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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
A Church That Wants no EXEMPTION,

Rev A. P. McDiarmid, pastor of tho
Tabernacle Baptist church, in Brook
lyn, addressed meeting of Baptist
ministers the other day on the subject
Of church taxes. He argued that the
Baptist church should not countenance
the exemption of state taxes which is
now in vogue. THE church, in accent
ing an exemption from taxes" said he.
receives that which is wrested from the
taxpayers. 1t is gift from the state
and tendency toward the state main.
tenance of the church. A public grant
each year from the state would be less
Objectionable, for then every thine
would be done openly. and the tax-pav.
ers would know just how much the d;f-
ferent churches were receiving. re-.
iigion that can not pay its just taxes
should be booted out of the world
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
DEL SARTE'S START.

Tow the Great Frencliman Made His First
Hit i'm the World.
Delsarte was a regular ''street Arab
in Paris. From young sters of his own
kind he became familiar with the seven
notes of the scale, and having this
foundation his inventive genius formu-
lated a system of musical notation
whereby he could preserve the beauti-
full melodies to which he had listened
with such delight. At twelve years of
age charmed by music in the garden OF
the Tuileries, he was observed by dis
tinguished professor of music, Bam-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28

THE San Francisco Star tells of six
lots in that city which were wanted in
order to open street. A commission
appraised them at 81, S45, but the owner
wanted 81, 600, and said he valued them
at So, 900 and didn't want to let them go
even at that price. An examination of
the assessors books showed that they
were assessed at only S45 each. The
Star says this case ought to make single
takers of all thinking persons who ex-
anime into it; and we think so, too.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28
Rauu and Son,

fresh scandal about the pension
bureau must have impaired a familiar
odor to the official atmosphere of Wash
ington as the president shifted it on his
return. He at least ought not to have
been surprised to hear that the son of
his commissioner of pensions had been
forced to resign for selling appoint
ments in the bureau and appropriating
to his own uses p>tty sums of the
bureaus money. The son has evident
ly been initiating his fathers methods,
and doing SO with the belief that they
were safe ones for him to practice,
since the president had kept his father
in office in the face of all evidence that
he was using his position for unworthy
ends and personal pecuniary profit. If
the father did not know what the son
was doing, the fact that the son could
do what he did without instant detec-
ton is fresh proof of the lax and
irresponsible system upon which the
bureaus affairs are conducted. N. Y.
Post
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28

WERE all taxes placed upon land val.
ues, irrespective of improvements tho
scheme of taxation would be SO sip,nIa
and clear, and public attention yvorld
be so directed to it, that the valuation
OF taxation could and would be ma5o
with the same certainty that a real
estate agent can determine the nr;o,,
seller can get for a lot.-Propress 49,,
Poverty "
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-05-28

The tax on land values, which ia III.
least arbitrary of taxes, possesses in the
highest degree the element of certa;nt,,
1t may be assessed and collected VIII,
definiteness that partakes of the inv.
movable and unconcealable char.c,..
of the land itseh.-Progress and p,
erty.
The Press., 1891-06-18

Bargains are beginning to show themselves.
 Bargains, you know, come from somebody's blunders. Nobody makes goods and sells them at a loss for fun. The maker expects a profit; so does the seller; but there's many slip in handling the best of goods. The prices just now depend altogether on what goods are left in wholesale hands. A little surplus causes break. A reduction, therefore, is not evidence against the accepta- bility of the goods. Hardly a day passes with out our buying things below value. These were bought lately.
 Black silk grenadines, that
 belong at 75, for 55c ayard. Mohair brilliantines that be- long at 50, for 2oc a yard :;
 twelve colors. French organdies, dainty
 printings on light grounds,
 1oc; reduced from 25 and 374.
 French crepes, a printed
 clingy fabric of lightest cot
 ton, 19c; reduced from 25
 and B.
 Toile fabrics, black stripes
 and fl gures on white
 grounds, 19c; reduced from
 25.
 Scotch ginghams in patterns
 neat beyond telling, at 1oc
 a yard. They are the regu- lar 25c goods, and the styles
 are strictly fresh. A lot of sateens at 6A c yd. A lot of best print at SC a yd. A lot of black and white
 checked challies at 3c .yd. A lot of fancy challies at SC
 a yard.
 A lot of toilet quilts, slightly
 soiled, at $2.5 50, instead of $3.50 Big
 pay for one washing. Heavy cream damask, GA inches wide, at
 soc yard good value at 65.
 An enormous quantity of unbleached
 cotton at (for few days) 64c yard.
 The wholesale price is more by the 1 wagon-load.
 Many sorts of jackets beyond what is 1 expected at the prices. Odds and ends; many of them tailor-made and
 worth several times what they'll bring
 on bargain tables at $1.50 each. Jersey suits for summer wear, navy and
 black, value $25O to $4; now all at one even price-$1.5 50. And so the story goes. ..-.s.. l FORBES & WALLACE, Springfield.
The Press., 1891-06-18

