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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
Mothers Work.

Baking, stewing, and brewing,
Roasting, frying, and boiling,
Sweeping, busting, and cleaning,
Washing, starching, and ironing,
Ripping, turning, and mending,
Cutting, basting, and stitching,
Making the old like new;
Shoestrings to lace,
Faces to wash,
Buttons to sew,
And the like of such:
Stockings to darn,
While the children play,
Stories to tell,
Tears wipe away,
Making them happy
The livelong day;
1t is ever thus, from morn till night;
Who says that a mothers work is light!
At evening, four
Little forms in white;
Prayers all said,
And the last good night,
Tucking them safe
In each downy bed,
Silently asking
O'er each head,
That the dear Father
In heaven will keep
Safe all the darlings,
Awake or asleep.
Then / think the old adage true will prove
Its easy to labor for those that we love.'
All me! dear me often say,
AS l hang the tumbled clothes away;
And the tear drops start
While my burdened heart
Aches for the mother across the way.
Where, o where, are
Her nestlings flown?
All, all are gone,
Save one alone!
Folded their garments
With tenderest care,
Impressed the pillow
And vacant the chair;
No ribbons to tie,
No faces to wash,
No hair all awry;
No merry voices
To hush into rest;
God save them!
He took them,
And he knoweth best;
tut ah the heart anguish the tears that fall !!
his mothers work is the hardest of all!
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
BickIen's Arn1ca SaIve.

The BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter. Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t is
refunded. Price, % cents per box. For
sale by p. r. Crisp,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
Try it Yourself.

The proof of the pudding is not In chew
ing the string. but in having an opportunity
to try the article yourself, p. II. Crisp, the
druggist, has free trial bottle of DR.. Bosan-
kos Cough and Lung Syrnp for each and
everv one who is afflicted with Coughs, Colds,
Asthma, Consumption or any Lung Affection.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-01-22
OmciaI Directory.

MARTIN L. CLaRDY, NJ. c., Tenth District
FaITangton.
BERNARD ZwART, Q. 8. Commissioned, East
erI District of Missouri Ironton.
&. ID. YANoEY, State Senator of oath Dis
trict, Piedmont.
JNo. L. THOMAS. Judge 26th Circuit, De
Soto.
VIII. r. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney
Ifonton.
THos. 6. FOLEY, Representative, Belleview
A.W. HoLLoMAN. Presiding Judge. Arcadia
DAVID I'll. PALMER, Belleyiew, and j os. G CLARK
SON, Arcadia, Associate Judges.
Franz DINGER, Judge of Probate, Ironton.
w. A. FLETCHER, Sheriff s. Collector, Iron
ton, 81
JOSEPH HUFF Clerk Circuit Court, Ironton.
q. B. NALL, Clerk County Court, 1ronton.
1. G. WHITwoRTH, Treasurer, Irontcn.
s. L. BUFoRD, Assessor, Belleview.
JACOB T. AXE, Public Administrator, Iron
ton.
j. GRANDHoMME, Coroner, Ironton.
f. G. MILLER, County School Commission
e. for Iron county. Missouri, Pilot Knob.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

At an early hour on the morning of
the 9Th inst. Milwaukee was visited by
the most disastrous confagraticn
that has occurred in that city since
the Chapman fire in October last year.
Two OF the oldest and finest -four
ing mills in the Northwest-the
Daisy and Empire, located between
Commerce Street and the old canal
bed-immediately north of Poplar
Street, are now blackened ruins. The
Daisy Mill is a total loss and the
Empire Mill nearly so. Soon after
the discovery of the fire a terrific ex-
plosion of flour dust occurred n the
top floor of the Daisy Mill, wrecking
the building and seriously if not fatal
ly iniuring four fremen. The entire
fire department and all the available
men on the police force were called
out, but both buildings were totally
destroyed with their stocks and ma
chinery. The owners of the Empire
Mill, S. I'll. Seamans & Co., estimate
t1eir loss at $85, 600 The Daisy was
owned by Edward Sanderson and E.
p. Allis, who place their loss at about
100000. There was $95, 900 insur-
ance on the two mills.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

