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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
A Curious Legal Question.

Is murderer entitled to the property
of his victim, should that victim have
made will in his favor? This question,
according to Vice-Chancellor Mains, has
never been tested under English law.
The circumstances which have now
brought it to trial are remarkable enough.
In July, 1876, man named De Tour
vile murdered his wife in the Austrian
Tyrol, in such manner that he hoped
to divert suspicion from himself. He
was, however, tried and found guilty by
the Austrian court, and sentenced to
death, though eventually the sentence
was commuted, on appeal, to eighteen
years. imprisonment. The next Of kin
to Nine. de Tourville now contend that
her husband could derive no benefit from
a bequest which he himself had given
effect to, for that the man was guilty OF
killing his wife there is no doubt what
ever, and equally little that he murdered
her because he knew that her will, fail
ing children, had been made in his favor.
AT the expiration of eighteen years he
will, unless decision to the contrary
should be given, come into the enjoy
ment of the money for the sake of which
he hurled the unfortunate woman over
the precipice, according to the finding Of
two Austrian courts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

in conjunction with the state Board Of I'm:
MIGRATION and ali other agencies, the cause Of
immigration TO this state. -
R.sslrsd That immiEIasicn 20 , nssoIr can.
vass I'm the state, and that candidates 10,
state and legislative honors without regnru
requested to promote all such LEGISLATION as
viii be properly necessary 70 afuffiment Oh
her manifest destiny. ..-,..,-....
despair of achieving any bencnciai results.
therefore the Legislature NJ It's next session
be asked 70 s a sSs an ssa,s n"s Of
ton. adequate for the purpose ~ an nctve
and extended canvass I'm the cause Oh ifnini-
Resoire6, That the law heretofore authorfz-
ing counties tn appropriate sum not 20 ex-
coed i've hundred dollars IN AID OF orssn, IN,
lions for the promotion Of emigration, ana
declared by the Attorney. General 20 have
been repealed by the last Lesislnturc, shouuo
be re enacted by the next General Asscmp,y.
and that committee of i've be appointed Wy
the President of this Convention TO dtmt an
appropriate bill and urge its passage pcioN
Resoired That &c is the sense of this Con-
vention that in the state of missouri tncre
exist and are enforced ms erectivc IcxM nnu
constitutional projections to every religious,
civil and political right rs I'm any other state
Reso,red. That our Senators and Represent.
atives in Congress be requested TO urge upon
the general Government the speedy establish
ment Of n branch mint I'm the City oil ST.
Louis.
Resolred. That our Senators and Reprcscn.
tatives in Congress be requested TO work hnr-
moniously together and pcrsistenfly. Tor an
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, as n measure
of Justice to the whole State and n conltncr-
cial necessity to- the several stntes oil the
CHARLES p. JOHNSON, Chairman. of Sc. Louis.
SILAs wooDsoN, of Buchanan.
TJ 8 g. s Monm.os o. Of New Madrid.
w. I. FELLOWS, OF Greene.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

A bad daughter, says an exchange,
seldom makes a good wife. IL a girl Is
ill-tempered at home, snarls at her par
ents, snaps at brothers and sisters, and
"shirks /" her ordinary duties, the
chances are ten to one that when she
gets q home of her own she will make IL
wretched. There are girls who fancy
themselves so far superior to their par
ents that the mere privilege Of enjoying
their society in the house ought TO be all
the old people should have the assur-
ance to ask. While their mothers are
busy with domestic duties they sit in the
easiest chair or lie on the softest sofas,
feeding on cheap and trashy novels, and
cherish the notion that they are very
literary individuals. The household
drudgery Is too coarse for such ladies a.
they. Girls of this sort are generally
very anxious to be married that they
may escape the disagreeableness Of .
home where they are held more or less
under subsection. Acaller, who doesn't
have q cbance to see how they behave
as daugt ers, may be excused for fancy
ing the1 lovely and lovable things; but
one who does see IL is foolish II he COM
mits himself by offering marriage TO .
girl of this sort. II she will not assist
her mother in the domestic labors, Is
she not likely to be equally slothful and
ill-tempered when she marriesp II she
now thinks herself too fine to work, Is
it safe to expect that her views rs TO that
matter would radically change II she
became q wifeP
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
The Cars Household.

