Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-12
Editorial Notes.

Editorial Notes.
The first legislative act Of Mr.. Will
liams, the colored member Of the Ohio
Legislature, was the introduction of q
bill to permit the intermarriage Of
whites and blacks.
It is reported that the Rev. Mr.. Hay
den, lately almost acquitted of murder
in juror held out to de-
clare him guilty-intends travelling
about as lecturer.
The fact that the Lake Of Zurich, in
Switzerland, is frozen over for the
fourth time this winter is very cold COM
fort for the men whose ice houses on
the Hudson river still remain empty.
Negotiations are in progress for the
consolidation of the Pullman Palace
Car Company and the Wagner Sleep
ing Car Company, on terms favorable
to the formor. It is good year for
monopilies.
The lower house of California Legis-
lature has appointed committee on
forestry to devise plan for the protec-
ton of forests in the State, that the
rainfall may be regulated in the benefi-
cent manner intended by nature.
Speaking OF the public schools of
Chicago, the Nea0s says: "While the
city cannot afford to instruct its chill
dren in music, drawing, and the lam
guages. it can, and it must provide a
primary education for every little one
within our municipal limits"
In Chicago the murders have averag-
ed one a day since the beginning of
the new year, while it is impossible to
enumerate the crimes of less degree.
If any Southern city had such record
what howl would be raised by the
stalwarts in Congress about it.
One Of those peculiar shareholders
known as italian padrones has been
sentenced to five years in the Albany
penitentiary for lnveigling seven boys
from Italy to beg and play on musical
instruments while he pocketed the cash
receipts and treated the boys as slaves.
According to the Cincinnati Enqmi,-
er it has been ascertained that out OF
2617 Republicans who have been inter-
viewed as to the Presidency, only about
half are for Sherman. The number set
down. for Blaine, IL al. with sums cf
the strongest Blaine districts not heard
from.
The Kansas City Times suggests
that "a Pinafore entertainment for
the benefit of the late lamented Green
back party of Missouri wouldn't be out
Of place just now. Martian Williams
could do Dick Deadeye artistically and
Britton A. Hill would make charm
ing Buttercup"
One of the witnesses before the Sen
ate special committee on negro exodus
testified that there existed belief
among the blacks i'm North Carolina
that the penal laws of Indiana were
less severe than in the Tar-heel State,
and that this probably had some effect
in influencing emigration to Hoosier-
dom.
In response to an invitation to at
tend the annual reception of the Iron
City Tilden Club, of Pittsburg, on the
thirtieth ult., Mr.. Tilden sent the
following sentiment: Obedience to the
choice of the majority as expressed in
the elections is the vital principle of
,self-government, without which its
forms are a sham, representing only
fraud or force.
Mr.. Murrat Halstead, of the Cincin-
: natl Commercial, was the author OF
report that Grant had instructed his
] friends to withdraw him from the field
as q presidential candidate. The New
.. York Herald, which first published it,
, now states that it has made an exami-
i, nation, and finds Mr. Halstead's story
! devoid of grounds to justify it.
{ The Utica Herald thinks if Grant is
the nominee of the Chicago convention
1T will not be because the Republican
masses demand such choice, or even
because the majority of the Republican
politicians desire it. It will rather be
: because few are clamorously and en-
ergetically for it and the rest stand idly
by and permit the few to act tor all.
Says the New Orleans Democrat of
the Sd instant: "The somewhat unusu-
al spectacle is presented in this city
now of orange trees which are in full
blossom though still laden with ripe
fruit. There are not many prettier
sights than that presented by the con-
trasts between the dark satin leaves,
the rich golden fruit and the snowy,
odorous blossoms of the orange"
This is the way the Albany Argue
talks about the Republican plan to
steal the electoral vote of New York:
ssrTho Ranuhlicans of New York NAV