as Judge Jackson, whose nerve and
firmness find respect as quickly with
desperadoes as with peaceable citizens.
Gov. Knott expresses himself as much
pleased with the manner in which
Judge jackson has conducted court in
the mountains. II would rather send
him to try these lawless people than q
regiment of soldiers" observed the
governor In a conversation recently.
There is no doubt that rigid and de-
cent prosecution and the slow entrance
OF Eastern and English capital are do
ing much to civilize the desperate
mountain characters of Tennessee and
Kentucky; but there is another pow.
erful cause at work This is the
steady adoption of temperance laws;
nearly 40 out of 118 counties in Ken
lucky having within q recent period
voted In favor Of local option, with a
prospect that more will follow. One
OF the Queerest devices for evading
prohlbltory law ever discovered was
recently observed in Wolf County, KY,
by g. deputy United States marshal.
1t had been noticed for some time that
Notwithstanding the apparent rigid
enforcement OF the prohibitory statute
numerous instances of drunkenness oc-
Cured. Where the liquor was OBJ
tanned was a mystery, but the boys
found 1t somewhere, and one day this
marshal resolved to ascertain who
sold it. To this end he followed a
character about town whose unsteady
gait indicated frequently that he GER
talnly chad been there" The fellow
picked his way to a forest in which
had been built at the entrance Of a
cave a stout log house. No door or
window was visible, but when the
whisky hunter knocked three times
against the wood a fat board manip-
ulated from within slowly slid out.
There was a tin cup on this board,
and when the man on the outside
dropped q nickel into the cup, the
board was pulled in to be returned
In q few seconds filled with a stiff horn
of"moonshine" whisky. Invent down
the outsiders throat at one gulp and
then the cup was pulled in again. By
this cunning style Of cheating the dew
IL around the stump" so to speak, the
law, which provides that a person
must be seen selling whisky to secure
conviction, was cleverly evaded.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
OUT Nv THE COLD.

Sad Case of Expos nre and Suffering Re-
ported from Iowa.
BURLINGTON, a., Dec. ia pitiful
case OF exposure and suffering was re-
ported last night. A party of French
Canadians came to the city on Monday
last, consisting of two men, two wom-
en-, and half dozen or more children,
barefooted and ragged. The party
were travelling in two covered carts,
and had with them two bears, with
which the men gave exhibitions on
the streets, while the women and chill
dren solicited aims. Theparty were en-
route from the North to ST. Louis, and
left on Tuesday for the South. Yes
terday two ladies passing along the
road discovered the party encamped
in open tents about six miles south of
this city, where one Of the women had
given birth to a child, both the infant
and mother lying on the bare and
frozen ground The ladies had the
mother and child removed to a place
of shelter, but both will undoubtedly
die from their terrible exposure.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
PRICES OF PRODUCE.
Interesting Report by the Department of
Agriculture.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 1O.-The
crop report OF the Department OF Agricult53
ure for December, gives the farm prices of
the principal crops. The increase in the
product OF corn has reduced the average
value OF the crop to 33 cents per bushel
The average value of the previous crop in
December was sc cents. The reduction is
largest in the Ohio Valley, and in the South
ern States west of the Mississippi the in
crease of stock feeding has corrected the
tendency to extremely low prices.
Compared with former prices, corn
values are very low. For the
preceding five years nearly all under aver
age in production. the average farm value
was AT cents per bushel and the preceding
ten years 426 cents. The price of wheat
though still low is considerably above last
DEFENDERS average, which was 65 cents.
That of 1888 was 81 cents; the present is
1871 cents. again equal to half the I'M
precedented decline indicated last Deem
Der. For the five years past the average
farm value has been 90 cents per bushel
and for the preceding ten years 105 cents.
Last years farm value was 80 per cent,
lower than for the ten years ended in 1879,
due mainly to full European production
and smaller foreign demand for surplus
nearly equal to third Of the entire crop.
The range OF state prices is from 81 cents
IN Nebraska TO 1Z0 Genus IN Massachusetts.
1t is above 81 in the Eastern and
in the cotton states for home grown
wheat. The value in New York state
is SO, an increase Of II cents;
Pennsylvania 95, an increase of II cents;
Ohio 81, an increase of 16 cents; Kentucky
95, an increase of 19 cents: Michigan 81,
an increase of 10 cents; Indiana So an in
crease OF 10 cents; Illinois 81, an increase
Is cents; Wisconsin 76, an increase of 16
cents; Minnesota 70, an increase of 20
cents; Iowa 81, an increase of II cents;
Missouri II, an increase Of Is cents: Kan
sas 65, an increase of 20 cents Nebraska
81, an increase of L cents; Dakota So, an
increase of IL cents. The average price for
rye is Sc cents, 4 cents more than last
year; of barley Sc cents, an increase of Z
cents; OF buckwheat Sc cents, decrease OF
B cents; OF potatoes 45 cents, an increase
OF cents; of oats % cents, the same as
last year. The price of cotton averages S.3
pounds OF lint, farm value, which is 9 mills
less than the December price last year. The
farm prices are: Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia 8.5; Alabama
and Louisiana 8.3; Mississippi ga; Texas
and Tennessee 8.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
A BARRIERS Magnetic Touch.
from the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Fress.]
There is barber, the proprietor of
small shop less than q stones throw
from Eighth and Chestnut Streets, who
possesses mesmeric power. The touch
of his sinewy fingers varies from the
softest caress to an invigorating rub,
and under his digital manipulation a.
customer is often lulled into a quiet
slumber. An oldgentleman whoseface
was familiar in the Stock Exchange
twenty years ago patronizes the
quiet little shopregularly. Thereisn't
the faintest sign of hair upon his
polished pate, but he drops into the
soft upholstered chair with the salts
fled air of man whose flowing locks
have become burdensome, and spends
an hour IN dreamy drowsiness under
the soporific touch of the silent mes
merist. When he quits the chair it is
with a reluctant I-could- stay-there-a
week expression, and he toddles out to
Chestnut Street to a carriage. which
brings him down upon this errand
three times week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
FASHIONABLE OR OTHER WISE.

