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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
THE SOUTH.

While dispositions were being taken recently
at Richmond, Va, in the contested Congress
sional election case of John E. Massey vs..
John 8. Wise, an alteration between the two
resulted in Captain Wise stabbing Massey in
the face. The parties were arrested and bailed
to appear before the Police Court.
At Bracket, Texas, four small children of
Michael Mcdonald were burned in bed from
the explosion of lamp left burning by their
mother for the return Of four daughters who
were at a ball.
The Board of Regents of the Louisville, KY,
Academy of Pharmacy for the education of
ladies as pharmacists have perfected arrange
ments to open the academy.
A late alteration between Charles Melon
aid, Postmaster of Galveston, Texas, and
Henry Turner, resulted in Turner being shot
through the bowels and Mcdonald seriously
beaten with an iron poker.
The family of William Bush residing near
Corsicana, Texas were recently poisoned by
having morphine administered instead of
quinine. The mother and three children died
from the effects. The mistake arose from
having Quinine and morphine side by side on
the mantelpiece in the same sized bottles.
Two sixteen-year-oldl lovers recently drowned
themselves near Brownsville, Texas. Luis Fer
nandez, the boy, was of family well of, and
his uncle would not let him marry Carmen
Lira, the daughter of poor laborer. They
left note stating why they killed themselves.
The mother of the girl, when she heard the fate
of her daughter, jumped into the river and was
likewise drowned.
In Meigs County, Tenn, a man named
eagle was killed by John Harwood. eagles
brother then fatally shot HARDWOOD and dan
gerously wounded Scott. An old feud was
the cause.
A late fire at Georgetown, S. c., destroyed
property valued at $4,000; partially insured.
The property burned consisted of dwellings,,
warehouses, stores and cotton.
Craft, one of the murderers Of the Gibbons
children, which created such an excitement
and mob violence at the time, was recently
tried at Grayson, Ky, found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hanged. He made a speech to
the Court declaring his innocence.
George Holmes, a mail-carrier between Al
exandria and Leesville, La, and his uncle,
Thomas Hoover, were arrested few DAYS ago
by Deputy United States Marshal charged
with stealing registered letter containing a
large sum of money in transit between the two
places,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
G ENER Al.

A Hong Kong (China) telegram states that
the United States steamer Ashuelot was re-
cen'ly lost. All the officers were saved.
Eleven of the crew were drowned. The
Ashuelot was an iron paddle vessel, carried
six guns and was of Sc tons burthen.
Since Carey's disclosures in Dublin, many
Irish Americans and farmers sons are leaving
for America.
A recent trades meeting at Dublin dis
avowed Carey, repudiated his claim to be a
respectable workingman, and expelled him
from the Trade Society.
A Dublin, Qreland,) dispatch says: Start
ling revelations regarding the murder con-
spiracy will be published in few days. Ten
men will be arrested in the Dublin district
and provinces.
The business failures the past week were
800, of which fifty eight were in the Western
States.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Snakes-A Trap Wanted.

