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Number 3 Ironton, : : ; : August 3, ISS2 Closing of Malls. Regular Kail .lortb, daily 8 A. II. Expre Mail, n.rth, daily, except uii.lay. H. JUpiUr Mail Sonth, daily MJ P.M. Iivntoa to GooJwtfr, via. Sand Bluff. McN'ail, Kdge Hill and Edithburg X.nday ...A.SC. ronton to Binntrin Silver Mines Tae- day, TburaUay aud Saturday 31 P. K. C. R. PECK. P. M. ScMale of Paraier Trails. LKAVE3 t ARRIVES AT K. St. Lonia. 8:52 A X. Ironton, 12 SO P. M N. Ironton, S:W a. m. Sr Lnis, 6:52 A. M o. 3 1. Lonia. 8:53 F St Ironton, 12:51 A. H Ironton, S;02 r. M. St. Lonia, bAl . M. ARCVIIA ACCOMMODATION. St. Louis, 4 p. M. Ironton, 8 05 P. M. K. 10 Ironton. 6:04 a. a. 8t Lonia. 9:05 a. m. Tha Arcadia Aecummodation arrives and departs rrwn nam Street Depot; is daily except Sunday, ana came express matter. LOCAL BREVITIES. Tis the season when the housewife toils and sugar suffers. New goods arc being received at Lopez's. Go and see them. Pre. Wbitworth has Bold his saloon fix tures to C. A. Downs. For a first-class apple parcr, corer, and triicer, go to J. X. Bishop's. Waxted. Two good girls for general housework at the Pilot Knob Hotel. Quarterly meetini; at the M. E. Church of Ironton will commence next Saturday. It Is reported that a vein of ore thirty feet - thick has been developed on Russell Moun tain. Wanted. A good boy to assist in the bar and work around the house. Pilot Knob Hotel. Sunday and Monday brought rome fine rains to this section, and the corn crop laughs for Joy. A ste:im.threher is bein? successfully run In Uelleview Valley. It is said to work like a charm. The diamond drills lately used at Shut-in will be taken In a day or two to Russell Mountain. No. 2 was seven hours late last Wednesday morning. Suspected cause: a sinashup somewhere south. The Academy of Music Ball to-morrow (Thursday) evening. If you want a good time come around. The pusher, which was sent to De Soto for repairs some ten days ago, returned last Sat urday fitted for work. The ties for the new switch at Ironton were brought up last week, and the track will be finished up shortly. J. X. Bishop has a machine for sale that will pare, core and slice an apple at the same time. Everybody shoufyl have one. Marshal Patton has been overhauling the bridges on M.iin street, and that thorough Care is in excellent condition. The Register man will pay cash down for five cords of good hiekory wood, to be deliv ered during the present month. We have been having some real rammer weather three or four days past: hot and sultry. But the nights are glorious. Its a difficult matter to find a mah iu Arca dia Valley who was not in bed and sound asleep before ten o'clock Saturday night. Jno. Beglev has caught the spirit of Im provement, and his fence newly painted now postpones with the finest on Main street. The Ironton Manufacturing company has put a new porch In front of the mill. Must have been selling a big lot of wheelbarrows. A Mrs. Rose, of St. Louis, last week pur chased the property owned by Jno. Hill, on couth side of the cousthouse square for 2,000. W. R. Allen, Esq., lessee of the Granite Quarry,. was hist week awarded three con tracts for granite tfor paving the streets In St. Louis. Mrs. Lopez has Just returned from St. Louis, having bought the latest novelties in ladles' neckwear and fancy goods, latest pat terns in calicoes, etc Jos. A. Gregory has removed nis law onice to the building Just north of Hotson's res taurant. Mar he have a thousand clients within the twelvemonth. There never was a bigger or letter crop of potatoes raised in Iron county than this year will prodnee, and vegetables of all kinds are very plentiful and cheap. Our regular printer returned last Thurs day and things In the office are again going hIoiis? smoothly and in order. Deliver us from your peripatetic type-sticker ! James Dewire, the man stabled at Middle brook last Sunday week, died of his injuries, at Iron Mountain last Wednesday. Ills as Kaiiants have not yet been arrested. Read the advertisement of the State Uni versity, nd if you have a boy you want to send to a good school at little cost, interview the County Court at its September term Joseph Huff, Esq., last Monday sent us a trample bucket of tomatoes of his own raising. They were very fine, the largest measuring more than twelve inches la circumference, Dr. W. C, Patton's card will be found In this issue of the Register. We commend Mm to all who mav need his services, as a reful, attentive- and well qualified physi cian. (tilbert Lafayette Scovillc Is his name, and be weighs something over eight pounds. His father is happy, for he haw a marked predi lection for boys: la fact, none other need apply. AL TidwHI, whose father lives at this place, was badly bruized at Iron Mountain last Friday, y caving earth. He came home, took care of bimsdf, and is now able to be about. Quite an improvement k being made in the interior arrangement of Lopez's main store, for the better display and the accom modation of the large