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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-02-11

|. Pretty soon a little, low, wailing
cry came drifting up the cabin gang
way, and, then we knew that another
had been addedto our crew. ~
The men noiselessly went for'ard
whispering among themselves, for
they all liked the shippers wife and
remembered.the extra socks and to-
sbacco she brought out of-the cabin,
which were not put down agin em
on the bill book. But perhaps you
don't want to hear any more" rri
ooh, yes, 90 on; let me hear the
whole of it. l am all ears"
"Well, the baby lived and the
mother died just one hundred and
eighty miles from Valdivia Chill, by
the quadrant. What the mother did
for me l did my best to do for the
baby. got out two or three cans
of condensed milk, mixed some in
warm water and fed it as carefully
as If / were feeding a hum
ming-bird. When we run into Val
diva, the broken hearted skipper got
couple Of Portuguess doctors to
embalm the body Of his wife, after
which he had it put in a metallic case
and placed in his cabin, so he could
have her near him even in death"
"What about the baby ?"
"Oh, she got along, and weathered
the remainder Of, the voyage. Took
her condensed milk regular, and
chung, to me, just as if she was my
own. sf.'. ...,,
Z I saw her few weeks ago, but she
amt much of a baby now. | went
down to Nantucket, where the old
man lives,-he don't 60 to sea any
more; has enough to live on and to
spare.
When I called at The house saw
a young man about your age, who
seemed to be paying his attentions
around that domicile. But that didn't
hinder her from throwing her arms
around my neck, if she is sixteen
years of age, .,,d ~,
No, sir; if I was young man my
self | think my chances would be as
good as the next one, for she don't
forget old Ben and the many times
he has carried her in his arms. Only
a cables length from the house, is
her mothers grave, and it looks as
fresh, green, and blooming-all done
by her hands--as a regular garden.
| hope whoever marrieS the baby, as
I took care of will think as much of
her as do. God bless her tor the
sake OF her mother" ,,.} ISL
Mr.. Doldrum wiped his sieve
across his eyes as ~ ne sun troubled
Them, and said he must be moving on.
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The Professor and the ParasoI.

The Professor and the ParaSOI.
We are acquainted with a good
natured, and at the name time, astute
old professor, who maintains that it
is quite impossible for man to prop
erly and correctly hold parasol
over the head of an attractive young
lady. He himself has wrestledd sue.
cessfully with Pilny, Plato, and
Sophocles; he has written historical
works; he understands many Ian
guages; he is well posted in philos-
ophy, psychology and metaphysics;
but when it comes to holding a para.
sol SO that the shade will slumber on
the features of a lady, he freely ad-
mits that he is at sea, and that every
university in the land should add to
its other attractions parasol chair.
Last summer he took a walk in
Central Park with a young lady.
Before they had journeyed very lar
she intrusted her parasol to him. He
held it over most estheticaliy for
about five minutes, and then it shifted
out of position, ana his arm began to
tremble.
"You are not shading me at ALL"
lisped most melodiously, ''you are
throwing all the shade on that horse
over there" 1el-..
The Professor apologized and once
more got the parasol where it would
do the most good. 1t was beginning
to get a little heavier. His arm
trembled like an aspen. He thought
he was carrying keg of nails.
SHOW, then, you goose" she broke
in, you'll have me all sun-burned
directly. Hold it up so; see ?"
The Professor saw. He was long
ing tor a chance to get under tree
SO he could get rest, but she would
not go near one; she had an idea
that good sun bath was just what
she needed. t... ~.
''Is not that lovely scene" she
warbled, "just look at the pretty
stretch OF waving grass dotted with
flowers p .. .t
"Delighttul, delightful" replied the
Professor, as he worked his other
hand around and deposited his elbow
on it so that his parasol arm would
not come out by the roots. -.l.
J "And there's that little herd OF
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08
From ssFarmer.o

EU. hSyhStST-
If the "Great Dollar Weekly" the
Gl0be-D Democrat, is a reliable newpa-
per, it misses it little in reporting
things from this neck OF woods. The
men who killed Fields in Jail here did
not act like rable, but like disciplined
soldiers under a leader who understood
what was to be done, and how to do it.
True, they came to hang him, but
their plan niscarried so far as to shoot
him instead. Fields tried to hold his
cell door against them, by inserting
the end OF billet of wood between the
iron bars, and prying round on it, 80 as
to cover his body behind the wall at
the side of the door. Force being ex-
erted against the door, threw Fields
partly in front Of it, and shot was
fired through the bars to cripple him,
but it seems to have struck the billet,
glanced and passed in or near his
heart. Fields fell; the door was
thrown open; and finding their man
too badly hurt to hang, they finished
him with the same medicine he lad
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S O c1 @ tt e s /.

