Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-10-01
GEN ERAL NOTES.

GEN ERAL NOTES.
The coal men at New York will make mo-
change III prices for October.
ANOTHER last insurgcnt chief in Cuba
| has surrendered
a COURTHOUSE and Jail TO cost 3l5U. 600
Will be erected hy La Sale county III Otta-
VA, ILL.,, next summer
Mas + AzzARp, of Monticello, H.. rave
birth t. five habies ON the 23nd inst Two
are living
MoRE than fifty thousand emigrants ar
rived in this country during he month of
| August
Tnr contract for the extension Of The
Denver " Rio Girandc railway To the Gun
nison country has been let, and the line
VIII becompletcd in seven months
ABOUT five hundred members attended
the twelfth annual reunion Of the Army
of the Cumberland, at Toledo, on the 9th
inst Gems. Sheridan and Garfield were
| present
REPRESENTATIVE of the city OF Mem
| pins have made a satisfactory settlement
with the men residing in New York who
hold the bonds of the municipality.
RrIpKrS from the Indian Territory
show that the Chcyenncs have assumed a
threatening attitude Three hundred of
them recently visited the agency and as
saulted the agent
JESSE y, CRANE, third son of the gen
era, and Miss Lizzie Chapman, daughter
sal NfS Fna,intsc9, 't Isl VIZ were married II
Young couple started for the east
A ST.. EouIs committee will go to Wash
ingtun to hcsccch Gen Walker To order
another enumeration Of the inhabitants Of
that city. Hon James q. Broadhead
leads the forlorn hope,
j. h. YrnGIES and Noah w. Parker,
candidates Of the Indiana grecnbackers for
secretary Of state and state senator, re-
spcctively, have withdrawn from the ma
lional ticket, and will work with the dem
Ocrats.
Tins telephone men d Springfield, ILL.,,
undertook to put up their poles ON Fifth
street, on Sunday, in order to escape an in
junction, but the city marshal arrested
them for violating the law IN regard to the
observance of the Sabbath.
4 MOVEMENT is on foot for the CONSOLE
dntiou, under one management, OF the
eight fast freight lines running over the
New York Central, and ramitying the en-
tire rail System of the northwest. The
scheme has the sanction Of Mr.. w II.
Vanderbilt.
An English stock company has secured
about u hundred thousand acres of good
land in the province of Quebec aud is soon
lidcnt Of colonizing thereon 4 large num-
her Of English and Scotch farmers. One
of the objects of the scheme is to counter
act the political influence of the French
Canadians.
LAFAYETTE s. FosrER, Of Connecticut, a
direct descendant of Miles Staudish, is
dead. Mr.. Foster was t. 5. senator at the
time of the assassination Of Lincoln, and
Oh Mir ,lohnson's elevation e. the prcsi-
dcncv became vice.president of the United
States, which position he held until his
term expired, when, failing of reelection
10 the senate, MIR. Wade, Of Ohio, was
made president Of that body,
4 NltronlA dispatch saws: 4 genuine
sen serpent. six feet in length, with an
erthodax mani head shaped like pan
thcr. and tail whitfield down to sharp
point, was brought in nv the Indians. who
caught il on the water straits of leeparo.
/ Its appearance created intense interest
among savants, and old fishermen cannot
plaCc the monster. The serpent has been
photographed and the body will be pre-
served in spirits and sent to Ouewa for
classification,
Iigrr. SVuw ArKA and party, who sailed
from New York two years ago to discover
the remains OF Sir John Franklin and his
Arctic expedition. have arrived At New
! Bedford Their long journey was not AS
successful aS might have been wished, hut
il was not altogether iruiilesS, They have
obtained many relics of Franklin's party,
made numerous charts which Will hc VI
great value TO future explorers. and dem
enstratcd that white men can adapt
| thcmsolyc, to the habits of the Fsqui.
mauN III making long journeys III the polar
regions.
4 DISPATCH from pes Moines, la. SAYS:
| levi johnson, Of Norton county Kan, =
here soliciting aid for the people IN Phil-
! lips, Sherman. Decatur, Sheridan, Raw
/ Inns and other counties. In Norton
county, l,Soo people are in absolute want
III food The wheat crop IN all these
counties failed. and il June was plowed
ny and planted with corn, which, when 1t
came up. was DESTROYED by the web worm.
IIe gives sad story III want and suffer
I ing. Onc family had no food fir eleven
weeks but wheat bran. Another family
had nothing for three weeks but corn
meal He saws the local papers 81 the
state sup press these facts, a il will lnlure
tile state 4 public meeting was called
there on the 9th inst, 70 procure supplies
! for these people.