purchase of gents' furnishing goods, hats, etc. Wm. Hills, wagonmaker ins Gay's shop, last Wednesday evening cut the thumb and Su per of his left hand to the bone with a hand ax. Dr. Goulding dressed the wounds and sewed them up. Wm. Is rusticating now, and will take things easy, so far as work goes, for a few days longer. i Volume XVI. "The railroad bridge between Ironton and Arcadia has in time past been a favorite ren dezvous for colored prowlers and hard cases w e'U bet a nickel to a dewherrr that it will !e used no more for that purpose. The two diamond drills which were run in the mines at the Shut-In for several weeks, were taken back to the Knob last Monday. What they developed no man knoweth save the drillers and the Superintendent. Twenty-five Cornish miners, direct from the "old country," arrived at Pilot Knob last Thursday, and are now at work in the tun nels. They are a sturdy set of men, and will give a good account of themselves. The pay-ear went down the road on Tues day of last week, making glad the hearts and filling the pockets of the section men, the brakemen, the firemen, the conductors, the engineers, and the agents all along the line. Thomps. Blanton, Eq., came into legal possession of another boy last Monday morn ing. Though, perhaps, not so much of a cu riosity, this find beats all the Indian relics in the West. At least so say the women-folk. Bom Tuesday morning, August 1st, 18S2, to J. T. and Estella Baldwin, a daughter. She Is of no more than the usual size, but worth all the other babies in the world in the eves of certain persons we could name. All are as well as could be expected. Peaches are not coming in so plentifully as we would like, but we presume it is a little soon for them. The earliest varieties were greatly injured by late frosts in fact, most of them were killed in manv places. The la ter varieties will pan out pretty well. That moonlight picnic, set down in the bills for last Saturday night at Langdon's grove, didn't eventuate. The weather-clork was out of humor, and so he sent down Just enough of a drizzle early in the evening to cover the project with a wet blanket, so to speak. Mr. Allen, lessee of the Granite Quarry, has erected a very fine new hoisting engine on the works. lie latelv secured a large bridge contract which, with other work, will tax the energies of the company for several months. The circle of the bridge measures 500 feet in diameter. Mr. Allen is hiring all the hands he can get. The Register was the recipient, last Sat urday, of a very fine coffee cake. It was presented by Mrs. Frank Cooler, of Iron Mountain, who certainly is the champion coffee-cake baker of Southeast Missouri. We return thanks and hope to be again re membered in the future. A Grand Social Ball will be given at the Pilot Knob Hotel, on Monday evening, Au gust 11th. Mr. Steffefts, under whose su pervision the ball will be given, assures ev erybody that it will be au fait in all its ap pointments. Good music, good supper, and everything else appertaining will serve to make it one of the pleasantest affairs giveu in the Valley for many a day. The railroad crossing north of town, since the grading for the new switch, is rather rough for heavily loaded wagons. There is a hump or two which ought to be made less abrupt. Xo less than four wagon-wheels have been broken at that place within ten days, and if a remedy is not found pretty soon, our wagon shops will have to be en larged, and mayhap a couple of extra ones put in. Let the authorities see to this little matter. Our old friend, C. W. Miller, is back again. He has been over a good deal of ground since we saw him a year ago: through Louisiana, Texas and Old Mexico. His sojourn in tficse southern lands was made in search of health, Mr. M. being troubled with asthma. While he is no longer troubled with that disease, his general health has not been good, and he says it is his determination to abide hence forth in Southeast Missouri, come what may. We welcome him back, and hope he may en joy good health. A Child's Dose. Having called for a match at ahouse near Arcadia, and being in formed by a little colored boy that "mother had put them up high," I thought that right ; but on hearing baby cry, I asked the cause, and was told he was drinking the coal-oil. On entering the house and finding baby struggling on the floor, I took it in my arms to Mrs. Thompson's, where its mother works. There a light-colored man took it in great excitement, and if Dr. Farrar cau save a child already cold, he will do well. Moral Put up your coal -oil. H. Correction. Mr. Michael Zimmer, the person who had the fight with Geo. Spitz miller which was chronicled in the Regis ter last week, desires us to correct that ver sion of the affair. Iu order that history may not be distorted we give place to Mr. Z.'s as sertion that he did not assault Spitzmiller unprovoked, but that S. challenged him dared him to knock a chip off his shoulder, metaphorically speaking and that Itw:i3 on ly after great provocation that