Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-21

II Is now said If England does not
avenge the defeat of the Afghans at
| Penjdeh she will have to indemnify the
Ameer.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the First National Bank at
Athens, Tenn, to begin business with G
capital of 500, 900.
| A INV YORK firm who furnished butter
| for the Greedy relief expedition say they
paid George B. Golf, of Washington, for
securing them the contract, eight cents on
| every pound of butter furnished.
THE gossips have it that General Rose
! Grams is to be made Collector of the port
| OF San Francisco. The President has, it
| is said, assured the Generals friends that
he will be cared for by the Administers
ton.
The Traverse (Dakota) County seat war
has broken out afresh.
THERE were 1854 business failures in tn g
United States during the seven days end
ed the 18th.
BRITISH troops are leaving Suakim.
homeward bound, every day.
ABOUT 800 people were made sick by eat.
Ing ice-cream at picnic at Tallula, Ca,
on the Nth. They are all out of danger.
REPORTS from the Northwest are re-
markably contradic tory. just when ne ws
comes that the backbone of the Riel re-
bellion is broken fresh attacks and bloody
work by the Indians are reported.
MINISTER PHELPS arrived in England on
the 18th and received a most cordial well
come at Southampton. Minister Low
ell dined with the Queen at Winds or
castle the same evening.
POLICE SERGEANT CROWLEY was con.
victed of outrageousIy assaulting Maggie
Norris in New York.
COPIES of the Revised Old Testament
were given to the London papers on the
18th. 1t will be ready for the general pub.
lie in a few days.
FIVE children of Henry Lewiston were
cremated in burning house at Owatonna-
Minu., on the 10Th.
The Mahommedan revolt against Chi
nese rule in Kashgar is gaining strength.
SAM DYER, the slayer of Sheriff Rags
dale OF Fannin County, Texas, was caught
and jailed at Bonham on the 18th.
RUSSIA is disple ased with the plan of a
Chinese army in Corea with European
officers.
ANDREW J. JOHNSON and a dozen of
Kentucky mountain des peradoes have in
augur ated and maintained a reign of ter
ror at Pineville, KY. Governor Knott has
been asked to send the militia to the
scene.
THE Attorney General has decided that
the naval court martial has jurisdiction
in the Wales case.
THE President being invited to visit
Boston, replied that public business would
not permit him at present to fix day.
THE appropriation for the payment of
bounty to volunteers, their widows and
legal heirs, and for the pay of two and
three year volunteers has been exhausted.
ZACHARIAH MONTGOMERY, of California,
is to be made Assistant A ttorney General
of the United States for the Interior De-
Partment
JUROR MUNsELL, of the Short case, who
pleaded guilty to contempt of court, was
sent to Jail for thirty days, and fine Of
$3.50 was imposed ON him.
WILLIAM HUE, a noted anarchist of
Switzerland, hanged himself in prison at
Geneva on the 10Th.
POPULAR opposition to the beer and
spirit tax in England will, it is thought,
force a revision of the bud get.
KENTUCKY distillers are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of shutting down until the
surplus whisky is consumed.
GERMANY and Austria will not take &C
tion on the Egyptian financial convention
until autumn.
THE convention of Young Mems Chris
tian Associations closed its sessions at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th.
RUssIA's reply to the British proposals
has NOT yet reached England, and there
seems to be a serious hitch somewhere.
SECRETARY ENDIcorT inspected the Rock
Island Arsenal on the 18th. From there
he went to visit the Leavenworth prison.
BRADsrREET's business review indi Gates
a movement of merchandise below the av-
erage, and far below expect ations, with
no special activity in any line.
A DELEGATION of prominent Boston
people arrived in Washington on the 18th
to tell the President what to do in the
matter of Federal offices in Massachu-
sets.
HENRY ALBERs, a rich retired butcher
of New York, paid 81, 200 for what he
thought was $15, 900 worth of gold. 1t was
brass brick.