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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16

For SALE-New Store and . lots at Sabula,
on railroad; building 22x36, . stories. First
story furnished with counters and shelves
complete for general store. Second story
divided in four apartments; both floors cell
ed and complete. Warehouse adjoining
store. Possession given at once. A fine
opening for live man. Will be sold cheap,
and on easy terms. Address
At Il. ZwART, IrontOn, Mo.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16
Land Office Notice.
LAND OFFICE at Ironton, Mo-, |

LAND OFFICE at Ironton, Mo-,
June 9th, 1885,.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim. and that said proof will be
made before the Register and Receiver at
Ironton, Mo-, on Saturday, July 18th,
1885, viz: James r. Spencer, Hid. entry
No. 1927, for the q mel Sec. z, and VIZ
nwI Sec. s, Up. 81, north range ! east.
He names the following witnesses TO
prove his continuous residence upon. and
cultivation of. said land, viz. C. Tin
dell. of Montana p, O., Iron county,
Mo-. and Thomas Clark, Carroll Croker
and James Akers. of Goodland L. o.,
Iron county, Mo.
JAMES Ell. CHASE, Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16
Area ia Coll 9
and ACADEMY
OF THE URSULINE SIS TIERS.

The system ofeducation pursued in this
institution is designed to develop the NOR
al. intellectual and physical powers of the
pupils; to make them refined. accomplish
ed and useful members of society.
Pupils of all denominations are equally
received-all interference with their con-
victiOns being carefully avoided.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19

Althea was woman we'll known in San
Francisco. She was keen and handsome,
young and attractive, and fond OF the So
ciety Of elderly men. She was deposi-
tor In Mr.. Sharon's bank. One day In
August, 1880, she met the millionaire,
who invited her to call and see him. She
went. The result led to the suit that Is
one of the most celebrated, remarkable
and unique in the history Of litigation in
this country. She swore that Sharon
asked her to become his wife. Sharon
denied It, The trial consumed months.
Witnesses tainted in court, and there
were death bed confessions, ludicrous
Chinese witnesses, slugging matches un-
der the nose of the Judge, interspersed
with an attempt to shoot lawyer, and
the drawing of pistol in Argonaut-Cal'
ifornian style, by the Judge, to restore
order searching witnesses for concealed
weapons, and invitations to step outside
and settle disputes, all Of which helped
to make up trial whose sensational and
grotesque features eliminated by $4,000
word decision from the Judge, who de-
clared that Miss Sarah Althea Hill had
been legally married by contract which
had been signed by both five years ago.
The Judge granted her divorce and a
division of Senator Sharon's property,
whose value was estimated at $4,000
900. The counsels fees amounted to
100000. The Court gave Miss Hill
back alimony at the rate of 50, 600 for
thirteen months to be paid pending an
appeal for a new trial. Since then Miss
Hill has been living on the fat Of the
land .-Cincinnaj Commercial Gazette.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
To Prevent Stamp. from sticking

While imparting bit of information
to save ourselves we may save every
reader slight loss at some time in the
future Among the subscriptions coming
to us in postage stamps, we occasionally
open letter to find the stamps glued
closely together, rendering 1t difficult TO
separate them. If each subscriber send.
ing stamps will rub the gummed side Of
them rapidly over the hair at the back Of
the head a few times they will not stick
together. 1t is probably the natural oil
in the hair that produces this desirable
effect. This recipe will be remembered
to advantage by persons carrying postage
stamps in envelopes or pocket books
about their persons; The writer has
had reason to appreciate its value, parti-
cularly when travelling in tropical cli-
matpq
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
A WESTERN ROMANCE.
DRESSED AS A MAN FOR FIF-
TEEN YEARS.
Strange Experience of a Woman Who
Kept a Grocery in Kansas City.

