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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
Death OF an Entire Family from Griei
at 4 Relatives Incarceration for Muir
der.

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A Leavenworth dispatch says: One
of the saddest stories ever written has
been enacted in the neighboring county
Of Platte, in Missouri. The foun-
dation was laid in terrible crime at
the Platte county fair last September,
when Clay Smell, young man of good
family, stabbed and killed young man
named Nathan Andrews. Although
public opinion ran high against Smell at
that time, the strange and apparently
inexplicable events which have occur
red of late have tended to create q
sympathy for him. He is now in jail
mt Platte City awaiting trial on the
charge of murder, and il is not intend
ell here TO speak of the merits or de-
merits OF his case, but to recount the
sad circumstances which have happen
ed in his family since the crime was
committed, and which has tended to
change the current of public opinion
IN his favor. This in no more nor less
than the death Of the entire family of
the Smells Shortly after the murder,
Mrs Lucy Ann Standiford, mother of
Clay Smell, became very much excited
over the murder, and grew quite i'll.
Within a short time she died. Then
Robert Smell became i'll, from what is
supposed to be the same cause, and,
after lingering sickness, during which
time he talked constantly Of the fami
ly trouble, he passed away, soon follow
ed by his siX-months' babe. John Smell,
another brother, succumbed to the
strain of the family excitement, and,
after a short illness, he also died. The
past week Miss Nettie Smell, the last but
one of the family OF one blood, died;
and now the news is to the effect that
Thomas Standiford, the little seven
year old half brother of Clay Smell, is
not expected to live, thus leaving the
prisoner the only survivor of this doub-
ly-unfor tunate fanily-and he III Jail
awaiting trial on the charge of murder.
He IS said to have been soerushed with
grief 1T the death of his mother that
for some time he was not informed of
the other deaths in his family. He
pleaded hard to oe permitted to gaze
upon the face eff his mother before she
was laid III her last resting place, say
ing: Send one hundred men to guard
me; cover me with chains, double-lock-
ed; but, fer Gods sake let me see the
last Of my poor old mother" This re-
quest, however, was not granted. A
more sorrowful chapter of family his
tory was never written
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

The story is told of little three-year-
old Ohio boy who was left motherless Il
few months ago, that last Monday he
was seen standing in the door-yard
gazing into the sky with such earnest
ness that his nurse asked him what he
was looking at. The child paid no 1T
tention to two or three appeals of the
kind, and when taken hold of he
struck back with his little hands and
petulantly cried out: Go away Let
me be see my mamma, and she IS
laughing nj me ~
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

Careohne the deodorized petroleum hair renew
or and restorer. as improved and perfected chal-
lenges the world and stands without rival among
the hair dressings and Is universal faVorite with
the ladies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

The railway up Vesuvius, known As
the Funicolare, is French undertake
ing. 1t was started from a capital oil
972,0O0, and costs $1,000 a year to
maintain. In fifteen years the COM
pany expect to realize the entire CAPT
tai, and as the lease from the govern
ment runs thirty years, there viii re-
main fifteen years for profits. which
are estimated at 10 per cent. after the
working expenses are taken out. The
company is insured IN five French
houses at A. per 1,000f. No English
house was willing to insure it under 10E
Everything about the road IS said to be
well managed. At the top there Is a
restaurant, and a good one.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
One Hundred Shots in II 3-4 Seconds.

"Keep your powder dry" said Maj
Gen. Hancock yesterday afternoon on
Governors Island, while man was
pouring a pail of water into the pocket
of a duplex field magazine gun which
was about to be experimental upon.
The water was simply to keep the gun
barrels cool while firing rapidly. II
was the first time that the General had
seen the gun. Surrounding the General
stood Lieutenant Commander Gorringe,
Gen. Johnston of Alabama, Col John
Bodine and Judge Gildersleeve, of the
American rifle team, the Rev. o. B.
rockingham and William Beecher,
ex- Senator w. w. Eaton, of Connect
cut, and nearly one hundred other
gentlemen, who had been invited to see
the gun work.
The gun was composed of two bar
rels inclosed in water pocket. By
simple and strong mechanism at the
breech, assisted by a feeder, the piece
first fired 200 ordinary United States
cartridges of 45.calibre in twenty five
seconds. One hundred were then fired
for speed, and the hundred bullets were
sent into 3 target in eleven and three
quarter seconds. Then 500 shots were
fired i'll one minute and ten seconds.
1T would be just the thing to NOW
down storming party" said Gen.
Hancock, IF they should get into such
a place as this" The place was a
large open space between the outer
wall of the fort and the sea wall.
The gun weighs l41 pounds; with
carriage, 571. The one tried yester-
day had been discharged upward of
5000 times without the least tinker
ing. 1t was the belief Of all present
that it would prove very effective
weapon in the field.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

