Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-10
SOufheasterings.

10er.
A drove of 210 young cattle were driven
through Alton last week. They were bought
in Oregon county and were being shipped to
Kansas.
During the past six months more than hf-
ty persons have been received into member
ship in the Methodist Church, South, at
Fredericktown.
Frank English, of Cape Girardeau county,
was poisoned a short ago by eating wild
parsnips. A stomach pump in the hands OF
a doctor saved his life.
Stoddard county offers the right -of-way
and $40, 900 to any company that will put a
railroad within half mile Of Bloomfield, the
county seat of that county.
The Eminence argus makes the statement
that as many as 40 dozen wild pigeons have
been caught at one throw of the net at the
roosts below Thonasville.
Mr.. S. B. Hodge, Of Bollinger county. has
nineteen acres in strawberries. The pros
poets are good for an excellent yield, and Mr..
Hodge wants one hundred pickers.
Bollinger county is fast gaining notoriety,
says the Marble Hill Herald, as a strawberry
producing section. A great many of the
farmers of that county are going into the
business.
The Board of Regents Of the Cape Girar-
deau Normal School elected DR.. w. B. Will
son President, C. C. Rozier Vice President,
Treasurer.
Three and four carloads Of lumber have
been arriving daily at Bonne Terre from
Poplar Bluff and other southern points on
the Iron Mountain road, for the new mills
of the st. Joe Lead Co.
Dick Campbell, OF Marion, ILL.,, left here
last Monday with over two hundred head Of
cattle. Mr.. Cox, of Carterville, Ill.,, has also
been here, and left this week with nearly a
hundred head of cattle.-Malden Clipper.
The editor Of the Erninence Argus says he
has 2 standing bet of a straw hat that Shan
non county can show more girls weighing
over $50 pounds than any other county iii
the State-and, he says, the girls are hand
some and industrious, too.
The other week the fifteen year old daugh-
ter Of Mr.. P. Bruhn, Of Pevely, picked up a
dynamite cap and concluded to see what was
in it. She took darning needle and began
scraping it, when the cap exploded and tore
off the ends OF. the thumb and two fingers of
her left hand.
A good story Is told on some of Oregon
county's Deputy Sheriffs. They went near
the State line to arrest some men and women,
who, expecting arrest, went across the line
into Arkansas, and bid defiance to those in
pursuit, who, rs the !Soath Missouriar puts
it, could see but not take hold.
George Miller, a carpenter Of st. Joe Lead
Mines, disappeared from his home few
weeks ago, and his family cannot account
for his absence upon any theory. Any in
formation in regard to his whereabouts will
be thankfully received by his wife, Mrs. Liz
zie Miller. Her post-offic is Bonne Terre,
St. Francois county, Mo.
A cow belonging to Mr.. Jack Byington, who
lives near Pennington, gave birth couple
of weeks ago to a double-headed calf, the
same having two fully developed faces, one
turned to the right and the other to the left.
1t had only two ears, but had four eyes and
two mouths. The calf only lived few
hours.
The colored folks Of New Madrid county
are making fair progress in education. Sew
eral students have been off to school the past
winter, viz: +. W. Clemons, the colored
teacher, has been at Nashville, Tenn, and
Albert Lafont, son Of Baptiste Lafont, at st.
Louis. Both are now back home. We be-
lieve there is one student from our county
now at the Lincoln Institute at Jefferson
City.-RecOrd.
James F Brooks, of Cape Girardeau coun
ty, has been appointed by Gov. Crittenden
Chief Engineer Of the Typographical survey
of Southeast Missouri, under act OF March
oath, 1883, providing for surveying the sunk
Ell and overtiowed lands. The salary Is
S2,1OO per year and the Engineer is allowed
to employ eleven assistants at Il salary rang
ing from thirty to eighty dollars per month.
The act appropriates 5000 for salary and
actual expenses.
James Johns last week killed hoop snake
near the Sloan Springs, which measured six
feet in length and three and half inches in
diameter, and had q horn on its tail Mr..
Johns was on'h his wagon and saw the snake
going into 4 hole. He jumped off his wagon
and struck it with rock, when it made fight
at him and chased him to his wagon. Then
it went to its hole again, and when 1t started
in the hole Mr.. Johns succeeded in killing it.
-West Plains Gazette.
There was an immense lot Of lumber ham
died at the river landing the past week. D.
A. Lee had some 5000 feet, DR.. VIM. Proc
tor IA 900 feet, and Johns Bros, R. L. Clark,
II. II. Towles and D. B. Young each have
from 1000 to 5000 feet. Besides this, Capt.
Phillips came down Tuesday with three large
RATS Of some 10000 to 1900 feet, and Gill
breath & Son, who had altogether some 10000
feet of walnut, did not finish hauling until
Prospect.
About ten days ago party of railror.l men
divided at Van Buren,, Garter county, one
squad coming this way, the other going east,
and they were taking the right of way
Carter and Ripley counties. Alex.