Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-02-22
Items OF News.


a fashionable sport in various parts O.
Illinois.
General Fitzhugh Lee has leased
his Potomac shooting grounds to New
York parties.
Charles Kee, the most intelligent
Chinaman in Chicago, denies that his
people eats rats.
Near the old Gordon stockade al
Deadwood, blocks of mica eight feet
long by three feet wide have been
found.
Three Americans quite famous for
their love of corn bread were George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln and
Robert E. Lee.
In drilling for an artesian we'll at
Chesterfield, Iowa, q stream Of a milky
substance was struck, which is believed
to be magnesia.
Captain Shaw, the Chief of the Ion
don Fire Brigade, has sent to Chicago
for some of the fire appliances that
he saw in that city.
Soap bubbles can be blown to size
of two feet in diameter and kept two
days by using a preparation of oleate
of soda and glycerine.
DIR. Jennie McGowen, a noted wom-
an physician of Davenport. has been
elected President of the Scott County,
Iowa, Medical Society.
The Rev. G.. T. Stewart, of Brazil,
Indiana, received one hundred dollars
the other day for marrying a couple,
years ago, when they were too poor to
pay him.
A man who was burned in effigy
two years ago, at Quincy, ILL.,. has just
found out who melted the demOnstra-
ton, and commenced a suit against him
for $40, 900 damages.
Miss Jennie Thomson, of Union
county. Georgia, has hair five feet
eight inches long and black as the raw
ems wing, while she is only five feet
high and Is years old.
The Rev. Russell Jennings, aged so,
of Chester, Connecticut, recently took
q bride of rs, SIGNALLING the event by
giving S35, 900 in shares of $1,000 to
seven Baptist Churches in the vicin-
ity.
The offer of a Boston merchant to
build coasting track on the Common,
after the Russian fashion, was regarded
As generous act, until the thing was
lettered with an adver-
.isement.
Eighty thousand packages of tea
we're refused landing in England un-
Ter the Adulteration act during 1881
and 1882, and it is said much of it
ound it's way into the gift" tea stores
If the United States.
Arthur Bryant, brother of Will
am Cullen Bryant, died on the night
If the 18th, at Princeton, Illinois. |
John H. Bryant, also of Princeton,
himself poet of some reputation, is
low the only surviving brother of this
amous family.
One physician at Urbana, Ohio, said
hat another had killed a smallpox
,atient by mistaking the disease for
The retort was that the first
.ccuser had caused death by some
hing worse than blunder. Suits for
Iamage are in progress.
In response to petition signed by
90 boys and girls asking that certain
treets be set aside for coasting purpos-
8, the Common Council of Burlington,
owa. held special session and unan-
directed the Mayor to carry out
he wishes of the young folks.
The ranch of the Pawnee Valley
took Breeders Association is now con-
idered the finest in Kansas. They
wn 200 acres, of which 100 are
re fenced, and have five miles frontage
n the Pawnee and two miles on the
'ort Larned Military Reservation.
The scheme OF retaining land by
ling in the Back Bay of Boston has
roved a profitable enterprise for the
tate. The receipts from the sale of lots
mount to 81. list 900, and the outlay
as been only $I,640, 900. Besides this
rofit, fifty acres have been added to /:
ne deep-water area of the harbor. s
A Washington Territory official says
nat there are four pursuits which |
IAN can follow in the Northwest with {
lore show of success than elsewhere, !
IT,, wheat raising, mining, numbering
nd fishing. The wheat belt extending T
ON Boise, Idaho, to Walla Walla, w. c
:, contains $4,000, 600 acres of land.
A mass of heavy logs broke loose in
ing, steep rollway in Wisconsin while
man was standing in such position
lat his escape from the track of the
OGDEN avalanche was impossible. In
,sn.ration he fell flat between tive