Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-08-10

BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
YELLOW FEVER has appeared in quite
q bad form at Campeche, Mexico 49,
THERE were 81 cases of sunstroke in
New York City on the Goth, 16 of which
proved fatal. ,s
MONTREAL Customs officers seized
1,s40 barrels of -four, valued at $1,000, ship
ped from Chicago.
A COURT of inquiry finds that General
Sheridan was justified in relieving General
Warren of his command at the battle of Five
Forks.
The Texas health board, learning of
the existence of yellow fever at Matamoras,
has instituted a quarantine at Brownsville,
and avows its readiness to picket the Rio
Grande with rangers.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is satisfied
that Rear-Admiral Nicholson, commanding
the European Station, had acted in a dis
Greet and proper manner in all he had
done for the protection of American inter-
ests at Alexandria.
THE President of the New York So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren has appealed to Mayor Grace to for
bid an exhibition by the Boston Miniature
Opera Troupe, comprising ITO small boys
and girls, who are paid about So a week
each.
Gov. FOSTER predicts that the people
of Ohio will be compelled TO encounter a
liquor-dealers' rebellion. He declares that
he has never known such bitter feeling on
any public question. He estimates the re-
tail profit on beverages in that State at $35,
900, GOO per year.
GENERAL GRANT writes the Chair
man of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, in regard to the Japanese indem-
nifty fund, that the money should never have
been collected, and ought now to be re-
funded, principal and interest, but that
Japan does not desire any compromise on
part OF the interest.
AN address issued from headquarters
of the National Federation of Labor Unions,
Washington, d. c., says s'it is of the
greatest Importance that candidates for the
next Congress, of all parties, should be
called upon to clearly define their position
on the great question of capital and labor
before election day. "t
COMMODORE SHUFELDT has arrived
at San Francisco. He takes the credit of
planning and executing the opening of Corea.
That Government preferred to make its first
treaty with the United States, because
opium would be excluded, of which the
Coreans have holy horror. As China aided
in securing the concessions, that empire is
open to trade with Corea.
THE French dry goods clerks in Mon
treal threatened a riot the other night, the
employers not coming to their views in the
early closing movement. One merchant
was assaulted, and deputation represented
TO the Mayor that they feared an attack on
their store windows. The Mayor issued a
proclamation against rioting, and ordered
the entire police force on duty.
THE Ohio brewers have resolved that
and that its use promotes the cause of true
temperance. While they will aid the pass
age of wise and just laws for the suppress
sion and prevention of inebriation, they pro-
test against enactmerts that can only result
in the destruction of vested interests or in
driving capital and labor from the State. \
In the British House of Commons on
the 18th Gladstone read, amid cheers, an
extract from the instructions forwarded to
Lord Dufferin, British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople, after the Cabinet meeting of
the day previous, SAYING England was glad
OF the cooperation of any power, but call
ing upon the Sultan to state the dates for the
dispatch Of troops, and before their dispatch
to issue proclamation upholding the Khe-
dive and denouncing Arab Pasha as a rebel.
A WASHINGTON correspondent has
good authority for the statement that among
the papers relating to the alleged corrup-
tion fund used in procuring the passage of
the bill making the land grant to the Texas
Pacific Railroad Company is a transcript
from the books of said company showing
that some 100000 of bonds were paid to
thirty members of the House, and $500, 900
of bonds and So, 900 in money to four mem.
pclS VI tuC CcHdtc. thai tulS tiaHsCfipG gives
the names of the four Senators and thirty
Repres entatives and the amount paid each;
that three of these four Senators and four
only of the Representatives are still in Con-
gress.
NEWS from Egypt is to the effect that
Arab Pasha sent delegates to meet flag of
truce, the other day, who not only declined
to talk about surrender on any terms, but
were most insulting to the English officers.
The condition of affairs at Port Said is criti-
cal. De Lesseps is said to be in daily COM
municatien with Arab. The Russian rep
resentative at Constantinople has been or
dered not to attend any more conferences. :.
Fifteen thousand Turks have been ordered
to start for Egypt The French Chamber
refused to vote the credit asked by De Frey
cinet for the protection Of the Suez Canal,
and the ministers rendered their resigna-
tions. A deputation of Egyptians from
Kafar-Dwar visited Alexandria to report
that the people were determined to resist