Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-09-23
GENERAL NOTES.

TIE Baltimore and Pennsylvania roads
are selling 50 tickets from Chicago to
Philadelphia Baltimore, and Washington.
Ir is reported that General Grant clear
ed $4,000 by the sale OF tract Of swamp
land in California 10 the Atlantic and Pa
cific railroad
Mrs. BURKE, of Omaha, made 81 900 at
the Nebraska state fair by riding ten
miles in 20 minutes and "a seconds. She
used four horses, and made six changes
LIEUT. JoHN G. BoURKa has forwarded
% Gen. Sheridan thrilling description of
a snake dance among the Mosqui Indians,
which he is doubtless tn, first white man
to witness.
The obseqnies Of Archbishop Henni
took place al Milwaukee recently. All the
Catholic institutions were draped in
moruning. Archbishop Feehan and Bish-
ops Spalding, Ireland. Hcnnessey and Nc
Mullen were in attendance.
JAMES WHITTEN, Of Wilmington, ILL.,,
has sold !, $50 acres OF coal land in Grundy
countX to the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st.
Paul road, for 800 an acre. An adioin-
ing tract of 100 acres brought $ll0 per
acre
TIE Northern Pacific road has SGS
miles of track in operation, aud reports a
balance in the treasury of 1868, 129 The
capital stock is now $9I, ,3I2,5SS. 70 COM
plete the line between Lake Superior and
the Pacific coast Sl6 miles Of track are re-
quired.
The customs authorities in New York
grew suspicious OF TWO wrought-iron
shafts, weighing about seven hundred
pounds each. and discovered that they
contained dies for screw-cutting. valued at
81, 1000, on which the duty is 45 per cent
ad valorum.
GENERAL CARR is believed to have had
with him in the massacre five officers and
sixty-three men of the 9th cavalry
There are ten thousand Indians on the
San Carlos reservation, and as many more
in the Navajo tribe, located sixty miles
northward
a STEER from Texas, after some advent
ures in Eight avenue, New York, walked
into a dry-goods store and made for the
rear door. The concern was locked up
until the arrival Of the nolice. In going
out, the animal, ran his rorns through
plate-glass window. He was tied to tele-
graph pole and shot by the blue coats.
MrRAr HAlsrEAD's last Joke was played
on the millionaires Of Cincinnati, who are
said to have subscribed only $l7 to the
fund for Mrs Garfield. Two Cincinnati
lads, Victor and Edward Abraham, secured
$l5 III l0-cent contributions, and Mr. Hal
stead Endorsed the amount to Cyrus W.
Field
TnE president bed has been 81 placed
that he can Kill time by watching the
surf The surgeons believe that the bullet
is encvsted, and can ultimately he re
moved without danger Secretary Vim
dom WAS summoned for brief interview.
and Postmaster General James and Secre-
tarv Hunt have been invited into the sick
chamber. The president stomach retains
healthy tone.
AMBROSE +. Burnside, senator from
Rhode island expired Of spasms of the
heart, AZ Bristol on the 10th inst. lie
was born Ill Liberty. Ind. in lS24, ard
graduated at West Point in lS47. He was
lieutenant of artillery in the Mexican
war. and in lS60 became treasurer Of the
Illinois Central railroad company. He
was colonel of the First Rhode Island
regiment at the battle of Bull Run,
served at Antietam n major general.
and superseded Mcclellan in comma nd Of
the army Of the Potomac, just before the
defeat at Fredericksburg. He served
three terms as governor Of Rhode Island
and was sent 10 the senate il lS15.