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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-03

For the CHEAPEST CALICOS in
town, go to FL. N. DEATRICK, s..
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-03

Pers Corn Solvent is sure cure.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Oxford and Cambridge UNIVERSE
ty boat race was rowed over the usual
course on the Thames, from Putney to
Mortlake, on the 22d. The Oxford crew
won easily by three and one-half lengths.
JOHN QUINN, aged So, a leader of tho
Fenian Invasion of Canada in 1853, hanged
himself at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 21st.
THE Emperor Williams eighty-third
birthday was celebrated on the 22d. Among
the royal dignitaries assisting at the festivi-
ties were Prince Alexander of Bulgaria and
his father, Prince Alexander Of Hesse,
brother Of the Empress of Russia; King Al
bert and the Crown Prince of Saxony; the
ducal families Of Baden, Anhalt, Mecklen-
burg Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz
and other distinguished persons.
AT Alma, Colo, on the ,22d, w. J.
Porter, a hard character, shot and killed
Thos. Carmody. The murder was unpro-
voked. In less than an hour about fifty un-
mas;xcd citizens gathered and hung Porter
to the ridge-pole Of the Jail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
Dogs In Constantilople.

Monday morning we started on foot
to see the sights of the city. The day
was pleasant, and the mud drying fast
so that walking was not SO bad. In
fact, it would be impossible to traverse
many of the little narrow, crooked
streets in a carriage. The sidewalks,
where there are any, are not more than
two or three feet wide, and the pave
ment consists of large round stones,
without any attempt at level surface.
After passing on through the quarter in
which our hotel is situated, called Pera,
we came into a more densely crowded
part called Galata, where the people
thronged the way, and now and then q
packhorse or donkey crowded though.
At every step the yellow dogs seemed
determined to be trodden under foot.
There are more yellow dogs to the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

who conducted the negotiations for the sur
render of the Ute prisoners, has been APP
pointed Minister to Bolivia. Bret Harte
has been appointed United States Consul at
Glasgow.
GEN. j. III. SIMPSON, for many years
stationed at st. Louis in charge Of river i'm
provements, has been retired from service at
his own request, and will be succeeded by
Capt. Ernst, of the Engineer Corps. Gen.
Simpson graduated at West Point in 1918,
and has been in constant service for forty
eight years.
THE Illinois State Greenback-Labor
Convention will be held at Springfield, April
81, to select delegates to the Chicago Con-
vention.
FRANK G. FALLS, former resident
of Memphis, together with four negroes,
were drowned at Walnut Bend, Ark, by the
capsizing of skiff, on the 18th.
A DUEL was fought in Brunswick
County, Va, on the 10Th, between r. A.
Raney, young lawyer, and Richard Jolly.
" drummer" The latter was wounded in
the right arm. A second fire was about be-
ing had when the whole party were cap
tured by the Sheriff. The affair originated
in discussion about State politics.
VIM. B. PIERsoN was hanged at
Geneseo, N. Y, on the 10Th, for the murder
of L. B. Whitney, by poison, in January,
1877. The victims wife, whom Pierson
subsequently married, was tried as an
accessory to the crime, but was acquitted.
SAMUEL H. MYERS was hanged at
Cleburne, Tex, on the 18th, for the murder
of Mrs A. Hester, in February, 1877.
JOHANNES DEBoER, aged II, was
hanged at Pontiac, ILL.,, on the 18th, for the
murder, in October last, Of Ella Martin, a
young girl of about the same age, under cir
cumstances of peculiar atrocity.
CHARLES c. TAYLOR, city editor of
the Philadelphia Times, shot himself on the
14th, while in state of mental alteration,
and has since died.
GEORGE III. HAMMOND, an actor of
some repute, committed suicide at Boston
on the 18th. His stage name was George II.
Hillman.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

A curious story is going the rounds of
the English newspapers of an exhibition
in the show windows of one of the lead
ing jewellers of Vienna. The object of
attraction is q brooch magnificently
studded with gems, in the middle of
whose chasing is inclosed the most sim
gular of centers-four common, old,
bent and corroded pins. This brooch Is
the property of the Countess Lavet-
skofy. The pins have q history, of
course. Seven years ago Count Robert
Lavetskofy, as the story runs, was ar
rested at Warsaw for an alleged insult
to the Russian Government. The real
author of the insult, which consisted Of
some careless words spoken at social
gathering, was his wife. He accepted
the accusation, however, and was sent
to prison.
In one of the lightless dungeons in
which the Car is said to be fond of
combining his Polish subjects, the unfor-
tunate martyr for his wife's loose tongue
spent six years. He had only one
amusement. After he had been searched
and thrown into a cell, he had found in
his coat four pins. These he pulled out
and threw on the floor; then in the
darkness he hunted for them. Having
found them, perhaps after hours and
even days, he scattered them again.
And SO the game went on for six weary
years. "But for them," he writes In
his memoirs, 81 would have gone mad.
They provided me with a purpose. So
long as I had them to search for, / had
to do. When the decree for
my liberation as an exile was brought to
me the jailer found me on my knees
hunting for one which had escaped me
for two days. They saved my wife's
from lunacy. My wife, there
fore, could not desire prouder orna-
ment."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
Sharpening the Little Ones.

