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Iron County register., 1885-04-23
Let Democrats Fill the Offices.

The voters in this country outnum-
Der thu greatest possible number Of
Federal officials by an enormous ma
jority. Compared TO the number Of
voters in either of the two great politi-
cal divisions. the officials are about as
one is to fifty. The number of men
who seek office is much greater than
that of the actual officeholders; put, in
comparison with the voters, the office
| seekers are still insignificant. A very
small proportion of citizens want office,
and u very small proportion would
take it. They have their own affairs
| to look after.
The opinion is expressed in many
quarters that the public interest as to
how the offices are filled is confined to
| the narrow circle of those who aspire
to fill them. This is the view of the
Mugwump journals that wish 10 keep
the Republicans in, and of the civil
| service reformers whose nerves are SO
shaken by change. 1t harm0nizes
amazingly with the style of reasoning
with which Providence has endowed
the inventors of the patent machinery
for reconstructing the civil service.
Yet there never was an idea more
destitute OF sense. 1t is one of the vir-
tues and advantages of Il free people
that nothing among them commands
such universal attention AS politics.
Here their interests are ceaseless and
absorbing, their sympathies Intense,
and their animosities bitter. Men are
for whatever conduces to extend their
party's influence, and against whatev-
er tends to weaken it and to strength
en- their opponents. They want to see
the Government controlled and its af-
fairs administere by officers who share
their sentiments, who believe in the
same principles, and are for the promo
ton Of the same measures. To wish
otherwise would be equivalent to wish
ing to recruit your army from the camp
of your foes. That never has been
done yet by patriots, and it never will
be. There is universal sentiment
against it; and until that becomes re-
versed and human nature experiences
O material and lamentable alteration.
the great mass of Democrats and Re-
publicans will wish to see their friends
in office. Any effort to resist this de-
sire will have very serious effect up
on the party which is responsible for it.
Men are for their friends, and not for
their enemies;and in a matter of sem
timent and feeling like politics, this is
truer than in anything else.
Iron County register., 1885-04-23

THAT HACKING CoUGH can be so quickly
cured hy Shiloh's Cure. Weguarnntee Il.
Iron County register., 1885-04-23
OHcial Directory.

MARTIN L. CLARDY, NJ. C., Tenth District
Pennington
BERNARD ZwARr u >. Commissioner, East
ern District u Missouri, frontcn , -.
&. ID. YANCEY State Senator OF -fth DIS
trict, Piedmont. .
JNo. l.. THOMAS, Judge Zo0h OfcuiI' Oe
Soto. -
Will z. EDGAR, Prosecuting Attorney
Ironton.
THOs. G. FOLEY, Repre- sentative Beileview
N HorIOY,S Presidin Juiye, Arcadia
DAVID H. PALMER, Belleview, and j os u CLARK
SON. Arcaiia, Associate Judges.
Franz DISGER. Judge OF Probate. lronton.
W. A. FLETCHER, Collector lronton-
8. E. BUFoRD, sheriff. lronton.
JOSEPH HUFF Clerk Circuit Court, lrontoh-
q. B. NALL. Clerk County Court, l-o"t"n-
" a WHJryORTH Treasurer. Ironton
.INo w HARRAL, Assessor, B"ieview
JAcoR T. AXE, public Administrator, IRON
ton.
J. GRANDHoMME, Coronar, lronton.
JSo b. SCcTT, e. unity Sci 'ittu.u II ifsi' n
er for Iron county. Misso uri. lronton-
Iron County register., 1885-04-23
Mark Twain and the Concord Sages.

