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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

A Loss of $1,000 was incurred at Hav.
erhill, Mass, by the burning of three fac
tories and three dwellings
Two young SONS of Charles Vorbreck
of Milwaukee, were drowned in the Kin
nickinnic river last week.
A BROTHER of the late Blue Jeans Will
Jams, of Indiana, for many years justice
of the peace at jack b oro, Texas, has heen
adjudged insane and removed from office.
Two shocks of earthquake were plainly
felt at Chester, H., on Monday, the only
damage done being to the willow mat
tresses Of the river improvement
THE bodies of nearly one hundred per-
sons drowned during the recent floods in
the vicinity of Fort Corcho, Texa', have
been recovered.
Hon. H. NJ. MARTIN, lea ling lawyer
and democratic politician Of Davenport.
was killed by a bowlder rolling down the
mountain at Crested Butte, Col.
SEVEN cows are reported To have died
of Texas fever at Niagara Falls, and a
rigid quarantine will be established by the
veterinary inspector of the Dominion.
YELLow fever is spreading to the
ranches 2bove Matamoras, on the Rio
Grande. Four new cases have developed
at Pensacola, and citizens who sought to
escape found that they could not penetrate
the quarantine established.
A FIRE at Cairo, ILL.,, destroyed the
Planters house and the Iron Mountain
railway and express office, valued at So
600. The brick barn of J. F. Studebaker,
near South Bend, Ind, was struck by
lightning and totally destroyed, with all
the crops, the loss being $4,000.
AN incendarv FIRE destroyed the Hotel
Brunswick, Pleasant house, and Central
hall at Old Orchard Beach, Me, the loss
being estimated at $25 900, the guests be-
ing obliged to leap from the windows
The former gunboat Algernon, built dur
the war to capture blockade-1unners, was
burned at New York, and the steam-barge
Albert Miller. was destroyed by fire at
Point au Sable, Mich.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
GENERAL NOTES.

A VEIN of coal three feet thick has beer
struck at Mattoon, ILL.,, at a depth Of 904
feet. The shaft has cost 81 00, 900.
GENERAL X osECRANs saws Denis Kear
ney is republican drayman at the Sar
Francisco custom house, and a dead fail
ure in politics.
Rkv. MOSES BAYLEs, who died recently
in lndiaL apolis. bought his freedom for
$500 and gave himself clerical luca.
ton.
Mrs. ANNIE BURNS, a Leavenworth h
washerwoman, died sixteen years ago
and the proper proofs of her demise are
wanted in Ireland, as her six children
have fallen heirs to a stake of 100000.
RICHARD WEEKS, veteran Methodist
of indianapolis who for years has been
bent with rheumatism, walked upright
into a revival meeting and announced his
cure by faith and amounting by Evangelist
Barnes
THE largest shipment of American Sc
curities to London for the current wear
were ma lie by Saturdays steamers. The
FEDERAL treasury will, within two months
disburse $4l 100000 for pensions, interest
on the public debt and in payment 81
called bonds.
The republican state convent en- in
Michigan renominated David H. Jerome
for governor and Moreau S. Crosby for
lieutenant governor Harry A. Conant,
OF Monroe, was placed on the ate ticket
for secretery of state, and Edward II
Batter, Of Detroit. for state treasurer.
In the Fifth Missouri congressional
district the greenback convention tacitly
indorsed Colonel T. Crisp, the independ-
ent democratic candidate, by refusing to
make a nomination.
JOHN KANE. prominent among the
Pittsburgh strikers, states tha' almost a
maj >rity OF the d. legates TO the district
meeting Of the AmaIgamated association
will vote for comrromise on the basis OF
1915 for pudding. If it be decided to
continue the strike 450 men will break
from theJanks OF the organic alton.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

A MOVEMENT is on foot in Philadel.
phia to celebrate the centennial Of
the landing of Francis Daniel Pastori-
Gus, who brought over the first Germ an
that ever settled in Pennsylvania. In
16S2 Pastorious, who was an intimate
friend of William Penn, founded a So
ciety at Frankfort.on.the- Main for the
purchase Of land in Iennsylvania.
He came over shortly afterward, and
secured twenty-five thousand acres
where Germantown now stands. On
Oct. Is, 1858, the first German immi-
grants, thirteen families, fifty persons
i'll all, arrived and settled upon 500
acres of the land Oilers soon follow
ed. and in short time the settlement
became hourishing community and
Pastorious was elected Mayor In l73G
Christopher Siuer, member of the
colony established the first German
newspaper in the Uaited States. Il
was called the Hochdeutschcr Pennsyi
paaischer Geschichtscoreiber-in English
The Pennsylvania German Historian
The first complete bible in German il
the colonies was printed in German
town by Mr.. Sauer in 1743. Pastoiisu'
was buried in Germantown, where &
street is named in his honor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
DISCIPLINE WEST POINT.
General Howard's Comments on the
Flint Bet cen Cadets Cook and
Schudder.

