Iron County register., 1880-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IHE MISSISSIPPI valley dorucmtural
Society has arranged to- hold o grand
Horticultural Exhibition in st. Louis,
on the 7th, 8th and 9th Of next Sep.
tember. The exhibition will probably be
held in the large hall of the Chamber OF
Commeree.
FIVE convicts, escaped from the Wy
oming Penitentiary, have turned road agents
and are robbing the mail coaches in the vi
cinity of Fort Fetterman.
| NATHAN FAUCET and Jacob Null
drow, both colored, were hanged at Mexico,
| Mo-, on the 10th, for the murder Of Octave
Inflow on September 80 last. From 1000 to
5000 people witnessed the double execution,
many of the spectators being women and
children.
WILLIAM S. BATES was hanged at
Barnwell Courthouse, s. c., on the 10th, for
| killing Stephen w. Bash at a dance on Christ
mas Eve. His execution was private.
WILLIAM WALKER, colored, was
hanged at Calvert, Texas, on the 18th, for
the murder of Major Monroe, in 1915. Five
thousand people witnessed the execution.
A LATER dispatch says that the 700
men, boys, women, girls, priests and for
eigners sacrificed at Mandalay for the resto-
ration Of the Kings health, were buried
alive, not, "burned," under the towers of
the city walls. The following is an expla-
nation of the horror: When city is built in
Burmah, human sacrifices are offered. A
new monarch usually has new capital, and
the evil spirits are irritated. There has been
no change of capital, and, the virtue of the
old sacrifices being gone, to appease the evil
spirits the astrologers declared it necessary
to offer 100 lives. The sacrifices were made
by the order of King Theebaw. Theebaw's
| son and heir, only few months old, and a
brother OF the late King, have both died of
| smallpox. Astrelogers advise Theebaw to
remove the capital to Mount Shobo, the
original seat Of the present dynasty.
FULL returns of the British Parlia-
mentary elections show that the Liberal ma
jority over the combined opposition, includ-
ing Home Rulers, will be about sixty. The
Irish members who are pledged to follow
Parnell's active policy number thirty-six.
DIR. r. w. MITCHELL, resident men,
Der at Memphis of the National Board of
Health, denies the report that any cases Of
yellow fever have appeared in that city the
present year.
SENATOR GROVER, of Oregon, is in
very poor health. He has not occupied his
seat in the Senate for the past three months,
ard his friends say they have but slight
hopes of his even being able to resume his
Senatorial duties.
THE New Orleans Board of Health
deny the report that cases of yellow fever
occurred in that city during the month Of
March.
BIZ recent purchase of the Narrow
gauge Railroad from Delphi to Rensselaer,,
Indiana, which is to be made a standard
gauge and extended, the Wabash Railroad
may now have a direct road to Toledo and
indianapolis and become trunk line to the
Eastern seaboard.
CHARLES X. LORD, General Passen-
ger Agent of the St. Louis, Kansas City and
Northern Railroad, and lately on the Wa
bash line, has resigned, and takes the same
position on the Baltimore and Ohio.
ALEXANDER WILSON, well known
citizen of Covington, KY, lost his life while
engaged in an heroic effort to save the lives
of others at fire in that city ON the night of
the 18th.
ON the night of the 5th inst. terrible
fire broke out in a cotton.weaving factory at
Moscow, Russia. The upper stories of the
building were tenanted by families number
ing some two hundred persons. The fire
broke out in one of the lower stories, and
spread rapidly over SO large an area before it
was discovered that descent inside the build
ing was impossible. A rush to the safety
staircase outside the building ended in its
giving way and depriving the einmates of their
only means Of escape. Only thirty lives were
saved.
HENRY G. FREDERICKs, a well known
young man Of Chicago, member of the
Board of Trade, committed suicide on the
evening of the 18th bv jumping from fifth
story window of the Woodruff House to the
ground. His neck was dislocated, causing
instant death. Mr.Fredericks had been un-
fortunate in recent speculations, which, to-
gether with failing health, threw him into
state Of deep mental depression.
RIGHT REV. ANTHONY DOMINO PEI
L1CIER, Bishop of the Catholic diocese of
San Antonio, Tex, died on the 14tn, of car
buncle Of the neck, aged 55.
Two thousand Swedes have already
emigrated to America this spring.
CHAs. II. WORTHEN, atraveling sales
man for Field, Letter & Co., Of Chicago,
lost leg by collision on the Grand Trunk
Railway at Detroit Junction, in July, 1876 |
He employed General b. F. Butler as coun- |
sci, and secured a verdict for $4,000. This
verdict was set aside, and a second verdict
gave him $4,000. Defendant obtained ia
third trial, which has just ended at Boston,
his award this time being $4,000, together |
with the costs of the three trials. This |
award is the largest ever obtained in Massa-
chusetts, with one exception. The verdict |
is probably final, as no exceptions were
taken.
WALL STREET was excited on the |
18th, by u break in Louisville and Nashville
Railroad stock, which dropped from 149 to
lis, but subsequently recovered about one
half. The decline was caused partly by an
important suit brought against the Company
and partly by the report that the Chicago,
St. Louis and New Orleans Company had
perfected arrangements for securing short
through line.
The Chilian Legation at Washington
Is informed that Callao, Peru, has been
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