Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-12
NUMBER 80
Short stops.

| A Bangor schoolmistress has LAT chews of
gum, all captured during one term of school.
For s'studying the new arrears law" Will
lam NJ. Evarts charges the city Of Brooklyn
81 900.
James Bennett, once a very rich man, died
at Great harrington, Mass, . few days ago,
at the age of 10l years.
All Wong, a bright young Chinaman, is re-
porting Chinese news in New York in both
the Chinese and English languages.
| Gen. G. It. Beauregard invented the endless
cable system, and used it in New Orleans in
1870, afterward selling the patent to a Chica-
go firm.
| The first colored man to practice law in
Virginia is named b. C. o. Benjamin. He
has obtained license to practice law at the
Albenarle county bar.
The Pennsylvania House Of Representa-
tives passed an apportionment bill that gives
the Republicans fifteen and the Democrats
thirteen Congressional districts.
| A colored woman in Livingstone county,
Kentucky, must be the missing Black Venus,
as four men fought over her. Two of them
were killed, and there is yet too many.
1t is seriously stated that fashionable mil
liners ask each of their clients which side of
| the aisle her pew is, in order that the chief
| ornamentation may be on the congregation
side of the bonnet.
Mrs. Mary Ann Turrentine, twin sister
Of Senator Hill's mother, is still living, aged
about So. Her home is in Harris county, Ga.
She gave the Senator the name of her first
husband, Benjamin Harvey.
The bill for the punishment OF wife-bcat-
ers, which has passed the Tennessee Legis-
lature, provides that the whipping post shall
be erected in a public place, and that the
number Of lashes to be laid on shall be fixed
by the jury before which the offender shall
be tried.
Miss Edith Fish, daughter Of ex-Secretary
Hamilton Fish, will soon become the bride
of Hugh Oliver Northcote, the fifth son of
Sir Stafford Northcote. Miss Edith is the
only unmarried child of the family, is about
twenty, of light, trim figure and brunette
complexion.
On the 10th inst. just 100 years will have
elapsed since George Washington announced
to the Continental army that q treaty Of peace
had been concluded between Great Britain
and her American colonies, whose indepen-
dence was by the same instrument irrevoca-
bly, acknowledged.
Secretary Lincoln could hardly be more
soldier If he had been reared at West Point.
He steels himself against 100000 petitioners
for the release of Sergeant Mason, who shot
at the lunatic Guiteau. The Secretary deems
the crime one of the worst of which soldier
on guard could be guilty.
A special train furnished by the Wabash,
st. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company to ex-
President Diaz, made some very fast time.
the whole distance being travelled at the rate
of forty-seven miles an hour, ninety -four
miles in 100 minutes. The trip will end in
Galveston on the oath inst.
There are eight Mormon missionaries in
the South, and about 700 persons have been
added to the Mormon Church through their
efforts. Chattanooga is their headquarters
and the number of elders working in this re-
gion is increased yearly by from five to fif-
teen. Each elder bears his own expenses.
Barnum, after his acquttal of the charge of
cruelty to children, in having the Elliott FAM
i5 pCIIol oAclcu p<uU u Wctk w JcHhlhSS
Superintendent of the New York Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, If he
would permit him to exhibit him (Jenkins)
through the country as the man who would
prevent children from making an honest
livelihood.
An 1s-year old boy living in Charlotte, N.
G., is being used for heating purposes. His
feet put into a bath tub of ice-cold water will
heat it to the boiling point in less than six
minutes. Not long since while on steam
engine adjusting some portion of the machin-
cry full head of steam was put on and fright
ened him SO that his nervous system has never
regained its equilibrium.
At the election in Athens, Tex, the white
taxpayers favoring the surrender Of the city
charter being in the minority, to succeed,
made combination with the negroes and
elected colored men to the Offices Of Mayor,
Marshal and City Attorney. A full Board Of
Aldermen in favor rofsurrendering of the charter
was chosenfrom among the whites. None of
the latter will qualify and the city will thus
lapse back under the county jurisdiction.