Two rr three weeks ago the Trustees
of the Concord Library formally pro-
nounced sentence on Mark Twain's last
book 1.-THE Adventures of Huck cherry
Finn" by voting to exclude it forever
frum the shelves over which they ex-
ercise censorship. This decree, as aw-
full in its way as Bunthorne's curse.
was promptly telegraphed to all parts
of The Union, probably at the expense
of the enterprising humorist himself.
He certainly could afford to do so as a
matter of business, to say nothing OF
the personal and strictly esoteric graf
ificatiun which his Oversoul must have
derived from the solemn deliverance vi
the summer philosophers.
We are sorry to have our commence
in the Trustees of the Concord Public
Library shaken by an indiscreet reve-
lat;on by one of their number. 1t looks
very much as if there was something
behind the reasons publicly assigned
bv these stern conservators of the Dig
nified i'm literature for their condemna-
tion of q book which contains much
matter for laughter, but little for serl-
ous criticism. One of the Trustees, III
an interview with a Boston reporter.
has inadvertently revealed the fact
that on general principles no fiction OF
anv sort is admitted to the shelves of
the library. 1t appears, therefore, that
the Trustees must have purchased the
volume in question under the mistaken
imnression that they were acquiring a
biographical work, and that Huckle-
berry finn was real person.
IF this is the case, it is easy TO un.
derstand why the summer philosophers
should hasten to get rid of Mark
Twain's book. Was it quite candid,
though-quite worthy of natures per-
manently occupied with the True, the
Beautiful, and the Good-to attempt
to conceal their rather amusing mis-
take behind "a formal process of con-
demnation and excoInmunica.ionp
IT would be Interesting TO learn what
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NUMBER Al

the philosophers thought they were
getting when they added the Life of
Hucklrberry Finn to the biographical
department of the Concord library.
Did they suppose that Huck was a
General of the American Revolution,
'r Mayfiower pilgrim, or Neo-Pla-
tonist p3ilos ,pher, or celebrated
malefactor, or French statesman?
We should like to KNOWN. Y. Sun.
Iron County register., 1885-04-23
IMPORTANT.

When you visit or leave New York City,
save Baggage Expressage andiCarriage Hire,
and stop at the Grand Union Hotel, opposite
Grand Central Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at cost of one
million dollars, reduced to $1.00 and upwards
per day. European plan. Elevator. Res.
fauranr supplied with the best. Horse cars.
stages and elevated railroad to all depots.
Families can live better for less money at the
Grand Union Hotel than at any other first.
class hotel in the city.
Iron County register., 1885-04-23
Things That Never Die.

The sure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse of worldless prayer,
The dream of love and truth,
The longing after something lost,
The spirits yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes
These things shall never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
\ brother in his need,
The kindly word i'll grief's dark hour,
That proves friend indeed;
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When justice threatens nigh;
The Borrowings OF contrite heart
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work to do;
Lose not chance to waken love,
Be firm and just and true;
SO shall light that carnot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel voices say to thee,
"These things can never die"
Iron County register., 1885-04-23

Many unscrupuIous dealers may tell you
they have remedies for Coughs and Colds
quail in every respect just as good rs the old
reliable DIR. Bosanko Cough and Lung Syrup,
unless you insist upon this remedy and will
take no other, yon are liable to be greatly
deceived. Price, so cents and $1.00. SOlu by
p. r. Crisp, Ironton. 3
Iron County register., 1885-04-23

p. r. Crisp the Druggist, who is always
looking after the interest of his customers:
has now secured the sale ct DIR. Bosanko's
Cough and Lung Syrup, a remedy that new
er fails to cure Coughs, Colds, Pains in the
Chest and all Lung Affections. For proof
trya free sample bottle. Regular size so
cents and 81 90. z
Iron County register., 1885-04-23
Buck1en's Arnlca 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. II is
sefunded. Price, % cents per box. For
rale by 2. X. Crisp.
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A Pleasant TriD.
A Flying Visit IT, California, and til.
Impression 1t Left.

Superintendent W. T.. Hall, of the Alic.
mine, returned on Saturday from a "a
weeks trip to California, and is somewhat
taken with the looks Of the country. After
leaving Butte he met in Salt Lake j. r.
Walker and son, and the three started
west. The railroad was entirely
clear Of and a most pleasant run
was had to Auburn, where the party
left the Central Pacific, visiting in succes-
sion Georgetown, Placerville, and Single
Springs. In going from the latter place to
Folsom, the train was delayed by high
water and a washout on the track, which
necessitated a three-lnile tramp in the
mud to Folsom. where a team was pro-
cured and the party drove ON to Sacra-
mentO in Il little over two hours, the dist
ance being twenty miles. San Francisco
was taken in for a day, and the gentlemen
returned to Salt Lake, whence Mr.. Hall
departed for Butte. He was very much
impressed with the appearance of the local
tiles visited. and the freshness of the YER
dure was very attractive to the eyes of one
who has been SO long accustomed to living
in a cold country, but what seemed most
singular to him was the deserted and DESC
late look o: the abandoned placer sections
OF California. Mr.. Hall is a Through
quartz miner. both in practise and theory,
and does not take much stock in playing
around among the grass roots with a
stream OF water. He holds to his first love
and believes staunchly in getting down in
to a solid formation for his mineral, but
nevertheless he is of the opinion that these
gold surface diggings will eventually give
way to richer quartz veins, and that Cali
fOrnla may again loom up as a mining
country of the first order.
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A Word About Doctors.


