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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A man may be right and yet be left.
IT'S very easy to recover an old
umbrella.
The fishc rman is sure of bite 1t he
takes lunch with him.
There are many good doctors who
are unable to cure a ham.-HdTtf0rd
Sunday Journal.
We once knew q newspaper man
who owned watch.-NeW HaUe'a Reg
lister. Dog?-Y onkers Gazette. Case:
Salem Sunbeam.
When the little prattling baby is an hun
gered,
Just after he awakens from his nap;
Why should he look around. and call FOL
mamma
When the little fellow really wants his apl
-YaDcob Strauss.
When Webster said there is al
ways room at the top he was not re-
ferring to the advertising page OF
newspaper.-Bridgeto NeUs.
The spots on Jupiter don't trouble
some young men half as much as the
spots on their last summer trowsers.-
MiddletoaD,s Transcript.
Somebody has discovered that cats
can't live at greater elevation than
$4,000 feet, therefore back sheds should
be built IS, 500 feet high.-Binghanston
Republican.
They say it's darkest just before
the dawn" but the man who gets up at
midnight to hunt for lone match on
the corner of the wash-stand, can't see
how it could be any darker.-Detroit
Free Press.
"A traveller in South America reports
T. h frro foi1c NnU VIZ have
the Darwinian progenitor of the man
who stands in a steel-pen coat near the
door at the opera and say 8, "Bravah-h. :"
N Y Herald.
Great liars in Scotland. The first
river you come to they will tell you is
the Forth. -Boston Transcript. Yes,
and tell you that mountains Ben
-Snow'd on, when there isn't flake OF
Philadelphia Bulletin.
"A gentleman told one of his friends
that for an eternity his wife had denied to
be more than twenty nine years of age.
''My wife is more reasonable" said the
friend; Il have at last persuaded her
to be thirty-two, out l have never been
able to coax her along any further. p
Boston Courier.
Two hundred Albany females have
made application for the position of
census epumerator. The worst feature
of appointing women to these positions
lis that it takes the bread out of the
mouth of poor, delicate, accomplishing
man. Light work of this kind is what
man needs.-N. Y. advertiser.
As an innocent-looking old man
was going up Washington Street, a
drayman nodded at him and asked:
"Want dray, Mister?' "No-o. 1
guess not replied the old man; I'm
too fur from home, and can't pay freight
on it. Much obleeged, though. Vicks-
burg is powerful nice town. A fellow
back there asked me if didn't want
coat; another inquired if I wanted a
hack, and now you offer me dray. l
wish | lived here. "-TicksbMrq Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

Dinner over, odd jobs finished, the
last glance of the mules given and the
short twilight rapidly falling under the
assault of the legions of darkness, we
don our overcoats and gather for our
nightly chat before going to bed.
Much of the pleasure of this hour. as
of every other, depends on our sur
roundings.. Persons who call a trip with
a government survey all a pleasure ex-
=. cursion, would better think twice. A
thousand and one small vexations at
4 tend all the time. AS a picnic, the expedi-
ton would be lamentable failure.
There is the fatigue at night, the frost
in the morning and the gale or the
scorching sun in at MONDAY; your
peeled nose and scaling ears and smart
ing neck testify to the power of the last.
The often encountered alkai dust not
only hurts your eyes and parches your
lips till they crack open but seems to
decOmpose your skin, rendering it 80
tender that the least rough touch pro-
sduces a painful wound, and your hands,
which is almost impossible to keep
clean, become sore and unsightly. Then,
half the time your feet are wet, and get
cold in the stirrups, or the blankets be-
come damp and disturb your rest, Or
but there are plenty of other incon-
be placed where there is not single
pleasant feature near or remote-in the
midst of track of sun-baked mud and
glaring white rocks, for instance
where the only vegetation is prickly
grease-wood, like so many Canadian
thistles, and where the principal deni-
In 11c n
lizards. But this is not chapter
of complaints, and | hasten to dismiss
the wrong side of the texture.
OF all the lovely camping places in
my recollection, l think one over in
Western Wyoming, among the name
less heights between the Green and the
Snake rivers, bears the palm. A ravine
.diverged from the valley we had been
travelling through, one side of which
was high, grassy bank. and the other
was wooded; but in the woods opened
! little glade, down which came an icy
rill, tumbling and foaming between
banks of moss solid to the water edge.
All about were gigantic, yellow-barked
-spruces, among which this little level
spot had remained clear, just capacious
enough for our tents. It was place
flor perfect repose. The eye, weary
with incessant far-seeing, rested con-
tent on the verdant slope that cut of
The rest of the world. As, after the
turmoil and noise of the city. the bust
ness man pulls the blinds close together
and drops the curtain. shutting out the
turbulent scenes of his daily struggle,
and shutting in the peace and love OF
his home, so we were thankful that we
could not see even the Hottest SUBMITS,
and gladly gathered round our cosy
4hearthstone, where the spruce boughs
cracked like salt and coils of black
smoke writhed up from the resinous
logs.
The night effect" as painters phase
it, of such bivouac as this, is weirdly
curious. One need not be afraid to
walk away from it into the gloom; the
Prince of Darkness is said to be a
gentleman. And, in fact, it is not dark
out there in the open air; for under
the lamps of the consultations and in
that strange light from the north, even
midnight in the high mountains is only
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

