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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23

and then we catch mention IN the
records of the slave courts, where we
hear tell of hapless condemned wretches
1nclosed in its iron grasp, and hung by
its iron ring from some galloWs in the
sight Of all. Not only in tradition, but
| in actual records, we hear tell of such a
miserable creature hanging in the
cage" dying for days in the shrivel-
| ing glare of the sun, starved and tortured
and buffetted by the wings Of the filthy
vultures that hardly waited for the eyes
to glaze before they were at work.
was told that the frame had been dug
up out of the sand, and that when it was
| discovered a female skeleton was still
within its grasp.
| Midway in the harbor between Kings
| ton and Port Royal tongue of land
! juts out from the peninsula toward the
reefs that bound the crooked ship chan
mel to the northWard. Once this tongue
Of land was bounded by a strip of white
coral beach, and covered with growth
of wiry grass: now it is nearly smoth-
cred under a thick growth of mangrove
| thickets, pierced by marrow canals that
run here and there through the tangle,
| and dotted by little lagoons, in the
lonely waters of which herons and peli-
cans and frigate-birds live an almost I'M
disturbed life.
The name by which that point of land
is known indicates its history with a
terrible hrevity: it is ''Gallows Point
There in the old days of seventy i've or
a hundred years ago gaunt, hideous
framework stood in the sight of all, and
almost always between the upright
posts one or more dead pirates hung in
chains, swaying slowly to and fro in the
breeze, with hollow, sightless eyes
turned now toward the white winged
ships, and now toward the long neck of
Cagawaya, while buzzards, the John
Crows of Jamaica, sailed Solemnly
round and round in the air above, their
silent following shadow now and then
fitting across the gray stony brow be-
meath.
Every one quotes Tom Cringle's Log
in Jamaica, and it is perhaps, with all
its exaGgeration, the best guide-book
that that can be found of the island.
The author lived in those days, and saw
most that he describes with his own eyes.
In one part of his story he describes
twenty-five Cuban pirates strung up at
Gallows Point in one morning. -IIoWard
Pyle, in EarDer'S Magazine.
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OUR FUTURE NAVY.

The Plan Formulated by the Board An
pointed to Make Recon- lamentations in
Regard to the building Up OF Our NAVY
"A Comprehensive Recommendation.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1G.-Thc naval
board appointed to formulate a plan for
the building of navy commensurate
with the dignity and power of the Ma
ton, in their report to the Secretary of
the Navy will recommend the construc-
tion of 90 vessels of different types and
sizes: these will be built according to
the plan of the board in fourteen wears.
and VIII cost, together with their main
tenance during the fourteen years, $685.
OOO,O00. They say that the cost of main
tcnance of a feet of vessels such as they
propose would be only onc-quarter that
of keeping up the same number of old
style vessels.
The scheme of the board comprises
the following vessels. the estimated cost
CT which, with armament complete. is
appended: Ten battle-ships of 9. 600 tons
-, 100000 each: eight of 5000 tons,
-. 900. 600 each: twelve of 1000 tons.
$500, 600 each: five of 5000 tons. 81. GOO.-
900 each; ten rams of $500 tons. 81 500
600 each: nine armored cruisers. $3.50
tons, to make nineteen knots an hour,
$500, coo each: four protected cruisers
of 100 tons, TO make twenty-five knots
an hour, s., 500, 900 each: nine protected
cruisers of 800 tons, to make twenty
knots an hour, 81. SOO,0O each;
two protected cruisers of 1000 tons,
to make nineteen knots an hour, s.. O5O.-
900 each: five special cruisers of ], 2OG
tons, to make eighteen knots, $500, OOO
each:fifteen torpedo cruisers of 900 tons,
to make twenty-five knots an hour. $780,
900 each; three artificers' ships, s., co.,
geo each. The eight ships which Secre-
tary Tracy recommends in his report
shall be begun at once are not the eight
proposed by the board but eight of the
first ten
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THEY'RE LCWRTS MEAT.
Five More Participants in the Rici,burG.
(Ntss.) Prize-Tight Extraditcd and the
Warrants in the Cases OF Three Others
Temporarily Revoked.

