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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

D. II. Davis, druggist of Gallatin,
cashed a twenty-fve-dollar check for
one O. f. Drew, representing himself as
agent for H. E. Buclin & Co., Chicago.
The firm wires that he has not been in
their employment since 1885. The
scoundrel is doubtless working other
terri torV
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE Socialist party made great gains
in the election for members of the Ger
man Reichstag on the Goth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE victims of a railway accident on
the Grand Trunk railroad at st. George,
near Hamilton, Ont, about year ago,
began suit for damages against the com
pany at Toronto, on the 18th, conSolldat-
ing their suits, the aggregate amount
of which is $500, 900.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE high seas during recent storms
caused considerable damage to beach
property at Long Branch, \. j.; por-
tions of the bluff were washed away In
several places, and the roadway in front
of the United States Hotel was par
TALLY washed out.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

Warden Morrison of the penitentiary
has made his annual report to Governor
Francis. 1t shows 1889 to have been
unusually prosperous. According to the
report the number in confinement De-
cember 81, 1888, was 1881; received dur
ing last year, sos; discharged under
three-fourth law, $50; pardoned by Gov
ernor Morehouse, IS: pardoned by Gov
ernor Francis, 50; sentence committed
by Governors Morehouse and Francis,
20; discarded by order of court, Il: full
term expired, II; escaped, II; died, 20;
number in confinement December 81,
1889, 1850. The earnings of the peni-
tertiary for the year were S2+9 $685. 81
and the expenses S245, 931.51, leaving a
cash balance on hand of So 96703.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE operation performed upon young
Abraham Lincoln, son of the United
States Minister to England, is pro-
nounced by the physicians to be in
every respect successful, and there IS
now reason to believe that he will re-
cover.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

SAUNDERS BUCKLEY, and his cousin,
Letitia Buckley, were struck by light
ming near Cambria, o., on the Goth. The
former was instantly killed and the lat
ter probably fatally injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE report of the conference commit
tee on the Worlds Fair bill was adopted
in the New York Sta.a Assembly, on
the 10th, by vote of 119 to l. In the
Senate the Assembly's action was con-
CURED in and the bill was passed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

w. j. Duval, money clerk of the Pa
cifc and United States Express compa
MES at Kansas City, was locked up in
the county Jail a few evenings ago. on
the charge of having embezzled 81, 4sC
from those companies. The agent of the
American Surety Company, which is or
his bond and which is prosecuting him,
says that he confessed having taken the
money from envelopes containing col
lections upon C. o. d. packages.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

Some time ago Moses B. Allen. OF
Kansas City, went to Colorado, he says,
on account of the health of his son. He
returned a few days ago, and found that
his wife had secured divorce on the
ground of drunkenness and desertion
and umarried again. She was living
with her new husband, happy as
lark. The case will be investigated in
the courts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE President, on the 18th, awarded
certificates for bravery in a fight with
robbers in Arizona in May, 1889, to
PrivateS Thornton Hams and James
Wheeler, of the Tenth Infantry.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE Pension Appropriation bill, ac-
companied by favorable report, was
submitted to the House on the 18th.
The bill appropriates sos, &21.46l. The
appropriation for the current year was
$50. AS, 900. The number of pensioners
on the roll is given at $50, rs.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

The city of st. Louis offered s., 600 for
the best design for city hall. The. con-
test was lively, but the prize was award
ed to George Mann, a St. Joseph archi-
tect. He has received the money, and
estim rates the cost of a building erected
according to his plans at 81, 100, OOO Mr..
Mann will take the position of super.
vising architect of the building, and will
make st. Louis his residence.
Gold at Higgnsville.
What purports to be gold ore has been
discovered near Higginsville. 1t was
found by John Summers while digging
well.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27
4 Serious ARRAY.

While religious services were being
held in a country church near Sedalia
fight occurred on the outside between
Harrison Cross and Green Ferguson.
Cross beat Ferguson brutality, using
brass knuckles. Cross fed, but was capt
ured at Indianapolis, Ind. Ferguson is
lying at the point of death.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

By a resolution passed by the South
Dakota House of Representatives., on
the 18th, the restitution which exists in
many parts of that State is admitted,
and Governor Mellette is authorized to
appeal to the East for aid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE National convention of colored
men in session In Washington, on the
4th perfected permanent organization
nv the election of Rev. J. c. Price, of
North Carolina. as president, and w. c.
Chase, of Washington, secretary. Alist
of honorary ce-presidents, one from
each State represented in the conyen-
ton, was also selected.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

AN enormous meeting of German So
cialists was held in London, on the
night of the 10th, which passed resolu-
tions thanking the Emperor of Germany
for having issued his labor reScriptS.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

