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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
GENERAL.

THE postmaster at Vidalia, La, has been
arrested for robbing registered letters. He
confessed his guilt.
THE values of exports of breadstuffs for
August, 1888, was $1S,S16, 100, and for the
same month of 1882, SOS, 951 800; during the
eight months ended August 81, 1888, $114,-
235, 045, and same time in 1882, sic, 275, S9S.
THE exports of dairy products in the last
four months increased $569,215 over same
period of last year.
SEVERAL vessels were wrecked off Ber-
muda during late storm, and fully fifty
lives lost.
IT was reported in Boston that lately the
harbor of st. Pierre, Martinique, was COM
pletely swept by a most violent cyclone.
Eighteen vessels were wrecked and only
one in port saved.
THE International Arbitration and Peace
Association, of Paris, has issued an adj
dress to the people of France, urging that
mediation be resorted to for the settlement
of the dispute between France and China.
The address suggests America or Switzer-
land for arbitrator.
IT was reported at Dublin that Parnell
had been shot at by Orangemen.
The official report of the fatalities con-
sequent upon the late earthquake at Ischia
stated that 1890 persons were killed and
374 injured.
THE reported shooting of Parnell, at
Dublin, was a canard. He was safe in
England at the time of the report.
THE business failures for the week ended
September 2sth, numbered $50, against 1SS
the previous week.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
Tickling the Poles.

Yesterday afternoon as the Polish
procession made long halt on Mon
roe avenue. ward politician of con-
siderable note hurried into a store and
called out to the proprietor:
Here's my chance now! Half
dozen of those Poles are in the saloon
after beer, and now's my time to
get in little fall work. want to make
'em 4 speech"
"Well, you may"
''But 1 want to tickle 'em. What
was the name of that great
Polish hero? Kos-Koski-hang it, you
must have heard of him.
Eyes, / have. 1t was either Kos
metic or Metropolitan. but I've for
gotten which"
s'Oh, blazes-they'n be gonv! Kos
Koskiusco-that's the chap"
What did he do?"
Hanged if / know. L.;t's sect
There's an oldpoem about him, 1 be-
lieve."
"Yes-yes--h hurry up! Hang it!
Why didn't I post up on this thing yes
terdayr'
..And it comes in somehow;
"'And freedom-and freedcm-and
free"
"Yes, I've got it."
"'And freedom shrieked when Koski
usko fell'''
''She did! She did! Bless you. that's
q big pointer for me! He fell. Where
did he fall?''
Haven't the least idea whether it
was at Austerlitz or First Bull Run.
Like enough he fell off a house,
ts"He FELL" unused the politician.
Freedom shrieked. 1t must have beeB-
on battlefield. For Heavens sake
try and remember what field it was"
No use. Even if l could remember
that, 1 wouldn't be sure that he was
killed"
The politician dashed out and ap-
pealed to the first man he met with:
"Say, you-where did Koskiusco fall?
Quick-1 can't spare a minuten'
''On his ear, guess'' was the heart
less reply.
The orator rushed for the saloon and
mounted a table, but hardly had he
said: ''My dear, patriotic Poles,'
when the band struck up and the pro-
cession moved. Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
The Death. Watch.

There is a little insect called
"death-watch" or death-tick, which
caused me no little annoyance during the
summer. Some may never have even
heard of it, while others like myseH
may have heard, not seen, and wondered
at the ominous tick from some old piece
of furniture in the country-for it is IN
the woodwork of such that they secrete
themselves. Sometimes the sound e
like the too-rapid ticking of watch out
of repair, or again like the whetting Of
a scythe in the distance; and heard at
the dead of night, one is reminded OF
the old superstition of its foreboding
the death of some one in the family.
One feels as if it were old Time whet-
sng his scythe, to be the surer of sue
cess when he attempts to NOW down
t,e irregular rows of humanity. Such
thoughts as these add to the delightful
awe Of the moment:
Thus saith old Time to himself
"Whet away, whet SWAY, day is soon here;
Whet away faster, ere the sun reappear.
The deed to be done must be at one swing;
rhustheripest of wheat 10 the dust I'll bring"
This is an Interpretation of the sound
as it impressed me. For a description
it is species of beetle, small, about
one-half the size Of. the ordinary garden
beetla. The ..tap, tap that we hear is
produced by the male insect, by rising
on his feet and throwing himself FORWARDS
on his two front feet, sometimes with
force enough to indent the hardest OF
wood. The noise is thus caused. ana IS
his way of being understood, Ike the
chirp Of cricket.
Having explained this little Phenom-
enon. NAV it ease the superStitious fam
cies of many as unknown in the cause
as was; and Notwithstanding the CO.
incidence of death soon after having
heard the s'death-watch," we may ae-
cept these facts and not be disturbed
with forebodings; but, watch, let your
door be on the latch, for We knoweth not
at what hour he may come. Cor. Bos-
.oss Transcript
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
WIT AND WISDOM.

