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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
One Way of Playing Poker.

Portland Oregonian.
William Petty was arrested yeSter-
day for creating a disturbance in an
uptown saloon. He was taken to the
city jail, and upon being searched,
there was found upon him, among
other things, two United States coins
mutilated in a most peculiar manner.
One was a twenty dollar gold piece
and the other silver dollar Upon
one side of each coin was followed
out a place nearly equal in size to
five-dollar piece In this was fitted a
couple of springs which connected
with a sliding piece of the rim, and
which were intended to hold within
this hollow a small mirror; thus while
lying undeteeted on the table at an
angle of forty-fve degrees, behind a
stack OF similar coin, in front of the
dealer. the latter could, by little
easily acquired skill, know by means
OF the mirror to certainty every card
held by any one or Ill of his oppon-
ents. A man who shoxld chance to
Ylay in any game where this little
t'racket' was bang worked by
giving his money away, without
even having the excitement of a pos
sible chance for winning. This game
is not unknown to professional gam
blers, bat probably is to the general
public. The coins is the possession
of Petty had evidently never been
used, and some little fault about
them brought the conclusion that they
had only Just been made The work
was evidently done by jeweller or
some other skilled mechanic, as a
novice could not have prepared them
so neatly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
THE THREE BROTHERS BOOTH
Reminiseence of the Great Tragedy at
the Close of the War.
New York Journal

! new jOurnAi-
Junius Brutus Booth, who was
buried yesterday, is the first of the
brothers to die since the tragic end OF
John Wilkes Booth, eighteen and a
half years ago, and the event has
brought to mind some "reminiscences
of that great tragedy.
| When John Wilkes Booth commit
ted his crime his brothers had not
seen him for some months. The last
occasion on which they had acted to-
gether was in the previous year at
| Winter Garden, where the brother
who is just dead also played. At the
| time of Mr.. Lincoln's murder the two
other brothers were in Boston. Jun
ius Brutus was manager of the Bos-
ton Theatre. He had gone home and
was in bed when the telegram reach
ed him of the accusation that had
been made against his brother. Not
believingit he rushed to the telegraph
office and sent dispatch after dispatch
without any result. Then he went
round to the newspaper offices to
make inquiries but could get no
positive news. 1t WAS before the
days of interviewing and everybody
respected his grief-even the terrible
| reporter.
Edwin Booth was assisting at a
dinner at Boston which l believe was
given in his ho4or. AT any rate he
was just about to rise with a cham
pagne glass in his hand to reply to
some toast. It was at the Parker
House. Suddenly a waiter came in
and interrupting him handed him a
dispatch. Mr. Booth put down the
champagne glass and asked to be ex-
cused a moment as the message was
of the utmost urgency. He opened it,
turned deadly pale and sunk in his
chair with his head on the table, ex-
claiming, my God my God"
There was great excitement in a
moment Somebody picked up the
dispatch and read it, and then, one
by one, the people left the room. At
about o'clock the two brothers, Ed
win and Junius met, both of them
crushed with the weight of the terrible
calamity. They went away together
and what occurred between them will
never be known.
The late Junius Brutus Booth never
mentioned his brothers name again,
and was deeply moved if ever the
subject was broached in his pres
ence He accompanied Edwin when
the remains of John Wilkes Booth
were removed from Washington
to the family tomb at Baltimore,
and was present at the reinterment
Of the bones of his unfortunate broth
pr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
THE LAW FOR THE VETERANS

Folger's Views Respecting 1t.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-A question
arises in section 1854 of the revised
statutes, which reads as follows:
Persons honorably discharged
from the military or naval service by
reason of disability resulting from
wounds or sickness incurred in the
line of duty, shall be preferred to ap-
pointments for civil offices, provided
they are found to possess the business
capacity necessary for the proper dis
charge of the duties of such offices. !"
Secretary Folger takes the ground
that tie civil service law as it is now
being administered does an injustice
to soldiers of the late war, inasmuch
as the commissioners pay no attention
to the statute quoted. As a true
friend of the soldier, he has by let
ter raised the question with the civil
service commission as to how far
section should be observed He wants
the commission TO determine whether
or not the appointing power has any
discretion. even in selecting from the
four names submitted, if one of the
four is an Observation-Disclosures sol
dier ar sailor. The law giving to the
veteran priority of right is imperative.
St:ll, the Pendleton civil service bill
seeks to ignore it. The commission
will consider and pass upon the sub
ject when Judge Thomas returns from
Ohio. The statute giving such prefer
ence to honorably discharged soldiers
and sailors Of the union army was by
expressed terms unrepealed, and the
civil service law specifically reserved
the rights of soldiers under it The
point raised is that it is the duty of
the civil service commissioners when
certifying up qualified lists from
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
The Chinese Heaven.

