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

DEATHS from yellow fever in Havana
last week numbered b.
THE election in County Sligo. Ireland,
resulted in the return TO parliament
of Nichols Lynch, the home-rule candi-
date.
AN American jew, after astay of four
days i'll st. Petersburg, was recently eN-
PEELED. in accordance with law.
BRIGANDS have captured the governor
and several councillors of Florian, a
Turkish city. for whom ransom of
100000 is demanded.
\ BERLIN correspondent asserts that
the Chinese government is negotiating
with Germany for the purchase of 100.
900 rifles
The French Government has inform
ed the British Foreign Secretary that
Missionary Shaw was arrested in NADIA
gascar rs n Hova dignitary and not as a
British subject.
THE Mexican secretary of the treas
ury has called a conference Of delegates
from the states. to discuss the modes of
abolishing the internal, custom-houses
and devising more equitable tax.
PARNEIL repeated the charges of Jury
hacking in Ireland, and of the reckless
desire of the government to procure
convictions for the purpose of striking
terror among the people of the country
bv the tyrannical use of the power OF
secret inquiries.
| THERE has been serious rioting be
tween the Catholics and Orangemen OF
Coathridge. Scotland. Two policemen
received dangerous wounds. Disturban
ces were renewed. when party of Cath
olcs armed themselves with picks and
hammers, and paraded the main street
IN search of religious opponents. Mount
ed officers dispersed the mob and made
twenty arrests.
The Shapiro manuscripts. purportinc
to be ancient copies, on skeep-skin. OF
the Ten Commandments, discovered
among nomads in the Arabian desert
are said to be forgeries By eminent Eu
ropean archaeologists called upon to ex
anime them.
A DECIDED breeze has been generated
in Europe by a recent article in Tn,
North German Gazette declaring tha
France alone threatens the peace of tn,
continent. In addition to the politica
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
4 Priceless Diamond.

Mr.. Porter Rhodes, the fortunate
owner of the priceless diamond that
bears his name, is at present in Paris
awaiting the result of a competition
between two millionares desirous of
possessing the jewel. The stone was
found in his mine at Kimberley, South
Africa, in the beginning of 1880, and
made great sensation among the dig
gers when the discovery was made
known about four months later. Mr..
Porter Rhodes was obliged to satisfy
their curiosity by exhibiting the dia-
mond. Accordingly he placed it in a
friends office, charged sovereign for
admission, and in this way received
together he made by the exhibition
$500, which he gave to the local hos
pital. On his arrival in England he
was honored with an invitation to Os-
borne, il. order that her Majesty might
inspect the stone. He was afterward
taken to Osborne Cottage and had an
interview with the Empress Eugenie
Mr.. Potter Rhodes considers that his
diamond as far surpasses the Kohl
moor in purity as it does in weight,
the Indian stone weighing 1864 carats
the Cape diamond about $50 carats
He said to his interviewer: Il shall
have at least fulfilled one mission-I
shall have convinced the world that
the Cape diamonds are as radiantly
pure and blue-white as the Dresden
drop and the Braganza. / shall thus
upset one popular delusion."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