A quaint story ofonewall Jack
sons devotion is relatsby ex-Confed-
crate Chaplain J. w. !es. 1t was on
the march to CulpepI Court House
that the Generals ne servant Jim
told some officers whVere inquiring
about Stonewalls hiss: tfYes, the
General is great mfor praying at
all times. But when e him get up a
great many times in might to pray,
hen I know there is pg to be some
thing to pay and l goaight and pack
his haversack, becaui know he will
call for it in the NOR"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

steam engine. Bimeby the monnerk it
jumped onto its hine feets and shucked
itself out of its skin and rolled up its
sleefs and spit onto its hands and spoke
up and sed: I bedashed if I can't Jest
Whollip the peagreen stufin' out O. the
gum-dasted galoot witch has ben prod
did this ere taggerr And the oddience
thay was a stOnishr'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

RECENTLY i've hundred Russian pris-
o oe were taken aboard the steamship
TJny-Novgorod to the Island a 6agh-
amen, ana now the 0olos states that five
. nunurea ana NIFTY more are to follow
sr .I coM I 70 the same place, but
Dy the ola overland route. upon which
u,uaily ABOUT one-third Of those '..dcar.
unhappy people," a. the Russian peas.
ants call the exiled prisoners, die from
exhaustion, privations and cold,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

"A. GAINESVILLE (Wis.) doctor was
called in haste the other evening to at
tend to boy who il was thought had
been poisoned. Investigation proved
that the little fellow had been eating
grass, while playing horse, or Nebu.
chadnezzar, or some such game.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-06-24

Robert Collyer says that a woman
VINO IS not mt to be poor mans wife
Is not nj TO be any mans wife
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
The Liquor Agency,

The following petition will be presented to
the City Government next Monday evening.
70 the Honorable Board Of Mayor and Aldermen:
This petition most respectfully represents
that at the time of the adoption in this State
of the policy of prohibition to the liquor traffic.
the law provided for the establishment of
Agencies in our cities and towns for the sale of
intoxicating liquors for use in the arts and
for medicinal and mechanical purposes only.
These agencies were intended to be, and they
are. part and parcel of tho Maine Eaw, and
their proper and judicious administration is
essential to the successful working of that
statute.
This petition most respectfully represents
that the friends OF temperance in this city con-
Stitute an important proportion of its tax
payers and its voters, and respectable and
influential part of the community. The tenn
perance men of this city are not now, and
have never been, clamorous for Office they
have never asked to be recognized as such in
the distribution of office, but this petition res
pectfully suggests, that the request of the
temperance men Ct Portland is reasonable and
just, when they ask that the City agency may
be put into the hands of some sober, trusty,
reliable man, who is and has been, theoreti-
cally and practically, a temperance man, and
thorough friend of the policy of prohibition,
so that the people may have reasonable as
surance that the agency may be faithfully con-
Quoted in accordance with the letter and spirit
of the law by which it has been created, and so
that as few abuses as possible may arise from
the administration of it,
This petition most respectfully represents
that the officers of the agency are now in the
hands of a well-known unfriend of temperance
and prohibition, and that they have been con-
Quoted, VIGOROUSLY, in the most scandalous
manner, in total disregard of the letter and
spirit of the law and of the interests of tenn
perance, and so as to bring the law into con-
~tempt. This petition most earnestly and res
pectfully begs that the present City Agent
may not be reappointed, and that the situation
may be given to some well known and reliable
friend of temperance and of the law of prohi-
bition.
HALL OF ARCANA LODGE OF GOOD TEMPLARs.
At meeting of Arcana Lodge of Good Templars,
held 26th April, 1880, the foregoing petition was
read and unanimously adopted as the petition of
this Lodge. The Arcana Lodge is confident that
this petition represents the opinion and wishes of
all Lodges of Good Templars, and of all other
temperance organizations, and friends of temper
ance generally not only in this city but in this coun-
ty and throughout the State, because all temper
ance men and women have deep interest in the
careful and judicious management of the affairs of
the Agency in this city.
The Arcana Lodge order that their petition be
respectfully presented to the Honorable the Board
of Mayor and Aldermen.
II. HIGHT, w. c. I.
G. M. HUNT, W. r. Sec'y.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Roller Skating Masquerade,

