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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

An elopement is no uncommon occur
renee, but an elopement on the whole
sale plan is rather rare. An episode OF
this kind occurred the other day at
Vincent, N. G. Four couples had been
forbidden by stern parents to marry.
Eight hearts that beat as four were re-
solved on union. Although so far
South they were ready to die for the
Union. The eight met at Vincent by
appointment, and rode twenty miles
away to another village, and there
stood up in row before minister and
were married. The ladies who figured
% prominently at this interesting occa-
sion were the daughters of well-to-do
farmers in an adjoining county. Their
ages ranged from Is to %. hegroonns
were weli-to-do aud highly respectable
young men. The opposition of the pa
rents to the matches, in all but one
case, is said to have been on account of
the extreme youth of the candidates for
the altar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

doubt Of his conviction that not only
had the charges Of fraud been wholly
baseless, but on the contrary excep-
tionally accurate work had been done
by the enumerators. Moreover, the
facts were so conclusive that the clam
or in the Republican press Immediately
ceased and nothing has since been
heard i'm a public way upon the sub
ject. General Walker said on the night
Of November 22d that as a statistician
he was entirely satisfied, from what
Mr.. Gannett did. that there had been
no fraud in the State and not single
complaint or protest had been made
against any of the enumerators, a cir
cumstance very much i'm their favor as
showing that they were satisfactory to
men of both parties and both races, yet
he was also con nvinced that the returns
showed an abnormal increase over
those of 1870. and that in one Of the
two censuses great injustice had been
done to the State and to the country.
Since Mr.. Gannett's i'm vestigation moth
ing has occurred to lead him to suspect
inaccuracy this year. A New York
World correspondent asked him why,
if MIR. Gannett's report had convinced
him there had been no fraud, the new
revision had been ordered. He de-
clined to answer this inquiry, except to
say that there still being persons who
doubted the accuracy of the returns the
bureau had thought 1t advisable To for
tify itself with such proof as could not
be cOntrOverted. He intimated that IL
after reasonable time it should appear
that the original returns were correct it
would be assumed that there had been
no fraud. There is suspicion at
Washington that no good purpose has
actuated the new revision, but no re-
flection is cast upon the intentions of
General Walker, for he has repeatedly
shown himself to he nOn-partisan and
entirely fair and honorable I'm his Ca
pacity as Census Superintendent but
the secrecy attending the trip of the
agents and the absence of public COM
plant since Mr.. Gannett's investiga-
ton are looked upon as Indicating IA
hidden political motive. Mr.. Butter
field, who has charge of the present
work, is vouched for by General Wal
ker as competent and trustworthy, but
it will be remembered that In at least
one instance i'm the Vermont census
returns, of which he had charge, a
large number of names were duplicat-
ed, and the fact is recalled now i'm con-
nection with his appOrtionment to the
control of such important work as that
now in hand. tiis s,... % ,s.tt.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
paggett's Boomerang.

When Congressman DaggettiRepub-
lican, from Nevada, first went to
Washington, two years ago, he was
charged $l6.50 for extra baggage at
Omaha. This angered the Congress
man so that he vowed to make life q
burden for every official on the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
When he got to Washington he began
to ship tons and tons of Congressional
Records, which the Union Pacific and
Central Pacific railroads are obliged 10
carry free of charge, according to a
stipulation with Uncle Sam, made
when he granted them so much of his
broad public domain. Daggett ship
ped boxes of these documents over the
road, addressed to himself and accom-
panied by his big frank and the words
"Congressional documents, free" Dur
ing the first session he sent seventeen
tons of this class of matter over the
road, and as soon as he reached home
he sent it back again Daggett's big
boxes of"Pub Docs" soon became no.
torious, and the face and figure of the
Congressman were also pretty we'll
known. Wherever he stopped he was
sure to ask some of the freight if they
had seen any of "my freight lately"
He always made himself known and
was sure to add, "You must handle
those boxes gently; they contain the
speeches of some of the greatest men
of the nation. If you damage any Of
them I'll sue the road for the full val
ue." On election day the boys got
their revenge, and every mothers son
of them voted and worked against
Daggett. Those who ran on the Utah
Division located their voting places in
Nevada in time to get their work in ON
election day and they raked Daggett
fore and aft from sunrise to sundown.
When it was known that he was de-
feated nearly every freight and bag
gage man on the line got drunk ,sand
for couple of days the road was ut
terly demoralized.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

