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

at the break of day and to charge and
take the Black Fort'' by storm. But
at that time we little knew how strong
1t was or we would have dreaded it
more than we did. When morning
came, though. there was better news
for us. From every cupola in the city
white flag was streaming from its
top, and we all knew that meant we
had captured Monterey. Col. Davis
then came along and said, Boys, you
can rest for to-day. The fighting is
done for this time.n In q short time
courier came and took Dayis away, for
what purpose we did not then. know,
but afterwards found out that "Old
Rough and Ready" had chosen him as
one of the parties to make terms of
capitulation with Ampudas. About
noon three ambulances came to take
away the dead who had been laid out
the night before. and we were ordered
back to our camp at Walnut Springs,
which we hadn't seen since the morn
ing of ed, the Regulators taking our
place. So closed the battle of Monter-
ey. The Mexican army left the city
on the 25th and Gen. Twiggs' Division
took charge Of all the works in and
around Monterey. Now, I will at
tempt to give you short description
of the "Black Fort.n It was built on
a high mound covering some acre and
q half or two acres Of ground, and was
surrounded by q stone wall, six feet
high, and I don't know how thick.
with ditch around the outside. The
entrance was by draw-bridge, which
when down was bridge across the
ditch, and when raised was a gate.
The fort mounted thirty-two pieces Of
artillery of large calibre. How we
could have taken the place by storm /
am sure I don't know, as the artillery
Taylor had with him could not have
made an impression on the stone wall.
It was the strongest place in the city,
and here Ampudas had concentrated
his army on the night Of the Esd to
make last stand, but, as we afterwards
the Governor of the State (for
Monterey is State Capital), overruled
him, and ordered the city to surrender.
To be Continued.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
Land Office Notice.
LAND OFFICE AT IRoNToN, Mo-,
December 23d, 1885.

LAND OFFICE AT IRONTON, Mo-,
December 23d, 1885.
Notice is hereby giyeu that the follow
ing-named settler has fled notice of his
intention to make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the Register and the Receiv-
er at Ironton, Missouri, on Thursday,
January 2Sth, 1886, viz: Tillman r. Ter
ry. Homestead Entry SOL, tor the q nw4
Section 20, Township "a, Range east.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of, said land, viz: r. C.
Love, A. w. Croker, Milton Goggins
and Thomas Clark, all OF Goodland p. o.,
Iron county, Missouri.
JAMES III. CHASE, Register.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
Administrator Notice.

Notice is hereby given, that Letters Of
Administration, on the Estate of James
Tley, deceased, were granted to the un-
dersigned, on the 29th day of December, 1SSS,
by the Probate Court of Iron county Mis-
souri,.
required to exhibit them to me for allowance with
IN one year after the date OF said letters or they
NAV be precluded from any benefit of such estate;
and if such claims be not exhibited within two
wears from the time of the publication of this not
ica. tirey win be forever barred.
QgnW 1T. AKE, Administrator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-01-28
Final Settlement.

Notice is hereby given to all creditors and
others interested in the estate of Robert B.
Logan, deceased, that I, Frances Logan, ad-
ministratrix of said estate, intend to make
final settlement thereof at the next term OF
the Probate Court Of Iron county, to be held
at the Court House in Ironton, Iron county,
Mo-, on the first Monday in February next
FRANCES L. LOGAN, Administratrtx.
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Pennington y
g: D: FANcEr. State Senator II oath Dis.
kict, Piedmont
Soto.
Jos B. WALKER, Prosecuting Attorney,
IHoS. q. FOLEY Representative, ,Belleview.
a. w. HoLLoMAN, PresIfiing Judge, Arcadia.
DAsIDH PALHER.Belleview, and Jos G. CLARK
SON, Arcadia, Associate Judges.
FRANZ DINGER, Judge of Probate, Ironton.
w AZ FLETCHER, Collector, Ironton.
s. T.. BUFoRD, Sheriff, Ironton.
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u. =. NALL. Clerk County Court, Iroaton.
w. ID. WHITwoRfH, Treasurer, Irontsn.
JNo. w HARRAL, Assessor, Belleviev.
JACOB TAKE, Public Administrator Iron
ton.
j. GRANDHOMME, Coroner, Ironton.
JNo. B. ScoTT. County School Commission
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To and From all Day and Night
Trains.
would respectfully inform our citizens
and the public generally, that will run a
hack to and from the depotto meet all day
and night trains. Very Respectfully,
GEORGE CARTER.
Irontop. Dec 11th, 1885.
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

