Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-12


as Chief Signal officer.
Chicago, on the 4th, a meeting Of barb
ed wire men was held, at which it was
decided to advance the price of barbed
wire one-eighth OF cent per pound.
Thick set wire was put at one eighth over
cattle wire Hog wire was placed at the
same figure.
In letter to Senator Hoar, Charles
Francis Adams, Jr., denies that he is the
mere figure-head for Jay Gould in the
management of the Union Pacific Road.
The document is lengthy one, and was
called forth by Mr.. Hoar's bill i'll relation
to the company.
ONE of the last acts of Secretary Teller
was to issue patents for lands in Louisi ana,
granted in aid of the construction of tn Q
New Orleans & Pacific Railroad. These
lands, embracing about 700, 900 acres, are
comprised in what is commonly known as
s'the backbone grant"
THE Government receipts from all
sources for the eight months of the cur
rent fiscal year were $211 ,095, 100, or nearly
SIC, 0OO, 600 less than for the corresponding
eight months in 1884, while the expendi-
lures for the eight months of this year
were s, 500, 900 more than in 1884
A SUPPLEMENTARY treaty with Spain
has been concluded. The principal
changes are the provisions that the re-
duction of duties on cigars and tobacco
shall be twenty per cent, and the reduc =
ton in the grade Of sugar for free admis-
sion from No. 16 Dutch standard to No. Is
Dutch standard.
TIE Australian merchants RAISING funds
for their contingent, caused a feeling of
emulation, and leading merchants are dis
posed, should the Government equip q
couple of good regiments, to supplement
any grant by raising a patriotic fund to
provide for the families and those whom
the chances of war may disable.
The Union Metallic Cartridge Company
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has received an Or
der from the English Government for So
O0O, 900 cartridges, and another order from
the Russian Government for 100, 900
more. These orders are the largest ever
received by any concern at one time in the
world.
DURING an operate performance by the
Emma Abbott Company at Little Rock,
Ark, on the night of the 9Th, some of the
scenery took fire. Miss Abbott, who was
enacting dying scene, with great pres
ence of mind, sprang up from her recu M
bent position, and with blanket smooth
cred the flames thus averting what for the
moment promised to be terrible panic.
The Duke of Edinburgh, commander of
the channel feet, made a speech the night
of the 9Th, in which he said the vessels
under his command were. fearfully de-
ficient in the equipment required by
moderns methods of warfare, and he i'm.
plored the people to vote in favor of APP
propriating the necessary funds for keep
ing the existing vessels in a serviceable
condition.
THE President sent the following Cabi-
net nominations to the Senate on the 9th:
For Secretary of State, Thomas F. Bay
ard, of Delaware; Secretary of the Treas
ury, Daniel Manning, of New York; Sec
rotary of the Interior, L. Q. c. Lamar, of
Secretary of War, w. c.
Endicott, of Massachusetts,; Secretary Of
the Navy, William C. Whitney, of New
York; Postmaster General, w. F. Villas,
Of Wisconsin; Attorney General, Angus.
tins Il. Garland, of Arkansas. They were
not Immediately confirmed on account OF
the opposition to Mr.. Bayard by Senator