Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-03-28

| SOheS O ouSHSi- DidcR, 40 cents. Ap
ply to j. c. ROEHRs, Belleview, Mo.
ITO what base uses do we return
Horatio!" The Ironton House whe,
first built in the sos, was pretentiou
affair. whose portals opened to tn,
wealth aud beauty of the city. TIL,
now dilapidated structure adjoining i
on the north, was a high-toned bal
and billiard room; the building acros.
the street was devoted to dances ant
evening parties, where there wa:
many sound OF revelry. and oft did
"Eyes look love to eyes that spake again.
The grounds were laid out with all the
art of the day, and provided with rus.
tic seats. swings, and other ad juncts tc
summer enjoyment. The cuisine Of
the hotel was noted far and near, for
no second-rate chef was ever permitted
within its kitchen precincts. and the
markets were taxed far and near to
minister to the comforts of its favored
guests. The old Southern and Plant,
ers of st. Louis did not maintain more
rigid etiquette, nor were they more
exclusive. But the years go on and
The once famous village hosiery has
in step with time run the whole gamut
of change, except that last note which
is to sound its final knell. The main
building is decrepid, rotten, unpaint-
ed, unglazed, unsightly. Its rooms
and cottage now are deserted, except
for squatters, who rent not, nor do they
pay. The ample grounds have return
ed to their virgin condition; the fences
are down; and the beasts of the field
desecrate the bowers once sacred to
beauty and to love! The bar-room is
a bar-room no longer-no, not for
many a year-and the click of the
ivory balls has gone forever. It is
used as paint-shop, a colOred dance
hall, a warehouse for decayed rubbish
OF all sorts, as occasion requires. Its
frescoes are down, its gliding bleared
and blackened, and not a golden labeled
decanter remains to cheer the spirit
of the viewer of this ghost of a time
long since deceased. The hall across
the street no longer resounds to the
skill of the musician, but-happier lot
than the rest-it is converted into the
abode of domestic comfort. where the
music of children at play gives pleasure
to the ear. 1t looks across the street
and placidly views the fallen fortunes
of its dilapidated progenitor. whose
habitable rooms are given over as free
lodgings to mixed occupancy, white
and colored. This brings Us to the
item in hand. Among the families
Il In oil hntn al 40
hose of Frank Hampton, white, and
Sam Cooley, colored. The other day
Sans seventeen-year-Old daughter
Henrietta ran Hampton'5 eight-year-
old boy into his fathers room and as
saulted him. Hampton senior. who
was lying in bed sick at the time,
sprang out and ran Henrietta out of
the room, knocking her down in the
yard Whereupon the cOlored damsel
swore out a warrant against her as
sailant, and the case was tried last
Monday before Squire EairchilG. \
jury was empaneled and the evidence
taken. resulting in 81 and costs being
assessed against the defendant. He
paid a part. and was given time 10 raise
the remainder. Then Hampton took
his turn and pulled Henrietta up be
fore His Honor for assaulting his son,
and the usual ..dOliar and costs re-
suited. Hard times and poverty have
little terror for litigation of the minor
stamp.
The more one learns about the recent
conditional relocation of the Conference
School the stronger grows the impress
sion that it was done upon the weakest
proposition ever presented for accept
ance before body of intelligent men.
In the minutes reference is made to a
guaranteed subscription, but absolute
" there seems to have been nothing
whatever in the proposition notwith-
standing the fact that 1T was accepted
by very large vote. To substantiate
this statement it would be all-sufficient
to an unbiased seeker after the truth
to lay before our readers some express
sions of citizens of the successful town
both before and since the decision
citizens who did not approve of the
proposition as presented to and accept
ed by Conference. 1t is presumed the
perfectly fair-minded and just citizen
school is secured on any other than a
fair and substantial basis; if we are not
in the shape which our proposition
seems to indicate. there will be reaction
and dissatisfaction as necessary con-
sequence. Again by contrasting in de-
tail the merits of the propositions of
the competing points at time meetings
were had this statement can be estab-
lished. Yet again it may be estab-
lished to the mind of every intelligent
and reasonable individual by the pres
ent condition in which the citizens OF
the successful town find their cause.
Suffer word just here: 1t was pub
lished abroad through many channels
that Fredericktown had met all the re-
quirements and resolutions Supposedly
by men who observe the golden rule).
which, speak of a guaranteed sub
scription''. but now having expend
ed about one sixth of the required