Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-07-18
GENERAL NOTES.


sen. BAYARD sailed for Europe. July
10Th.
THE Orangemen celebrated on the
10Th INST. very quietly.
GALVESTON quarantined against Mem
phis on the 1lth inst.
The funeral of ex.Gov. VIM. Allen
occurred at Chilicothe July 14th.
Hos. WM. ALLEN, OF Ohio, died at
his home near Chillicothe, July 18th.
HANLAN, the victorious oarsman, ar
rived at New York from England, July
18th. .....
A DEATH from yellow fever occurred
at Water Valley, Miss, July 18th. Great
CONSERVATION followed.
The Chicago council refused on the
14th inst. to concur in the mayors
order retiring the fire marshal, Mr.. Ben
ner.
The governor Of Texas issued a
proclamation July 18th ordering quar-
antine of the whole state against Mem
phis and other yellow fever points.
The Fall River mills, says dispatch
of July 18th, are finding no difficulty in
securing plenty of help to fill the pl.ces
of the striking spinnels.
A San Francisco telegram of July
18th says Elizabeth Collins, relict
of the late brigadier-general James
A. Collins, veteran Of the
Mexican war, died ut Sacramento yester-
day, aged 80.
THE fever news from Memphis July
18th was mere reassuring. There were
no new cases and the panic was subsid-
ing. Fully 5000 people eft the city
the day previous.
A DUBUQUE, Iowa, telegram Of July
11th. states that Judge Reuben Noble,
of McGregor, has written a letter de-
clning the nomination for judge of the
supreme court, recently rendered him
by the democratic state convention.
A ST.. PAUL dispatch of July
10Th says: A telegram from Presl.
dent Washburn, Of the Minneap-
oils & St. Louis railway, now in New
F., York announces that the ST. Paul &
Duluth road has been sold to the stock
holders in the Chicago Il Northwestern.
This places all the railroad outlets from
here east in the control of the Chicago
combination.
A New YORK special of July 18th
states there is II report that one OF the
leading Liverpool lines is about reduc-
ing its emigrant fare to $15. The mat
ter is to come before the next meeting
of the North Atlantic steamship assoc
citation. The Cunard line tried this
experiment some Years ago. 1t is said
that many thousand unemployed En-
glish farm hborers and miners would
come out here If the rates of transpor-
tation were cheaper than at present.
A NEW York special of July 10th
says the largest number of Mormons
which has arrived this year was landed
vt Castle Carbon, yesterday, from the
steamer Wyoming. There were COZ
adults who came in the Storage and
seventy-six in the second cabin. OF
this number 3S1 came from Scandina-
via, eighty from Switzerland and Ger
many, and the others from England
and Scotland. They were started for
Utah tonight. Among the number
was u young man % years old who
gave his name rs Brigham Young.
He said he was no relative to the late
head of the church at Salt Lake City.
Most of the men were farmers.
THE Memphis board of health issued
the following order July 10TH I'VE
would say quietly to remove
your families to place OF safety until
we can ut least see whether the few
cases Of yellow fever will assume an
epidemic form. To the people along
the lines of different routes of travel,
we say there can be no possible danger
of infection for many days to come"
A MEMPHIS telegram dated midnight
July 18th says: Judge Rays grave was
ordered to be dug ut z O'Clock this
morning. He died Mt 10 minutes past
Q o'clock, and was buried in Elmwood
cemetery Immediately afterward by the
Masons, who have seen to his comfort
during his late illness. The deceased
was appointed Judge of the criminal
court OF Shelby county by Gov. Porter
last October, to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Judge L. i. Scrusgs,
who died OF yellow fever during the cpl
demic of last year. At the election for
judicial officers last August he was II
candidate for Judge of the circuit court,
but was defeated before the people
along with the entire democratic ticket.