Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-04

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BY ELI .. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
news and NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
LIEUT.. HARDER had reached Va
koutsk few days since with the bodies OF
De Long and his crew.
= BIsHoP BENsON's acceptance of the
= Archbishopric OF Canterbury was officially
announced few days ago.
CITIZENS Of New York have recently
contributed $62. 900 to erect a pedestal for
the Bartholdi statue Of Liberty. -a
THE Treasury Cattle Commission the
other day leased a tract Of forty acres at
Passaic, New jersey, for station.
NJ. De LEssEPs recently announced a
scheme for the creation of an inland sea in
Africa, to be prosecuted BY private enter
prise. Hfs
THE death of Rear-Admiral James
F. Schenck was announced at Dayton, o. i,
the other day. He was brother of Gen.
r. C. Schenck. ~as & Has
FoREFATHERs' DAY December 22)
IL . general holiday at Plymouth, Mass. and
was .ushered in by display of flags, salutes
and ringing Of bells. .~s. q.
THE historian George Bancroft re-
Gently founded scholarship in the college
at Worcester. Mass, to perpetuate the
memory Of his parents.
SAMUEL L. BRYAN, late chief of the
Japanese postal system, the other day re-
turned to Washington, where he was for
merly department clerk. .
THE Denver & Rio Grande Road had
recently pushed its Utah extension to the
western line of Colorado, and expected to
reach Salt Lake by February Is. H''
JOHN r. BUEcHrEL, of Akron, O.,
the other day sold $500, 200 stock in the
Buckeye Works, in order to make an addi-
tional gift of $100, 200 to Buechtel College, in
that town.
THE following failures occurred in
New York recently: Theodore Weston,
$s,125; Jos. II. Adams & Son, liabilities
$105, 643, actual assets $21, $40.
HENRY JAMES, SR., the philosopher
and metaphysician, an associate of Greeley,
Emerson and Tholeau on this side Of the
Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson
on the other, died a few days since.
A FEW days ago, letter was received
at the Washington Post-ofice marked
"Wiltshire, O., Dec. IL, 1882" and ad-
dressed TO Senator Oliver P. Morton, who
has been dead somewhat more than five
years.
TRENoR w. PARK, native of Ver-
mont, well known throughout the United
States as q brilliant financier, died on
steamship bound for Aspinwall a few days
ago. He was President Of the Panama
Railroad Company.
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THE naval hospital at Portsmouth,
Eng, was visited the other day by Queen
Victoria, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke
and Duchess of Edinburgh, who conferred
decorations on q number of convalescent
patients of the Egyptian campaign.
AFTER seven months survey of the
southern coast of Alaska, the United States
coast survey steamer Bassler returned to
San Francisco, CAL, few days ago. They
discovered several excellent harbors. The
officers spoke enthusiastically of the timber
resources of the region visited.
THE State Department at Washing
ton was recently officially notified that the
Mexican Government had decided to ap-
point commissioners to meet commissioners
of the United States for the purpose of me-
gotiating commercial treaty between the
two countries. As one of such commits
sioners the President of Mexico has selected
Romero, Mexican Minister to the United
States.
In his speech at Northampton,
Eng, the other evening Davitt summed up
the present condition of Ireland as one Of
famine and discomfort. He considered the
prevailing distress to be owing to an unjust
system of land laws, rack rent and discour.
agement in every form. The remedy con-
sisted In the turning of q great part of the
grass lands into cultivation and the intro.
duction of system of loans to oppressed
tenants in order to enable them to tide over
the coming winter. t.
In the action of the Government
against three packages of distilled spirits,
which had been originally properly stamped,
but afterward, when part had been drawn
off and water added to the packages. siezed
by the Government as not of the proof in.
Dictated by the stamp. Judge Brown, at New
York the other day held that the mere addi.
ton of water is not a fraud. The sugges.