made.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

POSTMASTER CLARY, of Sidney, Neb.,
who was indicted for making false re-
turns in connection with the Star Route
frauds, was fined in the United States
District Court at Omaha, recently.
Clary's special offense, it is charged, con-
sisted in his making his official reports on
the arrival of mails at Sidney, 50 as to
save the Sidney & Deadwood Stage Com
pany from paying heavy fines to the
Government for failure to fulfill its con-
tract. He was tried last spring and the
jury disagreed. There were one hun
dred and six specific charges in the in
dictment against Clary, and when the
case was lately called at Omaha, the Dis
trict Attorney informed the court that he
considered itextremely doubtful if con-
siction could be had on any of the counts
except one, if indeed that, and that he
had agreed with the defendants counsel
that he should be found guilty on one
count and not guilty on the Others. The
Court 50 instructed the jury, who re-
turned their verdict accordingly. Clary
was then fined $500, which he paid.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

THE latest dispatches by cable are to
the effect that France is disturbed in
every fibre of her social structure, and
there is grave uneasiness among the best
friends of the Republic. The last vestige
of confidence in the present Government
has disappeared, but another which shall
be any bstter is not Immediately in view.
The situation is peculiarly unfortunate.
The chimerical Government railroad
speculatioRs, the disgracefui condition of
the finances, NJ Tirard's mistake of 100,-
000, 900 francs in his report, followed now
by NJ fHerison's mistake of 1900, 900
francs ia the Public Works, the failure
bf the crops and sintages, the collapse of
The foreign policy, the condition and
temper of the working classes, the dam
gerous fanaticism of the anti Clerical
party, the intrigues and oonspiracies of
Bonapartists and Legitimists, and the ex-
traordinary energy of Anarchists and
Socialists-all these things have plunged
The country into an unhappy turmoil
from one end to the other. Paris is at
fever-heat, and some startling develop
ments in the political situation cannot be
much longer deferred.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

The bill for restoring Fitz John Porter
to the army will come up early in the
next session of Congress, and according
to Washington correspondent the con.
test over the case is expected to be warm.
Mr.. Merrill, it is said, will undoubtedly
antagonize it with his tax bill, which, in
view of the general clamor, may cause
the regular order to be set aside. Should
such a contingency arise, Porter's case,
with the stimulus given it by Gen.
Grants recent publication, will come up
for debate. Gen. Logan will head the
opposition to Porter's restoration. He is
reported to have prepared another speech,
which he will deliver in the Senate, and
which will occupy from one to three
DAYS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

The number of private bankers i'm sixteen
of the principal cities is 1876, with an aggregate
capital of S.4,i40,5EI AMI aggregate deposits of
Slu9. ,I4f, the average capital being Sgi,5lS.
and the average deposits Sl37. S67, About six
ty-eight per cent. of these private banks are
In New York, representing more than two
thirds of the aggregate capital, and more than
one-half of the aggregate deposits. In New
York the average amount of capital is $50
80, and depOs Is Sl0j. l57 for each private
banker, and the bankers in that city also hold
nearly one-half of the amount of such bonds
held by all of the private bankers of the
country.
The number of private bankers in thirty.
three States and Territories having a capital in
excess of $4,000, exclusive of these sixteen
principal cities is % o.; the aggregate amount
of capital is S33,2T.62t and OF deposits $751;,
sIO,G64, the average capital being Sl5,52l. and
the average depOs ia SIlE2J. The remaining
thirteen States and Territories cont hin sixty
five private bankers with an aggregate capital
Of S52I,GO and aggregate deposits of Sd, 800. $50
Massachusetts has only three private bankers
outside of Boston. with an aggregate capital of
k6i,l61 and aggregate deposits of SG1S.296.
Maryland has only two private bankers out
side of Baltimore. Maine has ten private
bankers, North Carolina four, New Hamp-
shire two, New Jersey four, Delaware and
average amount of capital held by each of
these sixIy-five private bankers is Ss,5l1, and
of deposits SGi05O. The following table shows
by geographical divisions the number OF
private bankers I'm the United States with the
aggregate amount of their capital, deposits
and investments in United States bonds for
the six months ended May 81, 1882:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
CoNrRoLLER KNox is reported to bav

