Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-01-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
President Hayes visited Philadelphia {
the 26th and dined, in company with Gel
Grant and others, at the residence Of e.
Minister Welsh.
William Hepworth Dixon, an extensi,
traveller and popular writer, and for mar
years the editor Of the London Athen0ani,
dead.
General Grant visited Washington on til
9th, where he was the guest Of Gen. Beal,
an old California friend. At his own reque,
there was no public demonstration.
Right Rev. Bishop P. A. Feehan, Of th
Nashville Diocese, has been selected by tn
Vatican as successor to the late Bishop Fole
Of Chicago. Bishop Feehan was born
County Tipperary, Ireland, and is about :
years of age. He was for several years
pastor in St. Louis, and was created Bisho
of Nashville in 1865.
Gov. Van Zandt of Rhode Island has bee
rendered the Russian Mission, but decline
to accept.
George, the Count Joannes, a well know
character in New York City-lawyer, autho
and tragedian-is dead.
Gen. Grant and suite left Washington OF
the 3Oth for Fernandina, Fla, via Richmond
Charleston and Savannah. At Fernandin
they were to take steamer for Havana, Cuba
Gen. Sheridan and wife were of the party.
The Pennsylvania Republican State Con
vention will be held at Harrisburg, Feb. 4.
The Indiana Republican State Convention
will be held at indianapolis, June IL.
Hon. George s. Houston, United State
Senator from Alabama, died at his home a
Athens on the 31st ult. Senator Houston
was a native of Tennessee, born in 1911, bu
removed to Alabama when boy. He served
several terms in the House of Representa-
tives; was elected Governor of his State il
1867, and entered upon his term Of Senator
in March, 1879.
The Kentucky Legislature met on the 3ls
ult.
Charles Stewart Parnell, NJ. p, the Irisf
land reform agitator, arrived in New Yorl
on the I'd. He was met down the bay by
committee of citizens and given Il formal re.
ception. Mr.. Dillon accompanied Mr.. Par.
nell, and the two will visit the principal cite,
of the United States and speak in aid of the
Land League and Irish relief fund.
The Maine Supreme Court was called to.
gether at Bangor, on the I'd, to consider ques.
tiOns i'm reference to the late election in that
State submitted by Gov. GarcelOn. Some ex.
citement was caused at Augusta, on account
of an armed guard having been placed in the
State house.
An official call has been issued for the Ma.
tional Republican Convention, to meet al
Chicago on Wednesday, the I'd day of JUNE
next, for the nomination of candidates fol
President and Vice ePresident.
Alonzo Cornell was formally inaugurated
Day.
Ferdinand De Lesseps, the eminent French
engineer, accompanied by a number of his
capitalists, engineers and saw
ants, arrived at AspinwaIl on the 31st ult
NJ. De Lesseps' object is to look over the
ground OF his proposed Inter-oceanic Canal
The Maine Supreme Court on the Sd pub
lished an opinion upon the points arising in
the canvass i'm that State as submitted by
Gov. Garcelon. The opinion, which is
signed by all the seven Judges, is in nearly
every particular adverse to the action taken
by the Governor and Council.
Bishop Gilbert Haven, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, died at the residence of
his mother in Maiden, Mass, on the Sd, after
an illness of several weeks duration. He
was born in Maiden, September 10, 1921.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Cen
sus, expresses the opinion that the coming
census will show the population OF this
country to be between forty-seven millions
and forty eight millions. Without attempt
ing to go into details, he said there would be
found to be quite large increase Of popu-
lation in the Western States, particularly in
Kansas, Iowa and Minnesota. The South
ern States, he said, would also show an in
crease in population. The largest relative
increase, perhaps, in any State in the Union.
would be found in Texas, while Missouri,
Tennessee and Northern Alabama would
also show decided increase. He did not
believe that there would be any actual de-
cline in the population of any of the States,
North or South.
The Postmaster-G General has issued an or
der directing the Postmaster at New York
City to refuse payment of postal orders or
Of registered letters to certain al
legged swindling firms Of so-called bankers
and brokers, purporting to do business on
the stock combination system.''
The December report of the Department
Of Agriculture indicates large increase Of
the area sown in winter wheat, especially in
Illinois, Oregon, Kansas and In
diana, ranging from IA to 20 per cent. There
is a decline in Alabama, Mississippi and Ar
kansas. The average increase, taking all the
wheat States, is about IL per cent.
The Grocers' Bank of New York, one of
The oldest banks in the city, has suspended
payment on account of some recent heavy
failures affecting its resources.
The public debt statement, issued Janua-
ry 2, shows the decrease of debt for Decem-
ber to be 81 251 ,217; cash in Treasury, $780,
}S3 ,903; certificates of deposit outstanding,
S10, ,245,O 900; legal tenders outstanding, $3i6,-
s2,014; fractional currency outstanding
S15, ,674, 1903.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The steamer Prairie City, plying on the
Wabash River, Ind, between New Harmo-
ny and Wabash Station, on the st. Louis and
Railroad, blew up on the 9th
ult. The fireman, cabin boy and cook were
missing. The body Of Mrs. Capt. Mcintyre
was found on the shore with both arms off.
Capt. Cox, who was at the wheel, was blown
up with it and fell in the wreck, beneath the
debris; he had one arm broken, his ankle
sprained, and was otherwise cut and
bruised. The engineer escaped with slight
injury. The survivors escaped on a barge
in tow, and were taken to New Harmony for
medical aid.
Two men, Sam Woodruff and Joe Sim
the latter half-breed Indian,
charged with the murder of r. b. Hayward
in September last, were taken from the Jail
1t Golden, Colo, on the night of the 9th ult.,
BY masked mob numbering about 15O men,
md hanged to a bridge. Simmonds confessed
hat himself and Woodruff were the guilty
parties, but Woodruff persistently declared
mis- innocence of the crime. The preliminary
egal examination Of the prisoners, it is said,
eft no doubt as to their guilt.
A terrible disaster has occurred in Scot
and. On the night of the 2Sth ult. the rail-
way bridge across the Firth and Tay was
blown down while train from Edinburgh
to Dundee was crossing, and the entire train
was precipitated into the water and the pas
,onDorS oil drnwuod Tho n,.mhar Of livas