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WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE,


Opens September 22d, 1881. one of the
FIRST SCHOOLS TOR You're LADIES ~ THE
UNITED STATES. Surroundings beautiful
Climate unsurpassed. One hundred and
lOrty.thrco Pupils from Eighteen states.
TERMS AMONG THE BEST IN THE
UNION. Board, Washing, English Course,
Latin, French, German, instrumental Mu-
Sic, etc., for scholastic year, from ScptCm.
Der to June, S238. For Catalogues write IL
REV, MM. A, HARRIS, u d.,
President, Stauntpn. Va.
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THE UNIVERSITY
OF TEXAS.

Tho exercises for the next session viii
open ON september II, 1854. For catu.
logue writeto SMITH RAGSDALE,
Austin. Texas
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AUSTIN COLLEGE
slhCrnnn. NrNn-.

The next session will begin ON the ad Of
September, l>Si Instruction In AN the usual
departments thorough. For Information
apply to REV, r., 4. PALMER, u. D.,
President, sherman, Texas
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PERSONAL.

Angel food can bc had fresh every day
at Fine Very Fines, East Dallas.
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WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
Lexington, Va.

Lexington, va
Instruction In the usual academic studies
and In the professional schools OF Law and
Engineering. Location henlthful; expenses
moderate. Session opens September Is, For
Catalogue, address "Clork Of the Faculty.
q, W. &, LEE, President.
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University of Virginia

The siNty-flrst session of this institution
Will open October |, 1881. Thorough lnstruc-
ton In Literary, Scientific and Professional
ginccring aud Agriculture. For information
apply Ia nr JAMES 4. HARRISON,
Chairman Of Faculty. a. q University oT Va,
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baCcO.
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pantops Academy, N yiiic. C yirsiaIs.
For Boys and Young Men. FULLY equipped
Higgins September 10Th, send Tor catalogue
REV. EnGAR WOODS, ph. pi pr,pc,,,is
JOiiN X, SAMPSON, A. MAJ 'i"'S
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JUDSONINSTITUTE
Marion, Ala.

marion, Ala.
Forly-Seventh session begins October /,
1851: Faculty Of fifteen. Collegiate course
Tor Young Ladies' kindergarten and Pre-
parulOry Departments. School of Music.
Drawing and Painting, and Tclegraphy. For
catalogues, send 10
ROBERT FRAZIER, President.
MRS. CUTIIBERTS SEMINARY FOR 9 } Z {
Twentieth year opens September s. Ad.
dress PRINCIPAL, -. Louis, Mo.
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a. AN hD-tirn LADIES 10 MANI
w pnntc, drawers, overullS and shirts,
now Is the time To secure good positions. Ap1
ply between 7 and o'clock. BLlSEENnll'
4 BINKF. iya-lyr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
LAYING SPOOkS.

The Mystery of Mystic on the Sound Salts.
factory Solved-A Valiant Youth in Fe.
male Attire Captures Ghost and Lands
Him In the Arms of the Law.
NEW LONDON, CONN, December5.
Three ghosts have been frightening the
women and children of the quaint little
village of Mystic on the Sound, eight OF
ten miles east of here, for several weeks.
Women and girls were at first pursued
almost nightly by tall, white figure that
rose up suddenly from the way
side, and seemed to their alright
ed vision to float swiftly on the
wind toward them. They sped
down the street CLOSELY chased by the APP
partition and dashed into their homes out
of breath and fell on the floor. At length
the terror became so general that few
women and girls ventured out of their
houses after dark, and when they did SO,
hurried along their roads, often turning
an affrighted glance over their shoulders
lest the three ghosts might steal on them
unawares.
Next company of young men was or
ganized to lie in wait, with loaded shot
guns, for the ghostly disturbers of the
peace, and several parties stald out all
night for week or more at different points
about the village, lying on the frosted
grass behind walls and fences, or in the
shadow of unlighted buildings. No spec
ter appeared in
THE SILENT STREETS,
and the watchers went home and
thawed out in the chimney place with
draughts of hot cider. Thereupon a
committee of two or three young men
arrayed themselves in hoop skirts,
dresses and bonnets, and after dark
minced coquettishly up and down
the sidewalks hoping to lure the ghosts
into pursuing them. For two nights
the ruse was without results, but
few evenings ago one of the ghosts was
tempted out. He sprang at one
of the masqueraders, who at
first fed, leading the ghost
ON, until he suddenly wheeled, and,
throwing his arms around the ghost, held
him in a merciless hug. The captive was
logged before a police justice, who had
him locked up. The ghost was Albert C.
Briggs, jack-of-all- trades of the village
He was sentenced to thirty days in jail for
disturbing the peace. Who the other
ghosts are is not known, as Briggs refuses
to expose them. They have not been
seen since his arrest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
CYPRlAN LEPERS.

