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

INDIAN 4. \. Chapter meets next Tuesday
evening. As some Interesting work Will
then probably be blocked out, full attend.
ance will not be deprecated.
VIM. L. Beyersdorff, Centreville, passed
through town on his way TO st. Louis, yes
terday. He said there is more sickness in
Reynolds county now than was ever before
known-mostly la grippe. All the officials
were down, and the courthouse deserted
As we understand, from another informant,
the only establishment holding its own is the
| Outlook office, and its escape from the
scourge is owing solely and alone to rem
edy discovered and used by Bro. ShrIyer.
We do not know just what that remedy is,
but 1t takes 4 two gallon jug and corn-cob
stopper TO hold it down. There is no label.
ga Member" last week, denied the a>ser-
| tons contained in a "brevity" Of the week
previous, relative to un>eemly conduct in
| the Vi. Z. Church, aud assured u that our
informant had not told the equal and exact
| truth. The informant has written a reply
over his name to "a Member" but it is
crowded out this week. la the meantime,
we assure "a Member" that the informant
| in question i not the only person WHO has
complained TO Us, but we refrained from
| saying anything until especially requested TO
do 80. 1t is really none of our fight, for
reasons apparent aud 't0o numerous to
MENTION" but The REGISTER stands always
for peace, "decency and order"
"An Ocular DeIusion" is the title of
hi Il IL oh
will begin IN the Netc York Ledgcr of March
I. The story holds the mirror up to club
life in the metropolis, and touches lightly,
but with the mastery and suggestive stroke
of the etching hand, some of the more dis
tinctive sides Of New York society life. Sew.
eral of the characters are 50 Staftlingly typ
zeal that they may be taken for any one o
scores of the members of the ''Four Hun
dred." The hero is fine combination Of
manliness, ready ingenuity and audacity, a
youth with a rare amount of phosphorus in
his cerebral gray matter and N equally gen.
erous amount of red corpuscIeS IN his veins
i character which the author has elaborated
with sympathetic interest, and which, ac-
cOrding to the impression given by the adj
vance sheets, represents an Oarsman of a re-
cent crew Of leading American college.
The author, by the way, is that brilliant
young newspaper worker, Frank Howard
Howe, son of the ate postmaster general, |
Timothy +. Howe, Of Wisconsin.
We acknowledge with pleasure the receipt
of a very valuable and entertaining book, |
from the hands of its author, Gen. Firmin
\. Rozier, of Ste. Genevieve. fine work, |
which is volume of over 800 pages, and |
finely Illustrated, i entitled, "HStOry of |
the Early Settlement of the Mississippi VAL |
lev" \ steel engraving Ofthe author forms |
the fTontiSpiece, and is followed by Il short |
sketch Of his life. Price S1,50. We do not !
know that we can do better in this connec-
ton than to quote from sundays Republic: |
1.-THE book is not only compilation of known
facts in the early history # the Mississippi |
Valley, but an addition of many interesting |
facts not heretofore known, which while not |
historical in the strict sense Of the term, |
serve, nevertheless, to add color and inter-
est to the narrative. The reader is taken |
through all the perils and privatIons of the
early French missionaries: sees the settle
ment of Creve CpuT on the Illinois; is with |
LaSalIe when, after his perilOus voyage
Down the Mi>Si>>ppi.he claims the entire
territory in the name of the King of France.
The history of the later discovery of the
Mississippi by DIberville, and the settle
nent of Mobile are interesting parts of the
work. The history of Kaskaskia, the oldest
permanent settlement on the Mississippi,
and of its vcis>itudes under three flags is
told, and that of st. Louis is re-
lated at length. There is no important part
Of the early history Of the great valley |
omitted. The development of the lead |
mines of Missouri constitute separate chap
tiers of the book"