About two per cent of the grain movement
over Indianapolis lines, since navigation closed,
has been wheat, yet Chicago Business. of the Sth
inst, makes the following absurd statement:
1.-The Chicago and New York trunk lines are
learning a lesson this winter they will not soon
forget. By levying q prohibitory freight tariff,
they have succeeded in practically killing the win
ter movement of wheat from the Northwest to the
seaboard, in reducing their revenues to the lowest
ebb and in building up the business of the lines
traversing the country to the southwark. They
have played into the hands of Philadelphia.
Baltimore and Newport News in the East, and
Cincinnati, st. Louis, indianapolis, Peoria.
Louisville and other cities in the West, and
strengthened the lines of road that cover disputed
territory to the south and west of this point. at
the expense of their own interests. By stubborn
adherence to a mistaken policy, the Northern
seaboard trunk lines have weakened themselves.
and nourished and strengthened their Compel
itors in the lower latitudes. In eight or ten
weeks navigation will commence, and the grain
that is locked up in Duluth. Milwaukee, Chicago,
Detroit and Toledo will start to the seaboard,
and the railroads will be out the money they
might have earned in transporting it to the salt
water markets.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10
A RAILROAD ORDERED SOLD.
The Chicago Great Southern to Pass to Other
Hands-Provisions of the. Decree.

After hearing the counsel of ithe different in
terests represented in the suit for the foreclosure
of the mortgages on the Chicago & Great South
ern railway yesterday, it was decided by Judges
Gresham and Woods to grant a decree ordering
the sale of the property. The decree, which will
be prepared and filed this morning, provides that
the claims for labor and for material used in the
improvement of the road, amounting in the >ag-
gregate to about 5000, 900, shall be paid first from
the proceeds of the sale. and the debts CON
tracted by the receiver, amounting to $l53, 600
more, shall next be paid, while out of the re-
naming funds the bonds held by the Porter
syndicate, which amounted to ST, 200, 900, shall
be paid. These bonds were issued while the
road was under the exclusive control of Henry
Crawford. and were sold by him to Drexel, Nor
gan & Co.,, of New York, who subsequently, dis
posed of them to the Porter syndicate for $780,
900. after Mr.. Crawford was unable to meet his
obligations to them. Under the circumstances,
the court holds that the claims
for labor and the debts contracted by the
receiver should be paid before the boudholders
receive anything. The court has fixed $500, 900
as the minimum amount for which the property
shall be sold, as this sum is required to cover
the claims that must be paid and the court ex-
penses. The date for the sale has not yet been
determined.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10
Without LAWYERS:

A Compendium Of Business and D
ILL.,. B., member Of New York Bar.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

railroads doing whatever they please. and it is
not to be expected, if it sanctions and deals with
associations of the railroads, that it will leave
them free to do whatever they please. 1t can
put restrictions on the associations as easily as
on the individual railroads, and execute them
very much easier. There are. for instance,
about lbs railroads carrying the traffic on which
rates are made through Mr. Fink's Office. How
much easier for an interstate commission to deal
with these 125 at once through one agent than
through rs agents, and it certainly cannot
Justly refuse any a hearing in a matter involv-
ing its interests.
There is q fallacy involved in the very idea
OF maintaining competition for through traffic,
and uniform rates and publicity at the same
time. No one ever cut q rate without hoping.
by keeping it secret. to get a larger share Of the
traffic in this way, from certain shippers who
otherwise would send their freights by rival
roads. Now, the Cullom committee proposes to
forbid rates lower to one shipper than to another.
and to enforce publicity in rates. When, there
fore, a company's agent makes q contract with a
Chicago packer to carry his provisions for %
cents, instead OF what has been the regular rate
OF 80 cents, it must at once take the shipments
of everybody else at that rate. and give public
notice to that effect; and, of course, the next
moment every other carrier will give the same
notice. That is. with publicity and uniformity
enforced, every reduction of rates must be a
universal reduction of rates, no carrier will gain
any advantage to himself by making a reduc-
ton, and therefore none will make one, except
when the interest of the carriers as a whole de-
mands it."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10
Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & indianapolis
RAILWAY.
CLEVELAND. o., February 10. 1886