Repentance without amendment is
like continual pumping in q ship, with
out stopping the leak.
No matter what his rank or posi-
ton may be the lover of books is the
richest and the happiest of the children
of men.-Langtord.
Old gent-"Ah, Mrs. B., did you
keep diary during your visit to the
country?'' Mrs. b., indignantly-"No,
sir, l didn't. The family bought milk
from the neighbors. "-CincinRati Irac-
eler.
The Queen, according to the Lon
don Truth, has given the usual Indian
shawl to one of her ma. ds-of- honor on
her marriage. We have more ulsters
than we require, and if her majesty has
no objection we will swap them Off for
the remaining shawls.-Puck.
Village carts are no longer "nice,"
got hold of them. Something must be
done for the exclusives. If the populace
continues to crowd their sensitive ma
lures, they will be forced pretty soon to
drive around in circus wagons to avoid
vulgar imitation.-N. Y. Graphic.
81 understand that you referred to
me as a pig, SIR" remarked a pompous
elderly gentleman to a young man who
had spoken disparagingly of him to a
third person. "You have been misin-
formed, sir" replied the young man,
Il hope that know better than to re-
fer to person of Your advanced age
as pig" -Rochcster Post-E'rpress.
: Wien a man has so far mastered
himself that he can live within his in
come he has made long stride toward
the kingdom of Heaven. To make a
show with money you have not yet
earned is to live in 4 house built on an
acre of purgatory. 1t is hOmely
proverb, but a true one: 1.-The devil
wipes his tail with the poor mans
pride. IN. 7. Herald.
"A Massachusetts, man has invented
an arrangement for hotels which not
only calls q man at any given hour, but
which keeps him called until he gets
up. 1t may be a useful invention. but
what the travelling public wants is an
arrangement that will not only call a
man. but also shove him out of bed,
shave him and pay his hotel bill. The
inventor of such a continuance could sell
'em for six dollars apiece.-Norristo,cn
Herald.
-" Boss, l KANT take dis twenty
five cents. It's got hole in it what's
been plugged up" said negro grocer
to customer. "But YOU must take it.
1 got it from you last night. Don't you
ooh, yes, l members.
! knows dat 1 gin it ter yer, an gin it
ter yer case I didn't want it. Eff I
had wanted it 1 would hab gin yer
some udder quarter. Git outen de way
an let me cut off piece OBJ bacon.
Mustn't stan roun' de sto' when Gus
toners is so rampant ter buy suttin'."
Traveller.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

One pawnbroker in New York says
that in a year he received 10000 coats,
vests and pantaloons, of which number
he sold $4,000. and 10000 were re-
deemed.-N. y San.
Within the corporate limits of the
city of Buffalo are more miles of rail-
road track than there are in any
other three cities on the face of the
globe. The Erie alone has 1874 miles Of
track there.-Bnfalo (M ~ Express.
The dead rot has seized business in
Northwestern Canada. Failures are
very numerous. The Toronto Telegram,
says that they are due to the fact that
"there are too many people living in
the cities and not enough on farms"
In other words, there are too many con-
sumers and too few producers.
The steamer st. Paul, which locked
at San Francisco recently, on her return
from the hunting grounds of the Alaska
Fur Company, discharged $4,000 seal
skins valued at S1,8OO,O00, the duty on
which due the Government is $40, 900.
The skins were being sailed and packed
in barrels containing about sixty each.
The barrels are made tight, and when
ready shipped to London, where the
skins are properly cured, then shipped
back to the United Chicago
Times.
-Nominally, carload is 10000
pounds. 1t is also 40 barrels of salt, 20
of lime, 80 of flour, 60 of whisky, 200
sacks of flour, cords of soft wood, IS
to 20 head of cattle, so or 60 head of
hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 5000 feet
solid boards, 1900 feet of siding, 49,
600 feet of flooring, 10000 shingles, one
half less of lumber, one-tenth less of
joist, scantling and other large timbers,
$40 bushels of wheat, 400 of barley, 400
of corn, $50 of oats. 800 of flaxseed, 500
of apples, $40 of Irish potatoes, $50 Of
sweet potatoes, and 1000 of BRAN
Chicago Journal.
Some comparisons between the rail
road management in Europe and that
of the United States are favorable to the
way we do the business in this country.
In the United States, during the past
year, 2S9, 19O,7S3 persons were trans
ported on lO7, 900 miles of railway, or
six times the total population Of the
country. The total number of persons
killed on the roads was something over
1900. In Europe, in 1881, scarcely
10000, 900 passengers were transported
over 172,S04 miles of railway. The
European railways, in the year 1881,
killed $500 persOns.-N. Y. Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
The Parliamentary Franchise.

