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The Iola register., 1885-07-17
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


There are in England one hundred
and eighty-seven ragged schools which
are attended by fifty thousand children.
"A movement is on foot for estab-
fishing Indian schools in Nevada. There
are nearly 1,5OO Indian children be-
tween six and eighteen years old in that
State. Chicago Herald.
About six hundred new members
have been added to the white Baptist
churches in Richmond since the visit of
Mr.. Moody, and numerous additions
have also been made to Methodist and
other churches in the city.
The senior class at Trinity College,
Hartford has decided that the sopho-
mores are entitled this year to the
'1emOn squeezer," a peculiar gift sig
nifying that the receivers are the most
popular class in college. = Hartford
Post.
We have seen the school advance to
public and free system; in place of
the ignorant pedant who boarded round
and taught the whole family out of one
book, we have full-graded schools in
backwoods districts where the scholars
are so few that each pupil has to in him
self make two grades, in order to have
enough pupils to 90 around among all
the grades. Patrol.
How rapid progress the women
of the South are making in the matter
of education is well shown in the Uni
versity of Mississippi 1t was but few
years ago that this university was
thrown open to girls, but in that time
they have forced themselves to the
front, and this year they won all the
prizes. A young lady has won the first
honors, and will consequently be the
valedictorian.- Chicago Journal.
The Commissioners of the Auburn
Theological Seminary found fault with
many of the members of the junior and
middle classes for going out to preach
so frequently as to neglect their semi
nary studies. 1t was ordered that when
students did such preaching they must
obtain the unanimous consent of the
faculty every time; and if they per-
sisted in the habit whatever compensa-
ton they received for preaching must
be deducted from the amount of chari-
table funds which they would other
wise receive.-Bufalo Express.
The Pope has granted the request
of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Can
ada for permission to found Cana
dian seminary in Rome. The Montreal
seminary of St. Sulpice will defray the
expenses of construction and mainte-
nance. The Pope has promised to
assist the undertaking in every possible
way, and will ask the old Sulpicians of
France to devote an annual sum for its
benefit At first, provision will only be
made for the education of not more
than fifty theological students, but it is
the intention of the seminary event
ually to provide accommo dation for
two hundred and fifty.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
ESTHETlC JOURNALISM.
The Result of Judicious Mixture wit
Ordinary Police Court Reports.

The Result of a Judicious Mixture with
Ordinary Police Court Reports.
They got new reporter on the Port
land Slasher the other day. He was a
young man with high forehead, hair
parted in the middle. and a dreamy,
poetic eye. He was just from college,
and he knew he could make success
as journalist, because he had written
short story for Godey's Lady's Book.
He remarked to the editor that Ouida
was the only writer whose style was
really worth initiating, and that there
was a soft idyllic charm about William
Blacks books that was simply inimita-
ble
The editor said he shouldn't won-
der" and sent the new man down to
see what was going on at the police
court. Later on the graduate handed
in the following report:
''Biddy McGinnis, did you strike the
defendant with beer mug?' asked his
honor, as woman with red shawl
and nose took the stand.
The soft spring zephyrs rustled the
papers on the dusty desks. Through the
open window came the distant chirp
of the bobolink, from the meadows fra
grant with the breath of daisy-bespan-
gled grain. .'I'n not be. desavin' yer
honor; guv i'm thur full ov me fist in
the oye, sur"
From the fresh hedgerows and prim-
scent of the honey-suckle and trailing
arbutus. A huge bumble-bee droned
lazily across the foreground, carrying
its golden store of rifed sweets.
'.It's the lie she guv me that begun
it.' remarked Mr.. Hoolihan, from his
seat Its not ther first illigant dance
she's bruck up wild her ructions intoire-
ly, so it isn't
The Judge wiped his cardinal-tinted
brow, and his gaze wandered idly out
through the checkered squares of sun
light that drifted down from the idly
stirring leaves of the maple trees to
where the hazy outlines of the far-off
hills melted into the blue evaneScent
mist of the evening sky. The dying sun
threw great tender food of purple
light over the slowly reddening eXpanse
while, in the middle distance. an i'm
placable white crag lifed its fevered
forehead to the siow-coming dew.
Tine whole gang of 'em were b'ilin'
drunk, yer honor" said Officer Grab
hey. THE woman's been up twenty
one times already"
1t was the clear note of the quail in the
stub5le, the freshening breeze brought
family but sweetly to their ears,
mingled quantity with the twitter
of the moth-pursuing orioles, flashing
through the orchard opening and away
into the dim gathering shadows.
'.It's a loie, yer honor-only nine
teen tonnes; niver the wan more"
BY this the solemn slow clouds had
piled in a far-reaching sinister shape
above the bloody couch of the slain and
dying day. At their summit two stead
fast star eyes came out to see, as though
in the far grayness of remote antiquity
some sphynx-like Cain bent stolid and
unremorseful gaze above his fresh-mur-
dered kin.
..Six months" said the court
"Next''-IHe SGn FrGseiscGz.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
A FAMILY POISONED.
Wine Taken From a Bottle Used for Lini
meht Produces Horrible Poisoning.