Five More Participants in the RiciburG.
(Asiss.) Prize-ffGht Extraditcd and the
warrants in the Cases OF Three Others
Temporarily Revoked.
ALBANY, y. Y. Jan. 16.-Governor
Hill has decided the Mississippi extra
dition cases. He revoles his warrant
for johnson, Wakcly and Harding, but
decides that the other five (Muldoon,
Donovan, Murphy. Cleary and Butlcr)
must be taken to Mississippi in pursu-
anco Of Governor Lowry'S rc9uisition.
Counsel for johnson, Harding and
Wakely filed affidavits with Governor
Hill showing that they in no manner
aided or abetted the prizc-fght, but
were simply witnesses thereof, one of
them being merely newspaper corre-
spondent of the Daily News and of the
Police Gazette, and Governor Hill re-
vokes the warrants for their arrest,
only temporarily, however, as he has
forwarded the a1lidavits to Governor
Lowry submitting the matter for the
latter's consideration whether in the
light of these affidavits he desires to in
sist upon the extradition of these par
ties. If Governor Lowry, after con-
SultatiCn with the prosecuting attorney,
thinks that Johnson. Harding and
Wakely can be convicted, notwith-
standing the facts stated in their affi-
davits, then Governor Hill will order
their surrender, and until then the
three are temporarily discharged and
the other five surrendered.
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PiTH AND POINT.

The most reliable good man in the
world is the man who has tired of wick
edness.-Atchison Globe.
Truth is the same through the gem
erations, but it's diversity is in the see
ing of it.-United Presbyterian.
We lose half the happiness of life
by caring too much for the opinions of
others.
Misery may love company, but the
company doesn't generally return the
| compliment.--Somervi Journal.
The man who is sure that he can't
be wrong is always the very one to find
that it is the impossible whsch always
happens.-Puck.
When a man IS vile and villainous,
and thinks nobody knows it, he is cher
ishing big error that will some day
greatly confuse him.
In this age of sharp rivalry the man
who permits his wife to go wool gather
ing is very liable to get worsted-
Binghamton Herald.
They who are most weary of life
and vet are most unwilling to die, are
such who have lived to no purpose; who
have rather breathed than lived
Clarendon.
BE not too ready toquestion the Writ
ne or veracity of a statement for fear
of exposing your ignorance Of even
subject with which you suppose your
self well acquainted.-A. =. Reed.
Information got by galloping
through q multitude of books IS about
as nourishing as the mustard scraped
tongue smart" but it won't make you
strong.
Every action, every thought, every
feeling contri buteS to the education OF
the temper, the habits and understand
ing and exercises an inevitable influ-
ence upon all the acts of our future life.
A large part of the drill of life con-
sists in overcoming hostile dispositions.
Each time we have conquered some re-
sentiment or prejudice we have made a
distinct gain in the way to a well-regu-
lated behavior.
AS steady application to work is the
healthiest training forevery individual,
so is it the best discipline of q State.
Honorable industry always travels the
same road with enjoyment and duty,
and progress is altogether impossible
without it,
Economy should be practiced in
time of youth, its results to be prudent
ly preserved for unforeseen sickness,
need, misfortune, and inevitable feeble
and helpless old age. Its Observance
calls for no peculiar trait of character in
the individual; it simply requires deter
mination and strength of will to resist
selfish qualification. Further, it may
demand education; that is, that the
power of extravagant habit must be
trained to succumb to the power of
economic Observation-Disclosures Agri-
culturist.
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DEATHS AT THE DOOR.

