Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-09
GENERAL.

| GENERAL.
IA NEW YORK girl has had one of hel
shapely hands modelled in marble, and
has presented it as q birthday present t.
her affianced husband. for a. paper
Eweight. &C 81
ingupon some American peculiarities
says tie s'tenderS&ge at which children
I ia theEUnited States begin to live inpub'
lie, to make speeches and act parts is
very curious.''
| The estate Of an English miser named
Rhodes was lately wound up. 1t rea.
lied 100000. The sale of his effects
in his RESIDENCE resulted in $2S.75. The
! properly goes to two charitie S-the Lon
don Free Hospital and the National Life.
boat Institution.
THE Portland Oregonian gives the par.
4 ticulars Of an adventure with a panther
Tat Myrtle Creek, Douglas County The
hero of the affair was Gus Byron, prin.
tee boy, fonlY16 years of age. He fin.
ished the brute in two shots. 80
PART of a graveyard at Morehead,
Ky, was destroyed in building a rail.
road, and indignant ghosts from the
disturbed collins have taken possession
of the station house which stands on the
spot. , So sayEthe ticket agent and other
employees, at least, and they have
proved their sincerity by resigning their
positions. y.x,-r .l-...
A sPoRTIyE youth of Olean, N. Y,
pointed revolver at young lady's
head, , and asked if she would be his for
ever, just for a little joke, you know,
for he didn't know it was loaded.
eyes," she said, lodging her head to
one side, just in time to save her from
being killed, as a charge of lead was
lodged in the wall behind her.
| THE Central Park Commissioners of
New York City received petition from
George Francis Train, the other day,
asking for permission to put his feet on
the seats in the park. He stated that
the police had denied him that privi-
lege, and he wished to know what law
prevents him from enjoying that liberty.
The communication was placed on file,
and George is in suspense as to whether
! he is a vassal or peer. --s
| POLICEMAN EGOLF, of Philadelphia,
it usually accompanied on his rounds by
| a big hound. Egof went into house
to arrest a man who was whipping his
wife, and was set upon by number of
rOughs, knocked down, kicked and drag
ged about. Then the dog went into the
fight, and enabled his master to win.
But it was hard struggle. The officers
skull was fractured and the dog had
three ribs broken. r~ 1-F,l
The New York correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer gives some alleged
particulars of the Grant Chaffee wed
ding. He says that young Ulysses Grant
became engaged to Miss Chaffee at
Saratoga last summer; that Senator
Chaffee gave his daughter $40O, 900 in
| Government bonds as a wedding gift
and that young Grant never was engaged
to Miss Flood, although at one time he
was attentive to her.
| A FEW days ago the neighbors were
drawn to a house ON West Twenty-sixth
| Street, New York, by the most frightful
cries. They found woman named
Mrs. Hall standing over her youngest
child, who was stripped naked and
stretched upon table. With one hand
the mad mother held the struggling in
FAINT upon the table and with the other
she brandished carving knife in the
air. She told the frightened people that
she and her whole family were going to
heaven. The child was rescued and the
woman soon after became calmer. She
had been made insane by the recent
death of her husband.
THE evening express train leaving
Pesth for Vienna on October had to bt
pulled up short when approaching Rako:
Station to avoid running down an enor
nous buffalo, which had taken up 6
menacing attitude between the rails
This animal had, few hour previously
brought a goods train to standstill or
the same spot, which he evidently re
garded as the frontier of his own espe
cial domain. After many fru;tless at
tempts to drive the huge beast off the
line, the railway officials contrived K
lasso him, and, tying his legs tightly to
gether, to haul him bodily into an ad
joining field. .-
THE museum of old guns and othel
small arms at the Armory in Spring
field, Mass, is probably the fullest an(
most curious of any in this country, ex
cept the one at Washington. First il
the list of old guns is Wheelock rifle
wound up like clock, made by Colts
fed Fleming in 1920. On the lock-plat'
is battle scene between Turks will
bows and arrows and Europeans will
swords. Another is curious Albanian
smooth-bore fiint-lock used even to-da,
by the Turkish mountaineers and peas
antry. An old Arab fiint-lock has
square piece of ivory so fitted to the but
of the stock that the gun can be bal
anced in an upright position in tn
Arabs tent. One, q match lock, mad
in the fourteenth century, is the oldes
gun in this country. 1t is discharged b,
lighted tow or fax on the hammer
drawn to the vent by hand.
The Mixed Population of New Mexico