Wine Taken From a Bottle Used for Lini-
meat Produces Horrible Poisoning.
BURLINGTON, Ia, July "a fatal poi
soning case is reported from Scott County.
A family named Baker entertained a dinner
party last evening at which many persons
were present all being relatives. At din
ner wine was served from bottle in which
it had been placed few days ago. The
bottle had recently contained liniment made
from roots of jimsOn weed. Nearly all at
the table drank the liquid. In few mo-
ments all were seized with terrible illness.
Their eyeballs swelled to an abnormal size,
great drops of froth issued from their mouths
and the sick persons hit at themselves and
nearly tore off their clothing in their agony.
They screamed and rolled on the floor.
DR.. Bell was called, who summoned another
physicitd. Each one had to be held at
times by five persons before the stomach
pump could be used. Mra Hardesty, who
was seemingly the least i'll, died in an hour
under heroic treatment Five other per-
SONS were leased of pain, but all lie in a
comatose condition, and it Is feared Samuel
Baker may die.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
COULDN'T DEFEND HIM.
Would Work for a Criminal, but Wouldn'
Work for a Fool.

Would Work for a Criminal. but Wouldn't
Work for q Fool.
Gentlemen" said the Judge, ad-
dressing number of lawyers who had
assembled in the courtroom to hear
the docket read and to say no mo-
tions, your honor" ..Mr. Calvin Griggs
has been indicted for assault with in
tent to kill. He says that he is unable
to employ counsel and l shall there
fore have to appoint one of You to de-
fend him. Mr.. Blukens, will ap-
point you"
Judge, l would much rather some
one else be appointed"
"Why, are you busy?"
"No, SIR"
"What, then, is your excuse?"
81 can not cOnscientiously defend
him."
"Why, sirP"
"Shortly after got a divorce from
my wife he married her."
"That should not concern you."
cit does. Judge. 1t made me mad
to see that any one else was as big a
fool as had been. 1don't mind work
ing for thief, but l can not work for a
fool. No, can not defend him. -
Arkansaw Traveller.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
A Brave Boys Death.

BosroN, MASS, July 6.-While Henry
Cooney, aged sixteen, and VIM. Connell,
aged fourteen, were bathing in a stream
in the Back Bay Park yesterday, Conuell
was seized with cramps and called TO
Cooney to help him. The latter cried:
s'C1imb on my back, Willie, aud I will
take you out all right"
Connell did SO. The brave boy strug-
gled manfully with his weight, now sink
ing, now rising. When doz N feet from
the bank both went down and were not
seen again until brought up dead by a
% r. The affair was witnessed by a
Urge crowd, who were paralyzed, as
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
The Presidents Vacation.

WASHINGTON, July 9.-The Star says:
The President is preparing to depart from
Washington for e summer vacation. His
plans have been arranged. and it Is expected
that he will be able to get away within q
day or two. He will go to New York
State, and betake himself to the woods
for few weeks to get away from the
worry and bother of officeseesers and poll
ticians. His plans have been made very
quickly, and he will probably leave as soon
as the appointed time arrives without max
ing any previous announcement The
and does not propose to be followed into his
retreat.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
1t Astonished the Public

to hear of the resignation OF DR.. Pierce as
q Congressman to devote himself solely to
his labors as physician. 1t was because
his true constituents were the sick and af-
flicted everywhere. They will find DIR.
Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" a
beneficent use OF his scientific knowledge in
their behalf. Consumption, bronchitis,
cough, heart-disease, fever and ague, inter
mittent fever, dropsy, neuralgia, goitre or
thick neck, and all diseases of the blood,
are cured by this world-renowned medicine.
Its properties are wonderful, its action
magical. By druggists.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
The Smith Court-Martial.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 6.-The
court-martial of Paymaster-Genera
Smith opens at the Navy Department
next Wednesday. Mr.. Smith has EN-.
ployed ex-senator Boutwell, and Mr.. JEFF.
Chandler to defend him, and it is ex-
pected that he will make a lively and Wig
Orous defense. Mr.. Boutwell, is the reg
uiarly employed attorney for staff officers
of the navy, and is very familiar with
naval matters. Mr.. Chandler's ex.
perience In the Swain trial will make
him very efficient counsel for the &C.
eased-
The Iola register., 1885-07-17

"A stroll through an emigrant train
at Pittsburgh revealed Russiaes eating
blackbread sandwiches, evidently
brought from the other side of the
Atlantic; Germans regaling themselves
with wheaton bread, rancid butter and
smoked sausage, and Hungarians,
summed by their fellow travellers. de-
vouring musty bread and limburger
cheese of great age and proportionate
strength. Pitts6urqh Post.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
Overloaded the Old Thing.

