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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

Peter Dahl, the unfortunate who WA
taken To the County Hospital Wednesday
noon suffering from hydrophobis, died mt
1:10 last evening, after suffering great agony.
From nine O'Clock on the evening of the
day on which he was brought 10 tho hospi-
tai he grew perceptibly worse, and ut three
O'Clock yesterday morning had become 20
violent that three able-bodied men had 10
stand guard over him. BY ten o'cleciS In
the forenoon he had become almost unman-
ageable, and n straight-jacket was brought
into requisition. He resented this indiynity.
as he chose to call Il, and threatened TO kill
whoever should attempt to o. it to his
person. He would not hesitate 20 become q
murderer, he said. IL any one ever attempted
to put him into bag like that. His convul-
sions were so frequent and so violent that
the jacket had finally 10 be forcibiy applied
to him, In order to prevent him from de-
stroying himself The case was . typical
one Of It's kind. There were all
the horrible Manifestations Of the
dread disease, and the patient remained
almost perfectly obstinate to all treatment.
Finally, In the afternoon, the doctors. con-
cluded to try an experiment with curars, or
wour1li-the arrow-poison OF the nativss OF
Bornec and other islands Of the Pacifc.
Tires hypodermic injections Of the deadly
drug were given the patient The first was
light one Of only one-tenth Of grain, and
the two subsequent doses contained one
sixth of n grain each. Care was taken 10
note the effect Of each dose, but the result
was entirely unsatisfactory. and the symp-
toms all the way to the death Of the patient
continued Enthusiastically those OF hydropho-
bis. The curare poison-symptoins at no
time were made manifest, but n was plainly
apparent to every one present that the
curare had soothing. quoting effect upon
the convulsive movements Of the sufferer.
This effect was 30 marked that IL was con-
cluded that the chrare treatment would be
attempted from the beginning upon the very
next hydrophobia victim brought 20 the
hospital. Tyi6use, Axg.lsf IL.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The condition of the President on
the 18th created serious apprehen-
sion. His stomach refused to re-
tain food, and hypodermic injections
of liquid nourishment were resorted
to. His pulse rose to 100 at one time during
the day, but at midnight the patients con-
dition vas sensibly improved and he was
sleeping naturally.
THE Irish Land bill, upon which the
British Parliament has labored for a whole
session, is now imperiled by the inability Of
the two Houses to agree. There is solid
majority in the Commons OF 12O for the bill,
while there is about the same majority in
the Lords for certain amendments which in
the judgment OF the Commons are destruc-
tive of the objects of the bill, and therefore
inadmissible.
A BAND of cowboys recently attacked
q caravan from Sonora on the way to Ari-
iona, killed four of the party, and carried
off IS, 900 and the pack animals. The civil
authorities in Arizona seem pOwerless, and
the MeXicans hold the Americans response
BILE for the outrages.
THE Illinois Department of Agricul-
ture asserts that in quality and quantity the
twenty years.
WILLIAM LEwELLEN, under arrest at
North Vernon, Ind, charged with poison
ing his wife, jumped from second-stOry
window while undergoing examination, and
died from his injuries within three hours.
JENNIE CRAMER, a beautiful New
Haven Conn girl, of poor and respectable
parentage, recently came to her death in a
mysterious manner, her body being found
one morning on the beach near Kelsey's
wharf. She was not drowned, as ascer-
tanned by the post mortem examination, and
it is believed she was drugged. James
Malley, son of a wealthy dry goods mer-
chant, was her frequent attendant, and was
the last person seen in her company. He
is being investigated.
A COMMISSIONER of the Times of Lon
don, who has made tour of the wheat dis
tricts of England, estimates yield of thirty
bushels to the acre, and an increased crop of
three million quarters.
AT Newark, N. j., the other evening,
a number of children were playing on the
sidewalk, when the son of Leopold Graf, a
wealthy shoe manufacturer, fired of toy
pistol. Stella Crane, aged eleven years, who
stood near him, dropped to the sidewalk
dead. Investigation showed a bullet hole in
the corner of her right eye, the ball having
penetrated her brain.
PATSY j. EARLY, aged 16, has been
arrested, with four companions about the
same age, the former charged with The kill
ing Of Billy Louderman at st. Louis, on the
18th, and the others as accessories.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
THE Socialists of New York hive held

