Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-03-02

| Missouri Nevvs.
New Haven, Franklin county, has .
lady barber.
This State ranks fifth for available
militia--S00, 900 men.
Business men seeking to locate at La
Plata are unable to find q vacant build.
ing.
Every dwelling house in Gallatin 10
0ccupid, and the demand Is constant
for more residences.
A Sedalia teacher Furnishes talka-
tive pupils by tying a folded handker-
chief over the mouth. n
A new pipe organ. which cost 81, 900,
has just been placed in position in the
Presby tsrian Church in Spriugdsld.
An eight-irch vein Of lead has been
discovered near Vichy, Maries county,
and q company has formed to work it.
Judge Ds Wis, Of Chillicothe, considers
snoring in court q criminal offence,
and woke serenader with q 81 assess-
ment.
Tho new opera house promised
Springfield by Major Craven will be
eOx135, with galleries, and room to seat
], 500 people.
OF the 100 principal cities Included in
the late census bulletin. but 20 are In
the old slave States. Missouri has
three of them.
Messrs. Hudson 4 Rea, of Carroll
county, feed some seasons as high 40
200 cattle and 10000 hogs and buy
120, 900 bushels of corn.
Up to short time ago John Foster,
of Metz, Vernon county, had lived for
21 years within Is miles Of the county
seat, Nevada, without visiting it.
At the new elevator at Salibury .
wagon Of grain is now weighed and
unloaded in two minutes, where before
each had to wait hours for its turn.
Miss Ella Porter wears q gold medal
for being the most graceful and ac-
complished skater Of the Sedalia rink,
and was also voted the prize silver
cup.
Maysville, Fairport and Osborn are
working hard to raise the sums neces.
sary to bring the proposed X. &. 4
D. NJ. road through their corpora
tions.
A great many new settlers are COM
ing into Harrison county and buying
land. Real estate has advanced at
least SIS an acre, on an average, since
the building Of the railroad.
A farmer living not far from Car
thage is having green lettuce from his
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night he throws a blanket over tho bed
and takes it off in the morning.
At Kansas City, 45 men are busy
night and day laying rock on the al
ways-sliding Bluff street wall Mean-
time the street cars cross on trestle-
work. The street will be widened 90
feet.
This State has five newspapers edited
by colored men especially for their race.
They are: The AdVnace, St.Louis; Sun.
Sedalia; Basoo, Springfield, and the
Enterprise and Gate CITY Press, at
Kansas City.
Recently, while Mr.. n. G. Hillery
was uncovering bed Of CO al on his
earthed quantity of lead ore, which
is said to compare favorably with spec
linens brought from Joplin.
Jasper county leads Southwest Mis-
souri, in school matters. There are
nearly 5000 children between the ages
of and Is years, 125 school houses, and
a fund, from Jan. 1st, of $24S, ,94S, the
interest of which alone supports the
schools.
Within a few miles of Sprague, in
Bates county, a well was being drilled,
the other week, when, at a depth of
$50 feet, strong vein Of petroleum was
struck. Several farmers In that section
have Joined hands and purchased ma
chinery to continue the work and thus
satisfy their minds rs to the quantity
of oil that lies beneath them.