CHICAGO, July 9.-One of the wretched
wagons which have had a monopoly of the
business of hauling travel to and from the
west side during the strike, broke down in
Madison street last evening. There were
twenty-eight men on board, and several were
seriously injured. Francis Provancher, the
driver, had three ribs broken and received
grave internal injuries. Leo Packham had
his left arm broken near the wrist. W. j.
Coforans had his right shoulder dislocated.
and John Morrison his left wrist sprained.
NJ. Haggerty suffered injuries Of the left
side. Others were bruised.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17

1t is no use attempting to keep
fowls unless they are well attended to.
Many farmers who complain that their
poultry is not paying them should con-
slider whether they have given their
fowls the same attention so generally
bestowed upon horses and cattle OF
swine. .-RGTA NeU Yorker.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
" Say. why is everything
Either at SiXeC or at seyens?"

Probably, my dear nervous sister, be-
cause you are suffering from some OF the
diseases peculiar to your sex. You have a
dragging down" feeling, the baek-ache,
you are debilitated, you havepains OF vari-
Gus kinds. Take DR.. r. V. Pierce's Favor
ite Prescription" and be cured. Price re-
duced to one dollar. By druggists.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17

A ROSE bush is thought to be exceeding
ly modest, but yet it wants the earth
Boston Transcript.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
m. w.r,t Ur,enr.1 str,et.re.

the Werst Ursthral Structures
peedily cured by our new radical methods-
Pamphlet, references and terms, two letter
stamps. Worlds Dispensary Medical As
sociation, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y.
CRANBHRRIEs win cure dyspepsia.
That's sour opinion.-St. Paul Herald.
PIkK'sToorHAcHED DROPS cure In minute,25c.
Glenn's Sulphur Soop heals and beauties. sc.
GERMAN CORN RECOVER kills Corns Burions.
A FLoURIsHNa business-that Of the
writing master.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17

MOSQUITOES are free from one vice at
least. They can't stand smOking.-Detr0it
Free Press.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
CREAM BALM

has esined an enyfable rep
utatfon wherever known,
displacinG al other prepar
rArions. A particle fe ap-
Piled into each nostrfl; n
Price soc. by mail or at dru
ELY BROTHERS.
The Iola register., 1885-07-17
HAY.FEVER.

A FLoURIsHINa
writing master.
The National tribune., 1885-05-21
How Gen. Mcpherson Fell.

To THE EDITOR There has been more 6c-
ton than truth in the heretofore published
accounts of the manner of the death OF Gen.
Mcpherson before Atlanta Ga, July p. 1864.
At that time / was a member of Co. +. 30th
ILL.,, Third Division, Seventeenth Corps, Army
of the Tennessee and was acting Orderly for
the Surgeon of My regiment-Dr. VIM. A. Cor
don, of chester, Ill. l will not attempt to give
a full account of the action OF that eventful
day, except that which bears reference directly
to the subject in hand. The primary depot of
the Third Division was down on the small
ravine, on the west of the long field SO often
alluded TO in previous articles on this subject,
and in rear and in full view of the Third D-
vision during the engagement. Near this
point Surg. Gordon, Capt Patrick 81. Ayres, of
Co. F, 31st Ill. Richard Parker, of Go. +, goth
Ill. and myself witnessed and watched the pro-
gress of the battle until we saw that we were
about TO be surrounded. / remarked to Surg.
Gordon that, unless he wished to be taken pris-
oner again Che having been captured at Belle
mont. Mo-, Nov. z, 81, and kept nearly year
in rebel PRISON., we had better try and find
more healthy position, as the musket balls from
the enemy's guns were cutting OH small pine
brush around us quite lively. The Surgeon
mounted his horse, which had been holding,
and we started for the Decatur road in COM
pany with Capt. Patrick Ayres, who was on
foot We had not gone 20 yards before we met
Gen. Mcpherson and an Orderly riding towards
the Third Division and in the rear of the Sew
enteenth Corps, and at that time was much
nearer the ravine spoken Of than the heavy
timber on the west, and in less than five min
utes, from the time we met the General and his
Orderly his horse came back to us riderless and
wounded. The Surgeon ordered me to get down
and assist Capt. Ayres on the horse, which |
did We then rode out to the Decatur road,
where we found Gen. Logan reforming the
troops, and it was, most emphatically, then and
there that some member of Gen. McPherson's
staff. or escort. came up to us and took the
horse, and asked me if thought the General
was killed. Ireplied that l thought he was. Now,
for the sake of the truth, if the gentleman who
took the horse from me- and the Orderly who
was with him. are living, hope they will let
the facts be knOwn.-NARTIN STEELE Pri-
vate, Co. E, 30th H., Steeleville, Ill.
The National tribune., 1885-05-21

