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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-31
John B. Smith. of New Britain

John B. Smith, of New Britain,
Conn, had more apples than he knew
what to do with last fall, so he stored
away four hundred barrels in neigh
boris large ice house, In the winter
the house was filled with ice, all around
the apples, which were solidly frozen.
To Mr.. Smiths great surprise the fruit,
few days ago, was found to be in per-
feet condition. He shipped twenty-five
barrels to this city and they sold read.
lily at three dollars barrel More was
called for, and now the whole four
hundred barrels of hard, fresh, sound
Baldwins have been sold at that price
Hartford CoUrGnL
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-11
ORIGIN OF THUGGEE.
Fanatics Who Make Murder Their Principal
OecunatiOn.

Fanatics Who Make Murder Their Principal
Occupation.
The origin of Thuggee is lost in
fable and obscurity. The Thugs them
selves refer it to the remotest antiquity,
and, whether Hindu or Mohammedan,
claim to descend from seven Moham-
dan clans, which are admitted to be the
most ancient and original stock on
which all the others have been en-
grated, and the principal of which has
given its own name as the generic des-
ignation at once Of the system and the
persons who followed it. Colonel
Sleeman conjectures that Thuggee
owed its existence to the vagrant tribes
of Mohammedans who continued to
plunder the country long after the in
vasion of India by the Moghuls anu
Tartars, and probability thus attaches
to the suspicion that the Mohammedans
were indeed the first to give sort Of
political system to the Thugs, and the
seven clans of Ismailis, whose occupa-
ton was murder as dreadful as that Of
the Thugs, nay, when prosecuted in the
last days of their political existence.
have Joined themselves to the Hindu
Phansigars, and adopting their ritual.
have given rise to what it is comfort
| to regard as a system as obsolete at the
present day as it always was accursed.
The Hindus claim for Thuggee divine
origin in their goddess Bhawani, who.
under her name and character Of Kali,
was the deity worshipped by the Thugs
in their professional capacity, whatever
might be otherwise the race, caste, sect
or religion. Kali is the consort of silva
in his destroying character of Time.
and as such she is painted Of black or
dark blue complexion.-Lontlon Society.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-11

Johnny, who had been sitting in the
room while his father had been reading
Bacon aloud to his wife, put his own
construction upon several of the pas
sages. He dwelt particularly upon the
phrase: Reading maketh a full man,
and pondered over it the balance Of the
day.
During the ensuing evening one Of
the prominent men OF the place dropped
In to make short visit. During the
conversation which followed Johnny
asked him:
"You must do a great deal OF read
ing, don't youP"
"Well, yes, my little man, consider
able. WhyP"
"Why, ma said you were full abou
all the time"
The gentleman did not wait to hav'
Johnny explain the allusion, and thu
young man was compelled to have hi
Bacon annotated by his fathers slipper
~-Pitts6aroh Commercial Gasetta
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-11
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A cigarette-smoking dude is as
much like man as an opera bouffe is
like an opera. He is merely thin and
amusing burlesque. Riuer Ad-
vance.
In order to distinguish one from
the other, the dinner-plate must be
made smaller or the fashionable button
affected by the ladies must be slightly
enlarged. - Chicago Tribune.
-Patient-"Well, doctor, what do
you find ails mep" Doctor-.I can't
tell Just yet, Mr.. Peters. am afraid I
shall have to diagnose your case more
thoroughly before can tell you" Pa
tient-"Say, doctor, will it hurtp"-
Tid-BitS.
1t will be remembered that "Old
Uncle Ned" laid down the shovel and
the hoe, and hung up the fiddle and
the bow. Probably if Ned had stuck
to the shovel and the hoe he would not
have been compelled to chang up" his
fiddle and bow. There is moral here.
Puck.
"A man who was not of much ac-
count himself was forever boasting of
his ancestry. A plain farmer, tired Of
this nonsense, asked him why his family
were like hill of potatoes. He gave
it up, why" said the farmer, "the
best part of them are under ground. !"
Western Rural.
Miss DO, / assure you that the
doctors wife is very untidy. Why,
she can not cook or govern her servants
and her children are badly brought
up. All! she deceives her excellent
husband" Mr.. C.-"How do you know
this so wellp" Miss D.-HowP Don't
you know I'm her best friendp"-RttS-
burgh Chronicle.
First Dealer--"So they are going
to pass law forbidding the sale OF
tobacco to miners" Second Ditto
Eyes, but don't see how that is going
to interfere with our business SO long as
we stick to the favorite brands-cab-
bage leaves and old shoe leather, you
know. ."---Boston Transcript.
Rev. Mr.. Styles, of Bungton, Ito
usher in uptown church) you
show me pew, please Usher-You
can take any one of the back pews, sir.
Rev. Mr.. Slytes-But 1 am the Rev.
Mr.. Styles, of Bungton. Usher-That
don't make any difference, sir The
back pews can be occupied by any one
who behaves himself. N Y. Times.
Young Wife-I am going to be
very economical. Do you know
bought liver to-day for dinnerP Young
Husband-I suppose YOU Lought some
bacon to go with it. Young Wife-O,
no! Couldn't afford it, but bought
you necktie and myself love Of q
bonnet for only twenty-eight dollars
Now, wasn't l good? Young Husband
(groaning inwardly)-Yes, very.-Bos
ton Globe.
mo-" said Fogg, "I'm tired Of 60
lag out visiting. II 1 call on Brown
he's sure to bore me to death with his
everlasting brag about his dog; IL &c
to Blacks, he'll talk Of nothing bu
that confounded horse of his; and al
Whites shall hear Of nothing but hi:
hens. Therefore l prefer to stay a
home and enjoy myself. "But, my
DEAR" interposed Mrs. f., "the con
versation win hardly be more improv
ing If, as usual, you dilate on pipes ant
tobacco" "Yes, my love-" repliet
Fogg, "but YOU should remember tn
difference. l do the talking. "--Boste'
1rdsscript.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-11
AN advertisement in a New York

