Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-26
Editorial Notes.


The little State Of Rhode Island
wants to stop bribery ut elections. The
astonishing statement Is made that
S125, 600 was paid for three offices.
A disease resembling measles, fire.
quently proving fatal, has appeared In
Kansas. 1t is believed to have been
brought from the South by the refugee
negroes.
Charles De Young, brother of the
man whe shot Kalloch, last fall, is now
In Leavenworth, looking up the record
Of that preacher-politician He Is said
to have found it very fragrant.
Col. Bob Ingersoll, who is on the GO
all the time, educating the moral senti-
ment of the Republican party, says the
Chicago candidate will be either Grant
or Washburne, and that the Democrats
will nominate Tilden and Hendricks.
It cannot be called wonderful that
Colorado is rapidly becoming n popu-
lous State when in one years time her
people have taken from the rocks and
earth $4,000, 900 in shining gold and
silver. Such Is the record Of the past
years digging.
A reverend exposer Of Masonry has
narrowly escaped lynching I'm Boston.
His combined show and lecture was in
terrupted by yells, cat-calls and then by
missiles, and further violence might
have been resorted to but for the inter-
vention of the police.
The Kentucky House Of Representa-.
tives has passed bill making it mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine not less
than $50, nor more than $50, for any
person to use abusive or insulting lam
guage to another with intent to cause
breach of the peace.
The power OF wealth In politics IL
well illustrated in Don Cameron. He
never made but one speech, and that
was only two minutes long. What no
has done, or can do, Is attributed solely
to the length Of his purse and the Cam
eronian style of doing things.
Capt. James B. Eads meets with n
rival In the person Of L. Redmond. Of
Rochester, n. ", who claims that he
Invented the plan for dock system OF
ship transit over The Isthmus Of Darlen,
and published description oft In 1877.
Mr.. Redmond will ask Congress not to
listen to the plea OF Capt. Eads.
Some OF the Grant men In Washing
ton assert that Grant had to fight the
field i'm the Pennsylvania convention,
and that what appeared on the surface
forces Of the opposition combined.
They all rallied under the Blaine BAN
ner for the time being ITO beat Grant"
A dispatch from Syracuse TO the New
York Herald says the Democrats Of
that city assembled on the fifth instant
for the purpose of harmonizing their
differences. All of the prominent lead
ers of the Tilden and anti-Tilden fac
tons were present and resolved to bury
the past and Joined hands to work to-
gether in the future.
At meeting Of the Lircoln Club In
New York city, last Thursday evening,
the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher said:
"What we want I'm our Government IL
and continuity. 1t Is a point
of weakness that our President holds
Office only four years, and 1t occasions
disturbance of our affairs
the whole country"
To which the New York Sun peril
nently responds; "Yes, Mr.. Beecher, IL
may be unnecessary for those who pre-
fer ease to freedom. But It was a kind
Of disturbance of which Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson
thought favorably."
1t is interesting. and to many people
t may be profitable, to know the COM
parative value of different kinds Of
wood for fuel. Shellbark hickory Is re-
yarded as the highest standard of our
orest trees, and calling that 100, other
rees will compare with Il for real value
Is fuel for house purposes as follows:
,hellbark hickory, 100, pignut hickory,
Y; white oak, 81; white ash, "a; dog
wood. IS; scrub oak, 20; white hazel,
2; appletree, 30; red oak, 81; white
'each, 65; black birch, 80; yellow oak,
%; hard maple, 50; white elm, 5s; red
edar, SO; wild cherry. 80; yellow pine.
a; chestnut, SO; yellow poplar, 81;
'utternut and white birch, 43; white
line 30. It Is worth bearing In mind
hat in wood of The same species there
3 great difference. according to the
oil In which they grow. A tree that
'rows on a wet, low, rich ground will
'e less solid and less durable for fuel,
nd therefore Of less value than a tres
the same kind that grows OH dry
nd poor soil. To the ordinary pur-