The Yale faculty have arisen to the occasion and ordered all students con- cerned in the torpedo incident on Bar num's circus day to obtain rooms away from the campus and also ordered that fifty nine marks be placed against them at the beginning of next term. Sixty marks is the suspension limit and sin- gle chapel 'cut" in the whole term will bring any one of these young men to six ty-one marks. This is practically equiv alent to a six weeks suspension from col lege, as 60 marks is the limit which can be attained before mourning that penalty. It is next to an impossibility to go through term without mourning single mark, and probably none of the students who have been thus heavily laden with de- merits will return until after taking their six weeks exile. About 10 members of the sophomore class are involved. and among them are some of the wealthiest men in college.
The Press., 1891-06-18

THE danger of a short hay crop is by reason of continued dry weather deepened to certainty. It would be satisfaction now to be assured of half the crop of last year. However, there is much old hay left over. Farmers are perhaps fortunate who did not find a market for all of theirs Besides a short crop is often followed by heavy yield of rowen. It is hoped that the home crop will be sufficient to keep out the importation of baled hay, which is doing so much to introduce Canada missiles, wild carrot, etc., upon our farms.
 WHEN it was published few weeks ago that Patent Commissioner Mitchell was about to resign his office, probably most Connecticut people thought of W. B. Simonds as a fit successor. The ap- pointment would probably be more to his taste than some other nominally higher in rank, which it is believed have been declined by him. Mir. Simonds, as con- missioner of patents, would be no mere figure head. He is worker, and busi- ness in the patent office, of which there is always plenty on hand, would have to move, and in obedience to intelligent di- rection.
The Press., 1891-06-18

NEWS of sad raill oad accident is tele- graphed from Switzerland, where bridge collapsed last Sunday, letting an excur- sion train down to the stream below. The number, of killed is not far from 126, with hundreds of others more or less injured.
The Press., 1891-06-18

Young Arthur Stanley Wilson, one of the bacearat players of Tranby Croft, is said to have loaned the Prince of Wales ,$1 ,5O0,0 ,000 to enable Wales to pay what he owes the Baringss After the experi- ence the Earrings have had young Wilson ought to have known better than to put his trust in princes. But perhaps he feels under obligations to the Prince of Wales in that baccarat affair.
The Press., 1891-06-18

COMMENCEMENT exercises at Storrs school will probably attract many visit ors, the growing interest in this school being this year supplemented by that felt in the fine new buildings occupied since the last commencement. The graduation ex- ercises take place Friday. People having boys to educate should look into the plan of study at Storrs school
The Press., 1891-06-18

MONDAY was 8 big day for Lebanon, ''the Sons of the Revolution" and others going down there to receive the gift of the old war office of Gov. Trumbull Brother 'Jonathan), given to the state historical society by Mrs. Wattles, who owns and lives in the old Trumbull mansion. Sen- ator Hawley was the orator of the occa- sion, and thousands of people Hooked to the old town from all parts of the state:
The Press., 1891-06-18
nIsTRICT OF HOLLAND, ss. Pro