Walker Blaine, Eldest Son of Secretary
Blaine and Solicitor of the state De-
partment Succumbs to an Attack of
Acute Pneumonia, the Sequel to a Case
of LA Grippe
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. - Walker
Blaine, the eldest son of Secretary
Blaine. and Solicitor of the State De-
partment, died at eight o'clock last
evening of acute pneumonia. in the thir-
ty-ffth year of his age. Around his
death-bed were Secretary Blaine, Mrs.
Blaine, his brothers Emmons and James,
ard Miss Dodge.
Mr.. Walker Blaine was taken i'll with
cold at his Office in the State Depart
mont on last Friday morning, and was
SO much indisposed that he never went
to his Office afterwards. At first it was
thought that he had only the prevailing
influenza. but his cold developed into
pneumonia. which rapidly became
worse. He was not, however, thought
to be in critical condition until yes
terday morning. when his symptoms
would not yield to treatment. During
Tuesday night he was deliriOus, and all
day yesterday he remained in the same
condition except for a short time in
the morning. when he appeared
slightly better and was conscious for
brief time. Tho improvement, how
ever. was but temporary. His fever in
creased, his breathing became more
labored. and at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon, for the'1irst time, his family
seemed to realize his extremely critical
condition. \ consultation of physi-
clans was held at four o'clock and it
was then decided that the patient was
past medical aid. He continued to sink
gradually-after remaining unconscious
for nearly twenty-four hours-when the
end came. The arrangements for his
funeral will be perfected to-day.
Walker Blaine was graduated from Yale
College in 1876. and studying law, received
his diploma from Columbia College, New
York, in 1873. In 1881, while Garfield was on
his death bed he sent for Walker Blaine and
appointed him Third Assistant Secretary of
State, saying that he appreciated his ability
and desired to show it. After serving in this
capacity very ;.cccptably for nearly year
he was appointed on the Alabama Claims
Commission, where he served with great
credit from 1882 to 1885, On the advent of the
present Administration he was appointed
Solicitor of the State Department, Il position
which he has also filed with great credit and
ability Mr. Blaine was of frank and genial
4 man of magnetism and ability,
and was personally popular with all with
whom he came il contact, socially or in
business matters.
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1t seemed to him that not proposition came
from the South in reference to the colored
race, in which there was one ray of hope
He could not see that representatives of the
South had any policy, but "a policy of de-
spar. He could not believe that any con-
siderable number of colored people could
be induced to deport themselves or that the
American people could ever be got to apply
to them any restraint What, he asked was
the barrier to the negro living in peace in
this country; to his dividing between the
two political parties as the German did, and
as the Swede did, except that the white race
would not permit that thing to be done. lie
would like to know what other barrier there
was.
Mr. Blair spoke against the bill, which he
declared to be either a manifest impossible
ty or an absurdity. Unless the eight mill
ions OF colOred people went, it was an alb
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
THE ANDREWS RAIDERS.

A Monument to he Erected to Their
Memory in the National Cemetery at
Chattanooga, Tenn.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Jan. 16.-A con-
tract has been closed by the State of
Ohio for erecting a monument in
memory of the Andrews Raiders in the
National Cemetery here. 1t is to be
made of blue Western granite, with an
appropriate emblem on the pedestal and
surmounted by bronze duplicate of tn,
locomotive General, of the Western
Atlanta railroad, the engine captured by
the raiders. The cutting off of the
engine at Big Shanty, the desperate
ride for Chattanooga, the chase, the
capture and subsequent hanging of the
raiders and reinterment of the remains
in the National Cemetery, are familiar
matters of history. The locomotive
General has been frequently on exhibi-
ton at military reunions. The con-
tractors for the monument are expected
here daily.
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TRAIN SIGNALING.
An Electric Invention Designed to Revolu-
tionize and Simplify Signaling Between
Running Trains.

Al Electric invention designed to IevOIu-
tionize and Simplify Signaling Between
Running Trains.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Mr. James r.
Branch, secretary and treasurer of the
Universal Electric Railway Signal Com
pany. gave private exhibition to rep
resentativeS of the press yesterday
afternoon of the merits of the COM
pany's new invention of train signaling.
The invention is purely ele1 trical and
bids fair TO revolutiOniZe the system of
signaling now in vogue, especially on
single track roads. The idea S to ena-
BILE the engineers of locomotives to COM
municate with each other by telephone
or a code of signals at any point along
the line of the road when they come
within a specified distance of each other
running either in the same or opposite
directions. The invention is marvel
of simplicity and is apparently entirely
racticable. The officers of the COM
pany are given below: J. T. Odell, gen,
eral manager Baltimore SG Ohio rail
road, president; Geo. Il. McAdams,
Richmond, Va, vice-president; James
Il. Branch, Richmond, Va, secretary and
treasurer; r. G.. Cabell, Jr.. Merchants
National Bank; Richmond, Va; Judge ID.
c. Richardson, Joseph c. Lamb, attorney
at law: Julius Lansburgh, Washingt ton,
directors.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-01-23
INGENIOUS CRIMINALS
Masters of the Art of Escaping from OF
fetal Custody.