INDIAN CHAPTER, No. Il, r. A.. meets on
on the First and Third Tuesdays in every month,
at o. clock T.. M, in the Masonic Hall Ironton
STARoFTHE WEST LoDGE No 1873, A. F. u A.
NJ. meets in Masonic Hall, IrOnton. on the Satur-
day Of or preceding the full moon III each month.
Mosaic LODGE No. 35l, A. F & A NJ, meets
in the Masonic Hall, Cross Roads, on the Satur-
day Of or preceding the tt,il moon in each month
IRONToN ENCAMPMENT. No, % y. q. F.,
meets in the Odd Fellows Hall. lrOntOn. t..e
First and Third Thursdays OF every month.
Iron LODGE No. 107 I O.. o F. meets every
Monday evening, at its Hall in Ironton.
PHGBE LODGE No $50. 10. OF, meets every
Thursday evening, I'm Masonic Hall, Cross Roads.
IRONToN LODGE No. 6, /. q. G. T.. meets ev-
cry Friday evening, at its Hall, ironton
RELIGIOUS SERVICES In the r G. Chapel at
Arcadia College every sunday at 10 80 O'Clock AM
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One of our city merchants handed us
an ancient looking piece of manuscript
one day this week, the same proving
to be the last leaf of the account Of one
Joel Murray, for the year 1887, with
some general store keeper. The sheet
came wrapped about a small pair of
shoes that had been brought back to
the store for exchange, and we publish
the items precisely as they appear in
the original manuscript, written in the
"good old days" we hear SO much
about. when n man .'took his dram
and went on about his business" Here
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Daring Robbery in Butler
County.
IBmfr Citizen. April 1st. ]


About six o'clock last Saturday eve
ming three masked men entered the
residence of #. III. Vandover, in Beav-
|erdam township, and demanded the
money that was on the premises. In
order to enforce quick compile nee
with their request they fired their pis-
tolls into the floor and made threats
that were calculated to cove the old
gentleman and the members Of his
family. Mr.. Vandhover, who was In
very bad health at the time, brought
out q thousand dollars in greenbacks
and presented it to the robbers. They
graciously received it and demanded
more, suggesting that he being out
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Official Directory.

LOwNDEs II. DAVIS, M. c., Fourth District,
Cape Girar,icau.
BERHAKD ZwART, Commissioner L. S. Cir
cult Court lronton.
LOUIS F. DINNING. Judge Goth Circuit,
Pot0si
WILL r. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney,
IrOnton.
j. w BERRYMAN, Representative. Arcad. a.
FRANZ nINGER, PRESIDING Ju'ioe. lrnD'or !:
JOSEPH L. STEPHENS, Belleyiew, and JOHN KEN
PER, Des Arcs Associate Judges
JOHN. +. 1. EDwAKDs, Judge of Probate
Court, ifentOn.
JAMES BUFoKD, Sher IL aud Collector, Iron
ton.
JOSEPH HuFF Clerk Circuit Court, Ironton.
Il. b. NALL Z ERIK County Court. I-onton.
] G. WHIrwoKTH, Treasurer, Ironton.
VIM. E. BELL, Assessor, Brleview.
JACOB T. AXE, Public Administrator, IRON
ton.
DIR. N. G. GRIFFITH, Coroner, Ironton.
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The contested election case of Brad.
ley versus Slemons was last Wednes.
day disposed of, the House of Repre-
sentatives declaaing by vote of 149 to
twenty-one that Slemons is entitled to
the seat he holds. Mr.. Slemons is the
Democratic member from the Second
Arkansas district and Mr. Bradley is a
Green hacker of the same district, who
thought he ought to have been elected
though he wasn't.
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IRONTON. MO- THURSDAY. APRIL 1880 sas4

