Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-19
Various Matters.

Boston talks of undertaking worlds
fair in 1885.
A new article of butter-goose grease
in jars-is soon to be introduced.
Silk culture is reviving in Louisiana
and promises to be of consequence.
California is shipping thousands of
barrels of honey to England and
France.
A member of the Illinois Legislature
saws wood in payment for his board
during the session.
The Milwaukee Exposition directors
propose getting $4,000 organ into
the main hall of their building.
The necessary capital-about$ So, ,500,-
O00-for the tunnel under the st. Law
renee ut Montreal, wassubseribed read
lily in New York.
The United States Grand Jury at
Deer Lodge, Montana, has indicted ten
Mormons for unlawfully voting for del
egate to Congress.
A Cincinnati milliner is suing for
breach of promise a whilom admirer of
fifty, who pleads the objection of his
parents to the match.
Liquor is pretty scarce in Kansas un-
der the new law, but people find they
can get pretty drunk on Hostetter's Bit
| ters, and are not wholly given over to
despair.
Badeau's military history of General
Grant has at last been completed and
makes in all three large volumes. The
first volume was published thirteen
years ago.
Only United States notes will hereaf-
ter be received by the Treasury Depart
ment as security for the reduction of
national bank circulation or the re-
| dernT ton of notes.
The placing of a vessel with a light
capable of being seen ten miles at the
mouth of Red river is proof of the
growing Importance Of the navigation
of Lake Winnipeg.
The export of horses from Montreal
to the United States keeps rapidly in
creasing. Last month it aggregated
$127 600, and was $35S, 200 for the first
four months of this year.
The New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian)
Church holds its Sixty-frst Annual
General Convention in Washington
May Goth. 1t reports gratifying in
crease in numbers and vigor.
A company of San Francisco capital
lists have sailed for the silver mountain
reported to have been discovered in
Alaska by sailors. Some specimens
assayed from $4,000 to $4,000 per ton.
Samuel Andrews, sixteen years ago
an English laboring man, who has been
Rockfeller's partner i'm the oil business,
is building palatial abode on Euclid
avenue, Cleveland. He has retired.
Baltimore has quite a large-sized con.
gregation of Mennonites, who meet in
u hall over the Old Town Bank. They
practise the ceremony of feet washing
the minister waiting on the men, and
the Oldest woman on the women.
The ratio of vote to population in New
York city, at the last Presidential cleo
ton, was about one to five; in Philadel
phis and Chicago, one to six; Bostor
and st. Louis, one to seven; in New Or
leans, one to nine, and in Providence
one to eleven,
John Hahn, Of Spades, Ind, was sc
affected by his wife's desertlon Of hin
that he tried to throw himself under 6
locomotive, but was prevented. HI
then built a large bonfire. and when i
was well ablaze walked in, and wa'
burned to a cinder.
The original of Mary had littl'
, lamb" was written by Mr.. John Roul
stone, of Boston, son of Col. John Roul
stone, proprietor of a popular riding
school sixty years ago. MARY" th'
| ewner of the lamb, is now Mrs. Tyler
of Somerville, Mass.
/ There was a double marriage in ,
circus side show at Galveston. TIL,
giant welded the fat woman, and tn
living skeleton became the husband o
: the Circassian girl. In celebration o
the happy event banquet was givei
in the tent to employees of the circus.
; There is crematory in South Bostol
IN the forum of a lime kiln. Tramp
|. . cr&wl into it because it is warm. g
: comfortably to sleep, are overcome b.
{ gas, and finally are burned to crisl
when the fire is freshened in the morn
9 ing. Sixteen lives have thus been los
within few years.
The success of Mary Anderson, VIII
. became popular star Immediately OF
. adopting the stage, has melted tw
other Louisville young women to al
tempt the same feat. They are Mis-
Fetter and Miss Dickson, and each
j :cl TA =