Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-09-01
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
-Accordin, to the baptismal registe,
OF church in Holderness, N. H., Mrs
Hannah Cox was 1O5 years old on June
20. She retains her faculties.
Eight New York ladies whose hus-
bands are estimated to be worth $780,
900, 900 recently dined together at q
Saratoga hotel. So the Albany Journal
says. u
Boston is indignant over the discov-
cry in one of her jails of a boy eight
years old, who had been held three
weeks in default of bail that his mother
could not obtain.
Nevada, Vermont and Maine pay
less internal revenue tax than any other
three States, and Illinois, Kentucky
and New York are the three that paw
most. The yield is chiefly from whisky
and tobacco.
The new slave law in Egypt will
not entirely abolish slavery-at least
just yet. Although no more new slaves
will be permitted, slave-owners will be
permitted to retain those of which they
are now possessed.
William r. Dickerson, one of the
Oldest lawyers in Philadelphia, was re-
spected and fairly successful before he
went into the great Whitaker will for
gerry. Now he is broken down, penni-
less and convict.
Charles Ashley, a swindler who
has figured in the West as pretended
nobleman, was arrested in Cleveland.
In his trunk were number of different
photographs of himself in the Conven-
tional pictures of Christ, the faces of
which his own strongly resembles.
They seem to have been taken purely
to CRAFTY his vanity. -
An exhibition of jugs, mugs, and
other drinking vessels is now being held
in Vienna. The objects exhibited are
all of German manufacture, both old
and new. A German Journal grows
sentimental over the meaning of the
old German jug, and remarks that "no
nation has such a true perception of the
poetry of drink as the German, which
finds in mighty draught the best pro-
lection against the discomforts of life.
The efforts made by railroad COM
panies through soliciting agents was
illustrated at Hartford, Conn, whence
hundred Chinese students are to travel
across the Continent on their way
home. Nine agents of the competing
trunk lines visited them, each offering
special inducements and the bargain
finally was made at one-half their regu-
lar rates. aE
"A grand reunion of the Palmer fam
lily is to be held in Stonington, Conn.,,
on the 10th and 18th of August, the an
niversary of the battle of Stonington in
the war of 1912. The Palmer family in
this country is said to number now be-
tween 1000 and 1000, the various men,
bers of it being scattered over the East
and West, but the majority residing in
New England and New York State.
The records of suicide do not often
contain such evidence of disregard of
suffering as that shown by a
woman named Coyne, who lived near
England. This woman,
who had passed the middle age, poured
parafline oil over her head, and when it |
had run down upon and saturated her |
clothing she set fire to it. The injuries |
she sustained resulted in her death in a |
very few minutes. This case has only |
been equaled in recent times by Glou- |
cester gentleman, who built funeral |
pyre in the yard of his house, and, hav-
ing set fire to it, mounted to the top |
and there awaited his end, which soon |
came.
There are people who in the hottest
weather will get up in the morning long
before the flies have begun to open their
wings to the rising sun, and they will
cook and hastily bolt scanty break
fast, rush madly around the house after
collars, bonnets, umbrellas and fans,
put up lunches that are not fit to be
eaten, spend six hours on railway
train in order to have one or two hours
Of enjoyment" at lake side, get |
back home late at night tired, exasperat-
ed, fused out, and the next morning
they will crawl to work with aching
heads, aching backs and rebellious
and say that they have had a
day out.
4 1t is a curious fact that no less than
SO $685. is waiting in the United
States Treasury for people who either
DO not want the money and refuse to
take it, or for people who do not know
that it is there or that they have any
claim upon it. Some of this money-it
is all in the shape of bonds which have
on which interest has ceased,
and for which no claim has been made
has been waiting for some one to
come and take it away ever since 1887
-forty-four years ago. The principal
ind the interest due and unpaid on this
Unclaimed money amount to $40, 49,, 675.
No doubt if the history of these I'M
claimed funds could be traced there