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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08
New Theory OF Lightning.StrOkes.

Professor COLLATION., of Geneva, has
made some interesting observations on
the course of lightning when it strikes
trees and houses. He holds that the
great discharges which in ure trees and
houses seldom or never happen while
the lightning has an unObstructed
course-which it has along the thin up
per branches of trees, where birds and
their nests are often left quite uninjur-
ed by its descent. But it is where the
electric current reaches the thick stem
that the tree becomes a worse and
worse conductor; and it is here, there
fore, that the tree is what is called
struck-i. G. here that the electricity,
failing to find an unobstructed channel
to the earth. accumulates in masses,
and gives out shocks which rend the
tree. And the same is true of houses
whose neutrality-suspicious. stop short
of the ground. Professor Culladon has
also shown that the close neighborhood
of pool of water is great attraction
to the electric current, and that the
electricity often passes down a house
or tree till it is near enough to dart
straight across to the water; and he
thinks that, where possible, lightning
conductors should end in a spring or
pool of water. Professor Colladon be-
lieves that lightning descends rather i'll
a shower-througha multitude of vines,
for instance in the same vineyard-than
in a single main stem. 1t divides itself
among all the upper branches of a tree,
and is received from hundreds of at
mospheric points at once instead of, as
has been usually supposed, from one.
Electricity is a rain, number of tribu-
taries from a wide surface, not single
torrent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08
Her Diamond Earrings.
They cost. S25O

They cost $3.50.
They live in cheap flat very near a
broad, but dirty avenue.
Bread and tea for breakfast, ditto for
lunch and cheap restaurant dinner.
Not whole comb or decent hair
brush in the house.
But pair of $3.50 diamond earrings.
These are the fruits of economy and
she wears them to market.
He wears a $3.50 gold watch which
matches the diamonds.
But they need a new clothes line. The
old one broke yesterday and the glass
has not been repaired in the kitchen
window.-N y Graphic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08

The mule has met his match. 1t
was in Delaware. He kicked over a
beehive. He died the next day. The
little bee is never too busy to decline
an invitation to fight
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08

Two taxpayers of Baltimore came
into court the other day and demanded
that their assessments be increased. the
the one by an additional $50, 900 and
the other plump 100000. 1t was sc
ordered.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08

I'm Ttusville. Pa. few DAYS AGO,
Mrs. Joseph Bushnell died from the
effects of kissing the dead body of her
father ten days before, while attending
his funeral in Pittsburgh. Her father
died of erysipelas, and at the time men,
toned she had a sore on her lips,
through which her blood was poisoned.
Her little daughter Ella, is not expected
to live from kissing her mother.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-07-08
A terrible harvest accident occurred few