General Howard's Comments on the
Fi.ht Beta cen Cadets Cook and
Schudder.
A West Point dispatch says: Sen.
Howard, the retiring commander, has
just completed his final report to the
war department. Upon the subject of
discipline he says: II am of tine opin-
ion tha. some method should be intro
duced to limit the number of reports,
abolishing certain classes of dehnquen-
cies altogether aud modifying others.
There are certainly three times as
many reports given as formerly. Free
dom OF action is impaired, msnliness
not increased, and the desired effect OF
wholesome restraint not secured by ex-
cessive reporting. / think the effect OF
excessive reporting upon q member OF
the incoming class is often much the
same as increasing fault finding with 8
child. Il sometimes produces nerv-
ousness, timidity, and uncertain action
but oftener eye-service, callousness,
axd disgust at authority. / therefore
recommend that this subject of the dis
cipline of the academy be thoroughly
reconsidered by board of competent
officers.
There have been very few cases ot
discipline OF greyious nature during
the year, and scarcely any attempts at
hazing. A custom, however, has grown
up OF settling petty difficulties by what
| is called ffistcuff.n Under the code in
| vogue two or three meetings have tai-.
| en- place, but only one that came OH
cially to my knowledge, and this wa:
in consequence of the severe hurts, IN
fiicted upon Cadet E. n. Scudder. o.
the fourth class, by Cadet f. A. Cook
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
A Bad Wisconsin Man.

CHICAGO, Sept 5.-John NJ. Morrison
came here last Saturday, from Flor
ence, Wis, and in the afternoon visited
Maud Vincent, one of the inmates OF
Mrs. Sinclair's house on State street.
He remained until Z o'clock at night,
and then found that his purse contain
ing s699 in cash. s. $50 in checks, and
a 1,000-mile ticket of the Northwestern
railway had been stolen. He drew a
revolver and threatened to shoot the
Vincent girl, but she protested that
some one else was responsible for the
theft, and he was half inclined to be-
lieve her. Detectives Koehler and
Simmons, on searching the house,
found the railway tickets and other
papers in An album, but they could OBJ
tain no trace of the missing checks or
money. One curious phase of the
transaction is that the detectives, in
speaking of Morrison, say he himself is
the proprietor of house of ill-fame in
Florence.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
The Chicago Grain Market.
AMOUNT IN ELEVATORS.


CHICAGO, Sept. 5.-The Chicago ele-
vators bave 1,1S0,00O bushels of wheat
1895 600 bushels of corn, 11S,000 bush
els of oats, 1900 bushels OF rye, AMI
12,CO0 bushels of barley: total 8, ,949, ,OOO
bushels, against 2,6S5,000 a week ago,
and II .342, 900 last year. The receipts
exceed the shipments for the past week
over million and quarter.
GRAIN IN SIGHT
aggregates nearly 100000, and the
amount is keeping very steady.
81 30 FOR JULY WHEAT.
There was a good deal of grumbling
and an equal amount of rejoicing on
Change, to-day, over the announce
ment of $135 as the selling price OF
July wheat. The price was very near
ly the outside price fixed by the clique.
The bears threaten to take the case into
the courts. Witnesses testified before
the committee that wheat was worth
from 95 cents to 81 As per hushel that
day. The bears get very little SYM
pa1hy oueoiuS tuoSe lutSIGSIed, lOI
they went into the deal with their eyes
wide open, hoping circumstances would
turn the tide their way.
To-day there was general raise,
receipts showing a falling off. The
weather was fine, but exerted no int1u-
ence apparently. The bull movement
is mostly local. Regular wheat fairly
active, prices cts higher, and closed
about cts better than yesterday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
CRIME.

