Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-18

grou County gegister
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRoNToN, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Summary Of Important Events.
THE official census of South Carolina
shows the total population to be $4,000, of
whom 391 OF are white and GOA ,235 colored.
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GEN. MALONE, Senator-elect from
Virginia, refuses to state what position he
will take as between the parties in the
Senate.
The vote in the Ninth Missouri Con-
gressional District is said to be tie be-
tween Craig, Democrat, and Ford, Green
hacker.
THE Chicago Times says that the
Armour Brothers, Of that city, who engi-
neered the recent corner in pork, came out
$1,000, 900 ahead.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
9th says the river volga is frozen over and
navigation stopped, many grain-laden yes
sells being caught in transitu.
The Chicago and Southwestern Rail-
way war has broken out afresh. On the sth
the price of tickets from Chicago to either
St. Louis or Kansas City was only one dollar.
PRESIDENT HAYES was serenaded by
the Republicans at Cleveland, on the night
of the 4th, and made speech congratulate
ing them upon the result of the late election.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
given official notice that U. S. 6-per-cent.
bonds issued in 1861 will be paid ON Dec. 81,
1880, and that interest on said bonds will
cease at that date.
PROTESTS have been made in several
counties Of New York State against the
counting of Republican ballots voted at the
are printed in such manner as to be illegal.
MEssRs. FRYE, of Maine, Morton, of
New York, and Robson, of New Jersey, all
three members-elect of the Forty Seventh
Congress, are said to be candidates for the
United States Senate from their respective
States.
The New York Evening Star says
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sonal friend in which he says emphatically
that he has no lot nor part in the agitation in
regard to throwing out the vote of New
York, nor will he have any. He is opposed
to the agitation, he says, and believes that
Gen. Garfield was elected and should be in
augurated without any fuss.
THE New York Democratic State
Committee have prepared and forwarded to
the various election officers throughout the
State protests against the counting of the
Electoral vote at the late election, to be
signed by the precinct officers, if in their
judgment the evidences of fraudulent voting
in such precinct are sufficient to warrant
them IN doing so.
BALLINRoBE is at present the CEN
trial point Of interest in Ireland in connec-
GIOH Will u9ac ltIlu UlStuT1OdHceS. nlTs bOys
colt, Lord Errus's agent, has been unable
to harvest his crops on account Of the local
peasantry refusing to work for him. The
Northern Orangemen thereupon determined
to send force of laborers to help him out,
and the prospects of a collision are so great
that the Government has dispatched some
400 troops to the scene to preserve the peace.
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"A CALL has been issued by the Cen
trail Executive Committee of Levees in Lou
isiana, for an Interstate Convention Of the
Mississippi Valley, to be held at New Or
leans, Nov. IS. The address says: ''The
object OF this Convention is
to unite, il possible, our efforts
with those of other States and
communities interested and doing bust
ness in the Valley of the Mississippi, in the
improvement of the commerce and naviga-
ton of the river, to develop the boundless
resources Of the great valley, and to open up
to the world commercial channels for our
largely increased productions"
Two of the witnesses for the defense
in the Morey Chinese letter case in New
York have been arrested for perjury and
lodged in the Tombs. One of them is Sam
uel L. Morey, who swore that he had an
uncle named II. L. Morey; the other,
James O'Brien, alias Robert Lindsey,
who swore that he knew Fl. L. Morey and
saw and read the alleged Garfield letter while
in his possession. It is said both subse-
quently confessed that they had been hired
to testify as they did, the former by John
Sanborn, lawyer. and al. Clark, apoo-sell-
er, of Lawrence, Mass; the latter by VIM.
NJ. Price, lawyer Of Cumberland, Md,
and Democratic candidate for Presidential
Elector. Both say they were instructed in
the roles they were to play and rehearsed
the testimony they were to give in court.
Morey received pay for his expenses from the
funds of the National Democratic Commit
tee. The proprietors of the Truth, the law
yers for the defense and the members of the |