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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
The Republican Party Lca.ar.

In the distribution OF the bills to be
reported from the Committee on Appro-
priations Secor Robson will have
charge of that for the navy. This is
the place of all others which he most
desired, and as the chief manager of
MIR. keifer 5 canvass for the Speaker
ship he caused himself to be placed sec
ond on the Appropriations, second on
Naval Affairs, and Chairman on Expen-
ditures in the Navy Department.
Among the multitude OF big Jobs
which have been nursed for the present
Congress is one for building up a new
navy, estimated at thirty millions to be-
gin with; but which, under the manip-
ulatiOn of Secor Robson and the Rings
that he fifty represents, will most natu-
rally expand into eighty or a hundred
millions. During the eight years that
Secor Robson served rs Secretary, one
hundred and eighty millions were
squandered and stolen in that depart
ment. almost without show of conceal
ment.
Contracts and patronage were openly
huckstered in the markets of Philadel-
phia and of New York to the highest
bidder. and no honest trader had the
ramOtest chance OF being considered I'M
less he subscribed to the terms of Cattell
and other brokers of official favor repre-
senting Secor Robinson.
Promotions. choice stations, pleasant
transfers, and rotten claims were pro-
cured through female influence. TWAS
long carnival of open venality and rob-
berry. Finally, when holding over for
the coming of his successor. Robson
outraged all decency by awarding con-
tracts for several millions, in fragrant
collation. OF law.
He left behind him lot of rotten
hulks, of worthless machinery, and Il
demoralized service, to tell the story of
an infamous administration, the sole
aim of which was to steal the public
money. Nothing like it had ever oc-
Cured in our history. Investigation
confirmed the worst charges, and when
the proof was about to be submitted to
Congress, RobeSon'S next friend, Muir
tagh, the proprietor of the Grant organ,
and President of the Police Board at
Washington, was instigated to have Mr..
Whitthorne, the Chairman of the Inves-
tigating Committee, entrapped by regrI-
lar detectives into a house of ill-repute,
in order to break the moral effect of his
then forthcoming report. One of the
detectives refused to obey Murtagh $
orders TO commit this atrocious crime,
and the conspiracy was thus exposed.
After all the revelations against Secor
Robson, his party stood by him ut
home and at Washington. He knew
the secrets of the principal leaders. and
he was familiar with the methods by
which success was obtained. Hence he
was sustained by the machine, and to-
day he is the recognized Republican
chief in the House He stands forth as
the organ of the party, and, of course,
he intends to utilize it for his own profit.
N. I. sam.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
PITH AND POINT.

Thirty Bostonians have written
essays which are sealed up in a box for
a hundred years. This would be good
scheme for newspaper poets.
1t is almost impossible to look over
the hats worn by ladies at the theater,
and this fact is but another argument
for the elevation of the stage.
What pity flowers can utter no
sound! A singing rose, a whispering
violet, murmuring honeysuckle-oh,
what a rare and exquisite miracle would
these be!-Beecher.
AT a recent butter-makers' conven-
ton one of the delegates got tired of the
proceedings and wanted to 90 home, but
didn't know how to wind up the meet
ing. He ought to have made motion
to a churn.-Nolern 4ryo.
"A nurse was telling about man
who had become SO terribly worn out
by dissipation that he could not keep
any food on his stomach, when one of
her listeners asked: s'What does he
live on, then?" "On his relations,
ma 'am,n answered the nurse
-Tewfik, the young ruler of Egypt, is
his court full of them. owe shall send
a marked copy of this issue to the Sweet
Singer of Michigan. She may be able
Tewfiks it so that she can leave by the
next boat. IN. 0. Picqyouae.
=" What a nuisance!' exclaimed
gentleman at a concert, as young fop
in front of him kept talking in loud
voice to a young lady at his side. "Did
you refer to me, sir?' demanded the fop.
"Oh, no! I mean the musicians, who
keep up such a noise with their instru-
ments that 1 cant't hear your convera-
tion,'' was the singing reply.
We have never before known that
parrots could be utilized for building
purposes. While large store was in
process of construction Polly, who was
stationed near by, kept crying out,
{" More brick,' only alternating the aw-
full command with the words, /" More |
mortar" An Irishman who was earn
ing his living by the sweat of his brow
hurried in his toll and filled the plat
form on the fourth story with bod after
hod, first of the one and then of the 9TH
er. Still the cry was heard, and heard |
again, until the lrishman's spirit of re-
bellion was stirred within him, and at
the risk of losing his place he put both
hands to his mouth and yelled at the
top of his voice, is it MORTAR mad
that We are? Sure man ought to have
the ligs of centipig (centipede) to wait
o,+bo 1;kac Of vaz },
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
American H0rse-Sh0es in England.

