Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-26

A Letter From BelleVIe"s
1t is not customary for me to go back
on my word, but SO many remon-
strances nave co me up from highly es-
teemed friends against my laying down
the pen as local correspondent from
Belleview, that. without promising
letter every week, will write occa-
sionally.
The quarrel among our amphibous
brethren has taken new turn. About
ten days ago, Mr.. Jefferson Russell and
some others were indicted on frivolous
charges. The community, tired of see
ing the characters of our best people
biackened, as far as the church can do
After the sermon, Deacon Bedott read
from his book that whilst attending to
private business none but members in
good standing could be allowed to be
present; and, on motion of Messrs.
Binks and VIM. Buford, the spectators
were expelled.
The leak in the Deacon's logic lay in
the fact that the trial of members
| ly preferred is in no sense private
| matter, unless the court is Star
| Chamber or a Spanish 1nquisition.
| The Bible recognizes no such proceed
ing. Its rule in such cases is laid down
Tim. 5, 2o: ''Them that sin, rebuke
before all, that others may fear" The
trial did not go on. The prosecution
proposed to arbitrate the matter by re-
/ ferring it to board of five, selected
| from distance, and held meeting at
which the accused were not present,
and selected three of the five arbitra
tors.
Or course the accused will decline the
| jurisdiction of court SO constituted,
and the breach will be widened. And
if any attempt is made to hold secret
trial, the court may be opened with
crow-bar. AT least, the end is not yet.
i Our amphibious brethren are holding
a distracted meeting TO cure existing
evils, but the remedy does not reach.
All taree of the sects in Belleview
agree in desiring a revival of religion,
and yet, when you get down to the
true inwardness of the matter, each
sect devoutIy believes that, in order to
! a revival of religion, the first steps will
be to blot out the other two sects. All
of them are right, and yet they are not
happy.
The Presby terians here have new
preacher, Rev. H. &. Brown, who serv-
ed under Stonewall Jackson during
"the late onpleasantnis::" He is very
fine looking man, and a good singer,
hut as a theologian he is seventy-five
years behind. He is not established in
the present truth. Pet, liz.
A number of the citizens of Belleview
are signing remonstranceag against the
enactment of law forbidding the
thunting of deer with logs THIS is i'll
advised. The law proposes to keep
out foreign hunters, and save the game
thereof. 1t proposes to improve the
skill and manhood of the hunter. There
is neither one nor the other i'm shooting
a deer that has been chased up to you
by pack of dogs. 1t seems number
of business men have signed the re-
monstrance. They will probably
change their minds if a grand jury
should indict them for dealing in faint
ed meat Every medical man knows
that when an animal has been chased
and harried the flesh is unhealthy,
and sets up blood poisoning in the con-
sumner. which often takes the form OF a
dysentery, which is merely an effort OF
the system to throw off the trouble. Ii
, nursing motl.er eats of the flesh, the
nelson is thrown off in the milk. and
the child suffers the consequences,
which very often are death. Now to
come down to the right in the case
What right has any man, merely foi
, his own amusement or whim, to inn
, peril his own life, or the lives of his
, + own family, or of innocent strangers
E Tor neighbors? Obviously, none; anu
, the sooner that fact is known, the bet
, ter: and the sooner the men who scot
I at ali restraints Of moral principle are