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


-Four British M. P.'s are eighty and
upward.
Official emigration statistics show
that 81, ,s57 emigrants left In Ireland In
1880. ,s. .lll... ..,..l
-Garibaldi declares that war be-
tween Italy and France would be q
niOnstrosity. %
"A great worlds exhibition In Rome
has been definitely decided upon-to
como of In 1885.
The Marquis Of Salisbury has been
selected to lead the Conservatives in
the House of Lords. a.s. ......
Portugal Is seriously discussing the
old scheme Of q union with Spain In .
federal Iberian republic.
The German Reichstag has defeat
ed bill imposing tax on persons ex-
empt from military service. +t..,
Russia has decreed the exile Of H.
200 convicts, and already . stream has
begun b. flow Siberiawards.
Lord Beaconsneld died with ono
hand IN that Of two peers whom he
had created. No relative was In the
room.
The peasants Of the Baltic prov
inces of Russia demand absolute own
ership of the lands now held on
lease.
"A Berlin letter says that emlgra-
ton 10 depOpulatiug some Of the
largest estates In the Prussian prov
inces. u
The Province OF Montreal 10 In q
bad way, financially; the deficit this
year will be 81 ,OO0, 900, against $733, 900
last year.
The Duke and Duchess Of Edin-
burgh will spend the greater part OF
the summer and autumn In Germany,
at Coburg. 81.
The proposition of an American
company to construct Q railway through
Newfoundland has been accepted by
the authorities. lr 80
| The fulfilment of Zadkiel's prcphe-
cy that the Gar would be slain In March
has given q wonderful impulse 10 the
sale Of the almanac.
The difficulty Of Englishmen now
| finding investment at home Ia enabling
the Austral ans to borrow ON unprsce-
dentedly easy terms. -..
The vineyards In France which
have suffered DO much from the phyl-
loxera are now being attacked by .
new enemy-mildew.
| A historict chateau was lately sent
stone by stone TO Paris from the De-
partment OF Lot. and sold there. The
transport cost $4,000.
The Bank Of France has Just opened
its first branch In Paris. Several are TO
be created, tosave the trouble Of coming
into the centre Of the city.
"A telegraphic match between the
Liverpool Chess Club and Calcutta,
which has occupied four months, oon-
cluded In favor Of the former.
"A company has been formed In
japan to build nearly 1000 miles ofrail-
way running to the western and north
ern limits Of the main island.
i The Chinese have contracted with
the Great Northern Telegraph Comps
ny, of Copenhagen, for . line from
Shanghai to 900 miles.
-Bebel, o member Of the German
Reichstag, says that "the German peo-
pie have now only one want, and that
IL for money enough TO get TO Amer
ica." .iC
/. "A tankard Of brown Doulton waro
has been produced tc commemorate the
return, for the flrst time in Yorkshire's
history, Of six Liberals for the West
Riding Of the county.
-Ex-Prime Minister Sella II opposed
to free trade In Italy, on the ground
7 that protective tariff 10 needed dn or
der to pay off the colossal expenditure
incurred In securing national indepen-
dence.
Tho indictment against . Mrs.
Fletcher, who was convicted In Lon-
don the other day Of obtaining money
by 5alee pretences, was . truly apall-
ing document, being over 1U0 feet In
length. fa.
The French decree prohibiting tho
importation Of American meats has
. been removed. Its understood that
the inspection of the future will DO
|. strict, but not 90 much ~ to be pro-
hibitory.
--One Of the wealthiest settlers in
Australia 10 Jem Mace, the noted cham
pion OF the prize ring, who landed in
Melbourne two years ago with $50. He
has made forturns by speculating I'm
mining stocks.
There earethirty-eight Roman Cath
Ole noblemen with seats in the House
, OF Lords, and seventeen without seats:
forty-seven Roman Catholic baronets,
six Roman Catholic Privy Councillors,
and hfty-five members Of the House of
Commons.
"A little boy In London has become
noted - being the last prisoner put nj
the bar OF the Bow Street Police Court,
which has been removed from its old
quarters. This 10 the court described
by Dickens In "Oliver Twist" and it
was there that Fielding, one Of the first
magistrates, wrote "Tom Jones'"
, -Hodscha- Ahmet, who wss sentcnc-
ed TO imprisonment for life for having
, translated the Bible into Turkish, and
for having circulated IL In the States of
the Sultan, escaped from the prissn st
Chic after the earthquake. The prison
. was thrown down BY the violence OF the
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