Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
GENERAL NOTES.


THE legislature of Massachusetts, adj
journed sine die on the Goth inst.
JosEPH SELIGMAN, the New York,
banker died in New Orleans, of heart
disease on the 2Sth of April.
TIE Chicago Ecentag Journal on the
23rd inst entered upon the thirty
seventh year of its continuous publca
ton.
In the Canadian Dominion House of
Commons, on the 22nd inst a bill! pass
cd legalizing marriage with a deceased
wites sister
A GREAT rain anu snow storm, unpre-
cedented at this season of The year, is
raging in California, says adyices of the
23rd inst. A treshet in the valley is the
result
z GEORGE H. DANIELS, general pas
scnger agent Of the Chicago 81 Pacific
railway has been appointed general
passenger agent of the Wabash, st. Louis
d Pacific railway.
SEN. DAVIS, of Illinois, introduced
bill on tine 22nd inst, authorizing the
president to nominate and with the con.
sent of the senate to appoint Major Reno
W llio iOI ihCl dbh anu ddtC Vi Is
sion, and assign him to the first vacancy
occurring in his grade.
The senate, after long and tedious
consideration of the Geneva award bill
laid the whole subject on the table on
the 22nd inst The bill as finally
amended seemed to suit no one, and it
was thought best to lay it away, in the
hope that after awhile more .judicious
bill might be passed.
TUE Dennis Kearney habeas corpus
case came up before the supreme court,
in session on the Goth inst. The court
decided that 1t had no power To review
its own action, and kearney was returned
: to the house of correction, to serve his
sentence
The president nominated for Super
visot of the census for Ohio, on the 22nd
inst, Meredith II. Willett, of Bryan, for
the First District; John II. Little, of
Sprin gtield, for the Second District; Cy.
rus Cado, ST., of Plcasantville, for the
Fifth District, and VIM. A. Hunt, of st.
Clairville, for the Seventh District
The directors of the Chicago and
} romah Narrow Gauge Railroad per-
lected arrangements on the 23rd inst
and sold their road to the Chicago 81
, N orthwestcrn Railroad Company, and 1t
is understood the owners will immediate
ly complete the new extension.
TUE Chicago Chamber of Commerce,
adopted u lengthy memorial to the post
master general on the 23rd inst, asking
that wells, Fargo d Co, be permitted to
continue their stamped letter service, as
heretofore, and a. memorial TO the navy
department, praying for better detences
at Chicago.
Much distress is being caused in the
inland settlements ofthe province of On.
tario, say news of the 23rd inst, from
u scarcity OF hay and fodder for cattle
the winter has been so long and the
spring so backward, that farmers are
wholly unable to obtain food for their
stock at any price.
THE Iowa supreme court, in case
appealed from Jasper county, decided
on the 23rd inst, that where a candidate
for Office is elected on the promise that
he will perform the duties Of the office
for less than the legal salary, said election
is void, because the candida e's PROPOSE
ton is tantamount to a bribery of the
voters.
The leaders OF the woman suilragists
of the United Sta,es issued call on the
% inst, for mass meeting of all the
women who want TO vote, to be held at
Farwell Hall, Chicago, June ?. They
demand an amendment to the national
constitution, giving women the right TO
vote, and propose to bring pressure
, upon the political party national con.
ventions to espouse their cause.
The discovery was made in lndianapo.
lis, Indiana, on the 22d instant,
, that the mater with the water
works was that the main gate at the
pumping works was clogged by the body
of "A droW ned man, which apparently had
, beer in the water for days. OF course
now there will be a deal of swearing off
of water drinking for time in that
city.
The supreme court rendered imam.
j nous decision in the case of the state VS.,
: Edward G. Palmer, President Of the
Louisiana Savings Bank, setting aside
and annulling the verdict on the 22nd inst
! Holds that the Indictment was bad, and
in effect declares that Palmer has the
right 10 check upon his individual &C.
count to balance the over.draft OF the firm,
, which over.draft was the basis of this
indictment.
The Post Dispatch special from Kansas
ely Of the Esd inst, says Adyices
] from Western Kansas report that the
drouth and uniavoIabe weather have 70.
tally DESTROYED the wheat crop west OF
Salina, and that there will be partial
failure Of the crop for hundred miles
north and south of Topeka. Many
! farmers in the western part of the State
| ar ettf fAriptr "A n th n
cutive Office at Topeka for help.
! A cuLvERT gave out, on the Erie canal,
east Of the gusrd.lock, West Utica, on the
23rd inst, and lowered the level of the
canal for four or five feet, for several
hundred feet; washed ont the tow.pa,h
! Tor 100 feet; undermined aud destroyed
costly stone wall, and flooded tina! en-.
tire part of the town. Nc lives were