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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14
THE LATEST,

REPRESENTATIVE ANDERSON, of Kansas,
has revised the Postal Telegraph bill in
troduced by him last session, and will soon
introduce it in the House. By its provis-
ions the Postmaster General is authorized
to construct, maintain and operate three
main lines of telegraph, the northern line
to extend from Bangor, Me-, to st. Paul;
the central line from New York to Topeka,
and the southern from Baltimore to San
Antonio.
THE Internal Revenue Collector raided
an Illicit still in Somerset County, Pa, re.
Gently. 1t was on the farm of Jacob Peck.
The moonshiners all escaped.
FIVE mem aided the town of Bisbee, Ariz.,
the other night and killed j. C. Tappiner,
j. A. Molly and d. A. Smith and wounded
Mrs. Roberts. They then robbed a store
and left. The whole affair was the work of
a few minutes. '
A DISPATCH from Austin, Tex, referring
to the recent report of a suit soon to be
brought in the United States Court of
Claims, by parties in Texas, to recover the
value of slaves emancipated during the
war, says: Governor Ireland, Attorney
General Templeton and several prominent
lawyers, who had been consulted, scout the
idea that Texas has any more claim On the
Federal Government than any other South
ern State. They consider the scheme a
very foolish one, and that if anybody is
| engaged in it, which is regarded as doubt
full. it is for political purposes.
THE Prince of Wales and members of
the Executive Committee of the late Inter-
ma ErSho I'll
have conveyed to the American Govern
ment special expression of gratitude at
the admirable manner in which the United
States effectively responded to the appeal
for cooperation at the exhibition.
BEN BRowN, a colored waiter, was re-
Gently arrested for robbng the Eldridge
mansion at Norfolk, Conn, of five thou
sand dollars worth of diamonds and lew
elry and four hundred dollars in gold coin.
AT Washington, the other night, four
hundred persons sat down to a ban
quet, given by the Mexican veterans. Sem
ator Logan responded to the toast: "The
President of the United States. :"
The Annisquam mill at Rockport, Mass,
was recently damaged by fire to the extent
of 100000. The mill was built in 1916.
ALL the United States Deputy Marshals
at Mobile, Ala, have been removed.
HON. s. S. Cox and number of other
Congressman and prominent citizens called
on the President few days ago and urged
him to take some action in regard to the
summary conviction and sentence to death
of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, and if
possible prevail upon the English Govern
ment to commute the sentence, or at least
grant a respite. The President promised to
do all that he could legally.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14
What Tongue Did Christ Speak.

