Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-11-04

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The income of the London guides
ID estimated at 5000. 900 year.
The Doomsday Book of Ireland
credits Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell
with 1882 acres, valued at 81 ,4SO a
year.
| "A Kentucky negro married white
woman, and had got as far as Someset
on his bridal tour when she committed
suicide.
| -Ailarge number of Boston street car
conductors have been caught using lit
tie bells which they concealed in their
hands, instead Of the punches.
The freshmen At the various colleg-
! es at Cam bridge, in England, in OctO-
her numbered 701, as against 500 last
year, showing = diminution of 1O7.
In the streets OF Milan and Naples
a song is now very popular in which is
described the life aud death of Pietro
Balbo, lately hanged in New York.
-Du bin continues to be q very un-
healthy city. During the thirteen
weeks ending Oct. 2 the death rate av-
eraged 34.6 per 900, against q. 8 in
London and 2l.8 in Edinburgh.
"A reiigiously insane woman at Bar
ton, Mass, goes about the neighl,Or-
hood every morning delivering person.
al messages which she believes she
has received from heaven during the
night.
-"Don't listen to that fool" said
Broker Huey tn Broker Taylor in the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange. I'm
no more . fool than you are q ras-
CAL" was the retort. Then they
fought.
old BetZ, Sioux squaw, who died
recently atthe reputed age of more than
a hundred years, had been successfully
the wife of an army officer, an Indian
chief q border highwayman, and q
Methodist missionary.
"A California farmer got consilera-
BILE fun out of what had been an annoy
ance by placing q stuffed deer in his
grain field. The hunters, after empty
ing a large amount of ammunition into
the animal, and discovering the fraud,
never tresspass again.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company and the Pullman Car Com
pany are involved in lawsuit at Bal
timOre. The railroad people are build
ing large number Of drawing-roOm
cars after the Pullman model, claiming
that the patents are invalid.
Eight hundred carloads Of lucious
grapes were recently shipped from Flor
ence to Germany. The grapes were
preserved by new refrigerating process
that kept them as fresh OH reaching
their destination as when they were
gathered from the vineyards.
The officers of the Methodist church
at Romeo, Mich, wanted the Rev. John
Kelly for pastor. hut failed to get him.
They have formally declared that their
Bishop. by sending Kelly elsewhere,
has COMMITTED III outrage ON him
and insulted the Romeo church.
"A small hoy was arrested in Mil
waukee suburb at night, and thus cut
sliort in his career as q highwayman.
He were q black mask, carried o dark
lantern, and was armed with two pis-
ta1s. In his pocket was found 1.-The
Nfe. and Adventures of Jack Shep-
pard."
On the preserves of Lord Derby a
power gang of pOachers, amply pro-
vided with brickbats and armed with
bludgeOns, recently beat off fourteen
keepers and police, leaving half of
them so seriously injured on the ground
asto require the assistance OF their COM
rades, while the poachers went off with
their plumber.
The merchants of Carondelet, Mo-,
have what they call 1.-THE Book OIL
Beats" in which are the names Of per-
sons who do not pay their debts. The
Rev. Mr.. Schofield is therein recorded,
and$the fact was lately stated i'm public,
ny Deacon Hall, as disgraceful tn him.
The church held an investigation, lis
tened to the clergyman's assurances
that he would pay if he could, and vOt-
ed that he vas All honest man.
Jack Rafferty, made a " ager that
he could drink without paying in every
saloon on Spring street, Jefersonville,
Ind. He got safely into and out Of sew
en- places, but in the eighth, when he
said, "Hang it up" the bartender gave
him a dreadful whipping. There were
six more bars to cover, and he strug- |
gled on; but his appearance was now
against him, and ut the eleventh his
skull was fractured with club; so he
lost the bet. |
Capt. Bates and his wife, formerly
the giants Of Barnum's show, recently /
made the overland journey from San
Francisco. They are each nearly eight
feet long, and the sleeping-car berths
are only six. In order to secure com
bed, thew took theopposite acc
tions. connected the upper berths with /
an adjustable place, and laid themselves
Of the car. the other passen- |
gers kindly consenting to the partial
of the passage at night.