Physicians have been cropping in the
dark for centuries, and nothing more
aptiy typi6es their everyday action than
that significant word practice. The
great majority of physicians are prac
ticing all the time, and, considering
how little they really know, the aid and
comfort t! ey are to the race is marvel
GUS. As a matter of fact they are of
more comfort than aid. A physician
who understands human nature, who
plays with the baby, makes friends with
the children and listens to the woes and
tribulations of the good wife and mother,
is the fellow to whom the master of the
house most cheerfully pays the largest
bills. 1t isn't the medicine that's bot
tied up, but its the comfort, the conso-
lation, that are unbottled, that marks
the broad line between an unsuccessful
and a popular physician.
But a doctor who studies, who keeps
abreast of the times, who is familiar
with all new discoveries, and who ap-
plies tests and educates himself, not
that he may keep six or eight horses, not
that he may live Oh this, that or the
other avenue, not that his family may
shine in society, but that he may be a
man marked among his fellows by rea-
son of his helpfulness to his kind, surely
he may expect to stand side by side with
the most advanced, the most useful of
the children of the earth.
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Fighting in Earnest.

DUBLIN, December 27.-Evidences OF more
than ordinary bad feeling among local fac
lions in Ireland have forcibly shown them
selves recently, and continue to give the
municipal and police authorities very great
concern. An example Of the increasing irri-
tation manifested itself yesterday, when a
house in Creagh Lane, Limerick. occupied
by q man named Blake, was besieged by his
political opponents. The assault seems
to have been expected. The friends
Of Blake were not slow in ~rallying
to his defense. They Immediately en-
gagged in a desperate conflict with
the besieging party. Women as well
as men took sides in battle and sticks,
stones, guns and pistols were handled with
savage earnestness. 1t was fully two hours
before the police, who were called upon to
dispense the crowds and arrest rioters, sue
cecded in restoring order. The latest ac-
counts record at least twenty persons, in
GLIDING eIerai women, dangerously
wounded in the battle. The police, who
were not at first able to command
peace, were reinforced as 500 as
that fact vas evident, and. with their
augmented strength succeeded in making a
large number of arrests.
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OyERrAKEN IN THE ACT.
4 Thief Hauled up With a hoano
Turn.

Several days ago The MINER mentIo.eu
the tact; that there was a fellow in the CITY
who was playing the confidence game ~
means OF forged letters, and warned 1ne
public against him. The man could no.
In We seen the article for he, yesterday, was
detected in his old game. ADout . oclhn
he entered the liquor store OF james 7!
and presented to Tim a note signed Mio "n
nell & McDevitt, asking Mr.. Lynch 10 ranu
bearer IS and charge it to them. lne.o
was an addenda saying it il useless 10
draw a check, or l wonld 10 SO, slgheu;
"McDevitt." Whether Mr.. Lynca woul"
have been victimized will never be known
for while he was reading the note geh''e,
man who knew the thief happened IN, ana
calling the would be victim aside exposed
the character Of the fellow. Lynch natur,
ally beca me very indignant and proceeded
to wipe the floor with the fellow and theii
sent for the police. Officer Carlton re-
spoLded and made the arrest and the man
was taken to the county Jail, where ne
gave his name as e. II. Raymond. On
being searched his pockets were 0und t.
contain u large number OF letters signed bA
different individuals recommending ana
asking ia vors for him, at the hands 81
parties addressed.
In addition there was a list OF the l'r's
oners incarcerated at the Deer LOdg" penn
Tertiary, and IL pardon for IL man named
Raymond. The officers did not inquire
particularly into tie matter, nut
the supposition is the present prisoner was
convicted of a similar offense in Helena
and was parduned out. Where he obtained
the list Of prisoners is OF course ii mystery.
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SHOT FOR MARRYING.
A Wanton Homicide Caused
by Jealousy.
TRUE TO HIS WORD.
The Murderer Takes His own
Life When About to be
Arrested.