The census shows that the State of
Connecticut has over II, 600 more fe-
males than males, and il is noted as
curious fact that In the smallest towns
in the State the rule generally is that
the men exceed the women in numbers.
The cities show the surplus of women.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

Gen. George Macdonald, now over 81
years old, has the honor of being
father" of the British army. He Il
colonel Of the Bedfordshire regiment
and entered the army in September,
1915
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

There are ten female students In the
Homeopathic Medical College, in Gin
cianati.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

Dr. Pierces pellets" or sugar-coated gran
ules-tA, original Little Liver Pills. (beware
Of limitations cure sick and bilious headache
cleanse the stomach and bowels and purify tie
blood. To get genuine see DIR. Picrce's signature
and portrait on government stamp. . cents per
VIAL by druggists
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

In st. Louis a man has been fed seven
months through hole in his stomach,
and recently died of disease due to
another cause.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

Gen. Lew Wallace Is not only poll
tician and author but an artist as we'll.
He is said to have painted an admira-
bic portrait of his father: and he has
in his study picture of historical in
terest- This IS called The Conspira-
tors" and represents as sitting and
leaning on marble blocks in an old
Washington yard a group of men who
plotted to kill Lincoln The portraits
were taken from life. The general
having sketched the men in court dur
ing their trial
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

PURE Con- Liver On, made from selected livsrs
on the seaShore, BY Csswell Hazard & Co. New,
York. 1t is absolutely pure and sweet. Patients
who have once taken it prefer it TO all others.
Physicians have decided it superior TO any Of the
other oils in market
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06
EX-PREsIDENT HAYES POVERTY
He Declines TO Subscribe to the Gar.
field Monument Fund

field Monument Fund.
A Cleveland dispatch says the facts
about Mr. Covert's unsuccessful appeal
to Mr. r. B. HAYES for a subscription
to the Garfield fund are as follows:
The object of the Garfield Memorial
Association is to erect bronze monu-
ment, to cost 100000, over the spot
where the late presidents remains
rested in state. A number of citizens
of Cleveland headed the subscription
list with 81 ,000 apiece. From the
towns and villages of Northwestern
Ohio the response was liberal. The
| committee were so encouraged that
they decided to ask Mr.. r. B. Hayes,
of Fremont, to become one of the
II 900 subscribers. The fact that Mr..
Hayes lad indefinitely postponed his
subscription to another Garfield fund
that for the widow and children
| did not deter them from the attempt.
The member of the committee Sc
lected to go to Mr.. Hayes and make
the appeal in person was the Hon. ].
G. Covert, ex-member Of the Ohio
legislature, and long of the Cleveland
Leader's editorial staff
Mr.. Coverts application was denied
by Mr.. Hayes, half peremptorially,
half alphabetically, poverty being the
excuse offered for the refusal.
To illustrate how | have been mis-
represented in this matter of wealth, 4"
said Mr.. Hayes. you need only
recall the reports of my farming trans
actions in the Red River country. 1t
is said that just realized largely on
the sale of wheat. | will tell you that
| am just $3.50 out of pocket on that
wheat transaction. My tenant out
there shipped me two barrels of horr,
which after paying the cost of trans
portation, left me just that amount
worse than nothing.
Mr.. Hayes said his savings out of the
salary drawn by kim rs President of
the United States had been greatly ex-
aGgcrated that his bank dividends had
not come up to expectations, and that,
under all the circumstances, he found
himself unable to contribute anything
To the fund for monument to Garfield.
His desire to do so was very great, but
prudence forbade.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

Beauty UuadOrnRd with EImpIesl L.
Alarmed tho Mast

7 you desire tair complexion frea from PIN
pies, blotches and eruptions, take Golden Med
ical Discovery" by druggists
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