y tcTTIDle UdGNtst dCCiucHt ~ y"
days ago near Republic, Greene County.
Owing to the scarcity of harvest hands the
wife of John L. sumner was driving the
reaper in the wheat-field, when by some
means she was thrown from her seat to the
ground i'm front of the sickle, which man
gled her most horribly. Her right arm was
cut off below the elbow, her left arm nearly
severed above the elbow, and the left side Of
her breast horribly cut. Her injuries were
so serious that, despite the attendance of q
surgeon, death ensued the following night.
Her husband was at work i'm another part Of
the field, and, unaware of the nature of the
accident, after considerable difficulty cap
tured the team. He did not suspect the dis
astrous consequences of the runaway until
he saw the blood on the sickle. Mrs. Sumner
leaves five children, one a small infant.
The Missouri State Teachers Association,
recently held at the State University at CO.
lumbia, was largely attended by prominent
educators from nearly every part of the
State, and the exercises were generally OF
most interesting character. Among the pa
pers presented deserving Of special mention
were those Of Prof. McApally, on Anglo
Saxon Literature; Natural History, by Miss
Ohlen: Secondary Schools, by Prof. Kemp
er, LaLln ny
Education i'm Missouri, by President Laws;
Normal Work, by Miss Bibb; Ventilation Of
School Buildings, by Prof. Woodward, and
the Press as an Educator, by Prof. Harris.
Britton A. Hill, Chairman Of the Green
back State Executive Committee Of Missouri,
has issued a proclamation changing the date
of the State Convention at Sedalia from
June so to July IA.
A Mr.. Morgan was struck by lightning and
instantly killed while at work in a wheat
field at Aullville, Lafayette County, on the
oath. Several others were badly shocked.
Mary Moore, wife of John Moore, who
lived just outside the city limits Of Jeffer-
son City, committed suicide on the night Of
the oath by cutting her throat with q
razor. There was some suspicion at
first that it was a case Of muir
der, Moore and his wife having
lead q quarrelsome life, and he was tenn
porarily locked up; but the evidence before
the Coroner's Jury went to show insanity on
the part Of the wife, who had once been an
inmate of an asylum, and verdict was rem
dered i'm accordance Herewith and the hus-
band discharged.
Orders issued at the War Department di.
rect the Chief Of Ordnance, upon the proper
fequisition, to deliver to the Blair Monu
ment Association Of St. Louis twelve con-
demned bronze cannon for a monument q
the late Maj. Gen. Frank z. Blair, Jr.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Future of the Republic.

When, in 1776, the thirteen North Ameri- can colonies put forth that Declaration of Independence which preluded the birth of a nation, the combined population inhabiting them did not exceed 2,500,000 souls. Yet they had the courage to throw down the gage of battle to power 'Fwith which," in Daniel Webster's words, s'for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, was not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and mil itary posts whose morning drum-beat, fol- lowing the sun and keeping company wit the hours, circles the earth with one continu- ous and unbroken strain of martial airs of England" Fourteen years later came, in 1790, the first census of population taken in the United States, and it was found that with in the borders of the young nation there were not quite 4, GOO, 900 souls At the expiration of ten years it appeared, upon taking the second census, that the population was ht- tie more than ,, ,25O, 1000, having increased be- tween 179O and 1900 at the rate of 35 per cent In a short time the tenth census of what has long been mighty people will be taken, and we risk little in saying that, in Jo- seph Hume's phrase, ''the tottle of the whole'' will show population of at least 50,- oOO GOO, especially if the immigrants who are now pouring into the United States in vast numbers are not omitted from the calcula- tion- In other words, the population of the great republic Tn 1850 will be the1r population in 1776 multiplied by twenty, and were it likely that the same ratio of increase could be maintained for another century, the mind of man would sink before the effort Of imagin- ing what it is possible for the monster repub- lie to be in 1880. However boundless the re- sources of the North American continent may be, it can hardly be expected that the second centenary of the United States will be cele- brated by a thousand million human beings, and yet such would be the result of multiply ing fifty millions by twenty. Anyhow it $ certain that century hence no such assem- blaze of men speaking the same languagea
 amenable to the same general traditions of feeling, habit and education. will have been gathered together upon earth as will then probably occupy the great western conti- nent.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Singular Attempt to swindle Negro

From the Montgomery (Ala.l Advertiser.l
 few days ago one of the colored tenants of well-known business man of the city came from the plantation, several miles dis tant and informed his landlord that he would have to leave the farm and lose his six months work and all his claim upon the crop, etc. He said that the farm was overrun with snakes that his wife had been made sick by them, and that he knew they would die if they did not at once get away. The landlord proceeded to examine into the matter. He found that two men from the city, both of whom are we'll known, had been out to his place and played remarkable trick upon his colored tenant. These two men, finding the colored mans wife sick, told him that snakes had caused her illness; that the place was full of them that there were snake eggs in the house and in the water, and in fact, snakes were in everything about the premi- ses. The poor negroes were nearly fr1ghten- ed out of their wits, and begged to know what they must do. The men replied that they could cure the woman and banish the snakes one of them telling the negro that if he would give him $100 he would cure his wife and drive all the snakes into purgatory. In order to carry out the deception one of the white men took a load-stone from his pocket, and touching steel pen to it, told the negro that it would point to where there were snake eggs in the house. Turning to- ward the door, the white man walked to 1t, and over it found two Egyptian snake eggs
 When the negro saw this his eyes nearly flew from their sockets Placing the eggs on a table, one of the white men lit a match and set the end of the egg on fire, and in due time snake burned out Of the egg. As soon as the form of the snake appeared, one of the white men pretended to be greatly afraid of it, took it up and threw it into the fire be- fore the negro could discover the deception. They then repeated the same trick with the second egg, and by this time the negroes
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
NON-EXPLOsIVE.
Said sharp little Paddy Muldoon We can't go swimming too soon. So he and his pal
 Jumped in the canaL-y