1t transpires that Frank Gray, real
estate dealer and grocer who formerly
kept saloon in Kansas City. No., and
has been known to the business fraterni-
ty for two years, is woman. It is alleg-
ed that she has masqueraded as man
for fifteen years. Her experience has
been varied and unique. When she ran
saloon and dressed in male attire she
drank at the bar with nearly all the men
about town and heard them gossip Of
women and affairs in general which do
not always reach feminine ears. Her
voice was so ma. suline that ut one sus-
pected her. Onone occasion she very
nearly got into trouble because of fan.
cy she took to married woman. L. w.
Foster, piano tuner, and his wife
boarded at the same house with Gray,
as the feminine saloon keeper was called,
and Foster became insanely jealous over
the attentions which Gray paid Mrs.
Foster. He went so far as to write his
wife's father at Chicago about the scan
dal and threatened to get divorce.
Gray became involved in a lawsuit,
however, and the startling discovery was
made that Gray was woman named
Mary b. Walcott. This revelation was
followed by others, and it is finally learn
ed that Mrs. Walcott had married
daughter living in this city. The dis
covery is said to have been made by q
private detective who received a point.
err from her son.in-law. Under the
name Gray she ran grocery for some
time at the corner of Seventh and Wyan-
dotte streets. She then began to specu.
late in real estate and showed good judg.
ment and acquired much money. Dur
ing her residence here she made frequent
visits to Columbus, o., and then always
wore clothing becoming her sex. By
constant shaving she had succeeded in
| raising a light mustache.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19

Possible Origin of the Phrase

A number of correspondents have writ
ten to number Of newspapers lately, in
quiring about the origin of the phrase
bloody shirt so often used in the po-
litical discussions of the present day. We
know of no better explanation than that
given by Roscoe Conkling in speech
made in New York, September II, 1880
Referring to the bloody shirt" he said;
ut is relief to remember that this
phrase, with the thinglit means, is no
invention of our politics. 1t dates back
to Scotland, three centuries ago. After
q massacre in Glenfruin, not so savage rs
has stained our annals, 220 widows rode
on white palfreys to Stirling Tower, bear
ing each on spear her husbands bloody
shirt. The appeal walked Scotland S
slumbering sword, and outlawry and the
block made the name Of Glenfruin terri
BILE to victorious Clan Alpine, even to the
third and fourth generations"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
A Business Minister.

The village of Penn Yan, n. Y, is
just now agitated to its centre over the
business crookednesses of the Rev. r.
d. Phillips, one of the most prominent
Methodist ministers in that part of the
State.
Believing in the adage that it was well
to be dlligent in business as well as fer
vent in spirit, Mr.. Phillips, besides
preaching and doing regular pastoral
work, ran Grug store, u grocery store
and Touring mill Everybody thought
well of him.
Being of the kindly deposition natural
to most preachers, My Phillips gave
large and long credits to his patrons,
and when hard times came and they
could not pay and his creditors were
pressing him for their bills, he forged
several q and, though at first help
ed out, warrants are now sworn out
against him on five distinct charges of
forgery.
1t is the latest illustration of the old
truth, that man cannot serve God and
mammon, in the sense that the words
were originally uttered 1t was all right
for PaUl to make tents for living and
preach free. And the man that wants to
do that sort Of thing in these days will
be hero still. But the person that goes
into the regular business Of money-mak-
ing had better quit the pulpit before the
need of any cheating comes.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
Aswamp Angel a Free Bird.

MEMPHIS, Nov. 12.-Information was
received here at an early hour this morn
ing that Martin Mitchell, better known as
the Swamp Angel, had escaped from the
Cross county, Arkansas, jail and is once
more at liberty to deal with his enemies
as he sees fit. Mitchell was sentenced re-
Gently by the United States Court, at Lit
tie Rock. to thirty days in Jail and allow
ed to choose the prison In which he
should be incarcerated He selected
Cross county, and the sequel is he is now
free man. Certain Memphians who
have been frequently in the swamps of
Arkansas in search Of game will likely
remain on this side Of the river until Mr..
Mitchell's whereabouts are known.
Mitchell is charged with having killed nc
fewer than seven men during his career,
and he has sworn vengeance against hall
dozen citizens of Memphis, whom hC
believes caused his recent arrest and con
yictiOn.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
Peculiar Surgical Operation.