BYRON SM,Tu, agent of the Adams Ex-
press company ri S,lem, O., shot himself
twice in The right tenn PIE, inhictinx NOR
tai wounds.
GkoRGE HA zzARp, the notorious India
na banker, who is now in jsil at Auburn,
has been arrested twentv.seven times,
atd escaped nearly ~ many.
BEpALL is the name of Methodist
preacher who fled from Beal!sville, Ohio,
w,th Young servant girl, leaving his
wife and three children utterly destitute
PRATT the assistant cashier of the First
National hane of kewsnee, ILL.,, has been
taken into custody az an aCcomplice in
the robbery of the institution by Ed
ward n. Welch. Pinkerton's men cap
tured in s.. Louis dentist ramed James
s. Scott, on charge of completely.
TuH supposed assailants OF Miss Bond
at raylorville. ILL.,, who so narrowly es-
capped lynching, have been released on
their bonds. The unfortunate girl is
somewhat better.
RICHARD RAvkLL, y counterfeiter, was
arrested at Monroe, Iowa, by Deputy Mar
shal Vermily.a. The prisoner leaped
from n buggy and endeavored to kill the
| officer, but received bullet through the
| heart.
THIRE are unmistakab'e indications oi
another bull campaign in Wall street
The decline of the past ten days has
shaken out weak holders and served to
make large short interest.
Tax recent triple murder nesr Mount
Pulaski, H., came near being supple
ment, by another tragedy. A rich bach
elor farmer named John Roach, spent tn,
night away from home. In the mornius
he found that tn doors of his house hac
been burt in with an SIX, and his beddin,
and trunk had been almost pulled {,
pieces, evidently in the expectation ef ,
rich find. Some arrests of people in tn
neighborhood are about to be made.
DouBLE tragedy has been enacted a
Rogers Park, Just north Of Chicago. |
appears that two Swedes, employed by tn
Crane Brothers Manufacturing company
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Yellow Fever.

BROWNSVILLE, Tex, Sept. 5.-Report
q. ten O'Clock this morning is n new
cases, four deaths. Relief was furnish
ed to 344 families. Patients in hospi-
tai, s males; females.
Fever on decrease in Matamoras'
Four deaths reported there in "a neurs.
River very high and still rising.
Weather threatening storm with north
erly wizds.
GALVESTON, Texas, Sept. 5.-The gov
ernor has issued the following appeal:
AUSTIN, September 5.
To County Judges, Mayors Of Cities and
Toscns of Teras:
have received q telegram from
Thomas Carson, mayor of Brownsville,
stating that there are 500 cases OF
yellow fever In that city, with an In
crease of from 20 to 100 per day, and
that the necessity for means to send aid
to the sick and destitute was increasing
and urgent Amy funds that have
been or may be contributed for the re-
lief of the suffering people at Browns
vile can be sent 70 Ball, Hutchins d
Co., Galveston, and can Immediately
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Vermont Election.

BospoN, Sept. 5.-The latest returns
from Vermont show that los town give
Barstow (rep.l, 1S.905; Eaton (dem. J,
6,051; Martin (greenbackl and scatter
ing, 776; over all 11,175. Forty eight
towns in the first congressional district
give Stewart, (rep.) 1872; Redington,
(dem. } 1,4S2; Hidden, (greenbsekl and
scattering, 239. Stewards majority over
all, 4,951. Forty-one towns in the Sec
ond district give Poland, (rep.l 1893;
Fletcher, (dem.) S,1S7; Grout, 1,S15;
Dunbar and scattering, $40. Poland 5
msjority over all, 1,725. The legisla-
ture will show decreased republican
majority.
PosroN, Sept. 50 .. m.-Late dis
patches from White River junction,
VT, say. the election in Poland second
district is somewhat doubtful. There
are 81 towns to be heard from in said
district, Is of which are in Ocleaps
county.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

FoR ten years an Italian has been
proprietor Of II peanut and fruit stand
at the corner Of Montgomery and
Washington streets, Jersey City, in
front Of shoe store. At u sheriff y
sale Of the store the other day the
stock of goods ana fixtures were
knocked down to the peanut merchant
who promptly handed over the pur
chase money, amounting to over
81 900. He will continue the boot and
shoe business i'll connection with the
peanut and fruit business. His wife
remarked that they had money enough
left To buy another store.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

LONDON, Sept. 5.-The Times pub
fishes an exhaustive summary of M.
Estinoes' annual review Of the harvests
of the world, issued at MarseiEes. In
q summary of the result, the Times
says: Never during the tine since these
reports were collected, has the harvest
in the northern hemisphere been so
favorable all round We usually have
to rele-. 8 deficiency either in Europe
or America This year there is abso-
lutely none. The world has over the
average harvest, and with such har.
vest, the year Is likely to be one oi
cheap abundance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
NO. j..
Chalmer Challenged.

