Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-10-19

rom 81. raul, MIMI, the Other DAY.
NEGOTIATIONS with the Powers on
the Egyptian question are progressing IA
!Sorably. The exertions of Germany to
bring about a friendly understanding are
meeting with considerable success.
The Interior Department., on the ad
vice OF . special commission, has decided
to wall up the creek at Hot Springs, Ark,
and construct an arched inclosure over it
throughout the city, at a cost of $40, 600.
SULTAN PAsHA, President of the
Chamber of Not.bles, thinks that Turkish
Intervention in Egypt would mean anarchy.
He maintains that the cost of joint control is
extravagant, and that f400, 900 might be
saved annually by the substitution of eff
cient native for foreign officials. He admits
that the mass of the population is unfit for
representative government.
THE amount of gold certificates sent
to New York on the 9th for the signature
Of the Assistant Treasurer was SAC, COS, 900
making the total to date $125, $40, 900. The
Treasury Department is In receipt of appli-
cations for these certificates from all sections
OF the country, and the demand can not be
supplied fast enough under the present sys-
tenn. In order to facilitate the issue it is
proposed to issue q Washington certificate
which would not have to be countersigned.
The bondholders of the Denver &
Rio Grande road recently sent John Mean
drews, Jr., of New York, to make . thor
ough inspection and report on the prospects
Of the enterprise. He has informed his prin-
cipais that $13. 900 per mile would repro
duce the line from Denver to Pueblo, while
the contractors made 1t cost S60, 900; that
the 900 miles of track should have been
built for ,075, $50, instead Of $57, 523, 800,
O. reported by the company. Mr.. Mean.
drews thinks the line can only pay running
expenses, and that the bondholders fur
nished twice the money required to build
the property.
SOME of the Sac and Fox Indians of
Iowa haven't much faith in the white man
and the white mans government. Repre-
sentatives Of the tribes in Washington have
been trying to persuade Commissioner Price
to let them have 200 due them without
requiring them to sign their names to the
payroll. They have for six years refused
to sign their names, fearing that the making
of their signatures would get them into
trouble, and during those years they have
denied themselves the possession of ST 600
apiece which they could have had at any
time by signing their names. The Commits
sioner is trying to induce these suspicious
and cautious red men to overcome their
ecruples.
THE Secretary of the Navy has issued
an order directing Rear Admiral George II.
Cooper, commanding the North Atlantic
squadron, to report to the committee in
charge of the Philadelphia bf-centennial
celebration, and to cooperate with them in
making the celebration a success. He was
also instructed to take six vessels to Phila.
delphia, comprising the Tennessee, Yantic,
Vandalia, Powthan, kearsarge and Alliance.
The Kearsarge is a historical man -of-war,
and will be remembered as the conqueror
Of the Alabama, of Cherbourg, France, in
1854. All the vessels ordered to Philadel-
phia will be thoroughly overhauled and re-
paired, in order that the naval display may
be made as creditable as the resources Of
the Government will permit.
On the opening of the lines of the
Central and South American Telegraph
Company congratalatory messages we've ex-
changed between President Arthur and the
Presidents Of Chilli. Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador,
the United States of Colombia, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Nicaragua, San Salvador, Guate-
mala and Mexico. The lines of the Mexican
Telegraph Company, starting from Calves
ton, reach Vera Cruz via Tampico, at which
point the cables of the Central and South
American Telegraph Company extend to
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, thence by line
to the Pacific, thence by cables to Lima, in
Peru, where they connect with the cables of
the West Coast Telegraph Company, now
laid to Valparaiso, Chilli. The lines COM
prise 500 miles Of submarine cable and 567
miles OF land line, and connect exclusively
with q, 900 miles Of wire in Mexico, Central
and South America. These lines bring into
communication with the United States and
Europe population of S5,OOo.ooo. transact
ing an annual commerce of over $500. 0OO, 900.