Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-08-09
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rs 1eSleS, OF This county, wa
shot in the shoulder by woman
at or near Novia Scotia not long since
"Pegleg," should RENE nlber the adage
Never fool with the opinion of a wasp
or the business end OF a woman."-
Centreuille Outlook.
The improvements at the Magnetic
Spring are still going on, and the
prospects for a flourishing city are get
ting brighter every day, A fountain
seat for the invalid is. assured in Perry
county, as the water from the Mag
netic Spring has wrought wonderful
cures.-Pcrryuille Sun.
On the eth, two horses and one
mule belonging to q Mr.. Beck, living
near Pennington, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed. The ami
mails were standing under tree, which
was struck, the fluid running down
the tree to the animals, with the above
result.-Bonne Terre Reporter.
ave understand" says the Benton
Record, "that 500 was refused for a
carload of cantaloupes, loaded at Nor
ley, first of the week." The car con-
tained about 900 of these melons. The
ruling prices for watermelons at Nor
ley and Blodgett last week were from
500 to $3.50 per car load, on the track. |
Mr.. ]. ii. Wright informs US that he |
discovered two chickens, apparently |
about two weeks old, with quail on
his farm this week. He says the chick
ems were wild and acted when discoy-
cred just az though they were young
Iuails. He thinks that perhaps the
bird had STRAIGHTFORWARD Vi,ada-
Gator.
We haven't had funeral for more
than month in this city. The last
man that died here was nearly hun
<lred years old, and was born in Africa,
which fact accounts for his dying so
young. Cape Girardeau is so healthy
that natural born citizen rarely ever :;
dies under one hundred years of age !
Democrat. |,
a party of gentlemen of Jackson and l
vicinity are making arrangements to
get from twenty-five to fifty German II
families from New York to move to f
this locality for farm laborers and house f'
servants. We may expect soon to see u
an influx of emigants to this vicinity,
as well as to the county at large y
Cash Book. "
We have it, from a reliable source, Sc
that the Nova Scotia Iron Company ii
has recently made arrangements for w
the accommodation Of 800 laborers c.
along the proposed line of the branch =
road from Salem to the Company'sj
furnace in the extreme southeast cor
ner Of Dent county. Work will soon n
be commenced.-Eminence Argus. Hi
The Internal Revenue Office at this
place was turned over on the 1st Inst.
to Mr.. Sturgeon, of st. Louis District, nc
which now includes the counties here in,
tofore embraced in this district. We col
that Major Carol, who has to
80 long held the office here, will be Mr.
chief deputy, with head IN
quarters at this place.-Cape Girar- en-
leau Courier. No,
On Monday evening last Joseph a
Jones, a chicken buyer, fed three car frs
oada of chicka ans nj tho cb.r,.s,o,, do 9th
,ot. Hepurchased them in Ripley cour- \
y, No., and was shipping them to New
Orleans, La. Jones' man Friday" in an
ormed us that they had bought and :
hipped Is car loads of chickens from
he swamp counties during the past
TX weeks.-Charieston Enterprise.
Among crowd of gay young boys
md girls, last Sunday evening, there
vas couple which undertook to buggy
ide with wild horse. The horse ran
way and turned the buggy over. The mi
Dung lady lost oneof her slippers, and IN
he young man rared. The next day he NJ
rent back with q wagon and team after %
he slipper, and found that some young Al
len had gone fishing in it.-Doniphan
1e,0s.
The baseball fever has struck Ben WIZ
IN with all it's force. The old. the
Dung, and even the "kidsn are at %,
tackled by 1t; it has got such hold high
4 the town that there has been or
anised an Old Mems Club, a Young sh
'en's Club, and Youths Club, since 90
lnday morning, and, we suppose, the az
a broom handles the ONLY s
nd of club they know anything Shell
'out.-Record. 10 M
The millwrights employed at Belken Sal
Murray's mill have completed the Au