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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
A Coney Island Mystery Explained

1t is not the climate that makes IN
toxication from lager impossible 1t is
not the lager. either. It's the way OF
serving it. A Coney Island glass of beer
is teaspoonful blown up into hall
pint by gas. A glass of it would prob
ably float away like balloon if the top
of it was covered up. The sensation OF
drinking glassful is something be-
tween proken dream and mouthful
of tea. The sustenance one obtains
from it is got from the happy assurance
Of the bartender, who meets your eye
untlinchingly. But for this man
might feel swindled. | asked man
who sells more lager than any one else
there how his men managed to get so
little i'll the glasses.
"pll tell y,u," said he. II buy only
quarter barrels, and | tell my bar
terders that if they don't make the
price of a barrel on each quarter they
canpot work for me. A barrel costs IS.
A quarter holds ninety city glasses, or
50 10, but they must piece each one
out into one hundred and sixty glasses
or quit work"
why, that would be over half a
glassful,' said /, ''and l hever got half
glass yet"
"Of course not, said the beer seller,
because the men amt honest. They
know that they can keep every cent
over 81 that they take in on u quarter
barrel, and that won't complain; so
the rascals knock down a couple OF
dollars OF so On the quarter-barrel by
drawing two hundred. or even L greater
number Of glasses OF course | think
that's an outrage, but it's the rule down
here, and as long ss get my IS | don't
saw ANYTHING
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
Chicago IarEet.

CHICAGO, August 9-FlOur-Steady and
unchanged. Wheat-lhsettled and generally
lower; regular, l.02A ,.2a for seller August;
99l4 for seller September 9S1S for seller Octo-
Der; 9S9I for seller Nogmber; 977. for seller
the year; No. red winer, l.024 a l.021a for
seller cash and August; 10 for seller Sepembcr
No. Chicago spring, 03a for seller cash; 1.O2%
for seller August; No. 3 Chicago spring, 81.
Corn Unsettled and lover: 75% 76 for seller
cash; 1885,. for seller August, a for seller
September O1.G074 fo seller October; 6j7s
for seller the year; rejected AZ. 0ats-Actiye,
but weak and lower; 39' for seller cash; 80 a
397s for seller August; :,Ia3G7. for seller Sep
tember; IS 4 for seller 0cter; 347s for seller the
year. Rye Easier; 81. Barley Excited; Sc
for seller September. Flax Seed-Dull; l.5OG
l.3l. Buuer-Stcady AM unchanged. Eggs
Steady and unchanged. Pork-Steady and in
fair demand 2l.959220 @ for seller cash; q. 95
for seller September; 2:.I0 for seller October;
20.20G 1926 for seller November; 2000 for seller
January; 20.l5 for seller the year. Lard
Dull and dropping; l2.42 u di245 for seller cash
and September; l2.j2H 612j5 for seller October
and November; 1925 for seller January; 1230
Tor seller the year. Bakmeats-Good demand
and prices higher; shoulders TO- 90; short rib 1873
short clear, l4.5O. Whszey-Steady and un-
changed, at I.l9. rcishts-Corn to Buffalo, ne.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
FOREIGN .

A NUMBER Of white horses being trained
for the Cars coronation have been killed
by Nihilists.
The Irish police have found three eye
witnesses to the massacre Of the Joyce
family. They have positively identified
ten OF the prisoners, and another witness
identified four of the ten as having been
overheard plotting the murder.
Two thousand three hundred armed Bos
nian refugees have been compelled to
leave Montenegro because OF the discon-
tiuuanCc OF relief.
STAIN has determined to join with Rus
sia and Geimanyrn protesting against the
protection of the Suez canal being Contided
to the British.
KING SHEKRAw has rejected the draft of
treaty prepared by the Indian govern
ment. Negotiations have been closed.
a NUMBER of Irish archnishops have
written an approval of the efforts to estab-
Iish fund for cvicted tenants.
On the l2,h of September Louisville
Will celebrate the completion of three new
lines of railroad by any industrial street
pageant.
THIRrY-FlvE women have been convict
ed III Hungary of poisoning their hus-
han.s number of other are on trial
for the same otiense.
GREY has written a letter tie the lord
lieutenant Of Ireland claiming the right
| to he present at the inquiry into the CON
duct of the jury against which he made
the charges leading to his Imprisonment.
A SUPPLEMENTARY edition OF E Iruunf0
has hcen contisGated by the Spanish au-
| thoritics 1T Havana because it contained
speeches made hv autonomists alleged to
| be rebelliou1 in tone.
THE Australian cricketers, now in Eng
| land will visit the United States and
| Canada, and trv results with the crack
| elevers.
OBEIpALLAn, the KURDISH chief, who
recently quilted Constantinople uncere-
moniOusly, telegraphs the sultan that he
still remains his faithful servant.
THE Cong police believe the Joyce ira
gedv to he the outcome of the secret socl-
cites which permeate Ireland. The sc-
Cusrd viii be tried in few days. The in
hahitauts profess the liveliest joy over the
capture Of the band which has long been
terror to honestly disposed persons.
Dk LEsshrs assured the Duke Of
Cunnaught that his sentiments were
friendly to England. The British COM
mandcrs are anxious to have Cairo, and
will push forward toward that city rapid
ly. The feeling among the better classes
at Corstantinsrle is one of antipathy to
Arab, whom they now consider an enemy
to the Turkish empire
TMK Turkish prime minister has in
formed Lord Duflerin that the council Of
ministers had resolved to publish Arab
Pasha IA a rebel and acc pit the British
military convention. The attitude of the
Russian representative is still ant agonistic
To England The British embassy at
Constantinople has received information
tha, Russia is making large purchases of
wheat and storing il at kars.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
GENERAL NOTES.