"YoU are the autumn leaf" said he,
And my arms are the book, you know;
| Now place the leaf in the book, you see
| And tenderly press it, SOL
The maid looked up with glance demure,
| AMI bushes her fair cheeks wore
| AS she softly whispered "The leaf I'm sure
| Needs pressing little more.''
| WALKING dresses are made shorter
than formerly.
BoDlCEs of black lace or jetted net
with low Innings are stylish adjuncts
to black dresses.
VESTS are worn with every sort of
skirt, and are short, long, tight fitting,
or loosely draped.
CRAPE-sToNE jewelry is much worn
for mourning, and is made in variety
of designs. 1t is durable and tasteful
Buttons, buckles and clasps are also
made of it.
SOME newly imported salad dishes,
bowls, we will say, are of crystal, with
the edge or brim bound with silver.
| The silver need not necessarily be 'ssol-
i'd" however.
THREE canes fastened to an oblong,
bottomless waste basket, and covered
with brightest of bright-colored ribbon,
forms one OF the newest cane racks for
the modern hallway.
SKINS of animals exhibited in menag-
cries are even used to trim some of the
new hats and bonnets-tiger, lion,
panther, etc. ALI this is consistent
with the ''fair barbarians."
A CYCLONE of disapprovalhas struck
the plaques, and they are disappear
ing from the 'front parlor" with great
rapidity. They are the ornaments
here to-day and gone tomorrow.
ENTIRE skirts of fur and Astrakhan
are seen already, and the wearer ap-
parently find them heavy. II woman
was compelled to wear such skirt
she would think it a great hardship.
TURKISH Jackets that do not reach
below the armpit may be made of vel
vet. They are covered with delicate
embroidery, and some of them have
full, loose undersleeves of thin mate
rial.
HAND-sATCHELS, carried by the ladies,
are something like themagicians' bags,
for, although very small, they contain
q pocket-book, handkerchief, vinai-
grette, card case and extra pair of
| gloves.
A COSTUME of bottle-green serge has
panels of cashmere with Turkish de-
signs in soft colors. The bodice is
pointed and has high collar, plastron
and cuffs of the cashmere. The visite
and bonnet are of the cashmere.
A VERY charming and youthful even
ing dress is of aurora pink glace silk,
covered with soft barege of the same
shade of color. The barge forms deep
founce around the foot, and in the
upper part tunic fastened up with
large bows of pink plush ribbon
streaked with gold, the gold stripes
being transparent like tulle. There
are two bodices-one low, with draper
les of pink tulle; the other high, mere
ly open in front and trimmed with bow
of plush ribbon similar to those on the
skirt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
BASE BALL EMBROGLIO
Growing Out of the Revocation of the
Metropolitan Franchise.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 9.--At the
meeting of the American Association of
base ball clubs yesterday, after the fran
chise of the Metropolitan Club, of New
York, had been revoked, and the National
Club OF Washington admitted to member
ship, resolution was adopted by which a
player released from an association club
will be obliged to play with any association
club desiring his services within ten days
from the time OF his release. Mr.. Wiman,
who had lately acquired the ownership Of
the Metropolitan Club, said: II do not
propose to tamelv submit to treatment SO
unbusiness-like. Staten Island shall have
a base ball club, and already [ have had
offers to form new and stronger assOcla-
ton than the one just now guilty of the
sharp game rejecting very little credit on
base ball ethics. There is a fight on hand"
President Mcknight, at the conclusion of
the meeting, said the American Association
was forced to revoke the franchise of the
Metropolitan Club because that club had
been removed from New York City to Stat
en- Island, and it's management and officers
were at all times controlled by the officials
of the New York League club. When any
dispute arose between the two organiza-
tions the Metropolitan representatives
acted at all times in accordance
with instructions from the league club, and
IN addition reported all contemplated action
to the league club officers. 1t is understood
among the base ball managers tha6 the
players of the Metropolitan Club will be
placed at the disposal of the Baltimore and
Washington clubs. Manager Byrne, of the
Brooklyn Club, however, insists upon hav-
ing r, the Metropolitan first baseman
transferred to Brooklyn. The board o
directors formally awarded the champion
ship pennant for 1886 to the ST. Louis
Club. Mr.. Wiman, has taken legal advice
and will institute proceedings against each
and all the members for $50, 900 for direct
losses sustained.
The arbitration committee of the League
and American Association met last even
ing. The report on qualified admission of
minor leagues and associations was adopt
ed. 1t provides for the protection of all
players engaged by these clubs, who are
signed after November ]. This will give
the League and American association
from October 20 to November 1 to engage
players from the clubs, or the minor
leagues. The black list of these minor
leagues will be observed. The admission
will be $50 each for each league or associa-
ton. The following have already applied
for protection under the national agree
ment: The Southern, the Eastern, New
England and Canadian League.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
Children on the Stage.

