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

anu men On lta pay roll.
| The Edison Company has obtained
at last franchise to lay its wires in the
streets of New York City.
! A petition is being circulated at
| Niagara Falls to have the name Of
| that village changed to Cataract City.
| A Cleveland Presbyterian pastor has
been arraigned before his presbytery for
sending his family to theatres and balls,
| Some Philadelphia men are schem-
ing to start new line Of four or six
| first-cIass American built steamships.
| The CoIumb bus and Toledo Railroad
! is going to be extended to Detroit, with
a branch running toward Grand Ha-
ven.
| In New York next summer ice will
sell for thirty cents hundred for pri-
vate consumers and fifteen cents hum
drod for butchers.
/ The National Committee of the
Greenback party is called To meet at
st. Louis on June 7th, to elect Chair
man, vice Murch.
| The school population of the United
| States is IA, ,596, 1s3. Of this number
1878, 1876 were enrolled in 1870. There
were in that year 271, IA theachers.
There is in Springfield, Mass, piano
made in 1770 by an uncle and brother of
john Jacob Astor, both of whom were
at that time pianomakers in London.
Several of the Western States have
every spring an arbor day, appointed
| by the Governor, and devoted to the
planting of trees along the highways.
The Post-Office Department has pre-
pared a directory of the streets and
avenues in 109 of the principal cities of
the United States, for use In the dead
letter branch.
The new settlers in Texas will find
plenty Of elbow room. if nothing else.
One of them writes that he has "the
Rio Grande for bath-tub and all
Mexico for a back-yard.7
A German girl of Sheboygan, Wis.
has been married to Chippewa Indian,
and has followed him to the lodges of
his tribe, whe she dwells with him in
the usual attire of squaw.
Notwithstanding the inducement of
fered Of the furnace free of all charge
whenever she may need it, Miss Cary
persistently refused to sing in aid of the
funds of the Pittsburg Cremation Soci-
ETY..
A pastor at Danville, VT, denounced
from his pulpit those members of his
congregation who were in the habit of
taking summer boarders. His idea is
that city sins are propagated by the
guests.
Georgia farmer found that his
land would no longer bear good crops
Of corn and cotton, and he planted
twenty five acres with pear trees.
His profits ara four hundred dollars
an acre.
A story is told of a doctor in Spring-
field, Mass, who assured a woman that
he had driven her disease into one of
her great toes, which therefore ought
to be amputated. She submitted to the
Operation.
The Jsannette Relief Expedition will
leave San Francisco June Ist, reaching
Herald Island by the 18th of August,
aud wintering off WrangelI Land,
whence it will make sled journeys to
the east coast.
Lawrence, Mass, but her sight was
not strong enough TO discern the ap-
proaeh of her husband while another
man was kissing her, Or fight might
have been prevented.
The old home of Lincoln was recently
torn down at SprInfield, Ill. A boy
bought all the shin 9 les for dollar, and, !,
with scroll saw, is turning them into
ornamental memsutos, which he easily
sells at from so cents To 81 each.
A Philadelphia society has been
wrestling with the question: when a
man has his life insured for 500, 900, is
his wife justified in refusing to prepare
mustard plaster for him when he is
seized with sudden and severe attack
OF the erampssf
A temperance movement is on foot
in Texas. In many towns and villag-
es all the sots and drunkards have
knocked eff whiskey and are taking
choral for their nerves. This exchange
of the bartender for the druggist is ea-
outraged by the ladies.
Old and mutilated greenbaelss, re-
turned to the Treasury Department
at Washington. are by a patent pro-
cess reduced to pulp and thsn made in
To figures of birds and beasts, the tint
est bit of Cinderella slipper represent