Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
REMINISCENT.

REMINISCENT.
| Marx Twain Recalls Some of His EARLY Ex-
/ periences I'm . Country Printing ONCE
An Ger True Tale.
NEW YORK, January 90 AT the dinner
Of the Typothetic Society at Delmonico's
| Monday night a large number of old
printers and publishers attended. Mark
Twain, after complimentary speech Of
]. H. Bailey, said: 81 am staggered by
rthe compliments so lavishly poured out
/ upon me, and am proud as well as stag
gered. II is the first time that any one
has stood up in the presence of large
/ and respectable audience, such as this is,
| and confessed that have told the truth
once. If could return the compliments
| I'd do it. The historical "reminiscences
| of the President have cast me
into the reminiscent mood, for I also,
| In my small way, am an antiquity. It
may be am among strangers, and that
| the printer of to-day is not the printer of
thirty-fve years ago. I knew him. I lit
his fires. 1 busted his Office and drew
his water from the village pump. pick
ed the type from under his stand in the
mornings, and if he was there to see,
i
the bad ones in the hell-box; and if he
was not there I dumped the lot with the
"pi." I used to carry around the papers,
| and was the enduring target of all the
dogs in the village. / wish had nickel
| for every dog bite have got on me.
could keep M: Pasteur in business for a
year. The subscribers for our paper paid
| in groceries, and the country ones paid in
cabbages or cord-wood-that was, when
| they did. When they did we always men,
| toned it in the paper and gave them a
| puff. If we failed to do this they stopped
their paper. They all directed the policy
he owned US body and soul. He changed
| our politics every which way, and
changed our religion four times. If we
attempted to reason he threatened to stop
| his paper and that closed the discussion.
We used to take out the Geographic items
and lay them on galley. Then we'd
change the dates and shove them into the
paper day after day, until public interest
in them was worn to the bone. have
seen t. d advertisement of Sheriff's
sale booming along serenely two years
after the sale had taken place. Our
yearly ssads" were patent medicine
with them when the column rules
were worn out. When we pied a
form we suspended until next week. We
always suspended when fishing was good.
The editor was poet. When his intel
lects suppurated and discharged poem,
he would read it to the priuters and ask
them what they thought OF it. They al
ways scraped their rules on their boxes
while he was reading and when he was
done they always said it was hog wash.
They were very frank and candid people.
r L. L. oIr, AlnA olI
flee with its candle in the k box. But
perhaps 1 sing the glories of forgot ten
age to unfamiliar ears and will STOP"
S-
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Synopsis or the Bill to Regulate Inter-
State Commerce Now Before the United
States Senate Stringent Provisions
Against Unjust Discriminat ions by Com
mon Carriers.
WASHINGTON, D. c., January 19.-The
bill to regulate Interstate commerce
submitted to the Senate yesterday
by Mr. Cullom, from the select Com
mittee or Interstate Commerce, pro-
vides that if any common carrier by
any special rate, rebate, drawback or
other device, shall charge directly or
indirectly, demand, collect or receive
from any person or persons a
greater or less compensation for
any service rendered, Or to be
rendered in the transportation of passen-
gers or property than it charges or re-
ceives from any other person or persons
for like and contemporaneous service,
they shall be deemed guilty of unjust dis
elimination, which is declared mis-
demeanor; and any common carrier found
guilty of any uni ust discrimination shall
be liable to ali persons who have been
charged a higher rate than was charged
any other person for the difference be-
tween such higher rate and the lowest
rate charged upon the shipments during
the same period; or, if the lower rate
was made ON any time contract or under
standing, the common carrier guilty of
the offense shall be liable to pay a like re-
bate or drawback to all other shippers over
the same route between the same points,
who have shipped goods during the time
that such contract or understanding was
in operation. The corporation, its special
officers, traffic manager or the officer or
agent who made such rate, shall, upon
conviction of willful violation of this act
in any District Court of the United
States, be punishable for misdemeanor
and be subject to fine of not more than
81 900 for each offense. Itfurther requires
common carriers to afford reasonable
of traffic between their lines
for receiving, forwarding and delivering
passengers and property, and forbi DIS any
preference or advantage to any person or
corporation for long or short hauls, and
creates an interstate commerce commits |
sion, composed of five commissioners, |
who shall be appointed by the President, |
by and with the advice and consent |
of the Senate, the Commissioners first |
appointed to continue in Office for terms |
of two, three, four, five and six years
beginning July l, 1856, but |
their successors are to be appointed for |
six years, except those appointed to fill |
unexpired terms, not more than three of |
the commissioners to be appointed |
from the same political party, |
and no one in the employ |
of or holding any official relation to any
common carrier, or owning stocks and
bonds thereof Or who is in any manner
pecuniarily interested therein, is to be al
lowed to enter upon the duties or hold
not to engage in any other business, voca-
are to receive a salary of $1,000
each, and are to be allowed
q secretary at $500 year,
and such other employees as are necessary,
and at salaries to be fixed by it. The
Commissioner will bring suit in the
United States courts and have charge Of
the prosecutions of cases by it brought
Tor trial.
Fatal Fight at Dance.
CALERA, ALA, January 20.-At dance
given at Mrs. Witley's, Monday night,
one Blake a PAINTER got drink and drove. |