From the New York Mail and Express.I
Between what ages are the children
you train for the stage?"
"Six months is the youngest age at
which take them. OF course, I don't
want many as young as that, but I
like to have two good babies always
on hand. The babies in Confusion
were mine, and [ supply the baby for
Hearts Of Oak. From babyhood |
skip four years, the other children
ranging in age from 4 to IA. I don't
confine myself to supplying New
York managers, but will engage
children for good travelling COM
panies, at the Same time endeavor-
ing to get their mothers or sisters en-
gagged as super ladies. The little ones
| instruct are usually the children of
people in middle circumstances. and
their earnings are nice help to the
family. never call rehearsal for
any time during school hours, and am
careful to see that the children are
carefully taken care of on their way to
and from the theater. [ also notify
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children of all engagements
I make. For these reasons Mr.. Gerry
does not trouble me-"
"Do you find it easier to teach girls
or boys?"
"Boys, most decidedly, The little
girls think too much Of dress. Even
my little Bijou has the mania. She
always asks: Mamma! Am | poor
in the beginning and rich in the end, or
poor all through?' If it's the former
she's perfectly satisfied, if the latter,
she doesn't ike It,
"Don't some of the children become
very STACEY by being constantly amid
theatrical surroundings
Undoubtedly, and I can tell you
some examples which are as pathetic
as they are amusing. Onelittlefellow,
the first time he was taken to the sea-
shore, exclaimed, as he saw the waves
rolling in: Mamma! How do they
work them?' Another child a little girl,
recently went to the country for the
first time. 1t was night when she
started. Early in the morning she
looked out of the window ct the coun-
try landscape. why, mamma she
said, that must have been painted by
VOaot1in -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
MEXICAN MARA UDERS.
A Band of Soldiers Crosses into Texas
and Gobbles American Horses.