The poetical surroundings of "the
village Blacksmith" and his harmonious
anvil, says Chanabers's Journal, are
threatened with powerful rival, by the
introduction from the United States of
a new industry; namely the manufac-
t,,re of machine made horse-shoes. A
company, whose premises face the
Thames opposite Greenwich, have just
opened their works, to supply the Unit.
ed Kingdom with these machine-made
articles The iron is rolled from scrap,
coming from the rollers as grooved
bar, which is afterward cut into lengths,
punched with the necessary holes, and
finally is bent by a machine into the
horseshoe shape. 1t is calculated that
there are in the United Kingdom about
three million horses; in Europe general
ly more than thirty million; requiring
annually million and half tons Of
shoes. So that if the new company turn
out good work, there are plenty of Gus
toners for their goods. 1t is said that
the new shoe has met with the approval
of some eminent authorities, and is al
ready used by several tramwaY compa-
MES.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
The Monroe Doctrine.

1t is perhaps not too much to say that
among the cherished legacies which the
Democracy of the ancient regime has
transmitted to the Democrats of to-day
IS that which has been embodied in what
doctrine. Its practical application now
to the interests created by the Panama
Canal intensifes the popular devotion
to it and iustilies the wisdom which
impei'ed its announcement On the
theory that American soil belongs to the
American people, and will not tolerate
an ascendency on any part of it by q
Government inimical to American insti-
buttons, the attitude of the Government
on the Panama Canal issue excites
widespread interest. 1t may be the
living question of the day. 1t is GER
tainly. the controlling issue in American
diplomacy. But while there is uni
verSal adhesion in this country to the
Monroe doctrine, it is a significant fact
that its most brilliant exponent at pres
ent is a Republican. 1t came into ex-
istence as Democratic principle. 1t
encountered the opposition of the old
Wings, and was bitterly assailed by
the old Federals, of whom the
Wings were the heir, and the Repub-
lican party of to-day is the reverSiOna-
ry legatee. But notwit hstanding all
this, Mr.. Blaine has assumed the
championship of the Monroe doctrine,
and having committed the preceding
Administrations to its assertion, has left
the present one hopelessly entangled in
its mesheS. 1t is n matter of small con-
Germ what were Mr.. Blaine's purposes
in the course he has persued Whether
he meant 10 make it a Presidential issue,
or was actuated merely by patriotic i'm
pulses, it is bootless to inquire. The
fact remains that the doctrine has ac-
quired an unexpected and vital promi-
hence in American politics, and the
country is committed to its asseveration
even if it leads to war. The control of
the Panama Canal belongs to us. 1t
will be protected by the American flag
and defended by American guns. Criti-
else Mr.. Blaine as they will, the En-
glish press cannot ignore the fact that
the assertion of the Monroe doctrine in
America is in harmony with the policy
which gave to England Gibralter, Malta
and Alden. and which in her pursuit of
an Oriental protectorate induced her to
lay violent hands upon Cyprus. The |
South American States have for years |
been drifting into anarchy. They must |
eventually be absorbed by some strong !
er Government. The control of the |
Canal connecting the two oceans will
control the destiny OF the South Ameri- |
can States. This is plain both to En-
gland and the United States. When |
the moment of dissolution arrives these |
countries belong to us; and the practi-
cal application of the Monroe doctrine |
places us in a position to assert our
title omaha Herald
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