Some students OF this question. which
the revision of the Old Testament has
beset with renewed interest, are of the
opinion that the population OF Palestine
at the time of Christ's mission was
Greek. Rev. Alexander Roberts, ID. d..
recently published book on the OLD.
some reasons for this conclusion. For
centuries preceding the coming of Christ
the Greek language permeated the
countries bordering on the Mediterrane-
an. The Old Hebrew, in which the law
had been written, had become a d2aG
language, and. only the learned men Of
that period were able to read the Pentar
teuch.z The pure Hebrew racein .Pales-
tine spoke Aramaic, which was unlike
the Hebrew of Moses and Isaiah. The
Greek language and Aramaic were, then,
the tongues spoken in that country at
the time of the coming Of our Lord
Hence DIR. Roberts argues that while
teaching the people Christ would adj
dress them in language that they un-
derstood. Even if he knew the Scrip
lures in the original Hebrew, de would
no more be likely to use them in that
"ay thou d iuouC'H PicdShci WIN NHoWS
the New Testament in the original
Greek would give his text in that.
The evidence that the common peo-
pie understood Greek our authority
considers conclusive. As examples OF
facts which led him to this opinion he
quotes the epistles which were writer
in Greek by some Of the apostles to the
Hebrew Christians. Pauls epistles to
the Greeks were, of course written in !.
Greek But" asks DIR. Roberts,,
"why should Peter, who was a strict
Hebrew write his epistles in Greek un-
less the Hebrews understood Creek
Why was the epitle to the Hebrews as
cribed to Paul written IN Creek" The
apostles appear to have spoken in, Ara
maic and in Greek, as the occasion
seemed to demand. Christ did not adj
dress himself merely to province, but
to the world, and his utterances were,
therefore, in the language that was best
understood. Greek was the language
of civilization; moreover, IS it was the
civilization of that era which accepted
HIM, while the Hebrews rejected Him."
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Boudinot's charges.
THE EAST.
THE other morning William Ham went
into mine at Steamburgh, Pa, with an
open lamp, when there was an Immediate
explosion. The conclusion was terrific.
Doors and pillars were blown out, cars
lifted from the tracks and lights for half q
mile in the mines extinguished. Ham was
killed and ten others seriously injured.
The prevalence of typhoid and malarial
fevers among the students of Yale College
puzzled the Faculty, who averred that the
sewerage and drainage was perfect. Sew.
eral deaths had occurred.
s. M. MKYERBERa & Co., silk manufact-
urers of New York and Hoboken, N. j.,
have failed. Liabilities $25O,0O0. The firm
employed two hundred hands.
The National Temperance Society, re-
Gently in session at New York, adopted a
resolution asking Congress to amend the
Constitution of the United States so as to
prohibit the liquor traffic entirely.
THE PRESIDENT of the Workingmen's
Association of Lynn, Mass, has called for
national convention of the National
Workingmen's party, and the nomination
of candidates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent.
A sLEEPING-CAR attached to the Chicago.
express from New York, the other might.
was discovered on fire near Castleton. A
man named Murphy, of Buffalo, was slight
ly blistered on the head. A man, supposed
to be 7. W. Workman, of West Hoboken,
was taken from the car unconscious. The
car was completely burned out.
The Massachusetts, State Police have
been investigating the doings of the New
Bedford firm which, it is alleged, manufac-
lures organs in the cheapest manner, and
by means of circulars sent broadcast sells
them for exorbitsnt prices to the unin-
itiated. 1t is believed the firm disposed of
5000 organs the past year, at a profit of
S150,OO0 to S20O, 200.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14
GENERAL.

dict in the case OF ODonnell.
THE German Foreign Office has issued
notification that the port of Foo Chow
China, is infected with cholera.
THOMAS CRAIG, President of the Exchange
Bank of Montreal, CAM, has absconded.
In Constantinople, recently, six hundred
houses, Greek Church and four Syna-
gogues were destroyed by fire. A snow
storm was prevailing at the time which
added greatly to the sufBerings of the
people. .....
ADMIRAL PENG YU LIN, at Canton
(China), has notified all foreigners that wai
with France is imminent, and he is massing
all available land and sea forces for the
protection of Canton. The Admiral holds
that France is answerable for precipitating
the war, and warns neutral powers to OBJ
serve the treaty stipulations and rules of
international law.
PERSONS who signed the Anarchist
placard, calling workingmen to meet in
Paris, recently, will be arrested. Seven
had already been imprisoned.
THE Chinese Government refused to with.
draw or modify its claim regarding Ton.
quin. 1t prefers war to surrendering the
province to France. Large bodies of troops
Were continually passing Hong Kong for
the Tonquin border.
BUSINESS failures for the seven days
ended December 7, in the United States
and Canada, 307, against 242 the previous
week. This was the most formidable list
recorded in any week for years past.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14

There are twehty-eight farmers and
forty lawyers in the Ohio Legislature
Cleveland Leader.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14