11 bate Court, June 17th, 1891.
 Estate Of Mary E. Dimock, late Of Holland, in said district, deceased.
 Upon the application Of Lorenzo R. Sparrow, praying that an instrument in writing, purport- ing to be the last will and testament Of the said Mary <. Dimock may be proved, approved and admitted to probate, as per application on file more fully appears, it is
 Ordered, That said application be heard and deteRmlned at the Probate Office in Holland in said district on the 26th day Of June, A. D., 1891 at Il o'clock in the fOrenOOn and that notice be given or the pendency of said application, and the time and place of hearing thefeon, by pub circulation in said district, and by posting 8 copy thereof on the public signp0st in the town Of Holland, in said district.
 VIM. D. HOLMAN, Judge.
The Press., 1891-06-18

FREE trade papers are commenting on two existing ''facts'-" farmers will point to the fact that that their wool is selling at much lower prices than ever, in spite of the higher tariff'' CSpringf1eld Republican,, and that manufactories are closing or failing because of the in- creased cost of wool.
The Press., 1891-06-18
Born.

Stafford Springs, 18th, son to Michael Doyle.
The Press., 1891-06-18

CAPT. LESTER D. PHELPS has been ap- pointed assistant clerk of the superior court for Holland county, to succeed Gelon W. West, deceased. Capt. Phelps is we'll fitted for the place, having the requisite ability, also the faculty of doing we'll all things which he undertakes to do.
The Press., 1891-06-18

Y OST-A pair of Gold Bowed Glasses
 A in or near Stafford Springs. Finder please leave at E. l.. BURR'S. 2W*
The Press., 1891-06-18

ESOR SALE.-Two High Grade Jer- N seys-neW milch-gOOd ones. Also ShOat
 T. P. NEEDHAM, Stafford Springs
The Press., 1891-06-18

THE "Sons of the Revolution" might find the town of Nathan Hale a good point for pilgrimage next flag day." They could see the not very elegant monument erected to his memory. True the bones of Hale of illustrious memory do not lie there, thanks to the fiendish ingenuity of the British officer who superintended his killing, but it is his native town, and al- most alone for years it kept alive his memory, working to secure the monu- ment in Nathan Hale cemetery, for years the only structure provided to keep his memory green. Nathan Hale cemetery is most fitting place for monument worthy of Nathan Hale.
The Press., 1891-06-18

THE senate met on Monday, had pray CT, and adjourned to June 29th.
The Press., 1891-06-18
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JAMES MCLAUGHLIN & SON, PUBLISHERS. s1.5O year. F If paid strictly in advance, s1.e5.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13
RevulsIon Against Pensions.

There has been much change in pub
lie opinion regarding the pension bust
ness. The great increase in pension
payments, the disclosure of abuses or
questionable acts in that branch of the
service, the apprehension that the right
full payments to veterans have been
largely inflated by frauds on the part of
applicants or agents, and the eXtraordln-
ary demands with which pension agents
quickly followed the legislation of last
vear-demands that would have taken a
thousand millions or more from the
Treasury-have combined to produce an
unfavorable impression. There are
thousands of voters who were heartily
in favor year ago of liberal measures
for the benefit of Union veterans, but
who are now inclined to look with dis
trust upon measures heretofore enacted
as well rs now proposed, feeling that the
business may have gone too far for the
public good.
1t would be gratifying to be able tc
meet this distrust with strong and un
qualified denial that it had any justifica
! ton. But ever since the Tribune begar
to call attention to the irregularities o.
| abuses in the service, the evidence ha
been accumulating that it is not in al
! respects what it should be The fact
which have come to H.At nave never
theless gone far to imps;r public conf
dence in the care, impartIality and eff
cheney of the service, and to increase tn
1 impression that fraudulent claims ma
have been granted in many cases through
the unscrupulous influence of agents.
N. Y. Tribune (Rep.)
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13

