Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-13

| the matter stands: the lands are apparentl,
now without owners; they can neither be
pre-empted nor sold. Now some of the
former Registers of the Land Office, believ.
ing the indemnity lands open to entry, per.
mitted various persons in Iron and adjoining
| counties to homestead portions of tim
! and of course, under the circumstances, nc
patents can at present be issued to the home
steaders. To remedy the difficulty, Senator
Cockrell has introduced bill authorizing
the Government to resume the disputed
grant and throw the lands open to settle
ment.
FOUND BAIL.-On Monday, Mary Miller,
the young woman recently committed to jail
in default of bail, to await the action of the
grand jury, on charge of infanticide, sue
ceeded in obtaining bail, Judge Dinger hav
ing reduced the amount from 500 to $500.
The girls bondsmen are her step father,
Marion Cory, of Lesterville, and Charles
Downs, of Ironton. Now, if an indictment
Is found-but we don't think there will be-
let the Prosecuting Attorney nolle-pros the
case, and he will be doing just and chart
table act. This girl, the victim of a villain,
has doubtless suffered ten thousand deaths,
but the author of her misery goes I'M
whipped of justice.
THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL PICNIC.-A very
pleasant affair was the Sunday school picnic
1T Russell's grove on the Fourth, brief men,
ton of which was made in last weeks paper.
The teachers and members of the various
Sunday schools in Arcadia Valley, with the
Rev. Messrs. Bergman, Wright and Boul
sher, Drs. Farrar, Bergman and Griffith,
and other friends of the schools, assembled
in the grove at an early hour, and about one
O'Clock all sat down to a srmptlous dinner.
Then Judge Russell's fine mclodeon was
brought out, and its full, rich tones were
well supported by some of the best musical
talent of the valley. Everything combined
to make the occasion a most enjoyable one.
SUIT ABOUT BRICK.-Mr. Henry L. kes-
ling, Of this place, supplied the bricks with
which the public school building was built,
and delivered, according to his count and
Jack Albert's measurement, some 10000
allowed to the cubic foot, and % in mortar;
but the contractor, measuring by the specifi
cations, computed only 122 900 bricks, allow
ing 90 to the cubic foot and deducting 10
per cent for the mortar. Mr.. Kesling offered
to compromise the difference with the con-
tractor, j. A. Hayden, but without effect,
and suit for the sum of S2S7 has therefore
been brought against Mr.. Hayden.
Mr.. j. Marlat, of Beaver county, Penn,
the new minister assigned to this circuit of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived in
town on Friday, and preached his first SER
mon in the Ironton church on Sunday. He
is Il fine-looking young man OF %, recent
graduate of an Eastern college, and appears
to be robust in constitution, and full of en-
ergy and ministerial enthusiasm-qualifica-
tons which are absolutely essential to the
proper fulfilhment of the duties imposed
upon preachers on this circuit, as no less
than twenty-five appointments have to be
made each month.
PHoToGRAPHs.-W. II. Kennedy has
pitched. his tent on the vacant lot west of the
schoofshSuse in fronton, where he will re-
main for ten days only. He does first-class
work at the following remarkably low prices:
Card-size photos, per doz. ........$l so
Cabinet-siZc photos, per doZ. w
Four large tintypcS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. .5
Large pictures, in frames. l 0U
Specimens of my work may be seen at the
Pilot Knob Drug Store, at the Ironton Post
office, aud at the gallery.
CRYsTALLIZED.-Just fifteen years ago to-
day the IRON COUNTY REGISTER drew its
first breath of life, and newspaper doctors
say It's existence thus far has been healthy
one. The editor does not AXE for other rec
ognition of his services than the appreciation
of his readers, but would not decline to
part-ake Of any substantial mementos of the
event that may be offered. IN. B.-This
was written by the REGIsTKR's
factotum.1
Last spring, the wife of Mr.. Leonard Suit
ton, having Il setting hen, and corn being
scarce, decided to issue grain rations only to
the one of her fowls that was doing chicken
dom some service. In IL short time the other
hens discovered the discrimination against
them, and repaired jim Il body to the hen
house, and began a terrible clucking, which
was only appeased when Mrs. Sutton called
a primary election of her poultry.