Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-14

nine feet OF the surface, but the DIR
dug q little chamber in the groune
about the we'll, covered its walls will
cement. built a flight OF steps to tn,
bottom, and covered tho whole affail
with neat. nicely painted woodel
building. The overflow from the foun
tain is conducted to his horse lot.
where 1t falls into an ample basin. the
bottom and sides OF which are covered
with cement. Here his stock has al
hand nice, cool. sweet water wher
they desire it-good water being n
necessary to horse as a man. In the
well house the milk aud butter and
other things stored there are afforded
ample protection against the heat Of
summer or the cold of winter, and the
women of his family are not compelled
to expose themselves while attending
to their domestic affairs. This inn.
provement cost about six hundred dol.
lars. first and last, but should the Doc
tor ever wish to sell-which we hope
he never will-there can be no doubt
that his artesian we'll will prove a
great inducement to purchasers.
Should he ever desire to engage in pis-
ciculture. he has the means ready at
hand for so doing. An artesi:n we'll
will pay for itself in time upon any
farm.
There are many incongruities in
public affairs as we'll as in the nature
of the individual. A concensus of
opinion is often as inconsistent as the
Maynard notion of the yeriest crank.
Last winter a set of pharasaical legis-
lators decreed that ..barbering" onSun-
day was so sinful beyond ordinary Ia
Dor on that day, that special enact
ment must be made against that soul
destroying enormity. So deeply were
they impressed with this that they
coined bran1-new word in its be-
half. that their meaning might not be
mistaken, or tortured by too artful at
torneys on impious evasion bent.
just why they didn't include the sinful
luxury of the bath and the vanity of
clean clothes on the seventh day of the
week in their paternal statute-making,
is beyond the reach of reason born out
side the pious precincts of the State
Capitol. 1t is true, BARRIERS Asso-
citation had petitioned them to do the
thing they did, but that cannot be
pleaded in Justification: many a worth
Ter petition at the same session found
an unmarked grave in the legislative
waste INSTRUMENTATION, unhouseled
and unaneled. Not a barber of the
Association but could have closed the
door of his shop. without legal enact
ment. did his conscience interpose it.
self between the razor and the beard.
Again, if the purpose of the legisla-
ture was to guard the sacred character
of the dav against special kinds of
work justified by common custom, why
was not the livery man included? He
is present on Sunday beyond all other
callipgs and days. 1t is true, it is his
horse that works, but the divine COM
mandment specifically includes that
animal in the interdiction; while not
word is said of razor, comb or brush.
To the photographer, too, Sunday is
the redletter day of the week. That
was the day, of all others, during the
late term of court. chosen by a travel
ing artist to set up his tent close to the
sidewalk on the burnt district, and he
piled thriving trade all day long. and
the crowds that gave him welcome
came and went without cessation SO
long as the sun gave light to the un-
hallowed work. Nobody seemed to
take exception to it, and if any ones
moral perceptions were shocked, we
have not heard of it. These are the
things that make US to speak of the in
congruities of the human makeup, and
to marvel that fish should be made of
the barber and flesh of his neighbour.
The following is the report of the
Grand Jury at the October Term, 1895,
of the Iron Circuit Court, to His Hon
or, Judge James F. Green: '.Sir: In
accordance with your instructions to
the Grand Jury to inspect the County
Jail, and to investigate the books pa
pers and official conduct of the county
officers charged with the collection,
care and disbursement of the public
monies, the Jury would report:
81. We found the Jail in good re-
pair, except the door of cell number
four, of which the lock and one hinge
are out of order. and the stone or Intel
over the door is loose. The Jail is
well kept and clean. ard in good sani-
tary condition. The prisoners say
they are we'll fed and cared for. The
Jailer states that since he assumed the
charge of it. January LIST. 1895, there
have been SO commitments and As
discharged. leaving the present num-
Der of inmates II.
s.2. The Sheriff of the County, W.
T. O'Neal, Esq. produced his official
record which showed that he had no
unsolicited executions in his hands;
and that the executions and fines that
he had collected he had paid over to
the proper parties to whom they be-
longed. and taken receipts, which re-
ceipts he exhibited to the Jury.
IS. Arthur Huff. Esq, Clerk of
the Circuit Court, submitted to the in
spection of the Jury his three last
quarterly statements of the fees and
emolumepts received by him, which
statements were approved by the Coun-
ty Court. and filed with the Clerk of the
same. He also exhibited to the Jury