Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-01-02
GENERAL NOTES.


Cor. ARTHUR T LEE, Of the IT, $.
army, died at Rochester, N. ", Dee
Goth.
ALBERT T. CHANDLER has been elected
president OF the Atlantic 81 Pacific Telc-
graph Co., in place Of Gen. Eckert, re.
signed, says telegram Of Dec. 18th.
Two suits, one for $1,000 and the
other Tor $4,000, have just been brought
in Cincinnati against Archbishop Pur.
cell, says n dispatch Of Dec. 2Sth
THE Poles Of Chicago who are for the
most part poor, have raised $500 for the
relief of the starving inhabitants Of ST
lesIa, says the Times Of Dec. 28th.
THE will Of Alexander Stuart, the
sugar reflncr, was flied in New York Dec
29h. he leaves all his property, valued
ut about $1,000, 900 to his brother, Robert
! l.. Stuart.
lT was reported in Chicago, Dec 30th,
that 10 n "A Feehan, bishop of Nash.
vile, had been appointed bishop Of Chi
cago, To succeed Bishop Foley, deceased.
Gov. WILLIAMS, Of Indiana Dec. 10Th,
appointed Hon. John II. Scott, of Terre
lIaute, to the vacancy on the supreme
OF Chief Justice Perkins.
THE agents Of the steamer Arragon,
which was reported lost ut sea, Dec. 29,h,
pronounce the rumoI a cruel hoax. The
steamer Is not due In Bristol until Jan.
uary Bird or 4th.
Gov VAN XANDT was asked, Dec. Goth,
If il were true, rs rumOrcd, that he had
been appointed Minister to Russia, aud
responded that it would bc improper to
say, leaving the impression that he had
been appointed.
IT was tclegraphed from Augusta, De.
cember goth that the & neral impression
prevailed that Gov. Garcelon would not
submit the questions TO The supreme
court that had been propounded by Hon.
lot Morrill,
st. Louis, Dec Both, Rev. Moody. the
Rice, the Snowman, had been advertised
10 speak mt the Moody meetings ne n
convert, Mr.. Moody said the published
report of Ricc's conversion under his
(Moody's) prcac Ting was not true
AT an election held in Des Moncs,
Iowa, Dec. Goth, for the purpose of voting
on the question of u tax in aid OF the Des
Moincs aud Milwaukee railroad, the tax
was carried by n large majority, only n
J light ballot being pollcd. The town Of
Mitchelyille, in the same county also
voted the tax on the same day. The
tax in these two places amounts to about
100000.
TnE laboratory of Edison, ut Mcnlo
Park, was brilliantly illuminated on HE
night of Dec. 2Stll with the new electric
Ii lat, the occasion being u visit of u
number OF the inventors personal friends.
Forty lamps In all were burning from
six O'Clock until after ten, The effect of
the exhibition was 10 convince those
present who before were skeptical that
Mr. Edison hns in reality produced the
electric light for household illumination.
No day is yet sci for general public exhi-
biuon, but it Is quito probable that
inside Of week all will be arranged for
the public exhibition
SAYS ST. Louis dispatch of Dec. 2Sth;
The project of bridging the Mississippi
River NJ Carondelet six miles south of
the centre of this city, il being revived
The Missouri Pacific and st. Louis, Iron
Mountain Il Southern Roads now transfer
point, and the revival Of the iron manu-
features ut the immense furnaces and
rail mills located there make the bridge
mn almost absolute necessity To meet the
demands of commerce, and contracts for
the construction of the bridge, to cost be-
tween 81, GOO, 600 and $3,000,000, will no
doubt soon be let, and the work pushed
to speedy completion.
A DISPATCH from Los Pinos agency,
Dec. Goth, announced that Ouray and
chiefs, selected to 20 to Washington, mr.
rived Mt the agency on the day previous,
bringing with them only part of the
prisoners demanded Gen, Hatch rcius
ed To proceed unless all the prisoners
were surrendered, Ouray then asked
for more time, and was given five days
10 deliver all the rest of the prisoners AT
Cline's rancho, thirty miles from Los
Piuos. TWAS thought Ouray was either
PLAYING double or Tint he was unable 10
accomplish what he pretended he could.
The SNOW wa8 from five 10 fifteen feet
deep, and the com mission WINS obliged To
build sleiNhs 10 make the trip. Grave
| doubts were expressed as To the success
Of the expedition
IIISfAItHtS from tNt l tc country slhtc
that Gen. Hatch, of the peace commits
sion, started for Alamosa IN the Both,
having giving MP all hope 81 securing
the Indians whom Ouray agreed to sur.
render for trial for their participation in
the Thornburgh and Meeker murders.
The generals withdrawal Is considered
| tantamount 10 declaration Ut war
There IRE several hundrc savages in the
vicinity of Los Pinos, the whites at the
agency numbering orly twenty-five, and
! It is feared that the latter will be mas.
sacred and Gen. Hatch and his escort rs
well II il reported that troops have
beun ordered 10 the rescue Of Hatch aud
the people at Los PinoS, but rs the snow
Is chin deep they are not expected 70
make much progress.
GREAT excitement was caused in Ban
gor, Maine, On Christmas by an attempt
to transfer. arms anu ammunition from
the MaincStale arsenal in TINT city to the
state capital ut Augusta. The arms
we're Intercepted BY the citizens aud sent
back summarily to the arsenal. The
mayor teiegraphed Gov. Gareclon, by
whose order the transfer was attempted
that no such proceeding would be toler.
atrd hy Tho penplp Dee abh Hon