CONTROLLER KNOX is reported to have
made recommendation to the Secretary
of the Treasury, in which he proposes
that the Government refund the Fours
in Threes, giving holders of the Fours
fifteen dollars in money on every one
hundred dollars. The Controller believes
the greater part of the Fours would be
thus refunded, and that the banks would
make special effort to secure success for
the refunding plan. 1t would give them
a twenty-four year bond at three per
cent. as the basis for their banking, and
at the same time give them the advan-
tage of the premium. On the other
hand, he thinks there will be great saw
ing in the interest charge. He figures
that, in making the exchange, the hold
ers of the bonds would receive for each
one-hundred-dollar bond three per cent.
bond running until 1907 and fifteen dol
lars in money. His calculations are that
by this plan the Government would save
total of s67,OOO,0OO, or s2,5OO,O00 a
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

1 MARSHAL HENRY, of the District of
Columbia, whose official head fell in the
political waste-basket by the recent act
of the President removing certain
Government offices, declares that he
''intends to fight" 1t is said very
earnest attempt will be made to enlist
supporters in behalf of his retention
under the Tenure-of- Office act. The war
cry will be that his removal is war on
Garfield's friends. 1t remains to be seen
whether such charge can be substan-
tiated. Friends of the Administration
certainly earnestly deny it, and some Of
the best friends of Gen. Garfield say that
it will not do for any who have indirectly
aided the Star-Route gang to seek to
shield themselves behind the honored
memory of Garfield.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
WIT AND WISDOM.

Josh Billings says: '.Next to clear
conscience for solid comfort comes an
old shoe"
The smaller the grain OF sand. the
more certain it is to consider itself the
axis of the world.
"A Western editor tells what he
would do if he were a jackass. and now
people are sitting round on the fence to
see him do it-Boston Post.
80 Georger' Boston girl intense
ly exclaimed while gazing at the comet.
chow transcendently beautiful and
rapturously precious it is! 1 should so
love to study botany"
She wouldn't stand to have tooth
pulled for one million two hundred
thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked all day in tiny boots two sizes
too small for her and thought nothing
of it: but then nobody saw the tooth
and several saw the boots.
"A young gentleman of the lacka-
da's:cal Oscar Wilde type went into 3
restaurant one day last week to get
some breakfast. "How do you want
your eggs biledg' asked the waiter. IL
want them soft" "How soft?'' VERY
soft. ] want them to match my voice"
~. y. Graphic.
"A book agent wandered into Bow
cry museum the other day, and talked
to wax figure of General jackson three
hours, trying to induce him to subscribe
for a work in one hundred and forty
two parts, price fifty cents each-no
subscription taken for less than the en-
tire work. WELL" he said, as he
turned to 90. +" if you didn't want it.
why didn't you say so two hours agoF
N. Y Mail. srr .IE
The process of whitening sugar
with clay was discovered BY hen go
ing into sugar house after wading
through clay puddle Wherever she
let her tracks on the sugar, the sac
charine stuff whitened. How the pro-
cess of Improving" sugar by mixing it
with sand and adulterating it with glu-
cose was discovered, has never been sat
isfactorily explained; but it is safe 20
say that the party who found the Sc
cret was mo chicken -Norrist0,C
Herald.
The proprietor OF the White Horse
Hotel at Milton, Australia, announces
that "you can procure English Beer.
Irish Beer. and also Scotch Beer. Port
Wine, Sherry Wine, Elderberry Wine
and Rhubarb Wine. No Moselle.
Roderer, Freminet and FUELS Charlons
S. Marne Squat Hook, tit for the Squat
ocracy. But we'll VIII ne more about it.
Try Khapsodia, Nerve and Brain Tonic,
Sparkling Phosphated. Twas suffering
with Pimpleum beside my Phenum-
culum; by taking a course of the above
stopped it from spreading over the
whole region of the human archipel-
ago Detroit, Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

Gov. ORDwAY has gone to Washing
ton to urge Dakota matters on Congress.
A committee of citizens of Yankton
County preparded a memorial to Congress,
asking authority to issue $3.50, 600 in four
and-a-half per cent bonds to redeem the
present bonded debt, and get small
grant of land to help pay the debts.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