Syracuse Times.
 s'There that explains where my clothes line went to-" exclaimed an Iowa woman, as she found her husband hanging in a stable.
 Change of Key.-s'What carrot headed lit tie urchin is that, madam ?" s'Why, he's my youngest son." 'EYou don't say sol What a dear little sweet doye-eyed cherub ?"
 Echo Answers-''What to Eat and How to Cook It. is the name of a book recently published What to Eat and Where to Get It. D would meet with a livelier sale just now.
 well-dressed gentleman stopped and said to the negro man, ''You ought to be ashamed of yourself to encourage those boys to ight?'' 'FWhy, Lor', boss, D was the response, ''dem's my own childrens."
 'I curse the hour we were married !" ex- claimed an enraged husband to his better half. To which she mildly replied Don't, my dear, for that was the only happy hour we have ever seen"
 gentleman being asked whether he was seriously injured when steam boiler ex- ploded, is said to have replied that he was so used to be blown up by his wife that mere steam had no effect on him.
 A young clergyman seems to have con- pressed the whole body of his sermon on 'tdeceit" in the following ''Oh, my breth- ren, the snowiest shirt-front may conceal an aching bosom, and the stiffest of all collars encircle throat that has many bitter pill to swallow ?!
 One afternoon there was a crowd of excited darkies in an alley near the Galveston News office gathered around two negro boys who had clenched each other and were fighting away for dear life on tho ground. There was one negro man present and he urged the com- batants not to give up. ''Gouge him in de eye, Bil!'' Sam, if you give in I'll tan yer hide for yer. If you whips Bill Tse got a quarter for yer.''
 The mother of two sons, twins, met one of the brothers in a field one morning. (Which of you two boys am I speaking to?' asked the mother ''Why do you ask ?'' inquired the lad, prudently. Because if it is your brother will box his ears.'' ''It is not my brother, it is I.' 'sThen your brother is wearing your coat, for yours has hole in it. D ''No, mother, I am wearing my own coat D Good heavens" cried the mother, looking at him intently, "You are the brother after all lp'
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
COMMUNICATIONS.
A Caution.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Since the Democratic nomination has been made, I hear false rumor afoat in regard to the nominee Hancock It is circulated by Democrats to influence weak minded Repub- licans. The report is that General Hancock is a Republican, and that he never voted a Democratic ticket. That is false. He is a strong Democrat. There is quite large class of Republicans that are easily influenced. They will say, Well, he is good man and a Republican too, and we will vote for him and try change" Now, gentlemen, you of that class do as the father told his son: Stick to your trade If you change, it will be detri mental to you. In conclusion I will say :: When the time comes go to the polls and cast your vote solid for Garfield and we can elect him as easy as rolling off log.
 A VOTER.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Price Four Cents.

were trembling with fear and ready to co anything in order to escape the terrors which they believed had seized upon them The white men then pressed their demand for $1OO to cure the woman and drive the snakes away.
 The negro man mounted his mule and started to see his landlord in order to raise the means and cancel his engagement. But when the landlord visited the place, he at once saw the trick that had been played upon his tenants and exposed it. The two eggs had been placed over the door by one of the white men, while the other was talking to'the negroes, and this explains the appearance of the two eggs. It is said that these white men lave been on several farms in different parts of the country and played this trick at places where there happened to be sick persons. But for the prompt act of the landlord in this case, however, he would have lost two good tenants and the poor negro would have lost $10O.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
CATARRH. Its Nature, Symptoms, Re- suits and Cure. By Dr. Lighthill of New
 York City. At No. I59 Chapel Street,
 New Haven, On Monday, Tuesday, We'd nesday and Thursday
 of each week.

