Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-03-21
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

! LIE hhnbab IcBtsldluIG aAa9'IHcu
sine die March 10Th.
The iron trade is booming, 50 say the
Pennsylvania manufacturers.
RECENT experiments show that
shrunken wheat answers well for seed.
The Manhattan Savings bank OF New
York, which was robbed few months
since, resumed business March 18th.
TIE amount of claims already mo.
against Archbishop Purcell amount 10
$3600,000.
THE secretary and treasurer of a local
fire insurance company IN Vermont IL
| $125, 900 short in his accounts. HIS
name il A. g. Woodland.
O'LEARY broke down utterly on
March 18th in the championship walk
mt Gilmore's Garden, New York, and 10
| lott the race.
DIR. john M. WORDSWORTH, superviS-
ing encouragement OF the marine hos
pital service died ut Washington MT 4
o'clock on the morning Of the 14th inst.
A Sir PAUL dispatch Of the 18th says
the first boat Of the season cleared from
Duluth to-day, two days earlier than
last year and the earliest on record.
Rev. DIR. GEo. g. LoRIMER, Of Boston,
Mass, has been called to the First
Baptist church Of Chicago, as the sue
cessor Of Rev. DIR. Eyarts. The church
offers DR.. Lorimer salary of $4,000.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch says that
DR.. james Dekoven, tho well-known
president of Racine college, has been
chosen rector Of st. Marks church, in
that city.
TIE Supreme Court OF Tennessee has
decided that sleeping cars running
through Nashville nre taxable. An APP
peal will be taken to the Supreme Court
of the United States.
DIR. dunno, of Chicago, who attended
O'Leary in all his walks in Chicago,
confirms the report that O'Leary's fail
uro is due to tho use Of stimulants es-
pecinlly Of champagne, while walking.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans dated
March 18th says TINT tho Bonnie
Loe, with eleven hundred and fifty
bales Of cotton, sank III Red River. a
wrecking boat has gone TO her assist
nnce.
THE British steamer Severn, from Lon
don TO Quebec, ran down, oil Dunge-
ness, pilot cutter, having twelve pilots
and crew of eight ON board. Ten
pilots and five OF the crew were drown
cd.
AT Lowell, Mass., owing to the death
of tho sheriff, ~ murderer could not be
legally hung, and he was reprieved UNI
I'til new officer can be appointed to the
place. II was II great disappointment
to the prisoner.
GOVERNOR PRESCOTT, ct New Hamp-
shire, has appointed Charles ii. Boil,
of Exeter, senator for tho extra session,
to fill tho vacancy occasioned by the cx-
piration of tho term of Senator Wnd-
leigh. Bell has accepted.
MEMBERS of the Miohigan legislature
propose to make grand excursion to
Lake Superior in August next, rendc2-
yousing at Chicago; then going ny rail
to LAnso, by steamer 10 Houghton,
and by the Mineral Range road to Calu-
met.
BAyARp TAyLoR5 remains were re-
moved from the governors room in
the City Hall, Now York, ON the 14lh
inst, where they have been lying in
state, and taken by special train on the
Pennsylvania railroad To Konnott
Square.
GENERAL SHERIDAN, accompanied by
Colonel Forsythe, Captain Gregory,
General Crook and Lieutenant Bourke,
has gone to Camp Robinson to invosti-
| Ia Indian, nII Al MI Ia, unlnnt th a. OIL a.
for new military post on Snake river,
in northern Nebraska.
Mrs. GEN. THOMAS w. SHERMAN died
Of consumption ut Newport, Il. H.,
March 10Th. At the time Gen. Sher-
man himself was very i'll and his recoy-
cry seemed doubtful. lie was not IN
formed of his wife's death lest tho blow
should be too great for him.
A LETTER received mt Ottawa, Canada,
March 18th, from Mr.. L. Breelnnd, II
Manitoba trader ut the Moose Noun
tain, near Sitting Bulls camp, states
that the SNOW is disappearing and the
buffalo are moving north. There is
strong talk of joining the American hos
tile tribes in the spring.
SIR JuIIus NoGEL, Of New Zealand, III
n recent numbor of the Princeton
Rcpiew, suggests " plan whereby the
vast mineral wealth of the tropical
regions of Australia might be developed
Ivy the Asiatic races. There is An
abundance ofroom in Australia for mil
lions Of these people.
TnE monthly statement shows that
twenty-five western railroads increased
their earnings in February 100000 OF
the roads which make returns, the lnrg-
est increase is made by the Central III
cliic, tho Kansas Pacific, tie Wabash,
and tho Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
Ono or two Chicago lines figure among
tho roads which show heavy falling
of.
A NORWICH, Connecticut, dispatch of
March 10Th says that Mrs. John lay
Tor and two sons, Willie, ten years old,
and Johnny, five years old, We're drown
cd in the Mantle ice eompany's pond,
ut Mantle, to-day. The children went
for pail of water and fell in, and Mrs.
Taylor hearing cries, ran tetheir assist