CLEvELAND. o., February 10, 1856.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of this COM
pany, for the election of directors and for the transac-
ton OF other business. viii be held at the Office Of the
company, in Cleveland, Ohio, on WEDNESDAY,,
March 3, next, at 1O:3O o'clock a. m. The transfer
books will be closed from the evening Of February Is
until March 4. GEO. H. RUSSELL, Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10
A Heavy Pension.

Ferdinand Block, of Etna Green, Kosciusko
county, while in the Union service in the late
war, contracted measles, and the disease result
ed in blindness. He has since been endeavoring
to procure a pension. but it was not allowed un-
til a Short time ago. Yesterday he was paid at
the agency in this city the sum of $40, 1863, which
is probably the largest payment of arrearages
ever made at this point
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10
Sam Jones at Acton.

Word was received from Hon. Will Cumback,
yesterday, to the effect that he had secured the
services of Sam Jones for ten days at Acton
camp ground. beginning with Aug. 7 next. This
will be a ''ten strike" for the association and the
railway. The engagement embraces two Sun
days. and there will be bigger crowds on those
DAYS than was ever seen at Acton before.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

The vandalia's Annual Statement.
In commenting on the annual statement of the
St Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute line, the
Railroad Gazette Of Feb. 6 says:
'The vandalia line, or rather that part of it
between Terre Haute and St Louis (St. Louis,
vandalia d Terre Haute rallroad) as the st.
Louis line of the Pennsylvania railroad and a
principal line between two important cities, with
an exceptionally fertile and well-peopled coun-
try on its line, ought, one would think, to be a
profitable road. 1t has good gross earnings,
though hardly what would be expected of a main
line without a single branch, amounting
to nearly $40, 600 per mile in 1880 and 1881,
$40. 083 i'll 1882, and $40, 745 in 1883, but
falling to 9,414 in 1884 and $500
last year; but it's net earnings are
small in proportion, though they reached
$2,818 per mile in 1880. and rose from s., 372. in
1884, to So, 855 in 1885. This, however, leaves
but a small margin over the fixed charges, and
sometimes does not meet them, as generally pre-
vlous to 1880, and in 1881 also. the aggregate
surplus since 1879 being about $131, 900, or $22,
600 a year for 158 miles of road.
Last year it was made larger than ever before,
except in 1880, though the gross earnings we're
the smallest since 1879. This was due to the
very large reduction of II 1-3 per cent. since
1884. and nearly 80 per cent. since 1883, in the
working expenses, though the traffic was not
smaller, but larger, than the year before. The
decrease was chiefly in maintenance expenses,
maintenance of way costing 38 per cent. less
than in 1884. and 62 per cent less than in 1888;
motive power and equipment 1S3 per cent. less
than in 1884, and 20 p er cent. less than in 1883.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

CHARLES A. ROBERTS, of East Wilson, N. Y,
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neck. Hoods Sarsaparilla cured them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

u Carried Out VIII Prohibit Competition.
The Railroad Gazette devotes an entire page
- discussing the Cullom interstate commerce
III. The Gazette says:
Congress proposes by it's laws to forbid the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-10

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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04
scttinC on the Winkinr of Owls