The Harvard annex" as the Pri-
vate Collegiate Instruction Of Women
at Cambridge is called, has made its
first annual report. The institution
is not officially connected with the
college, but the teaching is wholly by
college instructors, and is as nearly as
possible identical with that of the same
departments of the college. There have
been twenty-seven students. two of
whom have withdrawn, four have TAX
en- the regular college examination for
the freshman class, and the rest have
only pursued special studies.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
a Rem an fsCeulse.

Newspaper enterprise Of forty or fif-
ty years ago was 80 magnificent rs
some of the feats Of to-day, but Il was
often good of its kind. At the birth
day. dinner given to Mr.. Thuriow
Weed in New, York the other day,
General James Watson Webb said
Weed once came down from Albany
to get an early copy of General Jack
sons message. A political committee
han hired the boat, but the captain Of
the boat was friend of Weeds and
gave him a passage. Weed got his
copy first, reached the boat, gave tho
signal for starting, and was fairly on
his way TO Albany before the commit
tee reached the wharf the Albany
EUening Journal I'm consequence print
ed the message the next day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

One of the most famous of trans-At-
lantic stea amship lines is having three
powerful steamships built. The larg-
est of these will be 1000 tons, and the
other two will be over 5000 tons each.
They will be built of steel. Tt is per-
haps unnecessary to add that on ac-
count of the admirable tariff this coun-
try possesses, these splendid steamers
that will depend on American patron
age for support will be built in for
eign country.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

The conversation in a Nevada bar
room turned on comets, and man as
serted that an enormous comet was
then visible. All said this was non
sense, and one offered to bet $50 that
no such thing could be seen. The
wager was made. The first man had
prepared a gorgeous comet of polished
metal and suspended it in an effective
position outside the window before
leading the discussion up to the desired
point. The swindle was not tsuccessful,
however, and the crestfallen operator,
when he claimed that it was all a joke,
and asked for his money back, got a
sound whipping.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

! Evidently the Republicans are try
ing to force the fighting in the Senate.
One B. III. Lanier,a United States Dep
uty Collector in Louisiana, was also a
candidate for Congress and was badly
beaten. Now, some three weeks after
the election, he writes that since that
time he has been kept a prisoner in his
house. How? Through fear of assas-
sination. Though why the bloody
minded Louisianians should want to
kill aman whom they had just beaten
at the polls does not appear. nor why
he has submitted to captivity so long
without calling upon his friends in the
North for assistance. But SO it is. Mr..
Commissioner Green B. Raum, howev-
er, isequal to the emergency even at
this late day, and has ordered five
courageous men to be sent to his relief,
whom he proposes. if necessary, to arm
with breach-loading carbines. In view
of these facts, the Philadelphia Press
does its part in trying to produce a COL
lision by saying: 1--WE have often
wondered why we have heard nothing
of breech-loading carbines or some
thing i'm that nature before. The Unit
ed States marshals were driven away
from the polls in Florida. A judiciOus
distribution of carbines would have
prevented that. The red shirts and the
rifle dubs ought not to have monop-
oily Of that sort Of thing. If the South
ern Republicans, instead of being tar
gets all the time, would try little car
bine practice on their own account it
might help little, perhaps, toward
MAX ing the South not quite SO solid"
The rrobable explanation of the matter
is that Mr.. Lanier has just heard of the
purpose of the Republicans in the Low
er House of Congress to unseat some
twenty Democratic Representatives
from the South and give their seats to
Republicans, and in real, Old-fashioned
carpet t-bagger style he is laying the
grouHdw work for a contest, and Commits
ioners sRaum and the Republican press
are helping him. If they can get a few
men killed in doing so, SO much the
better, they think.-St, Louis Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

