Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1878-11-15

provement in business daily manifested
is surprise to the most sanguine Of
merchants. The wharf to-day is lined
with steamers discharging freight. The
shores are crowded with customers from
the interior. The general aspect in
commercial circles is most encouraging.
Chris. D. SteinKahl, prominent Cit.
zen, died Of fever, last night. after n
lingering illness Of ten days. Col. II.
G. Brnckley, member of the Peabody
Hotel, is reported in dying condition
Mt Ikna.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTIONS.
A Concord telegram of Novem
Der 10Th says: Complete returns
from every voting precinct in
the state has been received, and the
vote for governor stands as follows:
Head, republican, 3S,085; Mexican,
democrat, 81 ,083; Brown, greenbacker,
$685.; prohibitory and scattering, 1919.
Heads majority 4S8.
RAISING THE FREIGHT RATES.
A New York telegram of Nov. 10th
says: At ~ conference Of trunk lines
and western railroad managers yester-
day, it was agreed to advance rates five
per cent. on all eastward bound grain OF
the fourth class. The change to take
effect Nov. 25th
HUNTING THE STEWART BODY THIEVES.
Says q New York dispatch Of No
vcmber 9th: The police are arrest
ing woll-known thieves in hope OF
getting clie to the robbers of the
Stewart family vault. A searching ex-
animation was made to-day of the vaults
in st. Marks graveyard by Judge Hill
ton, thinking that perhaps tho thieves
had not removed the remains Of Mr..
Stewart out of the cemetery. The body
can not be found The police to-day
found traces Of decomposition on the
iron fence which bounds the 10th street
side of tho church-yard. The marks
of the bag, which had probably con
tanned the body, were found near the
fence. This discovery, it is claimed,
proves that the body was taken from
the church-yard.
COY. HAMPTON SERIOUSLY INJURED.
A Columbia, S. G., dispatch of
November 9Th says: While Gov.
Wade Hampton was hunting, yester-
day, his mule became frightened, and
the bride breaking, the governor lcaped
from the saddle. BY the fall the gov
ernors right leg was broken in two
places, the bones protruding, ana his
ankle was badly hurt.
PuRsUER AND PURSUED KILL EACH OTHER.
A special from Pembina, Dakota,
Nov. Sth says VIII. Anderson,of Dallas,
Texas, u sheriff in pursuit of William
Collins, of the famous bank train rob
bers of that region, fond his man i'll
Pembina this evening and attempted to
arrest him. Collins resisted and the
men exchanged fire with fatal effect,
both dropping dead in two minutes.
A REMARKABLE ADDRESS FROM THE UTAH
WOMEN.
A Salt Lake, Utah, dispatch Of Nov.
Sth, says: Tho following was adopted
mt amceing of non-Normon women Of
this city: TO Mrs. II. b. Hayes and the
women Of the u. S.: II is moro than
30 years since polygamy was planted
ON the shores of the great Salt Lake.
During these years congress has utterly
failcd to enact efficient or to enforce
existing laws for the abolition of this
great crime, and we believe that more
of these unlawful and unhallowed al
liances have been Consummated the
past year than ever before III the his
tory Of the Mormon church. Endow-
ment houses, under the name of tenn
Piles are being erected in different parts
of the territory, costing millions. II is
Der of polygamous marriages, for they
are consecratod in these endowment
houses, an institution no gentle il per-
mitted to enter, where brotherhood and
sisterhood are sealed and bound by
oaths SO strong thut even apostates will
not reveal them, and to mention which
witnesses ON the witness stand unblush-
ingly perjure themselves, and on jury
violate all considerations Of oath and
duty. Considering al our sur
roundings, polygamy has never
taken such n degrading aud debasing
form III any nation or among any peo-
pie above the conditions Of barbarians
is in Utah. 1t is degrading to man and
woman. II curse to children and de
to tho sacred relations of fam
lily upon which the civilization Of ma
tions depends, and there are things that
cannot be repeated orprinted that re-
duces the system to the lowest form of
indeeencv. That il should he prnctced
in the name and under the cloak Of re-
ligion; that an apostle polygamtst with
four acknowledged wives is permitted
to sit in congress only adds to the
enormity of the crime and makes il
more revolving to our common christian
principles. Our legislature is composed
almost entirely of polyganlists and