Iron County register., 1881-09-01

received official notification of the law re-
Gently passed by the French Assembly
granting an indemnity of 6, 900, 600 francs to
the republicans who were banished after the
coup d'etdt of September, 1851. Many Of tAe
exiled came to America, and others settled
in England, Germany and other countries.
Those still living are entitled to their pro-
portion of the appropriation voted, but can
obtain it only in yearly instalments, and must
make application within two months. The
indemnity will amount to between 400 and
1900 francs per annum for each person en-.
titled thereto.
The Musical Jubilee at Bismarck
Grove, Kans., opened on the 18th with a
chorus Of 1000 trained voices. Litta was the
leading soloist. The attendance was unpre-
cedentedly large.
THE August estimate of the Ohio
Board of Agriculture is as follows, compared
with 1880: Wheat, Y per cent, or 3S, S,000, 900,
against 81, SOC, 900 bushels; corn, 70 per cent,
or IA, ,OOO, 900, against 1O5, 600, 900 bushels
oats, LOT per cent, or q, 800 900, against 21,
0O0, 900 bushels. The wheat estimate is
based on the actual measurement of yield
per acre from 1000 threshing-machines for
three weeks threshing in all parts of the
State, and is an exceedingly accurate esti-
mate.
DURING a severe storm on the 18th,
the house of 81. Week, at Spring River Prai-
rie, Lawrence County, Mo-, was struck by
lightning, killing two children, nine and
eleven years of age. The house OF Henry
Weulner, who lives two or three miles from
Week, was struck also, and a young German
named Weihe, about twenty years old, was
instantly killed.
COMET G is now plainly visible to the
naked eye. It is in Ursa Major, about
twelve degrees below the bottom of the bowl
of the dipper, and is the upper one of pair
of faint stars. 1t can be seen with the naked
eye, but through an opera glass the tail is
plainly visible.
ADvICEs received at Las Cruces, N.
NJ, state that Lieut.. Smith, of the 9th United
States Cavalry, with twenty soldiers and a
number of citizens, had a fight with Indians
on the Goodman Trail, leading from Lake
Valley to Georgetown, Grant County, New
Mexico. The soldiers and citizens were
completely routed, with quite a number
killed. Lieut.. Smith is among the killed /;
also, George DAILY, General Manager of the
Roberts mines.
A DESPERATE character named Muir
ply was killed by bullet from policeman's
revolver at Lawrence, Kans., on the Goth. He
had wounded one officer and fired ut several
others in trying to escape after an attempt at
burglary.
WILLIAM MIRANDA, freight conduc-
tor on the Cincinnati & Marietta Railroad,
was run over by his train and instantly killed,
near Lancaster, o., on the Goth.
THE boiler of the tug A. B. Ward ex-
ploded on the Goth while towing schooner
through Clark Street bridge, Chicago. Three
men were killed and several others badly
wounded.
AN engine on the old Dubuque &
Southwestern Road exploded near Dubuque,
Iowa, on the 21st, killing engineer John
James and injuring several others, including
Dick Lyman-the latter very seriously. In
all ten persons were injured, and most of
them very badly.
A DISPATCH from Canyon City, Colo,
says: A terrible waterspout burst on Grape
Creek on the Goth, and whole sections Of
ties with iron attached were run
ming in the Arkansas River, together with
bridge timber, huge pine trees, cattle and
horses.
THE Missouri Stove Company's works
at st. Louis burned on the 21st.
THE dwelling of VIM. Cole, a farmer
living near Garettsburg, Buchanan County,
Mo-, burned on the 10Th. An infant per-
ished in the flames, and its mother became
frantic with grief and was not expected to
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