1t cannot be pleasant to MIR. Hayes, in
his Ohio retirement. to note the rude
and irreverent WAY in which his name
and his Administration are knocked
about in the Republican camp. So long
us iil-natured assaults on him were con-
fined to the Democratic press, he might
take them as one of the inSeparable ac-
compartments of party warfare, and
bear them with serene composure; but
when Republicans rescue him from his
political enemies to put him through 4
course of still more savage treatment, 1T
must impress him keenly with the van
itv of human honOrs and ambitions. A
few days ago, the Republican press
published, with unmistahable gusto,
some memoirs of the late Senator
Chandler. in which 1.-The man I made
President was held up as an eX-
ample of falsehood, duplicity, in
sincerity and personal and po-
litical treachery-''a man who
is not only morally weak, but has no
regard whatever for for TRUTH In this
same publication, spread broadcast in
the land by the Republican press, it is
told that he drew his salary every
month in advance to secure the interest
upon it, and, he was so meanly par
simonious that he bought his table sup
plies from the post-commissarv so as to
get them at cost price 1t might be
supposed that the Ohio Republican
papers, at least, would come to the res
cue of the retired Executive, and say
something in defense of the man who
heaped honors SO lavishly upon Ohioans
when he was in the White House; but,
instead of this. we have even the Gin
cinnati Gazehe talking of s. the small
potato rule set UP in the Administration
of President HAYES" When Grant re-
tired from the White House, he man
aged to preserve the attachment Of a
host of friends, good and bad; but Mr..
Hayes seems to be, of all public men in
the country, the most friendless.-St.
Louis Republican.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
Some New Geography.

"Of what is the surface of the earth
composed?"
''Of corner lots, mighty poor roads,
railroad tracks, baseball grounds,
cricket fields and skating rinks.''
"What portion of the globe is water?''
"About three-fourths. sometimes
they add little gin and nutmeg to it. -
s What is townp''
GA town is considerable collection
of houses and inhabitants, with four or
five men who "run the party" and
lend money at Is per cent. interest"
What is a city?''
GA city is an incorporated town,
with a Mayor who believes that the
whole world shakes when he happens to
fall flat on O. cross-walk."
"What is commerce."
Borrowing So for a day or two and
lodging the lender for year or two
IS Name the different races"
Horse race, boat race, bicycle race
and racing around to find man to in
dorse your note"
"Into how many classes is mankind
divided?''
"Six; being enlightened, civilized,
half civilized, savage, too utter, not
worth-a-cent and Indian agents.
"What nations are called enlighten-
ed?''
"Those which have had the most
wars, the worst laws and produced the
worst criminals.
"How many motions has the earth p"
I" That's according to how you mix
your drinks and which way you 90
home"
"What is the earth's axis?''
"The lines passing between New
York and Chicago"
"What causes day and night?''
ebay is caused by night getting tired
out. Night is caused by everybody
taking the street car and going home to
supper"
"What is a map?"
GA map is drawing to show the
jury where Smith stood when Jones
gave him Il lift under the eye.''
d" What is mariners compass?'
GA jag holding four gallons. -
Detroit Free Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
a Howl for Spells.