he (Z.) ac cepted the challenge and went Into the scrimmage. In other words, he had to eith er tight or give up the gun. The Granite Quarry is one of the big shows we give to au wno come into ttie vailev in search of health, comfort, and fine scenery It is a place well worth the seeing, and we co not ljclieve a visitor ever rested his feet on the big granite boulders, or feasted his eyes upon the beauties of the situation, but that he blessed the hour he determined to take it in. The Quarry being so favorite a resort, the approaches to it ought certainly be made as feasible and pleasant as possible; and the general highway between that place and the Valley is certainly in excellent cor.uition But in the immediate vieinity of the Quar ry there are several very rough places, and the ordinary pleasure vehicle has to take too many chances In getting over them. Can't this matter be attended to? The following is the verdict of the coro ner's jury who viewed the body and heard testimony relative to the hanging of Henrv Caldwell : "Said deceased came to his death on the night of July 2!), 1SS2, at about 12:30 a. M., in the township of Arcadia, in the county aforesaid, by being forcibly taken from the Iron county jail, where he was held In the custody of the lawful authorities of the county of Iron and State of Missouri, and hung by the neck from the railroad bridge southeast from the city of Iron ton, Missouri, and shot in numerous places in hfs ImmIv, neck and head, until he was dead, by parties composing a mob and who are unknown to us." The verdict was signed by Jos. F. Lindsay, foreman, Wm. Brewington, P. Whltworth, C. A. Downs, Isaac Woolein and Gus. Tollman, jurors. Runaway. Ah unhitched team stood In front of the building just south of Lopez's last Friday morning. Three or four dogs got into an altercation under the horses' feet. The horses kicked, reared, snorted, got scar ed, and started on a keen run down street. The wagon ran off the bridge at Brcsline's, smashing one wheel into flinders. Then tho horses were checked without further dam age. If the team had been hitcljed, the own er would be several dollars better off to-day; but he is lucky in that the marshal didn't happen along about that time. Leaving horses and teams stand in the street unhitch ed is against the laws of the City, and the or dmance made and provided for such cases ought to be strictly enforced every time. Last Friday evening, a man came into Lo pez's and asked to look at some pants. The clerk took him to the clothing counter, and they began a search for the article In demand. Just then the clerk was called to the rear end of the store, and taking advantage of his absence, the customer caught up a couple of rests and secreted them under his coat. An other clerk, however, saw the act, and, after the purloiner went out of the store he In formed on him. Thereupon the first men tinned clerk followed his late customer who seeing their approach, at once suspected that he had been detected, and he pulled out the vests, saying, "I don't want these things," and laughed it off as a Joke. Well a Joke's a oke, but some kind of jokes are no Jokes at all. This came near being one of that kind Died At Hogan Mountain, on Tuesday, the 11th dav of Julv. ISitt. little Annie OriNN. aged oue year, seven mouths and eight days. When little Annie was called away By the resistless hand of death. The guardian angels were hurrying round To take her home to rest. We laid her body in the toomb, And there it must decay: Her little spirit has taken Its flight, far, far away. Little Annie has gone home, Her brother for to see; Their little spirits are reunited In eternity. By and by the trump will call us From this earth away: Then we will meet little Annie again, Far, far away. J. X. S. Des Arc, July 27th, 1S82. A Terrible Crime and Its Reward. Last Thursday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, we were startled by a cry for help!" from Mr. Delano, of the Blue Store, coupled with something about Mrs. Peck, toward whose residence Mr. D. started on a run. C. W. Tetwiler, John Pha-be (color ed), and one or two others followed immedi ately. When they reached thejresidence of the ladv in question, they were horrified to ee her struggling and screaming in the dis gusting embraces of a black brute named Henry Caldwell, who had assaulted her in the yard attached to her house. Tetwiler jumped the picket fence and in the twink- ing of an eye, had released the lady from the grasp of the brute. Mrs. P., a lady over sixtv years of age. was assisted into her house, while Caldwell was taken Into cus tody, though not without some trouble.. He showed fight, and being very muscular would have made trouble for anv one single-handed But there were too many for him to success fully resist, and he was captured and taken at once to Judge Dinger's office, who com mitted him to jail to await a preliminary ex amination, which was held the next day After a hearing, the evidence given being conclusive and damning to the prisoner, the