Governor Jewell states that when he
was United States Minister to Russia
there were not less than nineteen occu-
pants of the Cars Winter Palace, each
with retinue of attendants, servants,
ETC.. upon whom it was his official duty
to make social calls. At the time of the
recent terrible explosion the building
contained variety of regular inmates:
the Gar and his family, with those liv-
ing on an intimate footing with them;
the high household functionaries, with
the ministers and state dignitaries, hay
ing access to the Emperor at any hour;
the chamberlains. secretaries, gentlemen
and ladies in waiting; the officers and
soldiers on duty rs military Wallets; the
ushers, buffers. Wallets; the footmen, mes
sengers, aud others in the personal
service of the Gar and his family; lastly,
the domestics. These last, with the
hostlers, scavengers, undergraduates,
wood-cutters, lamp cleaners, etc, are of
course very many; and as it would be
impossible to lodge them and their FAM
lilies in the palace. they are divided into
two relays, each passing fortnight at
the palace and fortnight at home with
their families. When off duty they live
in the outskirts of the city amid the low
est class of the population, exposed to
contact with the populace and the con-
spirators among them. 1t is in these
two relays that the Investigations are
most actively prosecuted, for it is sup
posed to be among them that the Mill
lists or assassins have been able to obtain
information and recruit dDcile tools.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

as the first set; how nicely and gradually
the dental sacs are formed; how the fully
formed teeth press upon the upper walls
of the sacs that inclose them. until there
is gradual absorption of the walls and
the tooth is cut. In healthy, rightly
fed, rightly ATTENDED, rightly exercised
child this process is so perfectly natural,
is SO intermittent, and is attended
with SO little local irritation that
it cannot at all rank as a crisis.
That, by artificial methods, it does some
times become a complication we must
admit; but physiology points us to no
such necessity. Doctors and parents
need to disabuse themselves of the idea
that this is a necessary crisis. The teeth
of the first year show that it is not, and
the second summer disasters, so often
attributed to teething, are generally con-
comitants, and not results. When this
process is in part casual, it is only SO be-
cause of bad inheritance or as a result of
bad management of the child. The COM
parsons Of diseases of children, as they
show themselves in towns, in the coun-
try, and in the most healthy districts,
point plainly to the fact that the death of
a child ought to be as rare as that of a
little lion. DR.. Farr points to a parish
in England in which the death of child
was rarer than that of an adult. The ex-
pectation of life for a child born in
Shrewsbury, England, is enc in $50; in
London, one in 60 In Norway out of
4 children live and are reared. In many
of our cities nearly half die before they
reach five years of age.
The expectation of life to many young
children is nowadays SO dubious that
many of them, could they forecast, would
not consent to the risk, and so decline
the undertaking. Yet this is so largely
artificial that that we accept it as a ne
cessity. Let mankind and womankind
know the human in it's creation is not a
failure. Children were made to live,
and the death of any human being be-
fore maturity is an accident, with the
very few exceptions of Freaks of Ma
ture," so-called. Indeed, we have great
need nowadays to do as Canon Kingsley
did, and accept this preservation of child
life as great moral question. There is
a good deal of bad management and
moralizing sentimentalism in the death
of small children. We are outraged at
the thing as at present conducted, and
call for stay Of proceedings.-N r.
Tn1pne1Clp7at
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
A Brace Of Adventures Who Travelled
on Alleged Expectations.