CINCINNATI, Sept A Times Star
special from Memphis, Tenn. says
that duel is imminent between Joel
Chalmers and Van H. Manning candi-
dates for congress. Both spoke at Hol.
ly Springs in joint debate. Manning
spoke last, and made scathing re-
view of Chalmers record. Beth re
mained at Holly Springs Sunday, with
messengers passing back and forth.
Chalmers demands full retraction.
Thos. Harris represented Chalmers,
and Edward Watson was Manning's
friend. Remors of duel gain cred
ence from the fact that both failed TO
appear at the place appointed for to-
days debate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

AN English chemist, who hal been
called upon to anLlyze several socks
and stockings Of Il red color, which had
been found to cause great irritation to
the skin OF the wearers, discovered the
cause of the trouble in the tin salt used
as mordant in fixing the dye. He
succeeded in obtaining over twenty
two grains Of tin in the form of the
dioxide. When acted upon by acid
perspiration the tin oxide forms an ex-
ceedingly irritating compound.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
A Bad Man From Wisconsin
Robbed in a Chicago
Dive.
Yellow Fever in Texas The
Governor Appeals tor
Help.
Vermont Election Republican
Governor About IL 900
Over All.
Prohibition in the Sth District.
v. 7. PRICE NOMINATED.


MENoMoNEE, Sept. 5.-The prohibi,
ton convention for the eighth congress
slonal district met in this city at two
o'clock p. m, and organized by elect
ing A. A. Kelly, of ST. Croix, chairman,
and M. Sturtevant, secretary. Dunn,
Jackson, Price, and St. Croix counties
were represented on the first ballot.
w. 7. Price was unanimously nomi-
mated as candidate for member of con-
gress, receiving every vote.
Resolutions were adopted demand
ing a state constitutional prohibition
amendment, opposing monopolies and
favoring the maintenance of a separate
and distinct party organization.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
"rhe King Sleeps. y

Cetewayo is every inch king, a little
barbar;c perhaps. Daring windy
night he draws his court around him
in his clbin. He himself lies in his
bunk in his robe de chambre. His
cousin, the two counselors, doctor, and
the native interpreter are seated around
the cabin. The king chats pleasantly
to all, inquiries affectonately after
their bodily condition, and enjoins his
"medicine man" to look after the
health of his MOBILES. All this time the
courtiers are silent as the grave. The
shades of the night steal through the
little cabin until there is little to be
seen but the keen eyes flashing. The
king grows uneasy, the Falstaffian voice
becomes more labored, and anon the
king sleeps. Therenpon the court
breaks up, and its members steal off
with the silence of cats, least they
should wake their monarch. | myself
assisted at one of these curious yet
homely and pleasant reunions. and
have seldom been more impressed by
the simple good fellowship and courtly
dignity of the really gentle sovereign.
"The king sleeps r' There is an i'm
mensity of m Gaming in the words The
announcement implies not only that
the attendants have been relieved for
the time from their vi:ils it conveys,
also, the disposition of the monarch
toward affairs of pressing or personal
import. When Cetewayo declines to
receive visitor, the royal pleasure is
conveyed in the brief proclamation,
"tne king sleeps" AT this particular
moment the king is particularly wide
awake. It was so when the governor
of MADEIRA, relenting of his sudden
departure. returned to the Arab and
intimated his wish to see Cetewayo;
but Cetewayo replied that his excel
lency should have first sent state
officer to know if the king of the Zulus
would see the governor. The governor
had violated the rubric of ZIlu royal
etiqutte, therefore "the king slept;" so
the Portuguese grandee did not see
Cetewayo.-C Cor London Post.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

of the third. Three other cadets assist
ed at the encounter, namely: Cadet A.
B. jackson of the the first, Cadet F. W.
Carmahan of the third. and Cadet p.
Henry of the fourth class. 1 gave the
same punishment to all who were en-
gagged, namely about a month and a
half confinement in camp, with re-
primand, deducting from Cadet Scud-
der's detention the days'of confinement
in hospital. Cadet Scudder, who is now
convalsscent, suffered so much, his
case being long in suspence, that am
confident lasting impression against
the barbarous code has been made in
the corps. Certainly very few of the
cadets present at the academy had
anything whatever to do with the affair.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Foreign.