Masters of the Art of Escaping from Of
fetal Custody.
A Frenchman named Delattre is a
professional burglar of great experience
and exceptional talents, and an all
round criminal. He first gained public
notoriety by escaping from the panier a
salade, or Black Maria, as it is called
here, on the way from Mazas to the
palais de justice. He simply cut trap
door in the Lotion of the vehicle and let
himself drop into the street. Some time
afterward he was captured again, tried
and sentenced to death. A commuta-
ton followed. and he was condemned to
penal servitude for life. In 1880 he was
sent to New Caledonia, but he went
back to France again in the same
vessel that took him to the penal
colony. This vessel was the trans
port Loire. The very day before she
weighed anchor to return to France De-
lattre escaped from the penitentiary,
and in the night he reached the waters
edge, threw off his clothes, and struck
off for the Loire, that was still at anchor
at a considerable distance from the
shore. Unseen by any body, he climbed
into the chains, got on board, and hid
himself in the store-room. There he
had plenty of biscuits and water, but he
was not satisfied; he needed suit of
clothes. When the vessel was three
days out at sea he was captured in the
act of stealing sailors trousers. He
was Immediately recognized aand put in
irons. When the ship arrived at Brest
he managed to get the better of the Wig
ilance of the guard of honor that the
captain had appointed for him and dis
appeared again. Then there was gen.
eral hubbub on board. The YES
sci was searched from stem
to stern, but no trace of
him could be found. Fate was against
him, however, for one of the sailors
happened to look into an empty wine
cask in the store-room. There was De
lattre crouched in the bottom of the
cask, naked as worm, and ready for
another swim when darkness came on.
He had succeeded in getting rid of his
irons, and his travelling kit consisted of
a little box of biscuits and bottle of
brandy. He was sent back to New CAL
edonia, and it is now said that he has
escaped again.
Delattre has rival in the person OF
another burglar, one Menegaud, a fell
low who the other day in Paris smashed
Black Maria, threw snuff in the eyes of
the guard, grabbed the key to the door
in the rear of the vehicle, opened it,
and escaped. He has not yet been re-
captured.-Paris Letter.
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EUSTON-PE RkE.

The Libel Suit Growing Out of the London
Scandals Decided Against Editor Parke,
and He Gets a Year in Prison.
LONDON. Jan. 16.-The libel suit OF
the Earl of Euston against Mr.. Parke,
editor of the North London Press, ended
to-day in the conviction of Mr.. Parke.
Justice Hawkins, before whom the case
was tried, in his charge to the jury re-
viewed the evidence carefully. He de-
clared that there were great discrepan'
cies manifest in the Identification
of the plaintiff. Referring to the
testimony of the witness, John Saul, the
Justice said if his story were true, he
marveled why he had not been arrested
and prosecuted, and also why warran'
had not been asked against the Earl o!
Euston. The jury then retired and sub,
sequently returned a verdict of guilty.
Parke was sentenced to one years inn
priSonment
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The Statue of President Garfield Admitted
Duty FREQ.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-The Treasury
Department yesterday decided that the
marble statue of President Garfield re-
Gently imported at New York and in
tended to form part of the Garfield Me-
mortal, a public monument now in
course of construction at Cleveland, is
entitled to admission duty free under
the section of the law that relates tc
ARTICLES imported in good faith by any
society or association for the purpose of
erecting a public memorial and not for
sale" The statue will be at onc,s Cor
warded 70 Cleveland.
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Mr.. Butler, expressed


legislative history of any free, civilized and
prosperous geople. The United states was
at this moment growing in wealth, strength
and prosperity; and still the demand for
labor kept more than abreast with the
general growth of the country. And yet in
the Senate of the United States a proposition
was made. that, by the force of the Nation
aided by its treasury. eight millions of Ia
borcrs. born on American soil, entitled to
every right. were to be dapOrted. Mr.. Hoar
paid Il high compliment to ex-senator
Bruce, of Mississippi. and to the eight or ten
coiored men who had sat in the House of
Representatives. and declared that there
could have been no better examples of the
legislative character, for purity OF conduct,
for soundness of Judgment, and for ability IN
debate than the representatives of that race
1t was not therefore, that the colored race
could not be made fit for freedom that the
speech was made, but simply on the
ground of the nature OF things, Tor the
nature of man was such that men of differ
ent races (and especially of different com
'pIexions) could not live together in mar
imony and peace and freedom and
honor under the laws of this republic III
that were true then the Declaration OF In
dependence was lie; and the Constitution
of the United States rested On rottennesS-
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Denies the Suicidal Story.