A singular story Of wholesale swim
ding and uncomfortable credulity comes
from Rome. About year ago, young
and beautiful woman, believed to be an
American, and credited with the posses
sion of an enormous fortune, arrived in
the Italian capital, accompanied by a
young man belonging to one of the old
est and most distinguished Roman fam
lilies, and by a monkey. She had no
other travelling companions. Shortly
after her arrival she was married to the
young aristocrat, whose name the Italian
papers conceal under the title. of Sig. x.
The couple went upon a wedding tour,
and spent money with lavish hands.
They selected the city of Portici for their
home, saying they wished to live in re-
tirement while awaiting the completion
of madame's twenty-fifth year, when she
would come into possession of her fort
une and would receive $6,O0O,O00.
Everyone was willing to give credit to
man, in whose villa the couple lodged,
loaned them 1000 francs, and guaran-
teed payment for 1000 francs worth
of jewelry, which they bought in Ma
pies. They made debts among the
Neapolitan merchants and bankers to
the amount of 100000 francs. In Rome
they victimized the shopkeepers heavily
for diamonds, corals, costly furs, and
other portable articles of high price.
Nothing seemed too costly, provided
they could get credit for it. They even
had the handles of parasols and UNI
brellas set with precious stones. They
contracted to buy the Villa Mirafora for
100000 francs, bought seven carriages
and forty horses, and ordered private
railway car and a yacht. Within a year
they managed to make debts to the ex-
tent of over half million of dollars. The
date fixed for payment was in all cases
the first of March. In February the
couple went to Paris and then to Lon
don, movement that seems to have ex-
cited no suspicion among their creditors;
but on the first of March news came to
Rome that they had gone to America,
taking with them an immense quantity
of baggage. A few days later banker
in Rome received letter from the hus-
band, saying that the will making his
wife rich heiress had been set aside,
and that they had gone to America, hop
ing with perseverance and indefatigable
effort to regain the position they had oc-
cupied in the world.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are in New York City 278
Protestant churches of the various per-
suasions.
MIR. Talmage asks all his friends
to contribute dollar apiece for the pur-
pose of paving off the Indebtedness on
the Brooklyn Tabernacle.
December I'd has been fixed upon by
the American Bible Soeiety for the cele-
bration of the 500th anniversary OF Wyck-
liffe's translation of the Bible.
The Southern Baptist Convention,
representing nearly two-thirds OF the
Baptists in this country, will hold its an
nual meeting at Lexington, KY, begin
ming May 3.
There are, it is said, 1901 Ger
man Protestants in Brazil, the majority
of whom are Lutherans. They are very
poorly supplied with pastors and
churches.
in the Missouri Diocese of the
Protestant Episcopal Church there are
only 5,167 communicates, the net gain
being only Z. Last year there were 1853
baptisms and 500 combinations. The
total of money raised was S85,611.
The Wesleyans of England con-
template the establishment OF a Metho-
dist Museum in London, the object of
which shall be to collect as many histori-
cal documents as can be obtained relat-
ing to the early history Of Methodism
and also interesting objects connected
with the mission work in foreign lands.
There are now in Chicago 213
churches, beside twenty mission chapels,
and eleven Adventist and Spiritualist so
cieties. OF the 213 churches the Catholics
have the largest number, thirty-four.
The Baptists are next with twenty-four.
Then come the Evangelical Lutherans
with twenty-four, the Methodists with
nineteen. the Presbyterians with eigh-
teen, and the Episcopalians, Congregga-
tionalists, and Hebrews, each with ten.
There was recently held in New
York meeting in the interest OF the es-
Enlistment of an American Independent
Church as an offshoot of the Roman Cath
Ole Communion. Addresses were made
by several ex-priests of the Catholic
Church, and the statement was made
that Father Quinn, the President of the
new organization, is daily in receipt of
letters from priests in different parts of
the country who favor the movement
and are preparing to abandon Roman
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