The success of Malone in securing
the Federal offices in Virginia for his
gang of political free-booters has had
the effect of encouraging few spoilsmen
in other Southern States to follow his
example \ Washington correspond
ent of the Pittsburgh Post hits off the
relations of the Administration with
these unprincipled otlice-hunters in the
following happy style: The anti
Bourbon cry which is coming up from
the disaffected in almost every State in
the South is simply a howl for spoils.
They talk about free ballot, a fair
count, and all that sort of thing, but
there is no principle in it. 1t is any
thing to get the offices. Reputation
may serve the purpose in one State and
something else in another, but it all re-
solves itself into q hunt for places. The
avidity with which they rush to the sup
port of every diSgruntled politician
and sore head in the South is
proof conclusive that it is any
thing to destroy the Democratic
party. The end iustiies the means, and
it matters not whether Malone gave
the order at the Crater to ''spare no
damned Yankees and niggers," or
Chalmers massacred the blacks in cold
blood at Fort Pillow. or Butler was the
-.-------rtrv7 :, rrrr5-r,,ro- ysrs
the radicals have constantly charged)
ii these men will but seek to overthrow
the peaceful and prosperous rule of the
Democratic party in their several States,
they are taken into full fellowship and
made, as John Sherman says, speaking
for the Radicals, bone of our bone and
flesh of our flesh The men who have
been discarded and left at home by the
Democratic party, or, for some good
reason kicked out of the organization,
are at the head of all these revoIts in the
Southern States. Had the Joneses and
the FeltOns been continued in Con-
gress by Democratic votes there
is no probability that either one of
them would ever have turned out
as a leader of the sO-called Independ-
dents in their State. But Jones couldn't
get the Democratic nomination. took
his chances as a Greenbacker, and was
while FELTON,, unable to secure
the Democratic Endorsement, ran as an
and was beaten. AS for
Ellis. who is still in Congress, repre-
Senting Il Democratic district and elected
as a Democrat. he has higher aSpira-
tons for place and power than seat in
the House and thinks he can secure the
prize through Il revolt. 1t is with all
these as with Malone, purely a matter
Of spoils, while the radical hypocrites
shout on the housetops about the great
principles that are involved. The Dem
Ocrats here are not alarmed over any
such movements, and instead of fearing
4 general stampede in the South to the |
radical camp, they hope to redeem Vir-
ginia as soon as the local question of |
he State debt is settled, and place her
n the Democratic column in 1854
Patriot.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

Physicists and scientists say that the
amount of water on the surface of the
globe is steadily decreasing, and that
the land gains on the sea year by year.
1t is quite true that in some portions of
the globe the sea is eating up, as it
were, the land. This is true of the
Atlantic coast, which gives evidence of a
steady encrOachment of the ocean upon
its shores. New York will some day be
city under the sea, and its great bridge
and ruins can be examined and disin-
TERED only by means of diving bells.
Geographers tell us that two-thirds of
the earth's surface is composed of water,
so we can afford to lose a good deal of
that element without suffering. If the
nebular hypothesis is correct, and the
earth was once vast sea of fire, water
was then non existent, and, when it first
appeared, must have come in the form
of steam. Life was not possible until
the fluid cooled. and it must have been
myriaGs of years before the great salt
seas formed. If the earth should grad
ually lose its moisture, great changes
will be effected. There will be more
land and denser population, fewer
marine animals, and more room for the
races which now inhabit the land. Ger
tain districts will become arid, swamps
will dry up, vast waterways will be con-
verified into dry land. What pity it is
we can not 90 to sleep for thousand
years, SO as to see what kind of a world
this will be in the year 5000. There
will, we apprehend, be some water left
even then.-Denaorest' MoathEy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
Nervous Americans. 4,

Why are Americans more nervous
than people of other national les? 1t
is stated as fact that EnGlish.nen and
Germans become SO in few years after
residing among US. Their children have
not the phlegmatic temperament Of their
parents. There is marked difference
between the Americans who descended
from the English and Englishmen at
home. We have taken on u national
type which differs as distinctly from
that of the English as it does from the
French. In.the crowd that surges along
the street of any city it is not difficult to
distinguish the American cOuntenance,
and it is never mistaken for that of any
other nationality. Instead of decreas-
ing, it is said that the nervous tempera-
ment predominating in America is in
creasing, and that we are being sepa-
rated further and further from the En-
glish, making a national temperament
and type unlike any other that has ever
existed. Psychologists who make a
study of race and nation building re-
gard the inflow of Teutonic inmigra-
tfon as Il curr-actfvv to some extent OF
this, and most fortunate thing for our
future national character. But the ten
dency of life here joins to <5at Of eli
mate to make new as well as old resi-
dents nervous. The Immigrant who
only hoped to live in reasonable comfort
sees fortune within his grasp, and dnters
the race with an eagerness his ancd stors
never knew. He sees wealth accumu-
late and disappear in day, and the
mutations of fortune, the prizes and
disappointments, contribute to divest
him of his inherited calmness But
there is a subtle influence of climate not
well understood that assists in convert
ing phlegmatic men into nervous ones.
1t is well known that the same amount
of any kind of Intoxicating liquor has
a very different effect upon the same
person here and in Europe. So that it
would be impossible to grow thetypi-
cal Englishman in this climate if all
other influences were the same as in
England. He inhales here, with the air
of liberty, some other agent that CON
yerts him into an American ere he is
aware of it. 1t is said that the Aus
tralian already begins to develop com
mon type of face and temperament as
unlike the English as is the American.
Journal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