Features of the Horrible Disease which
Prevails on the Island of Cyprus.
The ancient disease of leprosy has
long prevailed in the Island of Cyprus,
but it affects as rule only the Christian
population, only one Mohamedan being
known to suffer at present from the
disease. 1t exists in three several
forms, but several of the victims have
all these varieties at once, and most of
them have more than one. The unfor-
tunate ones now infected with the
malady do not seem to be regarded in
these later days with as much fear and
adherence as was inspired by them at an
earlier epoch, when the Western parts
of Asia were so terribly afflicted by the
scourge. There is, of course, gener-
al desire to seclude them and avoid
their society, but still some lepers are
married to healthy persons, who do not
trouble themselves to separate from
them Endeavors are made, whenever
an undoubted case of leprosy is. dis
covered, to induce the sufferer to be-
come an inmate of an asylum, which is
called in rather homely phrase the
..Leper Farm" This place had
been enlarged during the year
preceding the last medical report from
the island, and it then contained fifty
inmates, including several whose his
tory is extremely curious, and two chill
dren not at present affected but born
of leper parents resident in the farm"
The disease is said to be more prevalent
among males, but there are several fe-
male patients, and, until her death last
year, at the age of ninety, there was
an old woman who might be regarded
as the patriach or rather matriarch Of
the establishment. She was the first
patient admitted to it, and had lived
there over fifty years. She professed
to have suffered from the disease for
about seventy years, but without any
great pain or appearance of weakness.
The opinion of the medical officer, who
has had good opportunities of studying
the disease at the farm, is that there is
still no certain knowledge whatever as to
its origin. The old-established idea that
it is capable of hereditary transmission
is, however, borne out by his expert
ence; and one notable example is
quoted to show that it can be contract.
ed by contagion. Budget.
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The proposition to restrict the pro-
duction of pig iron by banking the fur
naces for month 6r more has been
allowed to die. Reports received at
Pittsburgh are more encouraging.
DEACON TERRY, who ran away with a
minister's wife at Long Island on the 4th,
has written his better half that he is
happy in his new relations, and his old
haunts will know hin, no more.
The Attorney General has been request
ed by the COMMITTEES on Expenditures for
the Department of Justice to produce all
correspondence between the Department
and United States Marshal Wright, of Gin
cinnati, in reference to the employment of
Deputy Marshals at the October elections.
FROM reports received Cleveland, o.,
twenty-five iron mills have resumed with
in a month, giving employment to Il, IT'S
men; and in thirty mine establishments
wages have been reduced on an average
of II 1-2 per cent, and twenty-seven es-
adjustments have closed down entir ely,
throwing 1920 men out Of work.
The pay of the Germans on board the
Chinese feet includes an indemnity of A.
600 taels to their relatives in the event of
their being killed.
Fifty mounted rebels advanced to with
in 800 yards of the Egyptian forts at Sua-
kim on the 9Th, killing several men and
women and capturing forty-two camels.
Property and life is insecure outside of
the guarded portion of the town.
The King of Burmah, against the ad.
rice of his ministry, has employed a
French company to manufacture firearms
at Mandalay.
REV. DR.. J. M. ARNOLD, editor of the
Michigan AduOcate, formerly in charge of
the Methodist Book Concern in Detroit,
Mich, dropped dead in the street on the
afternoon of the 5th.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

The Bottle and It's Effects.

