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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25
THE LORD OF MiSRULE.
Christmas Festivities in Queen ElisabetA1
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Christmas Festivities in Queen ElI.abeshp
Girlho.d.
1t was Christmas Eve. The great
hall of Hatfield House cleaned with tho
light of many candles that flashed upon
sconce and armor and polished floor.
Holly and mistietOe, rosemary and bay.
and all the decorations of an Old-timo
English Christmas were tastefully ar
ranged. A burst of laughter rang
through the hall, rs through the ample
doorway. and down the broad stair.
troOped the motley train of the Lord of
Misrule 20 open the Christmas rcvels
A fierce and ferocious-looking fellow
was he, with his great green msstache
and his Ogre-likc face. His dress was
gorgeous parti-colored jerkin and
half-hOse, trunks, ruff. slOuch-bOots Of
Cordova leather, and high befeathered
steeple hat. His long staff, topped with
a FOOLS head, cap and bells, rang loud
" on the floor, as. preceded by his
diminutive but pompOus page, he led
his train around and around the great
hall. Justify singing the chorus:
" Like Prince and King he leads the ring:
Right merrily We 70 Sing hey-trix, trim
Under the misletoe.'
A menagerie let loose or the most dys-
peptic of after-dinner dreams could not
be more bewildering than was this mot
ley train of the Lord of Misrule. Giants
and dwarfs, dragons and grifl1ns. hob
by-horses and COLLINS, Robin Hood and
Grand Turk, bears and boars and fam
tastic animals that never had q name,
boys and girls, men and women, in
every imaginable costume and device
around and around the hall they went,
still ringing out the chorus:
"Sing hey-trix, trim-go-trix.
Under the mistletOer'
Then, standing in the center of his
court, the Lord of Misrulc babe his her
aid declare that from Christmas Eve to
Twelfth Night he was Lord Supreme;
that with his magic art he transformed
all there into children, and charged
them, ON their fealty, to act only as
such. II absolve them all from wis
dom, he said; II bid them be just wise
enough to make fools of themselves,
and do decree that none shall sit apart
in pride and exc in self-sufficiency to
laugh at Others" and then the fun
commenced.-E. S. Brooks, Ia st. Mich
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25

-"Yes." said Fogg, II got off pretty
easy this year. Last Christmas each
one of my friends gave me q ten-cent
Christmas card. felt a little sour at
first, but reflected that when q man
makes present he always gives jose
what he would like to have given to
him, and then l felt better. saved
those cards and this year each o.c Of
my friends got a present that must
have suited him to T, for it was tho
very thing he chose for me last year"
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25

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us in poem beginning: '.Whasshall l
find in my stocking on early Christmas
MORN" and asks what We think of it.
We think, dear, that unless You drop
poetry you will find holes in both
stockings.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-12-25

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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
aaees or emperor s..ll.am's Doa,n.

London Cable: The death OF Emperor
William promises &c be the next great SEN
sation in Europe. tie immediate political
effect will be to bind Germany and England
together in q very close union. Thecrown
princess Of England will be the empress OF
Germany, and the coming mperoris known
as an affectiOnate friend OF the prince OF
Wales and OF the queen. Nothing more OPP
perfume for the new Tory government OF
England could possibly occur. 1t is ru-
mOred that all this was counted upOnlnthe
very highest circles of the two realms before
Lord Salisbury finally consented to take
office, and that it very largely influenced
his decision. There are hints OF n second
treaty of Windsor that had really more to
do with the change in the administration
than the vague and shadowy promises made
by Mr.. Gladstone. According to this story,
the Crown Princess Victoria assured her
mother tina the death Of the emperor was
only a question Of a few years; that
upOn the accession Of Frederick William
TO the imperial throne OF Germany, The in
iluence OF Prince Bismarck would cease to
be a predominant and disturbing element
in European politics, and that if England
would heartily support the cOlonizinge enter
prises OF Germany, which are Frederick
Williams pet fads, there would be no Oppo-
sitiOn to an ~Anglo-German alliance, as
against Russia in ~Afghanistan, France in
Egypt, and the foes or rivals Of England
everywhere. All this being represented
to Lord Salisbury, opened up to him
a prospect OF being able to straighten out
the foreign relations which had been
left in a seemingly hopeless tangle by Glad
stone, to safeguard the British empire in
India, to retain control Of Egypt, and gen.
orally to restore the imperial prestige of
England through the world. 1t was this
line Of argument, it is said, which not only
decided Lord Salisbury to accept the Office
of premier, but caused him to adopt the
unprecedented course of combining with it
the office of secretary of state for foreign
affairs, Sc as to keep the delicate n~egotia-
ions of the next few weeks or months care
fully within his own control.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
Personal News Notes.

