Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-04-13

this intelligent young man hope to
hear of an early Improvement in his
condition.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement of Geo. M. johnson, ice deal
er, in this issue of the REGISTER. MI
johnson has as fine a lot of ice as was
ever stored in the Valley 1t will
average eight inches in thickness, and
is pure and free from dirt. Orders both
from home and abroad will receive
prompt attention and satisfaction is
guaranteed all patrons.
The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's
Church have planned to hold a series
OF social teas at the houses of different
| mem bers, commencing next Thursday,
the goth, at Mrs. Andrews, RUSSELL
vile, by Invitation of Miss Gratiot.
We are requested to notify that an in
vitation is extended to all friends in
| the Valley. A small charge will be
made. All will be welcome from to
6 o'clock.
Our friend Trauernicht, the Middle
brook tailor, is just about as busy a
man as can be found anywhere in
Southeast Missouri these days. He is
crowded with work in the tailor shop
in fact has more than he can do
and will next week commence remov-
| ing house from Granlteville to Bis
marck. A man with less energy than
our friend William would pause before
such an undertaking.
A party of ten colonists lief: here on
the noon train Monday bound for Ore
gon. where they will make their future
| home. The party was composed of
| Horace b. Pease and wife ard two
| daughters, Arthur and Jessie Pease
and their wives, and Ben Shepherd
and wife. There were ten of them all
told and the railroad tickets cost just
| about $500. They expect to reach
their destination to-day. Their in
| tended home will be two hundred
| miles from railroad.
A colored individual, G. NJ. Toney
| by name, over six feet tall with a skin
as black and shiny as ever graced an
| African potentate, arrived in Ironton
last week, said he had been appoint
| ed pastor of the colored Methodist
| church here, and proceeded to solicit
subscriptions for the purpose, he said,
of securing funds to bring his family
| here from Rolla. He secured about
twenty-five dollars. Then in day or
two reports were in circulation that
| the NEW pastor" was not just what he
| should be and several severe charges
were made against him. Toney indig-
nantly denied the accusations. Con-
| sternation and dismay reigned supreme
| in colored church circles. The Presid-
| ing Elder at Kansas City was notified
and he sent word to keep Toney out of
| the church until he (the presiding
elder) could come aud conduct per-
sonal investigation. Toney has gone
back to Rolla. Whether he intends to
return, or whether the Ironton colored
church will have to seek a pastor else
where. is not known.
The period of Roman history, which
eliminated in the downfall of the ty-
rant Nero, is peculiarly replete with
evidences of that decay that soon ate
into the heart of the proud nation and
| FASTENED it's ultimate ruin. Even the
leaven of aestheticism that had been
! inherited from Greece could no longer
redeem sensual Rome. Her pleasures
were gross, becoming less and less re-
fined-until gluttony and all the bes-
tial vices were common. And thus 1t
is easy to comprehend how hateful and
| distasteful the Christian doctrines of
| purity and love must have appeared to
them-how rapidly they witnessed
cruelties and tortures, almost incredi-
BILE, in their intensity, to stamp out
the hated reformatory religion. The
| arena Of the coliseum was transformed
| from theatre of games and athletic
contests into a shamble for the slaugh-
ter OF numberless Christians; intri-
CUES, jealousies and trickery involved
some of the most eminent men and
women in the sanguinary spectacle
the ..heresy" of Christianity became a
catchword for almost any excess. The
| Christians were freely spoken of as the
| incendiaries of the fires that preceded
| Nero's final insane act, the destruction
of the eternal city. 1t is into this sad
dening and sanguinary epoch the play
sin White Robes" allows us to glance
not at vices and corruption-but at
the loyalty and unfailing courage OF
those early martyrs to whom the world
Is eternally indebted.
The editor received a telegram from
| Mr.. VIM. H. Thomson. of ST. Louis,
last Saturday, announcing the death
of Gen. John w. Turner, at his resi-
dence in that city at half past eight
o'clock that morning. Gen. Turner
had been suffering several days from
complication of Brights disease and
pneumonia, and it was known his con-
ditiou was serious. The deceased was
a good man and citizen and occupied
prominent place in commercial and
political circles in St. Louis. He was
| well known in the Valley, having spent
his summers here for fifteen years or
more past. The Turner home, Hill
side" is one of the loyeliest places in
all the southeast and the Generals
hospitality and geniality we're unbound
ed as the shores of time. His name
was synonymous with honor, and truth
and Justice, and all the qualities for
which men are most loved and their
memory revered. The funeral oc-
Cured in st. Louis Tuesday and the
remains were inferred In Cavalry GEM
etery. The list of those in attendance
on the funeral was distinguished one,
including many prominent citizens OF
st. Louis and Missouri. Gen. Turner
uos man of considerable wealth and