Justice bound him over to the Circuit Court in the sum of $10,000. The prisoner's "statement" bef ore the Jus tice was a tissue of the most horrible false hoods, and those present could scarcely restrain themselves from braining him as he gave it. But everything was done lawfully and in order, and he was takcu to Jail to await Judgment at a higher tribunal. The feelings of all classes were deeply stirred, and covert desire for a first-class lynching was general if not expressed. The delays of the law, the many loop-holes of escape, and the probable inadequacy of legal punishment were fully and freely discussed; for nothing less than death would suffice to punish the crime and serve as a deterrent to others whose "crazincss" might have a bent In a similar direction. However, Thursday and Friday nights passed without demonstration, and the idea became prevalent that the' crime would be left to the arbitrament of law. Public feel ing had not abated, and everybody conceded that justice as well as indemnity from this sort of crime demanded severe and summary punishment; but after the sun had twice gone down in safety to the prisoner, the chances seemed to favor his security for the present at least. But the avengers of the hideous lust of the black brute were merely biding their time. Saturday evening, the streets were unusu ally quiet, beingalmost deserted up to eleven o'clock. Then an occasional passer-by was h.-d on the sidewalks of Main street. At twelve o'clock squads of two or three per sons were observed, all coining toward the centre of town, and a short time after, a body of thirty or forty men had quietly as sembled on the street opposite Mrs. Moser's millinery establishment. All were masked or had their faces blackened, and were oth erwise disguised. There they were "sworn in," the oath administered requiring them to proceed orderly and quietly, and to for ever preserve silence as to the identify of all who participated. Then they silently pur sued their way to the Jail. Guards were stationed at every corner of the square on which the jail is located, and all outsiders were kept at a distance. Sev eral parties who endeavered to get a close observation of the proceedings were warned to keep aloof, and they were discreet enough to obey the order. The Jail proper is a one-story stone build ing, with the Jailor's residence (a twrAetorv brick) in front and attaefaed thereto. The entrance into the Jail is made through a front door in the Jailor's residence, which opwas into a hall leading to the irow doors guarding the prisoners apartments. There' are two of these doors, with a narrow lobby between, and in this lobby usually sleeps Louis, a col- red servant. He is somewhat of a "night owl," and on this occasion he was still out when the lynchers, headed by their captain, arrived. The front door leading to the jail or's apartments was consequently on the latch, as was also the first Iron door. The second, however, was locked, as was the door of the cell In which Caldwell was confined. There were no other prisoners in the Jail. When the mob found its further progress stayed by the inner iron door, au ax was procured, and a man detailed to break the lock. The first stroke awoke the Jailor, Sheriff Fletcher, who sprang from his bed on the upper story, and revolver in hand came out on the landing of the stairs to see what was the matter. A half-dozen cocked revolvars instantly covered him, and he was seized by two men, one of whom whispered in his ear: "Bill Fletcher. I am one of your best friends, but, by G d, we're going to have that nigger!" Of course, unaided, he could do nothing, and he perforce had to let the mob have its way. Thursday and Fri day nights Mr. Fletcher, fearing that some thing of the kind might be attempted, was prepared for such an emergency; but as two nights had passed without demonstration, and public feeling seemed to be somewhat allayed, the precautions had been omitted this night. After hacking away at the lock in the dark Ineffectually for some time, some of the men procured a lamp from the kitchen, and In a short time entrance was gained. Then the key to the cell was forcibly taken from the jailor, and in a trice the lynchers had the prisoner in their possession. A rope, with noose adjusted, was thrown over his head, and they started with him on a run for the railroad bridge. A few yells were given by some of the more excitable men as they passed the Ironton Mills, but these were quickly hushed, and no further disturbance was made until the lynching was an accom plished fact. At the bridge the work was quickly done. The prisoner was rushed up the steps and to the centre of the bridge, when, the rope, still about his neck, was made fast to one of the projecting beams. He was then thrown over the parapet, but desperately clung to the timbers, when a slash from a knife through the muscles of his arm loosed his hold, and, dropping, he hung suspended by his neck. His feet touched the ground, however, and feel ing the hanging might