In British boroughs all rated house
holders whose taxes have been paid are
entitled to votes; also, by a late de-
cision.of the Judges, nearly all dodgers
will for the future be so entitled. In
Irish boroughs only rated householders
whose houses are valued by Govern
ment at over "a per annum equal to a
yearly rental of about f8 m Ireland, or
f1O or f12 in England), and dodgers
paying As. per week or over are en-
titled to votes. Irish boroughs have
less than half as many Parliamentary
voters in proportion to population as
British boroughs. There has been no
change since Mr.. Butts time in the
relative proportions of population to
alter the suggestiveness of a return he
obtained upon this subject. Leeds, with
q population of 259,2OO, had $500
electors; Dublin, with 267,70O, had 12,-
800; Swansea, with $4,000, had 1880
electors: Cork, with 100, 500, had 4, 400;
Wolverhampton, with Isl, 900, had 49,
800 electors: Belfast, with Iva, 400, had
$4,000; Stafford, with $1,000. had 3,40G
electors; Kilkenny, with 1880, had
700 electors. and so on.
In English and Irish counties the oc-
cupier's franchise is nominally the
same, f12 Government valuation,
but, from difference in the method Of
valuing and other causes, English
counties have more than one and half
times as many voters in proportion tc
population as Irish. In England the
valuation, both in boroughs and
counties, is based upon the rental,
whereas in Ireland it is generally some
80 per cent. or more under the letting
value. hold two houses. the valuation
of both of which is but 80 per cent. OF
the letting value. This valuation ques-
ton is only spoken of under the breath
in Ireland, as its regulation and conse-
quent increase would add to the amount
of our income tax. 1t will
be thus understood that in
Great Britain a farmer paying
f12 rent finds his land valued at f1z
for letting purposes and has the fran.
chise, while here such man would be
rated at but 80 in Ireland and would be
excluded from a voice in the election Of
his Parliamentary representative. TAX
ing boroughs and counties together,
two men out of five have votes in Great
Britain, while only one man in five has
the same in Ireland. Again, illustrating
the position by figures from Mr.. Butts
return, Eastern Sussex, with popula-
ton of $4,000, had 10000 electors;
Dublin County, with 140,50O, had 4,400;
East Yorkshire. with 100000, had H.
900 electors; Limerick, with al 800,
had $500; Cheshire, with $4,000, had
300; Cork, with $4,000, had 16, 200;
Worcestershire, with PSI 400, had TO-
800 electors; Down, with 263, 800, had
II, 500.-DubliR Cor. N. Y. Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
Walking In.

About the time of the late cold snap
q Board-of-Trade man, who asks as a
special favor that his name be not given,
said to one of his clerks, in whose judy
ment he had much confidence: .'Go to
Iowa. find out what, damage has been
done to the corn by the frost, and wire
me the state of affairs"
The clerk, after he had gotten about
a hundred miles into the State, tele-
graphed: "Crop a failure; buy at
once"
The Board-Of-Trade man who wishes
his name kept close bought fifty thou
sand bushels.
The clerk, getting still further into
the bowels of the land, telegraphed:
Crop ruined: buy all you can"
The Board-of-Trade man, exulting at
his wisdom in sending competent man
out to see how :hings were, bought fifty
thousand bushels more, and began cal
rulating what he should do with his
gains. ss5"ti 1891 j
Then it suddenly came to pass that
corn went down, and. not being en-
dowed with staying qualities, the buyer
sold ont at loss of $1,000.
Then he tried his hand at telegraph
ing, and this is the word he sent to
the clerk, who had by this time got
ten pretty near the Missouri River:
The further you so the longer your
walk back will be. " q
81 do not understand" said the clerk
in reply.
II mean that your reports have cost
me $1,000, and that you can walk back
from wherever you are. No remittanees
from me-"
And the clerk is walking in.-Chieag0
TribuD:.
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THE LATEST.