Some years after his marriage, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean Judge Tree is said to
have been presented by his father-in-law
with $500, 600, n at the death OF his
mOther-in-law and father-in-law successive
ly some three or four years since, he inherit
ed an estate estimated at from two to
three million dollars. A gentleman h is
in a position to know states that Judge
Trees regular income is 500, 600 annually.
General Grant received the other day, q
letter dated at Rock Bridge Baths, Va,
from an ex-confederate officer who surren-
dered at Appomatox. 1t is couched in
terms of the warmest admiration, regard
and sympathy; refers TO having received
back his horse and sword, with the ~injunc-
ton to go home n assist in making a
crop, and assures the general thatthe writer
is not the only ex-confederate who daily
praysfor his restoration.
Gen. Sheridan has not fully recovered
from the results of the accident sustained
on the Pacific coast two months since by
the overturning OF his carriage. This
accident" said the general to a corr
respondent, twas a singular thing.
Nothing OF the kind ever happened to me
before. ! have been with horses all my life,
and never before had a runaway, and never
sustained an injury or accident OF any kind.
Indeed, / never spent a day in bed from
sickness, never had my skin broken, and
was never hit by a bullet, although | think
some bullets may nave come pretty close
to me. | suppose, after passing through all
sorts OF dangers, / shall some day step on
an orange or banana skin and topple over
for good"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
A Years Operations ofthe National Treas

The June debt statement, issued July l
closes the accounts OF the government for
the fiscal year ended June 80. The de-
crease in the debt reported for the year is,
in round numbers, sos, 500, 900. Large as
this sum appears, it is far below that for
either OF the five preceding years, the aver
age for which was nearly SIG, 600, 600.
An examination Of the column Of interest
bearing debt shows that the reduction for
the past year was but $3O,412,S50, while
the reduction in the debt on which
interest has ceased was SIS, 100000. The
cash balance now held in excess ofthatheld
one year ago, added to the Standardization,
makes the reduction reported in this state
ment. There has been no change in the fig
ures OF the bonded debt since November
last, no call for three per cent. bonds hav-
ing been made since that date. When the last
call for bonds was made the treasury bal
ance was $144, 900, 900.
The available balance on hands the larg-
est ever held by the treasury, compared
with Jan. 1, 1879, when specie payment
was resumed. 1t shows anincrease $780,
000, 900; and thegold fund not covered by
outstanding certificates was then only
Sill 600, 900, whereas it lis now over $780,
000, 1000. According to the new form of
statement adopted by Treasurer j ourdan,
after deducting all outstanding lie bilities,
500, 600, 900 for reserve and $50, 600, 900
Tor unavailable assets" the net balance is
nearly SAL 100000.
During the year there has been a decrease
in the amount OF bonds held by the treasury
to redeem national bank notes of $22, 000,-
600, the amount now held for this purpose
being 1912, 000, 900. The aggregate receipts
for the twelve months show a falling off OF
see, 000, 600 compared with the preceding
twelve months, OF which loss $14, 600, 900
comes from customs and SO, 000, 600 from
internal revenue. The expenditures for the
year just closed also compare unfavorably
with those for the preceding year, being in
excess OF the latter SIS, 600, 600.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