Most every one thinks that don't
know much about music and the opera,
but this is not the case. am very en-.
thusiastic over this class of entertain
ment, and will take the liberty to tres
pass upon the time and patience of your
readers, for few moments, while
speak briefly but graphically on this
subject. A few evenings ago had the
pleasure of listening to the rendition of
the Bohemian Grip by Emma Abbott
and her troupe at the Grand Opera
House in Chicago. / was little late,
but the manager had saved me pleas
ant seat where 1 could alternately look
at the stage and out through the sky
light into the clear autumn sky.
The plot of the play seems to be that
Airline, nice little chunck of u girl, is
stolen by band of Gypsies, owned
some like Othello and some like Sitting
Bull. Airline grows up among the Gyp-
sizes and falls In love with Thaddeus.
Thaddeus was played by Brignoli.
Brignoli was named after a thorough
bred horse.
Aiine falls asleep in the Gypsy camp
and dreams n large majoiica dream,
which she tells to Thaddeus. She says
that she dreamed that she dwelt in
marble halls and kept a girl and had q
pretty fly time generally, but after all
she said it tickled her more to know
that Thaddeus loved her still the same,
and she kept saying this to him In g.,
and upon the upper register and down
on the secOnd added line below, and
crescendo and diminuendo and deuodes-
simO, forward and back and swing op-
pOsite lady to place, till 1 would have
given 200 shares paid-up non-assessa-
bic stock i'm the BOomrang If I could
have been Thad.
BrignOli, however, did not enter into
the spirit of the thing. He made me
mad, and if it hadn't been for En-. /
would have put Oh my hat and gone
home. He looked like the man who
first discovered and introduced Book
beer into the country. She would come
and put her sunny head up against his
cardigan jacket, and put one white arm
on each shoulder and sing like bobo-
link, and tell him how all-ired glad she
was that he was still solid. / couldn't
help thinking how small q salary, /
would be willing to play Thaddeus for,
but he stood there like a basswOod man
Tobias movement, and stuck his arms
out like a sore toe, and told her in f that
he felt greatly honored by her atten-
ton, and hoped some day to be able to
retaliate, or words to that effect.
don't want any trouble with Brig
noli, of course, hut / am confident I
can lick him with one hand tied be-
hind me, and, although seek no quar-
rel with him, he knows where reside,
and can mop the North American
continent with his remains, and don't
you forget it.
After a while the Gypsy Queen, who
is Jealous of Airline, puts up . job on
her to get her arrested, and she IL
brought before her father, who IL JUS
tice Of the Peace for that precinct, and
he gives her $25 and trimmings or thir-
ty days in the Bastile. By and by,
however, he catches sight Of her arm
and recognizes her by a large red God
dess of Liberty tattOoed on ii, and he
rcmits tile fine and charges up the costs
TO the county.
Her father wants her TO marry q
man aud live in afIiuence, !
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

DIR. William Sharswood, of Philadel-
pisa, is giving his time and his efforts
toward founding great Museum OF
Practical Art and Applied Science IN
connection with the University of the
South at Sewanee. Tenn, owned and
controlled by the dioceses Of the Epis-
copal Church comprehended in the ten
States lying south and southwest of
Virginia and Kentucky.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
3 oc1et1es.

