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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

DrED-At Bodie, Gala, Oct. 20, 1881. Mrs.
JULIA E. BooNE, wife Of DR.. Harvey Boone,
and daughter OF the late Judge J. P. Hayden,
aged 80 years, months and IA days.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

II Bro. johnson, of the Citizen, thinks the
ACADEMY of Music building is "at stand
.still,,,' let him come up and take look at the
workmen engaged on It.. He may get an idea
or two Of sufficient Importance to take back
to the swamps with him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

Game is exceeding plenty this fall. and we
hear of droves of deer and focks of turkeys
every day. DR.. Gouldipg, who lives on the
south side of Shepherd Mountain, on the wes-
tern boundary Of town, saw deer within six
,ty yards Of his bedroom window last Sunday,
while nocks OF Wild turkeys frequently invade
his premises. As soon - the colder weather
sets In venis0n will abound
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

Light frosts were apparent on Monday and
Tuesday NOR nings OF this week. But the
grasses have not been injured, and ''range'' is
still excellent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

.Jno. T. Baldwin is putting himself up q
residence on the lots formerly owned by Mrs.
DR.. Gideon. The foundations are com pleted.
and the framework will be put up as rapidly
% possible. We wish him success AMI occa-
sion for larger house as the years roll On
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

The schoolhouse ia now completed, and fires
are being kept up in the rooms to dry the
damp walls. The Young America Of the Val
ley will get his first whack at the walls and
benches next Monday.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

There is gang of bad boys in this town
whose members are making nuisanees of
themselves 10 an quiet folk. Some Of them
will get their names in the REGISTER If they
don't look little out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

The members Of the % Baptist Church. Of
shis city, intend having Bazaar. for the ban
cit Of their church and Sabbath school, to be
held the week before Christmas. Friends
wishing 70 aid them win ind their contribu-
lions shanful1y received BY the committee.
MRs. Ono. BorLsHER,
Mrs. II. ]. HARvTBLL,
MRs. N. ]. SALsBExRY.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03
Closing of Mails.
For guns, 60 to J. N. Bishops.

WANrED.-A live young squirrel-tame OF
partly 60. Apply at this Office.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

An important change was m ade last Sunday
IN the tims-card of the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern Railway. No. l now ar
rivss ut sos P. NJ; No. 8 at 1 30 A. NJ; No. z
at 2:45 4. n. and No. 4 at 10:45 A. NJ.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

A large vein of the finest ore yet discovered
on Pilot Knob, was struck last week.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-11-03

WANTED Ola Bones at Ironton Drug
Store for cash.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Origin of the Word Roorback.

Nathan Guilford, once a wel-known citizen of Cincinnati, was an active Whig politician, and editor of an energetic Whig paper On April 1, of a certain year, he published circumstantial ac- count of experiments by German chemist named Roorback. Roorback had been examining the chemical con stituents of eggs of different birds, SUD- posing it might be possible at last to compound hatchable egg. According to the story, after putting many of his manufac tured eggs to the animal heat of different patient mothers, he at last happily succeeded in matching one egg and produced a living bird. The story then goes on to describe very minutely the strange creature, anatomically, physiologically and every other way, initiating the scientific style used in similar cases. The story read very well, and was copied into many other papers, and, after going the rounds of the press in all parts of the United States, it was at last (after three or four months) dis covered to have been first published on the 1st of April.
 The Cincinnati Enquirer Democrat ic) immediately fixed upon Nil. Guilford the name of Roorback, which was there after held to mean a political liar, although the story had nothing to do with politics. Being well stuck to, the name at last became pretty well fixed, and MT. G. was for many years well known in the political field as Old Roorback
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Bears Helnine Each Other.

A gentleman was once making inquir- ies, in Russia, about the method of catching bears in that country. He was told that, to intrap them, pit was dug several feet deep, and, after covering 1t over with turf, leaves, etc., some food was placed on the top. The bear, if tempted by the bait. easily fell into the snare.
 "But," he added, eff four or five happen to get in together, they all man. age to get out again.
 How is that ?" asked the gentle man.
 "They form sort of ladder by step ping on each others shoulders, and thus make their escape.
 But how does the bottom one get out ?"
 "Ah these bears, though not pos sessing mind and soul such as God has given us, yet can feel gratitude; and they won't forget the one who has been the chief means of procuring their iber- ty. Scampering of, they fetch the branch of a tree, which they let down to their poor brother, enabling him speedi- ly to join them in the freedom in which they rejoice.
 Sensible bears, we should say, and 8 great deal better than some people that we hear about, who never help anybody but themselves. The Carrier Doue.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
The Russian Hangman.