The human brain, according to
Prof. Tyndall's recent definition, Is the
organized register of infinitely numer-
GUS experiences received during the evo-
luton of life, or rather during the evo-
luton of that series of organisms through
which the human organism has been
reached; the effects Of the most uni
form and frequent of these experiences
have been successfully bequeathed.
principal and interest, and have slowly
mounted to that high intelligence which
lies latent in the brain Of the infant.
Thus it happens, says Tyndall, that the
European inherits from twenty to thirty
cubic inches more of brain than the
Papuan-thus 1t happens that the facul-
ties, as Of music, which scarcely exist in
some inferior races, become congenial
in those that are superior-thus, too. IL
happens that out Of savages unable 70
count up to the number Of their fingers.
and speaking a language containing
only nouns and verbs, arise ut Length
Newtons and Shakespeares.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29
Standing the Test.

The following Is q good ono in the
way of religious test-good because IL
Is true. A minister not long since held
protracted meetings not far from Port
Austin and Bad Axe, Mich. One day
one of his converts, while driving his
oxen with q heavy load behind them
over the bad roads between the above
named places, accidentally looked back
and discovered his pastor coveitly fol-
lowing behind. The convert could not
imagine the cause of such strange con-
duct, but thought he would keep an eye
on his movements. For two or three
miles the man Of holy orders hung on
the rear of the slowly moving oxen.
Now crouching behind stumps, now
moving like q phantom through the
skirting forest, occasionally squirting like
q quarter-horse across some open space
to gain the cover of some friendly fence
to Keep the field side like q stray dog,
again lodging through thickets, diving
through cat-tails, crawling behind logs,
bounding over pools of water-the pas
toral legs seemed equal to any emergen-
cy. All the while the pursuer kept ever
near, ever eager, ever listening, finally
Strengthening up and calling the brother
driving the team by name: "Brother
-, have followed you two miles
to find out whether you would swear ut
them oxen. i am satisfied the Lord has
filled you with the genuine article.
Bless the Lord! Another soul saved!
Ameni Good morning" And the good
man walked contentedly back. The
man with the oxen drove slowly on,
studying on the mysterious ways Of
Providence and wondering how IL would
have been with his soul Il he had not
seen his watchful pastor all the time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

Remember that thorough cultivation
pays. The yield Of your crop will tell
how you prepared the soil and put in the
seed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

"A toll1gate near Greensburg, Ind, Il
guarded guar e. =, night s: and day b ten armed
while the receipts are only 90. The
residents have repeatedly destroyed Il,
and the Company have resolved to de.
fend it ct any cost.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

"A burr oak tree on the farm of G.
Godfrey OF Marshall, Mich, recently
feiied, measured twenty-three feet in
circumference. 1t Is supposed to be 200
years old. There were 1877 visible rings.
and in the heart the rings were not dis.
tinct enough to be counted.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-29

Lord Besconsdeld ID now In excellent
health and spirits. and il distinguishing
himself In pedestrianism.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-13
Victoria on Her Throne.
Her Majesty acknowledges the q