The destruct, on of human life in India
by venomous snakes is appalling, and
the number of cattle killed by them is
serious drain upon the resources of the
people. In Bengal alone about 10000
persons are fatally bitten every year.
and nearly as many more lives are lost
by the same pests throughout British
India. These are deaths officially regis
tered. Sir Joseph Fayrer. the most
competent living authority, believes
that the reported deaths do not nearly
include the whole mum er.
The cattle reported killed by snakes
number between two and three thousand
year; also, in all probability, an under
statement. Of late years considerable
rewards have been oaered for The killing
of venomOus snakes, and thousands have
been destroyed, to the material lessen
ing OF the death rate of people and cat
tie; still the country is overrun with the
pests, and is likely to be until better
means have been devised for taking and
destroying them.
In 1890 the deaths reported as from
snake bite were 1860; and 212.776
snakes were killed at a cost of over
$4,000, in rewards. The next year
GSSD there were fatally bitten 1850
people: and 254. 96S snakes were de-
stroyed at a cost of nearly $1,000.
The snakes which do the mischief are,
according to Fayrer, the cobra the Bun
garus ceruleus or kraft, the echis and
the daboia or Russelrs viper. all OF
which are most conspicuous snakes, and
easily identified. There are others, such
as Bungarus fasciatus, Ophiophagus
elaps. which are dangerous. but COM
paratively rare. and seldom bite men.
while the hydrophide, being confined
to the sea or estuaries. are, though very
poisonous, not so dangerous TO man,
and the trimeresuri, which are both I'M
common and at the same time are not
so deadly as to endanger life.
1t is proposed that a corps OF snake
hunters shall be organized in every dis
trict, whose duty would be. under prop
er supervision, to seek out and DESTROY
these pests In several provinces gangs
OF paid snake huntarS are already at
work. with very encouraging results.
1t appears that only kanars of men
of similar caste can be engaged in this
work, the taking of life of any sort being
q 'ioiatiOu VI tuc iciJiOuS laws Oh IuOSl
Hlndoos. 1t is doubtful whether the
snake killers will ever pursue their task.
however well paid, with a degree Of
care and thorou hness likely to destroy
the occupation. If the snakes are to be
exterminated, it will have to be by other
meI,as.
Would it not be possible to devise
traps in which could be taken alive by
members of castles who could not kill
them to be turned over TO the proper
authorities for destruction? Or traps
might be made into which snakes could
be enticed to their own destruction,
traps which once set would 60 on per-
forming their benefieent work endless
w, without the Intervention of a caste
ridden people, and without putting up
on any one but the trap setter re-
sponsibility for taking life.-Scientjfc
AmertcGn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Canker Worms.

This insect goes through apple Or
chards, and stripping off all foliage,
leaves the trees with the appearance of
having been swept with fire. Repeated
defoliation checks their vigor and event
ually destroys them. But the insect
spreads slowly, and abundant time is
given to meet and destroy them. Tarred
bands around the trunks exclude them
for while, but when very numerous a
bridge is formed of the trapped and dead
worms, and new corners crawl over. At
a recent discussion of the Massachusetts,
Historical Society. j. w. Manning said
that the orchard of Mr.. Thurlow, of West
Newberry, was devastated with canker
worms. but by the use of printers ink
spread on paper belts, at an expense of
four and a half cents a tree, the tree was
efficiently protected. and crop of nine
hundred barrels of the best Baldwins
was obtained the first year, seven hun
dred the second and fourteen hundred
the third, but he does not state the size
of the orchard. Two other mepherS
recommended the residuum from kero-
sene Oil as much better than printers
ink for this purpose. j. j. H. Gregory
had used fish-oil for destroying canker
worms, and destroyed the orchard. The
best, most efficient and cheapest remedy
is shOwering or spraying with mixture
OF Paris green in five hundred times its
bulk of water. and taking care not to
turn any sheep or other animals in
the orchard till at least one heavy rain
has washed the poison from the grass if
it has been seeded. One or two spray
ings annually to orchards would doubt
less be well paid for by the destruction
of other insects, or all those which eat
solid food and would thus swallow the
poison. Country Gentleman.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
WARRINGTON NOTES,