THE Socialists of New York ht I've held
meetings to sympathize with Hartmann, the
Nihilist, and to protest against his extradi-
ton. Secretary Blaine, in reply TO letter
of inquiry from Hartmann's attorney. says
Hartmann's surrender has not been Remand
ed, and he refuses to say what the State De-
partment would do in hypothetical case
such as is propounded.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

Two parties of hostile Indians are
now operating along the line of thesAtlantic
& Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, snd three
companies of infantry from Fort Wingate
have been sent out to protect the settlers.
Garcia's settlement, twelve milesefrom Ell
Rita Station, has been burned by the Indians
and five men and two boys were killed. Vol
unteers have been dispatched from Albu-
querque to guard the railroad line.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

BRADLAUGHis suffering from severe
attack Of erysipelas, said to be the indirect
result of his personal encounter in the lobby
Of the House of Commons.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

MAUD S has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter Of second, having
made mile in 2:10 IA at Buffalo, on the
18th. This leaves st. Julien just an even
second behind.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
THE Southern Pacific Railroad is now

THE Southern Pacific Railroad is now
being laid at the rate of one mile per day be-
yond Ell Paso, and President Croker pre-
diets that the line will, by July next, be fin
ished to Galveston. He says engineers are
now running survey from Corinne to
Yankton, and road can be- built for one
third the cost of the Union Pacific, which
will be done If Gould consolidates the Atch-
fson, Texas Pacific and Union Pacific lines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

THE American Bankers Convention
assembled at Niagara Falls on the 10th, with
large attendance.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

tricity at Paris was formally opened on the
10th, President Grevy and other prominent
officials assisting at the ceremony. Some of
the departments, especially that of the
United States, were in a very incomplete
condition, but it was promised that 500 Ed
ison lights would be burning within few
DAYS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

THE BOer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

-Johan Lauretz Johanson, ship
owner OF Glasgow. has received S2j, 600
for injuries received In n railway col
iision in Scotland In September last
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

THE Nebraska Supreme Court has
rendered decision that the high-license
liquor law is constitutional in every particu-
lar. 1t compels saloon-keepers to pay ST 900
license, give bonds in the sum OF s., 600, ETC.,
in cities of over 10, 900 people, and in cities
of under 10 200 the license is $500.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

Women may be the weaker vessel.
but when she shrieks she can be heard
further than q man.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

The Memphis cotton crop report for
July shows that continued drouth has re-
tarded the growth of the plant and caused
it to fruit and mature too rapidly. Worms
have appeared in a few localities, but no
damage from this cause is so far reported.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

PRESIDENT GARFIELD, on the 10th,
performed his first official act since the I'd
Of July, signing formal reputation for the
extradition of criminal who some time
since took refuge in Canada.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

HON. O. H. BROWNING died at his
home in Quincy, ILL.,, on the 10th, aged IS.
He was Secretary Of the Interior under
President johnson, and previously served in
the U. s. Senate, being appointed by Gov.
Yates to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Stephen A. Douglas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

+" CAPTAIN JOSEPH l.. STEPHENS, one
Of the best known citizens Of Missouri, who
has been identified with many Of the largest
enterprises of the day, died at his home in
BoonviDle, on the 18th, aged 55.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

MANY towns and villages in Western
Prussia have recently suffered much from
incendiary fires. The fact that the inhabit-
ants are Jews leads to the conclusion that
the incendiaries are Jew-haters. Anti-Jew-
ish disturbances have again broken out in
West Prussia and Pomerania.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

