Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-01-28
From TarheeIlana.

Will PA0JS says du OlU prOSCFD, anu
we have other poetic warrant for typi-
tying the affairs of the lords and ladies
of creation with the cares, perplexities
and doings of those nearly at the 10th
er end of Natures living organism.
The landlord went to Philadelphia
about ten days ago-a-cOurting, some
of the ladies whisperingly surmise:
but we mustn't mention it for the world!
and has not yet returned. In his
absence we are having high jinks and
making things hum. Our staid. re-
spectacle whist parties have been per-
force abandoned. and in lieu of their
stately dignity and peaceful quiet We
are in the vortices of ''Post-Ofice, -
"Going to Jerusalem" ''Pillow-Dex, ="
"Blindman's Buff" "Wolf on the
Ridge" " ETC., etc. The playground is
the ladies' parlor, directly over the
reading-room. For some inexplicable
reason, when the game begins the oc-
cupants of the room underneath in
variably retire to the Office on the 9TH
er side of the hall, some of them seem
ingly disquieted and nervous. Is it
because, being ''transients," they are
not admitted into the play along with
the "regulars"? Wesasked the clerk
about this, and he said they we're
afraid the ceiling would fall, that the
lights danced to and fro, and the noise
discOmposed them. The idea! Of
course, when one goes to Jerusalem,
he's got to keep up with the process
sion, and when he changes post-ofiices,
he must do it right now, for that's one
of the rules of the game. Movement
is necessary-that goes without say
iing-but the light, aerial step of state
ly lord and ladye fair ought not dis
turb single hair on the Uranium of
your seasoned drummer. But he is
prone to ''kick" and have the earth
for his own. / think, too, the clerk is
a little inclined to ''boss," in the alb
sence of his superior, and we refuse to
seriously consider his admonitions as
| to what the landlord would do if he
were here. Still, with that regard to
the feelings of others possessed by
properly constituted people, we voted
last night that, upon the whole, we
had better discontinue the games.
The landlord is expected to return to-
day. It is rumored that the children
there are seven or eight of them,
ranging in years from two to twelve
have, in his absence, broken couple
of parlor chairs, dismantled a tete-G-
tete, and committed other minor ray
ages; but these little annoyances, as
every head of family knows, are in
evitable, and the aforesaid landlord be-
ing man of large and varied exper-
| fence, will without doubt philosophic-
ally set it all down to expected profit
and loss, and thank GOD it's no worse.
This has been rather lively week
in Asheville-a snow-storm, several
fires, three suicides and one murder.
The snow-storm, the fires. and two OF
the suicides were not phenomenal sue
cesses, but the other suicide and the
murder were outright. The latter Oc-
Cured within a hundred feet of this
hotel, and the principal parties to it
were colored women. It was a case OF
jealousy. A comely mulatto girl had
won a too susceptible husband from
the allegiance due his lawful wife, and
he forsook his old love for the sake Of
the new. AS usual-in cases, white as
we'll as colored-the bulk of the aban-
doned woman's hatred fell upon the
siren who had robbed her of her hege
lord and bed-fellow. She heeled her
self with ''gun." sought out the sub
ject of her vengeance and shot her
through the heart. The gay Lothario,
terror-stricken, saw the deed, but did
mt dare interfere. A negro woman
1
blood-in her rage is as dangerous and
Implying as tigress bereft of her
young, and the man was iudicious if
not gallant in holding himself well
aloof. When her victim fell, the wife
left the premises, went into hiding,
and the police have as yet been unable
to find her.
We all know how emotional and
superstitious negroes are, but I don't
think ever before saw them so thor
oughly worked up as they were over
this tragedy. The killing took place
about nine o'clock in the evening, and
all that night the side-street leading to
the building was thronged with excit-
ed crowds. Next morning the inquest
J was held, and hundreds attended. The
colored force at the hotel did not es-
cape the general excitement, and more
J than one belI-call went a-ringing un-
lheeded. Although the body was moi
lremoved from the house where the