''In this country" said Mr.. Wong
Foo, editor of the Chinese American,
the otha1day, ''the Cinnamon of each
province i've by themselves and take
care of their dead. There is Chi
nese plot IN Greenwood and another
in Belleville, N. j. see tkat several
bodies have been removed from the
latter place and prepared fer shipment
to China. Even in the grave the
dead OF each province lie by them
selves"
Are all the Cinnamon who die
among barbarians ultimately taken
homeI"
"Most of them; not quite all, " re-
piled the o1itor, glancing over the
proof of ii siashing leader on the
Spiritual effect of amputating queues.
There are about 5000 Cinnamon in
New York. Fifty of them return to
China every month, and OF this num-
Der perhaps one-third come back.
eff any one going back to the old
country has dead friends here he takes
them along. I do not believe that
more tkan per cent. of the China
men who die in the United States are
permanently buried here. Friend
less Celestials are left here, and no one
cares whether they go to heaven or
not"
Cannot one of your race get into
Paradise unless his bones rest in Chi
nese soil!"
"Nosir; Cinnamon believe that the
only road to heaven is through their
own country"
"Butif a good, virtuous Cinnamon
who has kept the pigtail and his con-
science intact dies in a strange land,
will he be excluded from heaven be-
cause he is poor and friendless?"
That's the doctrine" said Mr..
Wong. According to Christians,
no man can be saved except through
a certain belief, no matter how good
he is; according to Cinnamon, there
is no salvation outside of China. One
belief is about as rational as the
other"
"When you dig up the remains of
your countrymcn do you have any
services at the grave?"
eve burn a little incense paper,
maybe, and take a drink, just as
American do On all occasions"
"What does the drink signifyl"
Its what you would call tost.
We drink peace to the soul of the de-
parted, and a prosperous journey to
the body. We use any liquor that
comes handy. Sometimes tea, or
whisky, or, in extreme cases, water. "
How are the bodies prepared for
shipment!'
They are embalmed if they are
fresh enough. If not, the meat is
scraped off, and the bones only arc
carried away"
Then it sufiices for Chinamen's S
salvation if only his skeleton is buried
in the home of his fathers2
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
CRIME.

CADET \. l.. BEEBE has been di;miSS-
ed from West Point for haz;ng.
THREE burglars entered house at
Ridgeway. Virginia, killed Washingtoa
Odell. and carried away $1,000.
LEWIS BROWN. of Carroll county, lndi-
ana, felt SO disgraced over 4 charge OF
stealing horses that he killed himself by
climbing forty feet into tree and leap
ing to The ground.
Z Tue people of Cheyenne ornamented
telegraph pole with the body of Henry
+ MoSher, who had killed his companion
with an AK as he lay asleep. The mayor
( and the territorial secretary made vain
( appeal 10 the vigilantes, only thirty of
j whom out of six hundred were masked.
i w F. MCKAY. whose adventures with
( the Rymal family in Chicago have been
numerous, reappeared at Hamilton. On
! tario, Wednesday. His wife returned
home at midnight. only 10 find him in
/ her bed in an intoxicated condition. She
at once telephoned the police and had
/ him arrested, for fear that he would
/ abduct their child.
REV. JAMES KEMLo, of Newark, New
Jersey. went To visit his mother il
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28