This evening at City Hall the close of the
roller skating season in this city will be cele-
brated by grand carnival and masquerade
which will furnish one of the best entertain
ments of the season. There will be concert
by Chambers band at 745, after which the
Portland Cadets with their new equipments
will give an exhibition drill. After this the
masked skaters will perform their graceful
evolutions on the rollers young couple will
perform grand skating act which is said to be
very fine. At $50 the surface will be cleared
and the celebrated Prof. P. Kynock will give
an exhibition of fancy skating embracing
many difficult feats. Among these is the heel
and toe spin, the performer whirling fifty
times with great rapidly without pause
After this there will be general skating, open
TO all until II o'clock. Chambers and the
Portland bands will play alternately during
the evening, furnishing their best music. Two
hundred extra pairs of skates have been order
ed from New York so that everybody can
skate who wishes.
There will be excellent reserved seat accom-
modations, and an extra train will leave for
Bath and Freeport after the exhibition.
All masked skaters are requested to meet at
Reception Hall at 2 o'clock sharp. There are
yet number of good reserved seats left To
evoid the rush secure your tickets to-day at
the Roller Skating Hall.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Mayor senter and the Maine Law


Mr.. EDIToR:-I am not prohibtionist for
the reason that I never believed that mems
habits could be legislated out of them; as two
thirds of the adult male population of the
world are using some kind OF stimulant, and it
makes demand, and where there is a demand
there will be a su pply. The Anglo-Saxon and
Celtic races use distilled and malt
beverages, and will continue so to do and no
law will stop the use. Men, to use a common
phrase, "will have their rum have ALWAYS
felt that this fact has got to be recognized
sooner or later. No matter how much we
may be opposed to the use and abuse of these
beverages we have got to recognize the evil
and regulate it the best way we can. Hence I
have believed in a rigid licence law.
am surprised though that any good citizen
should find fault with Mayor Senter for order
ing the police force to enforce all laws against
law breakers. The people of this State have
enacted a law making it criminal offense to
sell liquor. Why, then, should not this law
be enforced as much as any other? If our
Mayor had ordered the force to see that all laws
are enfored save those against riot or keepers
of houses of ill fame, or gambling houses.
singing out either of these to be exempt, what
would be said of such magistrate? 1 say it is
his duty to instruct his force to enforce all
laws; and keepers of rum shops are as much
bound to obey as any other class of offenders
against the laws Of the State.
When the Hon. S. j. Anderson and the
Hon. Nathan Webb were county attorneys for
this county who ever heard of those able men
neglectlng to prosecute men who were indicted
for selling rum? They did not believe in the
Maine law, but they saw no distinction be-
tween one violator of the law and another;
and no matter what their private opinion was
they did their duty as high minded men en-
trusted with official responsibility. Mayor
Senter has done the same. The people say
rum selling is crime and have enacted laws
to suppress it. and no law-abiding man, no
matter what party he belongs to, can censure
any man who is entrusted with the enforce
ment of law for enforcing it. don't believe
Mayor Senter ever pledged himself to enforce
any single law. believe he said he should
enforce all laws, and that, like good magis-
trate, he is doing it.
AS liberal temperance man say he has
done simply his duty and the people of this
city will sustain him as long as all laws are en-
forced impartially. JUSTICE.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Brief lettings

