Iron County register., 1883-05-24

Soaaheasterings.
A msn in Mississippi county recently go
twelve minks out Of one log.
The Grand Jury In Butter county last weei
found twenty-seven indictments.
Drs. Van Meter, Van Quest and Van CIevs
are leading physicians At Maiden.
Several dens Of young red foxes have beer
captured In Scott county recently.
Town Council of Sikeston has had two hun.
dred shade trees set out along the streets OF
that town.
In some of the orchards In Scott county the
trees are being stripped Of their leaves by
caterpillars.
On the second Tuesday in July next the
people of Charleston will vote upon the hog
law question.
Mr.. James d. Grea>on,a former resident of
this neighborhood, has been made City Clerk
Of Poplar Bluff.
The members of the Dexter School Board
are talking of building brick school house
80 by 50 feet and stories high.
The citizens of Charleston are being fur
nished by the city with lumber to build side
walks at wholesale cost price.
The Salem Democrat says the two planning
mills ut that town are kept constantly busy
filling orders for dressed lumber.
A ,chite squirrel hawk has been killed in
Ste. Genevieve county, which measured fifty
two inches from tip to tip of wings.
Mr.. F. d. Waters, station agent at Kimms-
wick since 1867, was unceremoniously bounce
ed the other day. Cause unknown.
d. l.. Glaves and Fayette Nifong, with
seventeen drivers, left Madison county last
week for the West with / 200 head Of cattle.
A fine Durham COW in Mississippi county
on May I'd gave birth to calf which, when
picked up four hours ole, weighed 12O pounds.
Elisha Goodin, aged 10, and Mrs. John
aged IS or 40, and husband living
all Of Stoddard county-elopei on the 7th
inst.
At Oran, Scott county, on the night of the
llth inst, Alfred II. O'Donoghue, Of Cape
committed suicide by taking
poison.
The Alton Soush Missoss,iaa ssys: "Men,
women and children enjoyed the sport At the
pigeon nest; they turned out by the hun.
dreds.n
The roof Of the Salem Court House has
been repaired. and = contract for rcpainting
awarded.
The other day Cairo man bought thirty.
Eve dozen pairs Of frogs legs from New Mad.
rid boys and 'sports," " paying 81. .ooper dozen
for same.
A Mississippi county farmer realized, last
year, 1000 Oh Of Ave and one half acres Of
potatoes, and $3.50 OF Of six and one half acres
pf onions.
Two Bloomfield ladies are experimenting
with silk worms. Both together have 1900
worms that have gone through the second
Benton Is to have . court house, and that
settles the county seat question which has
been agitating the people Of Scott county for
some time.
In the Circuit Court at Poplar Bluff, last
week, Judge Emerson gotta Judgment against
Butler county for 81 ,6Sl.4 on suit on coun-
~ warrants.
Thirty-five acres near Crystal City have
been laid OF into town lots. The new town
IS called Derby City. Forty-two lots have
slready been sold.
The telegraph line along the Doniphan
Branch railroad will be finished by the end
q now In progress.
Week before last, the pigeon men I'm Oregon
county paid out 1900 In one day ut the nests,
md Tom RoIin and family made $40 in three
lays catching squads.
Two New Madrid men, on their return
rom u hunt, reported that they had killed 4
.oOsc and lot of frogs, and found bear's
len and an eagles nest.
After July LIST keepers of dramshops in
Charleston will have to pay 81 $50 per year for
for State, 500 for county and
4 900 for city purposes.
The Ministerial Association will hold a
at the ". f. Church i'm Farming
on on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, |
fay 29th, 30th and 3lst.
JEFF Bunch, the man who killed Thomas |
fash ut valle Mines, in st. Francois county, |
everal weeks ago, was captured in Missis-
Ippi county the other day.
The New Madrid Record man was shown /
sst week three matured heads of wheat-a
ample of twelve acres of that cereal grown
y farmer In that county.
The County Court Of Mississippi county
rders ''thst the sum Of 500 he paid any
erson arresting any one guilty Of murder,
, be paid upon conviction"
The Brown farm, situated four miles be.
~ Van Buren, Il II reported, has been pur.
,ased BY . railroad company. 81, 900 being
le price said 70 have been paid for same.
In Shannon county, the other sunday. Mr..
Imes Mshan, aged q, was married to Mrs.
argaret Arthur, aged 10. This is James's
ird wife snd Margaret's fourth husband.
t1.n n1os.efo0 In TIE vfpr S,ssey thYpo vryfsz