Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-09
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.


A Summary Of Important Events.
GEN. GRANT and Capt. Eads have
both obtained from the Mexican Govern
ment the concessions asked for by them and
are now on their way home.
AN official estimate Of the grain crop
in Nebraska is 105, 000, 600 bushels, an I'M
crease over last years crop Of about 30 per
cent. The wheat crop alone ia estimated at
16,OO0, 600 bushels, which is . gain Of about
90 per cent.
? JOHANN Mosr, editor of the London
Socialistic organ, the Freiheit, arrested on .
charge Of melting to murder, has been tried
and found guilty by jury, but recommends
ed to mercy, on the ground that he Is for
eignT.
GEN. j. A. WILLIAMsON, Commits
eioner Of the General Land office, has ten.
dered his resignation, for the purpose OF ac-
cepting the appointment of General Land
Commissioner for the Atlantic & Pacific Rail-
way on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
branch OF that road.
! The Virginia town elections, held on
the Goth, resulted generally in the defeat of
the Republicans and Readjusters by the reg
ular Democrats. The friends of Malone
claim that these local elections were not Sc
1iously contested, and afford no criterion Of
the relative strength Of the two parties.
p THE United States Treasurer has mo-
titled holders OF 5-per-cent. bonds that no
AI,v<1 ,oxo %sv,,v of Of 10
can be allowed, as the limit has been reached.
1t is estimated in the Treasury that the
amount OF bonds continued at 1-2 per cent.
is about $3.50, 0O0, GOO. The bonds not con-
finued will be paid out of the surplus reve-
nue.. r.
JAY GOULD has organized q man.
moth express company, to compete with the
Adams and American Express Companies.
A consolidation has been effected, it is said,
between the United States Express Company
running from New York to the West and the
Union Pacific Company, which monopolizes
all the business on the several lines of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
r The Executive Committee of the Iowa
State Farmers Alliance have organized a
farmers Protective Association, under the
incorporation laws of the State, and retained
Gen. b. F. Butler, of Massachusetts,, and
Hon. Chester G. Cole, of Des Moines, as
counsel. This, it is said, means a big fight
against the barbed-wire patent monopoly,
all negotiations having failed to secure any
modification of prices for barbed wire to
farmers.
REFERRING to the Malone movement
in Virginia, Washington dispatch says the
President and Secretary Blaine have both
taken very positive grounds against any sort
Of coalition which would in the least i'm
pair the Republican organization Of that
State. They want that organization kept
intact, and the straight-out Republicans as
cure them that any fusion with the Read
justers will split the Republican party in
twain.
Mr.. CARL SCHURz has become editor
in-chief Of the New York EUening Post, with
Mr.. Horace White, formerly of the Chicago
Tribune, and Mr.. E. L. Godkin. of the Ma
ton, as associates. All Of these gentlemen
have been prominently identified with the
s1Liberal" wing OF the Republican party,
and it is understood the paper will, as here
tofore, continue an active support of Presi-
dent Garield's administration. The con-
trolling interest in the stock of the paper
likewise passes into the hands of the new
management.
Ex-SENAToRs CoNKLING and Platt,
accompanied by Vice President Arthur and
number Of other prominent New York pol
iticians, arrived at the State capital on the
9th. The senior ex-senator received host
OF friends during the evening at the Delevan
Ilnnc 1n1n fAy,
from the Albany Grant Club, who presented
written address, in which Grant and Conk-
ling were extolled as the saviors Of the Re-
publican party in the late Presidential cam
paign, and denouncing Secretary Blaine for
his alleged malignant warfare upon those
gentlemen and their friends. Mr.. Conkling
received the address, saying he would not be
able to read it at present.
The Northwestern River Improve
ment and Canal Convention, at its recent
session at Davenport, Iowa, adopted resolu-
tions favoring liberal Government appropri-
ations for system of cheap transportation
by water route, connecting the Mississippi
River and its tributaries with the Eastern
Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico,
and especially indorsing the scheme for the
construction Of canal from the Mississippi
River, on the most direct and feasible route,
to the Illinois River at Hennepin, and thence
to the lake At Chicago; also the proposed ces-
sion Of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and
improvements Of the Illinois River, by the
State Of Illinois; and declaring that the Erie
Canal should be made free Of tolls.
THE National Cotton Planters Asso-
citation, at its recent session at Memphis,
adopted resolutions commencing the work
done under the auspices of the Mississippi
River Commission, and requesting of Con-
gress further appropriation of S250, 900 TO
test the outlet system Of Lake Borgne, as a
relief against the flood tides of the river;
pledging support and encouragement to
every effort to cheaper the cost of transport
fation; declaring all combinations or pool
ings Of river transportation lines to be inim-
icalt the planters and not deserving of their
patronage, and promising support to such
lines as are open to competition; urging
upon Congress reduction of tariff laws, the
elevation of the Agricultural Commissioner