Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-27

| The following marriage licenses have beer
issued by the Circuit Clerk of Iron Count,
during the past week:
Albert c. Light to Mary E. Cole.
| Amos Brooks to Martha Horton.
Why would It not be u good plan for the
county, in its care OF the poor, to adopt 8
course similar to that Of the larger corpor-
| ations, as to the employment of physicians!
1t Is quite probable that, at stated yearly
salary, the cost of attendance upon the sick
would be considerable less than under the
present method; the services would be al
least as promptly rendered; and all haggling
as to allowance of fees done away. The
question is certainly worthy the consider
alton of the court.
We have received copy of pamphlet de-
scriptive of Poplar Bluff. 1t is compiled by
Richard l.. Metcaife, and is entitled, ga
View of a Growing Town; or, Poplar Bluff
As 1t Was, As it is, and AS 1t VIII Be-" We
have not yet found time to read it in full,
but, from peep or two, we find that the
"boys" from Iron county are holding their
own. COmmendatory notice is given of the
following: +. w. May, b. +. Reynolds, j. II.
Higdon, Thos. II. Moore, Henry c. Cole, fl.
Schwaner, Geo. Begley, w. I'll. Brill, and
shades of Ethiopia? Thomas Contee, Esq.
We shall refer to the "View" again.
Ed. Perry and Phil. Staab, carpenters con
the hill >" had a narrow escape last Thursday
morning. They put up new pulley, to lead
wire rope from the holster to the main
heading in Tunnel No. 2. This pulley is
placed near the roof on scaffold about
twenty feet high. While the men were on
the scaffold and in the act of putting the
wire rope in the pulley, the bell rang to
lower the cars. There was considerable
slack in the rope, and the car went over
the plane on to the descending track at the
first shove. Henry Amelung, the engineer
in the tunnel, saw the danger, and threw the
"dog" on to the ratchet wheel of the drum,
suddenly stopping it and breaking the rope
"a new Ia inch steel cable, put in only the
day before. If he had not acted thus
promptly, the scaffold would have been
racked to pieces and the men on it proba-
bly, killed. The broken rope was four hum
dred feet long.
We saw copy of q petition the other day,
tue NOTuluS VI WHICH, though ueIlauucU ny
legal procedure, is such as to confuse and set
in whirl the brain of an ordinary person.
The suit is instituted by the City of Ironton
against the st. Louis, Iron Mountain & South
ern Railway Company, for damages, for hav-
ing failed to erect suitable crossing in the
North Addition ut the intersection of Main
and Valley streets. In reciting the authOri-
ties under which the municipal government
has a being, the following occurs. Put on
your "specs" and keep your wits well in
hand: "And all of which aforesaid acts were
amended by an act of the General Assembly
of the aforesaid State, approved February
18th, 1874, which last mentioned act was en-
titled as follows: IAN act to amend an act en-
titled an act to incorporate the town of Iron
ton, approved February 1st, 1859, and the act
revising and amending said act approved
February 1st, 1853, and the act revising and
amending said act approved February Is,
1864, and an act entitled an act to amend an
act entitled an act to amend an act entitled
an act" phew! Ito be continued i'm our
neXt.)