Among the list of chronic diseases which affect the human frame, Catarrh is the most prevalent most of fensive productive of discomfort and most na- ble to variety of dangerous and distressing compE cations. Thousands annually hastened to prem ature grave from it's pernicious effects, and doubt thousands at this moment slowly perishing under its fatal influence ignorant of the of their de- cnng health. It was, in fact the destructive inu- of this disease and its alarming prevalence that first attracted attention and induced to give the subject our special attention.
 When first commenced investigations but little known of catarrh It generally looked upon a mere local complaint of importance but experience established the fact that in reali ty catarrh is deep-seated, complex and often
 gnant disease apt to spread to every portion of mucous membrane invading in turn the cavities of the head and ears the throat bronchial tubes and air cells of the lungs and often extending to the stomach bladder and other organs lined by the mucous mem- brane. In 1855 first published the results of our
 Investigations, and since then 1t has been our special object to famiarize the public mind through
 lectures and the medium of the press with the nature tendency and destructive consequences of catarrhal disease and to awaken that interest in regard to its timely and judicious treatment whcl, it's importance depaDds
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Treatment and Cure.

The scientific method of treatment which we have originated and perfected by years Of practical exper eraicates the disease the system complete Iy and permanently. This fact have demonstrated in ousands of cases representing the disease in eve ry form and in all various stages of development Our applications reach the diseased part in the most direct nanner instantaneously penetrating every cell and cavity of the head communicating with the trils and subjecting every portion of the affected membrane to the healng action of the remedy em- poyed with the most benefcia results, and without causing the least pain or unpleasant sensation
 Indeed, effective is the plan of medication that single application is productive of decided relief the offensive smell is removed the discharge dimin- ishes irritation is aayed the inflammation subsidies, ulcerations heal and nnaly radical and permanent cure is effected fie19 It
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02

The following from the Boston Advertiser, reads rather queerly: tFor several years the older graduates of Harvard have been nj to induce them to adopt the custom of set ting forth for their classmates and friends or Commencement day some milder beverage. The criticisms of the press and visitors to commencement have been-even within two years-severe, and it has been the regret of hundreds of graduates that such criticisms were in any measure warranted by facts. It must have been, therefore, exceedingly gratifying to the alumni yesterday to notice the results of the new experiment. The example of the older classes, who provide nothing stronger than claret at their class-rooms, and who never allow the lemonade bowl to be empty, is having an effect, and those who have in- terested themselves individually in having the question submitted to the vote of each class of graduates are to be congratulated. It is undoubtedly the opinion of the alumni as body, that yesterday was in the respect intimated the most enjoyable commencement for many years" That Harvard is growing temperate is truly cause for joy
 The Journal of Commerce has taken to putting New York as summer resort, and it must be confessed that pretty good case is made out. In the latest published returns for June the weekly statement for New York represents an annual death rate of 23.5 per 1000 inhabitants. But in Concord, N. H., it was 26 in New Bedford, Mass, 34.7 |; Marblehead, Mass, 27.8 Sing Sing, N. Y., 62.6 Plainfeld, N. J., 26; Wilmington, Del, 26.6; Baltimore, Md, 25.7 :; Cincin- natl, Ohio, 24.7 These are localities gener- ally deemed healthy and would probably re- sent the insinuation that a residence there is less conducive to longevity than one in New York. Going well South we come upon statistics exhibiting even more favorable contrast for New York The death rate of the District of Columbia for the 29.4; Charleston, S. O., 32; Savannah, Ga. 31.4 Augusta, Ga., % Selma, Ala, 44.2 i; New Orleans, La., SIP; Brownsville, Texas, 28.4; Nashville, Tenn, 32.4 Clarksville, Tenn, 43.4. Going abroad, in Berlin the death rate was 266; in Hamburg, 25.4 in Vienna, 25.8; in Buda-Pesth, All in Co., penhagen, 25S; in Stockholm, 35.9; in Ge- neva, 25; in Amsterdam, 2S.5; in Rotter- dam, 29.8; in Cadiz, 32.9 in Havana, 43.5 in Shanghai (the foreign settlement), 1O4.4, and in Kobe, Japan, 34.9. The London pa- pers have something to crow over, for the death rate there was only 1S.5.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Development of Consumption.

