Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-04-07
Matters and Things.

land on Sundays.
The petroleum exports Of the Unit
ed States during the month of jan
uary was s2,066, 600. For the same
month last year $3.44S,OO
It is said that Vennor keeps one sec
retary at work writing out his weather
predictions and another explaining
why they were not fulfilled.
Ten years ago the total export of
grain from all parts Of the United
States was ~, 122 39S bushels; last year
it amounted to 22s, ,539, ,947 bushels.
DR.. Glenn, the largest wheat grow
er in California, pronounces the wheat
profit SO small that he must seek
diversity of culture for bis $4,000
acres.
From March /, 1880, to March l, 1881,
seven millions Of hogs entered Chicago,
and not one of them left the city alive.
Meanwhile Cincinnati played second
fiddle.
A Boston paper has discovered the
cause of Cincinnati's claims to be re-
garded as the Paris of America in the
fact of the Germans having completely
invested it.
The books Of the City Assessor of
Kansas City show a total assessment of
S II, ,260, 800 nearly $4,0O0,0OO more
than last year. The chief increase
was in real estate.
The law III Rhode Island against in
termarriage between blacks and whites
has been repealed. There is now no
such statute in New England. but sew
eral of the Northern States still prohibit
such marriages.
Mary Seneff was drowned at Black
Band, Ohio. a year ago. Every night
her form rises slowly out of the water,
clad in white, and floats upward out of
sight. Several persons having a repu
tatisn for veracity say SO, and the COM
munity ia frightened.
On farm in the lower San Pedro
valley, California, the Apache chief
Es-kim-in-zin has settled down, and
employs fourteen Mexicans and Indi-
ans. He has $50 head Of cattle, a num-
| Der of fine horses, some sheep, wagons.
and agricultural implements. and will
go into stock raising and the cultiva-
tion of the soil.
The story is told of a San Francisco
man of sudden wealth, who desired u
gallery of family portraits, and sup
piled the want by buying lot of old
portraits while travelling abroad. He
had the noses of all rubbed out, and
his family nose, which is peculiar, care
fully painted in, thus making the pic
lures probable.
Joseph Berger, of tn Minnesota Leg
islature is one of the seventeen men in
the United States who hold a gold
medal for bravery. OF Austrian birth,
he entered the army at IA, was shot
at seven times, lost his left arm and
most of his right hand, and was Cap
tain at Is. He was sent to the Legisla-
ture at 3d. He draws $500 year pen
sion.
A Deadwood firm Of lawyers, in an
advertisement headed by a picture of a
skull and cross-bones, offer for sale
claims against a number Of persons,
among whom is deputy sheriff and a
man described as "a professional dead
beat and amalgamator." The list is to
be "kept standing until paid, ana other
names will follow, if the accounts are
not settled"
The value of our exports of domestic
provisions, tallow and dairy products
for the two months ended Feb. Is, 1881,
were S29, 9,946, ,S43; same period in 1880,
$19, 790, $50. Total value of exports of
provisions and tallow for the four
months ended Feb. 1S, 1881, $50, ,16S 1893.
four months ended Feb. Is, 1880, $34,
1876, ,425. Total values of dairy products
for the ten months ended Feb. Is, 1880.
SIS 1893, ,607.
A man built house worth $40 600 at
Andover, Mass, without spending a
dollar. He bought all the material on
six months credit, and at the end of
that time refused to pay. All the stuff
was in the house, which he had sold to
his wife. The labor was obtained on the
the same plan, and even the widow who
boarded the wOrkmen was swindled.
The man ives piacidly in his fine resi-
dence, but is not greatly loved by his
neighbors.
A l0O-year-old negress died suddenly,
to all appearances, in Pointe Coupee
Parish, La, short while ago, but in
the midst of preparations for her burial
she revived again, and seemed as well
as ever. This circumstances has Great
ed frenzy of excitement among all the
negroes of the district, who firmly be-
lieve that the old woman was really
dead and has come to life again, and
that she can, in consequence. cure the
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