Fine day. Mercury $40 at sunrise, $50, at
noon, 500 at sunset wind north.
Tonight and Friday the Infantry and Blues
will be measured for new uniforms
The Henrietta and Lombard will sail for
Europe, to-day, probably.
fine picture of Mary Anderson is displayed
in the window of Loring, Short & Harmon.
The reported injury to a workman at the
New Era Office did not occur.
The Hiram Brooks farm in Cape Elizabeth,
was sold by F. o. Bailey & Co., yesterday, for
$500 to j. X. Carlton.
The committee on fire department have
adopted the Perfection ESpring Tug, and are
applying it to the entire apparatus.
The Grand Trunk railway have reduced
their fares between fifteen and twenty per
cent. from Portland to all points between Is
land Pond and Montreal.
Mr. Frank Fox had narrow escape from
death Tuesday As he was passing down Ex-
change street piece of finish from building
fell, striking the ground close by his side, and
just brushing his shoulder.
Hanson's new turning machine has been
placed in the company headquarters on Union
buttons, washers, furniture ornaments, draw
pulls, etc., having outlines of -, 16 and "a
sides, or, as Freeman says, "12 and 16 square,.
Mr.. Kimball, the architect will erect new
four tenement house for Col. f. n Dow on
Neal street, a two stored hip-roof house for
f. l.. Bartlett, Esq, on Pine street, and a
two stored French roof house, for Geo. Burn
ham, Jr., on Federal street, besides buildings
in other cities.
Since Sunday there have been seven deaths
from scarlet fever. aad several persons in the
city sick with the same disease are not ex-
pected to live. An inspection of the record
of burials shows that since the first of January
there have been sixty-three fatal cases of the
fever in the city. Doubtless the whole mum.
Der of cases will fall not far short of two hum
dred, for large proportion of those afflicted
have recovered.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Fight with an American Panther.

On the evening of the 10th inst, Mr.. Gran
vile Herrick was going from West Poland to
his home in Poland Corner, when passing
through a piece of woods about half a mile
long, near the promised land, so called, he
heard the cries of some wild animal, to which
however, he paid no particular attention, IN
til suddenly the strange animal sprang from
tree directly on to Mr. Herrick's back. He
being very athletic man, succeeded in strik-
ing the beast a very heavy blow with an axe
that he fortunately had with him, which
caused the savage animal to loosen his hold
Mr.. III. turned to run, when he was seized by
the boot, which in the struggle he pulled from
his foot Mr.. H. then succeeded in getting in
another well directed blow with stone, hav-
ing lost his axe in the melee. This caused
cessation of hostilities, and Mr.. III ran for Mr..
E. Morton's; but not succeeding in arousing
anyone there, he went about half mile farth-
er to the house of Mr.. j. W. Morse the veter-
an hunter and trapper, and together they went
back to the scene of the conflict. The animal
soon showed himself, when Morse gave him
charge OF heavy shot which caused him to re-
tire to the swamp with fearful yells. Mr..
Morse, who as hunter of large experience,
pronounced it an American panther or en-
dian Devil as some call it, and thinks Mr..
Herrick's escape was providential.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Mercantile Library Association.