A man never gets an idea of how fast
the world moves until he gets out of his
own sphere into some other. In order
to see how great progress has been
made in teaching. he must get into
modern school-room where the teacher
has kept progress with the age Of inn
provements in the methods of impart-
ing instruction. In the Gold Hill schools
every faculty of the pupil is awakened
and sharpened. Even tables of weights
and measures in the primary classes
are taught as object lessons. They have
the scales and the weights and the
measures right-there, and the scholars
see that it takes sixteen ounces to make
one pound, and four gills to make .
pint, etc., up to the gallon. The result
is that little children from seven to nine
years old will foot up pounds and
ounces, and even fractions Of ounces,
and give the correct total with facility
which is surprising. The same Is true
of measures, including quarts, pints,
gills, etc. But this is not all. They
are taught to form correct estimates Of
the weights Of objects. They are handed
book, or something Of the kind, and
then estimates of its weight are taken.
One of the scholars then weighs the
object and announces the result. The
importance of this kind of practice in
estimating the properties of things will
become apparent one Of these days
when success in life may depend on ac-
curacies Of judgment. The above is
cited only as one of many ways Of sharp
ening the perceptive faculties Of the
children. 1t teaches them to think, and
that is, after all, as good definition as
can be given of real education. And
then, to teach the little ones geography,
they are set to world-building, on .
small scale. They are furnished with
suitable measure of loan in q fitting re-
ceptacle furnished with implements and
construct ranges of mountains and hills
and valleys and plains and canyons and
ravines, and to form all the phases pre-
sented by the solid part of the earth.
Then they go to work and run mines.
Their shafts never get very deep nor
their tunnels long before a cave occurs;
but the theory is exemplified and thor
oughly understood.-Gold HI (Nec.)
NelDs
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
Protest Against Badgering Witnesses.

The habit of falling foul of witnesses
whose testimony is important is very
bad habit, indeed. 1t is entirely proper
to subject important witnesses to a rig
orous cross-examination; but that ex-
animation should be conducted with q
a spirit of Christian kindness and with
perfect fairness. The most truthful
witness often appears to the worst ad-
vantage. The most careful witness will
forget minute details; but because some
trifling fact has slipped the memory it
does not follow that the witness is either
a scoundrel or liar. Because wit
ness is homely, lawyer is not justified
in holding the personal misfortune of
the witpess up to the contempt and de-
rision of the thoughtless multitude.
Nor is it right to make q witness, who,
for all that appears in the case, means
to tell the truth, more odious than the
criminal at the bar. Especially is it
cruel to assail women who appear as
witnesses. Even the strongest and
clearest-headed man can be made to ap-
pear ridiculous by an acute lawyer who
cross-examines him. Some of the most
stupid witnesses that we have ever seen
in the witness-box have been men who
had practiced law for many years. Some
ofthe brightest and olearest witnesses are
mere children. A lawyer, long used to
cross-examining, can embarrass the
shrswdest and most honest witness. He
can turn an honest, but dull and timid
witness into laughing-stock. We
believe that it is the duty of an advocate
to treat hostile witnesses with as much
respect as the Judge upon the bench.
When one descends to making female
witness odious by referring to her per-
sonal appearance it is intolerable.
Things have come to such pass that
it is as much as ones character is worth
to appear as witness against the clients
of some lawyers. Before the case is
ended the witness, though perfectly
honest, is frequently made to appear in
q worse light than any body else, outside
of jail.-NeW Haven Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

square yard in Constantinople than
there are to the square mile in any
other part of the world. The Constan-
tinople yellow dog has no owner, nor
has he much beauty. He makes so
much noise at night that he sleeps late
in the morning, rolled up In
ball with his head between his legs.
When he is hungry he goes into the
nearest butchers shop, and stands I'M
der the carcass of a sheep. His seven
brothers stand by his side, and the
butcher doesn't drive them out, but on
the contrary, when customer comes
in little meat is dropped for the dogs,
and they walk off quietly and sleep
again. When it is cold the yellow dog
doesn't sleep alone. He finds his seven
brothers and his seventeen cousins, and
they all sleep together on the doorstep
or by the curbstone. But some OF these
dogs take pleasure in sleeping alone in
little holes in the middle of the street.
Each dog considers one of these holes
as his own domicile. No other dog
disturbs him, and if you step on him at
night, he only jumps up with yelp,
and you find yourself more hurt than
he is. We tried it, and know that it is
SO. Another fact about these dogs is
that each one has his own quarter, and
recognizes law by which he dares not
leave it, even to obtain food offered
him. A strange dog is at once set upon
and terribly punished, if net killed, for
w. II. Harris, tn Erana-
t7aer and Chronicle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
Newly-Married Couples.