station house. He cut his wrists with
broken glass, sharpened lead pencil and
thrust It deeply into bis neck, and then
used q pocket comb In an attempt to cut
his throat.
The large packing establishment Of F. o.
Sinclair & Co., at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
partially destroyed by fire recently. Loss,
$1O0, 200; nearly covered by insurance.
RICHARD BYBEE. young man of States.
vile, Utah, blew into the muzzle of his gun
and the gun blew his head of.
THE SOUTH.
JUDGE JENNEY, who killed James a.
Anderson, a few days ago, in fight at
Lancaster, KY, was acquitted.
F. H. CAMPBELL, depot agent Of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Paris,
Tenn, was shot and killed by Frank VIII
liams, the other day. The difficulty grew
out of the discharge of Williams, who had
been clerking for Campbell.
THE wholesale drug store of Pendleton,
Thomas & Co., at Nashville, Tenn, was
partially destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. Value of stock, $4,000; insurance
$4,000. Loss estimated at $4,000.
THREE negro children were burned to
death in Columbia County, Ga, recently.
The parents went to church and locked
them in the cabin.
AT Danville, Va, the other night po-
liceman attempted to arrest Green Miller,
who was beating his wife. Miller assaulted
the officer viciously and was shot and fatal
ly wounded.
The Farmers Congress of the United
States held three days. session at Louis
vile, KY, recently. The President, Major
Thomas J. Hudson, of Lamar, Miss, opened
the Congress with an address of some
length, setting forth the demands and wants
of the agriculturists, especially urging the
appointment of Commissioner of Agri-
culture as a member of the Presidents
Cabinet. Such officer, he said, could watch
our foreign relations in respect to this in
terest, which must ever be the greatest.
He would be enabled to secure to farmers
labors better results.
IT is stated that prominent parties in
Texas will soon bring suit in the Court of
Claims at Washington to recover the value
of slaves during the late war. This action
will be based chiefly on certain clauses in
the State Constitution which were ap-
proved and endorsed by Congress at the
time of the annexation, and which it is
claimed make the Government of the United
States liable for slave property. The plain
tiff in the case was a strong and very pro.
Union man during the war, and
the proposed action is Endorsed and will be
pushed by some of the best lawyers.
NEARLY the entire town of Williamson,
N. c., was recently burned.
JAMES UNDERWOOD was hanged at Oar.
danelle, Ark, for the murder of Rolet J.
Pendegrass, a wealthy planter of Yell
County.
THE Postmaster at Morganstown, w. Va,
was robbed the other night, while going
home, of tin box containing $40. The
thief grabbed it from his hand and escaped
in the darkness.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14

knew nothing concerning the receipt Of
this money by Colonel Phillips, and that he
and Secretary Teller win take immediate
steps to ascertain the truth Of Colonel
Boudinot,s charges.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14
NATIONAL BANK.

A national bank has power to lend
money upon the note or other personal
obligation of the borrower secured by
the pledge of warehouse receipt for
merchandise as collateral security
Cleveland VS.. First National Bank, Su-
preme Court of Ohio.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-12-14

An agreement by the bondholders,
stockholders and unsecured creditors to
bid at foreclosure sale of railroad, SO
that the property would not be sacri-
feed. is not a fraudulent agreement,
and the sale will not be set aside ON that
account.-Penn. Transportation Co..
Appeal, Supreme Court of Pennsylva-
MIA
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

two minutes. But as, in this longitude, it
will take place after sunrise, observers will
hardly be able to enjoy the beautiful phe-
nOmenon.
April is dull month on planetary records.
Scarcely an incident of note enlivens its mo-
notonous routine. An invisible eclipse of
the moon; an invisible occultation of Beta
Capricorni; an invisible conjunction OF Mer-
curry and Neptune; an invisible conjunction
of Venus and Lambda Aquarli, complete the
unsatisfactory aspects of the planets. But
all days are not field days. Stars must have
their seasons of rest, as well as planets and
human beings. Before many months have
passed, meetings and partlngs on the cees
tial road will be as conspicuous by their
presence as they are now by their absence;
life will be astir among our neighbors, the
planets, and we shall welcome their reap
pearance, surrounded by all their former
prestige, Even without exciting events,
nothing can be more grand than the dome
of heaven powdered with stars; nothing more
varied than the celestial picture nightly I'M
rolled over our heads. 1t is well for our APP
probation of the shining picture, that II is
sometimes hidden by clouds, and that it Is
not always seen in its most brilliant phase
Emerson says, and all who love to study the
heavens will endorse his view; "lf the
stars should appear one night in thousand
years, how could men believe and adore,
and preserve, for many generations, the re-
membrance of the city of God that had been
shownHs
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

THE acting Secretary of the Treasury has
made an important decision regarding the
time when the tariff is to become operative
so as to affect consignments shipped through
to the interior. His ruling is that the rate
of duty to be collected is to be determine
according to the date Of the arrival of the
importing vessel at the exterior port Of en-
try, so that if the old tariff is in force npon
the arrival of westward bound consign.
ment at New York, it will be taxed under
that tariff upon its delivery to the conslgn-
ees at Chicago Or San Francisco, although
by that time the new law may have gone
into operation. AS this consequence, how
ever, can be avoided by having the goods
placed in bonded warehouse and delivered
therefrom, the ruling viii not cause any
great inconvenience.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03
A Cannibal Girl Attempts Suicide.
The Lovely Fauchanihal is Crossed in
Love and Becomes Tired of Life.