u
and GObbles American Horses.
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. ia News
Austin special says Adjt.-Gen. King
yesterday received q letter from w. III.
Titus, q reliable gentleman residing in
III Paso County, stating that on the
I'd inst, about twenty-five Mexican
soldiers crossed into Texas and DELHI
erately stole a herd of twenty-five cat
tie belonging to Americans. When the
soldiers put in an appearance the COW
boys asked them their authority for
crossing into Texas and driving off
cattle. The leader told them they had
better go back to camp. Titus asks
the Acknowledgement for state rangers
to protect the frontier. Gen. King re-
piled in substance that thestate has a
small force of rangers near Maria Pre-
sidio County, and whatever aid they
can render will befreely given, but such
an invasion by foreign soldiers is fully
within the scope of the authority of
the United States army. He tells
Titus to Immediately bring the mat
ter to the attention of the army OIL
GERS commanding the troops on the
Rio Grande; that the meager appro-
priation by the Texas legislature
places it beyond the power OF the adj
jutant-general to adequately protect
the border people. He therefore adj
vises Titus and other cattlemen to
obtain proof of the above particular
robbery and forward g. sworn state
ment to the governor for transmission
to the President.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
AGE NO PROTECTION.
An Old Man BrutaIlY Assaulted at Rock
ford, Ill.


ROCKFORD, H., Dec. 11.-William
Foley, aged 60, was aroused yester-
day morning early by some one who
knocked and asked for matches. He,
supposing it was neighbor who had
run short, opened the door to hand
them out, when he was felled to the
floor by blow. Two men then leaped
upon him, pounding and kicking him
about the face and chest until he be-
came insensible. They then went
through the house, obtaining 500 in
money, and left. Foley was unableto
rise from the floor, but crawled on his
hands and knees to the door, which
had been left open, and managed to
attract the attention of neighbors by
his cries, about sunrise. He Is in a
pitiable condition, with great cuts and
bruises all over his body, besides some
internal injuries. The doctors fear he
cannot recover. Foley's wife was alb
sent from town and he was alone in
the house.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
At a Scotch Baptism.

An old Scotchman when taking his
BARNS to be baptized usually spoke OF
them as laddies or lassies, as the case
might be. At last his wife said he
must not say it was a laddie or lassie,
but an infant. So the next time that
Sandy had occasion to 60 to the clergy
man, the latter said: "Weel, Sanity, is
it a ladder" otis nae d laddie," was
the answer ''Then it's a lassie." It's
nae lassie," said Sandy. "Weel,
mon, what is it then ?" said the aston
ished preacher. 81 dinna remember
vera weel," said the parent, "but I
think the wife said it was an illefant."
The clergyman finally found out that
1t was not an elephant but an infant
be was expected to baptize.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

Thousands of Cattle Still In the Oklahoma
Country.


LAWRENCE, Kas., Dec. 12.-In an
swer to an inquiry, Capt. Couch, the
Oklahoma boomer, who has just re-
turned from the Indian Territory
said: ''The cattlemen are not all
driven off the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe reservations by any means. There
are thousands of cattle in the Okla
homa country; indeed, senators are
besieging the department to allow the
cattlemen to remain with their herds,
owing to the loss and inconvenience
in moving at this season of the year.
The cattlemen, in obedience to the
Presidents proclamation and order,
obeyed TO this extent: They removed
from the reservation their fat cattle
and shipped them to market. Their
young cattle and COWS, pretty much,
all remain there"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16
No Longer bleeding Kansas"
from the Leavenworth Times. I

During the year 1885 Kansas has
gained 100000 in population. She
has produced 2,OOO,OOO,OOO bushels
OF corn, ten bushels of wheat for every
one of her million and quarter citi.
zens. Her stock interests have won.
derfully increased, and there has been
progress in all right directions. No
one is now ashamed to proclaim he is
from Kansas. What makes this
so grand a commonwealth? First,
the coming together of the go-ahead
people OF every state and nation, and
harmonious work in building up home
and society; next, a genial climate
rich soil, pure water land plenty of it J
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

choice for his successor. 1t is proba-
BILE two men will be selected, and the
appointment be made on Monday.
Mr.. Mannix has offered no further ex-
PLANTATION of the shortage in the as
sets in his hands, amounting to near
ly 100000, except that when he saw
losses had been suffered he bought
more stocks in the hope Of retrieving,
but was ALWAYS disappointed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

KING LUDWIG, OF Bavaria, was talk
ing a solitary walk the other day in
the Bavarian Alps when his passage
across a field was suddenly impeded
by an angry OK. The king waited pa
tiently tor time for the beast to
move on, and then seized rail, bay
onet fashion, and charged the OK with
success. This pleased the eccentric
monarch so much that he had himself
photographed in the same position OF
attack.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-16

FRENCH corduroy is much used for
street costumes. 1t is soft in texture
and has velvety look.