Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-11


THE friends of Parson Downs announce
that BENZ. F. Butler has been retained to
defend MIR. Downs in his com ing trial at
Boston.
IT Is estimated that the receipts from
'oleomargarine licenses and stamps
throughout the country will aggregate
s., 100000 annually.
THE Boston Board Of Aldermen voted on
the 4th to extend the courtesies Of the city
to President Cleveland on his visit to the
city on the 9Th to attend the Harvard coll
1ege celebration.
THE Fiftieth Congress will be purely
white Congress, for the first time in
twenty years, Small, of South Carolina.
and O'Hara, of North Carolina, having
failed of election.
The Chicago Anarchists, through Cap
tain Black, OF their counsel, are endeavor-
ing to secure the services of Robert Inger-
soil to argue their appeal before the Su-
.preme Court Of Illinois.
A STATE of siege has been proclaimed
at Phillippopolis, the capital of Eastern
Roumelia, fer the purpose of suppressing
the bands of brigands who are infesti1g
the environs OF the city.
THE London Standard says the great
lesson OF the Leeds conference is tn at
where the Liberal party stood last session
there it still stands, on the unalterable
basis of an independent parliament for
Ireland.
Az ~ fiaN
Mining Department reports that a pay
ing gold reef has been discovered near
Enoch's Point, in the Woods Point Dis
trict, Queensland. Fine specimens have
been obtained.
RIGHT Hon. EDWARD STANHoPE, British
Colonial Secretary, announces that West
ern Zululand will form a new Republic.
Eastern Zululand will be reserved for the
Zulus under British protectorate, il the
Zulus desire it.
OWING to some incendiary speeches in
Randolph County, N. C., last week, and
resulting therefrom, race war is said to
be threatened, and the militia are being
held in readiness to respond to the call of
Governor Scales
THE President is said to be devoti ng
much of his spare time to an ad dress to
be delivered at Boston on the occasion OF
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of Harvard College, to which he has &C.
cepted an ivitatisn.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week and ende d
October 30, was $685., eS5; Same week las
year s774.45o. The shipment OF frac-
tional silver cssn during the month of
October amounted to s97f ,241.
A DISPATCH from New Zealand says
that news has been received from Samoa
stating that perfect cordiality exists at
Alpa between the respective consulates
The recent visit of British commissioners
was of a confidential character.
THE British ambas sador at CONSTANT
nople has teen instructed to insist upon
an immediate conference at Constantine
PIE to consider the Bulgarian situation
and to demand the suspension of Russian
Intervention pending the decision of such
conference.
A SEALED car of the United States Ex-
press Company was broken into on the
run between Chicago and Toledo on the
night of the 1st, and a large quantity of
valuable merchandise distracted. The
detectives of the company are on a still
hunt for clew.
THE French delegates returned TO New
York on the I'd from their visit to Niagars
Falls. All of them were vastly pleased
with their trip and unstinted in their ad
miration of the great natural wonder they
had seen. They departed on the morning
of the Sd for Washington.
CARDS are out fer the m arriage of Miss
Amy Hewitt, daughter Of the Hon. Abran
s. Hewitt, mayer-elect Of New York, tc
Mr.. James Olive Green, son OF DR.. Norvin
Green, president of the Western Unior
Telegraph Company. Tho wedding is t.
take place en- November ID.
THE large vote for George in New Yor
has created profound impression In Lon
don. where he is we'll known. ALI the pa
,pers moralize on the growth of anarchi
tendencies, and express the opinion tina
his present ideas are more advanced tina
those expressed by him in England.
COMMANDER 3. F. CHANDLER, o. 8. N
who,was reported to have died On tn
.31st ult., proved to have only been in
state Of coma. from which he rallied Will
the undertaken was preparing him fo
burial. He subsequently suffered anothe
shock of paralysis, and it is now an
.nounced that he is really dead.
A WHITEHEAD torpedo, charged wit
,ninety-three pounds of gun cotton, wa
dashed alongside the British ironclad Re
sistance of Portsmouth, England, on til
Cd, and exploded. The spect ators, VIII
expected to see the Resistance scattere
broadcast, were somewhat surprised
find that her powers Of resistance were NJ
perceptihly Impaired.
TIE telegraphzc reports from collector
of intern al revenue in various parts OF tt
country indicate that the number I
licenses issued and stamps sold to olet
margarine dealers SO far is greatly In ex
cess Of expectations. and the total amour
of imitation butter placed upon the mai
ket nearly doubles the amount that ha
been estimated as possible.
THE italian Ministry have directed this
the great collection Of musical worl
which form ID part of the municip'
library in Rome shall be transferred
the Academia di Santa Cecilia. TIL
collection has been described as the rich
est of its kind in the world, and the cata
1ogue of musical works which it contair
as the most complete in existence.
GENERAL MIDDLETON, commander {
the Canadian militia, in his annual re
port will ecommend that the gatln
guns now held by A and B batteries b
transferred to two of the infantry schools