AT meeting of the Mercantile Library As
ISOLATION, held Tuesday evening, the following
vote was passed:
Voted, That the Trustees of this Association
be and they are hereby directed and required
to keep the funds of the Association remaining
after the discharge of the liabilities, safely in
vested, and from time to time as income is re-
ceived in like manner to invest the same. SO
as to insure the most practically rapid accumu-
latlon, and should there be established in the
city OF Portland within one year some institu-
ton for the relief of men similar in its aims
and objects to the home for the relief of aged,
not less than twenty thousand dollars then
when such institution is established to contri-
butte said funds and accommodations to the uses
and objects thereof under such conditions as
this association may then order, and that in
the meantime said funds and accumulations
be strictly preserved and retained for the ends
aforesaid.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
Lecture by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

A large audience assembled at City Hall last
evening to listen to Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher lecture on "Amusements.' The
great pulpit orator is looking finely, and evil
IDENTIFY does not allow the cares of the world to
wear upon him. His lecture last evening was
replete with valuable information and highly
instructive. The cultured audience present
enjoyed rare treat. The lecture was deliver
ed in an easy, conversational tone, now and
then illuminated by brilliant flashes of wit
Occasionally the great preacher would hold the
audience spellbound by his eloquence, and
then -convulse it by his inimitable humor.
Mr.. Beecher began his lecture by saying that
there exists certain prejudice against amuse-
ments of all kinds This is due to a natural
teaching of the Puritans. All nature tends to
happiness. Mankind is much happier than we
generally suppose. The history of the human
race has been volume of pleasure, of happi-
ness Upon happiness as basis rests the rea-
son for amusements. Amusements should be
first just the opposite of our avocations. The
amusement for the brain worker should be
some physical exercise, and vice versa Amuse-
ments should be not only elevating, but recre-
alive. Walking, boating, and horseback riding
are good amusements. Amusements should be
enjoyed in common. Both sexes should enjoy
the same. Left by himself mans enjoyments
become coarse. brutal and vulgar. So woman S
left to herself become vain, light and fiippant.
Amusements should be furnished by the State.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29

The following transfers were reported in
this county yesterday:
Portland-Dorcas A Moore to Elizabeth K.
Bryant, land ON Green street.
Westbrook-John Cloudman ct al. to John
c. Knight, land on Pleasant street, Saccar-
appa.
Gray-Warren II. Vinton to James I. Han
cock, two lots of land and buildings.
New Gloucester-Annie Wells TO Elbridge
Titcomb, 81 acres of land.
Annie Wells to Elbridge Titcomb one acre
of land.
L. F. Wood ct al. to Elbridge Titcomb, five
acres of land.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
Supreme Judicial Court

James I'll. Goodwin, complainant. VS.. Rufus Gibbs
and Horace Billings. Flowage case.
Tuesday, S. c. Strout occupied the forenoon
<three hours in argument for defence In the af-
ternoon N. s. Littlefield occupied two hours and
half in argument for complainant. The Judge occu-
pied about an hour charging the jury Jury were
out about half an hour, and Wednesday morning
rendered verdict for complainant on the questions
submitted TO them.
Adeline Jordan VS.. Inhabitants of Brunswick.
Action by married woman to recover damages laid
at $4,000 for personal injuries alleged to have been
sustained through defect in the highway in the
defendant town. On trial.
Haskell for plaintiff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-04-29
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 20.
THE PRESS

THE PRESS
Fsy De Obtained at the Periodical Depots of N. G.
stessenden. Marquis Brunei g. Co., Andrews, Arm
Marng, Cox, Wentworth, Hodsdon. Hayden, w. P.
pp,orrls, corner Exchange and Fore St.. Welander,
DostoD & Maine Depot, and Chisholm Bros, on ali
ram, that run out of the city.
s5'.co, of L. Hodsdon and II. B. Kendrick.
S.5ath, of j. o. Shaw.
Lewiston and Auburn of Richard Foss.
Biddeford, L. M. Durham.
g Jellerson's Bookstore.
Brunswick, B. G. Dennison and W. H. Marrett.
Richmond, G. A. Beale.
Woodford's Corner, H. Moody.
CUMBERLAND Mills, F. A. Verrill.
Gorham, j. Irish.
caccarappa, at the Post Office
Rockland, o. G. Andrews and e. R. Spear,
DaT>ariscotta, E. W. Dunbar
F-eeport, W. j. Parker.
fhomaston, S. Delano.
Vinalhaven, B. Lane.
Waldoboro G.. Bliss.
Wiscasset Gibbs St Rundle'
Yarmouth, G. <. Coombs
Auburn, V. r. Foss.
Lisbon, G. E. Judkns.
Hallowell, H H. Allan.
Augusta, F. Pierce.