A CONFERENCE of Civil Service Re-
formers was held in New York on the 18th,
of which George VIM. Curtis, Carl Schurz
and Dorman B. Eaton were the principal
promoters. Senator Pendleton's bill regu-
lating appointments to the Civil Service was
Endorsed,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

A letter-carrier In Cambridge.
Mass. makes his rounds on bicycle.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

"A Boston critic explains that GER
tain vocalist sings badly because his
heart is too big and crowds his lungs"
Woman tempted man to eat, but he
took to drink himself.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

GEN. GRANT has bought large and
very handsome house on the north side of
East Sixty sixth Street, between Fifth and
Madison Avenues, New York. The price
paid was 500, 200. 1t is understood the
General proposes to make this his future
home
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

THE Virginia Republican State Con-
vention, as was anticipated, resulted in a
clean split between the. two factions. The
straightouts resolved to stand firmly by Re-
publican party principles, chief among which
is declared to be the sanctity of all public
obligations, and to make no alliance with
regulators in any form. 1t was declared
inexpedient, however, to make any nomina-
tions for State officers. The Coalitionists
squarely indorsed the platform and candi-
dates of the Readjhsters. Many of the
Straightout Republicans, it was said, would
cast their influence, If not their votes, for
the Democratic candidates, in preference to
supporting the Malone ticket.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25
THIRD AND LAST DAY.

First National Bank Of st. Adams, VT, read
apaper on Bank Taxation, embracing his
tory of the panics since 1887, remedies for
such evils, and deductions made therefrom.
A paper was also read from Mr.. Il. III.
Inglis Palgrave, of London, on the Progress
OF Banking in England, in which he states
tnat an estimate made in $40 gives
the banking deposits of London, including
the Bank Of England, and the country
banks of England, Scotland and Ireland, as
being from Eos, 900, 900 to f105, 200 900; note
circulation at f40,0VO, 900, and the metallic
circulation at f20, 100000 to eco 200, 900.
The most recent estimate Of deposits is for
the spring of 1881, rs follows: For the Bank
of England, f32.oOO,000; all other banks In
the United Kingdom, Ei6o,00O,OO0 TO f41o,-
0OO,000. The amounts with the discount
houses are not included In these last figures,
which compare, say, f4S5, 5OO,OO0 in 1873,
with f5l0,O00, 900 in 1881.
presented from Mr.. G.. ii. Sorley, of Mon
treal, i'm which he states that there are ut
present twenty -four joint stock banks In
Ontario and Quebec, with about go agencies,
having an aggregate paid-up capital Of so2,-
S9I, 900, or on an average Of y, aO4 900 each.
The banks having their head offices in the
Provinces Of the Dominion, other than On
tario and Quebec, number about fifteen,
with an aggregate capital of some &c.
100000. The banks are required to
make claDOTtte 10 uONtTu-
ment, to keep forty per cent. Of
their reserve in Government legal-tender
notes, and the shareholders of nearly all are
liable for the debts of the bank TO the extent
of twice the amount OF their paid-up capt.
tai. The bank-note circulation in canada,
May 81, 1881, amounted to So, 630, 15s, a
figure beyond what 1t had ever reached in
the same month In any previous year. The
present amount of the paid-up capital of
the banks having their head offices in the
Provinces of Ontario and Quebec is So, SOL
GAG; of deposits $73,525,0Os, and OF loans
Sis, 1854, 474.
An address by George L. Wright, Of st.
Louis, on the Mississippi River trade, was
submitted, and Mr.. Powell read q, brief
address on the resources OF Michigan.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
urging the necessity of an International
Bank at Niagara Falls.
A number Of miscellaneous papers were
referred to the Council, after which the
Convention adjourned sbse die.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

ADvIcEs from Havana received by
the National Board of Health state that dur
ing July there were ninety EIGHT deaths
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August 5, thirty-six deaths from the
same disease, with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 235 deaths from yellow
fever at Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-
walls throughout Colombia, at GEayaquil,
San Jose de Guatemala and at La Libertad
and Salvador, in the three latter places the
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along the
Isthmus Canal route an average of five
deaths has occurred daily.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-08-25

J The Cattle Commissioners selected
by the Secretary of the Treasury have decid-
ed to make searching investigation at the
chief Western centers to make sure that the
live stock at those points is free from infec-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
Heralds.