not be effective, some thirty shots were fired at him at short range. The suspended body was completely riddled. The crowd then gave a yell or two, and im mediately dispersed, scattering iu all direc tions . Coroner Grandhomme was at once advised of the matter and at one o'clock in the morn ing he summoned a Jury, went down to the bridge, received the body, cut it down, pro cured a coffin, and, assisted by Constable Patton and others, brought it up to the Court House, where it lay In the Sheriff's room until ten o'clock next day. Then it was taken to the potter's field and buried: and so came the end of a horrible crime and its terrible expiation. It was not the first attempt of the kind he had made. During the past few months his actions had been such that he was forbidden to enter the premises of several families for whom he had been working, and the heads of these families had been keeping him un der continual serveillance. He had imbibed the notion that he was entitled to a "white lady," and when he was arrested last Thurs day, he declared that he was a man and would fight for his "rights." More than one person feels relieved to know that the brute Is out of the way forever. We are not an advocate of lynch-law, but if there ever can be a case calling Justly for its intervention, this was one. And that's about all we have to say about it, excepting that an example of its swift justice was need ed, and to hope that the desired effect will result. Personal. Mr. Maurice Smith and sister, Mrs. Frank Cooley, of Iron fountain, spent last Thurs day evening with friends in Ironton. Mrs. Abbington and Mrs. M. Roberts re turned, last Wednesday, from a sojourn of several weeks' rusticating in Butler county. 3Irs. Dr. Praul, of St. Louis, spent several days here last week, the guest of Mrs. F, Scoville. Mrs. Julia Coleman arrived in town Fri day and will spend the remainder of the summer at her home in Ironton. Miss Lizzie May, of Butler county, stopped off here to pay Mrs. Crumb a visit. She leaves Friday night for Troy, Mo. Mr. Geo. Lanpher, of Frcdericktown, was in town Monday visiting his sister, Mrs. J. M. Moore. Miss Rene Zwart accompanied Miss Ella Lang home and will spend several weeks visiting friends in Farmington. Mr. Albert T. Ake arrived home, Monday morning, from Peach Orchard, Ark., on a sick furlough ; that is, he has a very sore hand. Mrs. John Zwart and child and little niece, little Grace Lenard, are visiting the family of Capt. B. Zwart. Mr. n. Noel, the genial traveling salesman for Shipleigh & Co., of St. Louis, was in town last week. Mr. Geo. A. Moser and daughters have re turned from an extended visit to relatives In Iowa and Kansas. .. t Free of Charge. All persons suffering from Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Loss of Voice, or any af fection of the Throat and Lungs, are request ed to call at the Pilot Knob Drug Store and get a Trial Bottle of Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption, free of charge, which will convince them of its wonderful merits and show what a regular dollar-size bottle will do. Call early. 3 Bargains! Bargains! I respectfully inform my customers and the public generally that, being overstocked with Spring.wummer and Fall Clothing, I will for the next 30 days sell at and below cost. Paul Garni kr, Merchant Tailor, Dealer in Ready -Made Clothin, Furnishing Goods, Hat, Etc. For Salk Price $TJ A neat n-boTse Rockaway; has- lately bad $30 worth of re pairs put on it at Newman's shop and Soft wa Tier's. Cause of sale Too small for present family. Wants re-Tarnishing and one step repaired. Address W. J. UixcnY, at j this office. 2t W. H. Byers, PROPRIETOR. Just bought and placed on sale, a fine stock of Ladies' Children's and Men's FINE' GAITERS and , BOOTS, They were sold by order of the The Circuit Court St. Louis. They belonged to a first-class WJwlesale Mouse on Fifth Street. This stock is all Solid Leather Goods, and we warrant every pair. STILL ANOTHER! We have just added to the above Stock, another large line of HAND-MADE BOOTS s FOR GElSTTLEMElSr, - Ladies and Children! We sell none but Solid-Leather Goods. Every Pair warranted as sold! G-reat Reduction In Men's Clothing! Laces, 2 Laces, 3 Laces, 5 cents cents cents Earlston Ginghams, 8 cts. Children's Shoes, (2 rows of buttons), in in bronze garnet, 50c.; Ladies' Pebble Goat, cloth top, $1.25; Misses' fine Kid Shoes, $1; Misses' Solid Grain, 10's to 2's, 75 c; Men's French Calf, low quarter Shoes, custom made, $2; Men's French Calf solid Boot, $250. We have just made ar- rangements date our customers pennies, so we can sell you 1 cent's worth of anything. Men's Fine Half Hose, 7c a pair. Ladies' Embroidered Hose, 12 cts. a pair. Ladies' White Hose, 5 cts. a pair. Ladies' Imported Lace Collars, FOE 25 CENST. COST, $L A New Lot of Doeskin Jeans Pants, with Spring BONANZA BOOT SHOE Next Door to Academy of Music, IRONTON - C. KlNDELL, MANAGER. mm per Yard! per Yard! per Yard! to aceo o- with Bottoms. Al CLOTHING COMPANY, - MISSOURI. 1