Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-19

o have sold its 5000, O0O-acre land grant to
English capitalists for $l0,o00,OO0.
! JOHN W. Dorsey was on the stand in
the star-route trial at Washington on the
9TH. His cross-examination was con-
cluded.
The Canadian Government has re-
fused the request of the American Distil-
lers' Association for the revision of the du-
ties ON American whisky. ..
IT is reported from London, Eng,
that it is probable two judges will accom-
pany. Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge on the
latter's forthcoming visit to this country.
JUDGE MCCRARY, of the United States
Circuit Court, in session at st. Louis, Mo-,
rules that in criminal cases dispositions may
be taken outside the State in which the trial
is had. s.. - r.s;,t. .,.sf ..-...f .....r.r
UPoN the arrival of President Ar
thur and party at Jacksonville, Fla, the
other day they We're received by a salute
of artillery and the cheers Of ten thousand
citizens. ....- s.f ,'.-'-'. y
A CABLE message announces the dis
covery of Darrest's comet by G. D. Hars-
wig, of Strasburg Observatory. The pre-
dicted time of the discovery was about
April %. -... ...
PRESIDENT ARTHUR, Secretary Chand-
Ter and Mr.. Miller, of New York, accompa-
MED by several newspaper correspondents,
left Washington ON the 9th for Jackson
vile, Fla. s.., -r..-.... ...r.
A CINCINNATI CO., Judge has de-
cided that the telegraph company is justi-
fled in withholding from bucket-shops the
market reports ,on the ground that they are
used to decide wagers.
THE death of Brigadier-General
Joseph K. Barnes (retired), late Surgeon
General of the United States Army, &C.
CURED at his residence in Washington on
the 9TH, of Bright's disease.
MICHAEL DAvITT has written Wig
orous letter to the Young Ireland Society of
Glasgow, in which he says the dynamite
policy can only have the effect of exasper-
ating the English Democracy.
THE largest order for envelopes and
wrappers ever received at the Post-office
Department was received on the 9th. 1t
was for 3,SS0, 900, and brought gross reve-
nue. to the Government of $50, S32.46.
BISMARCK, replying to a congratula-
ton from the Crown Prince of Germany on
the occasion of his birthday, declared that
he intended to devote the remainder of his
life to consolidating the finances of the En-
pire.
IT was. reported from Des Moines,
Iowa, the other day that the horses were
suffering in few localities in that State
from pink-eye, CHAMBERS and kind of ller-
vouS disease termed by some spinal menin-
gifts.
The United States Supreme Court
has decided that claims of the United States
against an insolvent national bank are not
entitled to priority of payment out of its
assets, as compared with claims of other
parties.
THE Free-pass bill, passed by the
Pennsylvania Senate on the 4th, prohibits
the issue of free passes by railroads to
any one except officers and employees, and
a violation subjects the offender to a fine or
imprisonment. .t.
> IT was said recently that the threats
of Nihilists would probably result in post
ponement of the Russian Cars coronation,
the police believing that Alexander III.
would never be crowned unless he con-
coded Constitution.
THE verdict of the CorOner'S jury in
the case of the Brentwood 0ll.) mine disas-
ter exonerates the managers of the mine
from blame, and asserts that the accident
was such might happen at any mine
under similar circumstances"
THE English police were busily at
work running down the dynamite plots on
the 9th. The four prisoners had prelim-
mary examination the day before and We're
remanded without bail. A bill was to be
introduced amending the law in regard to
the possession of explosives. r
DURING the session of the Mormon
Reunion Conference at Kirkland, o., on the
9th, Bishop John Taylor, of London, Eng,
made a report of the work of the Church in
England, Wales and the continent of Eu-
rope, which showed about 5000 members of
the reorganized Church of Latter-day Saints
in Europe and 1000 in England and Wales.
BERNARD GALLAGHER. an Irish
American, has been arrested in Glasgow,
Scotland, charged with causing an ex-
plosion at the gas-wOrks. The British poilce
were hunting evidence against the dyna-
mite operators on the Sth. More arrestswe
being made. At Birmingham and Man.
chester threats had been made to blow up
public buildings, and the excitement
seemed to grow rather than to abate.
PETER COOPER, the founder of Cooper
Institute and the promoter of many other
benefactions, died in New York on the 4th,
having completed his ninety year
less than two months since. Entering man.
hood as mechanic, his inventions and in
dustry proved mine of wealth to him,
and at the time of his death, although he
had given millions for the good of his race,
he was possessed of about S9,o00,000. Mr..
Cooper was the candidate of the Greenback-
National party for the presidency in 1876.
In England vigorous measures against