Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-02
Various Matters.

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be reprinted in England.
Every city in the South has made
progress during the last year.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
lecturer, is at work in Scotland.
Mrs. Senator Malone wears the fin
est diamonds in Washington society.
Mr.. Blaine will not occupy his new
house in Washington until next au-
tumn.
More grain has been sown in South
Carolina this season than any other
since the war.
The Virginia Senate has passed the
Riddleberger bill for the settlement of
the State debt.
A tame wolf, presented to Prince
Bismarck by Russian, has arrived at
FREDERICKSBURG.
The port of Venice is being deepened.
so as to admit the entry of the Italian
monster ironclads.
Seventeen thousand dollars worth of
sponge in one pile was recently sold at
Key West, Florida.
Everything must bow to fashion. The
fashion in France just now is not to have
any honeymoon at all.
Tramsways are projected between
many villages in Italy on the roads
| built by the old Romans.
The Baltimore teachers are obliged to
report twice q week the names and
number of pupils punished.
Faro is played in New Albany. Ind,
by Club whose members take an oath
never to give testimony about it
| A New York broker says that Oscar
Willie is 'straddling the market"-
short on trousers and long on brains.
Miss Lippincott, the daughter of
Grace Greenwood, is to appear in En-
glish opera in this country this year.
Col. Fred. Grant has been made
| President of the American Electric
Light Company of Massachusetts,.
| The Government of Liberia has Civ.
en- 200 acres of land for the foundation
of a seminary for the education Of young
girls.
Miss Susan Fennimore Cooper, the
daughter of the novelis,sis now severity
years old. She lives at Cooperstown,
N. Y.
A Salt Lake gentle, who knows the
Mormans well, says that it will take
an army of $4,000 men to put them
down.
A two-inch carp put i'm a pond near
Atlanta, Ca, two years ago, was caught
a few days since, and weighed seven
pounds.
| A factory will he established at New
| Orleans to prepare cotton-seed vii for
cooking, illuminating and lubricating
purposes.
| It takes two days work at sea to earn
one days board on shore for poor Jack
at the so-called "Sailors' Home" in
| New York.
| The Kentucky Legislature intends to
erect q monument to the memory of the
late Judge Elliott, who was shot by
| Tom Buford.
An italian colony has been estab-
lished near Gainesville, IN Florida, for
the cultivation of oranges and lemons
on large scale.
Enech Pratt, a wealthy citizen of
Baltimore, has offered to establish a
free circulating library i'm that city at a
cost of 81 100000.
The population of Chicago, according
to the latest statistics, is about $50, 900,
an increase of 125, 900 since the census
of 1880 was taken.
1t is said that the first requisite for
an able-b bodied aesthetic is intense lazi-
ness; the second, u lanky body; and the
third, an empty head.
A Vermont farmer bet $50 that the
distance to the moon wasn't over seven
miles. and when sued for the money
the jury sustained him.
Twenty years a-o Virginia paid New
England $3,000,0 900 for cotton cloth.
Last year the factories in Petersburg
alone made $1,000, 900 worth.
The Queen has commissioned NJ
Gounod to compose a nuptial march
for orchestra and organ for the mar.
riage of the Duke of Albany.
Worth says that nine out of ten of the
dresses passed off in this country as his
are made i'm New York and Boston. and
would shock French lady into fits.
. The Mexican National Railway is
new operating regular passenger trains
twenty five miles west of Laredo, and
the track is laid several miles beyond.
A colored preacher and three of his
congregation are under arrest i'm Mont
gomery county, Md, charged with tear
ing down and hauling away their meet
ing house.
II An Independent Republican move
ment is organizing in New York, and
is approved by such men As VIM. NJ
Evarts, Henry E. Tremaine, John Jay
and Carl SchurZ.
The King of Siam has recently Y ten
dered to Gen. Halderman, the Ameri-
can Consul-General in that kingdom,
the decoration of the Order of the
n White Elephant.
The north Australian natives detest
the Chinese, except as food, and have
lately eaten several members of Chi
nese colony which was engaged in
business in that section.