WILMINGTON, n. c., December s.
A duel was fought between two young
men in Morning Star township yesterday,
in which the weapons used were, on one
side, whisky bottle, and on the other
side, club. John Dulin and Rufus Null
lilo were intimate friends. Dulin had
large bottle of whisky, and they sat down
in the woods and became merry over its
contents. After the bottle was empty the
men disputed as to their respective abili-
ties as men, and finally undertook to set
tie the question then and there by COM
bat.
Bulin took the bottle by the neck and
used it as club, while Mullis selected a
piece of oak-plank about the length and
width of the bottle. Dulin gave the
first blow with the bottle, striking his an
tagonist full on the head and telling him
to the ground. Mullis staggered up and
managed to give Dulin blow on the
head. He fell as though he had been
shot, the edge of the plank having cut
through his skull. He died soon after
ward. Mullis fed and has not been ap-
pretended
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.
Missouri Congressman.

JEFFERSON CRY, Mo-, December !.
The Secretary of State to-day made tbs
official count of votes cast at the general
election for Representatives in Coagre S.,
and issued certificates to the following
members elected.
First Observation-Disclosures II. Hatch
Second Districs-John B. Hale.
Third District-A. NJ. Dockery.
Fourth District. N. Burnes.
Fifth District-Wm. Warner.
Sixth District-John Z. Heard.
Seventh District-Jno. e. Hutton.
Eighth District-John J. O'Neil.
Ninth District-John NJ. Glover.
Tenth District-Martin L. CIardy.
Eleventh District-Richard p. Bland.
Twelfth District-Wm. Stone.
Thirteenth District-William Fl. Wade.
Fourteenth Distriet-William Dawson.
All the foregoing are Democrats except.
ing Warren and Wade.
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MIGRATION or BIRDS.
A Mysterious snd Interesting Question -
Zoology which Pnxxlcs the scientlsts.

4 Mvsterious and Interesting Question In
Zoology which Puzzles the scicntists.
Familiar as this migration Of birds is
to us, there is, perhaps, no question IN
zoology more obscure. The long flights
they take, and the unerring certainty
with which they wing their way be-
tween the most distant places, arriving
and departing at the same period year
after year, are points in the history OF
birds of passage as mysterious as they
are interesting. We know the most
migrants fly after shutdown, though
many Of them select moonlight night
to cross the Mediterranean. But that
their meteorological instinct is not UNI
errine is proved by the fact that thou
sands are every year drowned in their
flights over the Atlantic and other
oceans. Northern Africa and Western
Asia are selected as winter quarters by
most of them, and they may often be
noticed on their way thither, to hang
over towns at night, puzzled, in spite
of their experience, by the shifting.
lights of the streets and houses.
The swallow or the nightingale may
sometimes be delayed by unexpected
circumstances. Yet it is rarely that
they arrive or depart many days SOON
er or later, one year from another.
Foul weather or fair, heat or cold. the
puffins repair to some of their stations
punctually on given day, as it their
movements were regulated by clock
work. The swiftness of flight which
characterizes most birds enables them
to cover vast space in brief time.
The common black swift can fly ZIG
miles an hour, speed which, II 1t
could be maintained for less than half a
day, would carry the bird from its win
ter to its summer quarters. The large
purple swift of America is capable OF
even greater feats on the wing. The
chimney swallow is slower-ninety
miles per hour being the limit of its
power; but the passenger pigeon OF the
United States can accomplish a journey
of 1000 miles between sunrise and sum
set.
The distance travelled seems, more
over, to have no relation to the size of
the traveller. The Swedish blue-throat
raises its young among the Laps, and
enjoys its winter holidays among the
negroes of the Soudan, while the tiny
ruby-throated humming bird proceeds
annually from Mexico to Newfound-
land and back again, though one would
imagine that so delicate a little fairy
would be more at home among the
cacti and agaves of the Tierre Caliente
than among the frs and fogs of the
North. Standard.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