The Jeanette Court of Inquiry has at last
made report which exonerates the officers
and men from any blame whatever.
Mr.. Skinner has offered In the National
House of Representatives joint resolution
which provides for an equitable distribution
of the surplus money in the United States
Treasury. The preamble sets forth that the
amount of revenue now being collected is
greatly in excess of the needs of the country,
and declares it expedient to repeal all internal
revenue, except those on liquors, and directs
all surplus in the Treasury after the redemp-
ton bonds are due, to be divided among the
States, to be applied by them to the payment
of State debts, or for school purposes, and
that 500, 0o0, 600 from the surplus now in the
Treasury be SO divided among the States &C
cording to population on the LIST of July next.
The Senate confirmed James H. Teller, of
Ohio, as Secretary of Dakota Territory, and
Arthur L. Thomas, of Pennsylvania, as Secre-
tary of Utah Territory.
Secretary Teller, in response to number of
inquiries of cattle men, has telegraphed that
no lease will be made of land in the Indian
Territory, at least for the present.
A delegation Of negroes from the Indian
Territory recently visited Washington seek
ing payment of a claim for $500, 600 under the
treaty of 1866. The negroes were slaves of the
Cherokee and Choctow Indians, and under the
treaty claim that they were each allowed 500
and forty acres of land. This they claim has
never been given them.
Congressman Bedford, Of Colorado, and his
friends Indignantly deny that he ever received
the e., 900 check from the Star Reuters, as
testified to BY the witness Rerdell recently.
The WAYS and Means Committee agreed to
report favorably the bill grating free entry
10 foreign goods for the Louisville National
Industrial exposition, and similar bill for
the benefit of the Denver Exposition was
agreed to by the committee.
The Senate Committee ordered fav-
orable report to be made upon the Shipping
bill. The Committee amended the bill by
striking out the thirteenth section, which
delegated to collectors Of ports the duties now
performed by the Shipping Commissioners;
and also added a section, which authorizes the
Postmaster General to contract for car
rage OF mails on ocean steamships of Amer
lean register, provided he shall pay not ex-
ceeding one dollar per mile for such services,
and shall not exceed s., 900 per annum.
Due notice is to be given by advertisement,
and contracts TO be awarded to the lowest
bidder, regardless of the size of the vessel,
provided that the vessel is Of American regis
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02

Last evening little girl named Letitia,
daughter of Charles MscNamee. living in
PhPnixville. Pa. was shot dead by Matthew
Hartigan, a neighbor. The girl had been to
the residence of a neighbor at the eastern end
of the row; she left there, passed her home,
and proceeded to the residence of Hartigan in
the western end of the row. Exactly as she
entered the yard in front of his house a shot
was fired through the front window The girl
fell CRYING Mamma She was picked up
dead and carried to her home.
1t appears there wis a party OF young peo-
pie spending the evening at Hartigan's, who
were in one room while he was in another. He
called his wife, told her he was going to fro
his gun through the window to brighten the
visitors. and that she should not he fright
ened. He told o young man in the room with
him that the gun was loaded with marble. He
fired. rs he said he would, and shot the little
Xiri. purely accidentallY.-Ph ilddellahil trsxS.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT a recent aristocratic marriage in
England. several of the gentlemen wore
plain gold earrings.
"A word in season: Why not send
DR.. Mustard, of the Delaware State SEN
ate, to the Sandwich Islands.-M y.
Graphic.
The great dry-goods stores of New
York, as well as those of Paris, are COM
PEELED to watch for female kleptomani-
acs. The number of otherwise respect
able women who steal is said to be
astonishing.-N. Y. Times.
The Growers and Forest
Tree Association of Canada, have passed
a resolution favoring the extripation of
the English sparrow. 1t was shown
that the bird was slaughtering Canadian
song-birds, besides proving destructive
to farmers and fruit-growers.
"A little prattling child in Denver
wandered out in the street, asking plain
lively for some one to ''please come and
wake up my mamma" Finally two men
accompanied her home. and found her
mother dead from heart disease.-Denrer
Tribune.
"A bullet shot from a pea shooter
struck New Orleans lad in the head
and penetrated the brain. The pea
shooter is composed of a forked stick,
two strips of rubber, two bits of Irvine
and patch of leather. What a New
Orleans lads head is composed of, is q
matter of conjecture.-Chicago Herald.
The Boston Courier imparts the inn
portant information that person scan
not decide knOtty question with tie
vote" But if you give foolish talker
rope enough he will soon settle the
matter to the satisfaction of all parties
concerned, gravely decides the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Although three or four crystals of
the genuine precious topaz, remarkable
for size and clearness, have been found
near Pixies Peak, Mr.. X. T. Cross as
serts that the stone which is cut in Col
orado and sold as topaz to tourists, is
not topaz at all, but simply smoky
quartz, or the cairngorm stone of Scot
land.-Chicago Tribune.
After hard run a policeman at
Seneca Falls, N. Y, discovered that the
laughing man whom he had caught
dressed in a striped convict suit was
only going to masquerade ball. 1t
was good joke. and it will be long
while before the officer can put in loaf
ing enough to make up for the exertion.
Utica Herald.
For fifty-one consecutive years
William Stanford was an occupant of
the County Jail at Richmond. Va, and
for eighteen of those years he was
chained by the leg to the floor of his cell,
a raying lunatic. He was released in
1877, harmless imbecile. and few
days ago he died. His last words were:
"Dear mother only utterance he
had ever been known TO make concern
ing his youth. some eighty years ago
Washington Post.
james McHardy, the oldest inhabit-
ant of the Braemar District. Scotland.
died recently, in the ninety-ninth year of
his age. In his early years, when flax
was grown in Braemar. he followed the
trade of heckler, but during the greater
part of his life he worked as sawyer.
His wife died six years ago at the age of
and their married life ex-
tended over the long period of sixty
eight years. Their family consisted of
three sons and six daughters, the Oldest
seventy-fve and the youngest about
sixty, and, as far as known, they are all
living.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
THE Latest.