The Irish enlistments in the English
army have fallen from seventy to twenty
per cent, and the Freemar,'s Journal says
that, while the present feeling between
the two countries lasts, Irishmen will not
serve in the army. This leads English
writers to the conclusion that England
will have to recruit her army in India,
which would involve fatal confession
of weakness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

WASHINGTON gossips now assert that
some of George Gorham's friends say
that Riddleberger and Malone are so
pledged to him that they will notify the
Republican Senators that if they do not
make Gcrham their candidate for Secre-
tary of the Senate, after the fourth of
March, they need not count upon the
votes of the two Readjusters to retain
them in control of the Senate.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
THEWORLD'S DOINGS.
A summary or the Daily News.
pon,vIoau Ann pwasoNAL.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
John 8. Wise, Readjuster. was awarded the
certificate for Congressman-at-Large from
| Virginia. ).
Hon. ]. T. Updergraff, Republican Con-
gressman-elect from the Seventeenth Ohio
District, died Thanksgiving evening at Mount
Pleasant. His death was caused by stone in
the bladder. His age was sixty. He was
treated for Bright's disease. The true ailment
was disco sered by post norton examination.
Rear Admiral Wyman, United State navy,
| was stricken with paralysis in Washington
lately and lies I'm critical condition.
The will of Thurlow Weed was filed recent
". The estate is valued at from s5Oo, 900 to
500, 0t0 After making number of miner
requests the remaining property is distributed
among his three daughters and six grandchil-
dren.
1t is believed In London that France is pre-
pairing specific demand on England for COM
pensation for lapse of control in Egypt.
Senator-elect Riddleberger, of Virginia, is
expected soon to become involved in duel
with Capt w. P. Mccarthy, Washington
correspondent, because of severe personal
structures by the latter upon the former.
Hon. Samuel Bigbee has been elected Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee
Nation, and Hon. j. Chales and B. Mayer As
sociate Justices.
Admiral Robert III. Wyman, U. s. Navy,
died suddenly in Washington recently from
stroke of paralysis.
The Garfield Board of Audit have allowed
the following claims for professional services:
Bliss, s6,5O0; Agnew and Hamilton, 5000
each; Reyburn and Boynton, $1,000 each !;
Edison, $1,000. Bills for services and supplies
were all settled, as were also bills for extra
services of Government employees. The total
appropriation to pay the claims against the
estate was ST., 500, of which SIS, 500 was spe-
cially appropriated for physicians and medical
attendance. The allowances for physicians,
ETC., amount to 5000 less than the amount
appropriated, and the allowances for outside
claims are about s1l 900 less than the amount
available, thus making a total balance of about
SIS, 600 out of the entire appropriation.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
Report OF U. s. Treasurer Gilfillan.

WASHINGTON. november ~.
The annual report of the Treasurer of the
United Suites says the receipts of the Govern
ment show an increase over 1881 of 81, q. yo54
in the revenue from customs: Sll,2sl: 90 from
internal revenue; $2,55I,2T from sales
of public lands; and s6,101.4l6 from
miscellaneous sources, making the total
increase in net revenue S4s.742,95I. The
total net revenue was $i93, SIS 225O.2'. The net
expenditures decreased from SEQ, 7l2, ss7 to
SIS, 9s1, 4i0, a reduction Of $2,73l AT, which,
added to the increase in receipts, make an in
crease of S45,414,4 05 in surplus revenues
applicable TO the reduction of the public debt
The amount of standard silver dollars
coined from February -. 1873, the date of the
act requiring their coinsge, to October 81. 1ss2.
is $l2s. $3.50, Of which xas 0Os. Sss remain in
the Treasury, and $3.50, 49s, or about
27M per cent. Is in circulation. The proper
ton Of total coinage in circulation Sep
TENDER So 1881, was 34f per cent. of the
$1,000, US coined. During the last thirteen
months $2,sj0,012 have gone into circulation,
and $2..05,, 105 remain in the Treasury. Dur
ing seven months of tn .tp.riod the dollars re-
turned to the Treasury exceeded in amount
those issued, the number in circulation run
ming down from 81, g59,l0 On December 81,
1881, to 81, &c., 55 on October II, 1882.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

