Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-11-16
LOCAL BREvITIEs.

Monday. The Office will not be removed.
The official vote is given in this issue of
the RICHTER. The Greenback showing is
decidedly small, but large as any sensible
person can desire.
Mr.. w. 81. Delano last Thursday present
ed US sample China rose winter radfsh
weighing IS onnces, being seven inches long
and nine inches in circumference.
And now, friends and fellow citizens, we
settle down to bushes. If you want good
printing done at reasonable rates, call on us.
Everything in the way of iob-work.
DR.. W. C. Patton has the neatest and cost
est doctor-shop we have ever seen. 1t is sit
uated in the Academy of Music, and if you
want consultation call ut the north room,
second floor.
Jay Hubbell assessed o. s. Com'r Zwart,
of this place, the regular two per cent; but
the Captain didn't respond, and we tremble
for his head when the ak of decapitation
gets fairly to work.
How these clear, frosty, invigorating morn
ings lay over the damp, muggy, gloomy
weather Of last week-and yet we can hard
ly find 1t in our hearts to quarrel with last
week upon any point
Calvin NJ. Geodenough, of Pilot Knob, last
Thursday brought us q double turnip of
large dimensions. 1t has but one top and
two roots, and is as complete twin as we
ever saw in the vegetable kingdom.
Thousands of wild geese and ducks have
hinged their way overhead southwark dur
ing the past week. Our nimrods have not
l,aOO off hut haar fhof nna
old gander was taken on the wing from the
side Of Shepherd Mountain.
Tom Digs told US yesterday morning,
"'Dere's one man in dis town Ise gwine to
whip inside o. five days. "Who is he,
Tomm "No name, no blame," said the old
tlarkey as he walked away. That's good
motto for white and black alike.
The GARNER building was completed last
week, and jeweler is now being domiciled
therein. The front is as neat and hanG some
as any In town: the usual show windows,
with shutters. doors and castings painted
dark green and penciled in old gold.
A Fair and Festival via be given at Pilot
Knob Hotel, on wednesday evening, NOvem-
Der I'D, for the benef3t Of the Catholic
Church. Miller's Quadri1e Band has been
engaged for the OCCASION, and a mighty nice
time it win be for all who enjoy mirth and
innocent pleasure. See advertisement.
Thos. johnson is putting up an ice house,
to take the place of the one built by George
Minden q number of years since. The new
house is on higher ground than the old, and
we presume it will be save from freshets.
We want plenty OF ice in summer time and
are interested in all that pertains thereto.
Dick Baldwin, while at work in the Bal
dwin Bros. planning mill last Monday, had his
left hand badly mutilated by the planning
machine. DIR. Goulding, who was called in
mt once, found it necessary to ampatate two
of the fingers, while the remainder of the.
hand will require careful attention for some
time.
Last week was deiuge time in this section,
and the air was overburdened with electrici-a
.ty. The discharges were frequent and an
comfortably close at hand, the reports re-
sembling a salute from battery OF ten
pound Iparots, fired seriati'a, so to speak.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Satur-
day nights, were drenchers.
A lot of tramps lying in the sand shed Or
the railroad at Arcadia last Thursday night
received little electrical experience. Heavy
thrpnderstorms lasted all night long, and the
bolts were frequent and close at hand. One
of them meandered into the aforesaid sand
shed and hustled the tramps out in double
uuies,tine. One of them was badly shock
ed as,ti his clothes set on fire, while several
Others were badly shook up and scared.
On that portion of the public school
grounds purchased from the estate OF Mrs.
Meyers a couple of years since, stood an old
Joke one story building. Last Monday
Jack Albefts, Esq, moved that lite house to
.fais lot on Main street. This makes the fourth
old rickety building brought from obscure
parts of town aud set up in the centre of our
principal street, within the past four years.
Maybe it's Rome Of our business; but that
sort of building up doesn't help the town
much in appearances, at least.
Chas Wilson, a fery-haired barber with a
colossal moustache, recently dOmiciled at
Pilot Knob, was arrested last Monday for ly-
ing drunk Oh the sidewalk, against the ordi-
nance in such case made and provided. He
was allowed to sober up, and then tn ken be-
fore his Honor, who INFLICTED him in one dol
lar fine and the usual trimmings Being out
of funds, Charley would have been sent to
iail IL Judge Dinger hadn't relented and
STAYED execution for ten days, thus giving
him a chance to GO home and secure the
amount This mortgages to Justice not less
than $50 Pilot Knob shaves-
A tramp was arrested in the grounds at
tached to the Arcadia College, last Saturday
evening, for disturbing the peace by loud
Yelling and various other demonstrations
common to inebriated humanity. When
taken he was searched, and on his person
were found two revolvers and a tremendous
knife-a sort of cross between butcher
knife and a cavalry sabre. All had no doubt
been stolen, and inquiry developed the fact
that one of the pistols was the legal property
of Jua. W. whitworth, who swcre out q
--or-.n+ AGAINST the tramp for petit larceny |