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Iron County register., 1882-01-26

BoRN--To w. T. Wiesner and wife, on
Thursday, January 10, 1882, a BoY BABY
weight, sH fss. The whole family. including
the father, is ..as well as could be expected. !"
and we trust, no matter how numerously the
occasion may be repeated, it will always be
concluded as happily. Here's luck to you and
YOURS, w. F. WI
Iron County register., 1882-01-26
suarps CIV AKKApA, Janyoury 3ath. 1881.

SUaIRs Uv ARKADA, Janyoury 9th, SSSl.
DER MIsToR AK: Dad gon a fishin. Hee
told NEE b gud boi til hee cum bak an Zee
wud bryng m e a nu dorg nyf. TOLD hym ef
eve mite RITE in tina wREGIsTUR an ne axeo
NEE yess, but muss be orful karfuli Nv mi
speln. Cinse dadi rit 2 u ther HsE't DIN
nuthir uutch CRATE del dun inn arkads'
cept the pye war; wich gott upp thusiy: mis-
sus alerson wantid 2cel sum pize at the dippo
ann Misses robrson ced shee mus cell oi ina
pys their hersef, az shee soald al nur pys
wether tha was pegd our sode att ina sai'"
prys. misses allerson movd ovuer hur "urHs
Q wunst. misses robrson wint owt scurmloe
butt wuZ druv bak. Then mr. mas mavd upp
support mrs robrson, an tina boath lei OAK I'D
disourdor. tha fyrin wus orfull. Ihin mrs
robrson an mr. mase cald upp thare rezers--
jugs Dingur, Mr. Adsur ann lot Nv Je"rS-
men-ann then aftur gud del Nv swarm anu
NOR cussu tina capcher misses alerson IN snee
had . ransum hirself bi prn tha explnsuz os
tha wsrr Azz bricLlodin kanuns alwazs oVf-
shuts al shaurt raul nobuudi wuznt klio ihu
that py war;. ures til Dadd Gums bak,
PETE DoDsN.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Geo. II. Crumb, ESQ.,. has purchased a COM
bined scroll saw, lathe, etc, and turns out
some very nice work during HE hours not
harassed by official business. We ackuowl-
edge the donation of a potato smasher and
lemon squeezer. Any party OF young gen.
tlemen and ladies ''surprisinv" us aud bring
ing with them plenty of sugar aud lemons
can get . good lemonade at our house now
at almost any time. Plenty ofwater on the
Dremises,
Iron County register., 1882-01-26
Father Is Getting Well.

Ny daughters say, slow much better faith
er is since he used Hop Bitters." He is get
ing we'll after his long suffering from a
disease declared incurable, we are so glad
that he used your Bitters.-A lady Of Roches-
ter N V
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

A short time ago Mr.. Joseph Hasty vss
plowing tn Mr.. John Whitworth's field, near
the Valley View house. and the plow struck
q pile Of thirteen cavalry picket-pins. They
lad been well coated with coal tar when they
were made, and we're little the worse OF rust.
Mr. whitworth has one Of the pins; Mr.. Hasty
viii use the others in msking harrow. This
10 net exactly beating a sword into 8 plow-
ehare, but It leans in that direction.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Mr.. Ward Fnrrar proposes op ming meat
shop, shortly, under the /. @. q. 7. Hall. 1t
will he under the ahie management of Mr.. 1.
n. Stevens, Consequently gooi beef may be
expected.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

The County Bible Society will be addressed
by Rev. J. q. Bergman, in tha Presbyterian
church, on Sunday, February 5th, at O'Clock
Il. The public are cordially Invited to be
present.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Last Sunday. Rev. A. w. Wright, durin g
services in the Presbyterian Church, stated
that he would next Sunday hold services at
Poplar Bluff, and he asked his congregs-
tion to pray for the people of that town.
Mr.. Wright is q good man and level
headed.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

This certifes that alter using Leis' Man'fg
Co.'S DANDELoS Tonic in my family, can
recommend it as very good for the purposes
claimed. JOHN n. NoYEs.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Our thanks are due Messrs. Thompson 4
Chambers for fine picture of the Academy
OF Music. II II 3 lsr-e sized photograph, and
aolendidly executed. All who desire can OBJ
tain a similar pictars, framed. or not, at very
low rates.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