KANSAS Guy, December 27.-Christmas
night at Little Blue, Missouri, Frank
Vaughan was married to Eliza Swope. IN
mediately after the ceremony. WINE
Vaughan and his wife were standing W d
windo,., they were
FIRE. AT
from the outside, the bsllgrasinR Vaughans
head. 1t "a thought the shot was fired
nv Abraham Nave, d cousin OF the bride,
who had threatened that if she did not
marry him he would shoot the man she
should marry. Last night Nave visited
V~aughan's, ut Argentine, Kansas. ana
>aid the reports Of the Christmas affair
worried his mother. and asked that
Vaughan and wife accompany HIM to MS
nome and deny that they suspected MIN.
SHOT HIM DEAD.
This morning they started ON horseback:
when half OF the journey was completed
Nave rode up in a buggy and shot Vaughan
dead. He then rode home, and upon the
approach of the officers killed himself ny
shooting.
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Sir Garnet Wolseley.

NEW orleans VlmeS-DemOCrat.
Gen. William Preston, of Kentucky,
was interviewed in St. Louis a few DAYS
ago. Speaking of his acquaintance with
Gen. Wolseley, he said: Yes, we were
together a great deal. 1 think Sir
Garnet is a great soldier. He is positive
and prompt, more nearly resembling
Sheri Ian than any of our American
generals, although Sheridan has not
the intelligence and clear-headed-
ness of Wolseley." s'Do not the
indecision and slowness of Gen.
Wolseley in Egypt rather weaken
your estimate of his p~ronptness.."
Men cannot move fast with the Their.
mometer at 10 degrees in the shade A
parallel case is found in the northern
army before icksburg. While the
weather was sultry they were sluggish
and inactive. Sir Garnet never had an
exalted opinion of the Americans as
soldiers. He was rather inclined to
doubt our military skill and Erowess,
but l astonished him by a statement
which has often been published. | said
there were o men killed in the
! nited States civil rebellion, fighting
for a political idea, than England lost
in all her for liberty, from the
time of William the Conqueror to Gu en-
Victoria.
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DE Lesseps and Said Pas!la.

Ii airs 'etleF.I
Only strong char ,cters know how to
deal with barbaria:,s,' continued NJ.
henan. Said had taken home with
him from France a ser ice Of Seyres
ware, and YOU had another for your own
use. The service Of the viceroy was
soon broken to pieces through the care
lessness Of the domestics, while yours was
still in good condition. The situation
was unfortunate. Cne day you noticed
that the well-trained camel that carried
your dishes was replaced by an unruly
and almost wild one. You were caref |
not to OBJ ect. In a few moments your
Sevres ware was in pieces. The viceroy
burst .nto a laugh and the canal project
was safe.
"lour astonishing skill as an eques-
trian won for you the warm friendship
of the descendants of Mehemet Ali, more
clever in exercises of this kind than in
those Of the mind. On Nov. 80, 1874,
you and Said were in the midst of the
desert. The vicerov's tent was pitched
on the top of an eminence surrounded
by a stone wall. You had noticed that
at a certain point it was possible to
jump the parapet on horseback. ,ou
chose this path. You might have broken
your neck. But II the Orient %foolhardi-
ness counts for as much as wisdom.
\ our boldness excited universal admira-
ton, and on that day the concession
was signed"
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IN W tih oitI.
"Don't you often get tired walking OF
standing TOR six hours at a timer was
asked OF policeman who leaned wear.
lily against a coal bin.
at does get tiresome at times, espec-
tally during the early hours, when there
are few persons in the street and moth.
ing doing"
"lou get rather hardened to it, don't
you?'
- es, l suppose VIC do. At first it
made my feet ache terribly, but l found
that it was due to wearing the same
pair of shoes all day. By changing my
shoes two or three times a day / find
that my feet are greatly relic cd.
Nearly every policeman keeps several
pairs in constant use. When worn in
that way they also last longer. No
two pairs are exactly alike, and they
support the foot at different points, and
that S where they are helpful
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Sava - S In uiu hais.


