Iron County register., 1903-06-11
Des Are Items.

The famous dog suit came to an end
Saturday. The verdict was: "We,
the jury, fine the defendant, j. 5
Bollinger, cost" without damage or
Judgment. 1t was a great mistake in
the, jury, for you cannot collect cost
without a Judgment Il am informed by
legal authority, so this lets Bollinger
out of paying any cost. did not hear
the evidence, but | am down on dogs,
on general principles. How much
benefit have dogs been to Iron county
or Southeast Missouri? Not one dol
lar; while they have destroyed hun
dreds of dollars worth of sheep. | am
in favor of taxing dogs-theY are L
nuisance to this country. There was
man named Rose that lived south of
here a few years ago. He had six
dogs and six children. | was passing
one day aud asked him to give me one
OF his dogs and he said: "No. we only
have one apiece and can't spare them, "
and he didn't own, at that time, a
single cow OF HOB'
My wife and | visited H. f Homan
and family, of Marquand, last week.
He was formerly agent at this place
and Iron Mountain We found Mar
quaint a thriving little town of about
600 inhabitants, with five churches,
two saw mills, Il town hall, planer, etc.
We left Des Arc on Saturday and drove
over in buggy via COldwater, We
found the roads very bad, but crops
were looking we'll Coldwater has i'm
proved very much iu the past year.
They have a fine flour mill there now
with improved machinery; they also
have three churches, one just COM
pleted that is the finest country church
| ever saw, and will cost over two
thousand dollars. | understand my
| friend, A. Costner, gave $500 toward it
1t is an up-to-date building with
modern Improvements and Sunday
school and prayer meeting department
Our next stop was Buckhorn, a cross
road ten miles from Marquand. My
old friend, J. Z. Brewington, is in the
merchandise business there and is do
ing Il fair business. Marquand is
quite a market for ties and hub tim
ber They pay 2S cents cash for ties,
and are hauling plenty of hub timber
in there Mr.. Mathews, a merchant
there, informed me that during the
months of December, January and
February there was over $14, 1000 paid
out for hub timber. On Sunday | at
tended the Christian church and heard
u splendid memorial sermon by the
Rev. L. j. Head, an evangelist of
Mountain View, Mo | will mention
one part of what he said about our
late civil war: The war opened with
the bombardment of Fort Sumpter on
April u, 1861. Major Anderson in
charge of the Federal troops and Gen.
Beauregard in command of the Con-
federate troops; it was then the
struggle commenced. The number of
Federal troops engaged during this
war, all told, was 1859, ,049, of which
1,S60,0 were colored; the Confeder-
ate army at no time numbered over
600, 600 There were 2, 1884, 049 more
Union soldiers engaged in this war
than Confederates. Total number in
both armies, 1850, ,049; U. S. soldiers
killed, 81, 9G2; died Of disease, 1S9, ,2S7;
died of wounds, 37,727; died in prison,
29,725; total, 3l2, 2,10l. Confederates
killed, 49,303; died of disease, 1885,
S21; died of wounds, 27,727; died in
prison, 29,774; total, 309,S9S. Total
of dead, including both armies, Cpl,
999. Of the 3l2, 101 U. S. soldiers
who lost their lives in battle, etc ,
100000 of them sleep in National
Cemeteries; a few of the principal
ones are at Vicksburg, Miss, 16,600;
Memphis, Tenn, 1897; Anderson
vile, Ga, 1874; Salisbury. N. c.,
II, 1876 The total cost of this war was
Sc, 1S9, 920,9 900, besides the loss OF
621, ,999 men. The emancipation Of
the slaves cost our government seven
hundred dollars per head for every
| slave set tree. ISAAC.
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