Paul Brandt, book-keeper and
solicitor for the Colorado Journal, was
attacked with the prevalent transitory
mania, and embezzled $1,000 from the
company. He then severed his con-
nection" quite abruptly. His depart
ure is thus gently referred to by a
home paper: The general impression
among his former friends is that he will
stop while in San Francisco, unless
something should occur to call him
back to Denver. His journey, WHITTIER
soever he goeth, is not so much of a
pleasure trip as it is a matter of bust
ness, and the further he goes the more
he will grieve.'
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16
Our Young Folks.
HER LITTLE VALENTINE.

A dainty little valentine,
All blue and pink and gold,
Has come for our wee laSSie,
just five sweet summers old.
The smiling postman brought it;
wonder if he knew
Who sent the pretty miSSiye
To darling little Lou!
On. how her blue eyes Sparkled
When she saw the valentine,
And how she questioned: lis il
WEAKLY and truly miner
And how she tried to read it,
Too proud to let us think
She couldn't read her valentine
Quicker than q wink''
But pretty soon: "Please, mamma,
Tell me what is inside'
And while the small ears listen
The bright eyes open wide:
" know darling grille,
Her name is little Lou.
And some one loves her dearly,
] wonder if she knows whor'
That's what the pretty valentine,
All blue and pink and gold,
Says to our dainty lassie,
Our darling five-years-old.
And she is just as happy
As a little girl can be,
And is never tired of saying:
"A vartine came for meI''
N. Y. Independent
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

-Larkin G. Mead, the Vermont sculp.
tor, has been elected to professorship
in the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts.
His first work, when exhibited in Bos-
ton, was laughed at by the critics.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

1t is reported that the celebrated
wins, Garfield and Arthur, of Gilbert 5
Mills, near Oswego, n. Y, are very i'll
of congestion of the lungs. They are
extremely beautiful little fellows, al
most exactly alike. and not one of the
family has yet been able to tell them
apart except by marks that are kept on
their clothing.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

-Woman's rights are getting recog-
nized everywhere. The Kentucky Sen
ate has passed a bill permitting the wife
to enjoy and fully control all property
she may acquire from descent, purchase
or the labor of her own hands.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

"A stone bridge to be built in Minus
apolis, Mimi. bids fair to become one
OF the notable structures of the world
1t will consist of sixteen eighty-feet
spans and four 100-feet spans, and, in
Guiding the shore-pieces, will have to-
tai length of 1000 feet. It will support
two railway tracks at height of over
sixty feet above the water, and will run
diagonally across the river below st.
Anthony's Falls. The cost is estimated
at nearly 100000.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

A female shoplifter in New York
was found to have a hook fastened to
her garter and a pair of stolen new shoes
hung to the hook. She lives by hook
inc thinUS
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

A Vermont farmer bet fifty dollars
that the distance to the moon wasn't
over seven miles. and when sued for the
money the jury sustained him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

A handsome monument of Quincy
granite, twenty-four feet high. has been
erected over Parson' Browulow S
grave in the Knoxville Oenn.) Gem
etery.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

when the house ofMrs. Homespun
was 3urglarized the other night, the
Sood lady said she didn't care SO much
ABOUT what the critters carried off. but
she s mated to have everything all clut-
.erea up; and besides that, she saws, thew
tracked the house with snow from gar
ret to cellar
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

IN poor weak fiend shoots off his
l II bolt, a single human life is stricken
oowh' and throb of divine love thrills
fetd. '''' ~ 90"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-02-16

Vanderbilt neither drinks, smokes,
DOR CANDLES with cards