Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-04-06
NUMBER 3S.
Various Matters.

The polygamists are resigning their
offices in Utah.
Corn in tassel can be seen in Sumter
county, Florida.
An almond tree in Tallahassee has
borne fruit for number of years.
Presida county is the largest in Tex
as, having an area OF Il, 5000 acres.
There is great scarcity of feed and
seed corn in the districts around Nash
vile.
The new town Of Fairfield. Florida.
contains $500 orange trees and 120
cows.
There are 269 churches in Brooklyn.
OF which 189 are built of either brick
or stone.
The new st. Louis directory for 1882
has nearly 49, 900 more names In it than
last year.
There are 81 lawyers in the Unite I
States Senate, and 1876 in the House of
Representatives.
Mr.. w. Fl. Pillow has shipped from
Jacksonville, Fla, this season 81 ,O2l
quarts of Strawberries.
Georgia has seventy-odd gold mills
at work. One is giving a monthly
product of about 81 500.
Beecher says that Horace Greeley
and DR.. Chapin shortened their lives
by irregularity of sleep.
1t is estimated that 25O, 900 bushels
of wheat will be raised in Cemauche
county, Texas, this season.
Baltimore has contracted with the
Brush Electric Light Company to light
the city for 1925, 900 year.
A Fort Ogden (Florida) man has a
contract to deliver 5000 alligator hides
to st. Louis firm by May l.
There will be some four hundred
farmers present at the East Tennessee
Farmers Convention in May.
During March Nashville Tenn. has
issued permits for building improve
ments far in excess of 100000.
Roasting ears for dinner and ripe
watermelons for desert is the present
bill of fare in Manatee county, Fla.
The Mormons have now six preach
ing places in London, and are sending
out bodies of English girls to Utah.
A man in Knox county, Maine, who
wanted to vote against a projected high
school, wrote on the ballot "Know."
The MARYLAND Legislature has pass
ed a whlpping-post law, applicable
only to men who are guilty of wife
beating.
A bell used by Boston ferry was
cast in South America for q convent in
1878, and after long use was sold for
old junk.
An outgrowth of the aesthetic busi-
ness in Alabama is the establishment
of post office in Madison county called
"Too-too."
A tailor at Chicopee, Mass, puts the
accounts of his delinquent customers
conspicuously in his window, placard-
ed "These bills for SALE"
The happiest person in America at
the present moment Is Boston woman
who wraps her baby in a lace CRADLE
Iowa has finally abolished its Octo-
ber elections and Joined the November
States. A law to that effect was
passed at the recent session of the Leg
islature.
In Butler county, Ala, there are ten
acres OF oats sown this year to every
one sown last year. Every farmer
seems determined to plant more corn
than usual.
OF the members nf the lower house
of the present Congress there are but
eight who were members prior to the
late civil war, and all of them were
Democrats.
The Car has written to the inorganic
widow of his father, who has been re-
siding at Carlsruhe since the death Of
Alexander H., requesting her to return
Russia, and live in st. Petersburg.
Recent cases are noted in the medical
journals of tetanus, or ''lockjaw," hav-
ing occurred in infants on account of be-
ing bathed in too hot water. A single
nurse reports several cases Of this kind.
At the Hub-"I am tired,n sighed
the wheel upoor fallOA snoka tho