Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-10-01

the limestone OuSG Oh St. LOUIS ITOIu
his feet, and Is once more a resident of
Shannon county.
Henry D. Green delivered temper
ance lecture at West Plains last Sunday
night And yet he was born and rails
ed in Kentucky!
A thief in Cape Girardeau the other
day broke fifty-dollar window to
steal an eight-dollar watch, 1t is just
this sort of improvidence that keeps
good times away.
The Crystal Mirror has fount of
map type, which it uses alternately to
show why the county seat should not
be removed, and to depict the loath-
some profile of base contemporary.
You can tell that the frosty mornings
are upon us by glancing over the local
columns of the country papers. The
song they all are singing, is, WOOD
on Subscriptions"
BoiIInser county rejoices in the pos
session of /, new courthouse, which, the
Press says, is daisy" We congrat-
ulate the BolIiugers, and wish them
better luck with it than attended the
old.
The branch Pen. is again "located"-
this time at Boonville, just sixty miles
from the parent institution. Let the
commissioners try once more, aud put
it right alongside the old Pen.-it will
save money for the people ill several
ways.
A new Hall built by Rising Star
Lodge, No. 392, l. o. o. F., at Bonnie
Terre, was dedicated on the 18th ult.
The proceedings were witnessed by
over three hundred people, and a
grand spread" at night followed and
concluded the day.
A burglar at Bismarck was captured
one night last week, after he had en-
tered six houses and broken open
trunk in the depot-all done that same
night! What energy was here misdi-
rected. Why didn't he make an i'll
surance agent of himself?
The Southeast Missouri Medical AS
sociation meets at Potosi on the Sd of
November. AS the members refuse to
"board around" but by solemn resolve
insist on lodging at the hotels and pay
ing their bills, like other folks, let the
Potosi landlords fill their larders and
set their houses in orde.'.
Marion Griffin, 55 years old, living
near Jackson, Mo-, is charged by his
three daughters with having ruined
two of them, and attempted to violate
the person of the third. AT last ac-
counts he was still at large and unmo-
Tested of Justice. "a short shrift and
a long rope" ought to be his portion.
There is curious uniformity in the
number of persons killed annually in
India by wild animals and snakes.
The Indian Medical Gazette gives the
number of those killed in Bengal alone
by animals, for five years, at from ,264
to 1902 in each year. The snakes de-
stroyed from 9,153 to 10,O64 annually.
Jefferson Democrat: "The Ironton
Herald has passed in its checks and is
now a thing of the past. Its editors
:el, Cd, 1no1 of
energy and got up a very respectable
paper; but the REGISTER, which al
ready occupied the field, was also
good paper and all that the town and
county needed. The result has been
just what we expected would occur
sooner"
The Bonnie Terre Register thus ''cor-
daily greets" a coming brother: 1.-THE
Ste. Genevieye Herald says, John La
Chance is coming to Bonnie Terre to
embark in newspaper enterprise. We
are glad to hear this, as it will give us
an opportunity to enterview the gen.
tleman in regard to the $3.50 worth OF
h0 Aoeu uOhO LII ehAo oAAASS SoAAA~
weeks ago which he forgot to pay for
when he left"
Gov. Marmaduke has again vetoed
the Branch Pen. selection, and the
Boonvillains are mad as wet hens. TITS
said the commissioners will make no
more selections, and the "circus'w which
has been amusing the people all sum-
mer will close for rest and repairs. All
the actors, save our own Sebert, have
met with accidents more or less severe,
and it is reported the Hon. Johns neck
is fractured beyond hope of complete
reduction.
That especial" from from Ironton to
the Globe Democrat last Sunday is one
of the shadowings of the beauties of the
Civil Service Reform which keeps Re-
publicans in office under Democratic
administration. The especial" was
written by Republican here who OBJ
tanned his information from some dirty
partisan underling-some Republican
spy-in the Interior Department. We