Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-28
Matters and Thlnxs.

MSGl0lS ana VnlnX9s
The mother o: Tom Hughes, now 81
is coming over to join the Rugb.
colony.
Judge Devens new receives Sc. 500
year for his services on the Massachu
sets Supreme Bench.
| DIR. Newman. Grants pastor, propos
Is to erect an independent Methods
Church in New York.
A well gushing forth genuine con
gress water, beating the Saratoga fluid
has been struck at Lansing, Mich.
Freeman, the English historian. i
coming to the United States next fall
partly to see the country and partly fol
his health.
| Boston has an italian colony o.
about 800. Some of them are rich
and most Of them are in comfortable
circumstances.
Evangelist Moody raised an $50, ,0OC
debt for the San Francisco Young
Mems Christian Association during
his labors in that city.
Ernesto Rossi, the italian tragedian,
is to make an American tour next sea-
son. He is to give 100 performances,
and will receive $500 night.
A boy fell over the precipice at
Rochester, N. Y, into the Genesee
river, = clear drop of 12G feet, and was
taken out of the water unhurt.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele-
graph Company Of New York has be-
gun the construction of a twelve-wire
line between Boston and Washing
ton.
President Washburn. Of the Mime
apolis and st. Louis Railroad, announc-
es that his company will build nearly
two hundred miles of track this sea-
son.
A party of Chicago capitalists, repre-
ing fifty million dollars, has broken
ground at Dallas, Texas, for the Chica-
go, Texas and Mexican Central Rail
road.
Fruit growers on the Delaware penin-
sula assert positively that there will be
no peach crop there this season. Many
orchards have been uprooted to give
place to corn and wheat.
Over eighty thousand buffaloes have
within six months been killed in Mon
tana, mostly for their hides, which
bring from S2.25 to 1915. Men in the
fur trade say the animal will soon be
extinct.
Divorce suits have been brought at
Indianapolis by August Richter and
Henry Baumuller, and it is averred
that, by mutual agreement, each is to
marry the others wife. Richter also
paying Baumuller 81 900.
The Rev. Mr.. Titus, of Indianapolis,
challenges anybody to take the mega
tive of the following proposition in a
public discussion: Resolved . That 1t is
right for minister to take all the pso-
pie are willing to give him."
Vanderbilt is willing that Maud 8.
shall this summer give exhibitions of
speed, in the hope of lowering her rec
ord, but she will not be matched with
others. ALI the chief associations of the
country have applied for her.
The iron and steel industries of the
United States are ,O05 in number, with
a capital of $3.50, ,97I 1884. Pennsylvania
leads off with nearly half the product
Of the whole country, Ohio taking seq
ond rank. Missouri's product was
125 75S tons in 1880.
There have been only two Cabinet
officers younger than Robert Lincoln:
Alexander Hamilton, who was 33 when
appointed by Washington Secretary of
the Treasury, and Henry Knox, the
first Secretary of War under the Con-
stitution, who was 81.
A New Haven firm sends thousands
Of the red American fox skins to Rus
sia every year. These skins, which
are used in the Muscovite country to
line costly garments. are contributed to
q considerable extent by Maine, Yer
mont and New Hampshire.
A parrot hidden in a cage behind a
box containing ceffin in a Central
Railroad car, the other day, greatly
frightened a baggage man when it
cried: "Let me out, it's hot" It was
some time before he could be convinced
that the dead man had not come to life.
Mr.. Russell Sage, one Of New York's
men of millions, said to a reporter the
other day: "Yes, began at the bot
tom of the ladder in Troy. N. Y. When
was young man my wife assisted
ne to earn living by making collars
Ind cuffs for . Trojan manufacturer"
Ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of the Mon
mouth Battle Monument Organiza eion,
Eew Jersey, reports that so, 600 in
have been received,