Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-04-29

Adam Goek of the town of Linden.
had one of his feet injured last week
while he was going after a load of
wood. He was sitting on an empty
+ wagon with his feet hanging under it.
when he ran foul OF stump, which
came very near breaking one of his
legs, but be lucky escaped with 4
slight injury i'll the foot.
4 great many people say what they
don't mean III their prayers. a Scotch
man went behind 4 fence to pray, and
declared to the Lord that if the fence
should fall on him it would be no more
than he deserved. Vt that moment a
high wind blew the fence over On the
petitioner. He rose hastily from his
knees and cried out in a frightened
voice: "Iech, Lord it's an awful
ward this; body Gamma say thing in
joke but its ta'en in earnest"
Recently, while workmen were
blasting ice i'll the river between the
rail road and wagon bridges near She
boyagan Falls. a large stone weighing
siXty-six pounds, which was lying over
the blast. was thrown high in the air.
! and coming down with terrific force
struck the left foot of Charlie belong
Il young man about eighteen wears Old
one of the throng Of lookers-on. cutting
the foot completely of Just forward of
the instep.
The Madison Democrat says: "The
Chicago, Milwaukee s. st. Paul railway
company has secured new rails for
their branch from JaneSville to Mon
roe. This company Will also complete
/ this line as far west as Gratiot, and
possibly through to Dubuque This
could be made the through line Of the
st. Paul company from Milwaukee to
Omaha; it Isl very direct route and
would only require the closing Of the
gap between Gratiot and Dubuque, ard
Farley and Dubuque"
4 correspondent writing to the Oar
! lington Republican, from Shullsburg,
says: Our rail road is now fixed
fact. All the preliminaries have been
arranged, and all that remains to be
done is to take up the right of way,
which Mr.. MelOy and others are now
engaged in doing. Property has pop
ped up double value. In fact, it is hard
to get Il man who owns any property
in the village to set Il price on it for
fear he will be taken up. Business
men from Galena, Dubuque and else
where have made arrangements to
commence business here. Hurrah for
hurrah.
The Galena Gazette says: Mr.. ii
;. Clauer, the popular cutter for John
TresSel, merchant tailor, has sold his
residence III Mineral Point to Mr.. John
BlotZ, and moved his family to this
city, where he proposes to make his
permanent abiding place. Mr.. Ciauer
was formerly Il citizen of Galena, and
his many friends here will be glad to
learn that he has once more taken up
his residence among us. lie has rented.
and moved his family into the brick
house formerly occupied by Mi. +.
Iebron, on Franklin street.
\ dastardly attempt was made by
some unknown person or persons TO poi
son the Norman horse Tom scott
owned by George Bloom. The facts
in regard 10 the matter are about as
follows. On Tuesday evening Bloom
took the horse from the barn where he
is usually kept III rear Of Y. ). Hotel
to the barn 1T his house, where lie kept
him until Wednesday. On taking the
horse back to the stable iii rear OF the
hotel, later than usual, Bloom
noticed Il piece Of red paper lying on
the floor of the stall His suspicious
being somewhat aroused, he took the
!
down town and informed John Horn
Of his suspicious. Mr.. Horn advised
him 10 90 back and examine, as lie also
thought some one had tried to poison
the horse, and on looking into the box,
he found about half Il teaspooHful Of
Il pow der, which proved upon eXamin-
alton 70 be Strychnine. The back door
of the barn WAS broken open.
The Madison Democrat says: The
last joke on one of our ministers WAS
played i'll this wise: i couple called
on :; reverend gentleman. and were
spliccd according to the laws God and
man. The groom at the close Of the Ger
em0ny handed the dominic Il twenty
dollar bill, requesting that five dollars
he taken out for the performance Of
the job. Fifteen dollars were handed
back, the married compile left, and the
minister was proud 10 think that he
had made enough To settle lis last
weeks grocery bill The next day he
attempted to settle the same. lie hand
cd over the twenty dollar bill to the gro
Ger, when, with 4 broad smile the latter
handed it back. remarking: That's
about the worst looking bill | have seen
lately" The man Of God appeared as
il thunder stricken. What. is it of
no value? ased lie. Not cent.
was the reply; and 50 the minister told
the story. as above. One of the wit
neSses to the marriage-call in by
the preacher-in5istS that the woman
WAS man.