The strike of coke-workers at Con-
nellsville became general on Tuesday.
Sixteen thousand men, says the Phila-
delphia Times, are idle and their idle
ness means that the fires in thousands
of coke ovens are out and that the daily
procession of miners to and from work
is no longer witnessed. In one of the
busiest of Pennsylvania many busy
mining districts the quiet of the Sabbath
prevails every day. The best feature of
this otherwise very bad situation is that
the men are quiet and so far no violence
has been attempted.
With so many miners already idle the
deliberations of the first annual conven-
ton of the United Mine-workers of
, America now in session at Columbus,
, Ohio, will be watched with no little in
tercst. This convention; composed of
800 delegates from fifteen States, has
met for the ostensible purpose of inau-
gurating an eight-hour day May l, 1891
1t is understood that the Knights of La
Dor will join in the movement, the mine,
workers being allowed to go to the from
in its Inauguration.
With one large body of miners al
ready on a wage strike and the reasona
/ ble prospect that the residue of tn,
miners of the country may soon engage
y in n strike for shorter hours, and per
haps, be joined by all the organized labol
bodies, the labor situation promises SooI
to become very interesting and possibly
exciting. For the general prosperity o
the country, which includes the labor
ers as well as everybody else, it is to b
hoped that no demands will be mad
that cannot Toe reasonably conceded.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13
A Costly Suit.

The great Jones county, Iowa, calf
case is ended in all probability, the Su-
preme Court recently affirming the
Judgment of the lower court on the
case The history of this remarkable
suit is as follows
Twenty wears ago Miller and Johnson
owned and titled adjoining farms in
Jones county, and were considered we'll
to-do and prosperous. Miller lost a
number of calves, the total value of
which was about $40. He charged
johnson with the theft of them and had
him indicted by the grand jury, and he
was convicted on what appeared to be
rather hazy testimony. The case went
to the Supreme Court and was remand
ed for a new trial, \ change of venue
was taken to Benton county, and after
! two appearances in the Supreme Court
and three trials in the District Court
| Johnson WAS acquitted. The costs how.
/ ever, had been heavy and both farmers
/ had plastered their farms with mortgages
/ to meet them.
After Johnson's acquittal he brought
suit for damages against Miller and
Others for malicious prosecution. This
case also had a devious run through tn,
lower and higher courts, the last tria
having been in. Black Hawk county
where the plaintiff was given verdic
for 81 600. The Jury returned gener
al verdict and also answered a number o
special interrogatories, and one groun'
of appeal was that the special interroga
tories did not warrant the verdict, IN
Supreme Court evidently thought other
wise and affirmed the judgment of tn
court below.
The case is a monument To huma
/ obstinacy. AS heretofore mentioned
has bankrupted everybody connecte
with it except the attorneys. II
original parties to il were comparativel
4 young men when it was begun. Son
/. of them did not live to see the en-,
n while those who did are gray-haired an
bent with age and have seen their frui
full farms melt away in the vortex
litigation. The total cost, as previou
ly estimated, in the criminal and civ
cases, will almost reach $40, 900.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13

CARRoIID. WRIGHT, the United States
there were in the country in June last
-, 600, 900 persons of all ages and con-
ditions, engaged in gainful occupations;
and that there are 46, coo persons added
each year to the number engaged in all
occupations for which vacant places
there will next year be 500, 900 candi-
dates-men, women and children. He
tells those who are about to compete for
these vacant places to take something
smithy, jewelry, printing, electrotyping,
railroading, engineering, teaching, stem
ography-whatever taste leads to, and
put their whole heart into learning the
art of their work; develop their individ-
ual powers; insist upon making them
selves masters of their trades or profes-
fion, in order to become master work
men in whatever calling is chosen; and
then the real satisfaction and the in.
tense enjoyment of serious and active
life will develop to a wonderful degree
and prove that the best citizenship i:
| found in those who are the best anC
most rcnumeratively and most enjoyabl,
employed. There can be no doubt n
! to the soundness of this advice, for it i
! hard to find n town the country owe
where the professions are not overcrowd
| ed
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13

