Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-09-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

LOCAL BREVITIES.
The comet Is not visible after sunrise. No
citizen of Ironton has seen the comet.
Let us welcome our ST. Louis visitors to-
day with closed (business) doors and open
hands.
Last Tuesday it was sweltering hot; to-
day, we enjoy a seat beside our well-loaded
coal-stove.
Sheriff Fletcher scoops out much Of the
REGISTERS ''local" space this week. He's
a welcome pirate, however.
Clear and frosty are the morii lgs. but the
crops are made; and we don't lament, tho
the leaves are yellow and the pastures
brown.
Mrs. VIM. Tong has moved into the Shep-
herd property lately occupied by Mrs. Tay-
Tor, and will make Ironton her residence
hereafter.
c. w. Miller, Esq, who has been very
sick, is convalescent and rapidly regaining
strength. We congratulate him and hope he
may live to celebrate his own centennial.
Mrs Lopez is putting another addition to
her business house. The extent of the i'm
provement will be made manifest in the ful-
ness of time and through the industry of the
carpenters.
4 ream-colored mare mule was stolen or
did stray from the Granite Quarry last Sat-
urday night. The Syenite Granite Company
,offers liberal reward for her return to
'Graniteville.
Dr. NJ. Thomas was in town yesterday, at
tending to business. We regret to note that
he IL not so hale as usual, but no doubt when
the weather settles down into invigoratlng
autumn, our veteran friend will be himself
again.
Hunters are complaining of the scarcity of
game. Notwithstanding the heavy 'mast,"
deer are pet plentiful, while turkeys are very
few and fsr between. Even the sportive
squirrel appears to have hied him TO other
,haunts.
Wild grapes are abundant, and many
careful housewife is protitissg thereby. She
puts 'em up, sugars 'em down, and OCCASION
ally makes wine of them. The flavor of the
latter, when duly aged, is by no means des-
picable.
The trains have been running somewhat
Steadier duriag the past week, though one
dsv we saw three used-up locomotives going
by toward the workshops. They were IN
bad condition, and one of them had to make
the trip on top of = flat-car.
Mrs. c. II. Collins sent us last Tuesday
four the finest pears ever grown III iron
county. They weigh one and quarter
pounds each, and ii takes 12k inches OF
tape-ine to girth either one of them. They
were grown dwarf tree
The new tcnemant houses built by the st.
Louis Ore & Steel Company ut Pilot Knob,
are pretty and comfortable. Ten have
been finished, and twenty or thirty more Will
be put UP as rapidly as the exigencies OF
lumber, builders, etc., will permit.
To Solonis Harris our thanks are due for a
dot of very fine apples. They are large, mel
iowand perfected the Bendavis, Belltiower,
Russell, and Fall and Golden Pippin varieties.
They are the product of trees purchased from
A. X. Sutton's nursery in Arcadia Valley.
There's broken cuiveTt on the road that
runs around Shepherd Mountain, and it
ought to be repaired at once. 4 team can
turn out of the road and pass the culvert, but
# IL mt pleasant to do il. Two good oak
planks and half-dozen spikes are all the
materials necessary to do the mendinS.
We are informed that DR.. VIM. G. Thorn
rs resigns the nomination for the office of
Coroner of Iron county, in favor OF Jacob
Grandhomme, the present incumbent. The
reasons assigned are that he proposes to go
on farm which he and his brother John
Thomas have bought I'm Beiieview Valley.
Marshal Patton wants everybody to IN
ferstand, once for all, that he is not going to
lend any of the eity's Observation-Disclosures,
sh3vels, picks, rakes, etc.-to anybody for
any purpose. The ordinance in hat particu-
lar made and provided forbids it, and he is
going TO obey the law. And don't you for
get it.
Two tlarkey boys, aged about twelve
wears, "scuffied" to some purpose last Sat-
.,rday, Que of them was thrown heavily to
the ground and had an arm broken. He is
now under the DOCTORS care, with the broken
arm dressed up nicely in splints. The other
schiller doesn't know whether he is going to
be hung or merely sent to the penitentiary.
Mr.. Jackson, Greenback nominee for Con-
rress in this district, and ii. Martin Williams,
the great Fiat Money Apostle, were in town
last Wednesday for the purpose of address
ing the ssfaithful.'' But the multitude did
not assemble, and the speechiiers went mp
to Pilot Knob to hold forth in the evening.
Further deponent knoweth not and sayeth
not.