Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-02-10

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BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE, New York Assembly has passed
a bill prohibiting consolidation of telegraph
companies.
GEN. BUFoRD, who killed Judge
Elliott at Frankfort, KY, has been acquitted
on the ground of insanity.
THE consolidation of the New Orleans
Pacific and the Texas Pacific Railroads it is
believed win soon be effected.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature took its
fourteenth Intellectual ballot for United States
Senator on the 1st, the vote being-Wallace
IS; Oliver, 7e; Grow, 50; scattering, 10.
SECRETARY SCHuRz, in response to a
request from the Senate, on the I'd transmit
ted to that body large mass Of official cor
respondence in reference to the Ute troubles
Iris officially announced that the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe and the South
ern Pacific Railroads will begin running
through passenger trains by the middle OF
March.
THE President has nominated another
anti-Conkling man, John w. Jacobus, to be
United States Marshal for the Southern Dis
trict of New York. The present Marshal,
Payne, an adherent of the senior New York
Senator, was candidate for reappointment.
ADJUDICATION of leading Indiana Re-
publicans have been on a visit to Mentor to
present to the President elect the claims OF
their State to seat in the Cabinet. 1t is
said that Mr.. New was the first choice OF a
majority of the committee for Cabinet po-
sition, but no individual name was presented
to Mr.. Garfield.
PROF. OSCAR G. HILL, principal of
the Normal School at Oregon, Holt County,
Mo. it is said will be President Garfeld's
private secretary. Mr.. Hill was formerly a
teacherin the Hiram CO.. College when Mr..
Garfield was its President, and for many
years uScu III ICldolohohip WIN
him, both being likewise members OF the
same church.
THE following are reported to be the
Gillian conditions of peace: Cession OF
Astofagasta to Chill; surrender Of the allied
fleet and payment Of $30,OOO,000, whereof
Peru shall assume $2O,0OO,o0O and Bolivia
$40, 900, 900; Chilli to occupy Callao and work
the guano deposits and copper and salt
peter mines until payment Of the indemnity
is made.
THE President, on the I'd, transmitted
to Congress the report Of the Ponca Commits
sion, accompanied by a message recommend
ing-1. The education of young Indians;
9. The allotment to the Indians of lands in
severalty; 8. Fair compensation for all lands
not required for individual allotment; 4. In
vesting them ultimately with the rights of
citizenship.
AFTER a continuous session of forty
one hours of the British House of Commons,
during which the Home Rulers used every
parliamentary device to defeat the motion,
the Speaker ordered the debate closed and
the Government obtained leave to bring in a
bill for the protection Of life and property in
Ireland. The Home Rule members then left
the House in a body.
THE public debt statement issued
Feb. 1 shows decrease of the debt during
January of $7,3S2, 167; cash in the Treas
ury, 1921, 674,535; gold certificates, Sc, 541,
$50; silver certificates, SAC, S00,22 certifi-
Gates. of deposit outstanding, $S,630,O00;
refunding certificates, $s67, $50; legal ten
ders outstanding, $346,6S1 ,O16; fractional
currency, $15,520, 1882 less amount esti
mated as lost or destroyed, act of June q,
1879 (Ss,s75,9 74), $7,144, 49, ~.
SENATOR-ELECT PLATT and Governor
Cornell, of New York, both close personal
and political friends of Senator Conkling,
spent Sunday, the 30th, at Mentor, as the
guests of President-elect Garfield, and at his
special invitation, as is announced apparent
~ by authority. The conference is regarded
as one of great political Importance. as the
probable relations between Senator Conkling
and the incoming Administration have been
of late the subject of no little comment.
The Fifty-eighth British regiment,
under Sir George Colley, have been repulsed
in an attack upon the Beers at Drakenburg
Pass, losing 1S1 men killed, wounded or
missing. zen. Lean, MAJ. Ioole anu Lleuts.
ELVES and Baltic were killed; Lieuts.
Hingeston, Lovegrove and O'Donnell
wounded. The Beers held strong position
and fought with great bravery. Their loss
is estimated at 500 killed and wounded.
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The annual report of the New York
Commissioners Of Emigration shows the to-
tai immigration of last year to that port to
have footed up 372, $50, Of which 327, 3n were
aliens. The tables of nationality leave Ger
many with an easy lead of 10y, 1854,
while Ireland comes second, with
relatively reduced total of 66, 800. Eng
land. Scotland and Wales sent in round
numbers AZ 900 emigrants, while the Scandi-
navian co,lntries-Sweden. Norway and Den.