ELI STILsoN, pioneer citizen of Osh-
kcsh. formerly president of the Wiscon-
SIN Agricultural society, died at his
home Monday.
SILAS MERCHANT, of Cleveland, manu-
facturer of Ice-machines, has made an
assignment, with liabilities of $780,
600.
FIVE valuable horses, standing under
a tree at Erie, Pennsylvania, were killed
by lightning the only mark upon them
being melted shoes.
ELEVEN victims of the cyclone at Ro-
chester, Minnesota, were buried at Oak
wood cemetery, in the presence of three
thousand persons. \ freak of the wind
was the driving of a pine board through
the trunk of maple tree.
FOREST fires would have destroyed the
village of Ashland. Wisconsin, the other
day, but for II shower at night. Hun
dreds of men fought the flames all
day.
CHARLES w. GRiSwOLD, for many
years one of the proprictors of the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York, died at Long
Branch, of Bright's disease.
A COLLISION of freight trains at Turner
Station. seven miles west Of Kansas
City. demolished both engines and sew
eral cars, and caused loss of $50, 900
to the Santa Fe road.
In the vicinity of East. Tawas, Mich.
forest fires are encroaching on farm
lands, and heavy losses through the de-
struction of crops and fences have al
ready been sustained.
NEAR Wabash. Ind. early Saturday
morning the detached sections of n
freight train collided. wrecking many
cars which were loaded with wheat, re-
sultins i'll heavy loss.
\ PORTION of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western shops, at Manito-
woe, Wis. and three locomotives, two
tenders and coach were burned Satur-
day. Loss $4,000
DIR. F. w. T. Butler, son of the South
Carolina senator, was thrown from his
horse while riding with n lady at Lam
caster. and then the animal fell upon
him. causing conclusion of the brain.
There is but little hope for his recovery.
A CYCLONE nearly wrecked the city of
Rochester, Minnesota. Twenty four per
sons were killed and over forty were
seriously injured. A passenger train on
the Northern road was blown form the
track between Rochester and Zumbrota,
and there is great loss of life thereby.
NJ. Cole. miller at Xumbrota, was kill
ed while at work. Five lives were lost
at Kasson. and horses and cattle are
found dead in all directions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Her Head Got Turned.

Perry Pensell'' writes in the Bos-
ton Traveller: by way of telling
what effect the world has upon a wo-
man, let me tell what it has done for
a woman whose name is known from
East to West, in every home where
good literature is seen. About fifteen
years ago she began to write Each
bit was her best, till on the appear
ance of one novel, book that stirred
this countrUand England, it was said
The next book she writes will be the
great American novel; she is the best
writer of our country She was the
worshipped woman of the finest, most
learned, most cultivated society of the
city where she lived Then she met
some gayer people in this life of ova-
ton; more snowy, but less true Her
head got turned: her ideas and her
ideals became changed, and some por-
tons of her last novel were expurgat-
ed by the publishers as being too sug-
gestive The woman who of all Ameri-
ca could have had her country at her
feet, wears upon her arm as bracelet
the collar of the smallest pug dog, in
the world, given her by senseless
fop of this very city. The duties she
owes her husband. If not the husband
himself, are forgotten In the gay whirl
of the world into which her desire for
a name and reputation have led her.
She is woman of the working world.
God pity her.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHiNCTON.

THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints for the week ended Aug.
IS was 1924, ,499; for the corresponding
period last year So, ,069, 900.
THE treasury department has received
$131 900 bequeathed by the late J. b.
Gardner, of Boston, to aid in paying the
national debt.
A NOTED pension-sharp of Washing
ton, named Jenkins Fitzgerald, has
again been disbarred from practice for
extorting money from pensioners
by sending dunning letters by express
calling for small sums on delivery.
MAJOR KIRBY, of the railway mail di-
vision of the postoffice department, has
been removed by Postmaster General
Gresham, on suspicion that he made ex-
cessive allowances to the publisher of
The Postal Guide.
THE commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that bitters sold in good
faith as medicine, need not paya special
tax as beverage. One specimen which
he caused to be analyZed, contained SO
per cent. of ordinary whisky.
J. a. Fitzgerald. the pension agent
recently disbarred from practicing be-
fore the Interior Department, will be no
longer recognized as an attorney of the
Treasury Department.
A WAsHINGTON correspondent has it
that Col. Geo. b. Corkhill, United States
District Attorney at Washington, who
is n widOwer, is soon to be married to
Clara Louise Kellogg, who is aged 40
and worth quarter of million dol
lars.
IN an exciting twenty mile bicycle
race at Washington, Friday, III. w.
Higham, the English champion, won in
/ hour minutes 81 seconds; John S.
Prince. of Boston second; o. j. Young,
third.
PASSED Assistant Surgeon d. NJ. Cru
teras, now on board the United States
steamer Swatara, has volunteered for
duty at the Pensacola Navy Yard. He
will be Immediately trans ferred to that
post, if he can be detached before the
sailing of the Swatara from New York.
LIEUT. A. +. Wood, 4th cavalry, now
on leave of absence in Paris, has been
designated by the United States govern
ment to attend the military maneuvers
of the French army near Paris, i'll Sep
tember next, on the invitation of the
French government. Maj. +. Beaumont
9th cavalry heretofore designated for
this duty, has been relieved.
SOME time ago the secretary of the
treasury ordered the removal of Mr..
Broughton, keeper of the light house at
st. Joseph, Mich, and the appointment
of Mr.. Platt in his place. Well, Mr..
Broughton has just informed the depart
mcnt that he is now in full possession of
the lighthouse, and does not propose to
allow anybody to take his place. The
officials are in quandary as to the best
means of securing possession for Mr..
Platt, and it looks as though the aid of
police will have to be invokedi
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, Aug. s9.-Flour- Quiet and unchanged
Wheat-Regtlar, moderately active and higher:
i0i4@loits for seller August; 10 q 1Gsts for
seller September; l.0ss4G LOSS for seller octo-
Der; 1o5Is6lGsas for seller November; i.0il4
@l.slA for seller the year; No, 2 Chicago
spring, .oit4; No. 5, Chicago spring, ~; No ?
red winter. 1864. Coru-Active. firm and
higher: 51l4 for seller cash; 50Isa50I4 for sell
Ter August; 5OS4 for seller September; 5Uas for
seller October; ss4sa 4ss4 for seller November,
6sts16sa4 for seller the year. Oats-Firm:
ssls for seller cash s7Ss for seller Septem
Der; s7 for seller Oct .ber ?. for seller November.
s6as6s6is for seller the year. Rye-Easier;
s6i% Flax Seed-Firm; l.3I. Barley-Quiet; 81
l6S for seller September. Pork-In fair demand
prices higher; 1s.oolssfl2i5 for seller cash. Au-
gust and September; 12s7,sGls3 % for seller oe-
tober; 1I.ao for seller November; I1.SC for sell
er the year; Is.sO6 ss1z for seller January.
Lard-Demand fair. prices higher: S57l@GS6l
for seller cash, August, September; 55d55ls for
seller October; $40 for seller November; SEX
for seller the year: s-2s1Is for seller January
Bulk meats Steady, shoulders, 5.75; short rib.
ESQ; ditto clear, 7.l5. Butter sndeggs quiet and
unchanged whiskey- Steady and unchanged
Nervousness, debility and exhausted vitality
! cured by using Browns Iron Birters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
CRIME.

G.. STRONG, formerly clerk of Butler
county, Kansas, who forged warrants
and fled with young woman, leaving
/ a wife and two children almost penni-
less, lies in Jail at st. Paul for lack of
$4, 900 bail.
/. NJ. HAVEN, ex.treasurer of the Rut-
land railroad, was arrested for signing
and issuing AIT false shares of stock,
and gave bail in $4,000.
NJ. PoPF, residing near Carrollton,
Illinois, finding that his wife had
brought suit for a divorce, fired shot
at her, which made only flesh wound
on her cheek, and then killed himself.
WILLIAM HEYDT, who served through
the war as an officer of the 1O6th Ohio
volunteers, was assaulted in front of a
hotel in Baltimore by Hugh Rosborough,
and SO badly beaten that he soon died of
his injuries.
A NUMBER of masked men at Park
City, Utah, stopped train and forced
it to run to COalville, where they took
from jail a man Lamed Jack Murphy
and hanged him to telegraph pole.
WHILE the ferry steamer Pope was
crossing Detroit river, bartender NAM
ed Luke Phipps shot his wife dead, from
jealousy. The passengers overpowered
him and delivered him to the Canadian
authorities at Windsor He had recent
ly commenced suit for divorce.
GEORGE BEATTIE, who had been en-
ployed by Noremac, the pedestrian, as
bartender in New York saloon, killed
Mrs. Normac, in her rooms in Eighth
avenue, and then took his own life. He
was fouud lying across her corpse. 1t is
believed the deed was committed in re-
venge for being discharged.
NEAR South Pittsburgh, Tenn, where
convicts work in the Inman ore mines,
mutuny occurred, led by man named
Black. The revolt was suppressed, and
Blach was flogged for the part he took
in the affair. He refused to work again,
and made an assault on the guard, who
shot him in the knee. Black was then
placed under the influence of chloro-
form, and his leg was amputated, but
when they tried to revive him they
found he was dead.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31

