Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
Various Matters.

Jay Cooke has entirely recovered his
and he is now said to be worth
over three million dollars.
New York points with pride to the
fact that her foreign trade last year
reached nearly thousand million dol
lars.
A Bangor (Maine) jury, returning q
verdict of $150.62l. is said to have been
divided for two hours on the half
cent.
General Grant has been appointed
engineer to make preliminary surveys
for the projected Mexican Southern
railroad.
Egyptian rice corn, which thrives on
dry and sandy soil, and yields sixty
bushels to the acre. is being introduced
in Wisconsin.
A woman, Miss Lamb. has complet-
ed a minute and thorough history Of
the city of New York, said to be an ad-
mirable affair.
A Delaware editor, who 10 also a ply
sician, offers as an inducement to new
to vaccinate every one who
will take his paper.
Tho Government will soon begin
building extensive works at Burling-
ton, New Jersey, for the printing of
postage and revenue stamps.
A statue OF General Reynolds, who
opened the battle of Gettysburg, is to
be put up in Philadelphia. One gen.
tleman has given $4,000 for that pur-
pose.
When the Southern Baptist Conven-
tion was held at Columbus, Mississippi,
the Jewish synagogue was given up on
Sunday to a Christian clergyman to
preach in.
A colony of eighty-four persons atSt.
Peter, Minnesota. is composed of one
woman and her children. grandchil-
dren, and great-grandchildren, with
their husbands aud wives.
The Pennsylvania Legislature adopt
ed resolutions accepting the proffer of
an English gentleman to transfer Will
lam Penn's remains from a Kentish
graveyard to Philadelphia.
The Chicago Trade and Labor As
sembly is agitating the question of
cheap homesteads for laboring men,
and has organized '"The Trade and La
Dor Homestead Association"
A Philadelphia boy made $12O In two
days by taking worthless checks for
small sums to grocers, each with a
forged note of that particular grocer's
best customers asking for the cash as a
favor.
A down-East genius has plan for
horse-racing by which the racers would
remain directly in front of the grand
stand during the entire race. This is
to be accomplished by means Of q NOV
able track.
The trustees of the New York Free
Circulating Library propose to raise a
fund of 800. 500 to establish and main
tain number of free libraries in the
more thickly settled and poorer parts
of the city.
Stock to the amount of $4,000. has
been sold for mining company at
Lebanon, Pa, on the strength of a
mans dream that there was gold at a
certain point and a clairvoyant's as
surance that the dream was trustwor-
thy.
The oldest postmaster in the Union is
Edward Stabler, of Sandy Spring, Md.
He has held that Office fiftysone years,
and has been under eighteen Postmas-
ter-Generals. He is 81 years old, and
still lives in the house in which he was
born.
Iowa is not pleased with the boys
sent from New York by philsnthro-
pists. The newspapers declare that
"they come from the purlieus of the
great cities. and are impregnated with
vices" and call on the Governor to stop
such immigration.
A number of families in Gratiot ccun-
ty, Mich, missed their boys, ranging in
age from to IL, and after a search of
several days, found them in camp.
They had started for the Rocky Noun
tains to get rich by hunting, and Incl
dentally to kill Indians.
The proprietor of Philadelphia ho-
tel has called down the wrath of actress
es upon his head by discriminating
against them. He has issued an order
that they shall receive no male guests
in their rooms, though that privilege is
not denied to other women.
The effecton some people of the proph-
ecy falsely ascribed to Mother Shipton,
that the world will come to an end in
1881, was illustrated the ether day in
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