had doctated his victim with-lead
A law firm here lost = fat goose; and
the general sentiment seems to be
"Well done." Dreadfulas mob Is, the
necessity for II IL still more to bs
feared and deprecated.
In our theory Of government, the
legislative, judicial, and executive de
dartments are eeperate; but as most o.
those who make our laws are lawyers
all those who adjudicate and const.us
them, and many who order their exc
cution, as governors and other officers
are lawyers, those departments ars
practically unite.i In the most vicious
way possible; and as the lawyers make
the meat they feed ON, when . cass
goes inte court, no matter how heinous
or glaring the offense, the. people are
sure that great deal Of money will be
made out of it; that they will have a
pretty bill Of costs to foot, and that is
all they are sure of, unless it be that, II
the criminal is rich, he will be turned
loose again. tt
Two persons, father and son,
charged with being participants with
Fields, had been taken from Jail on a
writ of hebsds cOyp.s, before Judge
Lacy. of Jacksonville, and set free.
Fields was to be taken out the follow
ing week, to Mason county. The firm
acting as his counsel had gained some
thing Of local reputation for getting
people out of scrapes; and one Of the
partners had Dragged that he would
make a free man Of Fields in two
weeks, so that there was no wonder at
the lynching. Fields was a man
known to be on the shoot,-in broad
daylight, in the presence Of dozens.
he had shot, i'm a brutal way, q man
who, under like circumstances, had
spared his life. So that 1t is hard to
see where the lifts and ans" and
"buts" come In.
March has been very dry until with
IN a few days, and our larger wheat
acreage has suffered greatly. and thous-
ands of acres will have to be plowed
up. On clay land that was well work.
ed and pressed at seeding time, the
prospect is still good; but the black
lOnms are past praying for. We have
fifty and seventy-fiye-dollar. land here,
but it seems to have only five-dolIsr
sky over it; and between such land
and such sky the poor devil who has
to pay four or five dollars an acre for q
chance to earn his bread;s pays high
price for slim chance; and he who
buys it, expecting to pay for it off the
land, sells himself.
FARMER.
WINCHESTER, ILL.,, March 10Th, 1850.
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some of his wesath that was rspoFted
to be buried about, the house. Healix-
ing that they posss1aed q knowledge ol
the whereabouts a6f Ms money, Mr..
Vahdover proceeded to dig some three
Thousand dollars in gold from the Chin
ney corner, where II had laid and accu-
muiated for many years. After receiy-
ing. this amount the robbers appeared
satisfied with the result of their eve
ning's work, mounted their horses and
From the disconnected and varying
reports which haye been received at
this place there seems to be no idea as
to who the guilty parties were, and no
ef;ft has been made by those interest
ed tgsiind out where they came from or
went to. It appears that they had q
knowledge Of Mr.. Vandover's great Sc
cret, and profited largely by 1t.
The amount stolen represents the Ia
Dor and savings of lifetime, as Mr..
Vandover seems to have boarded his
money for an unexpressed purpose.
He practiced the most rigid economy
in his personal affairs and it is very
likely that he deprived himself of many
comforts of life in order to accumulate
the snug sum obtained by his masked
visitors Saturday evening.
He was sick at the time, and the ex-
citement and loss ol the money has had
serious effect upon him. The latest
reports were that he was Frustrated be-
yond reasonable hope of recovery.
Just as we go to press we learn that
two of Mr.. Vandovers nephews have
been arrested on suspicion and there is
a strong probability that he will recov-
er his money.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08
Tlldell and Anti.Tllden.
From the New York Sun. |

| ALBANY, March 22.-It may be true
as some of the friends of Mr.. Tilder
assert, that the opposition to him il
dying out in this State, but the drift q
political conversation In Albany would
hardly justify such conclusion. The
anti-Tilden spirit Is violent and viru.
lent. 1t forms a distinct feature in pol.
itics. 1t cannot be ignored, for 1t is
never silent. Anything to beat Tilden
is the war cry of class very large, and
made to appear larger than it is by rea.
son of its activity. In the presence OF
Tilden man I made the rounds of the
hotels here lately, and on all sides our
ears were greeted with the odds aud
ends Of dialogues in which the speakers
appeared to he unanimous in their OPP
position to Tilden. After this exhibi-
ton 1 asked: "Do you still think Mr..
Tilden is the strongest man in the State
of New York;"
II certainly do" was the immedi-
ate response, "and IL you were wise
you would find in all the talk we have
heard the strongest possible co;ifirma-
ton of that impression. IfMr. Tilden
were really as these people say he is, do
you think they would come oil the way
from Syracuse and Rochester and Al
bion and Buffalo to vent their spite
against him i'm the Albany hotels? If
their assertions were true, he would be
politically dead and buried beyond the
hope of ofresurrectiOn. The highest COM
pliment that can be paid to his strength
is found in this continual denunciatiOn
of HIM. These men are not fools.
They are practical politicians, and they
never fight shadows. IfTilden should
die politically, Tomorrow, they would
waste no more words on him, It Is the
that he is alive, that he Is
a vital force In politics, that he Is the
first choice of the American people for
which sharpens all their
barbs of SANDER and makes their fury
But this IL no new
thing. The killing Of Mr.. Tilden has
been the favOrite pursuit Of a large
crowd of politicians any time for the |
past twelve years. You ought to have |
been here just ten years ago-at the |
end of March, 1870. Tweed was In his
glory at that time. The charter un- I
der which he pluhdered tina metropolis
had just been drafted, and he was readv
TO carry II through the legislature at
any cost. 1t WAS too cumbersome to
read, and to skilfully drawn to reveal
ts sinister purposes. Tooppose Tweed
hen was no holiday diversion. 1t was
ls much as q. mans political life was
worth to stand in the way Of his
schemes. The Democrats evaded their
by yielding TO the dicta-
ion ola caucus, which the Boss CON-
rolled. The Republicans pretended /
% be satisfied with the concession Of q
more strenuous election law. The rep
Of both parties knew In
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

