Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-03-11
Editorial Notes.


The costs involved I'm law suit about
calf valued at $40, which has Just
been decided at Leavenworth, Kan,
amounted to $500.
The distress in Ireland Is stated ON
good authority to be increasing, and It
Is believed that the worst of the trouble
will occur in June and July.
Hartman, the Nihilist recently ar
rested in Paris, will probably be secretly
shipped to England or the United
States by the French authorities.
A st. Petersburg newspaper combats
the impression that regicides are politi-
cal offenders, and urges an agreement
among the powers for their extradition.
When Washington's statue is set up
in front of the sub-treasury In Wall
Street, a symbolic little hatchet should
be nailed &er the door of the Stock Ex-
change.
It is noticed In Washington that Sec
retary Evarts Is not enthusiastic over
the Monroe doctrine. and does not grow
excited when the Panama canal project
is spoken of.
Benefits liberality appears to have
borne some fruit i'm Paris, the proprie-
of the UniUers having remitted $4,000
francs to the Irish Catholic Bishops for
relief purposes.
Dakota is clamorous to become o
State. The newspapers Of the Terrific
ry claim that it has larger population
now than either of the States Of Oregon,
Nevada or Florida.
w. H. Vanderbilt has purchased
S27, ,OOO, 900 worth of 4-per cent bonds.
per cent rise make nice little sum,
and yet he pays no personal tax be-
cause "his debts exceed his income"
Two hundred paid steerage tickets
have been sent to the head committee
in Enniskillen, Ireland, to be distribu-
ted, regardless of creed, in the counties
of Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan and
Antrim.
It Is believed that the New York
trades unions contemplate 3 strike this
spring. A large number OF meetings
have been held recently. at all Of which
resolutions acknowledgements wages
have been adopted.
An investigation Of the official rec
ords of Urbana, o., shows that the city
has a debt of over $50, 1000, whereas Its
liabilities should be only $4,000. A
clerk who stole for years, and then fed
the country, did the business.
Gortschakof has requested all the
European governments to cooperate
in the arrest of Nihilistic refugees, and
to charge their respective police forces
to lookout for the associates Of and the
sympathizers with these refugees.
A New York girl has undertaken to
increase the Irish relief fund by selling
kisses at fifty cents q kiss. This idea
ought to be spread, and II the right
girls undertake the task the New York
Herald fund will soon begin to look
pale. .....
Famine In the Caucasus and In the
interior of the empire will not tend to
weaken Nihilism at st. Petersburg.
AS paternal governments claim credit
FOR seasons of national prosperity, they
are held accountable for national dis
.ress.
As the three commissioners appoint
ID to wind up the Freedman's Bank do
nothing aud cost the creditors S25, 900 o
year, an effort Is being made to take
he bank from their possession and turn
{ over to the Controier of the Cur
.ency.
Cleveland has begun a war against
he young men who stand on street cor
hers and stare at women as they pass
llong. Thirty-flve Of the nuisances
we're arrested at one swoop on Thurs
lay, the Goth ult., and each was fined
i've dollars.
Leo XIII is reported to have learned
hat three-fourths of the Irish agitation
? socialistic in character, and to have
therefore, instructed the Irish bishops
o take care that In relieving distress
hey do not play into the hands Of po-
itical schemers.
The Maryland legislature is consider
ng bill to purify" primaries by law.
{ il said the whole business will be
anded over to the health officer, who
vill be required to keep fire-bucket
lied with chloride of lime or carbolic
cid at every primary.
Ireland is the nearest scene of suff.r-
,g to us, but II is by no means the on
= one. Lack Of food In Silesia and in
eme parts Of European and Asiatic
turkey has attracted some attention in
his country, and to these localities
here must be added the interior OF
lussia.