The adjustment of salaries of postmas-
tiers Of the Presidential classes has just been
completed by the Postoffice Department,
and the salaries adjusted took effect Oc-
tober. The adjustment affects the salaries
of 2,116 postmasters. Forty-four offices
have been added to the Presidential list and
twenty-five Presidential offices have been
reduced to the fourth class, leaving the
number of Presidential postofiices on Oc-
tober 1, 1,e16, with salaries amounting to
50, 10000. Every part of the country is in
cluded in the readjustment.
THE report of failures for the third quar-.
ter of 1883, showed a great increase in the
number of mercantile disasters as com.
pared with last year. The number of fail.
ures in the quarter just closed is ], 1888 with
liabilities of So 600 600, while for the same
quarter of 1882 there were only 1900, with
liabilities of $4,000, 900. For the first nine
months of 1888 the failures reported num-
bered GAO, against 1887 in the same pc.
riod last year. Liabilities for the first nine
months of the present year, Sis, OO0, 900, as
against S69, 00O, 900 for 1892 In Canada the
failures for the nine months of 1888 were
over 600 in number, as against $50 in 1882.
FRANK r. SHERwIy, millionaire, and
owner Of the largest cattle ranges in New
Mexico, was arrested in Chicago, recently,
on a requisition from New York. In 1873
Sherwin, then a banker in Albany, N. Y,
refused to testify against Charles Phelps,
cashier in the State Treasury Department.
Phelps was afterwards convicted of lar,
ceny, forgery and grand larceny, and sen.
fenced to three terms of five years each in
| the Albany Penitentiary. For refusing
to testify six indictments were subsequent
ly found against Sherwin for contempt
Of court. The prosecution failed at the
time and Sherwin entered the stock bust
ness in New Mexico. New evidence was
discovered and in 1882, when on visit East,
he was rearrested and gave bonds. Since
then his bondsmen have become alarmed
and put detectives on his track. When ar
rested he was on his way East with his
family, travelling in princely style, not sus-
pecting that he was wanted.
VIoToR AuGUSTE IsADoRE DECHAMP,
Cardinal of the Roman Church, Archbishop
Of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium, is
dead. s@
NASHVILLE, was recently threatened with
water famine owing to thebreaking down
of the water works engine.
The steamer Colorado laden with freight
for Chicago, left Buffalo, N. Y, the other
night, and when quarter of mile out an
explosion occurred with terrible force, car
rying away the smoke stack, decks and
wood work from the cabin to stern. The
vessel will be total loss. The first and
second engineer and fireman and four deck
hands were terribly scalded. One man
died from his injuries; fifteen were miss
ing.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

"A vicious convict named Bernard,
at the st. Vincent de Paul Penitentia-
ry, in Montreal, was given sixty lashes
recently for attempting to escape. He
stood his punishment without f1inching
and said when it was finished that he
would live to get even with his tor
mentors.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

A Philadelphia schoolgirl had
heard that arsenic was good for the
complexion, but her varied and extern
siye information did not include the
fact that arsenic was o poisonous drug
and not to be eaten like sugar. After
she had been pumped out her complex
ion was no prettier, but she possessed
one or two new and well-defined ideas.
There is nothing like the object lesson,
after all.-Philadelphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

A game of baseball was played
recently at Washington between nine
one-armed men and nine one-legged
veterans. The umpire had but one leg,
and the scorers but one arm. The
timber-legs beat by one Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

The Presbytery of Southern Dakota
has received the assurance that the sum
of $4,000 has been secured for the es-
Enlistment of an educational institu
ton under its care.-M Y. Examiner.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

In the past forty years $4,000, 900
has been spent in building and restoring
shurcheS in Wales.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05
THE SOUTH.

THE other night large section of the
wharves, ferry landing and depot of the
Texas Pacific Railway, on the west bank
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-10-05

