Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-21

grnu County gegister
By ELI d. AXE.
IRONTON MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
The recent illness of the Princess Of
Wales is said to have been at attack Of
diphtheria.
A DECREE granting amnesty to French
political convicts has been signed by Pres
ident Grevy.
THE King of Bavaria has forbidden his
Cabinet to interfere with his exchequer
and they threaten to resign.
NJ. PAsTEUR on the 18th refused to in =
oculate Sullivan, of Boston, as seventy
days had passed since he was bitten.
MoRMoNs in Arizona are creating some
alarm by asking arms of the Governor to
protect themselves, as they say, from In
dians.
THE value OF the exports of mineral oils
for the twelve months ended December 81,
1885, were S4s, ,2s1, against $40, Jos, 5l
the year before.
A MEMORIAL on the silver question has
been addressed to the President of the
Mexican Republic by the National Cham
Der of Commerce.
A LARGE and substantial ice bridge was
formed in the Niagara River below the
falls on the 18th. 1t will probably remain
during the season.
iQUEEN VICTORIA has ordered the pro-
duction of Gounod's oratorio, "Mors ct
Vita" at Royal Albert Hall, and win at
tend the performance.
Ar a meeting of the Socialistic League
at Dublin on the 14th, Russian Nihilist
advocated the use of the dagger in further
ing the objects of the people.
THE military guard at General Grants
tomb at Riverside Park, N. Y, was with
drawn on the 18th, and the tomb will here
after be guarded by park policemen.
IT is stated that Gladstone and his col
leagues have been reconciled and that
advantage will be taken of the first chance
to overthrow the Conservative Govern
Nent.
THE prices of imported goods are being
advanced by the merchants of Mexico in
consequence of the continued depreciation
of silver. Refined petroleum from the
United States has advanced nearly four
teen per cent.
THE annual ball given by Hon. Sack
ville West, the British Minister, and his
daughters took place at the British Le-
cation at Washington on the night of the
18th. 1t was q most brilliant affair. The
diplomatic corps attended in body.
ALL Chinese workmen employed by the
Pioneer, Sacramento and Phoenix -four
mills, the Capital Wooden Mills and the
American Laundry at Sacramento, Cal,
were discharged on the 18th. Three hun
dred white men will be employed in their
places.
TUESDAY, the 18th inst, was the largest
day in the history of the Post-office De-
partment at Washington in point of
stamps and stamped envelopes of all kinds
sold. The number of pieces ordered was
Aba 057, representing q value of $685.
290.39.
THE number Of employees required in the
customs service the next fiscal year is esti-
tod Of A o,,l %E4 &1ka -
collection at &, 501 ,5s3. The persons en-
ployed during the year ended June 80, 1888,
numbered ,527, and the expense of collec-
tion was S6,01s,221.
THE Panama Canal Company will invite
delegates from England, Germany and
America to visit the Isthmus and inquire
into the feasibility of completing the
canal. The expenses of the delegates win
be borne by the company. NJ. de Lesseps
is sanguine that the work will be success
full.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided the long pending controversy in re-
gard to the material to be used in the con-
struction of the Government building at
Pittsburgh, Pa, by instructing the Super
vising Architect to award the contract to
the lowest responsible bidder for furnish
ing granite.
ENGLAND proposes that Turkey also
shall demobilize her army. 1t is stated
that the Austrian army will not expend
much money on repeating rifles for the
army unless other countries decide to
adopt that kind Of arms. The London
Telegraph says that the powers demand
that Greece, Servia and Bulgaria demobil-
ize their armies.
THE Chinese Minister has sent out invi-
cations for german at Washington on
the night of the odd at Stewart Castle.
This is tie first entertainment to which
ladies have been asked at the Chinese Lee
CATION, and is correspondingly looked for
ward to with interest. Great things in the
way of favors are expected
THE official death return of the Coroner
on the burglar Fowler, who attempted to
murder the druggist recently at Broad
ripple, Ind, but who was killed
in the attempt, contains the following
brief entries: Occupation, burglar; dura-
tion of disease, quicker than lightning;
complication, a 3S-calibre revolver; dura
tion of complication, instanta neous.
The President pro tenn. laid before the
Senate on the 18th a memorial of the "Col-
ored Northern Americans" asking the es-
Establishment of National Industrial schools
in the States and Territories, SO as to give
the colered youth common school educa-