SENATOR MEEK has introduced bill
providing that from and after its pass
age in the poor districts of the State
there shall be assessed upon and collect
cd from each unnaturalized person over
the age of Is years within their districts
an annual tax of 81, which sum shall be
used for the maintenance of the poor
and be collectable in installments of 25
cents per month. Persons employing
unnaturllized people as described are re-
quired to report monthly to the overseer
of the poor, or other legally constituted
authorities of the poor, the name or
number by which they are known to
their employers and deduct 25 cents a
! a month from the eunnaturalized persons
in their employ. In the event of EN-
ployers not complying with this require
ment they shall pay 50 cents for eaci
| unnaturalized employe.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13
NEWS AND oTHER NOrINGs

Nearly sixteen hundred applications
have been made for liquorS license in AL
legheny county up To date.
The town OF Ellisvillc. Fulton county.
Illinois, was swept from the face Of the
earth by fire on Saturday. The town
was small one and there were no means
TO fight--the fire.
Mrs Mary Sell. OF Chicago. stepped on
a match on Saturday morning and thus
set fire to her dress. - Before she could be
reached iby neighbors she was horribly
burned and cannot recover.
AT Pittsburg Rose rAnn Henderson.
aged 60, has sued Alexander Johnston.
&C years OF age, for $1,000 for breach Of
promise To marry. Johnston. she claims.
has transferred his affections To a lady Of
80 summers.
A Lehigh county child expelled knife
the other day wnich II accidentally swal-
lowed during the holidays. The knife
measures three inches IN length. and the
child is none the worse. having suffered
little or no indigestion.
George Rusnok. Andrew Todt and
Michael Sobol. Hungarians. were convict
ed OF murder in the first degree OF Michael
Quinn. who was killed In the Braddock
riots on last New Years day. The con-
victed men were leaders I'm the riots. Max
! Schamberg. the AuStro- Hungarian consul
| claims that the verdict is unjust. A new
trial will he asked for.
| Mrs. Snyder aged seventy-one years
| while Al a funeral in Lancaster on Sunday
| after noon. became faint and took a drink
L Of har hs. oh 2 xxhf L-ax- a.
F., the undertaker's embalming fluid. howev-
! er. and the services OF physician were re-
quired. He left her apparently ont ofdan.
ger, but the excitement consequent upor
the affair brought on an attack OF heart
disease, which caused death in a shorr
time.
| Constable Wiser. OF Mifflin township
| Allegheny -ounty, regards his duty 10 th'
state as paramount to his duty to his par
| ents. He brought his aged father int
| court on 4 charge If selling liquor withou
| a license. The constable explained TO tn
| court that he had as much love for hi
father "a the reNt boy. but that his devo
tion To duty compelled him to restrain hi,
parents activity in defying the liquo
laws.
A disastrous explosion OF giant powde
took place on Saturday night at the Noun
Lookout Colliery OF the Delaware, Lacka
wanna & Western Railroad Company a
Wyoming, five miles. from Wilkesbarr'
Nathaniel Ranke and Charles Kirke wer
instantly killed; William Ross so badl
injured that he is not expected 10 recove
and Luke Michaels received burns an
!. bruises which will disable him for week
Ross took up keg OF giant powder an
began pouring some out into his flask. II
called TO Michaels 10 show light. an
! stepping up to where Ross was, Michae
| took off his hat, on which was fastened h
q | miners lamp, and held IL down. A spar
dropped and the explosion followed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13

COLLECTOR WARNCAsTLE. of Pittsburg,
has received communication from the
Treasury Department stating that the
Attorney General has rendered an opin-
ion to the effect that no bounty Is paya-
BILE on sugar produced prior to July l,
1891. The opinion was given at the re-
quest of Collector Warmcastle, who has
received numerous inquiries from pro-
ducers of maple sugar in Western Penn
sylvania. The bounty to be paid is ! I
and 2 cents per pound, iii accordance
with the grade of the article. 1t is esti'
mated by the collector that from 800 Ia
600 persons are engaged in manufactur
ing maple sugar in his district and thai
the annual output is from $500, 600 &c
5000, 600 pounds annually.