AN advertisement in a New York
paper read; Wanted, an accordion
player; apply at the shooting gallery
at No. Third avenue" The accor-
dion players saw through the scheme
right away, and not one answered tho
advertisement. The object was to get
all the accordion players in the city to
apply to the shooting gallery, and
utilize them as targets as fast as they
entered the room. 1t is greatly to be
regretted that the ruse miscarried.-
N0rrtStoaDn Herald.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-06-11

"A new theory, propounded by M.
Ludovic Breton, as to the formation of
coal is that it is produced by the sink
ing Of floating islands like those which
now occur on many lakes and rivers.
These islands are composed chiefly of
turf, which, being swallowed up by the
water. becomes fosSilized at the bot
tom.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
Farm Notes.

A Dakota farmer has hit upon o novel;
way to shell corn. 1t is no more than run
ming the stocks, husk and cob through an
ordinary threshing machine, from which
the shelled corn is delivered in fine coudi-
ton at a rapid rate, the first trial giving
eight bushels of shelled corn in eleven
minutes. This saves the labor Of husking,
and does the whole work in a few minutes
A certain rich. philanthropic gentleman,
living in Ohio, has been talking of holding
a fsrners's institute in every township in
s;s county for two days. to try to get out
aud influence for good the class that most
need it.
Every day makes more plain the thor
oughly destructive effects of the late cold
weather upon Che growing wheat. The en-
tire crop upon the College farm, except the
narrow belt protected by fences, seems to
be dead beyond all hope of resuscitation.
The field is as scar and yellow in appear
ance as it would have been had it been
suwed to spring oats instead Of winter
" neat.-Manaattaa (Kaa.) Iadustriaiist
II any one had sowed wheat last fall he
could hardly have failed to secure q good
crop, because there was an abundant sup
ply of moisture to have sprouted the grain
md kept it growing, and the winter has
Just been right to prevent killing by freez.
ing out.-Stoekvils -fs3.) Faber.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
THE EAST.