The heralds of England, who before
had been attached to the household OF
the sovereign or of some other exalted
parsonage, were Incorporated as fra
ternity in the year 14S3 by King Richard
III. They now occupy fine establish
ment in London, which is the recog-
nized headquarters of English heraldry,
and are presided over by the Earl Mar.
shall, whose office is hereditary in the
great Catholic family of the Towards OF
Norfolk. 1t has been said that the fees
derived from America constitute one OF
the most important sources of the reve-
nue. of that aristocratic institution. The
oldest document in the archives of the
college is roll of arms of about A. d..
1850. These rolls of arms are long,
narrow strips of parchment, on which
were written lists of the names and titles
of certain noblemen, with full descrip-
ton of their armorial insignia. Much
of the learning of ecclesiastics in the
Middle Ages-of those particularly
whose 6 study was but little on the
Bible was devoted to the production
of elaborate genealogies for the founders
or benefactors of religious houses. A
knowledge of heraldry enables the clerk
to illumine the pedigree of his lord, and
the chaplain to direct the fresco-painter
employed by some mighty baron
In whose capacious hall,
Hung with hundred shields, the family
sprang from the midriff of a PROSTATE King.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
=. The Great LONGITUDINAL Railway.

The prizes offered by Mr. Hinton
sRowen Helper for essays and poems
which should most vigorously advocate,
the project of ssthe Three Americas
Railway have been awarded as fol-
lows: Frank Frederick Hilder, St.Louis,
Mo. prose, 81, 800; Frederick A. Beelen,
Cortland-on-H Hudson, N. T., prose,
81 200; William Wharton Archer, Rich
mond, Va, prose, $1,000; Frank D. Y.
Carpenter, New York City. poetry,
81 600; Frederick A. Dickens, Norwich,
Ontario, Canada, poetry, $500. Forty
nine essays and poems were submitted
by forty seven contestants. The St.
Louis committee of award say to Mr..
HELPER: eve incline to the opinion
that there are but few, if any, clear
headed thinkers in this or any other
country who will arise from a careful
perr1sal of the five successful papers
without giving hearty assent to the
general correctness of your own views IN
relation to this stupendous enterprise. !"
In reply to them Mr.. Helper says:
s'Were the frst-named of the worthy
trio whom I thus have the honor of adj
dressing Bacon, the second a Burke,
and the third a Shakespeare, and the
mighty mental powers of all three were
combined in one philosopher, in one
statesman, or in one poet, yet would
even that trice potent intellectual
giant be too feeble to do more than
mere fraction of justice to the triple con-
siderations of possibilities and proba-
bilities and certainties comprised in the
scheme of constructing a grand longl-
tudinal railway through the Republics
of North and Central and South Amerl-
CA Mr.. Helper also sends an address
to the unsuccessful writers, assuring
them that the railway will be built.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
Big Trees.

Referring to big trees, the american
Register tells us that grove of trees in
California, consisting of 1850, contains
not one which measures less than six
feet in diameter. A rare and magnifi-
cent white oak is to be seen in the Quak-
er burying ground in Salem, N. Y. It
is more than 200 years old, and is re-
markable for its long branches, which
have spread of 112 feet. A remarka-
BILE chestnut tree is growing on farm
in Berks, Pa. It is nearly forty feet in
circumference at the base, land the top of
the tree can be reached by steps fastened
between the limbs. Most remarkable
of trees with history is russet-apple
tree in Skowhegan, Me-, which was
planted in 1862. In its branches a play
room for children has been built for
half a century. The tree is seven feet
from the ground to the branches, five in
number, all of which are very large and
average thirty feet in length, covering a
space of ground sixty-three feet in diam
eter. 1t is more than four and half feet
in diameter, and Mas yielded an average
of thirty bushels of apples each year. A
sprout from this apple tree stands thir-
ty-two feet from the parent stem, but is
forty-eight years younger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
Ashes.