POWERFUL magnetic properties have
been developed in the water Of an artesiar
well recently bored at Yankton, Dakota
THE births in Chicago for the past wear
numbered 1921, including 123 pairs OF
twins and one set of triplets.
The prolonged strike at the Harmony,
mills, Gohoes, n. Y, has collapsed, ard
all the old employees remaining in that
vicinity have gone to work.
THE supervising architect and two
other commissioners are engaged at Den
yer in selecting a site Tor a government
building. Governor Tabor is determined
to secure the priz. for his opera-house
block, and an English land company
urges location several blocks distant.
FREDERICK BRoUGHToN, general man
ager of the Great Western railway OF
Canada, has issued final order announc-
ing that Joseph Hickson, Of the Grand
Trunk road, is in charge.
OKLAHOMA PAYNE writes TO friends in
Kansas that he is encamped on Dry creek
in Indian Territory, and that his men are
erecting buildings.
JUDGE HILTON, while proposing to con,
vert into an office building that landmark
of Broadway. the Stewart store at the
corner Of Chambers street, really desire:
to sell it for 81 250, 600, and has been of
fered $2,000,O0O Mr.. Potter will not re
build on the old ITorid site, bu, offers the
property for $S00,000.
THE gas-well developed on last week at
Bloomington, ILL.,, attracts hundreds ol
visitors. Experts say that 100000 feet OF
illuminating material escape daily, .
two-inch pipe showing a pressure o.
eighty.fve pounds. In the basement o
David Davis block isa gas-well which
in winter is used in heating the furnace
ALICE G. FLETCHER. a conscientious la
borer in behalf OF the Indians, has reached
Carlisle, Pa, with thirty-six children O
the Omaha tribe, thirteen of whom are
girls. During her tour she visited the
camp OF Sitting Bull and selected ten pu
pills for the Carlisle school, and sixty more
will be taken from the Rosebud and Pin,
Ridge agencies next month.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
CRIME.

JoE q oss I,sires to fight Tux Wilson.
within four months, for $4,000 aside and
the heavyweight championships.
A pAUGHTKR Of Dr. Walker, of ST.
Louis, has mvsleriously Iis,preaIed from
Lake Minnetonka, al d opinion is divided
as to whet her it is case of elopement or
suicide.
Al Rock Greek, Wyoming. a hunter
nsmcd GihAon, shot dead clerk of the
anne rf Robert Aiken. Within five
hours the corpse Of the murderer orna-
mented a hoH-car.
Eric BANLES, London actor, crossed
the Atlantic in search OF his wife. who had
eloped with mis- private secretary, and
found the runaways in New York.
THE three men who robbed stage near
Globe, Arizona, and killed the express
messenger have been captured, and one OF
the number has made detailed confes-
sion. The 5000 stolen has not yet been
r. covered.
O'DoNGvAN Rosa called together in
New York one hundred contributors to
the Irish skirmishing fund. ard stated
that there were $50. 600 in the hards of the
trustees, who refused to give an account
of it. A committee OF seven was appoint
ed 10 force a showing.
A WESTERN stranger recently made his
appearance at the Concord school OF phi
losophy and received the courtesies due TO
his letters of introduction. Showing a
draft for 800, he was presented at the
village bank by one oil the leading lights,
and secured the cash. After doing a
couple of tailors out of $50, he disappear
ed, and his psper is found to be worth
less.
A MAN has been apprehended at Rich
mond. Ind, for participation in the Tay-
lorville, Ill.,, outrage. Detective Page
says he will clear up the mystery in a few
days. At Columbus, o., c. w. Page. de-
tective, arrested Elliott f. Hobbs as one
of the participants in the outrage, he
having been employed at Mr.. Bonds, and
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01

