Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-14
IN 4 NUTSHELL.

IN 4 NUTSHELL
The last straw hat of the season.
which stuck rs long rs it could, has
disappeared
Hon. William Watson, ex-mayor of
Rockford, ILL.,, is dangerously i'll with
typhoid dysentery, and is not expected
to live.
The celebrated carrier-pigeon. Prince,
owned by ID. p. Baldwin, OF Newark
\. j., was turned loose ut Plaintield.
Ind, recently, for flight of about
$50 miles.
Mrs. Dale, daughter, contests the
will Of the late James Stokes, Of the
banking house of Phelps. Stokes ( Co,
Of New York The estate is valued at
100000.
John &. Floyd, a grandson of William
Floyd, one Of the signcrs Of the Declar-
alton of Independence, died ut Mastic,
L. l., yesterday, aged 70. He served
three terms III congress
THEODORE l.. Stockman, a well-known
miser of Toledo, died the other night in
Il small cabin, amid filth and dirt, in
absolute want. His fortune is estimate
ed NJ $3.50, GOO
Preston Powers bust of the poet
Whittier has been placed in the art
room of the Boston public library. 1t
was bought 10y the subscriptions of over
100 persons.
Hon. Alexander Ramsey and Hon.
". d. Washburn will represent the
state Of Minnesota at the Yorktown cen
tennlal celebration, by gubernatorial
appointment
Furmcr Dickens, a nephew of the
great novelist, Charlie Dickens. was
elected deacon of the Methodist
church, by the Rock river conference,
at Sycamore, on Saturday.
Dr. Robert Young, Of England. the
author OF the Analytical Concordance
to the Bible, has written to his pub
fishers in New York, stating that his
physicians have ordered him to abstain
from ell literary labor for one year.
Miss Carrie Hayes. of Forest City,
Me, is seventeen years old and weighs
1924 pounds. The weighty distinction
is claimed for her that she is the hea-
lest girl of her age in Aroostock coun-
tv.
Mr. Aldrich, the new United States
senator from Rhode Island, is a very
prominent member of the Masonic fra
ternity, and is a past grand commander
of the Grand Commandery of Knights
! Templar Of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
II Mrs. Christiancy's statements are
true, the exjudge, ex-senator, and ex-
minister to Peru was a valiant man
when in combat with his wife. If she
speaks the truth, on two occasions he
achieved a decided victory by knocking
her down.
The unmarried women of America
may now breathe easier. The much
married fellow, Marvin, of Richmond,
with many aliases, who went about the
country like a cooling dove, marrying
| every giddy woman who would have
him, has been sent to prison for ten
years for bigamy.
Mr.. Burton c. Ingersoll, son of DIR.
John Ingersoll, of Waukesha, Wis, and
nephew of Col r. q. IngersolI re-
Gently rescued a child from drowning
at Long Beach, Long Island. The
parents of the child presented him an
elegant gold watch as an evidence of
their gratitude.
The venerable ex-GOv Inland Hall
is reported as having said at the Gar
field memorial meeting in Bennington,
VT: II heard the announcements of
the deaths Of all the deceased presi-
dents at the time they occurred, begin
ming with that of Washington and end
ing with that Of Garfield, whom we
mourn to-day"
Miss Jean Ingelow ordered two vol
umes of her poems 10 be sent to Presi-
dent Garfield during his illness, with
her "kind regards and sympathy"
They reached Washington after his
death, and have been forwarded to his
widow at Mentor.
The tnird-class cadet midshipmen at
the United States Naval Acad envy, at
Annapolis, Md, vino were sent on the
Santee for refusing to make disclosure
in regard to the hazing Sunday night,
h1fO SlShCA q plCdE0 IiOb " again hdLSy
and have been returned to the acade-
my.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sym
pathizes with the Rev. DIR. Thomas. In
his sermon in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, yesterday, he said:
at is an injury to the church to try
to suppress free thought. | love the
Methodist Church for the grand work
it has done, but when see an import
ant gathering like that meeting in the
West to cast out a man like the Rev
DIR. Thomas, free proclaimer of the
tr1th that is revealed to him, a man of
sweet nature, offragrant piety, Of peace
and purity; when they cast ut such a
man. say they have cast out an angel
to let in devil. A church which can
not hold pure, noble, Christian man,
is not fiji to live, and call itself a Chris
tan church. If it puts the thumbscrews
on men and racks them for moral pur-
poses, it is 10 church of Christ. No man
owes anything to the church, bat the
church owes all to him. as the mother
to the babe on her breast. Woe to the
time when men of action a.d thought