Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-01-27
NEWS AND NOTES.

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A Summary Of Important Events.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has been on q
visit to Mentor.
GENERAL GRANT has accepted the
Presidency Of the Worlds Fair Commission.
FOLLOWING Secretary Sherman, Sem
ator Allison, of Iowa, has been on pilgrim
age to Mentor.
THE Greenback members of Congress
sent congratulatory telegram to Governor
Plaisted, Of Maine.
ABOUT one thousand petitions for the
passage of National Bankrupt law have
been filed in Congress during the present
session.
THERE is coal famine in some Iowa
towns. the supply being entirely exhausted,
and it seems impossible to get transporta-
ton for more. In Marshalltown the schools
are closed for want Of fuel.
THE latest intelligence from Peru is
to the effect that the Gillian army is en-
camped nine miles from Lima, which is be-
ing defended by the Peruvian army and the
citizens, native and foreign. A number Of
dynamite mines have been placed between
the city and the invading army.
The Supervising Inspector of the
Tenth Steamboat Inspection District, COM
prising the Gulf States and the Lower Missis-
sippi Valley, reports for the year ending De-
cember 81, that out of two and quarter mill
lions Of passengers carried on steamboats,,
not single life was lost.
THE Viskow girl, the only survivor of
the recent Oshkosh (Wis.) tragedy, has SO
far recovered as to be able to make state
ment. She says her father killed her mother
with club, supposed he had killed her, and
then fired the house and barn, in which he
persisted. There is little doubt that Viskow
was insane.
ANOTHER party of exiled German
Socialists, thirteen in number, from Altoona.
arrived in New York on the 18th. They had
only three days in which to make prepare
tiOns for their departure, and as a cOnse-
quence most of them were compelled to
leave their families behind them, having
only enough money to pay their own pas,
sage.
ohADSIhEEI cSLl1udtCS 1dSU ScC1SOu .
acreage of cotton at 16, SOC, 900, and the total
crop at $500, 900 bales. distributed as fol-
lows: North Carolina and Virginia, Al, 900;
South Carolina, 425, 700; Georgia, 800, 900;
Florida, $4,000: Alabama, 100000; Missis-
sippi, 100000; louisiana, 100000; Texas,
1,125,OoO; Arkansas, $4,000; Tennessee,
6SS,OOO.
ADDITIONAL Senatorial elections, held
on the 10Th, resulted as follows: New Jer-
sey-General Sewell, Republican,; Ohio
John Sherman, Republican; West Virginia
johnson M. Camden, Democrat; Wiscon-
sin-Philetus M. Sawyer, Republican. The
Legislatures Of Nebraska, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee took a number Of ballots without
decisive results.
UPON motion of Senator Conkling,
the Senate reported back to committee the
nomination of Mr.. Haskell to be Postmaster
at Albany, N. Y, on the ground that the
term Of Office of Craig, the incumbent, does
not expire until after the 4th of March next.
Haskell is an anti Conkling man, and one Of
the recent appointments made by President
Hayes in New York in opposition, as charged,
to the Conkling influence.
AN unprecedented snow-storm occur
red throughout Great Britain ON the 10Th,
completely blocking railway traffic and
causing great damage to property. In Lon
don the greatest Inconvenience resulted
from the stoppage of omnibuses and cabs,
and nearly all business was suspended. A
heavy gale likewise prevailed, causing great
damage to shipping and the docks. The
tide in the Thames was the highest ever
known.
THE Home Rule members of Parlia-
ment continue their policy Of obstruction and
have so far defeated all legislation. O'Con-
nor, Honorary Secretary, and O'Neil, Secre-
tary Of the Cork Land League, have been
summoned on charges of intimidation in
writing threatening letters. A number of
members of the Tralee Land League have
been arrested and committed for trial. At
Marlborough six traders have been sum-
moned on a charge of attempting to compel
persons to join the Land League.
SENATORIAL elections held in various
States on the 18th resulted in choice of the
following: Connecticut-Joseph r. Haw-
ley. Republican; Delaware-Thomas F. Bay
ard, Democrat, reelected; Indiana-Benja-
min Harrison. Republican; Maine-Eugene
I1dlc, hcpuDllCdu,
L. Dawes, Republican, reelected; Michigan
Omar D. -Conger, Republican; Minnesota
s. j. r. Mcmillan, Republican, reelected;
Missouri-Francis NJ. Cockrell, Democrat,
reelected; New York-Thomas c. Plat,
Republican.
THE great stock stable on Elizabeth
farms, belonging to G.. Dawson Coleman, of
Lebanon, and situated in the northeastern
section of Lancaster County, Pa, was de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire on the night of
the 10th. The famous registered herd of
Jersey cattle, many of them imported, fifty
two in number, were chained in their stalls,
and when the fire was first seen it had st.
tanned such Roadway that not one of them
could be saved. Thoroughbred dogs, goats
and game chickens were also burned. Many
OF the cattle were highly valued, some of the
bulls costing $1,000. Total loss about $4,000.
A STEAM heating boiler in the base
ment of James sMcCreery g. Co.'s store,
Broadway and Eleventh Street, New York,