Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of important Events.
THE Republican Convention of the
Twelfth Illinois District nominated Hon. T.
L. Morrison for Congress.
THE Mexican Government declines to
alow.Ge Hatch to follow Victoria across
the boundary, on account of its establishing
dangerous precedent.
THE President of the Memphis Board
Of Health published a card on the 18th de-
nying the report that case of yellow fever
had occurred in that city. He says no case
of any kind at all resembling yellow fever
has occurred in Memphis this year.
DR.. TANNER entered upon the twenty
first day Of his fasting. at Clarendon Hall,
New York, on the 18th. Pulse, temperature
and respiration were all nearly normal !;
weight, 1a5 pounds, total decrease of % 1-2
pounds since the beginning of his fast.
The new census gives the following
population to the cities named: New Or
leans, 2l5,23O; Richmond, Va, 60, 24S; Nash
vile, 43,453; Dallas, Tex, 80, 1866; Mobile,
%, 600; Little Rock, Is, 700; Knoxville, Tenn. 1,
1928, and Macon, Ca, 1865.
THE reported serious illness of Sena-
tor Cameron is contradicted upon the au-
thority of that gentleman himself, who de-
i, L. folt l. 70
1t is now reported that he will take an active
part in the canvass.
DIR. c. B. WHITE, Sanitary Director
Of the Auxiliary Sanitary Association, and
DR.. Jones, President of the Board OF Health,
certify there is not case Of yellow fever in
New Orleans, nor has there been case in
that city this summer.
THE survey of the Mississippi River,
under the direction of the Coast Survey, will
not begin until October, when the weather
becomes more suitable. 1t is then proposed
to place seven parties on the lower river, and
to press the work forward with all the en-
ergy consistent with accurate work.
GEN. NEAL Dow has written letter
accepting the nomination for the Presidency
by the National Prohibition party. He says
that "he considers the suppression of the
liquor traffic to be an object of far greater
importance than any other claiming the at
tention Of the country"
THE Secretary of War has ordered
Gen. Pope to turn over to the civil authori-
ties Payne and his followers, arrested for
trespassing upon Indian territory, and mean
while the Attorney General is to determine
upon the method of prosecution to which
they will be subjected.
DURING the month of June there ar
rived in the United States z, 567 immigrants.
OF this number Ireland furnished the larg-
est quota, and Germany the next largest.
The immigrant arrivals at the port OF New
York alone for the year ending June 80 were
263, 726, against 2,224 for the preceding
twelve months.
THE State Department is in receipt
of information that the vessel which recently
fired on two American schooners in Cuban
waters was the Canto, small screw steamer
belonging to the Spanish navy. No formal
presentation of the case will be made to the
Spanish Government until the report of Adj
miral Wyman has been received.
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The Mississippi State Board of Health
on the 18th passed an order that no railroad
cars shall be allowed to enter Mississippi,
and no steamboat or other water craft shall
be allowed to land at any point in the State,
unless they have undergone examination by
an officer of the National Board of Health.
Persons from New Orleans must have GER
tificates that they have not been exposed to
infection.
IT is said that large amount of
fraudulent scrip, purporting to be abstracts
of title to lands in Marshall County, Kans.,
has been negotiated in Ohio, principally in
Lorraine County. Many persons in that sec
ton, of limited means, who purchased with
the purpose Of becoming permanent resi-
dents in Marshall County, have been victim
lied. The lands thus sold, and to which no
title whatever is conveyed, are what are
known as the "Larimer Lands" lying in
the northern portion of Marshall County.
THE July report of the Department
of Agriculture indicates large increase in
the acreage under tobacco in several States,
and a generally promising condition of the
crop. Oats, except in the Gulf States, are
good; potatoes are everywhere abundant and
free from disease; rye and barley are up to
the average. Fruits of all kinds are excel
lent and plentiful. Wool-growing has been
very extensively carried on in many of the
States this year. In Kansas the increase in
the yield is AZ per cent; in Texas and Ne
braska Is per cent; in the Territories the
average increase is 20 per cent. Only in
California and New Hampshire has there
been falling off.
IT is stated that instructions have been
sent to the District Attorney for the Western
District of Arkansas to prosecute Payne and
all other invaders of the Indian Territory |
who have been guilty of a second trespass.
The law is that on being caught the first
time, trespassers shall be turned off an In |
dian reservation, and warned; for the second |
offense they are liable to prosecution and
fine. Payne, of the twenty-five captured, |
is the only one whom the military authori-
ties have any knowledge of being tres |
passer for the second time. Further inquiry |
as to whether others of the party have been |
guilty will be made.