THE PARNELL testimonial in Ireland
has already reached the large sum of
$4,000. In America about $40, 900
has been collected for the fund. in
cluding Ss,054 collected by the Chi
cago Committee, and about Sl5, 900
has been raised in the British Colo
MES, SO that the amount determined
on after the Papal prohibition circular
was issued, $4,000, has been already
raised. Among the contributions re
ceived at the meeting of the committee
the 11th inst, was one of S135 from
the Irish settlers of Jagersfontein,
Orange Free State, South Africa.
More was promised from the same
quarter. 1t is expected that before the
fund is closed S165, 900 will be raised.
OF this sum 500, 900 will go to pay the
mortgage on Parnell's estate, and the
500, 900 left will become a parliamen,
tary fund, out of which the expenses
of Irish members of Parliament shall
be paid.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
GENERAL NOTES.

Two HUNDRED girls employed in 4
clothing factory at Toledo are out on a
strike for an advance in wages.
POTATOES throughout western New
York have been attacked by black rust,
and the entire crop of that region is in
peril.
ONE MILLION acres of public lands are
being sold at auction by the registrar at
st. Cloud, Minnesota. the average price
being 1886 per acre.
MICHAEL F. WELSH. who has but one
foot, defeated Captain Williams in a
swimming contest in the Ohio river at
Cincinnati, and layssclaim to the cham
1 pionshlp.
HMARIo BALsO, a noted French swim
mer has arrived in New York, with the
intention of going through the whirl-
pool at Niagara or reaching a better
! land.
| DE MoLAY Commandery of Louisville
were awarded first prize in the Knights
Templar drill at San Francisco. Raper,
of indianapolis, got second position, and
st. Bernard, of Chicago, third.
JUDGE LOWELL, in the United States
Court at Boston, gave decision on an
appeal that the Dalbear telephone was
an infringement of the Bell patent.
CITIZENS of Atlanta. Ga, have been
surprised ut the removal of Postmaster
Conley and five of his attaches The
cause is said to be general diSSatiSfac-
ton.
SLADE, the Maori, who appeared SO in
different to the results of a visit from
one of Governor Crittenden's marshals,
has gathered up his dumb-bells, sand
bags, and trainer, and left Independence
for some unknown part.
THE funeral of Judge Jere S. Black
was the largest ever held in York, and
was attended by many men of distinc-
ton in law and politics. General Han
cock and Chief Justice Mercer were
among the pall-bearers.
Four THOUSAND Sir Knights, repre-
senting every state and territory, para
ded the streets of San Francisco. Three
color-bearers tainted on the march, and
an aide to the grand commander had
both legs broken by fall from his
horse.
The board of health at Pensacola re-
ports that city in a healthy condition,
with Gordon of seventeen miles, pro-
tected by swamps and water. Thirteen
arrests were made in one day for en-
deavoring to break the lines.
A CLOSE inspection of houses at Pen
sacola developed two cases of yellow
fever in n sailors boarding-house on the
wharf at Palafax street. The sargeon
general ordered the patients removed to
Santa Rosa island, their bedding and
clothing destroyed, and the building fu-
migated and guarded.
A FEW miles west of the Mullen tun-
mel, in Montana, the tracks of the Nor
thern Pacific road, from the Mississippi
to the Pacific ocean, was finished at B
O'Clock on the 22d inst, ten miles of rail
having besn laid during the day. Henry
Willard and Jay Cooke will drive the
golden spike September s.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31

