Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-14

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common experience of railroad travel.
Mr.. Geo. w. Craine, superintendent of til
st. Louis Ore and Steel Company, was dow
. in Stoddard county last week inspecting tn
iron ores along the line of the Cape Girar
deau Southwestern Railway. Mr.. C. wa
well pleased with the outlook and says tina
he found ore in abundance. He has mad
arrangements TO get about one hundred ca
loads of this ore to ship to the Vulcan fur
mace in Carondelet where it will be smeltet
and its quality tested.-Cape Girardeau Dem
0crat.
Rev. j. W. Worsnop preached at the For
Hill Church last Sunday evening. Rev. W
has severed his ministerial relations at D.
Soto and intends, for the future, to devot,
most of his time to secular pursuits. He il
now engaged with the Mutual Life Insurance
Company of New York. and will travel il
the West and South in the interest of that
organization. Mr.. w. is conscientious
honorable Christian gentleman, and we but
echo the sentiments of his many Valley
friends when we wish him supreme success
in his new walk in life.
The Jericho Optic is said 20 be responsible
for the following. Where this modern Jer-
ichO is located is not stated nor is it necas-
saIy to the moral of the tale. We but tell il
as tits told us: "a man in Indiana was out
hunting when hard rain came up. He hay
ing no shelter, crawled in a hollow log. The
log became water-soaked, and sweled so the
entrance became SO small he could not get
out. After terrible struggle, he gave him
self up for lost. All his past life stood up
before him like the posters of circus. He
thought of all the evil deeds he bad done,
some of them looked as black as tar at mid
night, but still he thought there was some
chance for him yet; but, Oh horror! he E.
membered the worst of aIl-that he had MOI
subscribed for his HOME paper. When he
thought of this, it made him fell so small
that he crawled out through the hole with
out any trouble"
We have before us a copy of the Iron. on
Furnace dated May 2S, 1853. Among the
items of interest therein is column article
copied from the Ni>SOprl Republican de-
scrlptive of the iron interests in this vicinity.
We reproduce theref"om the following
paragraph:
! Mr., Bailey, a gentleman of great expert
j ence from the iron works of Essex and
| Champlain counties, ih New York, having
| had long and large e'.per ence III the busl-
| ness of making ron, is at the head of the
great works here. Constant mp !ovements
will be made until the greatest amount can
| be accomplished with the least expense.
! Iron used 10 be drawn hence to st. Louis by
oxen, at the rate of $40 per ton. Now the
railroad carries it for Shrinking saving,
| in freight alone, to this company and the
one at Iron Mountain, of about $4,000 per
annum.
The reader will bear in mind that the
| foregoing refers to 1858, an era of low tariff.
Yet, Notwithstanding that the iron manu-
features then paid $40 per ton freight to get
| his products to market, still he was pros
| porous, paid his laborers well, and needed
| no protection from the "foreign goods"
| Now, though, with all the improved ma
| ehners and facilities for transportation, he
must Dc protected from sthe "foreign man
ufacturer." Here is nut foF the protec-
| ionist to crack. Our columns are open for
| this explanation.
| Mr.. Il. f. H1nchey had a narrow escape
from death last Sunday morning at Irondale,
and, although he is now in the hospital with
broken limb, he may, if our information is
correct, well congratulate himself on his de-
| Iiverance from an untimely end. MIR. H., as
most of our readers are aware, is brake
man, and it was while i'll the performance of
his duties as such that he met with his mis-
fortune. Last Sunday morning the train on
which he was employed side-tracked at
Irondale for No. .51 to pass. When the
passenger train arrived Mr.. H., for soihe
reason or other, boarded one of the coaches.
He was detained thereon for moment or
two and did not attempt to get off until the
train had assumed q rather high rate of
speed, and as he landed he was thrown on
the side-track and under the wheels of the
row moving freight cars. Mr.. ii. realized
his imminent danger at once and grabbed the
brake beam, holding on with a death like
grip. While being thus dragged along one
of his limbs was broken up above the knee.
but, happily, before any further injury was
done he was observed by the train crew and
released from his perilous situation. While
Mr.. HIS condition Is rather serious, still we
are told 1t is not necessarily dam erous, and,
as above remarked, we consider that he has
every reason to feel happy that the event
terminated no more disastrousiy Tor Dim,
We have just been appraised that the injur-
ed member is rapidly improving.
As promised last week, we print in this
issue the circular published by Hon. w. Z.
Coleman, setting forth the Il and the reas-
ons for his late ruling that puOiie school
houses cannot be lawfully used for any other
than public school, LITERARY, religious, or
other public purposes" This decision he was
called upon to give by reason Of an appeal
to him from a lumber of citizens In one OF
the counties of this State. After giving it,
aud being attacked therefor, he appealed
TO the Attorney General, whose duty it is to
interpr ct the law when called upon officially.
This he did, sustaining the Superintendent
of Schools in his decision, citing the fact
that wherever the attention Of the courts
had been called TO the matter, they had de-
clared that public school houses could be
lawfully used only for the public schools.
These courts may have erred. but their de-
cisions are law until overruled by higher
court. and the Attorney General and the
superintendent ought not be denounced for
following them. Row, where is the sense OF
denouncing these officials for having simp-
,y done their duty under the law and III ac-
cordauce with their oaths: With the law as