Iron County register., 1883-08-09

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BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events
A CONSOLIDATION of the New Eng
land Telephone Exchanges has been ar
ranged. The Bell Company has majority
of the stock.
THE remains of the late Montgomery
Blair were placed in, the family vault in
Rock Creek Cemetry near " Washington, D.
c., on the 10Th.
In the case of ex-Treasurer Polk, of
Tennessee, the jury found verdict of
guilty and assessed punishment at twenty
years imprisonment.
BETWEEN 1900 and 1900 cases were
made by the police in st. Louis, Mo-, on the
e9th against violators of the Sunday law,
mainly saloon-keepers.
The Treasury Department purchased
40, 600 ounces of silver ON the 26th for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco Mints. a.
ENGLAND has protested against the
return of paupers from New York, who
were on their way to join friends that were
ready to take care of them. .'.t...
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sailed from Liverpool, Eng, for the west
coast of Africa, took three thousand car
bines for Henry NJ. Stanley.
PACKARD, the American Consul at
London, Eng, has appointed a doctor to
inspect the passengers and cargoes of all
vessels bound for the United States.
A AYELLow-FEvER stricken steamship
passed the health authorities at the mouth
of Chesapeake Bay without detection, the
other day, but was quarantined at Balti-
more, Nd.
THE report of the Tuke Committee
shows that in three months o,327 emigrants
were assisted out of Ireland at a cost of
f35, 900. 1t recommends a continuance of
the practice.
AT recent meeting of the South Car
olina Grange, Senator Butler argued that
negro labor grows more worthless each
year; that 20O, 900 black hands can be safely
spared, and that Chinese ought to be i'm
ported to cultivate the cotton-felds.
THE Sioux Indians held their annual
sun dance at Rosebud Agency the other
afternoon, ten thousand being present from
all parts of the reservation. The Govern
ment had given orders to suppress the
barbareus practice, but the agents were
powerless.
AT the national soldiers reunion at
Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th, twenty-five
members of the Fifty-fourth Virginia Reg
iment were entertained by the Third Ohio.
Speeches were made the day before by r.
B. HAYES, Charles Foster and Judges Hoad-
ley and Foraker.
THE cholera cases which had oc-
Cured in England were on the 9th pro-
nounced sporadic, and had no connection
with the epidemic in Egypt. The deaths
at Cairo for the twenty-four hours were
3l1. In the Bombay presidency 1,161 deaths
occurred from cholera the first week in
June.
A STATEMENT of the condition of the
United States Treasury on the 2Sth showed |
gold coin and bullion, S201 $50, ,55T; silver |
dollars and bullion, SILT, ,1S6, ,449; fractional
silver coin, $2S, ,OS2, ,194: United States notes,
$54s, $780, ,372; total, Si0i 81, ,S31; gold, $780,
Al ,030; silver, $13,5S6,341; currency, S12,-
635, 900.
MEMBERS of the Brotherhood of Tel |
egraphers at Washington, d. c., presented
TO the President of the United States a
.'bill of grievances" on the 10Th, setting
forth the great injury resulting to the
national Government from the obstinate
attitude" assumed by the telegraph COM
panies.
THE failures throughout the country
for the seven days ended on the 9th num-
bered $50, as compared with 16S the week
previous. The geographical distribution
was: New England, 81; Middle States, 50;
Western, 81; Southern, %; Pacific States |
and Territories, %; Canada, 81, and New
York City,s. ,
THE Commissioner of Statistics in
Minnesota reports an increase of 146,904
acres in wheat, and predicts crop of at !
least s., ,00O, 900 bushels, as the yield in the
southern counties will more than make up |
for drought in the Red River Valley. The |
Ohio Bbard of Agriculture estimates the |
wheat crop of that State at %, ,S.3 900 bush |
els.
A CABLEGRAM from Alexandria, |
Egypt, on the 30th ult. said an analysis !
had been made of the waters of the river |
Nile, which showed that it was infected
with putrid matter to above the cataracts. |
There were 320 deaths from cholera at
Cairo on the 10Th and 443 at twenty other |
places between Minyeh and the Meditera- |
mean.
THERE were 322 deaths from cholera
at Cairo, Egypt, on the 18th, including
three British soldiers, seventeen at Zifteh, |
seventeen at Barraze, eighty-four at Mehal- |
Ia, eighty-one at Shirbin, forty-six at !
Tantah, fifty-one at Ghizeh, twenty-five at |