Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31

Horses nave alfeduy Deeu tHdue.
The Darlington Democrat of last
week reports the marriage of a
youthful couple as follows; Amos
Dixon. of this city was recently
married to a lady in Illinois. The
happy groom is 70 years of age,
while the blushing bride is girl of
| GO summers.
The Herald says: The work of
laying the heavier lion on the mar
row guage from Fennimore to
Woodman, has just been finished.
New bridges have been put in along
the line and this portion of the
road is now in better shape than
it has been since it was built.
The young ladies of the Presby-
terrain church held pleasant and
successful ice cream festival and
| bazaar in the lecture room of their
church building on Tuesday even
ing. 1t was conducted by the
Earnest Workers." a society recent
| ly organized.
A dispatch was received in this
city on Tuesday announcing the
dangerous illness of Nicholas Coad
at Wells, MINI, and just as we &C
to press a second telegram has been
received bearing the sad intelligence
of his death. The body will be
brought here for interment.
The striking" machine did a
good business while in town las
week. Young men. whose fathers
are earning their living by hard
work, would desposit their nickle
and almost burst blood vessel il
their endeavor to strike 1000, and
then go off and lay down somewhere
in the shade, as their delicate con-
stitutons would not allow them tt
work.-Darlington Democrat.
Through a mistake on our part
in an item in The Democrat of two
weeks ago we made correspondent
say that the Grant county pool
house is 50 two-story stone structure
recently completed. " What we
meant to state was that the asylum
had recently been completed, anc
from this distance we could not very
well see of what it was built, but
the Teller tells us it is made o
brick.
Martin Casey was brought to the
| city from Argyle, on Saturday last
by Constable Campbell, of the lat,
ter place. He was brought before
ESQUIRE Marshal Monday morning
on the charge of resisting an officer
and bound over to the circuit court
in bonds Of $500, and he is now
boarding with our sheriff. This re
sisting an officer is played out, and
after three or four men like Casey
have served years time in the
county Jail there will be stop put
to it.-Darlington Democrat.
John Pedelty, an old and well
known resident of New Diggings
met with an accident about two
weeks ago, which resulted in death
on Monday of last week. He was
driving a team down hill when the
neck yoke or the straps attaching il
broke causing the team to run away
and throwing Mr.. p. to the ground
with such force as to break his thigh
and inAict internal injuries.
Mr., d. T. Jarvis, of the Ridgcway
Enterprise, informs us that Evan
Lewis, who is now at Wolsey, Da-
kota, has instructed him to publish
a challenge to John Curkeet, of Oar
lington, for another trial of strength
and skill at Cornish wrestling Lewis
expresses confidence in his ability to
throw Curkeet, and says he has
more money to risk on the result and
if a match can be made up he will
be home in a few days to arrange
the details. Chronicle.
VIM. Treweek OF this city recent
| ly purchased i'll McHenry county,
ILL.,, one Of the finest Norman Stall
lions ever brouhgt to this state. He
is of dark dapple gray color, is
six years old, and weighs 1900
pounds. This horse took the first
premium last year at the McHcnry
county fair. Good horsPmen pro-
nounce him a splendid animal. He
will be on exhibition at the fair of
the :. W. Wis |. A. next week.
The soldiers reunion at Lancaster
Grant county, was Il complete sue
cess. Over 500 veterans were pre-
sent. Gov. Rusk reviewed the
troops on the 23d, fully 5000 people
being present to witness the parade.
At the business meeting the name
was changed from the Grant county
Veterans, Soldiers and Sailors Asso-
citation to the Southwestern Veter-
ans Association, and honorably dis.
charged soldiers from everywhere
are invited TO join.
On Saturday articles were filed
with the secretary of state incorpor-
ating the st. Roses congregation of
Brodhead, and also the Gold and
Silver Mining Company of Colorado.
The general offices of the latter are
to be located at La Crosse, but its
general mining operations can be
conducted in any state or territory
of the union. The corporatorS are
j. G. Smith, Louis Stceiter and III
Il. Smith, all of La Crosse, and the
capital stock is $4,000, divided into
shares of one dollar EACH Madison
| Democrat.
We are in receipt of the Cedar
Falls Iowa. Journal 4 large seven
column quarto newspaper, just is
sued by Thomas w. Bishop, who is
we'll and favorably known to many
readers of The Democrat. The
paper is printed from clear type,
the make up is first class, and the
news it contains fresh and varied.
Mr. Bishop is an old newspaper
man and will give the people of
Cedar Falls journal of which they
may be proud The Democrat
wishes him abundant success in his
new field of labor.
The failure of w. J. Davis, pro-
prietor of the Beloit Creamery,
brief mention of which was made
in The Democrat of last week, turns