TEACHERS AssoCIATIoN.-The Arcadia Val
ley Te. chers' Asst citation will hold its next
meeting in the new school building at lronton
on Saturday, February 4, 1859
Teachers are most urgently reaue ested to be
present. aud a cordial invitation Is extended
TO the public.
The following is a partial pro- ranme of
the day. several teachers who are expected to
take take part not having sent in their sub
iects:
n. C. Davis, Class Exercises" .ct
Teach n.y."
A. p. Vance, 4 Psper-"scheo Govern
nent"
w. B. Morgan, Institute Work -Elocution.
&. b. Isham, I" Primary
GrsmInAr.
MISS Fannie Markham, Class E1:ercis s-Pri-
mary Arithmetic.
+. Z. Miller, a Paper What Teachers are
Doing and What They should DO"
Z. Ishsm, Glass EXercise-Map Drawing.
By order Of the Executive Committee.
Z. T.. MILLER, Secretary.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

FoR SALE CHEAP-A good buggy, wagon or
farm no Sc, cheap, As have no use for him.
Apply to Tom Harvey.
2t Jyo. II. DELANO.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

The Poplar Bluff ball. We see. has heen
changed from the 22d to the l7ih OF Feb
ruary.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Views of Academy of Music, schooi House,
Court House, P lot Knob, r lot Knob Mines.
and Arcadia College, for sale at Thompson s.
Chambers Gallery.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Our friend, Robert Hotsen, Esq, informs US
that he has packed about three tons of ice
Very good considering our mild winter.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26
Pilot Knob Items.

eral weeks been visiting with tht family OF
ner uncle, Mr.. W. q. D.lts, viii leave this
week for Girard, Kansas, where che will visit
singer maos many friends, who will regret
her ieaving. e--s=.s.
MRs THOMAS and Mrs. Mcfarland visited
the Public School one day this week. A
number OF persons visited iir the week previ-
Gus, and We are told by those in authority
that tue '.iatch string" IL out for VISIT
Ors.
MIR. KLCa, our popular druggist, has caught
the spirit Of enterprise, and enlarged his store
building to near uoubIe Its former capacity.
In his new quarters he may justly boast OF
the largest and most con, snienr drug store in
this part of Missouri.
The shrill sound of the furnace whistle no
longer rouses up the miner ere the morning
star. The furnace has Suspended work for
remodeilns aud repairs, and we are told will
not run again Tor near two months.
TIE Literary Sociable" still meets Friday
evenings. Q iite number of very interesJn..
exercises We're given at the last two meetings.
A select choir of little boys singing Yankee
Doodle" was quite = novelty. The readings,
d, clamations, essays, songs aud paper of last
meeting were we'll received aud appreciated
by the audience.
Miss CLARA JAQUITH is now in St. Louis
taking a course Of music. Her teachers re-
port very fatteringly upon her promises Of
success ia An advanced course Of music.
CIT.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

One man has, during the pxst week, paid
$4,000 into the Land Office at this place, foi
lands in Shannon county.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Dr. T. X. Gouidlng vaccinatfd quite q
number uf the pupils At the Public school last
Friday.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

The favor with when Leis' DANDELIoN
Toxic has been received by the public is
something remarkable in the history of pro-
pristary medicines.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Mr.. John T. BaldWiu's house Is nearing
completion, and when flushed will be one of
the neatest and incest dwellings, in our
town.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26
ARCADIA VALLEY NURSERY

The undereigned wishes 10 inform fruit.
growers that be - now ppepsrrd to filI ordera
FOR FRUIT T1fEE9
at bis Nursery tive and half miles southeast
OF Ironton, at reasonable prices. An fruit
guaranteed to be true to name.
Oct. /, H.-srsA A. Il. SUTTON.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

See HERE You fellow that borrowed
my bride and martingales, please return
them. As yoa have had them two or three
months, dap,t you think you can sfY,ra to
comply wfeh ny requestl
Jos 4. HCGHEs.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