INDIAN CHAPTER. No. n, r A.. meets on
on the First and Third Tuesdays in every month,
1t o. clock r. NJ, in the Masonic Hall Ironton
STAR OF TIE WEST LoDGR No 133, A. F Il A.
NJ. meets In Masonic Hall, Ironton. op the Safur-
day Of or preceding the full moon in each month.
Mosaic LODGE No. 35l, A r & A. NJ. meets
IN the Masonic Hall Cross Roads, on the Safur-
day OF or preceding the full moon In each month
IRoNroN ENcAMPMENr No. % q. d. f.,
meets in the Odd-Fellows' Hall. Ironton. on tie
First and Third Thursdays OF every month.
IRoN LODGE No. 1O7. / o. O F. meets every
Monday evening, ut its Hall, in Ironton.
PHGBE LODGE No $50, TO O. f., meets every
Thursday evening, in Masonic Hall Cross Roads:
IRoNroN LooGE Nn., ,6sI o. G. T.. meets ev
cry Friday evening, ut lis 81 III. front0r
KyIGHrsa0F HoNoR Vail ~ Lodge, M.
$50. X of H. Ironton; reguiar meetings Weines-
day sHeainys, Oct. 9Th and goth, Nov ID and nth
ARGIec lst. 18th aud a9h q. r. PECK, d.
a@FJ. w. WfLKINsoS, Reporter, 44 -.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

The Rev. Mr.. Cox lodged one night
in the residence of Brother HALEY at
Chattanooga, Tenn. At daylight he
presented himself at hotel In his night
shirt, and sent boy to buy suit of
clothes. He says that he walked into
the street in somnambulistic state.
HALEY declares, however. that he
kicked the visitor out, in consequence
of his conduct toward Mrs. HALEY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
SOutlneasterimgs.

Jackson has q lodge Of United Work
ingman, iF.."
De Soto has a successful literary and
musical society.
Scott county Ii out Of debt and the
warrants sell at par. ..f.
Ascot county farmer claims to have
discovered q silver mine.
The Desloge Lead Company has
just started new blast furnace.
Farmers in Ripley county are MAX
ing large purchases Of fruit trees.
The new public schoal building ut
Charleston will be completed this
week.
On Christmas eve the De Soto en-
campment Of Knights Of Pythias will
give grand ball. ...t-i .r.
H.F. Beymer, or New Madrid, and an.
other deputy u, S. Marshal, captured
an elicit still In Dunklin comfy recent
ly. -l. f.fe "a 40 r. ~
The Bay Mill, eight miles abovo
Doniphan, will be rebuilt and supplied
with new turbine wheel, In the
spring. .tr
Steamers coming down the river arc
tfOuOICu W kCN W kllC WnuIl ~ S6R0
Girardeau on account Of the bar In front
Of the town. s +,
The merchants Of West Plains give
employment To more than one hundred
teansters hauling cotton 70 the railroad
and merchsndise back. ID -.
Perry county has remarkable curl.
osity In the person Of superintendent
Of the county poor farm. who has just
paid into the county treasury $l9a 10,
surplus on wheat raised ON the farm. ;
Capt. Cowdon, OF Cape 0irardeau.
found the wreck Of his boat, which
sank about twenty years ago In the
Mississippi, and hopes to recover out
Of her hull about 500 barrt Is of whis-
key.
Mrs. Renfro, If Cape Girardeau, was
accused Of theft and fed t0 Cairo.
She was arrested, but attempted to
jump In the river. On her way back
TO the Cape, she tried " throw her
self under the cars.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

It will not be difficult to prove DELHI
GRAFTON when Tom Prindle comes to be
tried for the murder of John Toibert,
at Willis, Texas. He was two days
getting at his victim, beginning by
breaking into his house with an axe,
then chasing him on horseback from
one refuge TO another, and finally shoot
ing him while Tolbert was trying to
hide.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

An Illinois tramp. desiring TO COM
NIT suicide, tried In vain to be dose of
to borrow knife. and to
steal pistol. Then he hanged him.
self with halter in a stable, but was
cut down and kicked out. His final
aud successful resort was to lay his
head on q railroad track in front of a
locomotive.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
Tie St Louis Illustrated Hornet

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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

Lewis Rockwell was supported by his
relatives at Honesdale, Pa, until he
was q hundred years old; and then,
deeming his longevity unreasonable,
they turned him over to the Poormas-
ter. He is now 1O2.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

Mr.. Grover, of New Jersey, has q
false idea Of what's amusing. He is 50
and he married a girl of IL, after which
he shot her dead. He remarked to the
officers that no "did it for fun" New
Jersey will endeavor to show him some
side-splltting, neck-streching jokes in
her criminal laws.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
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Churches.