seen Richmond, took the 500 a. m. train on
Monday for that place, while we were out in
the Wilderness. On their arrival at the Murphy
House they found Capt. John Murphy, its pro-
prietor, an old CoDfed, who served in the artil-
lery. He proved to be a jolly and generous
fellow and insisted on them being his guests,
serving them with the good things of the land
in dinner served in courses. They then took
Fair Oaks, doing the battlefield, plueking wild
flowers on the spot where Johnnie Reb caused
Joe Atkinsons head to be trepanned p years
before. On returning to the city, Capt. Epps
OF the City Police and Chief Clerk Talman, of
the City Controllers office, old Confeds, called
upon them to have q shake hands. After visit
ing Libby Prison. Belle Island, Castle Thunder,
George Washington House and the residence of
Gen. Robert e. Lee. they continued the drive
through the principal streets of the city, stop
ping off occasionally; finally taking the $50
p. H. train and rejoining the party at Freder-
icksburg all hands returning on the $50 p. m
train for home, reaching Philadelphia at 5 a. IN.
Tuesday morning. after one of the best trips
out of town.
The weather was most delightful for out
door exercise. The town of Fredericksburg
we found, contained 5000 inhabitants, and is
somewhat prosperous business place, having
a large number of retail stores well stocked,
besides numerous large commercial business
places and factories. The newspapers, the Free
Lance Fredericksburg Star and The News. all
spoke kind words for US visitors, while the peo-
pie we found generous, social and agreeable.
TO sum it all up, we were CAD to have been
along. SIXTH CORPS.
The National tribune., 1885-05-21
The National Tribune.

To THE EDITOR: F. T. Calkins in TRIBUNE
of May Z speaks to the point We think
through The NATIONAL TRIBUNE is just the
place to fight them over. Of truth the COM
mon soldier sees but little of battle while
engaged, and can know but little of the plans
of the battle or the moves of the different parts
of the army. THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE has
brought me word from many of the boys in
blue whom / had not heard from for many
years-boys who remember the bloody field
of Shiloh. the march to COrinth, and many
other engagements. including the Atlanta cam
paign of '6i and the grand excursion to Texas
after the war was over-J. r. RATHBURN, Co.
G, SD Ohio, and Co. X, 125th Ohio, Big Run,
Athens Co., o.
P.S.-Would like to hear through THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE or by letter from couple of
the 51st Ohio boys who saw cow boy at his
camp near Victoria, Texas. in the Fall of 1865,
as 1 am personally acquainted with that boy.
That boy would like to know if they sold their
rubber blanket for Mexican money, and which
did they come home with, cattle or horses and
how much more were greenbacks worth in
Ohio than Mexican silver Long live THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE, the soldiers friend.-J.
r. r
The National tribune., 1885-05-21

47th Va. from the beginning to the surrender
at AppomattoX and was wounded at Gettys-
burg, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. in telling
some of his recollections. mentioned that when
he came home he was dead broke, and our army
passing homeward he fell in with Capt
Meade who took him to camp and sent him
home with enough rations to keep family two
weeks, besides presenting him with four mules.
They were mighty poor, to be sure" he said,
but they were the abutments that held the
bridge that carried me over until the next
Summer" 1t was found that his friend was
Jim Meade, of Post 2, Philadelphia, III business
on Chestnut street So the stories went along
until long after "a o'clock-midnight.
Monday morning at o'clock carriages were
taken. &. T. Cotton, of Maine, now in bust
ness at Fredericksburg; w. J. and w. o. Selby,
of Wilton, Va, brothers in-law of Capt. Vint
Donnelly, came up from Bowling Green, crazy
to go along, our friend Coleman being of
our party, and, after pleasant drive through
The National tribune., 1885-05-21