A house built by Daniel Symmes,
brother of John Cleye Symmes, the
founder OF Cincinnati, has just been de-
molished- 1t was the Oldest landmark
In the city proper. John Howard Payne
the author of "Home Sweet Home, =
was frequent guest within its walls.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-06

the wOodShed and finished by taking
the shrunken loaf and burying it in the
garden.
This accomplished, returned to the
kitchen, where Mrs. DoSsel soon Joined
me, with her dress caught up. and her
sleeves rolled pinned back with an eve
to business.
She asked n few questions as 70 the
whereabouts of certain articles, and
then limited pretty strongly that she
had no further use for me- | under
stood, and went TO my room, where
the miserable. dirty. forlorn wretch who
glared at me from the glass did more
to cure me OF self-conceit than three
hours lecture from another could have
done.
A bath, change OF garments, and the
use of a nail brush, changed my out
ward appearance somewhat, and |
joined Miss Dossel il the paflor, with Il
faint perception of my own identity.
An hour later we We're summoned to
tea. Wonderful That meal will al
ways be 3 mystery to me
White cloth, spotless queenSware.
shining silver. snowy biscuit, thin, wine
colored dried beef, crisp raiishes, and
handsomely moulded butter, all seemed
TO have slipped into their appropriate
places, as if my mothers hand had
guided them. Even cake, small, but
of feathery lightness, was quivering,
warm from the oven. l did not cease
to wonder, while the meal progressed,
and did the honors like an overgrown
school boy. Nor was my wonder
lessened when, little while after,
made an excuse to the pantry, and
found that nightmare of moulding
board and rolling pin clean and dry in
their places.
Toward evening, Mrs. Dossel pro-
posed walk to the bank of the river,
that flowed little distance from the
house. We went through the garden,
that being the nearest way; and now,
plying reader, what do you suppose
appeared to me in my Inflated transitf
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
NUMBER 25.

NATURE TO THE REscUE.-A young
man visits his sweetheart. He soon per-
ceives she is becoming pale, feeble, iifeless,
cross, fretful and unft for anything. She
cannot eat q hearty meal, she cannot sleep
soundly, she cannot laugh heartily. she
has become rather melancholy and dull,
she has lost her brilliant Wit and sparkling
eye. she complains Of headaehs, duttering
Of the heart. His visits soon become few
and far between. Poor girl. A married
gentleman's wife 10 nearly always down with
some complaint; she growls and scolds and
frets; she cannot walk up hill, nor ascend q
flight Of steps; she is suffering every day;
she is thin. weak ana feeble, and half of the
time unable to attend to her household
duties. The husband fails in his duty. Poor
woman. There IL remedy for all cases
similar to the above, which assists nature in
toning and building up the feeble and flag
ging energies, u imparts vitality, adds luetre
to the eye. brilliancy to the intellect, glad
dens the heart and restores women to strength,
health and happiness. The remedy IL known
as ENGLISH FEMALE BITrKRs, which Il making
wonderful cures.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Missouri News.

| A $500 church for the colored Meth
odist is building In Rolla.
The City Attorney of Carrollton has
been impeached and bounced.
Meadville has an amateur dramatic
company, and cries out for better hall
Mrs. Ann Grant, of Columbia we've
SO ,0Ss yards of carpet during the year
1881.
DR.. w. P. Yeaman, the well-known
Baptist preacher, has bought farm
near Columbia.
The Boonville Ne,us is now conduct
ed by Mrs. Thornton, widow Of its
murdered editor.
Corn is selling at IS cents bashel
in Phelps county, and the crop is bet
ter than the average.
The town of Troy recently acquired
railroad connection, and now her streets
are to be lighted by a system Of gaso-
line lamps.
The newspapers in all parts of the
State say that the farmers are rejoicing
over the mild weather aud the prospect
of a large yield of winter wheat next
season.
Johnson county farmers say that at
the present ruling prices it takes 25
cents worth of corn to grow a pound of
beef. Corn 75cents per bushel and beef
from to AZ cents per pound.
A lady at Sedalia is about to start a
home for working people, where any
respectable woman, who for any cause
cannot find employment may have shell
ter and an opportunity to earn some
thing by doing fancy work, knitting, &c.
Numerous farmers in the north part
Of Macon county report their corn crops
to run from 40 to go bushels to the acre;
some parties purchased, fenced, and
broke the ground, and paid for the
whole and had money left, from this
years crop raised thereon.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Mining Column.
Missouri Nlanganese.