OF concrete, 100 feeeigh, lighted by an
electric light hashin every twenty sec
onds, and visible st distance of twenty
miles. Three othe,lighthouses of the
same height, thougf differing in con-
struction, have beer erected along the
coast between the fot and Alexandria.
1t is interesting to kow that the solid
blocks of concrete o artificial stone so
extensively used hae, at least below
water, become irme and more trust
worthy and great dal better by reason
of the sesweed pom them. Port
Said is described in le latest edition of
Mr.. Murray's invaluable Handbook of
Lower and Upper gypt," ss now reg
ulariy laid out in Ieets and squares,
with docks, quays, ourches, hospitals,
mosques and hote, and all the ad-
juncts of seaport md with the most
easily approached md safest harbor
alcng the coast. Fesh water is sup
piled to it from knailia, that now ia
nous halfway hous of the canal voy-
age. The town I'D longer presents the
same busy appearance which it did
when it was the head quarters Of the
engineering work; ,ut the increasing
traffic through the ithmus always i'm
parts a certain ACTIVITY to the place.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BY collision at Washington, n. j.,
Conductor Sheppard and boy named
Edward Christine we're killed, and Engi-
neer Frost had his legs broken.
HoN. A. w. SAWYER, formerly Justice
of the supreme court of New Hampshire,
died in the hands of physician, who was
giving him ether in order to amputate his
foot
Two steamers stirred the waters of Lake
Minnetonka until they gave up The body
of Miss Ella Walker, of st. Louis, and
there is no longer any doubt that she took
her own life.
THE cattle at the slaughter houses on
the outskirts of Auburn, n. Y, have been
attacked by Texas fever. and all beef is
sold under the certificate of the board of
health.
THE Erie railroad elevator at Buffalo,
valued at $4,000, took fire August 28th
from an explosion of gas, and was de-
stroyed. Five men were burned to death.
and another fatally injured.
GEN. CHARLES A. Powers, OF Rochester,
n. Y. died in the street, cf apoplexy.
He led the l0Sth New York through all
the battles from Fredericksburg to the
Wilderness, and has since ranked high as
a lawyer.
A TEMPERANCE worker at Augusta, Me-,
secured a warrant awainst the officers of
an express company for bringing liquors
to the city. The deputy sheriff broke the
locks of the store-house and seized sixty
two cases of beer. AS it was being loaded
upon the wagons the crowd drove away
the driver and carried of about half the
cases, several persons being seriously in
.jused.
THE governor of Texas was August 25 tn
advised of four deaths from yellow fever
at Brownsville, and ffty-four new cases.
Swearingen, the state health officer, was
released from quarantine at Rio Grande
City, but was again seized at Pena, where
Superintendent Fuller refused him trans
portation over the railroad. If necessary,
the adiutant general will dispatch q COM
pany of rangers to escort the health Of
iicer to Austin.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
A Happy NeighbOrhood.

"Mr. JONES'" began Smith the other
morning, AS they met at the corner to
wait for car, is it positively necessary
that your son should play the accor-
dion until midnight for six nights a
week.
Not at all Mr.. Smith," was the
prompt reply, Not any more necess-
airy than it is for your daughte- and her
beaux sit on the front steps seven nights
per week and keep US awake until one
O'Clock in the morning"
my daughter, sir, has a perfect
right to have beaur'
And my son, sir, has a legal right to
play his sccordionl"
Gentlemen" began Mr.. Thomas, as
he came up,'l don't want to offend
you, for We are all neighbors; but if you
Mr.. Jones, would clean out your alley
and you Mr.. Smith, would poison your
nuisance OF dog, l believe l would
gain five pounds of flesh per week"
"Helloi Thomasl" saluted Brown,
from the rear platform of the car for
which they had waited, 1--WE been
wanting to see you for week past.
Your coufoundeo old horse stands and
stamps all night hong, and none of us
can get a wink of sleep. Just for a
change, and to be neighborly, suppose
you knock him on the head with an
Ak"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON

ACTING Postmaster General Hatton has
issued an order establishing the free de-
livery system at Oshkosh. Wis, and Rock
ford, Ill.
THE postofice department las ordered
daily exchange If international mail.
between ST. Paul and Breckenridge, Min
nesota, and Emerson and Winnipeg, Man
itoba.
GEN MARTIN D. HARDIN has been de-
tailed to relieve Col. Samuel ID. Sturgis
AZ governor OF the soldiers home in the
District Of Columbia.
TIE government printing Office, pension
office, and posto fiji ce department have
been thoroughly worked by collector for
the congressional campaign committee,
who found no one 10 protest.
DRs. Bliss and Reyburn have filed
their claims for medical attend ance dur
my President Garfeld's illness: Bliss
values his service at S25, 900, and Reyburn
mode-lly demands $4,000.
HENRY III. GRANT. a telegraph operator
who had charge Of the summer Office at
EIberon during the Illness and death of
President Garfield, has written a long let
ter to the comptroller Of the treasury,
asking an appropriation Of 800 for valu-
dDle services.
DIR. Bliss called upon the first comp
trOller of the treasury TO learn if clai ms
presented by Surgeons Barnes and Wood
ward would he allowed. While the law
provides that each bill shall be accom-
panied bv Il release of the estate of Pre-, j.
dent Garfield, none of the claimants have
thus far complied with it.
A RUMoR is in circulation in Washing
ton that Secretary Lincoln is soon TO be
replaced by some eastern man. While
the secretary has incurred the enmity of
some influential officers of the army, the
idea of his removal is unworthy of seri-
ous consideration.
DIR. HICKS publicly states that Quit
eau'5 skeleton will not be placed on pub
lie position, and he denies the allega-
tions that he has intrusted the assassin's
bones to the care of the United States
Medical Museum. Caterer to public
amusement are also informed that the
skeictonic curiosity is not for sale.
The report of the commissioner of the
general land office last year showed the
disposal of land by cash sales TO amount
to ,5S7,Gl7 acres. This years report viii!
show under the same head 3,G99, ,S99 acres
Of agricultural lands alone, to which
should lie added sales of 81 ,0GI acres under
the mineral land act, and 1866 ,055 acres
under the desert land act, and 7, ~ acres
Of coal lands The homestead entry last
year covered 5,02S, 100 acres, while for the
fsCal year JUS: closed there were taken
ndcr this act the enormous area Of ,317,
129 acres.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
Foreign.

LONDON, Aug. 29.-The Times says:
We may soon hear that Maj. Gen. Sir
Edw. Hamley has beea ordered to re-
move from Alexandra, and that he
will be replaced by Gen. Harman, late
assistant adjutant general In Ireland.
The telegraph construction and main
tenance company's steamer Scotia put
into Plymouth yesterday for stores.
Her work OF repairing the Atlantic tel
egraph cable Is not yet completed.
The Times says the invitation to the
British association or advancement of
science, to meet in Canada, ought not
to be accepted. A meeting of the as
sociaticn in Canada can be in no sense
the same thing as a meeting on Eng
lish ground, but that an invitation
should be given Is a welcome sign oi
Canadian good feeling toward the
mother country.
LONDON, Aug. 29.-Gen. Wolsely tel
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
Bad Work.
WIFE MURDERER AT GREEN BAY.

WIFE MURDERER AT GREEN BAT.
GREEN BAY, Wis, Aug. 29.-Late
last night Jacob Dreistadt came home
intoxicated. When alone with his
wife they frequently quarreled. Loud
talking WAS heard at the time, fol-
lowed by the report of a gun. The
wife, Fredericka, rushed to a neigh
boris crying for help. She was in a
chemise, and fell at the corner of the
house. A lady came out and called
the neighbors. They found the woman
with bullet hole in her.breast, and the
flesh torn all off her arm. The shot
had passed through her body. She
was taken TO her home, and expired
about fiye minutes afterward. Dreis-
tadt ran off. The officer took posses
sion of the no use. About 5 O'Clock
this mo rning Dreistadt came back.
The officers went out at one door as
Dreistadt came In another. The cfi-
Gets heard shot, and found Dreistadt
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
yfilual.kaA Market.

