Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-08-20
GENERAL NOTES.

Hicks, Of Philadelphia. wen the bicycle
championship at Milwaukee.
THE population of Massachusetts, is
l,7s3,Sl2, gain of over 100000 in ten
years, 80 -
THERE was insurance to the amount Of
1854, 626 on the property DESTROYED by the
Hunters Point confagration.
TWENTY-FIVE young ladies entered the
cloister at Baltimore, on the 10Th inst with
the usual imposing ceremonies.
IT is reported that Vanderbilt purchas-
ed the horse st. Julien for $4,000, paying
$4,000 down.
TIE corner stone Of new German
Catholic church was laid at Dubuque,
Iowa, on the 18th inst, Bishop Hennessy
officiating.
IT Is expected that it will take four
weeks to reach the bodies OF the men en-
tombed in the Hudson river tunnel more
than fortnight ago.
Col. GRIERsoN reports several engage
ments with Victoria Apaches in the vi
entity of Snake Springs. He killed four or
five savages and lost one soldier.
PosToFFICE officials have discovered that
a good deal of the campaign literature
circulated by both parties through the
mails il obscene and efforts Will be made t.
suppress it.
Miss ADELAIDE NELSON, the accom-
plished actress, who recently announced
her retirement from the stage, and sailed
for Europe, died suddenly on the 18th
inst, at the Continental hotel, in Paris
a PARTY named Charles Carver, resid-
ing in Woodstock, Va, began fast of one
hundred days duration on the 10th inst.
Should he succeed in his experiment he
will challenge Dr. Tanner to a competitive
match.
AN excursion party of land-seekers,
numbering POS, under the auspices of the
Iowa Railroad Land Company left Free
port, H., on the 18th inst, for lie Mars,
Iowa. via the Illinois Central railroad
CHARLES H. TARpY, president of the
colored relief board has advces that 10000
negroes will emigrate from Mississippi
and Louisiana within the next two months,
en- route for Kansas and other northern
states.
CIEMENTSHAw, who sworc that Charles
De Young fired the first shot when Young
kalloch assasSinated him, has been SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the penitentl-
ary for perjury \ motion for new trial
was denied
THE central Illinois soldiers and sailors
Reunion was held at Springfield. ILL.,, on
the 18th and lith inst. Gen. McClernand,
who was present, created Il sensation by pub
fishing a tour-coumn article in local
newspaper claiming that he devised the
plan for the march to the sea which Sher-
man executed
SlNTY-sEyEN Russian emigrants, the sole
survivors Of party Of three hundred and
thirty, which left Russia in 1871 for
Brazil, have arrived ut New York sick
and destitute. They found the South
American climate unsuited to them, and
after losing nearly all their funds decided
10 leave the country where they had eN-
perienced so many hardshinS.
II. l.. GREEN, chairman Of the ex-com-
mittee of the national liberal league,
states that the fourth annual convention of
the league will be held in Chicago on the
18th, 18th and 10Th of September. Two
hundred auxiliary leagues are entitled 10
representation. of five delegates each. The
most important work Of the convention
will be the selection of a presidential tick
ct, or the endorsement of one ot the pres
ent nominations.
The Pacific Express company, owned
bv jaw Gould and operated upon his rail
roads, and which commenced doing bust
ness in Chicago, H., on the 18th inst, has
notified the American Express company Of
that place, that ii must refuse 10 receive
express matter originating there and
destined to the exclusive offices of the Pa
cifc Express company. This has resulted
in an acrimonious controversy and the
companies are calling each other hard
names.