Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-15
being rapidly moved forward, and every ex-

being rapidly moved forward, and every eX-
posed point in Grant, Donna, Lincoln and
Socorro Counties will soon have detachments
of protection. The Mescalere Agency has
been placed under military control and two
companies of cavalry and one of infantry sta
toned there. Two companies of cavalry are
now marching to Fort Wingate, the Navajos
being considered unsafe, and a new post
will also be established in La Plata County,
Southwestern Colorado, to keep watch over
the Southern Utes.
A REVISED list of the dead of the Sea-
wanahaka disaster shows that thirty-five
bodies have been recovered, nearly all Of
which have been identified. If all the miss
ing persons be added to the list of lost the
total will reach sixty.
ELEVEN iron furnaces in the Hooking
Valley have suspended operations on account
Of the high price of labor.
GREAT excitement was Occasioned in
Paris and throughout France by the enforce
ment of the decree for the expulsion of the
Jesuits. Some of the fathers locked them
selves in their cells, which had to be broken
open and their inmates forcibly removed.
Crowds gathered outside the various Jesuit
establishments and several collisions &C.
cured between the mob and the friends Of
the Jesuits. The closing Of Jesuit chapel
in the Rue Sevres with the sacrament left
inside is regarded great Dissertation by
Catholics. Several Jesuit establishments
are taking legal proceedings against the
Commissioners of Police for violating domi
Giles and infringing upon personal liberty.
DIR. SAMPLE, a somewhat notorious
character of Cincinnati, formerly temper
hut n a
into a common bar-room loafer, attempted
to drown himself in the Ohio River, but was
fished out and locked up for safe keeping.
Upon being let out he Immediately pro-
ceeded to get drunk again, was sent to the
Work-house, and here succeeded in ending
his miserable existence by hanging himself.
FOLLOWING is statement of the op-
erations Of the National Bank Redemption
Agency for the fiscal year ended June 80:
National bank notes disposed of-notes for
circulation assorted and returned to banks
Of issue, $24,960, 500; notes unfit for circula-
ton assorted and delivered to the Comptrol-
Ter Of the Currency for destruction and re-
placement with new notes, SIS, S41, 200; notes
of failed, liquidating and reducing banks
deposited in the Treasury, SC, 500, 900. Total,
$61 200. Total for 1879, $16e, 1893 ,050; de-
crease, 500 800, 050.
THE Comptroller of the Currency re-
ports the total number of national banks or
ganized during the fiscal year at 81, with q
capital Of 81 ,352 ,070; total number Of banks
which have gone into voluntary liquidation
in the same period, 90, with capital Of ST.
COL 600, included among which are three
gold banks in California, with capital Of
SOC, 900, which went into voluntary liquida-
ton and organized as currency banks. No
national banks failed from July %, 1879, I'M
til June 9, 1880, since which time three
banks have failed with a capital Of $700, 600,
all of which, it is believed, will pay creditors
in full.
THE closing of accounts of disburse-
ments of the Navy Department for the fscaJ
year shows that the expenditures for that
period have been $42S, 1878 less than for the
previous year, and that there is on hand
June 30, 1880, an unexpended balance Of
So, 461, 1888 of the amount available for the
year, exclusive Of balances in the hands of
pay officers of the Navy.
THE Postmaster General has COM
pleted negotiations with the New York Cen
trail and Hudson River and Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroads whereby bene-
fits derived from fast mail in operation on
those roads IN 1875 and 1876 will be again
given to almost the whole territory Of the
West. The arrangement went into effect
Monday, July s.
GEN. HANCOCK has retired from the
Warren Court of Inquiry, now in session at
Governors Island, New York, and Gen.
Augur takes his place as presiding officer.