Betting ON horses is n custom of honored
age if not always honored in its patronage.
But betting on owls-who ever heard of that
kind of hettings There is whole roost of
owls out at the Zoo; gloomy, sleepy, blinking
owls When you look at them casually they
blink, when you stare at them continually
they won't wink. That's where the betting
comes in When the owl blinks, he shuts out
the light from his sluggish brain, and breathes
with a solemn air of apathy To all animated
life But to stand in front of the tall iron
cage and watch five, six or seven of them sit
ting ON a pole, and say which of them will
wink first or whether any of them will wink
at ALL is to deal with n great world of proba-
bilities
An owl is "A great slayer. Ii any one looks
straight at him expecting to see him wink he
won't wink 1t makes no difference how long
he Is stared at-he Just keeps on looking and
doesn't wink. The big pupils contract from
great black disk to tiny small spot, and
the smaller that spot gets the longer the owl
can keep his eyehds open. That is one of the
fine points III the owl economy The game is
very simple. Take poleful of owls-say
seven of thcm-and the keeper will suggest to
the visitor that it will be pleasant to watch
those owls and see if he can keep count with
his watch how often they'll wink in minute
The visitor watches them closely, and the
and stare dizzily and lazily at space. why,
owls never shut their eyes, do theyI" the visi-
tor will inquire innocently. "Oh, yes; they're
bound to," says the keeper. That fellow in
the middle's been staring the longest. He'll
go first You watch him. The minute hand
on a watch creeps slowly along; when patience
scarcely longer SURVIVES, the end man ON the
owl pole winks slowly, deliberately, calmly.
Then the others so one after another, as If in
fected by epidemic, and ail certainty of
prediction Is at once unbalanced. The next
round the visitor Is ready to bet cigar ON the
result. He bets ON the corner owl, and the
one in the middle goes first. it gets exciting,
and the spectators are carried away with the
fever of betting on chance. man will bet
on every owl but the right one, and get al
most in the state of desperation To bet his
head and miss.-Philadciphia Times.
Wcally Too Dwcadful, You Know.
| Il shall nevah speak to Fitzpercy again, "
/ observed L.c Gush 10 De Sappy.
~Awi what IS the mattah:" inquired De
Sappy.
In the cowse Of conversation last evening,
| don cher know, he weferred to his walking
! stick as a cane-thc vulSah bwute-'
! -Wealy, you suppwise me."-Pittsburs
Chronicle Telegraph
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04

NV half hours, chat with an experienced
publisher like Mr. OsGOod brought out IA
number of funny incidents of authors. He
told me of n well known contemporary to
whom the United States postal service is a
perpetual reign of terror, bringing down
upon his defenseless head an avalanche of
amateur MSS. which he is coolly asked to
read, criticise, correct and bring up to a
literary standard who has recourse to send
ing them on To publishers, returning to the
author the formula: Il have taken the liberty
to send your MSS. to , the publisher"
To distinguished authors the mail has
really become a terror. DIR. Holmes has re
galed the public with many inimitable
chapters from his experience, and has given
many a useful hint To his brethren who are
similarly afflicted Mr.. Lorgfcllow was a
saint and took the trials imposed upon him
by people who certainly revercnced him, if
they We're not up To the level of approaching
him, in an angelic fashion that all marvel
at rather than follow. But To reconcile cour-
tesy and candor is IA more difficult undertak-
ing than any other form of sailing through
the modern Scylla and Charybdis. DIR.
Holmes says that he has one unvarying form
for the acknowledgement of the first books of
young authors sent him, something to the
effect that Il do not wait To open the volume
before l take my pen To thank you" after
WHICH, pbNlouSiy ne - SiNcti tiit uoubic ol
opening it at all
Look ut the matter one will, there is
little excuse in all this. 1t is not genius, nor
talent, nor even tenth-ratc ability that inn
poses itself with such relentless audacity.
Among al. the sufferers one is perhaps
moro diligently imposed upon than the editor.
1t seems To be III the nature of n popular be-
lief that his mission in life is to engage in the
personal service of literary adventures. Not
a day but that brings him more or less letters
in which the unknown and struggling
woman-for % times out of 100 it is a woman
and not n man who is the imposcr and relent
less "devastator of Il day"-in which the
woman sets forth her autobiography and her
aspirations i'll equal length and in equally
appalling dimensions.-l- Lillian Writings
Letter
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-04
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