1t is the happiest and most virtuous
state of society in which the husband
and wife set out together, make their
property together, and, with perfect
sympathy of soul, graduate all their ex-
penses, plans, calculations and desires
with reference to their present means
and to their future and common in
terest.
Nothing delights man more than to
enter the neat little tenement of the
young people who within perhaps two
or three years, without any resources
but their own knowledge of industry,
have joined heart and hand, and en-
gage to share together the responsible
ties, duties, interests, trials and pleas
ures Of life. The industrious wife In
cheerfuIy employing her hands in do
mestic duties, putting her house IN or
der or mending her husbands clothes.
or preparing the dinner, while perhaps
the little darling sits prattling ON the
floor or lies sleeping in the cradle, and
every thing seems preparing to welcome
the happiest Of husbands and the best
OF fathers when he shall come home
from his toll to enjoy the sweets of his
little paradise.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
WHAT rs GOING ON IN THE WORLD.

JUDGE MCCRARY in the United States
Court at St. Louis recently rendered an
important, decision in the suit brought
by the United States against the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad for $135, 600 taxes,
falling due between 1864 and 1871. He
ruled that as no assessments and demand
had been made at the time OF until 1877.
when the property had passed into
other hands, no lien could be estab-
ished, and his decision was in favor of
the railroad. aft3
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

DURING an entertainment at the pub
lie hall in Lincoln, Lancaster County,
Pa, on the night of the Goth, the floor
gave way and large portion of the
audience, which numbered 400 or 500
persons, was precipitated to the floor
below. Five persons were killed and
twenty or more injured, some of them
seriOuslv
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

A LOCOMOTIVE on the Pennsylvania
Railroad is reported to have made the
fastest run on record few evenings ago.
It was ordered from the round-house
to the scene Of an accident, and ran 60
miles in 40 minutes and eight seconds.
The engineer, speaking of the run to q
Division Superintendent, said. az was
little skeered once, when / thought I
see freight comm down agin me, but
it was only skeer. I tell you 1t was
mighty purity run, but sometimes her
wheels didn't seem to tech the rails for
q whole minute"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

GEN. MILES, in an official telegram
announcing the presence of Sitting Bull
on United States Territory, states tina
he is reliably informed that while Sioux
war parties have been depredating on
the settlements their camps have been
obtaining supplies from no less than
four Government trading establishments
between the Missouri River and the
boundary line.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
THERE are $4,000 people in Donegal
Ireland, who need relief.

The House Committee on Revision
Of the Laws will report Mr.. Singleton's
bill declaring telegraph messages ex-
empt from unreasonable search and
seizure, and from production as evil
dence in judicial and legislative pro-
eeedings, to the same extent as COM
munications sent by the United States
Mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

THOSE who have traced the problem
back have ascertained that the cat was
born to earth before the mouse was.
The latter was loosely flung together,
given long tail and told to git up and
git or the cat would have him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01
A Test Of Indian Courage.

An Indian inter-tribal fair was held,
not long ago, in the Indian Territory
in order to show some of the results of
civilizing the savages. A number of
tribes attended and displayed articles of
home manufacture, such as needlework,
embroidery, lacework and blankets.
Many of the Indians had their photo
graphs taken, and showed childish de-
light in looking at their faces. Others,
however, could not be persuaded to go
near the camera. Yellow Bear, of the
Arapahos, was the first to pass through
the ordeal of q sitting. He suffered
himself to be properly seated, and the
camera to be brought to bear upon him;
but when the prepared plate was placed
in the box, and the cloth lifted, he
leaped to his feet with a bound, and at
tempted to leave the tent. All attempts
to reason with him failed. At last
Photograph Of Cheyenne, taken some
years ago, was shown to him. He
looked At it a moment, then went quiet
ly back to his chair, and sat there like
statue while his negative was taken. He
explained that no Cheyenne warrior
was a greater brave than he. The gi-
gantic Osages, on the other hand, would
not approach the tent. They said the
camera robs them of their good spirits.
The Kickapoos gave the same reason,
and the photographer was peremptorily
ordered out of their country on that &C
count. The Indian is profound be-
lever in the power of spirits for good
or evil, and takes care never to offend
(Nev. Enterprise.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

age It is anticipated that there will
be lengthy debate on the bill when it
reaches the Senate.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

