Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-12-22
SOutheasterings.

/ Ed. d. Anthony Il Co. are the publishers.
ANOTHER surveying party is to start
1 from Hopewen this week. to run line from
Big river to Mineral Point. The first party
that started from that place is now on the
Big Piney, in Texas county.
DURING the present year there have
been sixty-fve new houses erected In De Soto,
the majority of hich being neat and COM
Portable residences, and costing from 81 900
| 81 0O1 each.
| PERkYvILLE is now city, being SO
declared on the 81 inst. by vote of the citizens
of the former town of that name. The vote
stood 80 for and 1 against organization as
city Of the fourth class An election for Alder
men was held there yesterday-21st.
| A LITTLE daughter of Mr.. J. E. G..
Wilson, of Houses Springs, Jefferson county,
performed a singular trick short time since.
She had pistol cartridge in her IN outh and, on
biting it, it fired. the ball cutting the end of
her tongue and passing out, and the shell re-
manning held between her teeth. She was not
hurt much; but it is thought she will not try
the..same experiment again.
THE Doniphan Neavs, learns of a BASH
| full young man living near Pleasant Grove,
who took new way OF proposing to his girl.
He purchased two wards of red ribbon and one
yard of green. He then enclosed the ribbon In
letter to her, in which he told her to wear
the red one If she would have him, and to wear
the green one if she would not have him. The
girl went to church with the -reen ribbon on,
and the b. Y. In. dried up and Silted like the
last rose of summer.
Lo
Blackwell, captured a deer in rather a novel
manner. the other day. A party of hunters,
with hounds, ch se1 ihe deer near her home,
when her dogs joined In the chase and soon
: had the animal at bay near the fence which
incloses her place. While her dogs were
guarding the deer Mrs. Hunt went up to the
fence, slipped her hands between rails, placed
a rope around its horns and tied it to a tree.
She then called a neighbor to xiii the deer
SOME of the people of Meramec town.
ship, Jefferson county, want to know whether
that county has the right to hire out criminals
to steal from them. They are led to make the
inquiry from the fact that Conrad Kriek baum,
who was sentenced to one years imprison-
ment in the county jail for hog stealing, has
been hired out to his brother-in-law for five
dollars month, and is now at large.
Mr.. JEWETT has been exhibiting in
Hillsboro some china ware made from Jeffer-
son county clay, which lie had brought from
East Liverpool, Pa. 1t shows well with, and
in fact is said to look superior to, ware made
from any other clay. The clay is from mine
o.ued by the Manole brothers, on Belew's
creek, some seven miles FROM II Hillsboro, and
was hauled by mule teams to Victoria and
thence shipped by rail to Pittsbur-,. The sup
ply of the clay is said to be unlimited.
THE West Plains Journal says Mr..
FL. A. Alexander, OF Wichita, Kansas, has
secured contract of tweuty-eieh ht miles, from
Wadley's Gin south, for the construction OF
X. c., =. q N. railroad, and has about three
hundred hands now ready to commence work
at Flag Pond, about fifteen miles southeast
OF West Plains, and also at that place. Mr..
Alexander will establish commissary store
: at Flag Pond, one at the lower end Of Howell
valley, and one near Wadley's Gin. Within a
short time he expects to have between / 500
to OC0 hands employed on the line.
AT the late regular term of the Scott
County Circuit Court, Judge Foster issued
the following order: "That VIM. Hunter,
Prosecuting Attorney, proceed at once to
institute le- al proceedin = By mandamus OF
otherwise, against the County Court of Scott
county, Mo, to compel said court to adjust
and place to the credit OF the school fund OF
said county the,s sum of sS.236. 70, with legal
interest; this being the amount wrongfully
and unlawfully usurped and misappropriated
of such fund to the payment of outstanding
county warrants, drawn upon and payable opt
of the county revenue fund. on or about the
year 1870, by the County Court OF said
county,"
AS Recorder Johnston, of Hillsboro
was sitting in his room trying to amuse his
little Grip led girl the other day, he picked
UP an old pistol that had been lying around
the house for months, and which the children
and others had been playing with. swapping
at each other, &c; and telling the child to
swatch him shoot Coley" he pointed it at a
little dog in the room and snapped It. He
repeated the operation, and the pistol went off
= the ball going through the dogs head. and
killing him enough. Beforehand Mr..
Johnston was quite sure that the pistol was
not loaded; but his opinion was suddenly
changed. 1t seems to have been special
providence that the pistol bad not killed
somebody before this occurrence, as it had plen-
ty of opportunities of doing so.
THE Rev. Mr.. Liarle, pastor of the
German Lutheran Church at Probst Settle
ment, Bollinger county, has been quite un-
fortunate. The other day he went to jackson
and received some money from the bank On
his way he was halted by three rogues. who
demanded his money. Mr.. Lairle jumped
from his horse on the opposite side of the
robbers, endeavoring to make his escape, but
was caught by his assailants. and beaten and
robbed. That night, while he was home In
bed, Mr.. Liarle heard noise out at his stable !;
and when he got up t. examine the matter,
he found that his horse had got fastened with
Its head between two logs After considera-
BILE labor in trying 10 Unfas.en the horse, the
animal all of a sudden pulled loose, and tum-
bled with its head again st some posts, knocking
its brains cut and dying almost instantly.
IN case before Squire Rankin at
De Soto, concerning the hog law an attorney