After executive session the oath the Senate
took up the Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bill which was discussed at
length, amended and passed. The House
considered the Sundry Civil bill. A bill passed
admitting free of duty articles intended for ex-
hibition at the Louisville and Denver Expo
sitions. The House also had under considera-
ton the bill appropriating $4,000, 600 annual
ly for five years for the support of common
schools.
Judge Nevison and eY-Gov Crawford of
Kansas, argued an important question few
days since before the Attorney General, at
Washington, involving the construction of
the Ottawa Indian treaty of 1862 and 1861
The decision Of the Attorney General, which
will be anr ounced shortly, will settle this i'm
portant matter, and leave undisturbed the
title to many homes in franklin County, Kan
sas, which the Indians as citizens of the
United States have heretofore sold and con-
veyed by title in fee simple. Mr.. Haskell was
with Governor Crawford and Mr.. Nevison be-
fore the Attorney General.
Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts to
throttle it, smallpox appears to be getting
the upper hand of the authorities of some of
schools were closed. A new pest house being
built there, the alarm became general, reach
ing out into surrounding towns, some of
which established quarantine.
A party OF seventy-ive convicts from the
Arkansas Penitentiary, employed BY ]. H.
Cant, at work on the levees, near Helena,
recently conspired to capture their guards and
escape. One of them knocked the guard
down and the revolt was general Mr.. CANT
then rode up, when he was shot and killed.
Seventeen of the convicts succeeded in escap-
ing.
The leyee broke few days since at Panther
Forest, fifteen miles below Arkansas City, on
the Arkansas side, making creyasse $50 yards
wide, and water rushed through three to four
feet deep. Much apprehension is felt on the
lower Mississippi on account of the heavy rise.
Another attempt was made on the 25th to
fire the Missouri Penitentiary bv a convict. A
prisoner who reported himself sick, threw a
ball saturated with coal oil into some rubbish
in the hospital. Timely discovery defeated
the attempt.
1t is stated that a critical point in the i'm
pending trouble between the Interior Depart
ment and the cattle men located in the Indian
Territory has been reached, and it looks now
as if the cattle men ultimately will be forced
to leave the Territory.
special from Hull, England, says the
steamship Bywell Castle, from the Black Sea,
with a cargo of cotton seeds and beans, bound
for Boston, is thought to have found cred and
all on board lost.
Seven inmates of the Western Lunatjc Asy-
lum, at staunton, Va, died lately, having
been poisoned. The patients, it is supposed,
tempered with medicine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02