THE capstone on the Washington monu-
ment was set en- the 9th, and a meeting
to celebrate the event was held on
a platform which was 500 feet from the
ground. One of the persons present was
mechanic who laid the corner stone thirty
six years ago. The height of the monu-
ment is $50 feet, overlapping any statue
ever built in the world
The Home Rubber Works, at Trenton,
n. j., burned ON the 18th. Loss, $40, 900.
The close of the Plenary Council at
Baltimore, Nd, on the It'll, was the &C.
casion of a most imposing ceremonial.
FRANCIS MURPHY, the temperance advo-
cate, began series of meetings at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the eth.
OSCAR K. HARRIS, a well-known jour-
nalist of Washington, d. c., died on the
9TH. He reported the Surratt murder and
President johnson impeachment trials.
DURING November British imports de-
creased, compared with November, 1888,
f., ISL 600. Exports in November de-
creased e. 1000 compared with Novem-
Der, 1885.
The New York Central Railway has de-
clared quarterly dividend of one and a
half per cent.
The California State Board of Viticul-
ture has adopted resolution requesting
Senators and Representatives in Congress
from that State to oppose the execution of
the Mexican reciprocity treaty.
IMPORTS to the port of New York for
the week ended the 9th were $6,523, 900, of
which II ,06S, coo were dry goods and 3d.
5000 general merchandise.
REV. EDWARD BRENNAN, aged sixsv-
five. pastor of the Romar, CathoIir Church,
at Cumberland, Md, was found dead il
his bed ON the 9th at the residence OF
Vicar General McColgon. in Baltimore,
where he was visiting. Heart disease was
the supposed cause.
JOEL PARKHURsT. a Pennsylvania mill
lionaire, died at Elkland, Pa, on the 9Th,
aged eighty five years.
Ell. w. SANFORD, of Dubuque, Ia, died at
Sherburne, N. Y, on the 9th, aged seventy
years. He leaves a fortune of over I,0o0,-
600. Sidney Sanford, his brother, is his
only heir.
FIRE in West Randolph, VT, on the 9th,
destroyed six blocks of business houses,
seven dwellings and hotel. Loss, $780,
600; Insurance, 1000. Most of the goods
We're removed from the business houses.
THE Hawaiian treaty was signed at
Washington on the 9Th by Secretary Ere
linghuysen ON behalf of the United States
and by Mr.. Carter, representing the
Hawaiian Government.
CHARLES RoGERs, a guard in the Peni-
tertiary at Westminster, British Columbia,
has been sentenced to be hanged January
18th, for the murder of another guard in
November last.
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MODEL CHILDREN.
Not the Goody-Good Kind, But Those Who
Pose for Artists.

Not the Goody Good Kind, But Those Who
Pose for Artists.
Here in London where am writing,
there are several hundred people whose
business it is to sit for artists. Some of
them, who are particularly beautiful,
are engaged every day in the year, and
may earn from a dollar and half to
two dollars day. They must keep
still for hours, and often stand or kneel
in tiresome positions. However, the
models generally take great interest
in the pictures they sit for, and like to
do their best for the artists who en-
ploy them.
Among the models are some very lit
!. tie children, who began to sit when
they were mere babes. have often
wished that some rich children could
see how patient these little ones can be,
when they understand that they are
earning money to buy food and clothes.
! have tried for days to pursuade fine
little boy, in smart silk stockings and
tine shoes, to keep his feet still long
enough for me to paint them.
When l find that child can not sit
quietly to have his dress painted, / send
for George Mum. He is very proud
to put on the beautiful stockings and
shoes. | make chalk mark on the
throne where his little feet should 60,
and he will keep carefully on the mark.
He has few minutes for rest at inter-
walls during each hour, and a. long rest
at dinner time; but he will keep very
quiet While we are working, and
will not move without leave. He
is very little boy, SO his mother keeps
her arm around him to steady him,
and talks to him in a whisper without
disturbing me. She teaches him to
count, or to sing little songs, or to
spell Every now and then he tries to
guess what there will be for dinner.
With SO good boy to help me, can
paint very quickly; and when little
Master Restless comes next day to
SIT for his portrait, he is surprised tc
see the dress quite finished. AnnG Lea
Merritt. in st. Nicholas.
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The Result of jealousy.