Brooklyn. While there he quarreled with
his wife, and stabbed her in tha throat
with butcher-knif. He inflicted SINH
lar wound upon himself, and leaped to
the ground from fourth-foor window,
Both will probably die.
A MAN reported at East Tawas, Mich,
Wednesday, that recently he came in
possession of a 6-year-old boy through
the agency of an old woman, who also
possessed a picture of richly dressed
lady whom she represented as tho chlld's
mother. The old cr9ne muttered some
thing about having had her revenge,
and volunteered the statement that the
child resided in Wabash avenue, Chica-
60 The boy also speaks of his Garden
City Home, and his little playmates,
and his present protector thinks he has
been kidnapedp
AMASA WARNER of Vincennes, Indi-
ana. for refusing to pay for game of
pool was put out of saloon by Jacob
Mandery. He crossed the street and
fired back, killing Mandery instantly.
He then shot three times at policeman,
and managed to reach his room in a
hotel. Changing his clothes he walk ed
down into Main street. and upon being
captured by Sheriff Hackley he soon
pursuaded that official that he was in
pursuit of the murderer, and was re-
leased.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
GENERAL NOTES.

IT is said that the price of matches has
been reduced nearly one-half within a
| few days.
THE governor of New Hampshire has
decided not to sign the bill creating the
| Southern Pacific Railroad and Steam
boat company, in the interest of Leland
Stanford.
| A BRONZE statute of General Robert
f. Lee, ordered by the city of New
Orleans, has been successfully cast in
New York.
In the bicycle tournament at Spring
field, Massachusetts,, uigham made
twenty miles in 66 minutes q seconds,
| purse of 81, 200 and th2 championship
of the world.
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, president of
the Standard Oil company states that
no person in any way connected with that
concern has an interest in western land
schemes or cattle companies.
ALLEGING that the French language
has been used in Alsace-Lorraine to ag-
itate restoration to France, General
Manteutfel has ordered that only the
German tongue shall be used by the
judicial and municipal authorities after
this year.
IT is said that Henry Willard has pur-
chased the Northern Pacific Coast rail
road, running from San Francisco to
DuncaH's Mills, and intends to continue
it to a junction with his Oregon system.
With other lines which he is said to
have secured, he will have tracks from
Puget Sound to San Diego, fifteen hun
dred miles.
THE Ford boys, who slew Jesse James
were hissed and hooted in a variety
theater at Louisville, and they declare
they will never again go to Kentucky
No less than 16,800 pcrsoHs in St. Louis
bought tickets Sunday to see the Athlet-
les win the championship of the Ameri-
can association. The receipts were near
ly $1,000.
LORD COLEa1DGE arrived in Chicago
Sunday morning, and was quartered at
the Grand Pacific. He was taken to
st. James church by Mr.. J. N. Jewett,
and participated in the services. The
rain prevented drive about the city,
and the afternoon was spent in the most
quiet manner. The manager of the par
ty guards the distinguished guest from
interviewerS
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
Pretty Street-SWeeperS.

A novel, beautiful, useful, and
healthful custom has been introduced
into organized form, by numberl of
young ladies living ons. the streets
fronting Van Worst park, Jersey City.
The New York Morning Journal says
the association is called ''The Sunrise
Sweepers, and is composed of the
leading beauty, talent, and wealth of
the city. The end and aim of the So
ciety are to sweep the sidewalks and
streets in front of their own mansions,
the development of muscle, and the
"mashing' of the young men of the
neighborhood.
Every morning from to 6 o'clock,
when the birds are making melodious
the trees in the park, sweet young
girls, ~ to %, may be seen popping
out of areaways, dressed in slatecolor-
ed gowns of the regulation length to
escape the dust, and display tiny feet
encased in neat slippers and pink and
blue stockings, while the shoulders
and arms are shown off to great ad
vantage in the close fitting brown and
red Jerseys"
The street is first sprinkled with a
handsome little sprinkler, decorated
with pine or blue ribbons, and the
sweeping begins, and soon the exer-
ton brings the roses to the cheeks, the
pure morning air brings an eXhilara-
ton which finds escape in witticisms,
snatches of songs, and merry peals of
laughter, which, with the songs of the
birds brings the millennium nearer to
Jersey City than anywhere else in the
world. The association has worked a
wonderful transformation in the
neighborhood among the young men
in many ways. No longer are the
older members of the family disturbed
by the rattle of milk-wagons and
baker carts, the young men suddenly
becoming domesticated to such an ex-
tent that they are up with the sun,
out to the store for tie bread and
milk, and the sight presented of maid
ems leaning artfully on brooms, chat
ting to sleepy-looking young men
with pitchers of milk in their hands,
and loves of bread under their arms,
adds more poetic cbirm than ever to
the story of Benjamin Franklin and
the bun. The association has the
sanction of the most careful fathers
and mothers, and ''one of its strongest
rules is that no young lady can be-
come a member who is engaged. T"
and cause for expulsion is the fail
ure to have the street swept before {
o'clock, no excuse being taken, not
evea of the steady company" stay
ing until II midnight.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON.

