Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-14
LOCAL BREVITIES.

"A iSiS &c anu CuOlce lot Oi DOA anu cOI1i(
valentines at Mrs. Davis Book and News
Store.
The st. Louis Ore and Steel Company
comes out with new ad. this week. Read
1t, and profit thereby.
Several articles-editorial and CORES
pondence-are crowded out of this issue.
Patienza! they will appear.
The Young Ladies of Ironton will give a
LeapYear Ball Monday evening, 25th inst.
Invitations will be issued this week.
Is the rainy season of 1884, then, to be in
terminable! The creeks are full, the ground
is soaked, and the roads are simply horrible.
The baggage-smasher here got rip at
thirty pieces of baggage last Sunday. They
came with the Williams Dramatic Company.
Rev. Riese, of Poplar Bluff, filed the pull
pit in the Presbyterian church last Sunday
Mr.. Wright suffering from temporary ILL
ness.
Physicians and surgeons who have receiv-
ed their certificates from the State Board of
Health are required to have them recorded
in the County Clerks office.
Louis Cashmere, = resident of good, old
Ste. Genevieve, was made happy with twins
presented him by his better half, last Sunday
night but one. Louis, in the roll of hus-
bandry, must be "all wool and yard wide"
Jas. Buford, Esq, spent goodly portion
of last week in the southern end OF the
county. He says he has strengthened out
everything" This has no reference to pol
itics, but to business and other private mat
tiers.
The county court at its December adjourn
ed term made an order directing the Sheriff
to offer for sale, at the April term of the cir
cult court, all the school lands not hereto
fore sold in section 16, Township 30, Range 4
East.
Washouts are reported on the railroad at
Sabula and on Black river, and no trains
passed here either way last night. Even
the Accommodation did not run. There
must be something wrong between here
and st. Louis.
An interesting letter on the railroad land
grant question appears in this issue. AS 1t
touches a matter of general Importance, we
direct special attention to it, and invite |
further correspondence from those who are
conversant with the subject.
Miss Kate De Lancy now stopping at the |
American Hotel, is canvassing for several
popular and meritorious works-some of |
them enriched by Dore's pencil. The pri-
ces asked are reasonable, and we commend
her to the people Of the Valley.
There was a snipe hunting soiree near
town one night last week. 1t was a gentle
man of color who held the sack. Two or
three nights previous, the seamless" re-
ceptacle was given in charge of young gen
tleman from the East. More as this we will
not tell.
At this writing-Tuesday morning-the
heavens are opened and the rain falls in tor
rents. 1t began about midnight, and, with
the ground already soaked until it could
absorb ne more, the whole volume has gone
into the streams, so that we have no creeks,
brooks or rivulets in the Valley-they are all
raging rivers. Wagon communication is
cut off from Arcadia, and foot passengers are
few and far between.
Last wednesday night a severe shock of
earthquake startled a prominent business
man of Ironton out of a sound sleep, and so
the drowsy god for the remainder of the
night. No other person, SO far as we can ,
learn, heard or felt the shock; but the gen.
tlemen in question is in earnest and is truth
rul. All our people, however, are of clear $
conscience and sleep soundly. i
The Young Ladies' 'tHome and Foreign Il
Missionary Society" of the First Presbyteri-
IN Church, of Ironton, have just completed
md shipped a box of household articles, VAL
ned at $35, to the Park College "Home, ;" for
homeless and frieI dless young men and
women who are striving for thorough ed +
Ication and be better fit for usefulness. 1t 9
Ioes seem that this is indeed the Lords i,
work, and our Society has never engaged in +
my attempt for the Master, with more zest a
md energy, than this. +
Some folks from Ironton took a two horse s
ig and started out to dance on the Lott b
arm last Saturday night. They knew the o
Erection, but evidently were not well ac- "
Iuainted with the locality; for when, within n
bout two hundred yards of the farmhouse Il
heir vehicle broke down, they became dis Il
outraged and returned to town: some on t,
DOT and some on horseback. They rode and W
u
4 their proximity to the dwelling may not S,
re told but understood. s.
The rate of taxation in the Ironton School ="
District for 1883, including State, County u
nd School Tax, was $1.40 on the one hum
red dollars valuation. II the revenue de- 5;
wed from Dramshops under the Downing n
Ugh license law continues to pour into the C
,ouptv Treasury IN the future As it has i'm W
he last six months, we are informed the m
wv for county purposes will be reduced to W
bout 90 cents on the hundred. In that n,
vent the county court will doubtless raise :,
he road tax from 10 to ID cents on the hum a'
red dollars valuation, which will be step n
, the right direction.
Prominent business men in st. Louis are az
eg;uuing to see that the building of one of If
ne roads lately surveyed through the West m
md of Iron county, commencing at or near b
some point on the Springfield & te