Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-26
Various Matters

ne Inuiana state Board OF Agrlcul-
ture has on hand Sl2, 1860.
A Boston correspondent asserts that
the poet Whittier is color blind.
A Syndicate has been formed to open
up the National Yellowstone Park.
The Greek Consul at Manfalon, up
per Egypt, has been murdered by rob-
bers.
Mr.. Gladstone has expressed himself
against a revival of the tariff in En-
gland.
Trckett, the Australian Oarsman,
wants to row against Hanlan in the
spring.
Boston papers assert that Boston
people will only patronize familiar
opera"
Many soldiers and hundreds of cam
els have perished of cold on the Sahara
frontier.
A company with 81 ,O0O,OO capital is
to organize for locomotive works at
Louisville
William NJ. Evarts has been elected,
President IF the Union League Club
of New York.
Truth denies the statement the Queen
Victoria is about To publish ''an inter
esting volume"
Tubsr-rooted begonias are sail to
need no artificial heat, light, nor water
during the winter.
representative Bland has introduced
a bill in Congress for the establishment
of Il mint in st Louis.
Fnimons Blaine, the ex Secretary's
youngest son, IS clerk in "A railroad
office at Fond du Lac.
The indianapolis Sentinel saws no
distinguished thief will be hurt by the
Star-raute prosecutions.
Nearly $50 tons of meat unfit for hu-
man food were seized in the London
markets during last year.
Chicago is about to issue 1888, 900 in
twenty-year bonds The rate of inter-
est will be to 5 per cent.
At Philadelphia Gen. Hancock was
| Invested as Commander of the military
order of the Loyal Legion.
The Chicago health authorities are
$ riously alarmed over the spread OF
the smallpox in that city.
In 1880 there were 12,412,GOo milch
cows in the United States, or 3,I76, 800
more than the were in 1870.
1t has been authoritatively decided
by New York jury that SKINNED milk
is umwholesome and injurious.
Attempts to reach the North Pole
having failed. the Republicans talk of
trying to catch the South poll.
Senator Vest owns an addition to
Kansas City which is expected in ten
years to be worth a million dollars.
Yale is now the all-round college
champion, having carrie off the trnph-
les at base ball, football and boating.
The Khedive and other friends of
America i'm Egypt contribute 81, 200 to
the Garfield Memorial Hospital fund.
England, says the London World. is
more prolific of beautiful and pretty
women than any other country of the
world.
The st. Gpthari Tunnel will be open
July l. The company is said to be ne
gotiatimg for an electric service for
trains.
1t is hinted in Washington that there
is something very crooked in the man
agement of the Soldiers Home, near
that city.
The Illinois Supreme Court has de-
cided that calored children have a right
to attend any of the public schools in
that State.
The Courier-Jour,aa1 is afraid the
recent frosts have nipped the tender
bud of the new Independent party in
Kentucky.
Prof. Huxley is to be invited to fill
the chair of Natural History In the
University of Edinburgh. 1t is worth
$40, 900 year.
The report of the Detroit Custom
House for the calender year. shows the
business largely exceeded that of any
preceding year.
The affection of the sight with which
Mrs. A braham Lincoln has been suffer-
ing proves to be the growing of cata-
racts on both eyes.
Elliot, the Tyne oarsman, who is
fireman on board an English steamer,
expects to pull race in the United
States in the spring.
The color line has eXten led into Can
ada. Two citizens of Toronto were re-
fused admittance to the skating rink
because of their color.
An Ohio woman, while repeating
nursery rhymes TO her child, stopped
in the middle of verse, stepped into
an adjoining room, and shot herself.
( Blackwood having accused Mr.. Glad !
stone of coming the compound word
of "Blood-guiltiness," it has been dis
covered that it occurs in the fifty-first +
psalm.
In Pennsylvania the Republicans
will hold State Convention at Harris +
burg on May 10th, and the independents |
Republicans will hold one at Philadel- |
phia on MAY 24th.
Fifty straps of leather, each a foot
long, two inches wide, and very thin,
have been purchased by the Port Huron .
(Mich.l Board of Education for use in