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

"A monument to the late Senator
Carpenter is TO go up in Wiscon-
sin.
DR.. J. q. Holland is said to have the
fastest steam yacht on the st. Lawrence
river.
"The late sphinx" is the sobriquet
applied by the Utica Herald to Gen.
Grant.
One firm in Rotterdam says it is
sending to America 1000 Holianders
every week.
Live canary birds tied and perched
on bouquets are hawked about New
York streets.
Governor Long has given to the town
of bingham, Mass, handsome public
drinking fountain.
Good a sh lumber 10 very scarce in
Chica ago-l0, ,000, 900 feet could be placed
there to advantage.
Corporal punishment under certain
circumstances has been reauthorized in
the Chicago schools.
Stanley Matthews is going to give his
large collection of paintings to the new
Cincinnati Art Museum.
Including James Gordon Bennett,
there are now twenty-four American
thoroughbreds in England.
General Grant has engaged rooms
ahead. in anticipation of his visit to the
City of Mexico in September.
Nineteen of the southern counties OF
California will probably ask Congress
to set them up rs a new State.
The last report bout Adelina Patti is
that she will come to the United States
with her own manager-her husband.
A girl in Bath, n. Y, has collection
of more than 100 picture cards and u
string of 900 buttons, with NJ two alike.
The Journal and Reuie,0 of Aiken,
S. e., speaks of Judas Mahone, the
champion skunk of the Old Domin-
ion.o
Secretary Blaine says there are more
than l l,00u, 900 applications for office Oh
file i'm the various departments at Wash
ington.
Ex-Attorney-Gener Wiiliamsis for
mall. annoulced as a candidate for U.
S. Senator from Oregon to fill the next
vacancy.
A Jude in New York has decided
that the revised New Testament will
not do for witnesses to swear upon in
his court.
Horace Greelay's brother, Thornton
Greeley, bequeathed his farm, valued
at $50. 600 to the city Of Nashua, New
Hampshire.
The number of new manufacturing
est t.hlishments now building in Phila-
d.lphia exceeds that of any former pe-
riod in the history of the city.
DIR. w. H. Russell, the English jour
nalist, says that the Yosemite is equal
to the Alps and combines the attrac-
tions of half q dozen famous European
places.
Whitelaw Reid has been entertained
at dinner in London by Gladstone.
His friends say he does not mean to
work hard when he comes back as in
former years.
"Clovernook, J" the old home of A lice
and Phoebe Cary, has been purchased,
restored, end in honor of the two poets
opened 10 the public, 10y Mr.. A. Swift,
of Cincinnati.
Julian Kennedy, the well known
oarsman of Yale, is manager of the
Edgar Thomson Steel Works at Pitts
burg, which has turned out o34 tons of
steel in one day.
Chang TsanY will be the successor
of Chin Ian Pin, Chinese Minister at
Washington. He is said to be very ac-
complished, speaking both French and
English perfectly.
Mr.. VIM. w. Phelps, our new Minis
ter to Austria, has rented the house of
q noble in Vienna, and it is said will
entertain in a style unknown there
since the days of Motley.
The largest tow of lumb from Mich
igan that ever passed through the great
lakes arrived at Buffalo recently; itcon-
sisted of 3, $50 600 feet, and was carried
by four barges and q steamer.
Sitting Bull. according to the stories
of Canadian Indians, once lived on the
northern shore Of Lake Superior. and
was educated at the College of Montre-
al. Afterward he Joined the Utes.
At stations on the new Southern Pa
cific railroad the following signs are
seen in front of tents and wooden sham
ties: "One meal. 25 cents;D Square
meal, SO CENTS" Gorge, 75 cents.n
Gen. Sherman has sent his war maps,
made in 1864, to Atlanta, Co., for use in