Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Various Matters.

An ice famine is anticipated in th'
United States.
The Chief Justice of Alabama is {
printer by trade.
Philadelphia will have q Musica
Festival next June.
/ There are 296 women in Boston worth
million dollars each.
Forty per cent. of the smallpox cases
in Chicago prove fatal.
1t is thought that scarlet fever will
become epidemic In New York.
General Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, has
opened q law office in New York.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, will
be 81 on the 1st Of February next.
The Khedive has opened the Egyp-
tian Assembly of Netables at Cairo.
Pansies were blooming out of doors in
some parts of Massachusetts last week.
Russia is considering the necessity OF
preparing for war at the Chinese from
| tier.
Greenbacker Gillett, of Iowa, is max
ing anti-monopoly speeches in the State
of Texas.
It is said that General Butler is like
ly to come into possession of the Sprague
property.
General Franz Sigel is now a school
| inspector in the eighth district Of New
York city.
Fifteen hundred converts to the Nor
mon doctrines were made in England
since last August.
New England with a representation
of %, has At of her sons in the Lower
House of Congress.
Postmaster-General Howe has farm
near Green Bay, and is deeply interest
ed in Agricultural matters.
The Emperor of Austria will erect
at his own cost a memorial chapel on
the site of the Ring Theatre.
New York State has ], 500, 900 cows
| $685., ,OOO, 900 invested in dairy interests,
and yearly product of 100000, 900.
False certificates have been discov-
cred by which ITO negroes in Cuba, who
ought to be free, are held in bondage.
A London company has purchased
/, 300, 900 acres in Mississippi. 76O, ,OOO
acres of which is rich levee cotton
land.
The American Bar Association will
probably recommend the creation of
an additional United States Supreme
Court.
General Trevino has resigned the
portfolio of the Mexican War Depart
ment and resumed command of the
frontier.
The general opinion among old and
experienced members is that the pres
ent session of Congress will be a very
long one.
The Republicans in Congress are pre-
pairing, it is said, to stir up-a great deal
of partisan feeling over contested cleo
ton cases.
Mr.. Horace Gray, the newly appoint
ed Justice of the Supreme Court, is
more than six feet tall, and is stout in
proportion.
Fourteen thousand emigrants expect
to leave Bremen for America in the
spring. Almost an equal number 60
from Hamburg.
About six hundred negroes have left
South Carolina for Arkansas, where
they think they can better their con-
ditions financially.
The marriage service uniting Chi
cago couple was, it is asserted, perform
ed by departed spirits, a medium acting
under their control.
The laying of the German-American
direct cable progresses rapidly, and it
is thought the line will be ia working
order at an early date.
The city of Dallas, Texas, has issued
SlO0, 900 in bonds Cor the payment of
waterworks recently purchased from
the Water supply Company.
The friends of Senator David Davis
now feel confident that the report of
his approaching marriage with sister
of his late wife is groundless.
Booth Theatre, New York, has been
sold for S55O,OOO. IT will be used as an
abode for the drama a year longer, and
will then be turned into a store.
Colonel Preston, of England, has left
a legacy of So, 900 to Colonel Riley, Of
Virginia, who rescued Preston's son
from drowning few years ago.
til reported that Senator Jones, of
Florida, will soon marry Miss Nose
ly, the daughter of one of the old and
families of Massachusetts.
The italian Government. in order to
secure independence, peace, and liberty
in Rome. intend to give a law of quar-
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