Speaking of hats, "Do you know what
becomes of all the old hats!' said a
Broadway halter the other day, and
without wa ting for an answer, went on
81 don't, and | don't know who does.
but I've Just learned something about
them that strikes me as being funny.
A friend OF mine just returned from the
Nicobar islands says that one of the Pc
culiarit'es of the Inhabitants is a pas
sion for old hats. The savages don't
wear anything on their persons except
the conventional slip of cloth you We
read abort, but young and old, chief
and sub ect, try to outvie each other in
headgear and in the number of old hats
they can acquire in a lifetime.
On a fine morning, he says, he has
seen the surface of the water in the vi
cinity of the islands dotted over with
canoes, each having for it's occupant a
noble savage decked out in his narrow
slip of cloth and a tall white hat with a
black band. The aforesaid noble bar
barian is busy catching fish for his din
ner. They won't have new hats, look
ing on them with suspicion. Traders
from Calcutta make excursions over
there with ca:goes of ole hats which
they barter for cocoanuts. A good,
tall white hat with a black band is
worth about sixty cocoanuts. The peo-
pie become almost a excited while the
trading is going on as a lot of stock
brokers, and sometimes, when a lot of
EN- are after the same hat, they bid
against each other until the price gets
up into hundreds of nuts. When the
trailing is over the merchants generally
ct up the rum, and the whole popula-
ton get drunk in their hats"
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Protection tor Poor LO.

San FRANCISCO, December 27.-Pursuant
to instructions from the Secretary OF War
from Washington yesterday, orders were
issued to-day to Troops A and K, Second
Cavalry, to proceed to Arizona. They are
being dispatched to protect the Indians on
the San Carlos Reservation from Il threat
ened attack by the whites. Major Gordon
will command the Cavalry. The date OF
their departure will not be fixed until a
dispatch is received from General Crook,
indicating the point in Arizona for the
troops to take up their position.
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HugO's Ideas of the Future Life.

Paris Figaro.
Victor Hugo was always convinced
that he would meet all his friends in a
future world. He was equally sure that
he had always existed from the anted;-
luvian times when the Creator placed
him on earth. He believed that ne
would exist forever, inasmuch as he felt
in his soul thousands of hymhs, dramas
and poems that had never found ex
preston.
When the atheists would say to him:
1.-THE proof that you will not exist in the
future is that you did not exist in the
past Hugo would answer: "Who
told you l did not exist in the past cen
turtles? You will say that is the legend
of the ages. The poet has written:
Life is a fairy tale twice written He
might have said a thousand times
written. There is not an age in which
I cannot find my spirit. You do not
believe in the doctrine of surviving
personalities for the reason that you do
not recollect your anterior existence.
But how can the recollection of vanished
ages remain imprinted on your memory
when you do not remember a thousand
and one scenes and events of your pres
ent life. Since 1902 there have been
ten Victor Hugos in me. Do you think
that l can recall all their actions and all
their thoughts? The tomb is dark, and
when shall have passed the tomb to
emerge into light once more all these
Victor Hugos will be almost wholly
strangers to me, but it will always be
the same sOul.'
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OPIUM.
The St. amer ''Idaho" Found to have .
Large Quantity on Board

PORTLAND, Oregon, December PA
Port Townsend Washington Territory,
special says: The steamer Idaho arrived
here last night from Alaska. From infor'
nation received by Collector Beecher the
vessel was taken charge Of by the customs
force and a. strict search made, resulting IN
the seizure of between three and four hun
dred pounds OF prepared opium, valued at
about $3.50. This opium was foundl III
the engineers department.. The search is
still going on. as it is thought much more
opium is on board. 1t has not been ascer-
tanned who owned the opium or WHIT Their
the officers OF the ship are to blame In
allowing struggled goods on board.
THE INDI an SCARE.
The revenue cutter has returned from the
Quilleyute country where the Indians were
reported in insurrection. No trouble had
occurred, except that some settlers had
tried to drive the Indians off land ON which
they lived, to which the natives objected.
The officers in charge Of the troops state
that the Indians require more protection
than the whites in that neighborhood, as
they are badly imposed on. A reservation
should be set apart for the use OF the In
dams at Q%uilleyute, orthe whites keptfrom
within it's borders.
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A Pleasing Presentation.

A very pleasing event, not included IN the
programme presented by the Butte
Orchestra last evening at Renshaw Opera
House. occurred at the conclusion of the
tenth number rendered. Professor Volk,
the leader OF the orchestra, and by many
regarded as the most talented musical
director in Butte, was approached by one
Of his instrulnentalists, who, in a few well
chosen words, was presented with an ele-
CANT gold watch as d token of the esteem
in which he is held by his many music-lov-
ing admirers. Professor Volk responded
us a thoroughly surprised recipient of a
present usually responds. and the custom m
airy manifestations OF good fellowship fol-
lowed. The event was a very pleasing one
to all concerned.