Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-03
NUMBER AZ
Items of General News.

Items of General News.
Besides the duchy of Cornwall, the Prince
| OF Wales owns real estate valued at SEC, 900
year.
There were 1,1h5 delegates on the hoor Of
the Irish Convention In Philadelphia last
Thursday.
Oscar Wilde IL at work on ive-act drama
for Mary Anderson. entitled, ''The Duchess
OF Padua."
William Pack was given twenty laahes at
Annapolis, MARYLAND, on the 18th ult., for
| whipping his wife.
The Cotton Planters' Association has see
lected New Orleans as the place for the next
Cotton Exposition.
Two men in Whitesides county, ILL.,. have
died from the effects Of handling horses
which had the glanders.
Malone has assessed the officials Of Nor
folk county, Va, two per cent, and there 10 .
prospect for war in the Readjuster camp.
Seats in the Chicago Produce Exchange arc
quoted at 81 900. very large amount of their
business is said to come from New York.
A no-legged man from Cincinnati attempt
ed suicide In Louisville Sunday night of last
week because he could not obtain whiskey.
The dynamite fiends are advised to change
their tactics and try the effects Of q few cans
of shrimps on the crowned heads Of Europe.
It is pleasant to read something to Mrs.
Langtry's credit. She gave five dollars to .
hungry woman In Rochester railroad sta
ton.
Edward King writes that the Parisians be.
lfeve America to be land OF social heresfes,
and that it is not safe guide to follow In any.
thing.
Judge Hoffman, Of the United States Cir.
cult Court at San Francisco, has decided that
gliding the new hve-cent nickel IL counter
feiting.
It is announced that Joseph Mulhattan is
making arrangements 70 ship his great Tex
an meteor to the Southern Exp0siti0n ut
Louisville.
Barnum offered 5000 for the privilege OF
testing the Brooklyn bridge by sending Jum-
DO over 1t when tits opened for traffic. The
offer was refused.
The late English Government paid Oh $90,-
8OO, 900 of the national debt. The present has
paid OF $102 ,5O0, 600, and hopes this year to
pay OF $40, 100000.
'tWhy are those things on your dress called
bugle trimmingsw George wanted to know.
''Oh," Emily replied lightly, "because pa
blows over the bilr."
The diet for British tramps or "casuals''
when locked up over Sunday Is twenty -four
ounces Of bread and one Of cheese. They
pass the day In swearing.
One hundred and twenty -seven coal min
ers failed to answer at roll call after an ex-
plosion In the Bessiges (France) coal mines.
Nine bodies were recovered.
The Marquis Of Lorne was sent to Canada,
where the climate Is too cold for his wife to
live IN, and is now to be sent to India, where
the climate is too hot for her.
E1s~c I;rl-,<o,, %ar,n,,, hx, bor <oc%{,uo,,x
before the "Visiting Statesmen" in New Orr
leans in 1876, has died in the Jail ut Canton,
Miss. She was buried as Q pauper.
The Courier Journal has vastly improved
the worn out verse, 'TwO souls, ," ETC., by con-
verting 1t into ''Two souls without . single
thought-two hearts that thump as one"
Old-fashioned flint-lock shotguns are still
made at Birmingham, England, for use In re-
mote places where, should the ammunition for
patent guns give out, the hunter would be
helpless.
The demand for stuffed and mounted birds
and beasts has increased so largely that the
dermy exhibition on the 9th inst. in New
York city.
The deadly bologna sausage scores victim
In Troy, Pa. The Henser family partoOk Of
the fruit and now mourns the youngest
members. Others of the family narrowly
escaped death.
Lord Wolseley and Lord Clanwilliam are to
the Duke of Edinburgh to the
of the Car. Lord Wolseley II to
william the navy.
near Denver, rises and falls about foot ut
certain fixed intervals with q regular tidal
movement. It Is the only lake In the world
that behaves In this way.
tanner, who was the director Of the Ring
in Vienna, at the time It burned,
and who was convicted of negligence and
to imprisonment, has been par
dOned by the Emperor of Austria.
The New York Jews Of English, French,
Spanish, or Portuguese origin are very few
in number. The majority are German and
Polish. There are families of very high class
Jews Of Spanish and Portuguese stock In the
South.
Some deliver In old newspaper files down in
Maine has discovered that the Widow Ross, Of
Lyman, advertised in the Kennebunk Gazette
If May 8, 1880, for information about her son
Charlie Ross, who had mysteriously disap-
peared.
his brother-in-law three months ago, In
Kansas City, and ever since has been thrown
nto convulsions on sight Of his disagreeable
'elative, whom he firmly believes to be
A reporter who tried to interview Jay
}ould when the latter was last In Texas was
invited into the milliOnaire's palace car, and
tut out ten miles from town on sandy
lain, whence he had to foot his way back
lnder hot sun.
A Pennsylvania protectionist was shocked
vhen he went to church the other day and
eard the minister announce that salvation
vas free. Next day he sat down and wrotet to
is Congressman asking in why the mischief
e allowed it to escape the tariff bill.
A $4,000 BIBLE REWARD.
The publishers of Ratledge,s Monthly Of
er twelve valuable rewards in their Month
Y for May, among which Is the following:
We will give 5000 In gold to the person
eliing us which Is tho shortest chapter inthe