SIX hundred men were discharged from
the Brooklyn navy yard on the 2lth, for
lack of funds to pay them.
The presidents of tbs anthracite coal
companies met in New York recently and
unanimously agreed that the total output
of coal this year should not exceed 50, 600, :
600 bushels and that prices should be ad-
vanced 25 cents.
A DIVER recently went down to the
wreck of the steamer Oregon, wrecked Off
Fire Island, n. Y, and brought to the sur
face Mrs. Morgan's handbag, containing
5000 worth of diamonds.
The great strike of 4,SOO workmen o. The
National tube verbs, S:cKeospozt, Pa, has
ended satisfactorily. General Manager
Flagler restored the wages ruling in 1884
and advanced the wages of laborers to
SIPS per day.
DANIEL CoYLE, a lineman of the North
ern Electric Light Company at Philadel
phia, was killed recently by an electric
shock while fixing light.
A PRIVATE telegram from New York, re-
ceived at Kansas City on the 9th, an
nounced the death of A. n. Kellogg, the
founder and president of the A. n. Kellogg
Newspaper Company. Mr.. Kellogg had
been an invalid for several years, and in
consequence had practically retired from
all active management of the business
bearing his name. He was not quite fifty
years of age, and resided in New York City.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
A. N. KELLOGG.
Death OF the Originator of the Auxiliary
Publishing business in the United State

Death Of the Originator of the Auxiliary
Publishing business in the United State.
CHICAGO, March 27.-News has been re-
ceived Of the death. at ThOmasvilIe, Ga.
of Mr.. A. n. Kellogg, president Of the a..
n. kellogg Newspaper Company. The de
ceased had been an invalid for many years,
and OF late was unable to devote his
personal attention to the large buSi-
ness enterprise which is mainly the out
growth of his foresight. energy and excel
lent business talent He was the pioneer
in the auxiliary publishing business, which
has grown into such magnitude and i'm
pOrtance within little over twenty years
time He was pnbiic-spirited man, a man
Of sterling integrity and uprightness
of character, and was greatly endeared to
all in any way associated with him because,
of his kind and sympathetic nature and TN
OsientatiOuS generosity. He was fifty-iOur
years of age. He leaves a widow and two
daughters, who have their home in New
York, 10 which city the remains will be
taken for burial.
Mr.. Kellogg was born at Rea,iing, Pa,
Marc. 20, 1882, and graduated with distinc-
ton at Columbia College, New York, in
1852 lie WIS son of Frederick kellogg
and the youngest OF six children. He maj
red Annie +. Barnes at BarabOO, Wis,
August 81. 1859. In 1861, while publishing
the BaraJOO (Wis.) Republic, weekly
newspaper, he became short of help
and conceived the idea of the patent
inside, and had copies printed by the
Madison (Wis.) Duly J0urnnt Company.
He continued to print patent inside"
paper until 1866. when he came TO Chicago
and began printing patent ins;des" Tor
country papers. He built up tie kellogg
News aper Company. which, EOw has Offices
in Chicago, ST. Louis, Cleveland. Kansas
City, Memphis, New York and Cincinnati.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
STOCK ITEMS.

Miller & Guitar bought last week a mule.
eighteen hands and one inch high, and
weighing LOO pounds [ho.b
Herald.
Within the past week the sale of about
900, 900 worth of blooded bulls has been ne
gotiatated in Ell Paso. About half the
bulls sold as stated above go to Old Mexico.
Te1as Lice-iStock Journal.
The general rules and premium list Of
the fourth annual fat stock show, at kan.-
sas City, has been issued. The exhibition
will open Saturday, October %, at River
view Park, and continue to October 80, in
elusive.
1t is said that the tendency of sows to eat
their pigs is caused by constipation. This
may be prevented by feeding brood sows-
bran mashes and other liquid food awhile
before the litters, and cease feeding dry
corn, except in very limited quantities.
The wool does not give taste to the flesh
either by its growth before butchering or
by its touch in the butchering or after, and
the flesh of the sheep partakes OF the favor
of its food more than does that of the steer
or hog, and the milk still more SO, perhaps.
The disagreeable sleepy flavor is impaired
to meat by ago, by bad feeding and by the
delay in the removal of the viscera.-Cor.-
Country Gentleman.
The dairyman that sells milk only is the
one most interested in the COW that gives o;
large flow Of milk; but to the buttermaker-
the quality is of the greatest importance;
he wants the COW that will produce the
most pounds Of butter on a given ration
and for the least expenditure of labor. He
can not afford to waste food in supporting
the carcass of an overgrown animal in the
hope of prospective beef; nor can he waste.
the time and labor in rawing twentyfour'
pounds of milk from COW to make one
pound Of butter, when twelve to fourteen
pounds will not only do il, but do it better
-E1change.
Cattle should be fed in yards and sheds.
instead of letting them roam over large
pastures, which must be fenced ut great
expense. 1t is SO much cheaper for a FARM
er to fence in his own stock than to fence
out all the stock Of his neighbors; and
then an acre will yield three or four times.
as much cattle food if it is cultivated and
the crops cut instead OF being gnawed of
by tramping animals. The cost of fence Is.
usually more than the value of the AMI
mails pastured, and sometimes more than
the land enclosed. Cattle that are kept
rather close, and are handled often, are
also tanner and less breachy than those.
which run at large, and are often COM
PEELED to shirk for their supply of food
IWaryidnd Former.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
Petroleum in Upper Egypt.