Rapids, Mich, was lately found dead in jail.
A dance was held at house near the jail and
Lenhart mistook the noise at the dance to be
from mob gathering to lynch him, which SO
frightened him as to cause his death.
A singular disease among swine has made
its appearance in Winoua County, Mimi. II
has, thus far, resulted fatally to nearly all
hogs attacked. Some hogs are taken with
vomiting and purging; Others have sores on
the head and various parts of the body, the
sores eating through the skull. The disease
attacked the animal in all conditions, and
proved singularly fatal.
Mrs. j. c. Winslow, wife OF Conductor
Winslow, of the Chicago and Rock Island
Railroad, mysteriously disappeared from
Bloomington, Ills, two weeks ago, and the
fact caused considerable excitement in that
city, where the lady was well known. Not
word has been heard from her, although the
most industrious search has been made in diff
ferent parts of the country. Her husband fears
foul play.
Quincy, Iowa. as an epidemic. The Board of
Health has ordered the closing of all the
schools, and forbids the opening of churches
for services and theaters for amusement
Two freight trains on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago road collided at Spring
Wells, O., recently, badly wrecking both
trains, killing Engineer L. L. Graham and
Fireman j. Quinlan. both of Alliance, o. The
balance of the crew escaped by jumping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Teachers Of Grammar.

A scholarly knowledge Of the science
OF grammar, for instance, is not specially
advantageous to the teacher whose sole
business, rs an instructor in grammar,
is to impart to the Young an under
standing knowledge of first principles.
What is the object of grammatical instruc-
ton in common school? Certainly to
inform the young that language has
certain laws of construction; to teach
the correct use of words and proper dis
position of sentences; to prepare the
pupil for the higher departments of
training, whose province it is to teach
the forms of correctly worded and COM
posed writing. The object of grammati-
cal instruction is certainly not to inform
the pupil that there is a science of
grammar; in a word, it is not to teach
him grammar, but to teach him English
to make him intelligent as far as
elementary grammar instruction can do
so.
Who is the best teacher in any given
branch-for example, grammar? 1t is
not necessarily he who has every gram
NAUTICAL rule stored in his memory. A
teacher may be thoroughly skilled in the
science of grammar, but lack every
pedagogic ability to impart his informa-
ton. In this case he will be a good
grammarian but very poor grammati-
cal instructor.
The best teacher Of grammar must. in
the first place, know what he is to teach.
why he teaches it and what is the object
of teaching it. In the second place, he
must have good plan of teaching
grammar; he must know how to teach
it in order that his pupils may learn and
profit by what he knows. In the third
place. he must be able to teach it; he
must have the pedagogic ability to in
struct his pupils in grammar so that a
knowledge of grammar will be useful to
them.-Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-03-02
Phenix Park. Dublin.

Phenix Park, the scene of the assassination
OF Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke,
contains two thousand acres, and is entered
like Hyde Park in London, by q stately gate
way: II is SURROUNDED by q solid COPIED wall,
and is the playground of the Irish metropolis,
civil and military, and contains bits of
leafy bower and grassy glen, in which
solitude pure and simple may be realized.
IL contains stItues of Lord Carlisle. Lord
Cough and hideous granite obelisk, TWO
hundred feet in height. recording the exploits
OF Well Egton. The SPOT where the assassina-
ton took place is about half mile from the
entrance, and is overlooked by the vice-regal
lodge, the semi-offic!al home OF the Lord Lieu
tenant which looks exactly like q twin of our
White House. II has. however. the advantage
Of many mountain views of great beauty. A
little further on are the official residences OF
Mr. Trevelyan and Tom Burke's successor.
MANY railroads now emplow upon theii
rains only tot al ahsf ainars