Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-09
GENERAL NOTES.

Hon GEORGE IT, lIoUsToN. [. S.
senator from Alabama died ut his home
in Athens Dec. 3lst. He was 90 years
old
THE Grocers bank on Barclay street,
New York city, suspended January End,
This is the 23rd bank in New York that
has suspended in eight years
STATISTICS Of the failures in New
York city III 1870 show That they were
much less in number and ame,Dl than
those of 1873. They numbged460, with
debts of $lG,9S3032, and assets Of 50,
l60,033
1'uE new law against gravcrobbing
went into effect in Ohio, Jan LIST. Bodies
In hospitals and inlirmares not called
for or identified 30 to the medical col
lcgcs. No bodies can be shipped out of
the state
Blsuop GILBERT HAVEN, Of the Meth.
in Maiden, near Boston, Jan. Bird, aged
So. lie had been sick several weeks
with neuralgia OF the stomach.
ELEVEN persons of the crew and pas
sengers Of the wrecked steamship Be
russia, which foundered at sea Dec, I'd,
arrived Mt Baltimore Jan. 3D., having been
lltktu UP itl STU ifti. bli ny lnC IthIldh
bark Gacomini.
TrE funeral of Count Johannes occur.
red at "the little church around The cor
ner" in New York city, Jan. 9th The
expenses were borne by Lester Walluck
and Thee. Moses, The services were
largely attended.
The supreme court OF Maine rendered
nm opinion upon all the political ques.
lions submitted by Gov. Garcclon, Jan
1th. Upon every point the decision was
directly antagonistic to the claims OF the
so.called fusionists.
A PnliADEIPuIA telegram of Jan. 2nd
says ii ii learned in Philadelphia that
the contract for the construction of the
Texas and Pacific railway from Fort
Worth 10 FL Pnso, n distance of 100
miles, was signed Oh Wednesday,, The
price paid is understood To he 100000
per mile in first mortgage bonds Of the
company,
Amour eight thousand people gathered
in Madison Square ~ w. on Sunday,
Jan. AIN, Is tender public welcome to
Chas. Stewart raruell Resolutions of
sympathy with tho Irish people We're
adopted and plans perfected for securing
popular subscriptions all over tho
country, Parnel made n long speech
which was loudly arplaudcd
AN Elgin, IN, dispatch of Jan lst
says The year past has been one 81 great
general prosperity To his locality. 1t is
not an cNaggcration to say that S20O,000
has been expended in new buildings and
the rehabilitation of old ones. All our
manufacturing enterprises have proved
successful, and the proprietors have .
satisfied appearance which 1t is pleasant
to behold.
The Irish patriots, Charles Stewart
! Parnell and Dillon, arrived in New York
ON The steamer Scythia, January I'd, and
were received by large delegation Of
American sympath' 1ers, who proceeded
| down the bay to meet the vessel. An
address Of welcome was delivered, and
responded to cloqucntly by Stewart and
| Parncll
TnE will Of Xachariah Chandler dated
/ March 81, 1896, was filled for probate
Dec, 3lst. Ii simply gives his entire
property equally 10 his wife and daugh.
1 Ter. Mary, now Mrs. Eugene Hale, 81
Maine II appoints George Jerome,
/ Allen Sheldon and Charles Ducharme
executors, and is witnessed by ID IL.
Jerome and Recorder Swift. The doeu
ment was found by the executors OF
/ Judge Edmunds. late postmaster at
Washington. among his papers. rms Is
something OF q surprise, as he hau been
| regarded rs intestate,
BlsnoP McCLosKEy, OF the Kentucky
| diocese, Says dispatch OF Jan. 9th, mas
issued decree prescribing that, SO soon