Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-01
Personal and Otherwise.

, seat anywhere in All Albany church
The Colored Methodist Episcopa
Church has more than 100000 mem
, bers.
Gov. Culion,, of Illinois, is the onl.
second-terln Governor who ever serve'
in that State.
Senator David Davis has made $50,
900 during the last two years speculat
ing in Illinois real estate.
Henry Clay's body servant, Old Ned
who dug his masters grave at Ash
land, died recently in Texas.
An unexpected and delightful offer o
marriage to a Michigan girl brought OF
a fatal attack of heart disease.
Tom Thumb tried to knock down 6
Chicago hackman, and was made be.
cause the man didn't know it.
| Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1881 was
writing stories at three dollars apiece
for Peter Farley, of New Haven.
Hannibal Hamlin, who is tired of
Spain, can conceive of no emergency
| that could take him away from his
! fireside."
john P. King, of Augusta, Georgia,
| thinks that he is the oldest ex-United
States Senator. he served from 1884
until 1888.
In reply to the question, as Willie
Winter poet?" the Philadelphia Meas
says: "He used to be, but he has had
his hair cut"
The new Governor of Pennsylvania,
r. F. Pattison, is 81. The Chairman
of the Democratic State Committee, w.
q. Hensel, is 81.
Olivea Beirne, the heir of the Burn
sides estate in Louisiana, has crop of
100000 pounds of sugar and 10000
barrels of molasses this year.
A Roman Catholic priest has return
ed stolen watch to its owner at Vim
cennes, Ind. 1t came into his hands
from the thief in the confessional.
The bell used at Wellesley College,
is from an ancient
Buddhist temple in Japan, and was
presented by Boston gentleman.
Ex-senator Spencer has sailed for
Europe, and it is generally understood
that pressing business will detain him
till the Star Route trials are ended.
The Chicago Times says that Edwin
Booth slipped into Germany before it
had occurred to Bismarck to prohibit
the importation Of American actors.
By the mistake of Philadelphia
physician, girl with the measles was
sent to smallpox hospital, where she
the more serious disease.
Congressman West, of the Saratoga
district, has made millions of dollars by
he manufacture of paper bags. He
vas born in England fifty-nine years
go.
According to the Lancet, two-thirds
f the total quantity of medicines
onsumed in the United States are
old in the form of secret nos
runs. l.
The windows of New Orleans restau-
ants show blocks of clear ice with fish,
overs and other articles frozen in the =
entire. This is product of the ice
.ctories.
Maria Sanders, on marrying John L
aged "a, at Ashland, o., re-
lived a present of $780, 900 in real es- t
tie. She says, however, that it is a t,
We match. o
1t is reported at Washington that
r. McCOsh, at his own request, is to
retired from the presidency of Prince
n College, and is to be succeeded by
EN-. Mcclellan. oil
1t is said that'a New Orleans lady al
Is been in Washington trying to sell
the United States the original parch- =,
ent draft of the Confederate States 4
for $4,000. +
A Brooklyn editor has undertaken to n
plain why France has SO much more y
,ney than tho United States. He 10
ys the bonnets American women
Ear come from France.
in Maine," says the Courier-Jour-
!, "they are finding diamond pins in p
oak trees. The hotel clerk of New u
lgland appears to have attended pic en-
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