Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-07-31

der his pillow. A short time after,he diseoy.
cred his loss, and rushed back to his room &c
| recover his greenbacks. They had taker
unto themselves wings and flown away. Ar
| Investigation followed, which resulted in thu
apprehension of the chambermaid, who fin
ally confessed and returned the money. She
her name is Fanny Watts-was arrested a,
the instance of the landlord, the delegate re-
| fusing to prosecute, bound over to the circuit
court, and brought here by Sheriff Turner
| and lodgedin Jail for safe-keeping. She de-
MES intending to appropriate the money, bu,
| claims she was only holding 1t for claim
| ant.
Last Monday Thos. Mcfarland went to the
| circuit clerk and asked for license to marry
Miss Mary c. Belmar. Both are of st. Fran
| co.'s county and personally unknown to the
clerk. Miss Belmar did not accompany her
sutton, but Mr.. Mcfarland stated that his in
tended bride was of age and had neither
father nor mother living, and expressed him.
self SO willing to be qualified to those "facts''
that the clerk did not think it necessary to
swear him. He gave Mcfarland license
therefore, and that gentleman lost no time
in seeking an officer and getting through the
marriage ceremony. About fifteen minutes
after the license had been issued, 10 and be-
hold! the father Of the bride appeared
mighty lively for a dead and buried parent
and for time seemed DESTROYS of making
trouble for all hands. Better counsels pre-
vailed, however, and he departed not entire
ly satisfied, but calmer in mind. The yonng
bride was just fifteen years old.
Coming down street Monday evening, we
saw an old horse-twenty-five years of age,
at least-so poor and weak he could scarcely
stand. His hip-bones, stood out like the
pins on a hat-rack; his knees were broken
and his legs swathed in gunnysacks; and he
was blind of an eye. He has for twenty
years done honest service for his master, and
certainly is entitled to get on the range such
living as he can, free from work. Yet, in
the past three weeks, we have seen the poor
brute worked i'm wagon, and urged until
he fell in his tracks, willing but unable to
move further at the behest of his cruel task.
master. We say cruel, for surely no other
person than one with heart of stone, could so
abuse poor, dumb, decrepid brute. This
is the christian era, this civilized nation,
and we are merciful people; yet we have
seen such acts Of cruelty perpetrated upon
poor, defenseless brutes in the streets of
Ironton, as ought to bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of wooden Indian.
There is law for such cases made and pro-
vided. but that that is everybody's business
is nobody's business; and perhaps interfer-
ence in behalf of an animal who casts no vote
at an election is a thankless task.
Charley Cox and Jim Cobb are up to their
necks in the meshes Of litigation. There is
certain black sow with eight pigs which both
the aforesaid colored gentlemen lay claim to
not in conjunction, or by reason Of CO.
divfdually, conversely, antagonistically, and
without any waiver of right in whole or in
part in said sow md eight pigs whatsoever.
OF course, his state Of affairs could only re-
suit in dispute, dispute in lawsuit, and law
suit in-the Lord, only, knows what. The
first legal round was fought in Justice
Dinger's court last Monday. b. Walker
attorney for Cobb, and w. r. Edgar for Cox.
About twenty five witnesses were examined;
the testimony was conflicting, the attorneys
were in fine legal feather. and the usual re-
sultIensued-the intelligent jury hung itself.
The 9th day of August, next, is set for re-
trial of the cause, with the promise on the
part of both contestants that at least twice as
many witnesses shall be on hand to testify
as to what they know about hogs in general,
and the porcine family in dispute in particu-
lar. Par pareathese, We wouldn't give
modern barlow knife for the property ut
hazard: but what has that to do with the
eternal principles of Justice at stake?