Bowditch, Skillings & CO., wholesale milf
merry Of Boston, have failed.
At Dubuque Father Jean Of Lyons loses
his suit againgt Bishop Hennessy for sus-
pending him from the priesthood.
The races at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y, at
tracted an immense crowd. The weather
was cool and cloudy. The Welter handi-
cap sweepstakes was captured by Commo-
dore Kittson's FLY Abba. The race was
one and one-eight miles, and six horses
ran.
b. s. Higley was made president OF the
Ohio state prohibition convention. The
following ticket was nominated; Governor.
Rev. "A. b. Leonard; lieutenant governor,
Prof. w. G. Frost; supreme Judge, Gideon
Stewart; treasurer, John III. Danner; at.
torney general, "A. s.. Ciesenger; board Oh
public works, j. s. Neville.
It is the purpose OF the manages OF the
new exposition which is to be opened st
New Orleans In November to retain and ca.
large the Mexican exhibits and to secure
exhibits from the Southland Central Ameri.
can states and West India islands, aid
Secretary Bayard stated that this project
| would have the friendly support OF the
state department.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
News from Northwest Territory.

ABattleford, N. w. T., Special Telegram Of
July 5says:-Col. A. T. Williams, command
ing the Midland battalion, died while on
the steamer Northwest yesterday morning.
The body was brought here packed liz ice
and under the escort of Lieut.. Reed and six
men will be sent to Swift Current across
country, and thence east by rail. An i'm
posing military funeral was held here to-
day. His loss is felt by every one, as Col,
Williams was beloved by all. His disease
was Inflammation OF the brain, and he was
sick but our days. Three minutes after
Col. Williams died Sergeant Primes o. the
Sixty-fifth died also on the Northwest. He
will be buried here. News has reached Mid
dleton OF the capture of Big Bear and one
other lodge of his camp by Gagnon and the
police near Carlton this afternoon. More
Indians are expected in, and it is evident
that the whole outbreak has fizzled. The
steamers crossed to Queens Own to-day
and they viii go east and be in Prince Al
bert early this week. Col. Otter will prob
ably command at Battleford. A battery
and part of Cschool taking the garrison.
b battery went to Prince Albert overland.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
A Case of Leprosy in wisconsin.

The Dane County Medical society held its
annual meeting at Madison, Wis. Aninter-
esting and unusual feature of the meeting
was the exhibition by DR.. Settlers of Slough
ton OF a young Norwegian named Iverson
who was suffering from leprosy. The pa
tient presented a horrible appearance, his
face being bloated and covered with ugly
blotches. While red in color and strangely
unnatural, the skin was thick on the face.
hands and feet, and could be pricked severe.
ly without the patient feeling pain. The
dibease developed in Iverson two years ago,
being preceded by a rheumatic sensation.
The disease is hereditary in the Iverson
family, though previous to the present case
it hadnot doyelopedfor several generations.
Leprosy is rare in this vicinity, and Iver-
sons case caused a sensation not confined
to medical circles.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
The Ravages of the Cholera.

A Madrid (Spain) cable to the New York
Herald gives some thrilling details of the
horrors Of the cholera epidemic prevailing
i'll Spain. 1t Il Murcia city, according
to the last cencus, has a population OF
nearly 4 5000 and the suburbs about Co.
600 more. Thirty thousand persons have
fled from the place since the epidemic broke
out. It's streets are deserted; so per cent
of its stores are closed, and hardly ahOuse
remains in which a cholera case has not oC-
Cured. The yellow covered stretcher on
which the cholera-stricken sick and dead
are carried through the streets is one Of the
COmmOnest sights. Deaths have beComeso
frequent that the tolling of the church
bells, usual there on such events, has
been forbidden. Beginning on June 3, the
cholera has since then attacked 3,215 per-
sons in twenty-four days, and of these 1,
300 bodies have already heen buried. In
Guiding the full normal population of near
ly 100000 people, one persOnin each thirty
has already had the cholera, and one per-
son in each seventy-five of the population
has been buried within three weeks. Under
most favorable conditions 10000 more
deaths are expected by the physicians be-
fore the fall. A vile smell came from one of
the many closed houses. By order OF the
authorities the doors were forced, and the
rotting bodies of its occupants were found.
They had apparently died OF malignant
cholera after closing the house, and so sud-
denly that they had been unable TO sum-
mon aid.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

