Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-30

PosTMAsrER-GENERA Villas appointed
sixty fourth-class postmasbers on the
oath.
IT is reported at Alexandria that Ell
Mahdi attacked and defeated the Italians
near Massowah.
REPORTS received at Dallas, Tex, indi-
cate that losses by floods in the State are
very large.
EGYPT, it is said, will apologize to
France for the suppression of the French
newspaper BOsphore Egyptien at Cairo.
The anniversary of Shakspeare's Dir til =
| day was celebrated at the New Orleans
Exposition.
ONE thousand striking coal miners have
| returned to work in Pennsylvania at the
operators prices.
The Americans have taken possession OF
Panama. The insurgents We're recalled
to their barracks by bugle sound.
THE decision of the Supreme Court in
| the Virginia coupon cases has created in
tense feeling in the State.
THE examination of Captain John
O'Brien for violation of the neutrality
laws was commenced at New York on the
| oath.
THE opinion is gaining ground at Berlin
that war between England and Russia
will be declared before the end of the
| month.
THERE were 19S failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
oath, as compared with 1876 in the proceed
| ing week.
A MEMBER of big meat-canning firm at
Chicago states that they have sold meat
to England at the firms own prices.
| THE Duchess of Edinburgh, sister of the
wife of the Gar, of Russia, is distressed
| over the strained relations existing be-
tween Russia and England.
A LONDON syndicate propose buying
! the large tracts of land in the kingdom
and selling out in small lots on deferred
payments.
MISS CONSTANCE EDGAR, step-daughter
of jerome Bonaparte and great grand
daughter of Daniel Webster, took the veil
at Baltimore, Nd, on the 24th.
TRINITY RIVER, in Texas, was rising so
rapidly on the oath that fears were enter
tanned of a flood worse than that OF 1864,
when so much damage was done.
A CABLE dispatch from London received
! at New York on the oath stated that the
JOY plan for the reorganization of the
Wabash had been adopted.
N. G. EVANS, police Off GER of New Or
leans, is charged with having murdered
his wife and a man named Casper Wen
ger, whom he found together in the bed
chamber.
NEALY SMITH, fifteen years Old, was ar
rested on the oath for breaking into the
Post-office at Calvert, Tex, and stealing
small change and Stamps. He also had
other plumber amounting to several hun
dred dollars.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has Civ
en- orders for the immed ate repair of the
revenue steamer Mani attain, now at Bal
timore, with view of utilizing it as
quarantine boat at the Cape Charles sta.
ton.
THE Post-office Inspector received in
formation that Postal Clerk Wells, who
ran away with the registered mail be-
tween New Orleans and Port Eads, La,
was at Ell Paso, Tex, on the 22d. 1t is sup
posed that he crossed the river to Mexico,
and thereby escaped s pursuers.
THE President has appointed Henry P.
Kernochane, of Louisiana, to be Naval Of
ficer at the port of New Orleans, and Cor
nelius Schenck, of Oregon, to be appraiser
of merchandise in the district of Villa
mette, Oregon.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
tailed three clerks to the Second Comp
troller's office to assist in the settl ement
of accounts, particularly those of pen sion
agents, which are somewhat in arrears.
Arrangements have also been made for
the more prompt examination of these ac-
counts in the Third Auditors office.
THE Secretary OF the Treasury has APP
pointed George P. Tingle, Of Montana, and
Charles Ryan, of Indiana special agents
for the Seal Islands in Alaska vice H. A.
Glidden and j. Fl. Moulton, suspended.
Mr.. Tingie's compensati is fixed at the
rate of SO per day and Mr.. Ryan's at the
rate of IS per day and expenses.
HEALTH officers of number of the lead
ing cities held a conference at New York
on the oath to agree upon uniform meas
ures to prevent the introduction of cholera.
THE three hundred and twenty first an
niversary of the birth of Shakespeare was
celebrated with interesting ceremonies and
n festival at Stratford- on Avon on the
23d.