Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-02

Edtt0r Ledder-YOu have again Iai(
me under obligations to be Thankful
oy suppressing my articles sent TO yor
Tor publication. l would hold it 3
burning disgrace to have my name ap
pear as a correspondent in the column.
OF any newspaper that advocates sa
looms as you do. There is one very
sorrowful thought. You are on the
down grade and near the bottom. As
you are evidently joined to your idols
l must obey God and let you alone.
The Lord pity you. Yours with pro.
| found commiseration,
THOMAS CALAHA.;."
| To which the repentant editor,
meekly barring his back to the lash
OF the castigator, cries naea culpa: ave
take pleasure in printing the forego-
| ing. Nothing is more grateful to the
down-trodden country editor than
words of sympathy and compassion.
| alive with humane Interest in the well
fare of the hapless scribe"
There is a spice of truth in the fol-
lowing which might be well used to
| season the dish of many a kicker and
complainant, even in this locality.
The writer, who pOurs out the soul OF
grievances into the ear of the Salem
| Monitor, is unique in his frankness:
1--WE have hard times. We go to Con-
| dry three days out of week and lie
| around POwell's store all day long
| (sOme ten or fifteen of us at a time),
| and curse the administration, the
strike. and railroad corporations, and
still we have hard times. Then we
go back and put in another day cursing
Cleveland and the Coxeyites, and still
we have hard times. The next week
| We put in a day or two cursing about
| the silver bill, and the scarcity of mon
ey. We want our bullion coined, so
we will have plenty of money. although
we have nothing to demand it. The
fact is we have done nothing nor raised
anything to demand money, and still
we have hard times. 1t is now about
time to put in another day around town
or at the store cursing because we
can't get employment, although George
Powell has tried all summer to get us
to make ties for him at ten cents apiece,
and '.old' Squire Horder has tried to
get rails made. Joseph Blackwell
can't get help in his harvest. All the
above named have got the money to
pay their hands, too
A Pennington nine came over to
Ironton last Friday. Here is the ros-
ter: S. Dewitt, captain; VIM. Tetley,
tallyman; Tom Carter, umpire; j. Bos-
well, p; S. Koen, c.; S. Dewitt, s. s. 4:
NJ. Highley, 1st b.; Joe Hewlett, I'd b. :;
Z. j. LangdOn, Sd b.: b. Fleming, +.
f.: f. Thomson, C. f.; b. Petty, l. f.
They tackled the Ironton nine, made
up as follows: E. Tual, captain; Arthur
Nall, tallyman; Louis Baldwin, UNI
pire: Wn. Whitworth, p; n. Farmer,
c.; E. Paul. S. s.; E. Tual, 1st b.; G..
Martin, I'd b.: G. Kellalee, Sd b.; j.
Madigan, +. f.; S. Rose. C. f.: f. Gun
ton, |. f. The full nine innings were
played, and the Pennington boys beat
the IrontonianS by score of II to 10.
The play was good, and, strange to
say, there was no squabbling dur
ing the game. Everything passed off
pleasantly and in good humor-the de-
feated taking their medicine without
wincing. and their conQuerers wearing
their honors modestly. One of the
Ironton boys got his little finger stove
up about three inches, but aside from
this there was no accident. Another
contest will take place in the near flu
ture at Pennington, and we wish all
concerned just as pleasant a time as
they had last Friday, trusting the ia
bles may be turned, and the laurels
that now crown the visitors may be
transferred to the heads of their antag
Onists.
The fish-story reporter of the Poplar
Bluff Citizen is getting in his work in
great shape, apd we beg our home fish
ermen to look we'll to their laurels.
Surely among the lot of them, one
ought to be found able and eager to
put down by superior merit the genius
who spins the following yarn: Last
evening two of the Kimball brothers
went out to the slough east of the city
to catch minnows, taking with them a
small seine. They caught in their net
what appeared to be real jelly fish
one of the acalephan class of radiated
animals. 1t had the form of a disk
and was transparent and jelly-like In
composition. 1t measured about six
teen inches across the disk. After 1t
was drawn out of the water it was
thrown upon the ground. Later, when
an attempt was made to pick it up, it
was found so firmly attached TO the
ground that it became severed, and the
broken parts fairly sparkled like dia-
monds in the light. After being out of
the water a few hours it shrank to
mere film or membrane. The Kimballs
captured another specimen OF the same
kind of fish soon afterwards in the same
way. but it was much smaller than
the first. 1t was put in a bucket of
water, and it is now at the river where
they moor their boats. This one is
about seven inches across the disk.
To many it is an interesting natural
curiosity, as jelly fish are considered
marine animals only. This however,
if genuine jelly fish, indicates that
there is a fresh water Species"
A gentleman who has been a resi-
dent of the Valley for year or so,
said, the other day: .'IrontOn is a
pleasant town, and the people as
rule, sober, Industrious and square:
but YOU have few with you who are
out of sight in the art of sponging
drinks The long-seasoned buns of
St. Louis and Chicago might take
pointers from them. This morning.
the weather being warm and the at
-..uLo,o dry, I fplt the need of n