LONDON, March 23.-The discovery in
Upper Egypt of petroleum in paying guam
tiles has developed an oil fever in Lon
don, and renewed attention in favor Of the
reoccupation of the Soutlan by British
troops and traders. The SueZ correspond
ent of the London Times telcgraphs that
the discovery is one of the results
of the explorations of Nubar Pasha's ex-
petition to the SOudan. Subsequent to
The finding of oil near Suakim, other pOr-
lions of the Red Sea coast were pros.
pected, and examination disclosed I'M
mistakable signs of petroleum at very
slight depth. The geological formation
of the country is favorable to the
existence of larger quantities at lower
depths. Even under the existing unfavOr.
able conditi"ns-inadeq1a machinery,
etc.-attending the development of the
single well near Suakin, the yield is about
two tons per day.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
WHAT GOULD SAYS.

He Has Sought the Advice Of Judge Dillon.
and Declares He will sue tho knights Of
Labor for Pecuniary Damages.
NEW YORK. March 25.-The Tribune
publishes q long interview with Mr.. Jay
Gould in regard to the strike on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. the essential features
Of which are herewith given:
Mr.. Gould said: There can be no COM
promise in this case and 50 far as know
there has been NO attempt toward one by
either side. There is no room for . com.
promise, for the strikers have confessed in
effect that they have no grievance against
our company. I am bound to fight this
question to the bitter end for this very
reason. The proposition b simple one;
IL we had once interfered with the manager
ment of the Texas Pacific We should have
been In contempt Of the United States
Court which has charge Of that road. The
men on our own lines have male o
complaint against us, but are striking to Ell
fOrca the demands of workman
on another road not under our con-
troll. There can be no compromise Of
such a strike and / have asked the
opinion of Judge Dillon a. to our legal
rights under such circumstances, and his
decision is that 1t IL our duty. not alone our
right, to prevent the interruption of tho
business of the road by all legal means
He says the company has clear legal REM
edy against the members of the Knights Of
Labor organizations in suits for damages
and we purpose to test this action In the
courts. We shall sue members Of the Or
ganizatiOn and the papers in the case now
are being prepared in accordance with
Judge Dillon's opinion. We propose to
recover damages frOm every member of the
association who has any property. A great
many employees Of the Missouri Pacific. es-
pecially nachinists and engineers, have
homes which they have bought out OF their
savings. Some of the men are worth Sl5,-
600 or $40, 900 apiece. They are RESPONSE.
BILE to us for the losses we have suffered IL
they belong to the knights Of Labor. We
will show them that We intend to enfOrce
all our legal rights and We shall
bring suits against members OF the
order who have property on other lines OF
railroads and in other States. We shall at
tempt to recover damages from every
member who las property that we can at.
tach. 1t is time that these things should he
Settieu anu tnss Is iuSOau'c OPPOiuuC
propose 10 fight 1t out on this line. There
is another feature Of the case, and that is
that every shipper and manufacturer and in
fact every person who has suffered loss by
this strike las the same legal redress as the
railroad company has" Mr.. Gould said
that tho position taken by Vice President
hoxie in his card to the strikers had been
fully approved by the board OF directors.
The effects of this strike, he said, would
unsettle confidence throughout the world,
and these wOrkmen would be the first to
feel its disastrous consequences. He had
no news which would lead him TO suppose
that the strike would extend to the East
and intimated that he might ask for an in
junction restraining working Knights OF
Labor from contributing to the support Of
those OH strike.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
Hog Cholera In Kansas.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-The report OF
the Statistical Agent of the Agricultural
Department for Kansas relating to live
stock in that State. published to-day. is as
follows: Cattle and sheep are unusually
free from epidemic diseases. A few is,,-
lated instances of black leg are reported,
but no serious losses have occurred.
''Scab" has about disappeared from
among sneep and "fOor rOt' is al
most unknown in the State. Gland.
ers among horses has appeared IN
many counties, and much apprehension is
felt at its progress. The State Veterinary
Surgeon. together with the State Live
Stock Sanitary Commission, are working
faithfully under an insufficient law to sup
press it, and have accomplished much, but
the disease is more prominent in the State
now than ever before. Cholera among
hogs is noted in nearly every county IN
the eastern twO-thirds of the State and
is causing serious loss. In some of the
more eastern counties a loss of from
20 to 80 per cent. is reported, and the cpl
demic is growing rapidly. The disease has
spread from infected cOrrals by the and Of
rivers and creeks, and the loss is SO serious
that some sanitary measures will have to
be taken.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
Tho Perils Of TunUei-