There is but one state executioner in the vast Russian realm, and he is par doned malefacter named Frolof, who, in the pre-Nihilistic days, when the aboli- tion of capital punishment was still maintained in Muscovy, committed three successive murders, and was condemned to penal servitude for life. When, how ever, revolutionary successes rendered the services of an imperial hangman in- dispensable to the Ministry of Justice, Froloff volunteered for the office on con dition that an amnesty for his past mis- deeds should be granted him. His offer was accepted, and for some time past he has been busy man. For every "func- tion' he receives 50 silver rubles-about S30-from the Russian exchequer; but that official fee by no means represents the total emolument he derives from the practice of his handicraft,. for he is per mitted to trade upon the superstition still current in Russian society respect ing the luck conferred upon gamesters by the possession of morsel of the rope with which 8 human being has been strangled, either by the hand of justice or by his own.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
No Chance for Him.

He was coming down street with a 'scrick" in his back, a wobble in his knees and a thumb tied uEiR g rae. Perspiration had wilted his collar and made his fannels crawl up, and each knee carried the marks of dust. He halted pedestrian, got his. aching back against the lamp post, and asked i:
 ''Sir, do you suppose that George Washington ever fell down stairs with a bureau after him and on top of him ?"
 "s don't think so.
 "Did Daniel Webster ever turn an old ingrain carpet t'other side up, and haul it around, and pull his blamed urn.s of, and pound his thumbs to mash i'll tacking 1t down?'
 2 "I never heard that he did"
 "And, sir, do you believe that Henry Clay ever lugged a durned old bedstead all over the house, papered bedrooms, daubed around with paint, and lifted stoves until his eyes stuck out like lem ons on Greeley hat P
 "I never heard that Henry was any such man"
 "No, of course you didn't, and .1<o. you and the rest of the world wonder why I don't get up and perorate and philosophize and theorize and thun- der around like an earthquake. Look at me. Feel of me Go ache as I ache, wilt as I wilt, and then tell me what earthly chance man of moderate means has in this world for securing the laureis of fame. Yes, sir, and be han ed to you, sir, and even now I'm on my way down town to buy whitewash brush, two pounds of putty, peck of lime and four more papers of tacks."
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Are Apartment Houses Hotels 2

No less parsonage than Gen. Han cock elicited from the Supreme Court some explanation on this subject. He took for his family rooms at one of the leading family hotels in this city. The engagement was for the entire winter, unless the General should be ordered away on military duty. This did not occur, the party remained, and during the winter valuable jewels belonging to Mrs. Hancock were stolen from her apartment. The proprietor of the hotel denied being responsible for the loss, for he said that, when rooms are let for the entire season, at fixed price per month, the establishment Is not an inn, but an apartment house. Thus we see that there is opportunity for nice distinctions even important ones-between the three arrangements visiting hotel without making any bargain, hiring an entire house and lot for the year round, and the halfway plan coming into vogue, under which the owner of the building retains the general manage ment of 1t, just as in hotel, while the tenant hires a suite for definite term, just as one takes house. In~the Han cock case the Judge said he considered the establishment hotel. It was called hotel and kept in the manner of hotel on the European plan. And the hiring was not absolutely for the winter, but subject to be closed If the General should be ordered away. Therefore the proprietor was told he must pay, as an l inn-keeper, for the stolen jewels. But, 1 If the establishment had been avoWedly | an apartment house. If no business in receiving transients had been done, and if the rooms had been hired for the win fer, irrespective of contingencies, the tenants would, no doubt, have been told that their property was at their own risk with respect to thieves. York | Tribune.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19

"t cover his ears that he may not of lend the most fastidious; they resemble a cross between mailbag and the hu- man appendage. Hoop la (zip, zip. ) Let the Golden Cornet Band dish up Fishers Hornpipe red-hot and highly favored, and Hubby Darling shall" B-b-beg your p-pardon, m-madam, sputtered the victim, as his head and voice shot out of the shirt. Then
 She started, stopped,
 Spel-bould, amazed:
 The whip she dropped,
 And then she raised
 A Cherokee shritk
 And down she Topped
 But the terrified suffer CT caught her gallantly in his arms, just as Biggs rushed in with
 "Jack, are you drowning? Great heavens my wife p
 "Take her, Riggs. I'm tuclzered out. Awkward predicament-"
 Explain yourself instantly, sir ! You half dressed, my wife in your ar1ns4,' and he brissled all over, like barbed- wire fence.
 Hold on, Riggs; I've got about all l can stand. Let me get my clothes on and I'll go where men are not martyr. Your wife thought 1 was"
 "Hubby, darling-oh, that blind fold p murmured the Queen of the arena, half-consciously.
 "Hear that, sir Whats this about blindfold ?"
 q got stuck in that confounded shirt. Your wife took me for "The Peerless Prancer of the Arena. Hoop la P gasped the Queen, rousing a little.
 "Merciful heavens Hear that rav- ing You've dethroned my wife's req son. Oh, base ingrate Don't leave this house at the peril of your life. You shall-''
 "Dance the sawdust on his hind feet, 9 muttered the Queen, convulsively. ,"My poor wife I will avenge your wrongs" groaned Riggs, chafng her limbs agonizingly.
 My head was fast in the shirt. She couldn't see my face and thought 1t was you," shrieked the tortured, hoarsely.
 "very likely! Be a man, sir. Don't shrink from the punishment of your treachery
 "Where am I? Is it dream p unused the Queen, opening her optics and glaring wildly.
 ''What has that villain done?" de- manded Riggs, fercely.
 She hitched on at once.
 ''Oh, mercy It is no dream. He did nothing Take me to my room. Oh, husband, how could you bs so cere- less P
 Don't go, Jack ; maybe I've made 8 zebra of myself; stay uow til tho foo rises ;" and he bore his wilted wife away.
 An hour later they sat around mary elous supper Biggs made sac-n1 triE to order. They held their sides ond shrieked and repeated the points of the episode again and again.
 Jack is christened Hubby Oar ling" He sighs for more marriage fe ieity.
 When Riggs wants to silence his vifs he snaps his fingers and pipes" EooT la "-Chicago Tribune.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Men Who influenced Their Age.,