IT is believed that Secretary Folgei
will this week call in $15, 900, 900 in
! bonds.
! Mr.. HILL, Supervising architect 81
! the treasury, has rendered his resigna
ton to Secretary FolSer, to take eff
| feet on the appointment Of his success
sor.
| SECRETARY FoLGER, yesterday called
in $l5,O00,000 more of the per cent.
Government bonds, interest to cease
Dec, ], next.
w. S. WHITEFoRD, formerly private
secretary of Senator German, has been
jailed in Washington for forging checks
for 800 on the sergeant-at-&rms of the
house.
THE family of ex-Secretary Blaine,
now at their summer home in Agusta,
Me, will not occupy their Washington
residence before some time in Novem-
ber
The announcements comes from Wash
ingtOn that the pension office is unable
to eXpend the money appropriated at
the last session. Commissioner Dudley
called fer $170,000, 600, and now finds
that S75, 0000 will suffice. Asa result
a large amount of bonds will doubtless
be called in.
COLLECTOR TARBLE, of Pensacola, has
asked Secretaries Folger and Chandler
for assistance in supplying the necesai-
tics of the poor on the naval reservation
while yellow fever prevails. The form
or secretary replied that there was no
fund at his disposal with which to pur-
chase rations, and the latter promised to
do all that could be lawfully done.
IT is proposed to hold grand interna-
tIonai jubilee upon the completion of
the Washington Monument III the spring
of 1885, to which all the world, but
especially those countries which have
contributed blocks of stoSe to the monu-
ment, shall be invited to send reprcsen-
tatives 1t is proposed to make it as
memorable as the Centennial Exposition.
There is no good reason why it should
not be.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
Rules for Riding.
Burlington Hawkeye


Rules for riding mounting, face
the near side of the horse. The near
side is the side nearest yourself. If
YOU stand on the right side of the
horse, which is the wrong side.
when YOU mount you will face the
crupper. Then everybody will know
that your name is Johann Gottlieb
Ernsigelfolger If you can not mount
from the ground, lead the horse to a
high fence, climb up On the fence, say
whoa two or three times, and jump
over the horses ears You will light
somewhere on his neck, and you will
have plenty of time to adjust yourself
while the horse is running away. An
other method of mounting, largely
practiced by young gentlemen from
the city, is to balance yourself on one
foot on the fence, and point the Other
leg at the horse, in the general direc
/ ton of the saddle, saying whoa" all
the time The horse, after this gesture
has been repeated a few times, backs
away, pulls the alleged rider off the
fence, and walks up and down the
lane with him at a rapid gallop. This
| gives the rider, in about ten minutes,
all the exercise he wants for week.
If by some miracle you manage to gel
into the saddle, hold on with both
hands and say whoa. The faster
the horse goes the tighter you mus
hold on. and the longer you mus
''holler." IF you are from New York
or Philadelphia, you will shorten the
stirrups until your knees are on a
level with your chin Then as you
ride you will rise to your feet and
stand in the attitude of man peerins
over a fence to look for his dog, and
then suddenly fall in the saddle ik'
a man who has stepped on a banans
peel. This is the English school. |
IS hard on the horse but is considered
very graceful. A man can not wea
false teeth, however, and ride in thi
manner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
FOREIGN.