JUSTICE DEAK, of the British Column
bian Supreme Court, has rendered de-
cision which declares that the Govern
ment of the United States has no juris-
diction over Behring's Sea outside of the
marine LEAGUE limit.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE Democratic members of the Ohio
Legislature, on the 18th. united upon
Congressional redistricting scheme. 1t
gives the Democrats fifteen districts,
the estimates being based on the vote
of 1854, 1856 and 1883.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

ALL the clubs and organizations in
Great Britain interested in the eight
hour question have called meetings in
order to make the May demonstration
in Great Britain universal and success
m,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

THE deadlock in the Iowa House of
Representatives was broken, on the
10Th, by an arrangement which gives
the Democrats the Speakership (John
T. Hamilton being elected to that posi-
tion) and the Republicans the important
chairmanshipS of committees.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

AT the Cabinet meeting, on the 18th,
the report of Marshal Mizen on the
killing, in Florida, of Deputy-Marshal
Saunders, was read by Attorney-Gen-
eral Miller, and the subject was very
generally discussed.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-02-27

IT is said that if the Worlds Fair bill
is passed by the New York Legislature
as drawn up, giving the commission
power to condemn real estate, the mat
ter will be taken to the courts, and the
litigation will probably last until after
1892. Eminent counsel has already
been engaged by certain property-hold-
erS for the purpose
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07
The Empress Of Japan.
Taruer5s NAgagine,

llhl H'A , hhseeiA'F
at excessive heights above all Japan
csc women, the invisible Empress, till
within recent years, was enthroned like
a goddess But she. the sovereign, has
descended little by little from her empty
rean she shows herself at present, she
receives, she speaks, and she even
lunches-with the tips Of her lips, it is
true. She has abandoned her magnih-
cent cQm0iis strewn with strange
blazons. her wide bead-dress that
looked ike on IDOLS, and her
enormous fans she sends, alas !
TO Paris or TO London for her cor
sets. her dresses, and her bonnets. Five
years have passed over the chrysanthe-
NUNS since, on one OF these very rare
solemnities, where few privileged ones
are admitted to her presence, ] had the
honor of seeing her in her gardens She
was ideally charming, passing like q
fairy among her parterres, How
cred in profusion with the sad flowers Of
autumn then coming TO sit beneath her
canopy of violet crepon (the imperial
color in the hieratic stiffness OF her
robes, tinted like the wings OF hum
ming bird. All the deliciously quaint
pegeantry with which she then surround
ed herself gave her the charm Of an I'M
real creature. Upon her painted
lips lowered ceremonial smile, dis.
dainful and vague. Beneath the pow
der her exquisite face preserved an I'M
penetrable expression, and notwlthstand-
ing the grace of her greeting one felt
her offended by our presence, which ac-
cording to the new customs she was
forced to tolerate, she. the holy En-
press, invisible Of yore, like a religious
myth.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07

disappointment While she feared that
something dreadful might como OF the
terrible passion Of tho young man she
did not dream that even while sho drove
slowly along the dim road under tho
trees duel was in progress between him
and Honors Chauvin. Her pony, stout,
gentle animal. logged quietly forward in
the sand between the tufts OF Spanish
bayonet and thickets of bay bushes
| Overhead the pine trees moaned and the
grand magnolias rustled their stiff, glossy
foliage.
Suddenly three or four goats, part Of
q herd that had been turned out TO craze
and browse in the woods, leaped out OF q
little tangle OF tall wild-grass hard by
and dashed across tho road close in
front OF the pony. Marie at the
time was absorbed in thought, and
held the lines with slack hand.
The pony took fright, as the gentlest
horse sometimes will, and whirling
about and almost upsetting the cart, ran
away through the forest as fast rs his
legs could carry him. The movement
whisked the lines out OF Mares grasp.
and so she lost control Discovering his
freedom and crazed with fright, tho
hitherto gentle little animal now became
a savage and terrible beast, reckless of
everything, giving no attention to road
or direction.
The reader will understand at once
how the catastrophe came about at the
duelling- ground, for the pony, accident
ally heading itself that way, ran madly
and blindly upon the combatants. 1t
was found dead half.mile from the
spot with Pierre's napier sheathed TO the
hilt in its breast. II had struck the
weapons point Just IS 1t was about TO
dart into the heart OF Honore Chsuvin.
The strangest part OF the whole adven-
ture was that Marie escaped without
even the slightest hurt.
The young men were borne to the
nearest house, where for many hours
they lay side by side insensible.
Honore's hurts were nearly fatal and
Pierre was crippled for life. In tho
course Of their convalescence they both
received the gentle and untiring care OF
Marie, and before they were able TO leave
the house their friendship had been re-
stored.
Aunt Chlothilde, very old colored
woman who speaks nothing but the
French pat0is OF the Creole country, IS
the only survivor Of the slaves owned
by Marie do Noyants father at the time
of the duel. You may, il you will visit
her in her little house on Hospital street
in New Orleans. have the story that !
have hero sketched told to you in the
most picturesque way, and 1t always
ends with n minute description Of how
beautiful Marie looked in her white
wedding gown when she and Honore
Chauvin were married.
In the course Of frequent and long so
iourns in the old French region OF the
South l have made note OF many TO-
mantle, odd, or otherwise interesting
stories of duelling. but none OF them
seem to me more strange than this one
told me by Aunt Chlothilde.
Last winter | visited the spot where
the duel was fought, and while | tried to
imagine the scene as it was siXty-six
wears ago, a mocking-bird quayered its
incompatible hute-score from a wax
myrtle bush on the edge of n fiowery
thicket hard by. What a peaceful spot
IL WAS
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07
AGED INDIANS.
Remarkable Longevity of tho Natives of
Southern California.
Harper's Magazine.