Her Majesty acknowledges the grave
greeting of her lieges by scarcely more
than a glance of the eye. The head
bent slightly, perhaps, but / am not
sure. She, too, walks slowly; there is
no vulgar hurry about any part of the
business. AS she rounds the corner of
the dais her face is turned full toward
our gallery. 1t is the business of court
iers to say that the Queen looks always
well. For my part, l thought she had
grown gray since last l saw her, and
that the lines of the temples and about
the mouth were cut deeper than ever.
1t can never have been more than a
comely face, and there is nothing,
strictly speaking, in its contour, and
nothing in the figure which can be
called beautiful or noble. What strikes
you, nevertheless, is the air of author
ity and the air of stern sincerity which
sits upon this royal brow and marks the
least gesture of the Queen. The sad
ness Of the face is profoundly touching;
the dignity with which the burden
the all but intolerable burden of her
life-is borne, appeals to your respect.
She is here, they say, to mark once
more her sympathy with the First Min
lister: of the Crown; and with the party
which, under his guidance, has been
leading this country so strange a dance
these three years past. But politics are
forgotten in such presence; and any
criticism one has to offer is put decently
aside so long as the woman and the
Queen is here.
When she had seated herself upon
the royal robes spread over the throne
which she might have worn one
would think-there is again a pause,
almost solemn, and there is time to OBJ
serve the gown which the Majesty of
England has on. The Majesty and
Beauty of England are face to face, for
the Princess sits nearly opposite; and as
the Princess is perhaps the best dressed
woman in the room, so is the Queen al
most the worst. Her gown is of velyet,
with broad, longitudinal streaks of
miniver or ermine running down the
skirt and horizontal trimmings to match
about the body. But you need not stop
to look at it; the Koh-i-noor CLOVIS in
her corsage, and miniature crown of
diamonds shines above the stony head.
The Princess Beatrice, in blue velvet,
stands by her mother side, with traces
of the womanly attractiveness which
belongs to her sister Louise, now reign
ing over the hearts of our Canadian
friends. There was some maneuvering
with footstools and arrangement of
trains, and the Queens veil had to be
extricated from the netted work of the
throne. Then the Queen said Pray,
be seated" and once more came
silence.-G. w. SnaalIey, in Ne0 York
Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-13

is means of catching cold, which fire.
quently brings on rheumatismal con-
gestions of the nerve centers, and we
are persuaded that even the affections
q frtgore of the respiratory organs are
often due to this mode of dressing, for
it is known that the exposure of the
arms ndshoulders, though perhaps less
frequently than the wetting or chilling
of the feet, give rise to colds. "Keep the
feetwarm" avery old hygienic maxim,
Notwithstanding which children's necks
are better covered than their legs and
feet. The influence of cold upon the
lower extremities certainly reacts upon
the spinal circulation, and we know
how frequently children are exposed to
that almost incurable affection -stroph-
ic paralysis. Every time (says DR..
Onimus) that we have been able to
trace exactly the history of such cases
we have found chill as the cause of
this affection. The vessels of the spinal
cord, and particularly those of the gray
substance, which are the most numer-
GUS, are congested by reflex action, and
thus bring on the various symptoms of
paralysis SANITARY Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-03-13
OyerWOrk...The Breakdown.

l met man some time ago who used
to travel in business, and almost passed
his life upon the rail. He came home
one evening, and walking across his
dining-room, he staggered like a
drunken man. Uncharitable people
who did not know his habits might have
thought him intoxicated. He sank on
his chair all the rest of his life. He
was completely paralyzed in his lower
limbs. The incessant travelling on the
rail had at last proved too much for his
nervous system. Hence the collapse;
and have a strong impression that
other collapses might be traced to a
similar source. knew of lawyer
who was in great rush of business.
He liked his fees; but like all men who
succeed, he liked business thoroughly
for its own sake. He was unable to re-
fuse business; and indeed to refuse
business is the hardest trial which can
happen to any professional man. His
mistake was, that he did not provide
himself with adequate assistance. The
ill-treated brain took to softening, and
then all business came to an end.
knew of man who was enormously
wealthy. In addition to the constant
employment which his own vest prop
erty gave him, he was trustee for ever
SO many widows and orphans and char
tiles. He worked hard at accounts till
the small hours in the morning. A boy
clerk at fifteen shillings week might
have done it all for him. But he pre-
ferred doing his own work himself"
and accordingly he had to quit this in
ferior existence, where such condition
of things is not always possible. One
of the best known men in the country
once told me that he was going to take
a six weeks holiday at the seaside. 1
was rejoiced to hear it. No man better
deserved or more required such holt
day. Then he told me that he was go
ing to take his new book with him to
the seaside, and hoped to have it ready
for publication by the time his holiday
was over. expostulated with him. l
explained that he was only exchanging
one kind of hard work for still harder
kind of hard work. But he took the
advice of what is often a mans worst
himself. His book was
successful, but he never knew of the
success. London Society.