The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-11-27


stream of water, and had been exposed
about ten days. 1t was impossible to fix
the age or nationality. 1t was decently
dressed in shirt and pants with broad stock
mans hat and boots with heavy spurs.
THOMAS c. MCCULLocH, a well-known
boot and shoe merchant of Nashville, Tenn,
was lately convicted and sentenced to six
years. imprisonment for setting fire to the
store of Oliver & Co., Of which firm he was
a member.
GENERAL.
THERE was q serious riot few days ago
near Dungannon, Ireland. The Golfers at
tackled the Protestant Church, assaulted
and expelled the worshipers, and held un
disputed possession of the town for two
hours. They were finally dispersed by the
police without any arrests.
A COMMITTEE of the French Chamber of
Deputies lately reported in favor of the
abolition of life Senatorships.
THE earnings of the Baltimore &, Ohio
during the last year were $l9, 43G, 601, and
the addition to the surplus, after paying
the usual annual dividend of ten per cent,
nearly S2,0C0,000.
Marine, lately put the steam transport Isere
at the disposal of the French-American
Union for the purpose of conveying the
Bartholdi statue to America. The Isere
will leave Havre for Few York early in
May next.
WARNER weather in Paris revived the
ravages of cholera. There were thirty-s
deaths on November 18th, and many peo-
pie were fleeing from the city. Notwith
| standing this remarkable fatality of chol-
| era, typhoid fever was killing more people
! than cholera.
RECENT advices from Soudan were to the
effect that General Gordon was unsuccess-
full in a recent attempt to dislodge the reb.
els from Alderman, short distance from
KhartOum, on the west bank of the White
Nile, where they are strongly entrenched.
THE exploring expedition to Lake Mistis-
shiny, in the Northwest Territory, British
America, lately returned to Quebec with
an Interesting report of its experiences and
discoveries. From this report it would
seem that there is large lake in that
country, perhaps as large as Lake Super
ior, which has for hundred years or more
been under the control of the Hudson Bay
] Company.
| SIR GEORGE ST. PATRICK LAWRENCE, K.
c. s. l., c. B., the famous English officer
whose name is so closely associated with
the Afghan war, and author of "Reminis.
cences of Forty-three Years Service in In.
dia," died not long ago.
A BosToN ship, the Alert, bound from
New York for Shanghai, and carrying
400, 600 gallons of kerosene oil, was recently
struck by lightning near Pernambuco anG
burned. The officers and crew were saved
THE LATEST.
A FUND of 81 200 was raised in few O.
vention few days ago for the relief of the
Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky
drouth sufferers.
| DEPRESSION in the sugar trade lately re-
suited in the serious embarrassment of the
Belcher Sugar Refining Company of st.
Louis, one of the Oldest and best-known
firms connected with the sugar interest in
this country. Its total indebtedness was
reported at $50, 900.
! GOVERNOR HoADLY of Ohio recently re-
ceived a communication from the Trades
Assembly Of Cincinnati, demanding the
removal of the Pinkerton guards from the
Hooking Valley. The Governor, some
months ago, stated that he had no such
power.
CoHGREssMAH TUCKER, of Virginia. was
lately appointed guardian for the miner
children of the late President Garfield.
SOUTH CAROLINA planters have been in
dread lest the scared negroes in the Pal
metto State in their fear OF reinstatement
would emigrate and thus paralyze the
Southern labor market.
The late annual report of the First Assis,
ant Postmaster General showed: Number of
postoffices established during the year g..
514 an increase of 161 over the preceding
year. Number discontinued 1,260 decrease
of S61 and net increase of 81. The whole
number of post offices on June 80, 1884, was
50,0l1, an increase of 2,154; number filed
by Presidential appointment, 2,s22; num-
Der filed by Postmaster General, 1864.
During the year 1883 postmasters were
appointed. The net increase of pcstoffices
during the year was much larger than
any increase for several years past.
The only decrease was in New Mexico.
Comparing the number of post-ofiices in
the different States in order, the six high
est, June 80, were Pennsylvania, S,54O;
New York, 3,1ss; Ohio, 3,7O7, nn-
nois, 2,169; Virginia, 1882, and Mis-
souri,, 1858. OF the Territories, Da-
kota had the largest number, ST.,
exceeding in number in either Massachu-
sets, Maryland or South Carolina. It rec
commended that the free delivery system
be extended to places of ten thousand in
habitants, provided the postal revenue
of Congress was invited to the importance
of erecting buildings for postoffices in all
cities of twenty thousand inhabitants and
amounted to $4,000 yearly. The attention
upwards.
THERE were two hundred and forty -eight
failures in the United States and twenty
nine in Canada during the week ended
November 22d, total increase of forty lone
over the week previous. The increase was
mostly in the Western and Southern States.
COLONEL ROBERT G. INGERsoLL recently
lectured in The principal Western cities on
(which Way" his new subject. He drew
large audiences.