GOING TO MoSCyw UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
BERLIN, Sept. 5.-Preparations for
the journey of the emperor to Moscow
are being secretly continued. Explo-
sive substances have again been stolen
from the Russian imperial depots.
AsIATIC CHOLERA.
LONDON, Sept. 5-The India offices
on account of false reports concerning
the prevalence of Asiatic cholera at
Alden, publishes a statement that there
has been no cases there since October.
1881, except isolated cases aboard ship
in July last.
MADRID, Sept. AN official report
from Manila states that 455 natives and
five Europeans died there OF cholera
the list two days. The epidemic is
beginning to abate.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

1t is reported in Boston thas the great
organ in Music hall has actu ,lly been
sold to a western city and will soon be
removed; thata nav organ will be built
i'll the alcove where the predecessor of
the great orstu formerly rested, and
that by the moving back of TIE stage,
which will b. made possible by the
removal of the organ, the three hun.
dred seats lost by the new seating
arrangement will be recovered. Inquiry
at the hall ftilci to c,nticm the runner,
and it Is probable thai the organ will
remain where it now is for another
wear mt least.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

FROM New Z saland has been shipped
10 England quantity of preserved
rabbits, estimated To weigh some fifty
tons. The rabbits are lacked in tins
holding two pounds each, and thirty
Blk tins make a case-that is, seventy
two pounds. The supply of rabbits
appears to be almost inexhaustiblc
The average quantity delivered per day
is five thousand. On one occasion re-
Gently nine thousand were delivered in
a day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

THE other morning when Montreal
bird-fancicr opened his store he was
much surprised to find six Of his best
canares minus n leg each and fifteen
of the birds missing. Rats had gnawed
n hole through the floor, had got on
the counter, and from there to large
cage in which were the birds. The
mutllated birds are doing well, and
seem quite lively IN spite Of the un-
professional amputation to which they
Wcrc snbIccled.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
A Rich Find.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. ga Repa.bE-
cans Ell Paso, Texas, special says:
Gold bearing quartz has been found in
Organ mountain mining district, fifty
miles north of Ell PAso, which assays
one hundred thousand dollars to the
ton. Specimens have been sent to the
bank of California and half million
dollars have been offered for the mine.
Great excitement exists over the find.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Secretary FoIger IN View York.

New YORK, Sept. 5.--Secretary
Folger paid visit to the sub-treasury,
this morning, and soon afterwards re-
tired to q private room, where ht re-
ceived few special visitors who, were
personally informed of his his desire to
speak to them on the subject of fl
nance.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08

CAPT. FRANK HARDING, Of the ship
Alice ID. Cooper, of Portland, is held at
Boston on a charge Of man laughter in
not lowering boat te save hoy swept
overheard off Cape Agulhas last June.
The mate and crew are said to have
offered to lower "a boat, the captain re-
fusing to permit them. Harding claims
that the stiff breeze and high sea made
the rescue of the boy impossible. AS
it wa', life-buoy was thrown over, and
the boy was last seen clinging to it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
No Wreck Ashore

Was ever more hopelesSly stranded than wrecked
constitution, whether its disaster be the product
of some formidable enemy, or the SLOW, premature
decay that seems to fssten upon some constitu-
tions without apparent adequate cause. An ex-
cellent means of checking this gradual drain OF
the sources of vitality is the benefcent tonic, Hos
letters Stomach Bitters which promotes diges-
tion, enriches the blood, and gives substance As
well as stamina to an enfeehled frame. Clnstipa-
ton, feebeness of the kidneys and bladder, fever
and ague and rheumatism are among the bodily
ailments which it remedies promptly and thor
oughly. Persistence in its use is well merited
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-08
Grant County Politics

3 PT.AFTEyILLE, Sept. 5.-The Platte
vile village caucus held Monday even
ing was lively affair. There were
203 voters present. OF these 115 were
for Hazelton first, last and all the
time; 81 preferred third man, but
would vote for Hazelton in preference
to Keyes; the balance, 81, were for
Keyes.
The caucus was the hottest political
Meeting held here for years. The peo-
pie may possibly swallow the Hazelton
pill once more, bnt if they do they will
suffer from cholera morbus the balance
of their days.