IT is impossible to tell with any de-
gree of certainty what the effects OF a
given manure will be on q given soil or
crop. The kind of soil or its mechanical
construction, the climate, season, mode
of cultivation, and the value of the ma
nure, all may have an influence in de-
termning the result. The chief value
of ashes consists in supplying the SOIL
with mineral constituents, and by their
action as solvents upon the lnsoluble
salts already in the soil; also by neu-
tralizing acids and improving the me-
chanical condition of the soil. Barn
ward manure is chiefly composed OF
water and organic matter, as woody
fiber, starch, gum, sugar, gluten, ana
albumen in vegetables, and in animals
the flesh, milk, butter, cheese, etc. The
character and fertility of the soil depends
very greatly on the nature and quantity
of organic matter it contains; yet while
inorganic matter forms by far the small
err portion, this portion Is absolutely
essential to the production of useful
plants. No seed can be produced with
ont it; and the absence of a single ele-
ment may render the soil infertile or en-
tirely barren. Competent authorities
nave estimated the annual exhaustion of
salts by crops of grain, roots and grass,
at from 1870 to $50 pounds per acre; and
as ashes (of plants) consist of these ele-
ments they furnish one of the most need
full manures of the soil.
While ashes are beneficial to almost
every soil, they are much more so to
those that are sandy and gravelly than
on clay, because the latter, being formed
mainly from granite rocks, naturally
contain both.
In applying ashes to the soil they
should be hauled out and spread over
the ground previous to blowing. 1t has
been the custom with some farmers,
and may be yet, to apply them to corn
on the surface for the double purpose of
obtaining the benefit of their fertilizing
properties and as protection against
grub worms. But that method is open
to the objection that the plant can th"+
receive no benefit save from the sma
amount that is soluble and carried int
the soil by rain. If they are incorporat-
ed in the earth previous to planting the
corn, the roots Of the plant and chem
ical action viii evolve other elements
which become assimilable and enhance
the growth of the plant.
Ashes that have lain out of doors for
some time may have parted with some
of their useful properties, but they art
still beneficial. They will not act as
rapidly, probably, as when f.csh. but
their effects will hardly fail of being
beneficial. Light soils do not require as
heavy an application of ashes as rich
clays. On the former, from fifteen to
twenty bushels per acre is not too much !;
and double the quantity may be applied
20 the latter. Western Rural.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
Gen. John A. Logan.

Hero of the late war, and now United States
Senator from Illinois, writes: Some years
ago was troubled more or less with rheuma-
tism. and have within the last year or SO suf-
fered intensely with same disease. / began
to take .Durang's Rheumatic Remedy and
am thoroughly satisfied that ! have been
cured by its use. 1 do not hesitate to recon-
mend it to all sufferers"
It is taken internally and never fails to cure
the worst case in the shortest time. Sold by
s1l wholesale and retail druggists. Write
for 40-page pamphlet to X. X. Helphenstine,
Druggist, Washington, d. Z.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
The Milwaukee Sun speaks of %

The Milwaukee Sun speaks of per-
son who "turned as pale as the ace of
spades.'' We always supposed the ace
of spades was red, and was hard to dis
tinguish from the jack of-of-diamonds,
as we believe that card is called where
the figure wears a crown.-NorTisto,cn
Her0H
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10
Advertising Cheats.

1t has become so common to write the be-
ginning OF an elegant, interesting article, and
then run it into some advertisement that we
avoid all such cheats and simply call atten-
ton to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain,
honest terms as possible to induce people tc
give them one trial, as no one who knows
their value will ever use anything else
Providence Adtertiser.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10

An American girl may as well
waste herself on foreign Count as to
marry a no count American. If she is
rich and must support a husband she
has a perfect right to favor a tramp with
title and noble blood in his veins.-.N.
o. Pic1uune-