KoKoMo, IND, November 11.-One of
the most remarkable and unsuccessful
operations in surgery ever performed in
this section Of country took place in this
city to-day. The circumstances leading
to the case are these: On the evening of
the 9Th inst. the little five-year-old son Of
Mrs. Tillie Anderson, while at play, pok-
ed safety pin up one of its nostris.
Several unsuccessful efforts were made
to extricate the pin, and to-day the child
was chloroformed and its nose was split
open full length, when it was found that
the pin, in an opened condition, with the
spring end had passed out of the nostril
and had worked its way into the head,
and is imbedded back Of the right eye.
The entire medical skill of dozen lead
ing physicians Of this city was exhausted
to-day in the fruitless effort to remove
the pin. The little fellow, who is un-
usually bright, is having spasms this ev-
ening, and will die before morning.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
A Singular Amiction.

Thomas Moore, Of Lebanon, Pa, a boy
nine years old, has just had his jaws I'M
locked after having been unable to open
his mouth for ten weeks. -Four months
ago he was attacked by what appeared to
be congestion Of the kidneys. His condi-
ton rapidly grew worse and blood poison
set in. The inside coating of the lad s
mouth sloughed of, a large portion of his
tongue corroded away, and his case be-
came critical When the new tissue in
side af his mouth began to form, 1t grew
fast to his gums so that his mouth grad
ually closed and remained sealed for ten
weeks. Fortunately the upper jaw over
Tapped the lower about the sixteenth Of
an inch, and sufficient food was forced
through the aperture to keep the boy
alive. The surgical operation whereby
the boys jaws became unlocked was per,
formed by DR.. J. Ewing Mears, of Phila.
delphia. and number Of assistants. The
boy is resting quietly, and will doubtless
be restored to perfect health In few
dave
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
DEMOCRATIC INTOLERANCE.
Tho Richmond, Va, Whig Boycotted Il
Death-A Republican Newspaper
Cannot Live In Richmond.

In notice of the fact that the Wing
has passed into the hands Of receiver
tao el,,or Of that paper makes plain
statement. The suppression of the Wing
is an example of the relentless intolerance
of the Virginia Bourbons, and another
appeal to the North against Solid South.
No Southern State will ever have free
ballot and an honest count until the prin-
ciples of the Republican party are allow
ed an unfettered hearing in its political
discussions. Here swhat the Wing says:
'1t Is not necessary to go into detail
of the difficulties and struggles of the
Wing for a number of years past. Suffice
it to say (what is well-known in this
State, as well as in this city, that from
the moment it evinced determination to
| be independent of the bourbon faction in
Virginia it became the object Of every de-
vice that bourbonism could invent or
yield against it. Its subscribers and ad.
vertisers were warned" and fell from
it, and studied, systematic and persist.
ent process of boycotting and freezing
out was practiced against it, 1t made a
good fight, but the combination against
it was too strong for its valor, devotion
and constancy. Representing common
rights and interests, it was the champion
of the common people, the least able of
any class to sustain alone nm organ in
curing heavy expenses daily; and, al.
though noble band of gentlemen have
rallied to its rescue time and again with
open hand and inexhaustable generosity
it is felt that the time has arrived when
it would be unjust in every view TO ap.
peal to them for further aid in what now
and here appears to be hopeless task"
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
A GRIST 0FLATE NEWS.
A CANNIBAL's TRIAL.
Tho Colorado Man-Eater to be Retried--
Brief History of His Crime.