John Bright has written a letter to Depu-
ty Pogsick OF Paris, in which he says:
III European nations would accept com
mercial liberty that is moderate or abolish
customs, Europe might soon tend to an
era OF perpetual peace. At present all re-
sources are swallowed up by military ext
gences. The peoples interests are sacrificed
TO the mcst miserable and culpable fanta-
sizes of foreign politics. The real interests
OF the masses are trodden under foot In
Difference to false notions oil glory and ma
tionAi power. ! cannot help thinking that
Europe is marching toward some great q
tastrophc OF crushing weight. The military
system cannot indiiierently be supported
with patience, and the population, driven
to despair, may possibly before long sweep
away the royalties and pretended states.
men who govern in their names. / hope
your country and mine viii remain ct
peace and be real friends.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
Disposition Of Grant. Property.

Gen. Grants city residence and his cot
tage at Long Branch have both been Of
fered for sale, though there seems to be no
disposition to sacrifice them, the prices de-
manded being up to their present value.
The understanding is that the general,
knowing that halt his present income-that
arising from his place on the army retired
list-will stop at his death, leaving as q GER
tainty TO his widow the product Of the en-
dowment fund only, is anxious to unload
the real estate by converting it into q safe,
yielding investment. In this matter his
counselor is ex-senator Chaffee, whose adj
vice as to the Ward business, had 1t been
promptly followed, would have saved most
OF the money lost therein. Theplan ofMrs.
Grant Is to retire into some quiet homca after
the death Of her husband, while the other
members OF the family willscatter. The re-
lance OF Grant on the profits ofhis for
his widows benefit has frequently been pub.
lished.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
ths l.oman eattolle university, ior s2s,,

s 20 l''%'H o"'ho''' university t'' 's''
NJ. Cannon, controller OF the currency
| has called for a report OF the condition o
national banks at the close Of business or
Jan. l.
The secretary Of the treasury has ap
pointed Walter e. Girard assistant inspec
tor of hulls at New York, vice B. F. Howell
resigned.
A Democratic subordinate in the mar,
shal's office at Washington has been re
moved by the marshal for offensive par
ti%sanship.
A brother Of Vice President Wilson is a
guide in the bureau of engraving and print,
ing at $50 a day, but he is to be given a
better place.
Thomas f. Nash OF Centralia, Wis, has
been appointed chief clerk of the postOtticC
department, to succeed c.. NJ. Walker Of In,
diana, resigned.
Henry f. Williamson, of Holly Springs,
Miss, Henry T~ontDnelle, "A member of the
Omaha Indian tribe, and Edward l.. Thorn
as, OF Atlanta, Ga, have been commission
ed to appraise IL part Of the Omaha Indian
reservation in Nebraska, comprising about
5000 acres.
The following appointments were made by
the president recently: Darius II. Ingra-
ham of Maine, to be consul at Cadiz; James
Tanner Lee of Maryland, to be secretary of
legation to Austria-H Hungary; Nathan b.
Gatchel, appraiser ofmerChandise in the dis
trict OF Buffalo Creek, New York.
One of the female employees dropped from
the rolls in the bureau of engraving and
printing, made her appearance ana demand
ed immediate reinstatement. When told
that such II thing was impossible she became
violently abusive, and threatened to blow
up the Whole institution aud then kill her
self. She was quietly talked to, and finally
prevailed upon to leave the building.
The agricultural department has issued
the following in relation to the coming crop
OF peaches: The past winter has fully de-
m0nstrated the unfitness ofthe more north
ern ATTITUDES for peach growing. From the
upper Ohio valley and the lake states there
comes but one report. 1t tells OF trees all
dead, whole orchards even in the most shell
tered situations having succumbed to the
severe freezing.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
THE NEWS SUMMARIZED.