Love and RAGDmAS 1irA6
Fauchanibal, the Cannibal girl, is one of
tba attractions a. roh, o,p,an,s c,r,,s la,
- o 49,
season, attempted 10 emu her Cahhlpahstlc
existence on Monday night by taking lauda-
nun. Unreuuited love led her to the rash
act Six,aap rears 400 Job, pa,torsh, VIVA
.l,s :, e'''' - 49, Ds'e''Y'' WY
poseu oeiole eho puplic rs tiVihg sGeietoh'
and his wife Hannah, who is still known to
the amusement seekers as The mammoth fat
vo,oan warA trays,l,,o ,ba co,,h whua
"o9n' "o,. s'"'s'''.'s - sae aou'n' "n,ie
there they discovered little muiatto girl
with peculiar thumbs, which were longer
than her fingers. and had an odd Inward
on,,, Tha, ah,a,,,aa ,,,.as.a,~. : ~
oSnI w.; oo'.eirea p ; " !ne
~ ~ ,t posaliaais eon pei,sa.ion
named 'Inmsn The ohscS,a nhiIa af.ar M
inc nronarlv trained and baoinc hsr hair ~
ranged 10 proieet toward ali nain,s ' Of he
commas, as a ell-reynlated cirrms cnr,osis
ty should bndded forth into n fnnNaadved
CannihaI cirl
Tha shadow aud bis ns,n,o .,nan be-
The e;,I ,v;,b .ana US p.a asn nsps
he ao,d ,ii,a 10 10y S,seose a,, ne' W
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03
lBlackwood's Magazine.l
Looking at American Magazines

LOOKING at american Magazines.
It was exceedingly clever, what may, per
haps, be called smart, just at a moment
when English authors were placed by a new
effioreseence of piracy in a worse position
than ever on the other side of the Atlantic,
that the American periodical should have
invaded our shores. But so 1t was II has
made, we believe, successful invasion, and
not without deserving its success. For the
American magazines which England has &C.
cepted with cordially are excellent in illus
tration; and if their literary qualities are
not the highest they have at least certain
novelty and freshness of flavor There are.
however, certain results of their introdue.
ton which are more important than the pcs
sibly ephemeral success which a. nnhlie mara.
Irea nom preJndices IN favor of its own than
ever public was before, has awarded to
them; and these are first the revelation of
some American authors little or not at all
known in England and second full per
ception, hitherto possible only TO few, Of
the claims Of America In literature, These
claims we have hitherto been very charita-
BILE to, as the early clutches of great litera-
ture about to come into being, though as
yet somewhat stunted and not of lavish
growth, at the laurels Of fame But few,
perhaps, were aware how little consideration
was thought to be necessary, or how entirely
sure our transatlantic relations were of hay-
ing attained a standing-ground of certainty,
much above that vague platform of hope.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

THERE seems to be no such thing as fairly
getting away from the winter, which, ac-
cording TO the almanac, We ought by this
time to have left behind us. II for day o.
two the weather is appropriately pleasant,
and the advent 0! spring appears to be not
altogether hollow moekery, no sooner are
our hopes raised and our pores opened than
there comes a frost, killing frost, or else a
downfall of something that is all the more
disagreeable and exasperating because it is
neither rain, sleet, hail, nor good, old-fash-
toned snow. This kind of thing is trying
not merely TO the temper, which would be a
small matter, but to the health, and the doc
tors say they have seldom been buster than
they are just now. The man who is without
a cold is not in the fashion, and those are
fortunate who have no more serious cause
for complaint.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

THE British police profess to have infor-
nation of deep-laid and comprehensive
scheme, fortunately frustrated by their vigil
lance, by which the systematic and simulta-
neous destruction through the agency Of dy-
Mantle Of English public buildings was to
have been accomplished. Their story may
possibly be well founded, but such is the
feeling which prevails just now in England
IN regard to the plans and purposes Of the
Irish agitators, that all reports of this char
acter must be taken with large grain of
salt. We do not know that it has yet been
conclusively established that the recent ex-
plosion in the Board of Trade building was
the work of the Fenians. They are held re-
sponsibIe for it On general principles.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