The prospects of the Kansas City
and Memphis railroad are becoming
brighter, and the completion of thi.
great thoroughfare, which is to short
ell, by several hundred miles, the route
by rail between the border city of Mis-
souri, and New Orleans, is only ques'
ton of time. The Memphis and Kan.
sas City railroad will run through the
northeast portion of Arkansas and
through itch agricultural portion OF
Missouri, and tap one of the great grain
depots Of the West.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

The sending of a ship load of provi.
sions to the starving people of Ireland,
in government vessel, recalls the
memory of the fact that the people of
Ireland at one time sent ship load oi
provisions to the people of America. On
the 7th of August, 1876, the ship Kath-
crime sailed from Dublin for Boston
loaded with wheat, malt, butter and
cheese for the distressed New England
colonists, who had been impoverished
by war with the Indians, known In
history as liking Phillips War;" This
contribution was made by "divers
Christians in Ireland" There seems to
have been more religious toIeration in
the mother country at that time than
there was in New England. for the good
people who sent this ship admonished
the Boston consignees that in dividing
the cargo "equal respect bee had to all
godly psons agreeing in fundamentals
of faith & order, though differing about
he subject Of some ordinances. & pticu-
larry that godly antipeodobaptists bee
not excluded. The contribution was
among the thirty-eight
towns which had suffered during the
war, and over 1000 persons participat-
ed in the relief.-Tinses.
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AS the season advances the number
of immigrants arriving in this country
increases. The first three weeks OF
March show IL, 72O immigrants, against
6,O5l for the entire month of March last
wear.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

There was feud between the How
rie and Westfall families, in Warren
county, Iowa, and the Howries hired
George Wheeler to kill the nine male
Westfalls at 500 apiece, the price to he
paid after the death Of each, and 500
to be added for the ninth, making
81 900 for the whole job. Wheeler be-
gan work by shooting at the father of
the Westfalls, but only slightly wound
ed him in the head. Nevertheless, ne
demanded 500 from the Howries.
They told him that they would not
pay for such bad craftsmanship, and
he could only get $40; so he exposed the
plot, aud all CONSERVED in it are now in
Jail. a
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

AS the election in Oregon takes place
on June 7th, both of the political par
ties of that State will virtually vote for
Presidential candidates without know
ing who they are.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

Joel, it seems, was one of the. boys"
and took his nip right frequently even
though it cost 12 cents a "glas." We
suppose, though, that the glasses were
not the same kind as are now used. for
the reader will see that in the account
the writer has invariably spelled it
with one "s," while the glass of to-day
is spelled differen tly.-C Charleston En-
terDrise.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

Mr.. Abel r. Corbin, brother-in-law
of General Grant, died at his residence
in Jersey City OH the oSth ult., at the
age of seventy-one. He was born In
New York and went to st. Louis in
1886, where he founded the Missouri
Argus, now know n as the Globe Dem
ocrat. In 1912 he removed to Wash
ington, where ha'was clerk of Con-
gressional committee for sixteen years.
In 1868 he removed to New York city
and came prominently before the pub
lie in connection with the "Black Fri
day" gold speculations Of September
1869. He changed his residence to
Elizabeth, N. j., in 1870, and lived
there until recently. Mr.. Corbin was
married twice, his second wife being
Virginia Grant, General Grants sister.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-08

CIRCUIT CoCRT is held on the Fourth Mon
day in October and April.
COUNTY COURT c;,uvtpes on the First Mon
day of March, June, September and December
PROBATE COURT Is held ON the Frsr Monday Y
in February, May, August and November.
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VOLUME XIII.
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PHoToGRAPHIC MATERIALS

Catalogues of Linterns and Slides, with direc-
tions for using. sent on receipt of ten cents.
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Inc Hole Amount For 1857 1s
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With reference to his Southwestern
tour, and the completion Of the ruilroad
to this place. We recently wrote Mr..
Bsruum urging him 70 show at this
place. aud have received the following
sutosr.ph letter in reply:
BRyDaEPoRr Conn. Sept ~; 81.
Z Isasc II. Julian: Dear Sir Your
favnr received. rrfrct that havioeg
made my svrsnGements to the end OF
the season. sad sdverii.ed day, d-te.
and plsee. it IL impossible to make any
change. I resily hope you will see nv
great shor. tits far the largest and
rest that I ever say, and have seen
them ell.
Perhsps vour people can get NJ EI-
eupios trains 10 run 10 my show afthe
nearest print.
Iintepd 10 sssrt fa my sho- thi'
week ssd secoupssy them through
Tcras.
Truly Yours.
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Our stock 10 all departments, by re-
cent additions. is new complete. We
feel safe in giving our customers the as
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figures a. can be had 10 this market
Our goods were all selected with care
and with special fitness for this market.
aud we guarantee lowest prices.
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