Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-07-14


NEWS AND NoTEs
A Summary Of Important Events.
GENERAL ORD, recently returned from
Mexico, speaks encouragingly OF the pro-
gressive spirit manifested by that country,
and predicts a steady improvement in all
directions.
SECRETARY KIRKwOoD, on the LIST,
notified French Of bis suspension from the
office of Commissioner Of Railroads. Upon
receiving the information French intimated
to the Secretary his intention Of at once re-
signing.
THE removal of Gen. Smith from the
office Of Collector of Customs at Bangor,
Me-, to give place to ex-Gov. Davis, has
provoked so strong remonstrance from
leading Republican men and papers of the
State that it is thought the President will
reconsider his action.
ARGENT Washington dispatch says
"Register Bruce, of the Treasury, has re-
ceived a telegram from Mississippi stating
that the Republicans and Greenbackers OF
that State had failed to make coalition and
would not put tickets in the field, but will
let the election go by default" @
THE Albany On. " Grand Jury has
indicted Senator Sessions of the State Legis-
lature for bribery in connection with the
Senatorial election. He is held in So, 900
bail. Counsel for Sessions demanded an
Immediate trial, and denounced the whole
proceedings as being instigated by partisan
motives.
THE Virginia republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Lynch
burg, August 3. The Readjusters claim to
have carried their point in naming the place
for holding the Convention,bu most stub
born fight for supremacy in the Convention
Is inevitable. The State Committee reor-
ganized and chose J. W. Cochran, a colored
man, as Chairman.
REDUCTION of the public debt during
June, S12,323, 152 Cash in the Treasury,
$249, $685. AS; gold certificates, S5,7S2, 920;
silver certificates, $51, 166, $50; certificates of
deposit outstanding, II, 925, 600; refunding
ing, $685. SOL; fractional currency3 out
standing, 81, ,953. Tota: reduction Of the
debt for the fiscal year, SOL, 573,4 availa-
BILE cash in Treasury, $40, 920, 1863.
JOHANN MosT, editor of the Freiheit,
London, convicted of melting to murder, has
been sentenced by Lord Chief-Justice Cole
ridge to sixteen months imprisonment at
hard labor. Lord Coleridge said the prison.
er's offense was detestable and cowardly,
and, but for the jurors recommendation to
mercy, he could have inflicted sentence OF
penal servitude. Herr Most, on leaving the
prisoners dock, exclaimed, "We might as
well be in Russia.''
SECRETARY kIRKwooD has appointed
to a clerkship in the Indian Bureau, Francis
Laflesche, ayoung Ponca, brother of "Bright
Eyes" He was educated at the Indian
School at Omaha Agency, and is said to be
young man Of average talents and good
habits. 1t is Secretary Kirkwood's inten-
ton to place a number of young Indians in
the Department, and as soon as they have
become familiar with the details of the office
to transfer them to the Agencies.
BEFORE the beginning of the ballot for
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the New York Legislature, on the 1st, Speak
er Sharpe said he had been voting for Thorn
as c. Plat. At his request, and in the in
terest of the Republican party, he withdrew
the name of Platt as a candidate, and would,
when his name was called, vote for Richard
Crowley. A majority of Platt's supporters
thereupon transferred their support to
Crowley, who received twenty votes.
j. F. MCCURTAIN, Principal Chief of
the Choctaw Nation, has issued proclama-
tion calling attention to the recent decision
OF the United States Attorney General in
reference to unauthorized occupants Of land
in the Indian Territory. Permission is
given settlers to remain until their present
crops are harvested, providing they agree
then TO voluntarily surrender the land or pay
the usual rent to the Choctaw authorities,
otherwise they will be suddenly dispos-
sessed.
THE American Spiritualist Alliance is
the name Of an association recently formed
in New York and duly incorporated. Among
the incorporators are Henry Riddle, ex-Su-
perintendent of the Public Schools, New
York City, who is its President; Charles
Partridge, H. L. Newton, Helen SIocum
and Mary A. Newton. According to a cir
cular issued by this organization it is formed
to ''further the cause Of Spirituaism in its
highest and purest aspecis, and to apply its
principles and precepts to practical work
tending to the amelioration Of society and
good of mankind"
CONGRESSMAN KEIFER, of Ohio, has
been in Washington recently, as report says,
working up his prospects as Speaker of the
next House. Seven other Republican can
didates are said to be: Kasson, Of Iowa;
Hiscock, OF New York; Robson, of New
Jersey; Burroughs and Hubbell, of Michi-
gan; Reed, of Maine, and Orth, of Indiana.
The Democrats will put forward Randall,
Blackburn or S. S. Cox, and Kelley, of
Pennsylvania, is mentioned as the Green
back candidate. Should the Democrats and
Greenbackers unite on candidate for
Speaker, he will be Ladd, of Maine.
THE Iowa Republican State Conven-
zion, held at Des Moines on the Goth, nomi-