Iron County register., 1883-09-27

1RONION, MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The American Rapid Telegraph Com
pany's lines are to be extended to the
Southwest.
PROFESSOR SWIFT, of the Warner OBJ
servatory, discovered new comet on the
night of the 10th.
THE Democratic State Convention of
New Jersey nominated Leon Abbott for
Governor on the 18th.
FATHER PATRICK RIORDAN was con-
secrated Coadjutor Bishop of San Francisco
in Chicago on the 18th.
THE receipts of the Patent Office for
the fiscal year were 81 ,095, 1884, being $685.
SS9 more than last year.
The ST. Petersburg journal recently
intimated that the peace of Europe was
threatened by Bulgarian politics.
The New Hampshire Legislature re-
Gently closed a session 102 working days in
length, and it took 100000 to pay the bills.
THE Dakota Constitutional Conven-
tion voted on the 14th, 64 to SO, against in
serting prohibitory clause in the consti-
tuition.
ADMIRAL SIR RICHARD COLLINsON,
who commanded the expedition which went
in search of Sir John Franklin in 1880, died
on the 18th.
THE Greeley relief expedition has al
ready cost the Government 100000, aside
from what will be claimed for the loss of
the Proteus.
DIR. STINTzING, the eminent Profes-
sor of Jurisprudence in the University of
Bonn, was killed recently while climbing
the Swiss Alps.
AT Yankton Judge Edgarton re-
Gently decided that the Dakota Capitol
Commission was an Illegal body. The
decision Gusts them.
The Post-office Department had or
dered 81, ,s79, 900 two-cent stamps and 7,131,-
900 stamped envelopes for, delivery-the
largest order ever made.
The Ohio convention to choose dele
gates to the Louisville Colored Convention
had been postponed to the Goth. The Mary
land colored voters will send delegation.
THE story that the differences be-
tween China and France might be submit
ted to the joint mediation of England and
America is said to be absolutely un-
founded.
COMMANDER GREEN, commanding
the U. S. steamer Dispatch, now at New
York, received orders on the 18th to place
that vessel at the disposal of the Corean
embassy.
The steamer Athenian, with O'Don-
nell, the murderer of Carey, on board, ar
rived off Plymouth on the 18th. A force of
detectives left on the tender to board the
Athenian.
THE Congress of Commerce and
Industry at Amsterdam adopted a resolu-
tion recommending the adoption of a BIZ
metallic monetary standard throughout
Europe and America.
MINT DIRECTOR BURCHARD has col
lected the material for the forthcoming
report on the production of precious
metals. He anticipates decrease in gold
and an increase of silver.
THE White Lily is the name of a
secret society which is fomenting revolu-
tion against the Chinese government on
the Yang Use Kiang River, much after the
fashion of the Black Flags in Anam.
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LIEUTENANT DANENHOwER, formerly
of the Jeanette, and Mr.. Tyson, formerly
of the Polaris, had expressed their willing
ness to take part in another Arctic expedi-
tion for the relief of Lieut.. Greeley.
THE Boston Board of Health is giving
especial attention to measles. 1t insists on
the same regulations for isolation of cases.
disinfection of apartments, ETC., that are
ordinarily enforced in cases of smallpox.
FRENCH operations in Tonquin are
suspended until the arrival of reinforce
ments. The blockade is confined to search.
ing vessels for articles contraband of war.
The French government has withdrawn its
order to English builders for river gun
boats.
A BOTTLE was picked up on the 18th
at the Charleston Is. c. quarantine sta
tion, containing a slip of paper which,
Catherine, from New York for Jackson
Vile, Fla, was sinking off Hatteras, with a
crew of nine persons.
POSTMASTER GENERAL GRESHAM is
sued an order on the 14th extending and
confirming that issued by his predecessor,
prohibiting the postmasters at New York
City and New Orleans from paying money
orders and delivering registered letters to
the managers of the New Orleans Lottery
Company.
The members of Apollo Comman-
dery, Knights Templar, reached home in
Chicago on the 18th, from their European
tour, and were received at the depot by
members Of the Commandery who did not
make the journey and by sister Comman-
deries. An address of welcome and
responses were delivered at the Asylum.