Southern California.
Harper's Magazine.
The early inhabitants Of Southern Cal
ifornia, according to the statement OF Mr..
II. II. Bancroft and other reports, were
found to be living in Spartan conditions
as to temperance and training, and III
highly moral condition, in consequence
Of which they had uncommon physical
endurance and contempt for luxury. This
training in abstinence and hardship,
with temperance in diet combined
with the climate to produce the
astonishing longevity to be found
here. Contrary to the customs OF most
other tribes of Indians, their aged were
the care of the community. DIR. W. A.
Winder, of San Diego, is quoted as say
ing that in visit to FL Cajon Valley
some thirty years ago he was taken to a
house in which the aged persons were
cared for. There were half dozen
who had reached an extreme age,
Some were unable to move, their bony
frame being seemingly anchylosed.
They were old. wrinkled, and blear-eyed
their skin WAS hanging in leathery
folds about their withered limbs; some
had hair as white as snow, and had seen
some seven score of years; Others, still
able to crawl but so aged as to be I'M
able TO stand, went slowly about on
their hands and knees, their limbs being
attenuated and withered. The organs
of special sense had in many nearly lost
all activity some generations back.
Some had lost the use of their limbs for
more than q decade or gene
ration, but the organs OF life and the
"great sympathetic still kept up their
automatic functions. not recognizing the
fact and surprisingly Indifferent to it,
that the rest of the body had ceased to
be Of any use generation or more in
the past. DR.. Palmer ms photograph
(which / have seem of squaw whom he
estimates 10 be one hundred and twenty
six years old. When he visited her he
saw her put six watermelons in a
blanket, tieit MP, and carry it on her
back for two miles. He is IA
milisr with Indian customs and his
tory, and O careful cross examination
convinced him that her information Of
old customs WAS not obtained by tradi-
ton. She was converssnt with tribal
habits she had seen practised, such as
the cremation of the dead, which the
mission fathers had compelled the In
dians to relinquish. She had seen the
Indians punished by the fathers with
hoggings for persisting in the practice
of cremation.
at the mission of San Tomas, in Lower
California, is still living an Indian "a
photograph of whom DR.. Remondino
shows, bent and wrinkled, whose age is
computed at one hundred and forty
years. Although blind and naked, he is
still active, and daily goes down the
beach and along the beds of the creeks
in search of drift-wood, making it his
daily task to gather and carry to camp
| fagot of wood.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07
Tho National Hymn of Brazil.

The Brazilian national hymn, which
has been so prominent a feature OF tho
details OF the reception to the officers Of
the Brazilian feet in Washington, has
been translated by Professor John Philip
Sousa from the original by Medeiras
Albuquerque. 1t is as follows:
May the glorious sun shed food Of light
Der Brazil. with its hallowei sod.
Despots never again will our land af-
fright
Never more will We groan meath the rod.
Then with hymns Of glory resOunding,
With new hopes for tho land we adore,
LOYAL hearts for our country rebounding,
Let our song ring from mountain 10
shore. -,
see
The slave in his chains pine and die;
We are brothers who'd die for our liberty,
Tyrants ALL we your powers DEFY!
All ere free IN our glorious nation,
In the future united are we:
While our flag waves with wild eXultation
We will sing Of our land of the tree.
From the Ypiranga. bark! It's the cry SUBJ
lime,
OF faith and of hope for our land.
Come, arise oh. Brazil. 'tis'the holy time,
Forward, all. tits your countryS COM
mand.
From thy minds the royal purple Danish,
And in glory advance 10 the fore;
Then, Brazil, all thy foremen will vanish,
And triumphant thou'lt be eyermore.
REFRAIN.
Liberty! Liberty open wide your pinions
grand.
Thro tempests dire and battles fire,
Oh, guard our native land.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07
APERFECT CLIMATE.
The Procession of the Seasons in Southern
California.
Harpar's Mazazlne.

