Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-09-06

gron County geeister
BY ELI D. AXE.
IRONTON, MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important ETents.
TIE Count de Chambord died the
morning of the oath.
AMONG the legacies left by Count de
Chambord was large one to the Pope.
THE Car and Czarina of Russia are
expected to visit the royal family of Dem
mark in a short time.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE will with
draw from the Conservative leadership in
the British Parliament. 90 -.....s.. 90
THE first appointment under the new
Civil-Service law was made on the 18th. A
lady was the lucky person. '.'
A GARFIELD monument was dedi-
Gated on the 9th in San Francisco by the
Grand Encampment, Knights Templar.
MORE troops and more gunboats are
needed by the French in Tonquin, the Black
Flags having been reinforced from Yum
Nan. .....
THE sale of small annuities to poor
people and the establishment of postal
savings banks were advocated before the
Senate Labor Committee on the 23d.
THE plans have been completed for
the proposed new silver vaults under the
cash room of the Treasury Department.
The storage capacity of the vault will be
$4,000, 900 silver dollars.
A VICTORIA, (B. CO. dispatch of the
25th says that, subject to the sanction of
Parliament, all matters in dispute between
the Dominion and British Columbia have
been satisfactorily adjusted.
A GRAND fete under the auspices of
the press of Paris was given at the Tuiller-
les Gardens on the evening of the 9th, the
proceeds of which $500, 900 francs) were to
be devoted to the relief of the sufferers at
Ischia.
ADvICEs from Melbourne, Aus, of
the sd say that ten colonies have accepted
an invitation to attend conference there
shortly to discuss the question of the an
nexation of New Guinea and other islands
in the Pacific.
TIN, An,a,-inon Rar Association halI
its closing session on the 9th at Saratoga,
n. Y. A resolution was adopted extending
a most cordial welcome to Lord Chief |
Justice Coleridge, of England, who had just
arrived in this country.
IT was reported on the Goth that
Henry NJ. Stanley had closed the Upper
Congo to commerce. The King of Dahonly
had liberated the garrison of Portuguese at
Fort Whydah on condition that the place
should not be coded to England.
QUEEN VICTORIA insisted on having
the Parliamentary session brought to a I
close on the 18th, because she desired to go
to Balmoral without delay. The ceremony
of the dedication of the cairn to John
Brown was fixed for September 1.
The Irish National League of Great |
Britain will hold convention the 9th of
September. A programme has been re-
solved upon, the principal features of which |
are self-goverrment for Ireland and direct |
of the laboring class in Par !
Lament.
The Madrid Impartial of the Esd |
says the Spanish Government, after the
recent rising, informed its representatives |
abroad that friendly request would be
made that France comply with tie interna-
tional law and expel the reputed author of
the outbreak.
VIENNA dispatches say the amount OF
wheat available for export is estimated |
at $500, 900 meter centals; of barley, 3,00O,- |
600 meter centals. 1t is expected that no |
rye or oats will be available for export. |
The Hungarian wheat crop is estimated at
a full average.
EARL SPENCER. the Lord Lieutenant.
speaking in Cork on the evening of the I'D
said that he trusted the days of bitterness
and crime and agitation in Ireland were
past, and that the country could look for
ward to practical measures in politics and
in the land.
HANLAN, the oarsman, returned to
Ont, on the 9th, where he in
tended to rest a few days pending the
Carlton Place regatta on September 6,
whence he goes to Cincinnati. He would go
to Australia to row Laycock if reasonable
expenses were allowed.
IT is announced from Washington
that until the President returns and pro-
mulgates the new rules governing examin-
atoms for promotions, appointments from
The ranks of those who have passed the
Civil Service Commissions examinations
must be only to the lower grades.
P. CALLAN, member of the British
has three challenges to dueis
on his hands. He expressed determine
tion to settle with his fists all disputes with