1862 were the same troops that took the racket
in 1863, among which were Barksdale's Brigade
of Mississippans, IL pieces of the Washington
Artillery of New Orleans, and pieces Of Par
ker's artillery.
After dinner a carriage drive was taken over
the river in
THE STATE OF STAFFORD,
as it was won't to be called in the old colonial
days visiting White Oak Church, Belle Plains,
Stafford Courthouse and Falmouth Nights,
where the Army of the Potomac, during the
engagements of go and '63, had an artillery
duel with that Of Lees army on the opposite
hills Here we had q fine view of the towns of
Falmouth and Fredericksburg and for miles of
the surrounding country. We marked, while
over her, that places which had once been gar
den spots were now going into decay, vast es-
tates being neglected. Upon inquiry learned
that the people have not the means or energy
to cultivate their vast lands. The old man.
sions are still standing, and as we drove past
them ones thoughts went back to the elegance
of those places prior to the war; We had quite
a friendly, interesting and historical interview
with the Virginia ladies' who by tho fortunes
of war, are left with large estates. now desolate.
They exhibited considerable spirit in a pleas
ant way. which is quite typical of Virginia.
They were present and witnessed from their
windows the actions OF the first and second
Fredericksburg fights.
G. W. FOlkes, esq, one Of the editors of the
Free Lance, who served in Parker's Confederate
battery, was one of our number, and we found
him quite a pleasant and entertaining gentleman
in talking over old times and giving the his
tory of the localities as we passed along. We
drove through the once prosperous
VILLAGE OF FALMOUTH,
which, before the railroads began their inrOads
on their commercial industry, was the market
for the surrounding Counties, traders from
foreign shores passing up the Rappahannock to
its wharves. Many of the old warehouses yet
remain. We then crossed Ficklin's Brigde-
one of the toll-bridges that walls in the bust
ness interests of fredericksburg. as teams are
charged 90 cents in passing each way. The
people of Stafford County are waiting to have
free bridges built, while those Of Spottsylvania
County, whom we talked with, want the pres
ent bridges bought from the private parties who
erected them. However, it looks as though a
free bridge will soon be the gift of the people,
whether they buy or build.
Supper over the boys gathered together, seat
ed in the open air. and in their own way, old
Confeds and Yanks exchanged "reminiscences OF
the war. The Postmaster of fredericksburg,
Lawrence Talieferro, a descendant of one of
Virginia's oldest families, who served in the
The National tribune., 1885-05-21
Who Carried Off That Stone.

To THE EDITOR: There has been a good deal
Of talk about the apple and locust tree where
Lee surrendered to Grant. But how about that
stone that marked the spot where Cornwallis's
sword was surrendered to Washington in York
town? The writer of this, while passing the
place one day in the Fall of 1862, saw the stone
what was left of it-surrounded by about a
dozen old broken pick axes which had been
used to get relics. 1t weighed at that time
about % pounds. ] thought it was about the
sized relic wanted, SO l appropriated it and
CARRIED it into camp. i was a member Of Bat
terry f, LIST n. Y. L. An. ID. HINCHELL,
Charlotte, Mich.
The National tribune., 1885-05-21
What is Home without The National Tribune,

To THE EDITOR: We often hear the express
sion, What is Home Without Mother"
would like to find out what home would be
without The NATIONAL TRIBUNE. IS. b.
FEAsEL, son of 41st Ohio veteran, Dalton, o.
David Il. Butterfeld. Reno, New, says he
cannot do without THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
Carlos Sherman, South Bend, Ind, says he
would not do without THE NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE for five times its cost.
James b. Elliott. Howard, Neb says THE
NATIONAL TRIBUNE is o. K, silver warp, gold
filling, and studded with diamonds.
A. Wakeman, Vista, N. Y, says THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE is the best paper printed, and
he does not intend to be without it as long as
he can raise dollar
The National tribune., 1885-05-21
The 45th iii. at Yicksburg.

wig, Captain of the Goth H., would say that
he is little mistaken concerning the charge
made on Fort Hill, May % at Vicksburg. The
18th H. did reach the fort Immediately after
the charge was made, which was about i or 2
o'clock in the afternoon. and held the position
OF, as the Captain says the position held us-un-
til about o'clock in the morning. In the
meantime the rebels amused themselves, or
rather amused US, by throwing long neck black
bottles, hand grenades, and by an occasional
shell, which they rolled over to us by hand.
do not think the 45th ILL., claims to have
planted its flag on the rebel works that day;
If they did, did not see ito. II. PoMRoY,
Co. l. 45th H.. Cherokee, Iowa.