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

Winter still holds here with scarcely
any let up atall. Few-if, indeed, any
one-can remember q winter in which
there was not thaw and a pleasant
time in January or February; but this
January passed with scarcely day
that it melted much, even on the south
side Of houses or hills. A few days ago
it softened up enough to put US in mind
that we lived in q very muddy country;
but, within thirty-six hours, it began 10
rain and freeze, Sd that we were soon
forced within doors again. Yesterday
the bees came out; but this morning we
had it twenty degrees below freezing
point. Much has been lost this winter
in the way of vegetables; and seed po-
toes will he scarce. People were caught
by the snap in November, with their
cellars unprepared; and though many
used kettles filled with hot Goals, and
set them on the floor, yet the cold out-
generated them ut last; or, rather, they
found out that if they were going to
fight it out on that line it was going to
take them all winter; SO we shall be
short of seed, and not 'tater Tor COM
pauy, even. OF stock wafer, we have
| had an abundance on the surface for
some time; but wells are still low, and
the ground is so frozen that the water
all runs off when it thaws or rains.
Wheat is said to he all right, though it
seems dead enough where one can see
it at all. I have seen wheat here at
this date 90 q rabbit could hide in it
almost; but now there is nothing green
above ground.
i Winchester has been the scene OF
another murder. One year ago to-day
your correspondent saw a man shot
down in crowded street, in broad
daylight, in q most brutal and cow
ardly way, and now we have to chron-
icle another homicide, and still later a
slabbing case that may yet prove fatal.
About ten days ago, Robert Jones, a son
of one of our oldest settlers, went,
while in liquor, 10 livery stable in
town to rue back on u horse-trade he
had made there a day or two before.
He used some rough and abusive lam
guage 10 ali employe named Richard
Howard, who returned the compliment
. with a buggy breast-yoke. After the
row, Jones went up town and passed
.. about the square for half an hour or so,
when he wooned from q chair in winch
J he had seated himself. A doctor was
called i'm, who discoved that the iron
through which the strap passes near
the end of the yoke, had been driven
into the skull. DR.. Hodges, of st.
Louis, was sent for, and got up on the
night train; but he pronounced the case
hopeless, though willing to operate.
f While Hodges was recovering the
pieces Of shattered skull, Jones died.
A day or two after Jones was buried,
liquor caused q man named Haper to
cut q man named Keller with knife,
cutting q cash i've or SIX inches long i'm
his side aud back, and severing por-
ton off the lower part of the left lObe OF
the liver. Keller walked nearly quar-
, ter Of a mile to the doctor, and at this
writing seems to be getting well. But
few men could have stood such = rip.
During the war Keller was badly
torn ty shell, but recovered; and he
; seems to be like a cat, to have nine
lives.
, In view of years lawlessness, one
, of our local papers came out last week
; with an editorial strongly limiting at the
necessity of a mob or lynch law. Out
: of about fifty criminal cases in the last
two years and half, not one tenth OF
: them were convicted, though the pub.
: lie were put at great expense. One pa
per LAYS q scene in a saloon In West
ern Texas, in which greaeers and cow
: boys are carousing, when dandified
n fellow in swallow-tailed coat enters
i and is rudely asked where he came
: from, and what his name is. He re-
: plies that he is from Winchester. Hin
: oi,, when his questioner cuts him shor
: xith slap OH the shoulder and ex
claims, "All right, pard. your one o
/, u.s."
Considerable remark is made here
upon an article by Richard Gran
White, in the last North American
Review, in which the writer demon
strates that as education spreads crime
), Increases. Blackwood's Edinburg'
n Magazine, for June last, contains 81
= article by some writer on that side o
''ss the world, in which he also shows tina
y as education increases suicide increases
~ These ideas are 80 diametrically oppos
= ed to what we have been taught. ant
what the public have come, almos
universally. to believe. that they ar
,s ,s somewhat startling-especially wheI
we reflect that both these writer's ar
n educated men. and strong advocate
~ of education. The same statistics
e however, that make this showing
tl,;nr. that on q long WA