Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-04-30

tuted murder in the first degree. That
it was premeditated and unprovoked.
The defendant claims self-defense and
| will endeav0r to establish that Walk
er was drawing his gun, had previous
ly made threats, and was a dangerous
man. The trial of the case will prob
ably require two days or more, as an
even half hundred witnesses have been
subp9naed and the examination OF
these fifty persons with the arguments
of counsel will very likely consume
that much time and more. There is
an imposing array of legal talent on
both sides and the issues will be
warmly contested. Hon. j. III. Raney.
j. C. Carly and R. C.. Durham, of
Piedmont represent the State. while
Gen. Wingate. and Messrs. Collins
and Crooke of st. Louis are looking af-
ter the interests of the defendant.
We mentioned the fact some months
ago that the clergy were SO hard beset
in these latter days by their ancient
foeman, the devil. that they have no
time for recreation and very little for
acquainting themselves with the move
ments of their arch enemy beyond their
immediate neighborhood. Under the
circumstances we have concluded to
place such Information as we possess
before the brethren who take this pa
per-and their number is quite respec-
table. The REGISTER can always be
depended upon to supply a felt want.
Since the devil has quit inhabiting the
waste places of the earth. dispensed
with his caudal appendage. encased
his cloven hoOfs in patent feathers,
donned tailor-made clothes, and wears
hat like Christian-and, last of all.
has come to live among US like good
citizen in comfortable circumstances
it has become more difficult to keep
track of his ingoings and outcomings
than in the days when DR.. Martin
Luther threw his inkstand at him. and
when his conduct was such as to cause
thousands of his poor friends, the
witches, to be burned and otherwise
maltreated. His presence, however,
is always accompanied by certain in
dications, which he can no more get
rid of than the criminal can lay aside
the physical peculiarities that lead to
his detection. Whether he be en-
gagged in establishing a Wooden Mill,
or working up a Conference School,
the careful observer will discover a
striking similarity in His Satanic Ma
jesty's methods. Since our last refer
ence to his movements we have moth
ing to record out of the ordinary as to
the general public. About the usual
amount of robberies, murders, and 9TH
er matters of general cussedness attrib-
uted to him, have taken place. There
is one matter, however, in which he
takes great comfort. He has, through
his agents, succeeded in working off
on the people of this country another
hundred million of bonds. He regards
this as particularly smooth piece of
business. Locally, he has been more
active than usual. He dropped into
Ironton some time last winter with a
Wooden Mill scheme that was a thing
of beauty to contemplate. He dangled
visions of opulence before the eprap-
tured eyes of our citizens, as enchant-
ing as any that ever met the gaze of
Aladdin. Under its fostering influence
sheep were to become as plentiful in
Iron county as the flocks upon thous-
and hills. All the heeces were to be
of lambs-wool and each was never to
weigh less than fifty pounds. The
morning air was to resound with the
bleat of the eve, more musical than
the voice of the mavis. Wool was to
be dollar a pound, and cloth a cent
a yard. Perjury and wantswere to be
banished from our midst, and the whole
land was to flow with jeans and mutton.
But the people of this vicinity had be-
come acquainted with his methods.
They had witnessed his antics with the
Marvin Collegiate Institute at Freder-
icktown. They had seen him delude
the people of that community into the
belief that they could accumulate all
the silver of the earth and several out
lying planets to build it with, by US
ing a chain of his construction; and
when that failed they beheld them go
cheerfully into the lottery and show
business to accomplish the same end,
only to be again met by failure. They
saw him manipulate Methodist Con-
ference as deity as if it had been a
board of city aldermen. They saw
him influence good and true men to
declare they had guaranteed fund of
twenty-five thousand dollars, when
there was no such fund on earth. They
saw him use these same people to
hoodoo Ironton and other communities
out of the Conference School by prom
ises which he knew they could not full
FL, and by statements he knew were
not facts. They have seen the gener-
al public so harassed and bedeviled for
money to finish the building that bears
the name of the revered Marvin, that
no man approaches within ten miles of
Frejericktown without buttoning his
coat straight up to his chin. as if he
had heard q voice shout in his ear,
Hands on your pocket books" And
these same people are now moving
heaven and earth to get District Con-
ference to endorse this procedure in
order to influence the General Confer
ence to complete the job. Through
the columns of the REGISTER this COM
muuity had been made somewhat &C
quainted with His Majesty's maueuvers,
and he did not find here the guileless
gudgeons he had hoped to find. As a