MILWAUKEE,, August 29.-Flour-Quiet and
unchanged, with modente demand. Whe: =
More doing and firm; No. ?, l.O5A; 1.024 20
seller August; 9h for seller September; 9SA.
for seller October No. 3 SS. Corn-Dull and
lower; No. 2, nominal ut . (; rejected "A. Oats
In moderate demnd with lower prices; No. .,
SO; white, IL. Rys-Quid but rather unsettled;
No. l. 90; No. 2, G7. Barley-Lower; No 2,
September, IS bid; extra No 3 September, 60.
Firm; Ness ,erk-2l.75 for ssller
cash and September; 2l.9O or seller October Lard
Prime steam. u 40 for seller cash and Sep
tember 1885 for seller ctober. Live Hogs
Steady; 7.759s.60. Freiats--Wheat to Bufa-
10, nominal ac &c. Rceipts-Flour, $3.50
wheat, 1910; barley, 1,95. Shipments Flour
6,947; wheat, $50, barleyl ,545.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01

Inactivity OF the kidueyss a symptom of the ap-
proach of more serious trouble, and is among
those indicia, therefore, which it is very unsafe
TO disregard. A good stimulus is given by bu.
few medicines to those delicate organs when they
become torpid. but prominent among those which
renew activity without producing irritation is
Hostetters Stomach Biters. 1t inyigorates as
well as gives an impulse o the action Of the kid
neys and bladder. In diseases involving liver
disorder, in which the kidneys take up an unnat-
ural quantity Of bile fnm the blood. the BItters
exercises a purifying influence, and tends TO re-
store botk secretions to healthful condition
Malarial fevers, for which the Bitters are one Of
the finest known specifies are also prevented by
it, as are also chronic constipation and dyspepsia
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01

Fox some time arrangements have
been making for reunion of old set
tiers of Illinois, to embrace ali that
class that can hc brought together from
all sections of the state. The place
chosen is Mount Pulaski, Logan county
and the arrangements are SO far per-
fcctcd that the cate is now dccided
upon. Sept. IL. The secretary of the
committee of arrangements says there
have already boon donate, fdr the oe.
casion eight fat oxen, 100 fat sheep,
and ~ many fat pigs, all to be barbe-
cued, and that they have notice of old
settlcrs from rs far north us Galcna and
as far south rs Mound City. The sec
rotary says: eve will he pre- pared to
entertain II host greater than ever be
fore assembled ut settlers reunion III
this or probably any other western
state
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01

SECRErART LINCOLN tinds the chair
of the War Department no easy seat.
1t would seem that the officers OF the
regular army are all divided up into
the personal clIqnes or sets, with some
prominent General rs The leading spirit
of each band, and that between these
individual groups there is often the
hittercst feeling and the most intense
Jealousy. And it requires most skill
ful and steady handed pilot to steer
the incumbent Of War Office safely
through the channel between these
contending factions. This accounts for
the many rumors which now and then
find their way into print concerning
the relations of Secretary Lincoln to
his subordinate officers and to the Off
GERS of the army rs body. Just now
the Secretary is detained in Washing
ton hearing and investigating case of
the kind already alluded to growing
out of the removal of General Sturgis
from the command of the Soldidrs'
Home.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-01
FORTUNEIS HER HAIR.
Why n Certain Girl at Long Branch
il Likely to Win N Kich Husband.

Long Branch Letter in Cincinnati Enquirer.
don't believe it, though the fellows
tell it for fact, that when a certain
coarse haired girl dives her head into
the surf the water is sgitated all along
the shore. 1t is true, however, that
her hair is wonderfully abundant and
floats around her when she swims. It
is as coarse and stiff as horses name,
and these qualities are of unique ad-
vantage when she bathes, because they
prevent it from collapsing into a mere
pigtail when wet. Sometimes we see
radiant creature trip airily down to the
surf, with her hair all free and fluffy
and imparting to her a positive agony
of style. With that same pretty aspect
she goes under tine water and never
rises again. That is to say, nothing
that looks like her reappears. Some
thing does emerge with semblance to
her body, but the head has a dripping
little switch of hair, totally different
from the hirsute glory that was on it
before. No sinner ever lost more of
vanity and pride by the rite of INNER
sion. Well, this coarse-haired girl is
exempt from such deterioration. Her
hair Is 30 wiry that drenching doesn't
mat it. This gives her q tremendous
advantage. She bathes without a hat
on, nor any confinement to her hair,
which gives ner picturesqueness i'm
possible to the rest Of us.
the actual value of her phenomenal
hair, aside from the satisfaction it gives
her, / should estimate at half lillion
dollars. The young man whom it Is
entaDgling is the heir prospective to
that amount, and feel sure he won't
get away without an espousal. She -
one Of the incest girls here and deserves
q golden husband.