Do not buy sewing machine until you
have seen the Light-Running Domestic. It is
in fact the strongest, easiest running and
acknowledged the best sewing machine in the
world. 1t is highly ornamented with Bent
woodwork which gives it beautiful appear
ance, and does not cost you any more than
any other A No. sewing machine. Will re-
fer to Mrs. Fl. NJ. Bradley, Mrs. L. Schultz,
Mrs. F. Scoville, Mrs. G. B. Nall, Mrs. j. T.
AXE, Mrs. DR.. Prince, Mrs. w. q. Delano,
Miss Stella Hun, Mrs. p II. Jaquith. Mise l..
Richter, Miss 3. Austin, Mrs. w. SoeffiDs, DR..
klug, and large number OF others. Blythe
way, MIR. Editor, Your hetter-hAlf having had
q Domest'c now over a year, would you please
state how she likes the same 2 and oblige.
d. DAVIS. Agt. FOR Don. 8. NJ. Co.,
She says it's daisy.-Ep.I Ironton, No.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26
Local Department.
Closing of Mails.

Preaching at tbs n. E. Church. Ironton,
next Sunday.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

About ten days since u man came TO Judge
Dinger and told him of proposed burglary.
He SAID man named Wn. Seay, section
hand, hal asked him to assist in robbing
,tetfus' bar-roOm at Pilot Knob. Under the
advice of the officers he then laid trap for
Will I'M, notifying Henry Rapp, Marshal at
Pilot Knob. Tuesd'y night was the time set,
aud the play came of according 10 programme.
Rapp and an assistant secreted themselves in
the bar-room. the lights were turaed ont, and
In due time Mr.. SeAy and his supposed pal
came on the scene, through a window. Rapp
called on Seay to surrender, but tn 1T gentle
man jumped out of the window Instead, and
struck OF on a keen run. A couple of balls
receiveo--one in the leg and one in he hand
from the Marshal's weapon, soon stopped
him, and ne was taken in custody. The next
morning he was brought before Judge Dinger,
and, after examination, sent to jail to await
the coming term of the Z. .rcuit Court. DIR.
Goulding is attending him, and he will
probably go to the peniteHtisry 81 able bodied
convict.
Iron County register., 1882-01-26

The railroad company has made a very
effective i'm rrovement at Arcadia. The side
track on the west side Of the main track has
been Strengthened aud almost doubled in
length, and some ten or twelve rods has been
added to the north end OF the switch on the
east side. By this arrangement a blockade of
trains at this point becomes almost an i'm
possibility. Three trains can now stop there
and the main track left clear. There is also
a gradual changing of the grade OF the road
bed so to make 1t more evenly. These
improvements are very welcome, as they
indicate an increase of business OH the road,
and better Judgment in its management.
In spite OF the changes that have come and
gone, the courteous face of De Mire still
looms ABOVE the horizon in the Office at the
depots owing, no douot, to the fact that the
company finds 1t hard to obtain another as
good u msn to pat in his Place.
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
An Innocent Mai Imprisoned. i;

The Des Moines Towa) Leader says: Gov. Sherman s profoundest sympathies are excited for the unfortunate Red Oak farmer, MT. George Bennett, who was, under mistaken identity, torn from his home and family about year aga and, after nasty trial, incarcerated in the Fort Madison fenltentiary an innocent man. He was impersonated by cun. ming raseal who nold lot of imaginary grain to Red Oak grain dealer and fled with the money. Bennett was arrested, and, although unconscious of the deed and strongly protesting his entire in- nocence, he was hurled into prison and confined one year. The real culprit has been found and Bennett has been released. Under the law he cannot re- cover damages, but the Governer means to see to it that proper atonement is made by the State. He intends to ad- wise the next Legislature to make an appropriation of BIO per day for every day that Bennett was in the penitentiary, and that he be presented with parch- ment upon which shall be inscribed the entire facts of the case, exonerating himself and family,
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
Will Cheek Freeze :?