PoTrsvILLE, Pa. March ga terrible
accident occurred yesterday in the tunnel
Of the Pottsville & Mahanoy railroad just
outside of this city. Shortly after the
day shift: went on, a tremendous fall Of.
top rocks took place, burying scnse tweo-
V workmen, mostly Italians. San
Wright and "NO. 81 were killed, SaE.
Backus and Lew Rubber were badly hurt
internally aud John Collier, of Sc. Clair,
an American, and steam-driller. besides
terrible bruises, was seriously injured in
,ernally. Besides the three last named,
who are probably fatally hurt, dozen
others sustained painful scalp and nesh
wounds.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
DEMAND FOR ARBITRATION.

Congressman Anderson, of Kansas, Makes
Flank Movement in the House.
WASHINGTON, March 25.-COngressman
Anderson, of Kansas. achieved a success
yesterday without parallel in the history Of
the House, by which he obtained unani-
nous consent that the Committee OH Labor
should have leave at any time to report and
consider legislation proposed by them pro-
viding for arbitration between railway COM
panies and their employees, the same not
to interfere with the consideration of
revenue and appropriation bills. At
least One-half of the members were
disposed to object and many gentlemen
were on their feet ready to call for the
regular order. but when Mr.. Anderson
directed attention to the fact that no rail
road wheel was now turning west of St.
Louis and Kansas City in the transpOrta-
ton of freight, and that therefore iHIme-
date action had become necessary to avert
an impending calamity, the directors were
compelled to desist lest they might be held
hereafter to responsibility they could not
afford 10 meet Even the railroad repre-
sentatvcs on the floor, who are always
alert on such occasions dared not
lift their voices to object. This
order of the House makes it al
most certain that speedy action will be
taken in some way to meet the present
emergency by legislation providing for arbi-
tratiOn, cOnsummatiOn which under the
rules of the House could not have been &c.
cOmplshed. This matter is theme for
general conversation in political circles, aud
It is evident from opinions freely expressed
by members that tile labor question is now
Overshadowing In importance the tariff,
silver coinage and all other National issues.
So great has been the demand for the Arbi-
tratOn bill introduced by Congressman An
:1ersOn on Monday afternoon and printed
yesterday that not single copy can be Oh.
tanned until another edition shall DO
nrinsod
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02
IVES. VIRGINIA Lawlessness.

PARkEgsDUEG, w. Va, March 24--The
fred men, are again plying their dev:ish
business in the interior. ami unless some.
thing is sooE done 20 check their law!ess-
ness the reign of terror of two Years ago
bids fair to be repeated. Only three weeks
ago m.n was taken froln his home and
whipped till almost dead, and now we have
news from .iitchie County that dwelling
has been surrounded bv HOB Uf !iendS,
the building fired over the heads sf the
family ard the husband driven, wounded,
to the woods with his wife and children. TIE
victim OF this latest outrage il Robert
Glover, who resides near the village OF
SmitlYil!e
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-02

LONDON, March 23.-The Daily Ne,c.
Uiherai) says that all efforts to effect a
compromise in the Cabinet have failed
and crisis on the land question is i'm.
pending, that being the first proposal
presented to the Cabinet, and adds that
Messrs. Chamberlain and Trevelyan
would have strenusas!y opposed home
rule as they have antasonized the land.
purchase scheme had that question beer
the first to be submitted. Mr.. Gladstone
Is very much annoyed at the erroneous
reports of his Irish schemes which la VI
Of late been published.