The course of history is not mere game played by few great men nor yet does 1t run in an infexible groove which no single man can turn aside The great man influences his age, but at the same time he is influenced by his age. Some of the greatest of men, as far as their natural gifts went, have been useless or mischievous, because they have been out of gear with their own age. Their own age could not receive them, and they could not make their age other than what 1t was. The most use- full kind of great man Is he who Is just so far in advance of his age that his age can accept him as its leader and teacher. Men of this kind are themselves part of the course of events ; they guide 1t they make 1t go quicker or slower, but they do not thwart 1t. Can we, for instance, oVerrate the gain which came to the newborn federation of America by find ing such a man as Washington ready made to its hand? Or take men of quite another stamp from the Virginian de- hyerer. The course of her history for .he last 800 years has been largely af- ! iected by the fact not only thes we un- derwent a foreign conquest, but that we underwent foreign conquest of par ticular kind, such as could be wrought only by a man of particular kind. The course of our history for the last 300 years has been largely affected by the fact that, when English freedom was in the greatest danger, England fell into the hands of tyrant whose special hu- nor it was to carry on his tyranny under the forms of law. English history could not have been what 1t has been if William the Conqueror and Henry VIII. had been men other than what they were. One bushes to put the two names together. William was great in himself, and must have been great in any time or place. Henry, man not without great gifts, but surely not great man, was made important by cir cumstances in the time and place in which he lived. But each influenced the course of events by his personal charac- ter But they influenced events only in the sense of guiding, strengthening and quickening some tendencies and keeping others back for 8 while. Neither of them, nor Washington either, belong to that class of men who, for good or for evil, turn the world upside down, the great destroyers and the great creators of history. y.-Freenaaas, n Fortaightly | Rerie0,
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
BUTLER AND THE SPOON.
The Alleged True Story of His Dis
 position of the Silver.


 What prrports to be trustworthy ex- plantation of the manner in winch Gen. Benjamin F. Butler acquired tte un- happy fame of being purloiner of sil- yer spoons is given by 9 Washington correspondent: A lady went to Gen. Garfield, some months ago, and intro duced herself as the daughter of Gen. David D. Twiggs, who left our army, i, where he had gained the rank of Major General, to join the secessionists at the opening of the Rebellion. She stated her object to be the recovery of her fathers two swords, captured by Butler when he entered Ne~~-e1rii eesIss "a ssiife spring of 1862. One sword had been voted to TwigGs by Congress in recog- hilton of his services during the Mexi- can war the other WAS the weapon he had drawn in behalf Of the Confederacy. She was particularly anxious to secure the latter, because her father had prized 1t far above its fellow. Garfield referred her to Butler, whom she feared to meet on aez-tlnt os-the terrible reputation he had gained in tine South. Having been assured that he was not nearly sc black as he had been painted, she sought him out, and, to her surprise, WAS very po- litely received. He informed her that he had sent the swords to Washington, with the request that one be given to the Annapolis Academy and the other to West Point, as trophies of the civil wor His request was not complied witt. They were, instead, locked up in tl.e vaults of tine treasury for safe keeping, and one of the duplicate keys was de- livered to him. He then added "You have not, my dear madam, asked me about your family plate, which I have 50 often been accused of stealing to dec- crate my own table with. You no doubt, in common with many Southerners. think the charge true. As soon as had occupied your fathers deserted house. one of your servants came to me with q load of silver, saying that your father had buried it in the garden to keep 1t from the hated Yankees, but that, now he had gone, the servant, having seen the act, dug 1t up, and was desirous to hand 1t over to the proper authorities. ! used the silver while l had my head quarters atyour fathers place; but after ward Turned every piece-spoons, forks, salvers and dishes-over to the Quar- termaster's Department. Here, madam. are the vouchers for every article brought me by your colored servant" And Butler opened his desk and took out a neatly arranged packet of papers, each of which was regularly and formally signed and credited, relieving Butler ] from all responsibility in the much vexed matter. This will not, of course, l prevent most Of the Southerners and many of the Northerners from swearing that Butler did steal Twiggs silver, and never returned 1t and never accounted for it. There are falsehoods which no amount of truth or disproval will or can extinguish and Butler and the spoons IS conspicuous example thereof.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Artemus Wards Franks,

