Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ntsGovernor.
BISMARCK, In an interview, said he
would have resigned the CHARACTERISTIC at
ter the late defeats but for the personal
desire Of the Emperor, and that henceforth
he would leave parliamentary fighting to
others and devote himself entirely to the
foreign affairs Of the empire.
The Memphis Cotton Exchanges
crop report for May, from West Tennessee,
North Mississippi and North Arkansas,
shows an increased acreage averaging S.35
per cent: weather favorable; cotton stands
averaging fair; crop generally in fine condi-
ton; labor about the same as last year. The
corn crop is generally in good condition, but
wheat is apartial failure.
ITiis. reported that Victorio's band
has gone to the Blade Range Mountains,
near Hillsboro, N. NJ, to recuperate. Squads
from the force are securing the country,
stealing horses and committing other depre-
sdatiens. No troops IN the vicinity;
D. r. RADCL1FFE, Liberal member Of
Parliament for Evessham, has been unseated
for bribery.
The Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention did not instruct its delegates to the
National Convention, but adopted resolu-
ton expressing confidence in Hon. Thomas
F. Bsyard.
E. r. MORRIS, County Judge Of Bay
lor County, Texas, was shot and killed in
the Courthouse in Seymour, Baylor County,
on the 18th, by w. G. Taylor, . saloon keeper
in the town. The parties had quarreled q
few days previous. The murderer mounted
his horse and rode leisurely cut Of town, no
attempt being made to arrest him.
The report of the Senate select COM
mittee to investigate the removal Of North
ern Cheyenne Indians from the Sioux Res
ervation to the Indian Territory affirms that
the Government is not living UP to its obii-.
cations with the Cheyennes, and that q
policy should be adopted which will show
these Indians that we will do them full
justice.
THE Lord Mayor of Dublin has tele-
graphed the Mayor of every city in the United
States and Canada as follows: 81 regret to
say funds are still needed for the relief of
distress in Ireland. In many districts the
pinch is now equal to any previous time.
Distress is much felt by farmers, who dread
Work house reliefs but can get nothing else
until their crops come in. While deeply
grateful for the generous contributions
already received, can not help asking fur
Their assistance for the Mansion House Fund
Committee during this trying period"
The wholesale drug-house of Arthur
Peter & Co., at Louisville, KY, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 9th.
Adjacent buildings and stocks were badly
damaged. Total loss about $3.50 900, fully
insured l
THE President neminates John F.
Hartranft Collector of Customs, District of
Philadelphia; Virgil D. Stockbridge, Dis
of Patents; Rebt. G. Dryenfurth, Illinois,
Examiner in Chief Patent office.
In New York City, on the 10th, John
Gimpel, German fresco painter, attempted
to kill his wife, leaving her for dead. He
then set fire to the house and cut his own
throat. Husband and wife had led quar-
relsome life, and she had recently sued him
for abandonment. Her injuries were neces-
sarily fatal.
= THREE masked men entered the
house of Allen Hoyle, wool buyer, at New
ton Falls, O., on the night of the 9th, bound
and gagged the whole family and robbed the
safe Of 81 200.
THERE are rumors of civil war in the
Argentine Confederation, growing out Of
the Presidential election.
A GALENA dispatch says that Gen.
Grant was in the Office Of friend when he
received the news OF Garf1eld's nomination.
His only remark was-stIt is all right; am
satisfied" az
Hon. WIN. M. SPRINGER has been re-
nominated for Congress in the Twelfth nli-
nois District.
THE Georgia delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention are reported solid
for Field, except one for Bayard and one for
Tilden.
GEN. GARFIELD had an enthusiastic
reception at various Ohio cities and towns
upon his return from the Chicago Conven-
ton.
The first returns from the Oregon
State election, held on the It'll, indicate, the
election of NJ. G. George, Republican, to
Congress, by about 800 majority. Legisla-
ture in doubt.
The Mississippi Democratic State
Convention, held on the 9th, chose an I'M
instructed delegation to Cincinnati.
AFRICA, Peru, has been captured by
the Chilians.
REV S. w. FoLGER, a Baptist preach
er, hanged himself at Delphi, Ont. ,
A TERRIBLE tornado swept through
the southeastern part of Pottawattanie
County, Iowa, on the night of the 9th, de-
molishing every thing in its path and eaus
ing the deaths Of from fifteen to twenty peo-
ple.s A partial list Of the killed at Wheelcr's
Grove where the greatest damage
was denes gives the following names:
Jesse osber, wife and tive children; VIM.
Pace, wife and his two children, and another
child fatally injured; Alexander Osier, wife
and child, carried in the air almost 150 feet,
and seriously injured, the child fatally;
hired man employed by the latter, name I'M
known, killed. Other persons six or eight
in number were carried away and at last ac-
counts had not yet been found.
EX-SENATOR JAMES A. BAYARD, of
Delaware, died on the 18th, after pro-
tracted illness. He was eighty-one years