Occasionally some farmer has great sue
cess in producing potatoes by dropping
the seed on green sward and covering
it with refuse straw, old hay, or other
sorts of litter. When this is the case
he generally informs the public of his
method of cultivating potatoes and for
time it becomes fashionable. Farm
ers who are not successful in this method
of raising potatoes do not say any thing
about it, and as a consequence the pub
lie are in ignorance in relation to the
ratio that exists between failures and
successes. 1t is obvious that raising po-
tatoes under straw or other litter can
never become general for the reason
that sufficient material can not ordina-
rily be obtained for covering the seed.
Still most farmers can raise small patch
in this way to excellent advantage. The
best results are obtained by cutting the
potatoes in pieces of suitable size, drop
ping them on sod after the grass is a
few inches high and covering them to
the thickness of six inches with refuse
hay, straw, or other rubbish. The ad-
dition of well rotted manure, ashes, and
fine soil is an advantage. The rain
will carry them down to the roots of the
potatoes. 1t is not necessary to drop
the potatoes in rows. The pieces may be
placed within foot of each other, as
no cultivation is required. A little earth
thrown over the straw covering
will keep it in place and
preserve the moisture in it. Almost
all the labor required to raise potatoes
in this way consists in handling the ma
terial employed in covering the seed.
The turf soon decays and affords susie
nance for the growing potatoes. The po-
tatoes are very easily harvested in the
fall and come out of the straw almost
as clean as if they had been washed.
object may be accomplished by
planting potatoes on top of the ground.
A harsh, tough sod may be subdued and
brought into condition to produce
good crops another year. A valuable
of plan of covering seed
potatoes with straw consists in opening |
a furrow with pillow, throwing in old |
hay, straw, forest leaves, or sawdust,
then dropping the potatoes, and finally
covering them with earth. The mate
rails thrown in the furrow are favorable
to the formation and growth of the
bulbs. When mature they are quite
clean, and may be dug without bruises
or cuts. A mulch is of great advantage
in raising potatoes. 1t helps retain
moisture and prevents the young and
growing tubers from becoming too
warm during the hot weather in July
and August. A moderately cool tenn
perature and moisture are essential to
The production of good potatoes.-Chi-
c1n0 Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

The Agricultural Department esti-
mates the increase in the value of the
crops raised in 1879. over those of the
previous year at $415,0O0, 900. The
price of real estate has been enhanced
during the same time about 81, OOO,-
OOO. 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

EX-SENATOR CHRIsTIANCY, of Mich
igan, now Minister to Peru, has begun
proceedings for divorce in Washington
against his youthful wife, whom
he charges with various indis-
cretions. Mrs. Christiancy, it is
said, will begin counter-proceedings,
her grounds being ill-treatment, even to
personal castigation, by her aged part
ner. The venerable Michigan Senator's
marriage to the pretty Treasury clerk
created quite social sensation at the
National Capital, and the proceedings
for divorce are likely to furnish the gos-
sips with still more palatable morsel
for their wagging tongues.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

THE political debate on the General
Deficiency bill, which passed the House
on the 10th, was of considerable inter-
est. The amendment offered by Mr..
Garfield, providing that Deputy
Marshals shall be appointed
by Circuit or District Court Judges, in
equal numbers from each political party,
was holly opposed by Messrs. Reed, of
Maine, Williams, of Wisconsin, and
other Republicans, but finally passed by
fifty-three majority, quite q number
OF Republicans voting with Mr.. Garfield
in favor of his amendment. When the
bill was reported from the Committee
of the Whole to the House,
however, all the Republicans,
including Garfield, refused to support
it, on the ground of opposition to gen.
eral legislation in an appropriation bill.
A number of Democrats, headed by Mr..
Buckner, of Missouri, also ranged them
selves in opposition to the hill, as being
in recognition OF the validity of the Fed
eral Election laws, and voted against its
adoption, but enough subsequently
changed their votes to secure its pass.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-01

THE House Committee on Railways
and Canals have agreed to report favor
ably Mr.. .Upson's bill to authorize the
Secretary of War to contract with the
San Antonio and Mexican Border Rail-
way Company for the immediate con
struction' of railroad from San Anto
MO to Laredo. The committee amend
ed the bill by limiting the bonds to be
issued to $4,000 per mile instead of
$4,000, as originally proposed.
THE Maine Legislative Committee ap-
pointed to inquire into the conduct of
Ex-Gov. 'Garcelon and Council have
made report. The committee charge
that the returns were fraudulently doc
tored, for the purpose of counting out
Republicans and thereby securing Flu
sion Governor and Legislature, and de-
clare that the Governor and Council
must have been parties to this al
legged premeditated fraud. Various
appropriations, it is averred, have been
diverted from their legitimate purposes,
and public funds drawn from the Treas
ury without warrant of law. A large
eum of money belonging to the State re-
mains IN the hands of Gov. Garcelon
and other officials of last year, it is
claimed, which should be recovered
back into the Treasury.