Mass every Sunday At o'clock A. NJ. in the
Chapel Of the Arcadia College. Evening instriG-
tion. followed by Benediction Of the Blessxd Sac
rsment. At 8 O'Clock. At Pilot Knob Catholic
Church Mass Is celebrated every Sunday morning
1T 10 O'Clock.
N. z. CHURCH, Cor. REYNOLDS and Mountain
streets, Ironton BELL, Pastor Residence:
yro1,ton, ATo. Services, Second and Fourth Sun
days in each month Sabbath School every Snn-
day morning. at 9.o'clock. Prayer Meeting every
Thursday evening. af o'clock.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
Omcial Directory.

LowNDEs n. DAVIS, NJ. c., Fourth Diatrict
Cape GirxrueAu - -
H0tOei
WILL R. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney,
xr0ntOn. s7ls
W BERRYMAN. Representative. Arcadia.
FhAvx DINGER, Presidin juice Ir.,n.nu;
JosHPA L. SrEPHENs Belleview, and JOHN KEN
PEa, Des Arc, Associate Judges
JOHN. r. II EDWARDS, Judge Of Probate
Coart, Iroaton ~
JANss BuroED, Sheriff and Collector, Iron
Ton
JOsBPH HUFF Clerk Circuit Court. Ironton.
q. B. NALL, Clerk County Court I-onton.
] q. WHIrwoRTH, Treasurer, IrnntOn.
Nm. e. BELL, Assessor, BrlIevieW.
JACOB T. AXE, Public Administrator, IRON
ton.
On. N. G. GRIFFITH, Coroner. Ironton.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
ST. LOUIS
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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

Speciel Rates made for Daily to Post
masters and Agents. and Sample Copies
furnished on application. Address
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St. Louis, No.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02

CIRCUIT CoURT Is held on the Fourth Mon
day In October and April.
COUNTY CoUKT copvepes on the First Mon
day OF March, June, September and December
PRoBArE COURT is held on the First Monday
February May, August and November.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-02
FRANZ DINGER,
ATTORNEY at Law and Notary Public

Real Estate Agent.
And Agent for the Mutual Life. ana Home
Fire Insurance Companies OF New York.
and the Nina fi1sufafee sohiGmfy.
OYRIcs lone door mort h Of the 1ronton House
IRONTON. MO-.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-24
GEORGIA BLACKS.

ATLANTA, April 2S.-Ihe Republican conven-
tion was all the morning discussing the ap-
pointment of delegates to Chicago. 1t is evil
dent Blaine will get majority of The delega-
tion with six or eight votes for Sherman.
Grant may have two votes. The convention is
noisy and excited.
The convention passed resolutions condemn
ing the outrage on Cadet Whitaker, and call
Ing on the administration to fully protect col
ored cadets.
The selection of delegates to the Chicago
convention was the occasion of much wrang-
ling and fierce debate. The Grant men rsl-
lied and secured more strength on the delega-
tion than they hoped for yesterday. Four
teen colored delegates were chosen. W. A.
Pledger, colored, was put at the head of the
State central committee, and that committee
was empowered to nominate electors at
large. District electors and congressman will
be nominated by district conventions. As to
the delegation there are various opinions. The
Grant men claim twelve but the general esti-
mate Is eight for Blaine, eight for Sherman and
six for Grant. Various rumors are circulated
about probable changes in the delegation, but
the anti-Grant men are confident they have
gained a decided victory. Resolutions that
delegates go uninstructed and consult the best
interests of the party passed.
New YORK, April 2S.-A private dispatch
from Atlanta (Ga.) says the committee on dele
gates give Sherman II, Blaine 9 and Grant l.
The convention adjourned without action.