A letter has just been received by DR.. Els
IT Of Quebec from Louis Riel. After speak
ing OF his ready surrender, his chance TO es'
cape if he wishes TO do 80, he says he was
in the United States labOring to Great" a fu-
ture for himself, when he was invited
among the half-breeds to assist them in petit
tiOning the government. He worked peace
fully until the time when arms were taken
up. He says also that he never dreamed of
war, but by intrigue and forged letters a
complication Of affairs a brought about
by interested parties. He desired
to return to the United States,
but the people would not listen to
him. On March IS they were proceeding
TO st. Laurent to celebrate the feast of st.
Joseph, and had to pass St. Antoine en-
men were coming by forced marches to dis
perse them and kill their leaders. When the
halfbreeds learned this they stopped their
wagons and mad an arrest OF al Indian
agent. They also made one or two other
arrests. Riel says he wasnot present when
these arrests were made, but he vas mott
fed, and when he c to the place he
fOund the people had decided to take up
arms in their defense. In twenty-four hours
the whole population were in arms. He
concludes by asking not to be treated like
a murderer, and not to be chained before
the Jury have pronounced upon his case.
and feels confident they will not find him
guilty. He says his Incarceration is telling
UPON his health, Notwithstanding the kind
attention of his iailers.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

San Antonio telegram: Near Walden,
l50 miles west of San Antonio, an east
bound freight train was struck by a water
spout. The engineer saw the waterspout
approaching, bounding along like a rubber
ball, tearing up the earth and ~uprocting all
in it's way. He reversed the train to avoid
the waterspout, whose course was circuit
Gus, with the column inclined and a rotary
motion. just before the waterspoutreach-
ed the line of the road it changed its course
and bounded alongparallel to the track with
frightful velocity. When opposite the train
the waterspout burst, deluging the engineer,
fireman and brakeman, who abandoned the
train and climbed some trees TO avoid a.
wave of water fully eight feet high and
about 100 feet wide. The locomotive and
fourteen cars were raised bodily and car
ried nearly 200 feet from the track, while
the road was completely obliterated. No
one was hurt. The extent OF the damage
has not yet been ascertained.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

During the past year in Boston only
1918 licenses were grantedfor the sale
OF distilled liquors, as against 1,535in
the previous year. Onthe other hand,
the number of places licensed to sell
only malt liquors and wine rose from
Sc to 236. Thus, while the whole
number of saloons remains nearly as
large as before, the number in which
the milder kind of drinks is sold has
increased fourfold.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
Il IS alleaed that Oneen Nictc

1t is alleged that Queen Victoria is
greatly pleased with the change of the
ministry-that shenever liked Premier
Gladstone, because he could not fiat
ter, and was impatient as a state SER
vantt to the throne. Besides it is alleged
the Queen and Mr.. Gladstone were new
er in harmony about England'sforeign
affairs. D'Israeli was the Queens IA
vorite Minister-he was obedient to
her will to the extreme of fawning OBJ
sequiousness.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10
The Criminal Calendar.

Charles Moore, who had been married re.
Gently, was killed by his wife, during a quar-
rel, with a lawn hoe, at his home near
Charlotte, N. c.
The case OF Adolph b. Spreckles, in San
Francisco, charged with assault with intent
to murder NJ. III. De Young, proprietor oil
the Chronicle, on trial several weeks past,
was given to the jury and they returned a
verdict Of not guilty.
William Wright OF bonneville, Ca, who
was quarrelling with his wife, suddenly
turned upon her and drove q knife into her
back, which required the united effort o
two men to withdraw. The woman'sf father
upon seeing his dead daughter, took his
shotgun and killed Wright.