Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-07

Srnn County gegistel
BY ELI D. AXE.
1RoNToN. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
EARL CowPER claims that rent, and no
home rule, is the overshadowing Iris
question.
THE value of the crops in Ireland for th
year show an increase, compared with 1SS
of s., ALL
PRESIDENT GREvY has accepted the res
ignation of Premier Brisson and has sum
moned NJ. de Freycinet to form a Cabine
THE Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued call for $40, 900 900 three per cen
bonds, to be paid with interest February
1856.
THE Irish Nationalists in the British Pal
lament are said to be solid for Gladston
and home rule. There are eighty-six G
them.
PRESIDENT GREvY has received con
gratulatory dispatches from all the Euro
pean powers, on his reelection to thu
Presidency of France.
N
Mr.. GLADSTONE celebrated the seventy
sixth anniversary of his birthday at Ha
warden on the Goth. He was the recipien
of many congratulations.
SILVER has declined in value in the Lon
don market during the past three month
from 81 ,O99 to 81 ,03S per fine ounce, or re
duction of over six cents.
CAPTAIN HOOPER with the revenue
steamer Rush has been ordered from Sar
Francisco to Behring's Sea to search for
the missing whaler Amethyst.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY miners of tn
Third Pool returned to work in the mines
of Keeting g. Co., on the Both at the ole
rate, after having been out all summer ant
fall.
IT is stated in London that Russia ant
Austria are secretly arming and that boil
these countries have sent orders to En-
gland for large quantities of stores fol
their respective armies.
AT special meeting of the Milwaukee
CWis.) Merchants Association on the 18th
resolutions were passed opposing the coin
age of silver dollars, and petitioning Con-
gress to repeal or suspend the law for such
coinage.
THE amount expended in extirpating the
smallpox epidemic at Montreal is $11S,-
900, and it will take further large sum to
meet the remaining engagements entered
into. Compulsory vaccination is now be-
ing strictly enforced.
BARON DE CoURCEL, the French Ambas-
sador at Berlin, and Count Herbert Bis
marck, Under Secretary of State for For
eign Affairs, have signed a protocol defin-
ing the boundary of the French and Ger
man territories in West Africa.
P.S. SHEEHAN member ELECT of Parlia-
ment for East Kerry, Ireland has advised
the tenantry of Killarney not to pay rents
to the landlords, because an Irish Parlia-
ment will allot the land to them free and
will not compensate the landlords.
Mr.. PENDLEToN, the United States Min
lister, and Mrs. Pendleton gave their first
reception in Berlin on the evening of the
18th. Among the guests were a large num-
Der of American residents, a fact which
shows that the American colony there is
increasing.
THE United States Treasury Department
has decided that a commercial firm en-
gagged in exporting peas from Kingston to
Cape Vincent, shall pay duty of ten per
cent. Formerly there was collected TWEEN
ty per cent. There will be a repayment of
the overcharge.
THE remainder of the mutilated $500 bill
received at the Treasury Department
Christmas morning was received on the
2Sth from New York, with the brief ex-
planation: PROSTITUTION; other half sent
previous" The money will be credited to
the conscience fund.
THE Postmaster General has signed a
convention to take effect January 1, 1886,
for the exchange of money oders between
the United States and the Leeward Is
hands, comprising the islands of Antigua,
st. Christopher, Neuvis, Dominica, Mon
serratt and the Virgin Islands.
THE supplemental crop report of the
Georgia Agricultural Department indicates
for the cotton crop a total yield for the
State of 952 900 bales of $50 pounds each.
The corn production exceeds an average
crop by one per cent. The total produc-
ton for the State is about 30, 900 900 bushels.
THE creditors of the King of Bavaria
have united in petition for distraint of
the goods and property of the royal house.
hold. Prince Leopold, uncle of the King,
and General-in-chief of the army, has for
hidden the bailiffs of the State to take any
action to carry out the objects of the cred
itors.
THERE are $50 idle convicts in the River
side Pa.) Penitentiary, the contracts in
the iron, cigar and broom departments
having expired. The convicts employed
In these departments will remain idle I'M
til they can be placed at rug-making or
other industries the State NAV see fit to
establish.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has conferred upon
Cardinal G. Jacobini the decoration of the
Black Eagle, and upon Monsignors Calm
berti and Moceni, of the Pope's official
household, the decoration of the Red Eagle,
IN recognition of their valuable services in