Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-01-18
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A railway repair shop is to be fitted up a
Cape Girardeau.
A new lead discovery has just been mad
ON tract of land eight miles from Potosi.
The Harrington Post Office is to be mad
. foreign money -order office about April Is,
j A colored woman in Ste. Genevieve count
has given birth to triplets-two boys and on
girl.
During the year 1882 the Recorder of Mad
icon county issued only ninety marriage Ii
censes.
4 pig less than eight months old was killet
ut Hillsboro recently which weighed Il;
pounds net.
Three hogs killed in Crawford count,
the other day weighed respectively Alp, Il!
and 416 pounds.
C.F. Fulenwider, Of Cape Girardeau coun.
ty, sold thirteen mules last week at an aver.
age of $40 each.
The well-known race mare, "Sallie Gun.
ningham," belonging to Mr.. Chas. Burks, OF
Pennington, is dead.
Mr.. A. s. Cuker, Of Cape Girardeau, has
position on the Secretary of the Senate's
staff at Jefferson City.
The whistle Of the locomotive is now heard
in West Plains, and trains will be passing
through the town soon.
4 Kansas man has purchased forty acres
Of land lying near Cuba, Crawford county,
paving $3.50 for the same.
The Bloomfield FIndicator learns that the
railroad from Dexter south, through Dunk
lin county, is being surveyed.
Preparations are being made at Dexter for
the building of grain warehouse. Size, 40
by so feet; capacity, 40 car loads.
Poplar Bluff got no mail from Cairo last
week, all transportation on the river having
been stopped on account of the ice.
A Washington county man, while ont hunt
ing stock on Clear creek, last week, was
nearly scared to death by panther.
The other morning one of the teachers of
the Jackson school "dusted the jackets" of
thirteen boys for some misdemeanor.
Arrangements have been made by the pro-
prietors of Ferguson Hall, Poplar Bluff, for
giving masquerade ball on Feb. 14sh.
"Uncle George" Murphy, who was born in
the neighborhood of where Pennington now
stands, died at that place week before last,
aged about 20 years.
1t is said that the shop buildings, sheds,
&C., of the railroad company at Carondelet
are being torn down, and that they are to be
removed to De Soto.
The New Madrid Record says the ware
houses at Point Pleasant are full of corn and
the gins filed with cotton, and the merchants
are all in good humor.
The total output of dressed delivered ore
from the Cornwall Copper Mines, in Ste. Gen
evieve county, TO the furnace for the last
eight months, was 1874, es7 pounds.
Capt. E. +. Hynes, of West Plains, who Il
now in Ohio, writes that several families from
that State will come with him, when he re-
turns home, to settle in Howell county.
The Cra,cford Sentinel says: .'The High
land Mining Co. has purchased the Christy
iron bank near the Washington county line,
and will proceed at once to developing it."
Week before last the Grand Jury at Jack
son returned twenty-five bills of indictment.
The cases will be tried at the May term of
the Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court.
The Recorders records of Madison county
show that during the past year there were
TWO hundred and three transfers Of real es-
tate situated within the borders of that
county.
The WatchmGa warns the bad people of
De Soto thusly: every other stick of wood
n our wood-shed is loaded with dynamite.
Parties using from if should be careful in
Fred Warner, who is suspected OF being
he murderer of VIM. Kingston. of Dunkiin |
county. has been arrested at Greenyile, Miss, !
md :. rcslui>ion has been issued for him by |
he Governor.
The Van Buren, Times SAYS: "There is a |
lotcJ plsce just north of town, on Current |
liver, known as 'Shoat Hole The bluff just |
hove has history, and its picturesque |
eenery is boundlesS."
The Directors of the Midland Blast Fur
lace, of Crawford county, viii meet in 81
.ouis OH thea1th to consider the proposition
4 increasing the stock of the corporation
rom 200 to $4,000.
According to the Citizen, Miss Theresa
,egiey, of Iroutou, who went down to Pop
n BluI the other week. will remain there
urin- the winter, and will assist her brother
;eorge In his hardware store.
At about 1880 o'clock in the morning of
he 18th many of the citizens of Cape Girar-
eau were arounsed from their slulnl,ers by
that proved TO be the hardest earthquake
hocs ever fe.s In that section.
4 large quantity of the granite trimmings
e>igDed for the Cincinnati museum have
cen finished at the Knob Lick quarrics, in
Iatii-ou county. and their shipment corr
the PgaiW'es,ler informs Vs.
+ ST TIoui, lady i hssipg GO acres Of land
. Washington county inciosed with sraTicd
ire fence. for the purpo>e nf raising sheep
contract has been Iss for the building Of Il
anisomc residence on the land. to cost over
200.
AT Cape Girardeau last week the discharged
T,yfs,G then, selves with