Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-30
Various Matters.

impeded by scarcity of laborers.
The Houston Age calls the revised
Testament the dolly Warden Bible"
The New York Weekly Tribune is
edited by lady-Miss Nellie Hu.chin-
son.
1t is stated that the attempt to natur-
alize camels in Texas and New Mexico
is failure.
Southern and Cuban families promise
to be unusually numerous at Saratoga
this season.
The oldest man in Wisconsin is
thought to be Michael O'Brien, of Da.
rien, aged 10S.
"The United States is this, not a
these" said President Moss, of the In
diana University.
| The house of Gov. Foster, OF Ohio
log hut was erected.
Blaine is flooded, so to speak. with
remedies for rheumatism sent him by
| patent medicine men.
The Bremen steamers can with diff
Guilty provide for the stream of emigra-
ton to the United States.
Jim Keene is said to be figuring on
| organizing telegraph company to
send fac-similes of handwriting.
An association has been organized at
! Houston, Texas, to teach and preserve
the purity of the Hebrew language.
Married-At Osceola, Iowa, in a cir
Gus ring, Major Littlefinger, 80 inches
| high, to Mallie Shade, 81 inches hi sh.
| The carpenters now have a paper
| the Carpenters Journal. Its object is
to form National Carpenters Union.
Mr.. Ernest Longfellow, son of the
poet, will paint portrait of his father
for Memorial Hall, at Bowdoin Col.
lege.
Pere Hyacinthe sails for the United
States ia September, and will give a
series of conferences in the larger cities
of America.
The preliminary work on the Cape
Cod canal progresses favorably, and in
dicates that the enterprise can be built
in two years.
The Daily Sun, of Parsons, Kansas
claims precedence as the first newspa.
per to nominate Conkling for the Pres
dency in 1851.
Most of the Southern members of the
| United States Senate are making them
selves useful as commencement orators
at Southern colleges.
tits officially announced that no mere
appointments to Second Lieutenancies
in the Z. S. army from civil life will be
made for several years.
Solan Chase hopes to get out his
steers again this fall, and has called f,,l
a Convention of Greenbackers at Lew
iston, Maine, August Sd
There will he held in Chicago, Aug
Sth. National Convention of all inter
ested carpenters throughout the coun
try, for the purpose of forming Ma
tional Union.
| The cities of Davenport, Iowa, and
Rock Island and Moline, Illinois, have
formed a ''Tri-City Sanitary Associa.
ton" for joint action relative to the
public health.
A party of twentythree Indian chill
dren, from the Institute at Hampton
Va, have been taken to the Berkshire
hills, in Massachusetts, to learn prac
tical agriculture.
Capt. Pratt, commandant of the Car.
Isle Training School for Indians, has
secured country homes in Bucks coun
ty, Pa, for forty Indian children dur
ing the school vacation.
| Normal School girls from Bridgeport
Conn, will act as walters at Martha's
Vineyard hotels; and forty Bates Col.
lege students have engaged to serve as
walters in White Mountain hotels.
The Artist Valentine, of Richmond
Va, has been selected to make statue
of John G. Breckenridge, the Kentucky
statesman and General-to cost Sl2, COO
aud to be set up in Lexington, Ky.
The american Version" of the New
Testament is announced; it simply in
corporates into the new revised version
the readings and renderings preferred
/, by the American Committee of Revis.
ion.
! The estate of the late Asa Packer, ol
Pennsylvania, has been inventoried al
/ Sc, 6,573 ,S74-mostly railroad securities,
which, owing to the presett enhance
ment Of values, swel.s the aggregate to
7,s46, ,055. .