Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-30

Charley Arnoldy made beef of fin,
TAT COW one day last week, and anon.
the contents of her stomach were found
piece OF glass an inch square. a piec,
OF corset steel, a vest buckle, six pins
piece of, sheet lead, two pieces O
wire, two and five inches long, respect
lively. and two nails-one a wire eigh
penny and the other an old style shin
gle nail. These articles had lodged il
what is called the '.false stomach" anG
had evidently been there long time.
The pins were Invested of their coating
the nails and wire were rusted. and ths
edges of the glass rounded and smooth
We acknowledge with pleasure the
receipt of an invitation to the wedding
of Miss Carrie Lee. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Essex, to Mr. Emory Bair
Lease of Meadville, Pa, at Lebanon,
ILL.,, Wednesday evening. September
18th. 1894. Mr.. Essex was one of the
projectors of the REGISTER way back
in the sixties, and at that time well
known to the then citizens of the valley.
The writer will always have a tender
place in his memory for his old "boss. y
and all that to him appertain. May
long life and undisturbed felicity at
tend the twain so soon to be made one,
Is the fervent wish of the REGISTER.
| Returning from the De Lassus camp
meeting last Sunday night, the John
son "hoodlum wagon" containing ten
persons, and drawn by four horses,
broke through bridge spanning cul-
vert. The fall was about four feet, and
the occupants of the wagon were spill
ed out in great shape, though FORUM
ately without injury other than few
scratches. The broken culvert is on
the toll road, between Stone and Iron
may find some difficulty in passing it..
that fact accomplished he will expert
ence no trouble in inducing the keeper
at the gate, mile or two farther on,
to take the tribute levied upon the
public for the supposed purpose Of
keeping the road in good repair.
The Canture girl who stole the 500
from Mrs. O'Brien's cook up was before
Squire Fairchild last Wednesday, and
pleaded guilty to petit larceny, the
| cook refusing to prosecute for graver
| offence. The latter, who was only a
| temporary resident of the Valley, did
mt want to give bond for her appear
| ance as witness before the circuit
! court in October, and in fact didn't
| want the girl sent to Jail, and pleaded
| that she be sent to the reform school.
| AS the justice could not do this, and
as the prosecuting witness earnestly
| requested to be released from being
put to expense and trouble of attend
| ing the circuit court in case the girl
was held for that tribunal, a plea as
| above stated was accepted and the
delinquent given sixty days in Jail.
If some of those to whom she gave
money could be convicted of knowing
ingly receiving stolen property it
might be well for the community, and
subserve the ends of justice.
Joe Malone. colored, got drunk in
Ironton last Thursday, and went to
Arcadia in the evening. He made
things lively at Baird & Green's store.
using loud, profane, obscene and very
abusive language toward the inmates
thereof. Mr.. Green ordered him
away, and to show that he was in
earnest, took up an axe-helye and
placed himself by the door. AS soon
as he did so, Joe approached him in
pugilistic attitude, receiving full
swing blow under The ear which made
him measure his length upon the
ground. He got up, still showing
fight, only to be knocked down again.
This for four or five times-the last
time, as he arose, getting in a lick
with a rock upon Mr.. Green's head,
tearing the scalp. Then Mr.. G. ran
inside for his shotgun. but before he
could return with it, Joe-presumably
by this time sobered up-got out of
the way. They say gallon OF blood
was washed out of the darkey's head
that evening. but next day he was
lively as cricket, and the only sign
| left of his racket was a cash or two on
the side of his Uranium, with several
Maltese crosses done in plaster.
There were six good, old-style
drunks in Ironton last Thursday-we
| mean public DRINKS, exposed to the
| naked eye and ear, and visible and
| audible to every passer-by. Hilarious
drunks; fighting DRINKS; loud-mouth-
ed DRINKS. Drunks warranted to
wake the echoes and fan the atmOs
phere. There may have been as many
or more .'still'' DRINKS or sleepy
DRINKS or dead DRINKS, hidden far
from the madding crowd; but of these
we take no account. They are not of
our province, and we trespass not on
private grounds. But the .'whoopee!"
drunk is lawful jetsam to the skinner
of the local sees. And these six
drunks above alluded to being of the
Bitter Creek variety, we advert to them
publicly. but with due precaution as
to locality and personale. Therefore.
we simply say they were in Ironton,
and for the space of a cloudy summer
afternoon the town in one spot or two
was encrimsoned with the halo of their
radiance. They were not confined to
caste or color, nor barred by previous
condition of servitude. They were
social equality DRINKS, that wiped out
the arbitrary lines imposed through
artificial conditions, and set free the
emotions which obliterate class dis
tinction and eventually evolute into
the beatific Brotherhood of Man.
| What though curses rent the air! and
fists were fourished! and dornicks
whizzed! The cup that both cheers