THE City Council sat until nearly mid
night and came TO no conclusion concerning
the salary bill. The measure reached the
lower board at late hour and that BODY
wisely adjourned without attempting to con
slider it. The increase Of salaries made BY
the bill is considerable and should not be
voted without careful deliberation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

II may have been noticed that attempts to
pass gilded fve-cent pieces of the new Issue
for five-dollar gold coins have been frequent
ly reported of late. This frequency is prob
ably due to the fact that when such attempts
are made the fraud is usually detected and
exposed. Allowing that The number Of
fools in the worlds considerable, not many
OF them are sufficiently foolish to mistake a
gilded nickel for the genuine article.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

Mr.. Tilden comes to the front again with
a clean bill of health, and a gymnastic GER
tifcate. He is in the race for the Demo
cratic nomination sure enough. Other as.
pirants may write to each other, IN the Ian,
guage of Lord Byron's note about femal,
friend; "Lady -, who has been danger
ously i'll, is now dangerously WE'LL That;
what the matter with Mr.. Tilden.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03
STATE OF MAINE.

a REPRESENTATIONS

A PIsOCLAMATIO
BY the advice of the Executive Council, | 90
hereby appoint.
Thursday, the I9ih Day of April, next,
t, be set apart as day of Fasting, Humiliation and
PRAYER.
Let the people of our State-in honor of the Gus
tom of our forefathsrs, and the generation in
which it has been held by the Christian people
of New England-on that day. abstain from all uu-
necessary occupation and assemble in their several
places of worship to confess the sins ef the past
and consecrate their future, to Him who is The
Giver of every good and perfect gift,
"Give the Lord the glory due unto His name,
bring an offering and come into His courts"
Given at the Council Chamber at Augusta. thi:
twenty eighth day of March, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty
three and of the Independence OF the United
States of America the one hundred and seventh
FREDERICK Robe.
By the Governor,
JOSEPH o. SMITH, Secret ary of State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

A PETITION has been circulated asking
that the pay of policemen be increased. It
does not bear the names of the heavy tax
payers. The petition was not presented to
the City Council last night. 1t is quite
probable counter petition will be circula-
ted.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

IT is not impossible Of course, for the
Italian emigration to this country this season
to exceed that from Ireland, as had been ex-
pected by those who profess TO be posted on
the subject, for the Italian emigration to
the United States has of late years become
very large, and has furnished us with a
valuable resource for unskiled labor of all
kinds, but nevertheless, the troubles in Ire
land threaten to increase very largely the
Irish exodus.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

THE American Funeral Gazette, published
at Cincinnati. is a journalistic curiosity 1t
Is monthly paper, devoted to the interests
of the fraternity of undertakers It carries
the funeral tone into every department-ar-
ticles, extracts, stories, and poems, all are
pervaded with the SAVIOUR of death and de-
cay. The elaborate heading of the paper de-
lineates the various processes of coffin man.
ufacture, and shows a funeral procession
entering the gates of the cemetery. There
is long editorial on "The Tomps of Egypt
and the miscellaneous matter is chiefly
cheerful anecdotes relating to death and fu-
nerals, collections of epitaphs, etc. The per-
sonal department chiefly relates to funerals
aud the movements of-Iaasfiao sss,fsa------rz--s
we learn, for instance, that 'sProf j. FL.
Clarke has returned to his eabalmOriaI la
bors down SOUTH etc. The advertisements
are mainly those of undertakers or dealers
in articles used in coffin manufacture We
can cordially recommend the Gazette as Just
the paper to send to hypochondrical friend
to enlven the passing hours.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-04-03

TIE visit of the Malagassy Enyoys to this
country appears not to have been barren of
results since the cruising limits of the South
Atlantic Station have been extended so as to
include the Island of Madagascar just
what our navy is supposed to do when 1t
gets there is not apparent on the surface,
nor does it appear essential that it should do
anything if it could. A possible complica'
ton with the French government in regard
to the Island can hardly be deemed worth
going out of the way to look for.