Cole, JeffersonriIle, Indiana; Darius
Dwyer, Of Dayton o. Wheeling was
chosen a. the place ofthe next Convention.
AT Albany, N. Y, recently, Judge Hand,
referee in the tax suit brought by the State
against the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany, rendered a decision in favor of the
State for SITE, 1897, for taxes for one year.
The total amount involved was $500, 900,
which the telegraph company will have to
pay.
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Of the river, opposite New Orleans, was
carried into the river by the caving of tbs
bank. One hundred and fifty feet Of large
depot and car-house, with all the offices,
desks. furniture, records ETC., with an ex.
tensive wharf, sunk into the water. and
where they stood there was left depth OF
seventy feet Of water. The car-house was
filed with passenger coaches, but when the
structure began to sink a locomotive,
which was at hand, successfully drew then,
out. 1t was thought the whole of the town
Of Algiers would ultimately be engulfed
Ivy the Entertainments of the river.
The steamer Centennial, from st. Louis
to New Orleans, recently struck snag and
sunk some distance above Memphis. She
carried large cargo of freight, including
one thousand barrels of -four.
AT Henderson, KY, recently, Henry
Holloby undertook to whip his wife, when
Henry Pruitt, her step-brother, interfered,
and in the melee Pruitt shot Holloby dead.
JACOB H. CRoNIsE, mailing clerk at
Roanoke, Va, was recently arrested on the
charge of robbing the mails, and confessed
his crime. Over 5000 were found on his
person.
MONTGOMERY, who last summer muir
dered Quigley, a railroad contractor at
Bracket, Tex. was recently sentenced to
ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.
THE Republican State Convention of
Maryland, nominated Hart B. Holden, of
Baltimore County, for Governor; Washing
ton Smith, for Comptroller, and R. s. Mat
thews, Attorney General.
HARRY SHANKs and A. Weimer, while in
toxicated, recently had a religious discus
sion at Dallas, Tex. A quarrel followed
when Shanks gave force to his argument by
stabbing Weimer, causing instant death.
SAwNEY YOUNGER, Reuben King and
Isaac Evans were hanged at Chatham,
Pittsylvania, County, Va, for the murder
of William F. Sheppard, a farmer, who
they met upon the road some months since
and shot and robbed.
FENCE-CUTTING has become such a
nuisance in some portions of Texas that
offering a reward of thirty dollars for the
arrest and conviction of fence-cutters |;
thirty dollars for the conviction of parties
unlawfully obstructing the public highways
with fences; thirty dollars for the convic-
ton of parties inclosing the State school
lands and not paying annual rental, as
required by law, and one hundred dollars
for the conviction of each of the parties
concerned in killing sheep and maltreating
Mr.. Riley, in Hamilton County on the night
of the Sth of August.
THE other day at Blue Rock Springs, KY,
while three brothers, Samuel e., William
o. and Thomas Rogers, were taking depo-
sitions in a case of contest of their fathers
will, Samuel g., thinking his brothers were
about to draw weapons, quickly drew his
and shot Thomas through the head and
William in the abdomen. Samuel is Presi-
dent of the Farmers Bank at Carlisle, KY,
William st. Louis lawyer, and Thomas a
farmer. William died the next morning,
and Thomas was expected to die any hour.
A married sister who was present unsuc-
cessfully attempted to restrain her brother.
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The payment of tolls exacted by a
canal company. whose right to the
same is disputed, but which by the ex-
ercise of threats and other means of CO.
ercion compels the parties to acceds TO
its demands or be put to considerable
loss in their business, are such invOlun-
tary payments that the company will
be compelled to make restitution upon
suit for their recovery.-Lehigh Coal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-29

ports no chsns G In foreign live stock trade
Both cattle and sheep are slow; price
steaO,y; choice AmericAn steers, l5c ne
pound, estimated d al weight; sheep, 19o
NEW YORK.
New YoRK, May 2S.-The Droven
journal Bureau reports:
Beeves -Msrkct fair: CON mon TO strictly
prime steers sold at 3 1907 90 per cwt,
live weight; tops, 7 C5G7 20; 100 car loads
distillery fed steers sold at 5 1906 so pei
cwt; exporters used 80 car loads.
Sheep-Frm; clipped, 5 00@7 90 per
Hogs-Slow q. Z 30a7 so per cwt.
ST. LOUIS.
ST.. LOUIS, May 2S.-Cattle-Heavy
shipping steers slow and weak; light anu
medium weights, suitable for butchers,
scarce and strong at S 25@5 20; common,
475@5 90; heavy steers quotsble at 8 S5@
6 % but vsry few solo; good COWS and
heifers. 4 25@5 90; common, 3!0@i 90;
some soor grass Texans sold ut 4 %.
Sheep Steady; fair to choice muttors,
4 25l95 %; spring laros. l 5O@3 70 per
head,
Hogs-Market dull and firm; light ship.
ping, 8 S5@7 90: rough TO good mixed
packing, 6 50@7 90; fair to best heavy,
z 1907 80.
KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CRY, May S,-The CONNER
cial Indicator this afternoon reports as
follows:
Csttle-Steady; %s.eer'. 1900 to 400 lbs,
4 90@5t Is; cows, 5 2j04 81.
Hogs-Lower and weak, ranging 6 75@
7 10; bulk If sales vt Il Sj@7 90.
Sheep -Nothing doing.