Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-03

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Southeasferings.
An adjourned term of Circuit Court will be
held at Perryville on the 18th day Of this
month.
Some Of the farmers in Scott county say
that they have corn almost large enough
to plow.
1t is said the chances are good for a rail.
road running through Van Buren In the
near future.
The Maiden Clipper says wheat in Dunklin
county is looking well and bids fair to yield
abundantly.
Jack snipe are reported to have been very
plentyful in Bois Brule bottom, Perry coun-
ty, this season.
A Pittsburgh gentleman has put hands to
work getting out chalk from q chalk bank
near Commerce.
The Pottery Company at Cape Girardeau
has some experienced hands now ut work
decorating ware.
The Neacs claims that Doniphan has gained
about 450 Inhabitants since the railroad boom
struck that town.
Louis Bean, . Jackson hunter, claims to
have killed twenty three squirrels, the other
day, In three hours.
The next annual session of tho Dent Coun-
ty Sunday School Convention will be held at
Salem on the 18th inst.
A snake measuring more than five feet in
length was killed the other day on farm
six miles from Perryville.
A Benton man announces that he had .
mess of new Irish potatoes the other day,
from q February planting.
A Mississippi county farmer, during hunt
Of two weeks, succeeded In killing two hun
dred Jack snipe this season.
Mr.. Henry Horn has sold his farm, near
this place, to Mrs. Margaret Beard, Of Iron
county, for 81, 4,5O0.-Fasmsngton Times.
On the evening Of the 18th ult. the Freder-
icktown Odd Fellows celebrated the sixty
fourth annivery Of the Fellowship in Amer
lea.
A st. Louis gentleman has fifty acres of
land in Scott county planted in potatoes, and
expects to clear two thousand dollars of the
crop.
A Charleston firm bought and shipped
1900 Jack snipe this season, and received on
an average about seventeen cents each for
them.
The Morley School Board is ready to re-
ceive bids for the erection of school house
40 by 80 feet, to be completed as soon as
possible.
The Record says "Benton needs only three
things to make It q live tOwn-a railroad, d
Court House and term Of Circuit Court
each week."
At the last term Of the Carter County Cir
cult Court over five thousand acres of land
we're sold for taxes, at an average Of two dol
lars per acre.
The Enterprise Messenger says from sll
parts Of Stoddard county come reports Of
good prospects for another abundant yield
of wheat this year.
The Charleston District Conference OF the
NJ. E. Church, South, convened at Freder-
icktown last Thursday. Bishop Hargrove
was present and presided.
On the Goth ult. the Washington County
Circuit Court adjourned over to June Doth,
when one Matthews (colored) will be tried
TOR the murder Of Henry johnson.
The Sandywoods (scott county, farmers |
have about finished planting melons. Not |
half as many acres planted this year as there |
were last. Planting more potatoes.
James A. Lee, a well-known Mississippi !
county farmer, has in his possession forty |
gallon iron kettle and hickory frame chair |
both Of which are over 105 years old.
A bodiless woman has been on exhibition |
1t Cape Girardeau, and the consequence is |
he newspapers Of that place are Dragging
about their having "dime museum"
A meeting Of the regents Of the Normal |
School at Cape Girardeau was held at that |
place last week ito arrange for enlarging the |
building" and to transact other business.
Aiming company has paid 8, 900 for forty
scres Of land in Carter county, mineral hav-
ng been found on the land which, when an
.lyzed, yielded ninety per cent. pure silver.
On Monday Of last week, at the Vale Mine,
n st. Francois county, JEFF. Bunch cut Thos,
Nash with knife, from the effects Of which
he latter died almost Immediately. Bunch
eft at once.
The Marble Hill Herald states that the
crop Of Bollinger county, this
1ear, will be double that Of last year, and
hat about two hundred more acres have
,een planted since last season.
A German Sunday school was organized
It the NJ. E. Church in Pennington last Sum-
lay. Besides the German children all En-
children who wish to learn
aerman have been invited to attend.
Two colored men were arrested in Farm.
ngton last week for stealing wheat. They had
borrowed horse and wagon, while tho own
r Of the same was asleep, and took the stol-
n grain to the mill after dark and sold it.
The proposed knights Of Honor ball at
which was to take place on
he 1st inst, did not come of, as a suitable
al oo,,ld MT ho v,roorrod ood bo ooS< - /,