Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-22

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BY ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI.
NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
: THE last surviving son of Words
worth. the poet, died in London, Eng,
few days ago. 80
THERE were several banquets in
Madrid, Spain, on the 18th in celebration OF
the Spanish Republic. " /
TIE Prohibitionists of Kentucky will
hold convention for nominating state OH
GERS in Louisville March 20.
-Ex-GoyERNoR' MARSHALL JEWELL, |
VIII, had been ii. with bronchial pneumonia
died at Hartford, Conn.,, on the 10th.
SEVEN of the Annapolis (Md.) cadet 8,
in solitary confinement for writing insub or
climate letters. were released on the Stb.
AT. Williamsport, Pa, on tf q 10Th
tbey were cutting channel throu kh a gorge
twenty miles long to avert Hood disaster.
49,. TIE Sesqui- Centennial OF the settle
ment of Georgia by General Oglethorpe was
celebrated with due pomp. at Savannah On
the 18th. ~
t" A PROPOSITION to- submit a prohibi-
ton amendment to the Constitution to a
vote of the people was defeated in the West
Virginia State Senate a few days ago.
TIE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the seven days ended
on the Sth were 2I5, reduction OF thirty, as
compared with the seven days previous.
T.. The Maine House of Representatives
few days ago ordered the prohibitory
amendment to engrossment by vote OF 1O4
to 81. An attempt to except cider failed.
-sEsv' - .-e--7 p. t.-.
THE Committee on Exhibits at the
Is Worlds Fair, to be held in Boston, Mass,
has sent Commissioners to Europe, Asia,
r Africa, Canada, South America and the isles
OF the sea- IL LII :..r ....
a. Two companies had applied to the
Legislature of Massachusetts, the other day
for. charters to build a ship canal across
Cape Cod, offering to deposit 100000 as a
guarantee fund.
CLEVELAND. CO.. vessel-owners the
other day resolved to postpone until May
the opening of navigation, and to reduce the
wages OF captains and engineers, as we'll as
sailors ten to fifteen per cent,
81. TREyELYAN, Chief Secretary of Ire
land, i'm q speech at Hawick, Scotland, the
other day, said he considered the publica-
tion of articles attacking Irish judges and
jurors as much part of murder machinery
as the pistol or knife. .. ..t5'E iA5 70
In opening the Canadian Parliament,
the other day, the Governor-General stated
that in passing through the United States he
observed many evidences of regard for the
British Empire, and hoped that friendship
would prove enduring.
AT banquet in the Grand Central
Hotel, New York, the other night, given in
honor of Senior Malo. of the city of Mexico,
General Grant declared that in fifteen
months it would be possible to go by rail to
Mexico from any part of the United States.
81" THE Chicago Qll.) Board of Trade
81 few days ago passed resolutions against
the transfer of the revenue marine, life
saving and marine hospital services to the
control of the Navy Department, and against
establishing maritime bureau in that De-
partment.
The London Times, in a eulogy of
Tn,
from practice in the London courts because
of warning by eminent physicians in re-
gard to the dangerous condition of his
heart, said English mercantile law had
profited by the reception accorded in En-
gland to Louisiana's accomplished iurist.
THE Ohio River floods far exceeded
the limits which had been apprehended on
the 18th. At Cincinnati business was en-
tirely suspended and the Chamber of Com
merce organized relief committees. The
Kentucky River was still rising. Warning
was given of approaching floods in the Mis-
sissippi, between Memphis and Cairo. The
Monongahela was reported falling.
AT meeting for the reorganization
of the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad by the
'bondholders and stockholders, held at Chill
licothe, o., the other day, the name of the
new company was fixed as the Cincinnati,
Washington & Baltimore Railroad Com
pany, and Board of Directors was elected.
The Board met in Cincinnati the next day
and organized by the selection OF officers. .
COOP business men at Cincinnati, o.,
who were not sensational, said on the 18th
that the damage from the overflow of the
Ohio River in Cincinnati, Newport and Cow
ington would amount. to millions. The
river was sixty two feet four inches and ris-
ing an inch and half hourly. This was
half an inch above the great rise of 1S47.
In Newport the military barracks were all
flooded. Nearly two square miles of the
city was under water. People were re-
ceiving coal and provisions from beats
through second and third story VIM