Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-05
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

REPRESENTATIVE Rnmberger, Pet
roof and Clarke Of the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature, ex-State Treasurer Kemble, and sew
eral other prominent politicians, and lobby
lists of that State have been indicted for
bribery in connection with the Riot Claims
act.
SETH A. TERRY, Secretary of the Ter
ritorial Savings Building and Loan Associa
ton of Washington, D. c., has defaulted in
$25, 900. Terry was for many years connected
with the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen
and Abandoned Lands, under Gen. 0. O.
Howard. He lost heavily in specializing in
Government claims of various kinds. 80 q
GEN. CHARLES r. BRAYTON, Postmas-
ter at Providence, r. l., is defaulter to the
Government to the amount of $4,000 or
over. His bondsmen are said to be good for
the amount. His successor has been ap-
pointed.
Miss SARAH M. CARPENTER of
Poughkeepsie has been appointed a member
of the State Board of Charities i'm New York
Gov. Tilden made the first appointment Of a
lady as member Of the Board, Mrs. jose
phine Shaw Lowell, whose term continues;
and Gov. Cornell is reported to hive said:
!" If there were good reasons for the appoint
ment of one woman as member OF that
Board, certainly there are as good for in
creasing the number of women upon il"
GEN BoYNTON, the well known Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette, announces that he is about to COM
mence suit for libel against Gen. Sherman.
Boynton sharply criticised the accuracy of
certain statements made in Sherman's auto
h nuv INV ,in1 do f1o ayso1
and in a recent interview the warrior de-
scribed the newspaper man as a "persOn
entirely without character, who for 500
would SANDER his own MOTHER" and more
to the same effect.
THE widow of ex-President Tyler has
asked Congress for pension, on the ground
of the immense depression in the value of
her real estate, the mortgages on her north
ern property having been foreclosed, and
those on her southern property constantly
troubling her. She says: 81 find 1 have
scarcely any thing whatever left to live up
on" ~
A. G. BOTKIN, formerly of the Mil
waukee Sentinel, but now United States
Marshal of the Territory OF Montana, is at
present suffering from partial paralysis of
the limbs, the result OF an affection Of the
spinal marrow, brought on by over exertion
and exposure during recent trip to Fort
Sully on official business.
SENATOR-ELECT GARFIELD began life
as a wood-chopper and nal-driver.
COMMODORE HOMER G. BLAKE,
United States Navy, died at his residence in
New York City on the 21st.
WALTER r. IRWIN of Illinois, Chief
of Private Land Division in the General
Land Office at Washington, was found dead
in bed, at Mobile, on the morning of the
21st. F frff.E sass ;
MAJOR BRoDHEAD, Paymaster US
A., was recently robbed of SIC, 900 while on
his way from Fort Leavenworth to Fort
Reno. Particulars not given.
DANIEL BARRETT, Supreme President
Of the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association
Of the United States and Canada, died sud-
denly in Medina, n. Y, on the 23d.
DE LEssEPS has formally broken
ground for his Inter-oceanic Canal, under
the authority of the Republic Of Columbia,
and with the blessing of the Church in the
person of the Bishop of Panama.
HENRY M. STANLEY, the American
explorer, has established the first Belgian
trading station in Congo, near Yallala, which
place is claimed by both England and Port
ugal. y = - ~ ~~@@- - - - II