Iron and manganese mining is on
the increase in this region. The Hey-
wood manganese mine is looking better
than at any time since it commenced
operations. This is q soft manganese
ore, and is used in the furnaces at
South st. Louis. The ore il mined at
SO cents 10 ST. per ton; hauling to rail-
road, ST. per ton; freight to st. Louis,
from $1.75 to 81 per ton.
The Russell mine is manganiferous
ore. This vein Is mixed with jasper
and what is known here as slate, and
the vein is from Ave to eight feet thick.
These deposits Of manganese and man
ganiferOus ores occur in two high hills
known as the Buford and Cuth bertson
hills, and the formations are composed
Of states, limestone, and porphyry. In
this formation the above ores are found.
This portion of country, with its rock,
seems to have been tilted up and thrown
out of position by tremendous upheav-
al; and no doubt this disturbance has
taken place since the formation OF the
llmestones, for if we 90 into the valleys
or ravines we find the limestone over
lying the states and the states resting
on the porphyry. If we examine these
three formations we will find the lime
stone passing into slate, and the slate
passing into porphyry. There is no
doubt in my mind but at one time
those hills were composed Of limestone
formation, but the whole mass has
been changed into states and porphyry
by the action Of the heat, az we find b
portion of lime in the states and por-
phyrys. In these states we find the
principal ore bodies dipping from an
angle of ten degrees to nearly vertical.
The course of the veins is northwest to
southeast, and in some places the man.
ganese ores are found lying close to the
porphyry. Such is the case of the Hey
wood mine, while at the Russell mines
the ore is found in states, near the por-
phyry. AS to how the manganese ores
were formed l de- not propose to discuss,
but will await the developments. 1
am satisfied that the manganese ore
will lead to either q mauganiferous
specular, or a specular iron ore deposit.
Whether they will eventually be found
lying or running through porphyry, is
q question to be determined by the
pick, shovel, hammer, and drill, super
intended by . practical and scientific ex-
pert Zr0ntOH Correspondence to the
Chicago Mining Review.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Odds and Ends.

The winter is gliding away, but mo-
on skates.
Some one says the thread-maker
! spOOls his ISSUES.
Lots wife used often to tell him he
| wasn't worth his salt.
A race of men cannot be made free
by passing around the hat.
Crocodile soup is so good that epi.
cures always cry for more.
There is nothing more shocking than
the loss of life by all earthquake.
Not a sparrer falls to the ground
without being noticed by the gang.
BraAla's wife is mad so often that he
thinks it must be temporary insanity.
People get warm at big banquets, but
not because there are so many covers.
Chicago girls are wearing red bon
nets and Chicago men are running after
them.
Itseems to be lucky that no Newark
man got his hands on the Confederate
specie.
Legislating is prominent industry.
Men can WORK at it when they have
little else to do.
A foreigner is about to write a book
on America. He will call it Great
ExpectoratiOns."
No matter how obstinate man may
be he generally hauls in his horns after
entering saloon.
The Mormons are ready for war.
They have already planted their Can
non in Washington.
Industry as we'll becomes wealth as
it does poverty. Mother Earth her.
self takes in sowing.
The missiles thrown at Bernhardt at
Odessa were pickles, to which fact she
owes her preservation.
"Papa," said a little girl, "give me a
ride on your knee, won't you?" He
took the little gallop at once.
A fashion writer says: " Bustles are
moribund." Perhaps because compos-
ed of the dead issues of newspapers.
The girl who was courted by spruce
young lawyer said she liked to be pro-
tected by the strong arm of the law.
An Indiana lover set fire to and de-
stroyed the store of his rival. There is
no knowing what little spark may
do.
In Chicago, robbing a man is called
"holding him up" Many Chicagoans
support themselves by holding each
other up.
Four babies have come all at once to
Mrs. Tyler, of Kansas, and each weighs
four pounds. 1t is supposed Mr.. Tyler
will lecture.
Grammarians are puzzled over the
question W neither ''mumps" and "mes-
sles" are singular or plural. They Oft
en- look singular.
Bishop Elder has issued q circular
against round dancing, but the man
with q hornet in his trousers leg will be
allowed to dance round.
A Rhode Island Justice refused to
marry a man named Carr to lady of
the same name, on the ground that he
was afraid to couple cars.
Half a dozen young scapegraces have
been going about in Minnessota vacoi. |
mating the Inhabitants of that enlielt- |
enel State with mucilage.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
MINING NOTES.
MISSOURI.

