Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-12-15
SOufheasterings.

THE Cape Girardeau Railway Com
pany has filed with the Secretary of State GER
tiicate of change of name to "Cape Girardeau
and Southwestern Railway Company"
Col. DEAL, of Charleston, has COM
pleted his contract for ties on the narrow
guage railroad from Birds Point to the Ar
kansas line. The bridges are about up and
only about four miles remain to be graded.
THE town of Ste. Genevieve claims
to be distinguished for good many things
that t'do not characterize the average town. Z"
For instance, there is not a clerk, with one
exception, I'm any of her stores "but that can
speak two languages we'll and gracefully, and
large number can speak three languages
English, French, and German fuently."
ACCORDING to the report of the con-
dition of the puclic schools in the city Of Cape
Girardeau for the month of November, there
were $50 scholars enrolled in the white school,
and nine teachers employed. The number of
scholars enrolled in the colored school was
1O4; number of teachers employed, two.
Mr.. E. II. WEBER, of Bloomfield, as
agent for other parties, has sold Mr.. William
Brown, of st. Louis, who has stave factory
at Lutesvlle, two thousand acres of land on
Castor river, near the Cape Girardeau and
Southwestern railroad. Mr.. Brown will re-
move his stave factory on those lands at once
and add largely to his already extensive ina
chinery. He intends to build up quite village
near his factory, and will put up cottages for
employees, having with each cottage a nice
yard, garden, etc.
Iys1 Donnn,l ov
o. Kochtitzky, of that place. has gone to
Jackson to meet the County Court of Cape
Girardeau county to submit q proposition for
removing the drift out of Whitewater river in
that county, and closing Thumb Slough. This
drift is mile long and from ten to tw, I've
feet high 1t is belived that the removal of
this drift ard the closing of the slou h will
effectually drain the swami lands in Cap
Girardeau county.
THE Fair Play says it begins to look
as though Ste. Genevleve may in the near fu-
ture have a steamboat landing Immediately at
the city gates. ''Agreeaby to a proposition.
made by Mr.. Felix Rozier, the owner OF the
proposed site," says that paper, she and the
City Board have appointed committee to
view the same and assess the damages"
THE Cape Girardeau and Southwest
ern Railway Company, 1t is reported, contem
plates extending It's railroad. The road will
take the route of the old line to st. Frar co.'s
river, and there turn west and make connec-
tion with the Kansas City and Memphis Rail-
way.
THE State Register of Lands has col
ected S3, O61. 90 from the General Government,
and received certificate OF location for 763
acres of land as swamp land indemnity due
the State on account of Stoddard county also
81, 1892 45 and certificate of location for l GOO
acres of land on account of Dunklin county.
The money was deposited In the State Treas
ury to the credit of those counties.
THE Jackson Cdsh-Bo0k man has
received from Mr.. G. w. Bean, who lives near
Whitewater Station, two monster turnips !;
the smallest one weighing just seven pounds,
naked and clean. The larger one was a regu-
lar giant-being 81 inches in circumference,
and weighing 25 pounds, top and all. The
turnip alone weighed l2x pounds.
The Record says thai" "the most i'm
portant enterprise ever undertaken in South
east Missouri" has been commenced in New
ployed eight men and set them to work
cutting ditch twelve feet wide two feet deep
and 80 feet long, across Toney's Cutoff, a
mile below Toney's Landing on Little river,
and six miles below the line of the railroad.
This ditch cut off over half a mile, and when
completed proved most satisfactory to the en-
gineer in charge, Mr.. Otto Kochtitzky. The
Company is now having the logs and drift
removed from Little river, preliminary to
putting dredge boat on it.
THE Cape Girardeau Democrat says
river men generally agree that the cause OF
| the present high water in the Mississippi river
is attributable to the great number of Scott
county watermelons consumed in Northern
cities during the summer end fall. ''If this
idea holds good" continues that paper, 1--WE
can account for the lack of the usual number
Of cyclones last fall and this winter, by the
failure of the sweet potato crop"
THE articles of consolidation of the
Texas and St. Louis Railroad Company, oil
Arkansas, and the Little River Valley and
Arkansas Railroad Company, of Missouri, un-
der the name of the ''Texas and st. Louis
Railroad in Missouri and Arkansas" have
been fled with the Secretary of State. The
consolidated roads will form an unbroken and
continuous line of railroad from Texarkana-
in Arkansas, to Birds Point, in Mississippi
county, Missouri.
THE following named citizens of
Pemiscot county were taken to st. Louis by
Z. s. Marshals, the other day, to appear be-
fore Judge Treat: Sheriff Peter H. Scott and
Daniel Num- and B. F. Bancroft, merchants; !;
w. A. Ward and Frank d. Roberts, attorneys.
They we're charged with obstructing the pro-
cess of the .. s. Circuit Court for the Eastern
District of Missouri. Clark, Hovey & Co., of
Cincinnati, sued B. F. Bancroft and Daniel
Num- in said court for $592 and costs. for
goods purchased and not paid for. Judgment
was rendered In favor of the plaintiffs, and an
execution issued upon the storehouse and
goods Of the defendants. The execution was
taken to Pemiscot county by Deputy Mar
shall, the goods seized, a watchman put in
charge of the premises. and the property ad-
vertised for sale. Num- claims the Marshal
10 mr. iubf 70 o;1 obar Of fto "A