Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-07-08
GENERAL NOTES

In private trial on the Columbus
track Maud s. trotted mile in 2:l6.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY WooDFoRD. Of New
York, has appointed az his assistants son
of Postmaster General James and a nephew
of Roscoe Conkling.
IT is probable that not over $4,000. and
certainly not over 100000 persons, own
the entire debt of the country
YALE COLLEGE has 108 instructors,
1,037 students, and 126,000 volumes in the
Libraries.
THE Bradford oil district is alive with
excitement over two rich strikes across
the line in New York, flowing 100 to $50
barrels per day.
A RABBI al Indianapolis has levied on
the cemetery of the Children of Jacob con
gregation, and will advertise it for sale on
a Judgment for salary.
4 FLOCK of carrier-pigeons owned in
Boston have been lessening the record.
One Of the number flew from Schenectady,
n. Y, to Boston in four hours seventeen
minutes and fifteen seconds.
In consequence of the abandonment of
his German newspaper partnership in ST.
Louis by Carl Schurz. the business man
ager of the concern has been forced to re-
TIRE IRON the enterprise.
HENRY WILLARD and his associates have
filed at Portland articles of incorporation
of the Oregon Transcontinental company,
with a capital of $50.000,0O0.
TWELVE indictments were presented by
the grand jury at Albany, seven of which
were sealed but the names cf the offend
ers can not be learned.
JOHN 6. SAKE, the wit, is becoming a
confirmed hypochondriac, partly from
want of exercise and partly from brooding
over the loss of his children.
THIS year the emigration from Sweden
to America will reach 70,0I0, which is
about one-siItieth of the entire popula-
ton.
Four prominent liquor dealers of Oma-
ha. two of whom are members of the city
council, have been indicted for violating
the high license law.
Our of 1877 100000 in foreign gold coin
received at New York from August to
May, not one piece was British. The ar
rivals were mainly French 20-franc pieces
and German 20-mark pieces, although
japanese yens were we'll represented
TOBACCO cultivation in the United
States, for 1880, is placed at 473, 107, ,5S3
pounds. The average yield per acre is
shown to be 731 pounds, varying from
$50 pounds in Massachusetts, to All
pounds in North Carolina.
GENERAL BEUREGARD, the vicious horse
which recently killed two grooms in New
York, and has lately been in danger of
starvation because no one dared to attend
him, was shot In his stall as an unsafe
beast.
GEORGE II. SPENCER, st. Paul, who was
appointed agent ofthe Grow Creek Indians
on the recommendation Of Bishop Hare,
speaks the Sioux language, was nearly
murdered in the outbreak of 1862. and
was rendered penniless by Indian plunder-
ers on the site of Ortonville.
JOHN GYUMBER, the Hungarian who
has SO greatly puzzled the authorities at
the poor-house at Reading, Pa. after abb
solute silence for one hundred and thirty
fire days found voice to express his thanks
for flower which was given him.
Ex-ALDERMAN CLANCY. of Ottawa, Ont,
entertained thousands of people by an ex-
hibition of his flying machine, on which
he has been Mt work for thirty years. 1t
has wings and is worked by crank, and
he kept steadily in the air for quarter Of
mile at an average height of twelve feet.
THE running meeting of the Chicago
driving park opened with fine prospects.
Nearly three thousand persons attended,
and all the arrangements proved admira-
BILE. Lizzie S. won the mile dash, Let
tina took the Ladies' stakes, Liatunah the
Board of Trade handicap, and King Nero
the club purse
The banquet of the sons of Maine resi-
dent In Chicago was in every sense a
success, especially as a large delegation of
the Pine Tree state were present as guests.
Judge Drummond delivered the address
of welcome and Professor Rodney Welch
the poem. Among those responding to
toasts were Hannibal Hamlin, E. B.
Washburne, James II. Howe, and Mark
H. Dunnel!
The Iowa republican state convention
called to the chair Hon. James Wilson.
The delegates in attendance numbered
l,0l9. Hon. John Y Stone was made
permanent chairman An informsl bal
lot for governor gave Sherman 416 votes,
Larabee 36S, Harlan 1i6, Campbell &c, and
kimball Ia. On the twelfth ballot Sher-
man was nominated, receiving 500 votes,
which was made unanimous. On the
third ballot o. H. Manning, of Carroll
county, was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor. Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was
selected as candidate for supreme Judge.
The tide of immigration to this coun-
try continues unchecked. One day
last week, for instance, four European
steamers landed at New York 1892
strangers in search of homes and pros
perity on this side, and the arrivals dur
ing the seven days numbered 11,S46
This business is BY all odds the most
profitable in which the steamship lines
are now engaged. Vessels have ire
quently gone back to the old country
half loaded in order to fill up with the
better paying living freight bound this
way. The majority of the immigrants
came to the west and northwest.
Mr. George Agustus Sala, in one of
his letters from-St. Petersburg, had oc-
caSion to say that AZ the hotels there
you can live like fighting cock. Here
is the way he said il: "As for your liv-
ing, it will be as good as that tradition
ally said TO be enjoyed by one of those
pugnacious feathered bipeds of the
gallinaceous order, which, by the act of
Parliament, are no longer suffered to
fight"
No Hospital Needed.
No palatial hospital needed for Hop
Bitters patients, nor large-salaried ial-
ented puffers to tell what Hop Bitters
will do or cure, as they tell their own
story by their certain and absolute
cures at honey. Y. Independent.