Iron County register., 1881-09-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.

NEWS AMI NUIES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE immigrants arriving in the Unit
ed States for the month of July numbered
b6,6O7.
ARCHBISHOP CROKE strongly recon-
mends the people to give the Land Bill fair
trial and accept it as great boon and bless
ing.
The Georgia Senate has passed bill
prohibiting Mormon proselyting in that
State, the penalty being imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
The latest American Consul at Vera
Cruz died Of yellow fever within one week
after his arrival. There are at present no
applicants for the vacancy.
HARTMANN, the Russian Nihilist, has
returned to New York from Canada, and
has formally entered the declaration of his
Intention to become a citizen of the United
States.
THERE Is no Improvement in the con-
dition Of affairs in Peru. The prospects for
peace appear to be remote. The Chilians
have SO far reduced their army of occupa-
tion that active operations do not seem now
to enter into their calculations. The oppo-
sition is pressing the Ministry to resign.
IT is now believed that about 10000
troops, Of which $4,000 are militia, will
participate in the military demonstration in
commem0ratiOn of the surrender at York
town. The Governors of most Of the States
with their staffs will be in attendance, and a
building for their accommodation Is in
course of construction. The celebration
bids fair to be success worthy of the occa-
sion. ~
IT is reported that the two principal
barge lines plying between st. Louis and
New Orleans have been consolidated under
the name of the St. Louis & Mississippi
Transportation Company. The combined
capital of the old lines was 81 1,S00,0 900, and
the carrying capacity Of the barges was
$3.50, 900 bushels of grain. The new compa-
ny will have capital of So, zoo, 900, and its
nominal manager will be Henry c. Haarstick.
Jay Gould is understood, however, to be the
principal owner.
Iowa farmers are greatly elated over
the discovery of a home made barbed-
wire fence on the farm of Samuel Freeman,
in Hickory Grove Township, Scott County,
which it Is claimed was made and erected by
Freeman's son Pembroke in 1861, six years
prior to the issuing of the Straub patent,
now controlled by Washburn, Moen & Co.
The State Association have secured the ne
cessary affidavits to establish the facts in the
case, and have strong hopes of being able to
invalidate the obnoxious patents.
The Anti-Monopoly Convention, re-
Gently in session at Utica, N. Y, adopted
an address to the people, also platform of
principles. The latter says: "Farmers,
manufacturers and merchants alike demand
that they shall have all the advantages which
accrue to them from their favorable position,
and that railroads they have chartered and
endowed with privileges shall be operated
for their benefit and not for their ruin"
The abolition of free passes by railroad cor
porations to legislators is urged, and the en-
largement OF canals and free tolls advocated.
The conference of the Association for
the Reform and Codification of the Law of
Nations convened at Cologne, Germany, on
the 18th. The conference will represent all
the principal nations of the world 1t is the
ninth conference of this association, and is
expected to surpass all previous ones in
practical benefits to international law, re-
form and arbitration. Among the American
delegates who have left to attend the con-
ference are David D. Field, F. P. A. Barn
ard, Chas. A. Peabody, Jno. Jay, Geo. w.
Cullum, Andrew P. Peabody, Clinton B.
Fisk, and others.
ADvICEs have been received at the
Interior Department from Agent Hunt, at
Anardado Undian Territory, announcing
the discovery of rich and extensive silver
finds near Fort Sill, within the limits of the
Kiowa, Commanche and Wichita Indian
Reservations. Agent Hunt also informs the
Department that illegal attempts are being
made by white men to locate mineral claims
in these regions. The matter has been re-
ferred to the Secretary Of the Interior by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with re-
quest that troops be furnished to protect
Indian interests in the newly discovered
fields from intruders.
WITH view to affording relief to
persons who receive abusive and annoying
postal cards through the mails the following
general instructions to Postmasters have
'When anyone is sannoyedor expects to be an
noyed by postal cards sent from any particu-
lar place, or from any known person, he may
direct the Postmaster at the point named to
destroy all postal cards addressed to him or
cards from any person named so addressed,
and as far as the discharge Of the duties of
the office permit sufficient examination the
Postmaster should comply with the request.
Cba ho ,,,a6a of tho ~
ceiving Postmaster. The direction to the
Postmaster should be in writing and should
be filed for preservation.
A DELEGATION of nineteen Indian
chiefs from the Sioux, Ponca and Winneba-
60 tribes, called to Washington by the Secre-
tary of the Interior, held conference with
the Secretary and Commissioner of Indian
Affairs at the Interior Department on the
18th. The conference was called with a
view to settling some disputed questions Of