MIR. Whitehead shipped three car
loads of manganese ore, last week to the
Missouri Furnace Company at Carondelet.
The Ozark Land Co. is taking out
some very fine manganese ores from their
mines. This mine 10 located on lands belong
ing to the Russell heirs.
The Bessemer steel works of the
Vulcan Steel Co, at St. Louis, gives the fol-
lowing record for October last: Ingots, S,el7
tons; 1850 lbs. Blooms. 777s tons; /, ,0ao lbs.
Rails, 6, 4O3 tons; 620 lbs. There are but two
convertsrs.
The amount of iron ore shipped
daily over the Cuba and Salem Railroad is
about 90) tons.
1t is reported that several st. Louis
gentlemen are making preparations to re-
open the lead niue neN Crystal Station.
In the Dent and Crawford county
iron fields the Midland furnace is in blast, the
Sligo and Nova Scotia furnaces about COM
pleted and ready to make charcoal iron, and
the Hamilton, Aernmec, and Ozark furnaces
out Of blast
What is the name of our newly
discovered coal mine. Don't hear Of any coal
being hauled to any Of our blacksnitha to test
Its quality. Hurry up; let eus have Z coal
boom, and keep things livelyi
OTHER POINTS.
The fiow of water from the Sutro
tunnel last week averaged 4.6s92S7 gallons
per twenty.four hours.
The annual copper product of the
United States. as given In . supplemental CEN
sus report, is aO,544, 140 hs, worth $S,S42 oRI.
The electric lights ct tha Lake
Superior mine are working very satisfactorily.
---It Is thought that about SOC, 900
tons OF Iron ore will be imported into the
tnlted States this year. Il comes from En-,
kIand, ireiaSd Africa xnd Efo8.-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05

Thursday afternoon of each week, between
four and FIVE o'clock, mesabers of the Ironton
Library can have an opportunity Of drawing
books, at the residence of Mrs. s. G. FsirchilG,
where the Library has recently been placed.
Terms of membership Life-members, IS 90;
annual members, Il %. E. &. DELANo.
s c:e.aHy AID Treas.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05

We call the attention OF our readers to the
advertisement of J. Monroe Taylor. This house
has been established nearly 20 years, and their
goods are celebrated for purity and strength
We would recommend . trial Of their Gold
Medal brands to all who desire superior
cookery. t54m
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05

The Light Running Domestic is acknewl.
edged to be the best Sewing Machine IL the
world. Buy one for your family for a
present, and you will never regret it.
The machine is beautiful. ornamental and
durable. The attachments are all finely fin
ished and heavy plated.
H. DAVIS. Agent.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05

For RKNT.-Three elegant rooms in the
Academy Of Music Building. Inquire Of J. w.
Emerson, Pres't. or r. Scoville, Sec'y.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-05
Guilty of Wrong.

Some people have a fashion of con-
fusing excellent remedies with the large mass
of "patent medicines. " and in this they are
guilty of a wrong. There are some advertised
remedies fully worth all that is asked for
them, and one at least we know of-Hop Bit
ters. The writer has had occasion to use the
Bitters In just such climate as we have most
of the year in Bay City, and has always found
them to be frst-class and reliable, doing all
that is claimed for them Tribune.
NoTICB TO TEACHERS Having been re-
quested to call the second meeting OF the
Iron County Teachers Association, we take
pleasure in announcing Saturday, January 8
1882, at 10 o'clock A. NJ, as the time, and the
the new school building In IroEton as the
place.
The teachers of Pilot Knob, Iron Mountain,
Caledonia, Des Arc, and Middlsbrook have
iutimated their intention to be present, and
we hope to meet many others. All are in
vited.
A programme will be prepared to occupy
the remaining portion Of the day after organ
fzation is completed.
[Signedl e. B. IsHAM.