Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-05-03

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Tuesday and Wednesday, May Sth and 9TH
Rev. j. L. Batten will preach and preside
over the conference. Preaching both days
morning and evening.
| Louis Richards was ''pulled" by deputy
marshal Hill last Monday, for fast driving,
and taken before his honor, Mayor Gay.
Mr.. Richards left the city temple of justice
500 poorer than he entered it, but possess
| ed of an equivalent in experience.
The rain Sunday night was welcome, but
the north wind that accompanied it was not
so much to our taste. The weather was a
warning to people who are in haste to ''clean
house" and take down heating stoves. 1t is
the early house cleaner that catches the cold
The REGISTER Office s'cleaned house"
some ten days ago, and earlier mention
ought to have been made of it, since, when
two weeks have passed, printing office
cleaning doesn't count for much. Its bene-
| fits must be "caught on the fly" as it were.
We observe that the street commissioner
| is putting some of the streets in order. This
is right, and we hope he may keep it up un-
| til all the thoroughfares of the city are in
first-class condition. There are some alleys,
| too, that would be none the worse for little
attention.
Now for a fence around the schoolhouse
lot! Let us have it, and then plant the
grounds with trees and ornament it with
shrubbery. There isn't spot in town that
could be more easily beautified, and made to
be pride to every citizen. As it is now
but we forbear.
The I. B. G. B., with their best girls, will
go to Belleyiew Friday, and picnic all day.
If the citizens out there shall hear any loud,
unusua. noise on that day, they need not feel
alarmed: they will know it's only an amateur
brass band putting in its best ticks on some
Wagnerian selection.
Brown, the mail-carrler, brought into
town yesterday morning, a channel catfish,
yet alive, weighing 16A pounds. He had
caught i. on a trot-line that morning, in the
st. Francois, 'just above the dam at the Silver
Mines. The line had twenty hooks, and the
total haul weighed SO pounds.
Circuit court adjourned last Friday, after
session of very light work. In the Scoggin
Coleman suit, the jury disagreed, and the
case was afterward settled by compromise.
Judge Thomas went home Saturday morn
ing. the jurors and witnesses departed, and
the usual quiet reigns in our city.
If big balloon were to come sailing over
the Valley, fasten its graphing hooks on to
the Arcadia House, tear it from its moor
ings, watt it into the middle of the Atlantic
Ocean, and drop it there-this vicinity would
De just as we'll off as it is now. Refusing to
open and run it is an outrage in every way.
VIM. Sandman has opened saloop at Des
Arc, where he will be pleased to see his
friends and patrons. He keeps the best of
wines and liquors, cigars, etc. Particular
attention paid to JUG demands from adioin
ing "dry" counties, and Mr.. S. assures ever
ybody that he will furnish them with an
excellent article at reasonable rates. Orders
by mail promptly attended to.
A little girl, six years old, daughter of VIM.
Jones, was seriously injured by the local
freight train last Saturday afternoon. She
was PLAYING alongside the track, when she
was struck by one of the cars, and her skull
fractured. Prompt medical attendance was
summoned, but the doctors at first beliey-
ed the child was beyond help. They did all
they could to relieve her, and reXt morning
she had so greatly improved that hopes
were entertained of her recovery, and at this
date she is still improving. From all we can
learn, the train men were not to blame.
The sidewalk fronting the REGISTER office
was the scene of a coored "rukus" last Sat-
urday night, about 10 O'Clock. Three mar
ried "coons" had been escorting like num-
Der of ''gals" about town, treating them to
beer, and having a good time generally; and
as they arrived in the blaze of light from the
drugstore and barber-shop, they were rec
ognIzed by the mother of two of the girls.
She at once opened war of words and
stones upon the gals and galants, and great
was the scattering thereof. The men broke
and ran like quarter horses, seeking safety
in the sheltering darkness, and the gals were
taken home, no doubt to be "treated" to
something else than beer.
A Democratic Club was organized at the
courthouse last Saturday evening, and all
Democrats are urgently requested to add
their names to the roll. The organization is
for the purpose of bringing Democrats
shoulder-to- shoulder in the coming fight
for the common cause, and for no other pur-
pose: for the good Of the party, and for no
individuals advancement. On this point the
following section of the constitution, unan
imously adopted, will be of interest:
The Club shall not at any time or place be
used to influence the action of any National,
State, County, or Municipal Convention; nor
shall it indicate as Club any preference be-
| fore any political convention for any candi-
date: nor shall it as Club recommend any
person as an applicant for any official posi-
| ton.
| Therefore, Democrats, one and all, come
and swell the ranks of the organization.
Our correspondent, "Young Democrat"
| is in error when he says Hon. NJ. L. Clardy
has announced himself q candidate for re-
election. We presume he forms his con-
| clusion from the fact that the name of that
gentleman is at the head of the REGISTER
editorial columns for the position named;
nouncement by authority of Mr.. CIardy.
| We believe he will be candidate if the peo-
pie of the district insist upon t,yet we know
is not anxious to run again. But his eX-
perlence in public affairs is such as can be
gained only through years of service, and he
is to-day better fitted than ever before to
represent his constituents to their credit
and profit. This being the case, and the
people desiring continuance of his SER
| vices as congressman, ought to, and, we
may feel toward making the race again.
List of letters remaining in the Ironton
most office for the month ending Nav lat