Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-21

~ FA1S oihOO hO uOt Ouly KNOWS
neatly printed sheet when he sees it,
but constantly makes the Truth one OF
which. We here and now beg to re-
turn our politest and most graceful ac-
acknowledgements.
Bro. Cundiff has diligently attended
all the revival meetings now being held,
and has heard all the s.Evangelist's''
sermons. He took them down for pub
LEGATION, but when he submitted the
matter to the postmaster here, he was
informed that if he printed them in his
paper, it would be rejected from the
mails on the ground of indecency. Com
ment appears to be superfuous.
The .sIiUice Week" st. Louis Re
pubic contains more and fresher news
than any weekly paper published in
America. 1t is issued each Tuesday
and Friday. and consists of from four
teen to sixteen pages a week, yet the
price is only One Dollar q Year. 1t is
the leading Democratic paper of the
country, and has Special Tariff De-
partment, edited by Hon. VIM. L. Will
son, NJ. G.. 1t will be indispensable
Jul tI1C polIOlSdi S1IIl VI
1892. Send for free sample copy to
the Republic, ST. Louis, Mo.
Nearly all the people in this section
who have been afflicted with the grip
and it's attendant maladies have recov-
cred or are convalescent. For several
weeks there was scarcely family in
the Valley but had one or more men,
bers under the care of the doctor, and
in some instances whole households
were down and unable to extend help
to each other. Among the victims who
have been severely afflicted are ThOs.
Jones and Willie Brown, their recovery
at one time being extremely doubtful.
But they, too, have been brought safely
round and are headed toward recovery
and good health.
Judge Fox of Fredericktown, to
whom was assigned the honor of pre-
siding at the trial in st. Louis of II. c.
Stevens, late collector of Reynolds
county, is duplicating his old fashioned
highjinks. He came into court one
day last week with an eye in mourning,
the result. it is said. of "a night out
with the boys" Then when court was
called yesterday morning he was non
est, and could not be found by the mes
sent to seek him. In the
meantime the court is paralyzed and
the disguised jurors locked up to await
his return. Judge Fox is evidently
doing his level best to injure him
self and discredit his friends.
Three of the St. Louis banks-the
Franklin and German-Am-
e icau-elected their Boards OF Direct
ocs last Monday week. With the eS-
cepsion OF the Boatmen's the old boards
wee reelected At the Boatmen's
George P. Whitelaw was elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the death OF
VIM. A. Hacgadine, who served in the
board since January II. 1867. The
compose the BOatmen's new
board: Samuel Cupples, George S.
Drake, Carlos S. Greedy, Jerome Hill,
William L. Huse, RUFUS j. Lakeland,
George E. Leighton, E. G. Simmons,
William H. Thomson, Edwards Whit
aker, and George P. Whitelaw.
81. B. Williams, Chicago, Ill.," is
an entry on the American Hotel regis |
ter, Jan. 9th, 1892, which is treasured
by the landlady to the tune of about |
ten dollars. Mr.. Williams boarded |
and smoked ION tick" for six days, and
skipped by the light of the moon in the
early morn of the seventh. He didn't
require the hotel porter's calling to be
aroused, but at two o'clock A. NJ. took
his departure without sound of trum-
pet or beat of drum. When Mr.. WIS
presence was made conspicuous by his
absence after the world got astir later
in the day, the police authorities at St.
Louis and Poplar Bluff were tele-
graphed to look out for him; but up to
date he is as completely lost to those
who mourn for him in this happy Val
ley as if the frozen earth had opened
and swallowed him. He claimed to be
an agent for a Chicago publishing
house, and that his father lived at Van
Vert, Ohio; that he was out on a
vacation for the benefit of his
health. We are happy to state that
while here his health visibly improved;
but unfortunately ''his business lay
rollin'."
Whatever may be said of Judge En-
erson by his friends or his enemies, no
one who knows him questions the fact
that he is law-abiding citizen. He
has resided in the Valley for thirty
three years, and those of us who have
been his neighbors during all that time,
should be privileged to Judge him for
good and for evil, without any pointers
from an outsider and stranger. 1t
has been asserted from one of the pull
pits of this town that, in throwing his
pond open to the free use of skaters
every day in the week, he has .'viOlat-
ed the law of God and the Statutes of
the State;" that those who use the pond
on Sundays are ''scallawags and hood
lums." The latter assertion being a
SANDER outright, and the second half
of the first assertion being also false,
people will be justified in forming the
conclusion that there may be error in
the opening half of the dictum as well.
The pulpit has its privileges, and is
properly guarded by law against in
trusiOn or assault from the outside; but
what law can prevent its abuse by its
licensed occupants? The abuse of re-
spected citizens, and the holding them
up to ridicule and condemnation, in a
forum where no reply is countenanced
or privileged, is an abuse of privilege:
the resort of mountebanks and sensa-
tionalists, who hope by such practices
to make themselves worthy their hire.
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