The case of AL. Packer, who is better
known as the Colorado cannibal," was
acted upon in the State Supreme Court
yesterday, and the action of the District
Court of Hinsdale county was reversed
Packer was sentenced to be hanged on
May 10, 1883, but his counsel obtained a
stay of the execution on the ground of
the unconstitutionality of the law under
which he was condemned. In the winter
of 1878 Packer and five companions
started overland from Salt Lake to the
San Juan country in Colorado. The
country was then almost unknown and
the party got lost in the mountains, going
for several days without food. One day,
in his desperation, Packer killed his half
starved companions and then for sixty
days thereafter subsisted on their flesh.
Packer dried some of the "meat" and
carrying 1t with him finally reached the
Los Pinos Indian Agency In the Uncom.
pahgre Valley. There he related a story
that his companions and he had become
separated and they had probably reached
some other settlement. Packer began tc
spend money lavishly, and one day while
drunk, revealed enough to create tht
suspicion that all was not right between
Packer and the men who were with him
General Charles Adams, who was ther
Agent at Los Pinos, made an investiga
tion and found the mutilated remains oi
the five men where Packer had left them
after having first denuded them of thei
flesh. Packer was placed under arres
and admitted having killed his compan
ions, but stated that he had been com
PEELED to in self,defense. He was con
fined in rickety log Jail at Saguache
and one day, not many weeks after hi
arrest, he escaped and made his way ou
of the country
1t was nine years before he was heart
of again and that was when he was ar
rested in Wyoming, where he was engag
ed on ranch. No criminal ever created
so much interest in Colorado. There wa
no difficulty in obtaining proof to con
vict him, and Judge Gerry sentenced hin
to death. Within five days of his execu
ton the Supreme Court declared the Law
under which he was convicted to be I'm
constitutional.
Almost three years have passed and tn
Courts have just reached his case again
His long confinement in jail has brokeI
down his health, and instead of fierce
looking man. eater he is in reality fl
subject for the grave. He will now b
retired under the law for manslaughtel
and If convicted can be sentenced to
term of ten years in the penitentiary.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
A clock Wound by the Sun.

There Is a clock at Brussels which
comes about as near beings perpetual
machine as can be invented, for the sun
does the winding A shaft exposed to
the solar rays causes an up-draught of air
which sets o fan in motion. The fan &C.
tuates the mechanism which raises the
weight of the clock until 1t reaches the
top, and then puts break on the fan un-
til the weight has gone down a little,
when the fan is again liberated and pro
ceeds to act as before As long as the sun
shines frequently enough and the ma
chinery does not wear out, the clock IL
practically perpetual notion machine
Miltcdukee Sentinel.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
COMING WORK oF.ooN1REss.
Opinions OF Members on the Silver Oues-
tion, Tariff and Spcakership.

LOUISVILLE, November 10.-The Cou.
Journal win publish tomorrow LET.
,.rs tror,. 80 h,,,dro, and .;x,r -,
'eis iion one hunuio. anu ''A'y ineinoers
OF Congress, fifty-nine democrats and
ninety-one Republicans, in response to
the followino four questions sent ont bv
n n e,.a,.s wo,,;nrton oor,o,,o1..,',
y. " o'caiey' w correspondent
OF the Conrier-Journdt; First, Would you
favor an amendment to the rules of the
Ho,so nrov;a;no that tho penera, arnror.
= ,.,,s . ~ $1,000.
iia'ioh pilis' eAoep. 'ne ''s.sia'iVe' sun
dry civil and deficiency bills, shall be
prepared and controlled hereafter by the
appropriate standing committees on the
several branches OF pubhc servicey Sec
ond, DO you favor any change IN the laws
governing silver coinage and silver certi-
ficates, and II so, what modification
would you regard as desirables Third,
10 what extent, In your opinion, would a
revision OF the tarlff and internal revenue
laws be desirable al tne next session.
Fourth, VINO Is your cnoice 1or the eau
Gus nomination LOT speaker
In the Democratic responses forty sey.
en- unquali1ediy favor an amendment OF
the rules, fve give a qualined answer,
1our oppose cnange anu lhfee are non
communal 10 the SILVER question 1our
1avor legisiatioh, Iorty-nlne oppose and
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
An Aged woman's Disappearance Ex
planned.

