Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-14
Matters and Things.

Twelve bodies have thus far been
cremated at Washington, Pa. Five OF
them were sent from New York City.
At a recent Boston concert the pro-
gramme was printed on thin japanese
paper, SO as to avoid the usual rat
| tling.
A Mrs. Robinson, of Boston, has ap-
piled for admission to the bar, and is
the first Massachusetts woman to claim
the right to practice law.
Seven residents OF Rutland, VT,
have been taking lessons in draw pok-
er, the instructor being professional
gambler, and the cost $3,172.
A pit 135 feet deep has been discov-
cred in the Mammoth Cave. 1t mouth
is reached by crawling on hands and
knees through long passage.
The estate of the late Senator Matt
H. Carpenter is valued at from $3.50, 900
to $l50,OOO. Judge Black has been en-
gagged by his widow to conduct his af-
fairs in probate.
The Rev. William Thomas breaches
to colored congregation in Washing
ton on Sundays, and during the rest of
the week is employed as doortender for
a gambling house.
Mrs. Garfield is the first Presidents
wife who has been able to converse
with foreign diplomats in the court lam
guage of Europe. She speaks French
and German fiuentIy.
A Michigan paper reports that an ex-
State Senator of Maine, Of some means,
has been working in a lumber camp in
Michigan all winter to learn practical
ly how the business is conducted there.
Last year Chicago furnished ten di-
yorce suits to every seventy-nine we'd
dings, there being an average of two
and one-eighth divorce suits per day
instituted in that city throughout the
year.
The Mayor of Cambridge, Mass, de-
clares that he would like to see it a
"live New England town and some
thing more tian literary city, suita-
BILE only for the residence of few
poets.
A gypsy horse trader, on seeing
Maud S. without knowing her, offered
to take her and $40 for the beast he
was riding, and could not he induced
to do better. The great trotter is not
handsome.
The people of Sydney. Neb., were so
overrun with thieves and cutthroats
that they organized what is known
| among ranchnen as roundup. They
drew a Gordon around the town and
drove all the bad characters into Jail.
Cleveland has an ordinance against
| the opening of barber shops on Sun
days; but Judge has decided that it
cannot be enforced, because an Ohio
statute permits necessary work" on
Sunday, and he regards shaving as that
kind Of work.
California is destined to become the
France of America. Her grape inter-
ests are more important than her gold
| fields. She will soon produce all the
raisns used in the United States: the
yield this year will be from $50, 900 to
100000 boxes.
The report of President Eliot of Har-
ward calls attention to the fact that the
ten colleges in the New England Asso-
citation had 4, ,544 students in 1876. and
have now but asp. Williams College
large increase-from 179 to 277.
Tennessee has new law forfeiting
the office of every Sheriff who permits
a prisoner to be taken from his custo-
dy. This is intended to put stop to
lynching. and is based on the belief
that mobs, being almost always cow
ardly, can be effectively opposed if the
Sheriff's have the desire to do it,
The Anti-Monopoly Union Of New
Jersey numbers in its rank merchants,
lawyers, physicians. clergymen, trades
men, mechanics and workingmen. In
Hudson county alone the membership
is over 5000. 1t has square, stand-up
fight with the railroads. which it claims
has got New Jersey by the throat.
Mike Simmons had the police Of
Greenville, Ohio, looking all day for
the ST 900 which he rad lost. Arrests
were made and houses ransacked. At
length Mikes own clothes were search
ed, and the roll of bills found in the
bottom of his trousers, where it had
fallen through hole in his pocket.
Within a month Assistant United
States Fish Commissioner Pierce has
filed at Washington nearly 200 applica
tions for the food carp to be distributed
this season by the Government. Near
ly one-fourth of the applications are
from citizens of Philadelphia who own