Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-05-13
GENERAL NOTES.

| uSsllute pcOplo III anu AROUND anton.
BoTH houses of the Michigan legisla
ture have passed bill making it fine
able mlsdemeanor to get drunk.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN has returned Il
New York, having escaped from the Chill
ians and swan out to an English steamer
OWING to a deadlock in the police boar,
at Troy, N. Y, the station-houses ar
locked and the city is without guardians
THERE is report at New York tia
| Hon. Carl Schurz has been rendered tn,
presidency of the Northern Pacific Rail
road.
The switchmen on the several roads il
Chicago have struck, and propose to re
main idle until the companies accede t.
their demand for higher wages.
AT baseball, Chicago beat Cleveland
& to o; Worcester beat Troy, 10 to 5; De
| troit beat Buffalo, 4 to =. and Prov idence
beat Boston, to /.
6THE saloons al Parsons, Kan, hay,
closed, the druggists and physicians refuse
to give bonds, and all former drinking.
places have Grape on the door-knobs.
PROF. LEWIS SWIFT, of Rochester, N. Y.
has discovered bright comet in the con.
stellation of Andromeda, thereby winning
300 prize offered by H. H. Warner.
MINING speculation at New York has
suddenly experienced great revival, and
seats in the exchange have risen TO 50 900.
Events in the stock market also indicate
another vigorous bull campaign.
ONE thousand bakers. out on a strike,
paraded the downtown streets of New
York. The Grand Trunk brakemen at
Toronto demand an advance of fifteen to
twenty-five cents per day.
THoME, the defaulting cashier of the
Panama Canal company, who was report
ed to have fled with $6,000,000, was found
at africa, Peru. in half-insane condition,
and allowed to 60 free on restoring fifteen
thousand francs,
CoLoRow, the Ute chief, having been
interviewed denies that he has ordered the
whites into the post at White
river. The Utes declare they will
not fight unless an effort is made to remove
them, but insist in the most positive
manner that they will not leave their
homes.
SITTING BULL is only forty miles from
Fort Buford, but declares that he will not
surrender. 1t is charged that his emissa-
ries are trying to induce tie young bucks
10 leave the agency and join him.
By the giving way of dixie at East St.
Louis. stream of water almost equal to
the Mississippi is oowing through the
streets, with possibility that it may be-
come the main channel.
In Oregon one has to obtain five-dol-
lar license to drink whisky straight at a
bar. The saloon-keeper is liable to heavy
peualties Il he sells TO an unlicensed topper
The newspapers have taken to publishing
50 men, which is verv discouraging to the
barkeepers.
In ball game at Providence, before
fourteen hundred spectators, the nine OF
that city was defeated by the Boston club,
to ,. The Worcesters beat the Troys,
to .. and the Buffdlos waxed the Detroits
e to 5. The Clevelands beat the Chicagos,
to1
COLONEL A. F. WILLIAMS and nine
other mining capitalists of San Francisco
have equipped a schooner to leave for the
silver mountain reported to have been dis
covered in Alaska by sailors Some
specimens have assayed from $1,000 to
$S, ,0G0 per ton.
PROBABLY the most remarkable digest
i've apparatus in North Carolina is that
possessed by John Eaus, a planter in Hen
Iry county, who goes regularly 10 cool
brook, after breakfast and dinner, and
swallows handful of gravel-a habit in
which he has INDUCED for years, while en-
loying robust health.
The :, census of Mississippi, which
was take.I simultaneously with the Federal
census, shows nearly the same population.
The total number of voters in the state is
240. .720, divided as follows: "Whites,
10, l13; colored. 130,607..
A sEcfND prayer cure is announced from
Canaan township, Penn, where Miss Ella
Ludwig, who suffered for years from an
apparently incurable hip disease, was
made able to walk by the combined sup
plications of her friends at her bedside, on
day fixed by lady in Connecticut.
PROFESSOR Chandler reports to the New
York board Of health that oleomargarine
Is superior in all respects to the poorer
grades Of dairy butter; that there is moth
ing Objectionable in its material or manu-
facture, and there is no need of legislation
to protect public health.
The people of Sioux Falls, Dakota, have
been deprived of railroad communication
since October. and have yet ten days to
wait. Two carloads of provisions were
contributed at La Crosse for the residents
of the isolated region, and an agent will
accompany the supplies and hurry them
forward from the nearest station reached
by rail.
NINETY-Two years ago last Saturday,
Washington was inaugurated first Presi-
dent OF the United States, at New York
City. The suit of clothes that he wore
lpon that occasion is preserved at Wash
ington. While the Nation is not yenera-
bic with age, it has reached the period
when but few living witnesses are lef: to
tell of the event.
TIE strike mania has extended to that
Fery congenial locality, the Pennsylvania
coal region. The miners of the Tompkins
mines in the vicinity of Pittston struck,
ewing to difference of opinion with the
mfloyers on the question of time. The
action If the leaders in this matter throws
a number of men and boys out of work,
which they were quite willing 10 perform
under the conditions which have hitherto
existed.
The Mormons have turned their atten-
ton 10 Europe In awakening to the
peculiar advantages of their religion. Some
weeks ago the departure of several Nor
mon missionaries from New York for Wales
was noted. and yesterday forty missionaries
left New York for some point in Europe
Ia order 10 rouse the benIghted to the
spiritual and other advantages of Mormon
ism