Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-26
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE United States Signal Service
will in future receive weather reports from
Mexico.
THE Columbia College Law School,
New York City, graduated 122 young lawyers
last week.
THE u. s. Senate adjourned sine die
Friday evening. seventy-eig days after /,
met in special session.
THE Anglo-French Union Bank, oil
Paris, having sixteen branches and 1900. DOC
francs capital, has suspended.
I THE Brazilian line of steamers known
| as the American Line, has been Withdrawn,
foreign rivalry proving too great
THE Conklingites at Buffalo, N. Y,
fred one hundred guns on the 21st in celebra.
ton of the confirmation Of Gould ~ Collector
Of that port.
IT has been decided by the Ohio
Democratic State Executive Committee to
hold State Convention in Cleveland on the
18th Of July.
JEFF. DAVIS, President Of the late
Confederscy, was in Chicago last Saturday
visiting an old schoolmate. Sunday he left
for Montreal.
Col. THoS. A. SCOTT, ex-President
of Pennsylvania and Texas Pacific railroads,
died at an early hour Saturday morning OF
paralysis aged 81 years.
A DISPATCH from Tunis announces
that the Sultan of Turkey has pronounced
the deposition Of the Bey and that the French
declare their intention to uphold him.
A PICNIC of the Association Of Loco
motive Engineers on Prices Hill. near Gin
cinnati, on the 20th was attended BY 1000
people. most of whom went there ON excur-
sion trains.
THE centennial celebration Of the
capture Of Fort Galphin from the British dur
ing the Revolutionary War, by Americans
under Gen. Henry Lee, took place at Augusta,
Ga, on the Goth.
Col. w. III. FRENCH, U. 3. A., re-
aired. died of apoplexy last Friday morning at
Washington. He was Major General Of Vol
unteers during the war and Brevet Major
General in the REGULAR army.
UNDER the Scrutin de Liste method
of electing deputies the new French Chamber
will consist of 500 members or about fifty more
than At present. The Foreign Ministry under
and then give place to Gambetta.
THERE was a short debate in the
Senate Friday on the nomination Of VIM. T.
Chandler as Solicitor General. and then the
vote was taken which resulted in his rejection
by majority of five, a. follows: Yeas, 10 Re.
publicans; nays, % Democrats and Cameron.
of Pennsylvania
LAST Saturday Register Scofield re-
tired from the Office of Register of the Treas
urY. having been commissioned as ono of the
Judges Of the Court of Claims. Before rstir.
ing he introduced to the principal officers OF
bis division, the newly appointed Register,
ex-senator Bruce, who assumed his official
duties on Monday.
The steamship Ganos, from Matan.
zas for Boston with . cargo of sugar, collided
with the steamer Pembroke on the night Of
Goth and sunk in Boston Harbor. The crew
were all saved with the exception Of one sea,
man. Loss on cargo $3.50, ZOO; insured fol
$21S.0O0. The Pembroke was not seriously
injured, but put back for repairs.
ROBERTSON was confirmed Collector
Of the Port Of New York on the 18th by viva
voce vote, and nobody knows how many voted
pro and con. Some of the impaired eenaterr
present did not vote at all, and It IL said that
less than quorum voted on the nomination,
but no point of order was made. Democratic
Senators did not look upon the Robertson
light as their affair, and the Republican Sena-
tors friendly to Conkling did not have nerve
enough to insist on a roll-cali.