Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-07

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary of Important Events.
THERE has been q terrible cholers
epidemic In the Philippine Islands.
TIN Post-ofice Department will TURF
into-the Treasury surplus of 81, 600, 600 fol
the fiscal year. ... -
A COMMITTEE is being organized II
London to place in Westminster Abbey
bust Of Longfellow.
GENERAL SHERMAN will establish hi.
home In St. Louis before the date OF nj
retirement from the army.
WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG has finally
been persuaded to accept the Republican
nomination in the Third Congressional Dis
trict Of Louisiana.
THE Treasury Department, with al
appropriation of $4,000, is about to es
tablish at the chief Atlantic seaports quar-
sntine stations for imported cattle.
CaBLxGRAMs from Constantinople
report the arrest of fifty persons engaged
in enIisting men in behalf of the Khedive
Osman Pasha is said to have been the in
termediary. A secret Investigation Is being
made. -
MERR1cK, counsel for the prosecution
In the star-route trial at Washington, de
mands averdict Of guilty against John w
Dorsey, John r. Miner, Stephen w. Dorsey
n. M. vaile, Montford c. Rerdell and Thos
J. Brady.
IT is stated that General Grant viii
decline to serve rs member of the commits
sion framed to establish commercial rela
lions with Mexico. He claims that all tina
is necessary to be done is to lower the Gus
toms duties in both countries.
NEARLY three hundred new member
were received by: the American Science AS
ISOLATION at Montreal. Professor Bell ex
hibited his electric instrument for indin.
bullets In the human body, and undertook
to explain why it failed in the case of Presi
dent Garfield.
Ex-GOvERNoR KOERNER, of Illinois
has addressed to ex- Governor Palmer a lon:
letter on the temperance issue. in which b.
takes strong ground against the Maine ant
Kansas laws, and such prohibition of manu-
fscture as is involved in the constitutions
amendment adopted in Iowa.
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A MOB of over fifty men, headed b,
the Sheriff and Treasurer, removed the safe
and records of Grant County, Minnesota
from Herman to Elbow Lake the other night
The Auditor and Register of Deeds will no
officiate at the new point, and the Suprem
Court will be compelled to decide the mat
ter.
THE Commissioner on Indian Affair
has received telegram from Agent Mills
of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indial
Agency, in the Indian Territory, in which
is stated that the Northern Cheyennes hav
declared their intention Of migrating to Pin
Ridge Agency. in Dakota, regardless of tn
wishes of the milan Office in the premises
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been junket
ing about Newport, r. /. He visited For
Adams the other day and reviewed the gar
rson, after which battery drill took place
A reception at the villa of Edwin d. Nor
gan, where SIC, 900 had been expended 70
flowers, lasted from 4 O'Clock until Z, AN
was graced by the presence of many distin
guished persons.
THE New York State Freethinker
adjourned to meet next year at Saratoga
The resolutions adopted declare that tn
only men who can not rejoice in freedom {
thought are the clergy; that the war upo
the church is simply one of unselfshness
and that no distinction should be mad
which denies to woman the right to be man
competitor for any position.
Miss ALICE G.. FLETCHER, a cor
scientious laborer in behalf of the Indians
has reached Carlisle, Pa, with thirty Isl
children of the Omaha tribe, thirteen @
whom are girls. During her tour she Wis
tied the camp of Sitting Bull and selecte
more will be taken from the Rosebud an
Pine Ridge agencies next month.
THE Prohibitionists in national cor
vention at Chicago adopted q platform dc
manding the abolition Of licensed sale {
liquors, the abolition of polygamy, the er
reimbursement Of women, the election OF Of
fcers by the people as far as possible, UNI
versal and enforced education Of the yout
of the country, the preservation of publ
lands for actual settlers, and the a5olitio
of all monopolies.
GEN. WoLsELEY reports that he &C
yanced with about 1000 men, Aug. "a, an
took possession Of dam the enemy ha
constructed across the canal near MAGYAR
The Egyptians brought up reinforcement'
but were held in check all day. At Po
Said and Damietta native merchants hay