Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-09-29
GENERAL NOTES.

ing mill is practically at an end. The
men will return TO work in few days.
THE Postal Telegraph company has
made contracts for extending its lines be-
tween New York and Chicago, to be COM
rleted before Jan. |.
GOULD is said to have gobbled the asso-
ciated press with view to more thorough
ly identifying it with his telegraph sys-
| TEN.
Mr.. HUNT won the Grand Forks walk
ing match, with the pleasant reward of
$l 600 for his twenty-seven hours work.
THE report Of the failure of Potter &
Co, stove manufacturers Of Troy, n Y,
is s2id to be untrue, as the firm only want
an extension of their paper.
A SOLDIER in garrison at Walla WalIa
is said to have receiy ed 100000 from the
government for the invention of new
breech loading cavalry carbine.
AETER a conference of five hours be-
tween the puddlers and iron manufactur-
ers of Pittsbul gb, last year, scale OF wages
was signed.
THE estimated farm products of Kan
sas for 1882 will aggregate $176 600 900 or
an average of $3.50 for each of the 100000
families in the state. The number of
81 ,760 as the average Weld per farm,
SOMEBODY in Wall street has written a
letter declaring that Jay Gould has retir-
ed from active manipulation of the mar
ket as he - worth S1nn,nnn. .cnn; - =.
about to take the presidency of the West
ern Union telegraph company.
The tariff commission was represented
at Nashville only by President Hayes and
four others w. H. Jackson, formerly
general in the confederate army, but now
an extensive farmer, asked that the farm
ers be protected agains: protection.
The locomotive engineers of the Gould
railway demand payment on the per diem
bass instead of mileage. If this is rot
the engineers west Of the Mississippi, ex
cept those on the Wabash road, will join
them.
The New York democratic convention,
in session at Syracuse, nominated Grover
Cleveland, mayor of Cleveland, for gov
ernor. BY the admission a portion of
the delegates from both Tammany and
anti-Tammany. harmony was secured.
THE republican ticket of New York
comY lete, is as follows: For governor.
Charles j Folger, fc- lieutenant governor.
b. Plat Carpenter; for congressman, at
large, A. P. Hepburn; for Judge of the
cour: Of appeals, Judge Charles An lrews.
Tux threatened war of railroad rates in
the northwest will not break out very
soon. The Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
has been admitted to the Iowa road on
equal terms with the three other roads.
THE New York democratic ticket COM
plete is as follows: For governor, Grover
Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo; lieutenant
-
mira; congressman-at-large Gen Henry
w. Slocum; Judge of he court of appeal
VIM. G. Ruger. Thomas Nj. Patterson
was elected chairman of the state central
committee.
The case of Mrs. Seymour Rodgers
| against the Robert T. Lee Mining Compa-
nv Of Colorado, in which nearly quarter
interest in the mine is involved, came up
in the United States circuit court at st.
Louis. On the applicatioS of the plaint-
fl for the appointment of a receiver,
| Judge McCrary intimated he would not
| appoint a receiver, but would cons der
the question OF securing the payment of
the plaintiff = interest in the working
| Of the mine.
A MARKED feature OF the reunion of the
| Army OF the Cumberland at Milwaukee
was the gathering of one hundred mem
bers OF the Iron brigade, to whom Gen. Glib
bon read an origin al poem and Miss Au-
| brey presented a silk guidon. Speeches
were made by Generals Bragg and Fair
| child. Miss RIRsom, a Washington art
ist, gave The Cum berland veterans an oil
portrait of President Garfield, and Gen.
J. d. Cox delivered an euIogy on thc
martyred president.
The Unitarian conference at Saratoga
voted to raise S50.000 annually during the
next two gears for the American Unitar-
ian association. Rev. ]. L. Jones, of the
committee on endowment of the proposed
| Wade Theological school at Cleveland,
stated thst Mr.. Wade had pledged him
self, when the committee secured $780,
GOO. to add S350,000, and if they would
raise $4,000 more he could add an
equal sum, making the total 100000.
FAN attempt is being made by Messrs.
Charles l.. Wright 4 Co., shIp-brokers, to
establish an American steamship line with
a new kind of vessel planned and patented
bv Captain Suudborg, lately of the Swed-
ish navy. The steamers will ply between
New Gorkand the European por;s, and
will be controlled entirely by American
capital According 10 the plans as set
forth in the prospectus the new steamers
will have a displacement of l1.000 tons,
| length OF 400 feet. They are to hSye four
decks, two of which will be for saloon
passengers. Each steamer is to be moved
by two propellers, worked by two COM
pound engines of 500 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
A traveller was leaning at night
against a railing at the Harper's Ferry
railroad station. A locomotive came
along, and he spIang lightly over the
rail to escape possible danger. He
thought it was meadow on the other
side, but knew his mistake when be
struck in a muddy stream forty feei
below. On being rescued he was asked
his name. 81 wouldn't tell you for s
thousand dollars" he replied; ode
scribe me simply as fool"
r. r. Receipts.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.-The gros:
receipts of the B., II. & w. r. &. com