New YORK, Jan. 16.-The report OF
the death by suicide in Dover, England.
of Alexander Harrison, the American
artist, now appears to have little foun.
dation. Mr.. E. A. Abbey, who was
quoted yesterday as authority for the
statement, denies having made it.
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atOr from Alabama [AIr. Morgan) that the
choice was between numbering the negroes
or marrying them, between killing them or
assiInilating them, he thought that course
of lectures on the sixth and seventh COM
mandmcntS would settle the whole thing:
and that no more would be heard of a
doctrine that was an absurIity and an in
suit to our common humanity He finally
went on to argue that the true solution of
the difficulty lay in the enactment of hi bill
to promote education.
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To his mind, he said,
the subject was too
grave to be distorted
by party co2sidera-
I ion : or confined
within the narrow lin
its of party lines. Be-
sides, he said, who
ever concluded that
the quieting of the
agitation concerning
the political status of
the negro would be a
settlement of the race
question, disclosed
how little he knew
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a committee brought Senator Allison
into the room after his nomination he
was received with ringing cheers and
applause He made brief speech
promising to devote his abilities to pro-
tecting and caring for the great indus
try of the Northwest. agriculture. He
cited the revenue. currency and trans
portation questions as especially i'm
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who are sick, and
they sent proxies.
VIM. Il. Allison was
nominated to succeed
himself in the Unit
ed States Senate IL,
on the first ballot
He received the vote
of every me m b er
presents in all.
This inSureS his re-
election by a major
G W.
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THE NOISY DRUM.
II Is an Ancient Instrument That AL Ma
lions Use.

tiOnS Use.
They have got little barrels
The heads be kfyercd wiz leather;
They beats upon 'em wiz little clubs.
To call their folk together.
Thus somebody described the first ap-
pearance Of the British soldiers sent to
America to quell the rebellion of the
colcnists.
Since that time the English drum
beaters have attained such precision in
their art that it is stated that if all the
drummers in the British army were coll
lected together, they would go through
with all the beats in use There are fif-
teen principal ones) in perfect time.
Could our drummer boys do that?
The drum is at home in almost all ma
tions.
The Laplanders venerate their sacred
drums. These are followed from piece
of pine or birch trunk, and covered at
one end A portion of the wood on the
under side is left for handle.
The ancient Romans used hand
drums in, their religious dances. and
more than thousand years ago other
nations used them to give signals in
war
In Asia, immense kettle-drums are
carried across the backs of camels in the
trains of all crowned heads. The drums
are adorned with gorgeous trappings,
and seat is prepared for the player
upon the camel's back.
The musicians of Hindostan play very
dexterously on a very small pair of ket-
tle-drums, called toublabs, which are
fastened before them by lengths of
cloth wound several times around the
body. They are beaten with the fingers.
Single drums, beaten with two sticks of
hard wood, are sometimes used to
frichten away tigers.
Drums used in Hindoo religious pro-
cessions are called doles. They are
made of baked earth, are sometimes
yard long, and twice as large at the
center as at either end Kettle-drums
are thin copper basins or bowls, COW
cred with parchment or calf-skin, which
is held in place by an iron hoop.-N. Y
Mail and Express.
"A clergyman, being busy, said to
his little son: Freddy, you trouble me
this afternoon; you seem like nothing
but collection of perversities." well,
papa" replied Fred, who had been try
ing to climb up on the paternal knee,
well, papa, don't you always take up =
collection?'
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SuA 'AAt o4AA ~ VIZ
did 90 then Il burden
would be imposed on
the Natl o n, W II &c b
might be called an I'M
possibility. The diff
culties of the race
problem, Mr.. Blair de-
clared, existed in the
excited imaginations
and the in eradicabie
projects of a few white
men, not between the
races themselves. As
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