Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-05-19
PERSONAL AND GEnERAL.

from the effects Of lead poisoning, resulting
from the nse Of cosmetics.
| Mr.. GEORGE C. HARDING, q well
known Journalist, editor of the Saturday
Reoieac, died 1t Indianapolis on the Sth.
Six miners lost their lives by fire in
coal shaft at Carbondale, Kans., Jon the 9th.
Fourteen of their companions were rescued
from their perilous position after great ex-
ertion, and were resuscitated.
| EADs' ship railway contract has been
unanimously approved by the Mexican
Chamber of Deputies.
| THE President has withdrawn the
nomination of w. A. NJ. Grier, of Pennsyl-
vania, to be Third Assistant Postmaster
General. Grier having declined the position.
TIE French Ambassador at Constan-
tinople has handed the Porte note saying
that the dispatch of any armed force to Tuns
by Turkey would be regarded as ''casus
belli." o
The Jews in Podolia have been NAL
treated, and troops have been sent to their
protection. f.isra.
The Southern Utes are on the war
path, and a general uprising is feared. In
La Plata County, Colo, three ranchmen,
named May, Smith and Thatcher, were
killed.
Mrs. MARY PATTERSON, aged %, and
married on the previous day, committed
| suicide at Philadelphia by leaping from a
| bridge into the river. She was highly re-
| spected. Her friends believe that the pros
| pect of continued poor. health and the eX-
element attending her marriage had affect
| ed her reason. ,,-...f.s4f
! Mrs. CHARLES MURRY, of Canton,
o., had been ordered by her physician to
take quinine pills every three hours and a
morphine powder thrice a day. She reversed
| the order, with fatal results. She had been
married but two weeks. -fe
AS result of the conference between
President Garfield, the Secretary of War,
| and Generals Sherman and Sheridan, an Or
der has been promulgated restoring the mill
itary divisions to the same status as before
| the order of December s, 1880, which created
the Division OF the Gulf. BY the new order
Gen. Schofield is placed on waiting orders
until further orders of the President, with
full pay. The territory formerly embraced
in the Division of the Gulf is restored to the
Division of the Missouri, which will remain
under command OF Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan.
The Divisions of the Atlantic and the Pacific
will remain unchanged, under command re-
spectively of Gen. Hancock and Gen. Nc
Dowell.
A FREIGHT engine and ten cars went
through bridge on the Green Bay g. Min
nesota Railroad, between Elm Lake and
Dexterville, Wisconsin, the other day. The
bridge had been set on fire by miscreant.
The engineer was seriously hurt.
THE United States Grand Jury at
Denver, Colo, have indicted Major W. H.
Berry, Indian Agent at the Los Pinos Agen-
cy; Commissioner A. r. Meacham; Capt.
H. G. Kline, and five Ute Indians, VIZ,
shavano, Piah, Echo, Henry and Unco (the
latter now dead), for the murder of young
Jackson some months ago. The Indians
will in all probability resist arrest, and
collision is considered imminent.
SURVEYORS on the Muskogee & Fort
Smith Branch of the Missouri Pacific have
been driven off by the Cherokees. The In
dams are reported obstinate. 1t is not
doubted that the Missouri Pacific folks will
assert their right to build the road.
A REMARKABLY interesting expert
ment has just been made at Calais and Do
yer, on the English Channel, between which
places conversation has been kept up vird
UOce, by means Of new kind of telephone,
which has been patented under the name of
the electrophone. Not only were words
whispered into the apparatus at Calais dis
tinctly heard at Dover, and of course uice
Uersa, but the listener at one end was per-
fectly able to distinguish by mere tones of
voice the person who was speaking at the
other end.
OFFICIAL news is received that the
route of the Sonora Railroad has been
changed and will pass through Magdalena
and strike the Arizona border in the vicinity
Of Santa Cruz, whence it will skirt the
frontier until it connects with the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe.
AN expedition is to be at once formed
to root out band of American and Mexican
horse thieves in the Ariope district near the
Arizona border. The Governor of Ariope
has asked the cooperation of Gov. Fremont
of Arizona.
A DISPATCH from St. Petersburg says
measures are on foot to lessen the rent for
lands from thirty to sixty-five per cent.
This will apply to the thirteen Northern
Governments. There will be other measures
of amelioration for the South. The expecta-
tions of constitution are probably chimer-
ical. f a.
THE Senate Judiciary Committee on
the 9th voted to report adversely on the
nomination Of Stanley Matthews as Associate
Jnstice of the Supreme Court.
IT has been decided by the Treasury
to extend the limit of time for
six per cent. bonds for continue
ton at 8 1-2 per cent. The date to which the
limit will be extended is believed to be the
Goth inst.
ORDERS have been issued from the
Post office Department to discontinue the
mail service at once on the fol-
lowing routes in the South and Southwest:
Memphis, Tenn, to Wittsburg, Ark, 40
miles, cost of service and route $40, 1873 per
annum; Camden, Ark, to New Orleans, 671
miles, cost Of service 5000 per annum;
Ark, to Batesville, Ark,
50 miles, cost of service, $3,959 per annum;
Little Rock to Fort Smith, Ark, 260 miles,
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