Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-16
Various Matters.

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New York.
Nevada is completely overrun with
grasshoppers.
President Garfield's life is insured for
$25, 900 for the benefit Of his wife.
Canandaigua, New York, has nearly
three hundred female taxpayers.
Reports from the peach orchards OF
Michigan are of a gloomy character.
The son of an Ohio Supreme Court
Judge has gone to State prison for for
gerry.
Many of the old Wings in Virginia
have joined the Readjuster party in that
State.
Waukegan, Wis, fishermen are hav-
ing the best run of fish that they have
enjoyed for years.
The Sprsgue divorce suit has been
indefinitely postponed, and probably
will never be tried.
The evidence in a San Francisco di-
vorce suit was all found in diary which
| the defendant kept.
Col. Thomas A. Scott's will is said to
represent property worth between 3d.
900. 200 and $5,O00,OOO.
It is reported that about two-th1rds of
the apples in Ohio have fallen off with
in the past three weeks.
Five years before the discovery of
gold in California, the amount of silver
in circulation was 81 ,053, 100000.
The lighting of Akron, Ohio, is sat-
isfactorily done by powerful electric
lamp placed on top of tower 2OS feet
high.
A pine tree 131 years old, which was
cut down recently at Crystal Spring,
New York, yielded two hundred dollars
in lumber.
Three of the great drinkers of Cairo,
Illinois, are to attempt the feat of
drinking 100 glasses of beer apiece in
four hours.
A thresher factory in Michigan has
discharged 80 men on account of poor
crop prospects and dullness probable III
their trade.
Several pelicans have been Killed
lately in Neosho county, Kansas. It
is rare thing to find this bird SO far
from the sea.
"Gath" has unearthed the valuable
piece Of news that Conkling cultivated
his forelock curls in imitation and ad-
miration of Disraeli.
Mr.. Owen, of the California Her.
curry, started subscription which
has resulted in $4,000 for the wild
ow of John 3rown, Of marching men,
ory.
This multitude which buys the re-
vised Testament no longer supposes
that the book was composed in the
sky by the Almighty" remarks Prof.
Swing.
The Sheffield railroad velocipede fac
tory at Three Rivers, Michigan, is
500 orders behind. Itsent machines to
England, Africa, and Australia, week
before last.
The new liquor law in Nebraska pro-
vides for license fees of from $500 to
81 900, and for the removal of screens,
etc. Liquor men have organized to
contest the statute.
A new industry, the extensive culti-
vation of flowers for perfumery purpos-
es, is about to be started in California.
In Europe it is very remunerative; a
good crop of lavender will bring ST. 500.
Not only have all the Sunday shows
in Cincinnati been closed by the new
Mayor, but he insists that Saturday
night entertainments, including public
balls, shall stop promptly at mid
night.
The wife of an old eolored man in the
eastern part of Georgia recently pre-
sented him with the sixth pair of twins,
the family having been previously en-
dowed with two pairs Of triplets, all
f1ourishing.
A Brooklyn woman, believing that
an elm in Prospect Park was occupied
by the spirit of her daughter Nellie,
caused a plate with the word "Nellie''
to be placed upon it. Since then
the tree has teen thrice struck by light
ming.
Texas is the greatest cattle raising
State in the Union, yet the beef eaten
there by the fastidious is chiefly
brought from Kansas. The reason is
that Texas cattle are fat only two
months in the year, when the grass is
green.
A Washington girl has highly inter
esting hair. Its color used to be a light
blonde. DR.. D. w. Prentiss reports to
the Smithsonian Institution that he
gave her jaborandi, Brazilian plant,