"Will cheek freeze ?' unused the President of the Lime Kiln Club, as he strcked the back of his neck. | think not: Dar' am some things in dis world which neither sorrow, pain nor cold weather kin git de best of, an one of lem am cheek. It am lively in de hottest days of @ hot summer; and de worst blizzard Of winter doan' trouble it at all. 1t am part an parcel of our gov eernment: .4t am e:..oci;!o' e:,..or;oo aroun' ln high places as we'll as low. It am seen ia de State Department as well as at the doah of de theatre. De man who hasn't got any soon pines away an dies. De man who has de mos of it soon builds him brick house and man. sard roof. It kin be shot, drowned an hung, but when run over by an ice wagon, tumbled from 8 buildin', or squeezed between two freight kyars, it walks aroun' nex' day as if muffin had happened.
 "Gall am not cheek. It am com bination of sass, deviltry an natura meanness, an I know men who have huff of it to war out fo' bodies. Fac is, good sheer of our populasbun an hangia' to life by gall an cheek. D. body am all worn out. but de impudenc, an meanness of de inner man keeps d. legs moyin' an de voice goin',"
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
The Suns Fuel.

What keeps the majestic ball hot and bright? This has greatly engaged phy- sicists and astronomers, and various have been their theories. If the sun shone only by mere Combustion of its own materials, the calculation is that its fire would not last five thousand years. It is very kind of Dr. Siemens to come forward with an entirely new theory, which holds out the hope that the men of science are all wrong with their dismal foreboding, and that the creation is not schemed on the poor footing of German stove or suburban gas company. The learned ironmaster and physicist believes that the sun may very we'll 80 on illuminating and warming our world and the family of sister planets for an indefinite, if not infinite, time. He supposes interstellar space to be filled with an extremely at tenuated hydrogen, and interplanetary space with denser gas, albeit more 1are6ed than the atmosphere drawn round each world. The sun, he thinks, whirling on it's axis; draws into It's poles the thin hydrogen, hydrocarbon, and oxygen of our sphere, and these, being kindled; are projected outward at his equator into space. The accepted view IS that the heat ana igSs ;S. there devel- oped and radiated perish, as far as we are concerned, except for the small DOT tion arrested by each solar satellite; but Dr: Siemehs argues that this heat and light do, their chief work in decom- posing the Uarbonic oxide and watery vapor which were produced by the hindling at the solar poles, so that the sun itself perpetually renews it's own supplies, and restores by It's energy the waste matter which has fed that energy. The tbAory Is mueh toa technical and complicated to be here discussed, and we should offer bad compliment to its ingenious author even to attempt such task. Dr. Siemens, however, has had great experience with the phenomena of radiated heat, and his applications of the nov view to the nature of the zo- diacal light and of comets is particular, ly striking. Of course it is startling to hear of something in our own system which closely, resembles perpetual mo- tiUn , and those who maintain that everything comes to an end, and that all mechanical energy must be gradually degraded and metamorphosed, will be slow to receive the new suggestion. -
 London TeIeor0a1h.
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
A Tough Case.

Twelve years ago there went to Des Moines, Ia., man who was employed as a section hand on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and during this service he wooed and won an Irish maid with a pretty face. For three years they lived happily together, when he went to Dakota alone. There he struck rich lead, became rich, and added "Hon." to his name. He sent to h1s wife no reminder of himself or his whereabouts, and after time she found another husband, who soon died, and she took another. Not long ago the aforetime section man stopped at Des Moines, en route to Washington, to represent his people in behalf of the new State of Dakota, and get the divid- ing line fixed so as to take in his 1000 acres. He made inquiry for his long ago wife, and learning her unfaithful- ness, applied for and received decree of divorce from her, thus making her two marriages unlawful, and the chil- dren born thereof illegitimate.
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
The De Long Discovery.

At last the terrible fate of the De Long exploring party has been dis covered. After the Jeannette waa crushed in the ice and went down, her unfortanate company were divided into three parties and attempted to save themselves. The De Long party pushed Sack in their cutter to Sugartr, where they landed September IT. Then followed series of desperate efforts to reach point of safety. Fheie Steps sps have been traced, and at last the whole party has been found, not far from their landing-place on the deltas of the Lena, dead.
 So ends terrible chapter Of human courage and suffering, of endurance and sacrifice. Sorrow for the tragic fate of these brave men, after ali their efforts and agonies, overcomes even the desire to criticise the expedition. They have laid down their lives in what they regarded as a grand and honorable undertaking. Theis bones are left to hleaoE in that awssS.,, arctic desolation Whee--o so many valuable lives have been lost in similar undertakings. It is i'm
 possible now to forget their heroic en. deavors, their energetic endurance and their final doom. The secret of their last struggle will never be known. The ice is their glittering monument, and the defiant tigors that guard the secrets ef the Pole will keep wntch. ~ Over thei, memory,
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10