AT Tel-elKebir, Juno, an old Irish setter,
belonging to the First Battalion Gordon
Highlanders, bravely ''rushed'' the intrench-
ments at the head Of the Highlanders, and
displayed GOODNESS inside and courage
which ELECTED universal applause, no mors
minding the rain of bullets than If she was
out snipe-shooting. Juno has long been a
pet of the regiment When the order came
to proceed to Egypt, every one said that Juno
must 60 too, and go she did, very much to
the delight of the men.
ANNA NJ SHEARER, a dwarf residing at
Reading, Pa, who was ten years of age,
weighed only ten and half pounds, and was
blind and unable to walk, died recently.
The Standard Oil Company made $50, 600,
COD by the recent rise
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

A TORONTO detective, bent upon finding
out the character of notorious resort, re-
fused to pay for a game of billiards which he
had played and lost. The proprietor OF the
place simply whistled. and five burly roughs
appeared ready to beat, abuse, or. IL need be,
XIII the officer. who up to that time was un.
known to them. The place was eventually
suppressed
A WORCESTER (Mass.) man, who has OBJ
served the comparative ease with which peo
pie "dor their thirty and forty miles in one
evening. on roller skates, makes the predic-
ton that the time is not far distant when
smooth, covered ways for the accommodation
of wayfarcrs so equipped VIII be as common
as rail and driye-Ways are now.-BostoB Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08
COMPTROLLER KNOWS REPORT.
wAsHixGroN, November

WASHINGTON, november ID
Inthe report Of John Jay Knox, Comptroller
of the Currency, the amount of the circulat-
ing medium of the country on November 1 is
given as follows: ~
Treasury notes outstanding go. $3l8,6s1,016
National bank notes outstanding. 362, 1s7,7E
Gold in the Treasury, less certih-
Gates held by the banks :. -. 14S,4N43
Standard silver dollars in the
subsidiary diary SILVER coin and silver
bullion In the Treasury ....... 1919. 96
Coin in the National banks ......- 102, ,063
Coin in State and savings banks &2.jO
Estimated amount of coin held by
the people. .................... Se',onS''S
Total. q, 49,, s3s,5i4
The estimated total currency of the country
on November thus appears TO have been more
than sl,4ss, 100000. which IL sl3a00o.OOO in exl
cess of the amount held on January !, 1879, and
81 100000 in excess of the amount held two
years ago on November I, 1880 The gain in
gold coin since the resumption of specie pay
ments alone has been $29i, 900 lOU The in
crease In NatfOnal-bank- notes has been
nearly $4,000 .000. No change has been made
in the amount of legal-tender notes outstand-
ing. 1t remains at x346, 6Sl ,O16, which was the
of the act of May 81, 1873, which prohibited
any further reduction of the volume of these
notes.
The report contains three comprehensive
tdDies VI Two pages edcu, kNink ny kecBrhpn,
ical divisions, and by States, Territories and
principal cities. the number of State banks,
Savings banks, Trust and Loan Companies,
and private bankers of the country FOR the
present and two previous years, together with
the amount of their capital and deposits, and
the amount invested by them in United States
bonds. The first official information of this
character ever published in regar1 to the pri-
waite bankers of the country was contained I'm
a table in the Comptro!ier's report for 1880.
The following table gives the number, capital
and deposits of the private bankers in six.
teen of the principal cities.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

JOHN FLANAGAN is the hardest hitter
among the workren in the Louisville iron
mills, AMI he domineers at viii over his fel-
lows. He had successfully bullied crowd of
them as they lounged in the street in the
evening, and was weary Of that sport, when
Lizzie Kirk came along She was q pretty
girl, and Flanagan told her so, but rounded
the compliment with an insulting epithet.
Lizzie soon returned with horsewhip and
the spectators saw the pugilist get his first
thrashing. Herald.
New YORK will have Heterogeneous Legis-
lature, composed of fifty-three lawyers. five
journalists, two bankers, four farmers, two
contractors, three hoteLkeepers, one dentist,
one produce dealer, one plumber. one police
Justice, two shook agents." and thirteen
gentlemen who have no visible means of sup
port outside Of the Legislature.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-12-08

The Standard Oil Company made s30, 900,
COD by the recent rise.