Harpers Magazine.
There are no sudden changes OF sea-
son here. Spring comes gradually day
by day, perceptible hourly waking to
life aud color and this glides into
summer which never ceases, but only
becomes tired and fades into the repose
OF a short autumn, when the sere and
brown and red and yellow hills and the
purple mountains are waiting for the
ain-clouds. This is according to the
process of nature, but wherever irriga-
ton brings moisture to the fertile soil
the green and bloom are perpetual the
year round, only the green is powdered
with dust and the cultivated flowers have
their periods Of exhaustion.
should think it we'll worth while to
watch the procession OF nature here
from late November or December to
April. 1t is land OF delicate and bril-.
liant wild flowers, of blooming shrubs,
strange in form and wonderful in color.
Before the annual rains the land lies
in sort of swoon in golden
haze the slopes and plains are bare,
the hills yellow with ripe wildcats or
ashy gray with sage. the sea-breeze is
weak, the air grows drier, tho sun hot,
the shade cool. Then one day light
clouds stream up from the southwest and
there is gentle rain. When the sun
comes out again its rays are milder, the
land is refreshed and frightened, and
almost Immediately greenish tinge
appears on plain and hillside. At
intervals the rain continues, daily
the landscape is greener in infinite
variety OF shades, which seem to
sweep over tho hills in waves of color.
Upon this carpet OF green by February
nature begins 70 weave an embroidery of |
Wild flowers, white, lavender, golden.
pink, indigo. scarlet, changing day by |
day and every day more brilliant, and |
spreading from patches into great fields |
until dale and hill and table land are |
oyerspread with . refinement and glory |
Of color tAst would be the despair OF the |
Darpetvessss Of Daghsstsa. !
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-07

that wholesale robbery can just as
surely be contaminated by wild infla-
ton as by o cruel contraction OF the
volume OF that great instrument OF civili-
cation and OF sssociation--money. But
BIO hangs his head in shame, for he was
once in favor OF the robber scheme and
demanded its enactment into law.
This, Mr.. Editor, is very nearly an
illustration of results that have come
about in the Argentine Republic in South
America.
Their "cedulas were negotiable land
mortgages with interest guaranteed by
the State, issued TO the amount OF S43O,-
100000.
A National Pawn Bank was organized
and money was issued upon pawned
property. Vast amounts of these mort
cages were sold in Europe. In trying
to maintain their credit and yalue to the
holders by paying tho interest in gold
the great house OF Barring Brothers
failed. and the Bank Of England had to
appeal to bimetallic France for aid to
prevent catsclysm in the very centre
Of gold mometallism
IT was the scramble for gold that
raised its value-that lowered the value
of all ether modified property. stocks,
bonds, and silver, and deranged the
commerce OF the world.
"His question Of the interest Of
the owners Of gold and collaborating
securities upon the one hand and Of me
interest Of the ownerS Of every other
kind of property in the wori1 upon the
other hand, said the Hon. Henry Chap
lin. member of the present British
ministry, at great meeting of bimetal-
lists held in London.
Mr.. Editor, the complete restoration
OF silver to its place will bring such
measure Of relief TO the farmers Of our
country, and consequently TO eli our in
dustrial and commercial interests, as will
restore once more the conditions of pros
perity. Ii will take silver out OF the
hands of gamblers
1t will deprive gold Of its abnormal
value. 1t will prevent India and Rus
STA undertaking US in the wheat markets
OF Europe.
1t Will stay the constant tendency to
panlcs, the constant fear OF which is
perpetual menace to all commerce, for it
viii insure greater stability to all values.
Farmers above all others need this
stability.
Because they have been cruelty wrong
ed by the contraction Of values, due to
the general adoption of the gold stand
ard, they cannot sanction a general up
setting of all values, which an adoption
of the sub Treasury scheme would sure
ly bring about.
1t is time the bubble was pricked. 1t
is also high time that bankers and bust
ness-men generally unite with US in de-
manding the restoration OF silver; and,
above all, that the public press should
aid in the work that the conditions es-
sential to general prosperity be supplied
and grave dangers ayerted.
j. w. PORTER.
Charlottesville, Va, Dec. 2, 1890.