JINCINSAI1,U., December 5.
Katie linn, come1y girl eighteen years
old, swore out warrant for the ar
rest of her lover, Louis Heller, en-
ployed at Clemens Iron Works, maxi
ing affidavit that she feared bodily
harm, as Heller had threatened to shoot
her. The case came up in Squire
Dunning's Court this morning. When
Katie entered the room Heller jumped
up and levelled pistol at her, but
the Squire grasped the weapon and
tried to wrest 1t from him him. Heller
jerked it away and deliberately placed
the muzzle over his own breast and
6red and fell dead.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
A Human Butcher.
LENoIR, N. c., Decem

LENoIR, N. c., December 5.
The trial of Ed. w. Ray, killing John
G. Miller and Ed. Burleson, which was
begun last week, was concluded yester-
day. He was convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment. Ray is a desperate man, who is
said to have murdered seven men since
the war ended. He was revenue officer,
and in each instance he secured an ac-
quittal, on the plea that the killing was
done in the discharge of his duty.
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Opposed to the Fishery Clause.
GLOUCESTER, MASS. December 8.

GLOUCESTER, MASS, December s.
A meeting of owners and masters of fish
ing vessels was held here this after
noon to consider the fishery clause of the
reciprocity treaty with Canada. The
unanimous sentiment of the meeting OPP
posed the renewal of the fisSery treaty,
as renewal meant free trade in fish, and
Gloucester vessels could not compete
with the English. A comraittee was
chosen to confer with like committees
from Portland, Provincetown and other
ports interested as to a proper represen-
tation of the fishing interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11
CounterfeIter Captured.
ALTos, III, December 5.
Depuy united States Marshal parvt

ALTON, Ill, December 8.
Deputy United States Marshal Darwin
arrested Barney Brewlington, an employee
in d. r. Sparks & Co.'s mill here, on the
charge of counterfeiting. Brewington
has for years been an employe of the mill
ing firm, and his habits have not been such
as to give weight to the charge against
him. The Government officers, however,
claim that they have ample proof to prove
his guilt and that of the other members of
the gang of which he was member
They charge that the headquarters of the
gang was in or near Litchfield.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

AT meeting held in Milwaukee,, Wis, on
the I'd, or prominent horsemen OF the State,
the wisconsin Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders was formed. II. l.. Dous-
man, of Prairie du CHEN, Is President,
aud K. ID. Torrey, of Racine, Secretary.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

THE convicted polygamists, Amman ii.
Tenny, Bishop z. j. Chistotferson and G.
j. Kump were sentenced at Prescott, Ariz.,
on the 9th to pay fine of 1901 each and be
confined for three and half years each in
the Detroit Mich. House of Correction.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

THE question of improving commercial
relations with America is exciting much
interest in the British West Indies, and
some progress has already been made in
negotiations to that end, which the British
Foreign Office is conducting.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

THE general managers of the Missouri
River Railroad lines met on the Sd and
agreed to o restoration Of rates to hold
good for two years. The rate between st.
Louis and Chicago and st. Louis and Kan
sas City was placed at $50, and from
Chicago to Missouri River points at Sl2.50.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

TIE Philadelphia CPa-) letter-carriers
think they ought to have additional pay
for extra work.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

vIcE-CoNsUL WINsLow writes from
Guerrero, Mexico, that there is great de-
mand for American lumber there.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

TEEMER, the oarsman, has had quarrel
with his hackers and managers. He says
that of the nine races rowed the past sea-
son, only one was Tor stake as adyer-
tised. He is particularly anxious to row
Jake Gaudaur again.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

A PARTY of boys, the oldest only twelve
years of age, recently built a den in the
woods near Worcester, Mass. When dis
covered, on the 4th, they had plenty of re-
yolvers and ammunition, and We're de-
yeloping into a first-ciass gang OF despera-
does.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

THE proposition to adjourn Congress and
that ali hands go to the New Orleans Ex-
position does not meet with general favor
among members, many of whom think
there is too much important work needing
attention.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

SECRETARY TELLER, Postmaster-General
Hatton, Assistant Postmaster General
Hazen, and Railway Superintendent
Thompson will form a party to attend the
opening of the New Orleans Exposition.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

IT was rumored on the 9th that the
Western Union had absorbed the Postal
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

THE movement in favor OF placing Gen
eral Grant on the retired list of the army
has been revived, and strong effort will
soon be made in the House to pass the Sem
ate bill for that purpose.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-12-11

A FARMER near Dresden, o., has recent
" lost fifteen head of cattle by a disease
thought to be pleuro-pneumonia.