A PERILoUs TRlP.-Two soldiers of the Royal Artillery stationed at Mau- ritius went out for an excursion along the shore in little skiff. They were caught in strong current and carried out into the Indian Ocean, where they drifted about for nine days without food or anything to drink except rain water. One eventually died from exhaustion, the survivor was at last thrown on to the coast of the island of Reunion, and properly cared for by the Consul. They fed on flying fish, and being followed all the way by monster sharks, who were nearly level with the boat, must have had 8 terrible time of it.
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
The End of the Beginning.

The lad who would prosper must guard against the little foxes that spoil the vines. Some of these foxes are in- dicated in the following extract from an exchange:
 As the boy begins, so the man will end. The lad who speaks with affecta- tion, and minces foreign tongues that he does not understand at school, will be 8 weak chromo in character all his life ]; the boy who cheats his teachers into thinking him devort at chapel will be the man who will make religion trade and bring Christianity into contempt i; and the boy who wins the highest aver age by stealing his examination papers will figure some day as tricky poli- tician.
 The lad who, whether rich or poor, dull or clever, looks you straight in the eyes and keeps his answer inside of the truth, already counts friends who will last all his life, and holds @ capital which will bring him in a surer interest than money.
 Then get to the bottom of things. You see how it is already to that. It was the student who was grounded in the grammar that took the Latin prize; it was the slow, steady drudge who practlsed firing every day last winter that bagged the most game in the mountains it is the clerk who studies the specially of the house in off hours who is to be promoted.
 Your brilliant, happy-go lucky, hit or-miss fellow usually turns out the dead weight of the family by forty five. Don't take anything for granted | get to the bottom of things. Neither be a sham yourself, nor be fooled by | shams.
Connecticut western news., 1882-05-10
An Old Time Outlaw.
JOHN A. MURREL1, THE GREAT RoBBER OF
 FORTY YEARS AGO.

The death of Jesse James in Missouri, and the frequent references to his rob- berries and to his notoriety as "the most conspicuous and formidable" scoundrel of the Schinderhannes and Cartouche type ever known in this country, may suggest to some of our readers, with long memories, that forty years ago or more there was robber, and band organized and directed by him on the lower Missippi, m ore famous than Jesse or Frank James, or the "Blue Cut' gang, more dreaded, more wide reaching in crime, and far more bloody, for they made it rule to leave no victim to become 8 witness. John A. Murrell was name of terror from the mouth of the Ohio to the Yazoo, and far back in the interior of the States bordering the
 Mississippi, on the east side. The west side was too wild woods for travellers or robbers in those days, but the east was beset for hundreds of miles along the roads leading northward from New Orleans, which was largely travelled by dealers from the North, who had taken down droves of horses or fatboat loads of grain or pork or whisky. The depre- dations were not confined to the land, by any means, but unsuspecting "broad horns" were captured and pillaged and their crews fed to the fish, while tied up at night out of the way of steamers and rafts that might sink them in fog It is said that the Murrell gang had hiding places in caves and stored their plunder in them. Western Tennessee was said to be their favorite ground; but they ranged from the north of Mississippi to the Ohio. Many efforts were made to l capture the leader and break up the band without effect, till an adventurous young fellow named Virgil Stewart undertook it of his own notion, partly to clear the country of terror, and partly to employ his superabundant energy and daring. He became a mem- Der of the gang and continued so for some considerable time-a year or two, possibly more, and finally trapped the greatest villain ever known on the American Continent since the days of the buccaneer chiefs, Montbass and
 Morgan. He was sent to the peniten- tiary at Nashville for long term on conviction of robbery, it is to be pre- sumed, as conviction of murder would have hung him. It may have been that no legal evidence of direct participation in murder could be advanced even by his captor, however complete might have been the moral certainty of his guilt. Stewart published an account of his adventures in large pamphlet forty years ago or whereabouts. The robber chief died in the penitentiary, or, at all events; before he got chance to resume his old career, even if he had been SC disposed. There are, no doubt, per sons who retain an accurate recollection
 of the mans adventures and notoriety.