YORK, Pa, November 12.-About a
year ago woman named Rosana Burg,
aged about seventy years, with Henry
Kohler, Charles Trabert and a man nam.
ed Daniels came to this place from Ger
many. The woman kept house and the
men boarded with her The woman was
very delicate, and, 1t is said, at times was
badly beaten by the men. Last summer
the woman disappeared, the men explain
ing her absence by saying that she had
returned to Germany. A short while af-
terward the men moved out of the house.
The actions of the men aroused the sus-
picion of the neighbors. and resulted in a
search of the premises this morning. In
the cellar the body of the woman was
found in shallow grave covered with
ashes. In one Of the upper rooms blood
was found on the floor and wall, all
pointing to foul play. The woman was
known to have had 81 900 in her posses
sion before she disappeared. Last Sun
day night Kohler and. Daniels left fol
parts unknown. Trabert was arrested to.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
Twenty Million. for a Unlversity.

SAN Francisco, Nov. 10.-The details
Of Senator Stanford's scheme for the es-
tablishmcnt in California Of a great uni
versity were to-day made public. His
range at Palo Alto, near Menlo Park,
about thirty miles from San Francisco.
has been selected as the site. The several
buildings comprising the University will
be on the general plan OF parallelogram,
and will be constructed so as to permit
additions being made, as the necessities
Of the institution may require. Senator
Stanford will give to the university his
Palo Alto, Gridley and Vina properties
worth $5,800,00 To this he win add Q
money donation SO as 10 make the tota
endowment OF the university $20, 900, 600
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
Murder That VIII Not Out.

The small, venomous serpents Of ORR
entail countries have always been in
vogue as means of suicide, the asp Of
Cleopatra recurring to every ones memo
ry as prominent example. In certain
parts of Bengal there issaid to be race
Of gypsies, one Of whom, for fee, will
furnish small cobra to any applicant,
"and no questions asked" A man who
desires to commit murder procures one
Of these reptiles and places it within a
bamboo just long enough to let the head
protrude at one end and the tail at the
other. Armed with this deadly weapon
the murderer creeps softly to his enemy's
tent at dead Of night, cuts hole in the
wall and introduces the bamboo. The
tortured reptile, careless upon whom 1t
wreaks Its animosity, strikes Its fangs in.
to the sleeper Then 1t is withdrawn and
the assassin steals silently away.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19

Warden Brush said that Ward would
be treated as an ordinary convict. His
money could not procure him any i'm
munity from the common lot. Chief
Keeper Connaughton said that Ward
only weighed 120 pounds when he ar
rived at the prison, but would weigh at
least 1S5 pounds within six months
Ward has been assigned to work on the
second floor of the stove ve-mounting shop,
his task being TO fit the rough casting,
before they are finished. The work is
easy and comparatively clean. He will
begin his labor at 1880 o'clock in the
morning and end at in the afternoon.
The State will receive 56 cents day for
his services. ~. Y. World.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
-Duripr the next three wears David

During the next three years David
Hill will enact the principal role in a po-
litical comedy to be known as "The Cave
of Adullam." Saul Cleveland will be
the heavy villain from whom all good
dyed.in-the-wool, copper bottomed Demo.
Gratis will flee. David will take them In
to his cave, and will lead them in their
raids for spoils. As things look now we
think Saul will have a hard time Of 1t.
David thinks he is anointed with fresh
oil to be the successor Of Saul, while
Saul's Mugwump troops have persisted
in the valley Of Gchenna, Here endeth
the first lesson.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
An Exciting scramble for First Place.

scene-Ncw building in course Of
erection in view Of government offices.
Government Clerk Ito fellow clerk):
"say, Fred, I've been watching that
bricklayer for the last twenty minutes
and he has not done stroke Of work all
the tmel The country may well be GO.
ing to the dogsp'
Easy. going Bricklayer TO fellow artis.
any: "Say, Bill, I've been watching
that ere clerk for the last half-hour. and
blow mel he's done nuthin' all the time
Taxes may well be high, Wonder wha1
! pay he gets for thatf"-Daily Grcphic.
Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-19
Editorial Faith, Hope and Charity.

A well regulated newspaper man must
have faith in his wood pile, hope in a
bright future and charity that reaches
out beyond delinquent subscribers. Faith,
hope and charity comprise the most diff
cult tripartitc alliance there Is in this
world to keep up with. Baker CITY (0re.,
Sage Brush,