Iron County register., 1883-05-24
Closing of Mails.
LOCAL BREVITIES,

It's the early house-cleaner that catches
the cold.
The weather-vanes still point toward the
north star.
No. was seven hours late last Monday.
A wreck down below.
Gen. Mcclellan passed down the road
Monday, en- route for Mexico.
The bicycle fever is augmenting and sales
OF court-plaster are steadily increasing.
The depot at this place has been repainted
with sand granting outside for the benefit
of whittlers.
lee was frozen In exposed places Monday
night. The frost Tuesday morning looked
like young snow.
Mr.. c. c. Russell had eighty chickens
Matched out last week in his incubator.
Who in Southeast Missouri can beat that?
The rear truck of q freight car on an "ex.
ira" jumped the frog at the depot last We'd
esday night. A few minutes work replac-
ed the car on the track.
A Saturday Evening Assembly at the Acad-
emy Of Music on the 26th. All the "regu-
lars" and their friends are invited. Tickets,
15c for gentleman and lady.
A few fakes of snow fell here last Sunday
about noon, and again Monday morning.
Ice q quarter of an inch thich was formed
Monday night. Fine weather, indeed!
Jno. Blemel, ESQ, who has been attending
bar ut GrandhOmme's saloon, for several
months, left for st. Louis last Thursday,
where he will stop for 4 short time, and then
proceed to his home in Louisville, Ky. John
carries with him the good wishes Of all "the
boys"
Where now are the verdant potato-tops,
the tender bean stalks, the struggling corn
shoots, and yesterdays expectant tomato
Wines? Interrogate ye the cruel blizzard that
2ately did invade our gardens, our Murphy
patches and our fields of Indian maze, but
ask Us not, for we are sick Mt heart.
The Ironton Cornet Ban d has reorganized,
and in q short space will be making Rome
howl with the toOtings Of Impractical per-
formers. '.There's nothing SO sweet I'm life
~ Loves Young Dream" said some old
.codger-but, then. he had never listened to
,the renditions Of country brass band.
The Leader thinks that Piedmont ships
and receives more freight than any other
tween Little Rock and st. Louis. The re-
ceipts for freight at the Pilot Knob depot
Hast year were about $1s0,oOO. Now, Mr..
Leader, give us the figures for your station
Ten or twelve workmen from st. Louis are
now putting the machinery into the new
grist-milI at this place. They will finish the
lob in about thirty days. The three C.'s are
aysilinx themselves of the latest improve
rnents In milling apparatus, and when COM
pleted their mill will be one Of the best in
the State.
The "west end" Of Iron county was visited
last Saturday about noon, by severe hail
storm. The haiistones were large as wal
nuts, In some instances, and even the leaves
of forest trees were stripped from the
branches. Wheat In that section Is not do
ing well, and it Is feared the crop will be a
light one.
The streets Of Ironton are In fair condi-
tion. but they will never be commercially
good until those internal rip-rapped cross
cutters are taken up and culverts substitute
cd. Sancho Panja exclaimed, "Blessed be
the man who invented sleep" No similar
nrayer will ever ascend In behalf Of the per-
son who invented cross-cut rip-raps. They
are unmixed nuisances.
A. Bisplinghoof, Esq, OF Piedmont, was In
Ironton yesterday, and while here made an
examination of the Academy of Music. Mr..
r. owns hall i'm Piedmont, and he intends
tn finish it up so that it will be suitable for
theatrical exhibitions and public entertain
ments. He expressed himself well pleased
with the appointments of the hall at this
place.
A straw cyclone-fortunately, not full
prown-dropped down on Mr.. Lab Dunn's
nremises last Friday night 1t took the roof
off a log stable and deposited 1t in the mid
die of an adjoining field. 1t then picked up
a couple dozen panels Of worm fence which
<ormed the boundaries Of a lane leading to
NJ D.,s house, and sat them together,
h,ockad,ng the road. Mr.. Dunn lives on
u.rb,e Creek, about half mile southeast OF
polk,s Store. The whirlwind was heard and
felt at other points down in that section, but
no serious damage is reported.
Paul Burke-B-u.r-k-e-dlids V. 5. Ma
Iona. alias Paul Davis, was turned adrift
from the jail last Sunday. He had been sent
,,n from ButIer county for safe.keeping, be-
,n. charged with grand larceny, some two
,,,orths since. The late Grand Jury did not
Ana . .tr,e bill" against him, owing to the
.hsenee of the prosecuting witness a-drum-
80 from ST. I,ouis-and when Sheriff Iur-
ner came up after some other prisoners 'ast
sunday, the man of various names was set
free. He talked a good deal about NOT nav.
ing had "purrylimenary examination" out
on the whole we think he was pretty wen
s,,;sfed that his conduct had had no closer
scrutiny.
TO the child has cough give him SMITHS
IN suxwEFp SYRUP, and see how
80 to will become. Price, p and 30 cts.