Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-22
GENERAL NOTES.

IHE total score OF the British team at
tie Creedmore rife match was 1875; of
the Americans 1906.
THE yellow fever at Pensacola has ap-
parently got beyond control of the city.
Very gloomy reports come from that
place.
MRS. LUCRETIA GARFIELD bought, for
$4,000 cash, the Ralph Worthington
residence, on Prospect street, Cleveland.
A HOTEL that will cost one million dol
lar is being rapidly built in New York
city.
THE New York World charges that
millions of dollars have been wasted and
stolen in the construction of the famous
Brooklyn bridge across East river.
THE factory of the Cooperative cream
cry company at st, Charles, Illinois, one
of The largest and most complete in the
west was burned, causing loss of $15,0 900.
THE Lutheran synod of this country has
already begun making preparations for
celebrating the 400 tn centenary of the
birth of Martin Luther, whic occurs on
the 10Th of November, 1888.
yellow FEVER of the most malignant
type has broken out at Mier. Mexico,
about one hundred miles below Laredo,
and the citizens are fleeing.
ALEX. g. BoTKIN, formerly well known
in journalist ic ci ircIes. has been nominated
by the republicans of Montana for dele
gate in congress.
AT h eokuk, Ia, arguments were con-
cluded in the barb-wire cases, and Judge
McCrary and Love will file decision at
the next term of the United States court
at Des Moines.
c. G. MILLER, of Leon. Kansas, and
Lord Crawford, of Eagland, simulta-
neously inform Harvard observatory OF
the discovery of a comet close to the sun
and visible in the day time.
TEN thousand people were at the Vet
Grams Reunion at Laconia, n. III. Gen.
Sherman, Gov. Bell and other distinguish
ed guests were present. Gen. Sherman's
speech was received with great enthusi-
asm.
THE report of an outbreak among the
Indians in southwestern Nebraska is de-
MED. Reliable information says the peo-
pie are somewhat frightened. but there
appears to be no grounds for the scare.
THE National Department of Agricul-
ture places the yield of winter wheat at
380.OO0,0 600 bushels, and spring wheat at
lac, ,000, 600 bushels. The September con-
djtion of potatoes has declined, but pros
poets are favorable for crop of 100 ,000,-
coo bushels.
The republican state convention, of
New Hampshire. proceeded to ballot for
a candidate for governor. The fourth
ballot resulted as follows: Currier, 276
Hale, 324; scattering 20. Samuel w.
Hale was then declared nominated, and
the convention made the nomination
unanimous.
A FIvE-DoLLAR note of an Evansville,
Ind, business college currency has been
received by the secret service, which
has been passed as genuine currency.
Some of this currency has been circulated
until it had been worn to tatters. A coun-
terfeit silver half-dollar, made of babbet
metal and glass, is also being circulated.
1t Is an excellent imitation.
SECRETARY TELLER has decided that
the Indian police may be furnished with
revolvers for the better enforcement of
their official authority, but the custom of
supplying .hem with the best improved
breech-loading rifles will be discontinued.
No rifles and no fixed ammunition for
breech-loaders will hereafter be placed in
the hands of any Indians by the depart
ment.
A CABLE message from Lord Crawford,
in Scotland, announces the discovery at
the Imperial Observatory at Rio Janerio
Of another new comet. This is not the
one Uncovered recently by E. E.
Barnard of Nashville, Tenn. The astron-
omers now have two comets to care for.
DIR. Cruis, of Rio Janerio. who is probably
the discoverer of the South American
comet, announces that it can be seen with
the naked eye. The other is visible only
with the aid OF telescope. Both comets
after midnight.
AT Morristown, Pa, ION the 18th inst,
Mrs. Henrietta b. Melville, the wife of
Engineer Melville. was taken from her
home to the state asylum for insane. The
certificate upon which she was deprived
of her liberty was signed by DR.. Fisher
Longstreetb, of Sharon Hill, and DR.
Samuel Bartletson, of Clifton. The for
mer has been her attendant. The certi6-
cate sets forth that the examiners are con-
yinced from examination that Mrs. Mel
vile is not of sound mind, that she was
brought to that condition through alco-
holism; and that she was proper person
to receive treatment at an asylum for the
insane. The parting between mother and
children was most affecting.
TIE annua meeting of the American
Woman's Suffrage Association, held at
Omaha, was largely attended. Reports OF
work were made by sixteen state societies.
Letters were received from George VIM.
Curtis, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs
Mary A. Livermore, Gov. st. John, of
Kansas, ard Chancellor Eliot, of Wash
ington university, Missouri. Sixty-eight
delegates were present frsm twelve states
and territories. Gov. John w. Hoyt and
Judge kiDgman, of Wyoming Territory,
addressed the convention, and claimed
that the experience of thirteen years of
woman suffrage in their territory was an
unqualified success. 1t was voted to
make an active campaign in Nebraska
during the coming six weeks for the pass
age of the woman's suffrage constitutional
amendment, which is to be voted upon in
this state next November.
An attempt is being made by Messrs.
Charles L. Wright & Co., ship-brokers, to
establish an American steamship line with
8 new kind of vessel planned and patented
bv Captain Sundborg. lately of the Swed-
ish navy. The steamers viii ply between
New York and the European poris, and
will be controlled entirely by American
capital. According 10 the plans as set
forth in the prospectus the new steamers
will have displacement of 1000 tons,
length of $50 feet. They are to have four
decks, two of which will be for saloon
passengers. Each steamer is to be moved
by two propeller<, worked BY two COM
pound engines of 4.5O0 horse power each.
Capt. Sundborg claims that he will be
able TO obtain speed OF at least twenty
miles an hour, and more in good weather.
The time for quick passages to Europe
will be FIVE days.
Unhealthy or inactive kidneys cause gravel,
Bnght's disease, rheumatism, and q horde Of
ther serious and fatal diseases, watch csn be
reyented with Hop Bitters If taken in time.
While ringing the school5eH In
Franklin county, Ga, the teacher was