As the disease fastens itself upon its victims, after another the vital powers give way the patient loses flesh and strength languid unable to per- form mental physical labor with the usual facility
 The appetite becomes weak and capricious, resuF scarcely to be wondered at when take into consid eratfon the large amount of offensive secretion from the head and throat, which is continually being veyed to the stomach by the food and drink pass es down during sleep
 The mucous membrane becomes morbidly sensitive and, in spite of the utmost care becomes affected from the slightest causes that at last breath of wind upon the lining the throat becomes productive of cold and gives rise to serious distur bance of the respiratory organs Thus the patient is subject to frequent and repeated colds, each gravating the disease by giving it impulse, and attacking larger extent of surface than its predeces sor In this manner the catarrh spreads from organ to organ, invading the throat Iarynx and bronchial tubes untiI encroaching further and further it final y reaches the lungs Let the lesson be borne in mind which experience teaches day that to neglect the proper treatment of catarrh is to die with consmp ton.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02

does not undertake to carry passengers there, but smoking cars are intended for passengers to use and the company is irresponsible for in- juries sustained in those cars. This ruling was followed by $12,0oO verdict from the jury
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
Discharge from the Head.

Catarrh manifests itself by discharge from the head, varying in it's nature in different cases and in the individual at different times may be thn colorless, acrid huid glairy starch like substance; generally, however, 1t is thick, purulent matter, either greenish-yel deep green tint, occasionally streaked hecked with blood So copi- and offensive is the discharge in many that the patient feels though his whole head in state of corruption Again, the offensive matter de- posts itself in the nasal cavities in the shape of dry incrustations, which, in cases, accumulate to such extent as to form plug, obstructing breath ing and producing serious discomfort. Fragments of these morbid concretions occasionally pass into the throat but most generally they are blown from the with considerable volence in pieces of from or two inches in length, either solid tubular in form, often bearing the exact shape of the nasal avitv
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02

JOSEPH SONNENBERG, Real Estate and Exchan@e Broker, ~ss.,s er-f 238 CHAPEL STREET. n n nAn Spanish Doubloone&afted. United AVaUOOStates per cent Bonds and For eigH |securties bought and sold and dividends paid in United States currency Tenement for rent of George and Day streets, 5 rooms, 8 per month. Also Gold and Silver exchanged at the office of
 JOSEPH SONNENBERG,
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02

The new oath for the French soldiers is a erence to God or the republic. It will be sworn on the 14th of July, and is as follows ''In the name of the regiment, I swear on my honor to remain faithful to the constitu- tion, and to defend this flag until death"
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02

,sp4A A NEW AND COMMoDIOUS HOUSE or M,,H Sherman avenue handsomely hfted with mod MiI ern conyeniences, and most pleasantly located Win be sold at great bargain Inquire at
 myl2 dtf THIS OFFICE.
Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The cheering spectacle of nine more or less wrecked steamboats could be seen in the port of New York Wednesday.
 It cost $700 to nominate Ha7lcock, and the money was thrown away, as the large sum that will be spent to save him from defeat will be.