Iron County register., 1882-03-23
SOutheasferinSs.
alike.

THE wife of Geo. Hand, living in
Fredericktown, on the 18th of this month
gave birth to three boy babies. All alive and
doing well. Average weight, six pounds.
THE Cape Girardeau Pottery Com
pany have about completed the necessary
arrangements for the manufacture of white
ware.
Mrs. HARRIET B. MARVIN, relict of
the late Bishop E. NJ. Marvin, died of pneu-
Thursday, March 9th. The remains were
taken to st. Louis for interment.
THERE are twenty-five saloons in
Scott county, and no court house, and not a
decent church building in the so called coun-
ty seat.
THE private bank of r. Sturdivant
at Cape Girardeau has been converted into
Joint stock company concern. The stock
holders of the bank consist Of r. Sturdivant,
termann, j. H. Burrough, and Louis Houck.
The capital stock has been fixed at $4,000.
A MAN was found dead a few miles
from Fredercktown, on the 18th inst, nearly
destroyed by hogs. He had bullet hole
through his head, and pistol and overcoat
were lying by his side. Supposed to have
been a suicide.
THE Benton Record says that the
farmers in the sandy part of Scott county
are only waiting for the proper season to
plant their melons; and if the season "hits,"
thousands of dollars will be brought into the
county from melons alone.
THE proposition To build court house
in Howell county was voted down 1t the polls
recently. That county is the only one in the
State that is without court house.
A MAN living nes r Fredericktown
courted on Friday (Nlarch 1Oth), got his
marriage license on Saturday, was married
on Sunday, and on Monday applied for
divorce.
FROM the Cape Girardeau Ne,cs we
leard that the next session of the st. Louis
Conference of the NJ. E. Church will be held
in st. Louis, beginning March Doth, 1882.
Bishop Warren will preside.
The DOniphan Prospect says quite
number of families have emigrated to Ripley
county the past two weeks.
Gov. CRITTENDEN will deliver the
annual address at the Cape Girardeau Normal
on the 3Oth of May next, if not kept away by
official duties.
THE Bollinger county Court House
has been condemned as unsafe.
A DAKOTA colony has been organ
lied in Hillsboro, with D. S. Smith, Henry
Freeze, A. LAHORE, and I, H. McMullin as
officers. They will send out committee of
three, next month, to select and locate
lands.
THERE are twenty-five persons con-
fined in the Bloomfield Jail.
A BIG lead prospect has been n.discov-
cred in the mines belonging to Mr.. John o.
Long, at Bellefontaine, Washington county.
The bonanza was struck only forty feet be-
low the surface, and only few feet below
the old works. The prospect was first dis
covered on Monday, two weeks ago, and the
lead was so plentiful that 1,30S pounds were
taken out, cleaned, and delivered on that
day; on Tuesday 1913 pounds were taken
out and cleaned, and on Wednesday 1,946
pounds were taken out and cleaned-making
a total of 1872 pounds of lead cleaned and
delivered in three days. No work was done
on the prospect Thursday, but Wednesday
night it looked better than it had at any time
since its discovery. There are a number of
other paying prospects being worked in the
same mines.
THE Farmingtonians contemplate
the building of a two-story addition to
their school house during the present year.