TIE newspapers attribute political
motives to Gladstone's visit to Copenha-
gen.
THE members of the royal family of
Denmark took lunch on board Mr.. Glad
stones yacht at Copenhagen, when the
premier sailed for home.
A DETACHMENT of $50 French sailors
have gone to Toulon to embark for
service on the fleet in the waters on Ton
quin.
THE chief nihilist organ is still being
secretly printed in St Petersburg. The
last issue declares that the days of
| Count Toistol, the hangman, are num-
| hcrcd.
| ONE of the imperial chambcrlains at
! st. Petersburg, having been detected by
/ the CZarina i'll placing nihilistic docu-
ments i'll her apartments, Immediately
| slew himself.
| At the funeral of Turgucnef. the
/ Russian novelist. 4 regiment of infantry
will aid the police of st. Petersburg in
! keeping order.
The Emperor William has appointed
| King ALFONSO to the command of the
Schleswig Holstein Uplan Regiment,
garrisoned at Strasburg.
AT the German military manuvers
( Saturday. despite the persistent rain. the
\ Emperor remained in the saddle three
4 hours. He warmly praised the behavior
I of the troops.
MISSIONARY SHAW has arrived at Fun
chal. During the bombardment Of Tama-
taye his residence was pluudered, and
the French officials threatened to punish
him for not removing the debris,
INSTRUCTIONS kave been forwarded
from the Vatican TO the Catholic epiSco-
pate of Prussia in conformity with the
agreement recently effected between the
papal see and Prussia concerning the
application of the new church law.
ODoNNELL, the man who dispatched
Informer Carey Off the African coast
was taken to London. under guard of :
large force of police. and lodged in Mill
bank Jail. In the afternoon he was con
veycd to Bow street police court ans
charged with murder on the high sea
Large crowds gathered at every point
and gaveVent to cheers and hisSrs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
Chica 90 Market.

CHICAGO, Sept q. Flour Quiet ard un
changed. Wheat Unsettled and lover regular,
954 for seller September; a55s for seller octo-
Der; rs for seller November; 60 for seller
December; / 0i5S for seller May: No, ., Chicago 0
spring, 9i34: No 3 Chicago spring, 81; No. red
winter, I o. Corn Easier; I93s for seller oeto
Der; is5s for seller November; 41l46sii3B for sell
er the year; 1910 Das for seller January. Oats
Dull; 273l0627IG for seller cash; 2i3a for seller
September; 275z for seller October 2S}s for seller
November 273s for seller the year; 2l3s for seller
May Rye-Finn; 5GJs. Barley-Firm Mt ~.
Flax Seea-Actiye and firm; 1.33 Pork-In fair
demand but lower; lo.i0lGI0 - for seller cash
and September; l0.4!148lo45for seller October;
10 l0110 421k for seller November; f022l1@ 10 251s
for seller the year; II 2@laai125 for seller Jan.
aary Iard-Ensier; e170 s99 for seller cask and
September; ss5Bs SIS for seller October, se0@
sG756 for seller November; 55Gss.5sM for seller
the year; .GoGgs 62tz for seller January. Bulk
meats-In fair demand; shoulders, 5.25 short
ribs, COS; do clear, go. Dutter-firm and IN
changed Eggs-Weaker; 2l622. whiskey
Steady and unchanged: ice
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-09-28
Type-Setting by Machinery.
From the Lincoln lNebl journal.

A new invention in the matter OF
setting type by machinery is announc-
ed that has feasible look. We called
it type-setter. 1t does not set type.
1t is something after the fashion of a
type-writing machine, but as the keys
are touched, instead of printing the
impression If the letter struck upon
hard paper, it makes an imprint OF
matrix in sheet of soft paper such
as is now universally used in stereo-
typing.
All the various cases and fonts are
represented necessary to make up the
matter of an ordinary newspaper.
When the copy is all printed on the
matrix it is wrapped on cylinder
and stereotype plate made directly
from it without the use of any type.
OF course a fiat plate can be made as
we'll as cylindrical one The main
trouble would be the proof reading.
Some method, however, of correcting
the errors of the ''compositor" will
be devised, if one has not already oc-
CURED to the inventor, but it will be
necessary, probably, to ink the matrix
as well as to make an impression OF
the type on its surface to facilitate the
reading of the proof and the correc-
ton of errors The impression, too,
must be all of the same depth in the
matrix or the printing would bea hor-
rlble job.