Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-25
Odds and Ends.

A writer of "reminiscences of the war
in Portsmouth paper, relates thai
Gen. Malone once, when the Yonkee
cavalry came upon him suddenly in 6
private house somewhere in South
ampton, escaped into the garden half
dressed and there finished his toilet
under cabbage leaf.
In 1886 Ambrose H. Sewer and Will
lam S. Fulton were elected the frs
Senators from Arkansas. Fulton pro.
nounced the name of his State Ar-kan'
sas, and Sewer pronounced it Ar-kan.
saw. It is said that Daniel Webster
invariably addressed the former as "the
gentleman from Arkansas and the
latter as 1.-the gentleman from Ar-kan-
saw"
A Portland paper tells story of a
wealthy but parsimOnious Maine man
who, two or three years before his
death, awoke in the evening, and
turning to the watcher at the bedside
asked: How much do they give you a
night?" 1.-Two dollars and a half"
was the reply. well, you needn''
come any more; I can't stand such a
sum as that" nd he didn't.
On the 9TH of March, 179S, when Asa
Mcfarland, music teacher in Con.
cord, New Hampshire. was ordained to
the ministry, people came to Concord
from their homes twenty miles dista Mt
All about the meeting house were
booths and stands for the sale of liquor,
and "a grand ball ut Mr.. Stickney Is
celebrated tavern" was attended by all
of the high-daddies interested.
The Atlanta Constitution says: "The
Marietta and North Georgia road is the
great route fer quail hunters. The 9TH
er day there was 5000 worth of dogs
leash valuation) in the baggage car on
that road, attended by Sc, ZOO worth OF
negroes (old valuation). In the coach
was 81 400 worth of guns and $50 worth
of hunters. On the return trip they
had $3.50 worth of birds, Of which they
counted while eating $40 lunch"
Patrick and his friend We're riding,
single file, horseback. along a bride
path, through thickly wooded see
ten. Selling heavy swinging limb.
Patrick, who was in front, held on with
a firm grip AS he rode along, till his
friend came in striking distance. when
letting go, Mike was knocked to the
ground, where he rolled in pain. Dis
mounting and going to his assistance,
Pat cried out: 8 Arrah, iIoike, and if
| hadn't hilt onto that limb as hard
as I did you would "a been kilt in
tirely."
Pioneers from Pennsylvania and from
New England, or Yankee Land, had
settled in Yates county, n. Y, about
the same time, and each party was
anxious to name the neH town. Meet
ings we're held, quarrels were started,
and all was going awry till an old man
arose in one of the meetings and sug-
gested that the troubles could all be
got over bv naming the place Pen Yam,
in honor of both sides, the Pennamites
and the Yankees. "Agreed, agreed,
agree,i!" shouted those assembled, and
Pen Yam was at once accepted as the
name of the new town.
This is Mrs. Langtry's defense of
Freddy, of orthograpbical notoriety:
"Mr. Gebhardt does not deserve to be
so roughly handled. He is young
man who is spending his own money
in his own way. He came to Chicago
10 see me, and / invited him to come to
st. Louis. He has been very kind and |
nice to myself, to Miss I,angtry, and |
was SO to Mrs. I.ahe~o7fere when she
was here. / am sure | can see no ob- |
lection to his presence i'm this city Or
else He was introduced to .
IS by Mr.. Oscar Will te, but perhaps
hat will not he any recommendation
% you Americans"