Among luis youthful diyersiona 7.s 16S[ writing of letters to prominent 9I.s in all parts of the country whosa lIIse's he happened to see in rrir tn<ifr strangers to him. These usaaII7 raferrs to some prospective business affnz a< ment. Thus he would write fo some gentleman in New York: "Dear ST I I'm sorry to say sha'n't be able to get that harness done on the dayI pEem.- ise1;'' or, "I will not be able z6 esIl at your house, as you requested, etts this mystifcation of unsuspectia
 he was not unlike the German 2 E !: ' who, while always playing the fe9 zssss = lacked fools upon whom he 11i4 experiments. Nothing seemed U I Fl him more than to get the better of his brother Cyrus. One very cold night iii the winter, when he had come home at d late hour from an entertainment, instead of going quietly to his room, for which his mother had provided by leaving the doors unfastened, he stationed himself in the street and called to his brother as if Iii deep distress about something. Cyrus was slow to wake and appear. Charles continued calling, and with more agony, "Cy! Cyl Ho! Cyl" When Cyrus at last came to the window, he solemnly asked, "Do you really think, Cyrus, that it is wrong to keep slaves ?''
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
Solemn Thoughts.

"Be iabers," said Patrick O'Raferty, as he was reading about case of sui eide !" be iabers, if iver I take me own life it will be wid chloroform. ;"
 "Nivir do the loike of that, Pat, ; said Mrs. O'Rafferty, for yer inimies will bring it up agiin ye aftherward as long as ye live"
 q know all that, but little I'll care. It's the best way to doi, for ye see, Mrs. O'Raferty, ye just doze of, and ye don't aven know ye are dead till yer wake up, and rade about it in the papers.
 "That's thrue." said Mrs. O'Rsfarty, solemnly, and the subject was dropped.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
An Ohio Nero.

The Ohio boy is full of genius. He had been reading that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and his fancy was kindled by the mere thought of the sublime spectacle. How hard it is to repress the precocity that bespeaks the possession of heaven born endowments. One after noon this boy set fire to the woodshed, and, crawling up on adjoining fence. covered his mothers hair comb with a bit of paper, and played ''Way Down Upon the Suwanee River" while the confagration proceeded. He took his meals standing for several days after uarfJ
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
4 Suitable Trio.

During the administration of Presi- dent Jackson the deposits of the United States in the State banks were. removed. This financial measure was followed by. awide-spread commercial disaster. All was consternatlon, for hundreds of busi ness houses toppled down. Meetings were held to protest against the Presi-, dents course. and numerous delegations were sent to Washington to remonstrata with the obstinate old General
 In Now Bedford, it was suggested that a delegation of three should be sent. An old Quaker merchant, who had recently failed, nominated himself, another lner- chant. noted for long speeches. and q. third, remarkable for the ease with which he could weep.
 "James," he said, "can do all the talking John can do all the crying and I'll go as monument of the times"
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
THAr obscure poison which produce

THAT obscure poison which produces hydrophobia has been known to lie latent in the human system for years before developing its fatal results. M. Pasteur asserts that the supposition is we'll supported that the virus does de- velop in certain organs, and not, as in other cases, in the blood; and that when, after period variable according to cir cumstances, the organized poison passes into the blood, severe symptoms come on rapidly and the victim soon dies. An explanation substantially the same as this had long been advanced as mere theory, but M. Pasteur advances 1t as an ascertained physiological fact.
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19

A YOUNG lady who had ordered home 2 pair of unusually high-heeled boots vas flushed by the announcement by Bridget, fresh from answering the door, bell, |" If ye plaize, miss, there is man in the hall below wid pair of shtilts for reg ''-Ko7}lc Circle
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19

SOME persons are born with a strong natural instinct to be just But it is also habit of mind which may be increased and improved hy study and reflection, and which should he seda!ously culti-
Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-11-19
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.

Fate. A bright little girl, Giving a twirl : On her skate. A great bearded man Right into her ran; Was 1t fate? The ice being thin It let them both in; He was stout. He climbed up on the ice And-wasn't it nice?- Pulled her out. In twelve months down the aisle She came with smile; On bis arm. Now she skates-little deari And feels, as he's near, No darn.