Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-21
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

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81 Gov. Crittanden has grand : full
pardon to Mrs.. Julia Bande, who was sem
ten<ed by the ST. Lepis Criminal Cent in
Nevemb6r, 1879, tDtwo years. imprisonment
Ing Leonhard Onefmsb, her brother-in-law.
The Governor reviews the case at some
length. Offerman, as was shown, cruelty
treated Mrs. Schick, the mother OF Mrs.
Onerman and Mrs. Bande, going so far as to
set dogsupon her, which bic and slaeerated
her severely. She reported this brutal treat
ment to her daughter, Mrs. Bande, who,
arming herself with revolver. went to
Offerman's to kill the dog. In attempting to
do SO she shot the prosecutor, Offerman.
The Governor thinks the shooting was acct
dental, and believes the prosecution was
based more upon passion than Justice"
Mrs. Bande, who has been incarcerated in
the st. Louis! Jail, was liberated on the It'll.
There has been a general shutting
down of operations at nearly all the coal
mines throughout the northern and western
district Of Missouri. The miners demand
1-2 cents per bushel, and the proprietors are
willing to pay butt cents. Rather than pay
the price asked, the proprietors contemplate
keeping the mines closed till fall. Some of
the private mines which supply local trade
will still be kept open, and the operatives
will receive 1-2 cents per bushel; also the
proprietors of some of the mines having con-
tracts with railroads will be compelled to
pay the price asked.
Andrew Jackson Minor, who for near
ly thirty -three years has been an employee
in the st. Louis Post -office, died on the 9Th,
of consumption. He had been in feeble
health for nearly two years. but was in the
discharge of his duties until within very
few days. Mr.. Minor was brother of Gen.
James L. Minor, of Jefferson City, formerly
Secretary of State. He was born in Fred
ericksburg, Va, in 1915, and appointed to
West Point by President Andrew jackson,
whose name he bore.
Charles Maui, aged 81, railroad
man by occupation, but for some time out of
employment, committed suicide in st. Louis
on the Sth. Domestic infelicity was factor
in the troubles that drove him to commit the
rash act.
The only material alterations in the
revenue law of this State made by the last
Legislature are changing the time of listing
and making the assessment from August to
June, and making the real estate assessed
and listed only biennially. The first listing
and assessment is made this year. Also
Section 6,662 of the statute is amended so as
to include the assessment of personal prop
crty owned and held by citi.
zens of this State in any other
county, State or Territory. The
section as amended reads as follows: 'sAll
personal property, of whatever nature and
character, situate in a county other than the
one in which the owner resides, shall be as
sessed in the county where the owner re-
sides, and all notes, bonds or other evidence
of debt made taxable by the laws Of this
State, held in any State or Territory other
than that in which the owner resides, shall
be assessed in the county where the owner
resides, and the owner in listing shall spe-
officially state in what county, State or Ter
ritory it is situate or held" !.
The St. Louis Republican in noticing
some recent sales Of land in this State says:
The list comprises sales of lands in twelve
counties in this State, all except one, Polk,
lying north Of the Missouri River. Some
Of the counties named, Audrain, Boone,
Randolph, Galloway, Howard, Lincoln,
Monroe and Clay are desirable regions, with
well settled society, churches and schools;
each Of them has at least one railroad rum
ming through it, and some of them have two.
In short, these eight counties are consid-
cred the most desirable farming coun-
ties in the State, and lands in them
bring the very highest prices. The
other four counties named, Henry,
Knox, Polk and Rails, are only less attrac-
tive than these. 1t will be seen that in Polk
fba 70
per acre. In Boone the prices were SIS to
$50 per acre. In Audrain they were $40 to
$40 per acre. In Clay, Galloway and How
ard some Of the sales were at $50 to S35 per
acre-these being considered high prices,
and for choice and very eligibly situated
farms near large towns. The sales are not
generally of wild lands; majority of them
are farms with buildings on them, fenced in
and supplied either with springs or wells.
We give these sales for the information of
persons living in other States who are in
curing about Missouri and desire to know at
what prices they can obtain farms, or wild
lands in the State. The prices in the list
are far above the average of prices Of farms
and wild lands in Missouri, for. as we have
already stated, the twelve counties named
are ahead of the majority of counties in Mis-
souri,, and regarded as very desirable places
of residence. There are fifty other counties
in the State where lands can be purchased
at less than one-half the average rate in this
list.
The semi-annual meeting of the st.
Louis Presbytery of the Southern Presbyte-
rian Church begun at the Grand Avenue
Presbyterian Church in st. Louis on the
18th. The st. Louis Presbytery embraces
all of St. Louis County and portions of the
surrounding counties; also portions of ILL
nois extending as far north as Jacksonville.
In the Presbytery are twenty-six churches,
twenty ministers and / $50 communicates.
The St. Louis Globe Democrat says the
carpenters strike in that city has
had the effect Of placing large amount Of
building work in the hands OF outside con-
tractors, one establishment in indianapolis
having secured the inside work of several OF
the finest buildings now in progress of
erection, at prices with which st. Louis
builders are unable to compete at prevailing
rates Of wages in that city. "a