INDIANAPOLIS, July "a. 16S0.-The
Hon. Marshall Jewell, chairman. etc.
DEAR SIR: / am glad YOU recog-
nize Indiana as the battlefield. l had
a letter from Gen. Garfield To the
same effect. When see YOU in New
York next week l will explain to YOU
our wants and shall confidently rely
on You for assistance. Wemust have
material aid for purposes which will
explain, but it will be for the national
COMMITTEES TO make the battle in In
diana victory sure and oyerwhelm-
ing, or to jeopardize our cause for lack
of it. Yours truly, JOHN c. New.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 80, 1SS0.-MY
DEAR GOVERNOR: Yours of the 2Sth
inst. at hand. That Wabash road
matter is of very great Importance,
and am glad you thought of It and
accomplished so much. hope that
you can be equally successful in our
other roads. Secretary Sherman Is a
director in Pittsburg x Fort Wayne.
Wonder if he would help us. Gould
can control a couple and the Cleve-
land parties, Devereaux and Hurlburt.
two others Garfield can work the
Cleveland people. Dorsey is in Chi
caso. Don't know how long he will
remain. Do not disappoint me in re
gard to the $1,000 written for yester-
day. We must have 1t or stop fight
ing. Yours, JOHN c. DREW.
HE GETS SOME CHECKS.
SEPT. 4, 1SS0.-The Hon. Marshall
Jewell, chairman, New Iork-MS
DEAR GOVERNORS; Yours of the I'd
inst, covering check on Levi F. Mar
ton for 81, 600, at hand, for which YOU
have my thanks. Yours truly,
JOHN c. NEW.
1NDIANApoLIS, Ind, Sept. 10.-The
Hon. Marshall Jewell, chairman.
New York; Your favor of the 9th
inst, and covering check for 81, 900 at
hand, for which this is your receipt.
You have our thanks, and We realize
that you are doing your whole duty
III our behalf, and we hope and be
lieve that we will repay your good
deeds by victory. Yours truly,
JOHN c. NEW.
IN ACCORD WITH DORSEY.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10.-The Hon.
Marshall Jewell. chairman, etc.-My
Dear Governor: The pros
pect grows brighter. | saw Mr. Dor
sey on Thursday. He is up to his eyes
i'll letters, etc, etc. He is doing us
good service, and we are in accord.
Yours in haste. JOHN c. New.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug %, 1880.
My Dear Governor: | want you to
send me $4,000. We are out, and our
expenses are very heavy. We must
have SIC, 900 at once We shall com
mencc a canvass, and have money
next week, but it will take us some
time to realize, and in the meantime
we will need what | ask for above.
Please send me your check, and | will
use it. Enclosed you will find treas
urer's receipt for the first sum you sent
me. | tell you we are going to carry
Indiana, and don't you forget il.
Yours truly JOHN G. NEW
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
Army Officers Pay Accounts.

Gen. Augur, in command of the De
partment of Texas, has struck a
severe blow at the practice of post
traders cashing the pay accounts of
army officers. In general order he
prohibits the traders of that depart
ment from cashing, receiving in pay
ment or in any manner handling or
negotiating pay accounts, that are not
due at the date of the transaction.
Violations of the order will subject
the offenders to annulment of appoint
ments. PayInasters, too, are required
to be more particular in future, and
must report every case where it is evil
dent that officers accounts were trans
ferred, In violation of the regula-
tions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-08-31
JOINT DEBATES OHIO.
If the Republicans can be Coaxed
Into the Scheme.

Into the Scheme.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 2S-There
has Leen considerable talk during the
past few days again regarding the
joint debates. When the republicans
insisted on this in 1877, Bishop was
elected over West by over %, 900 ma
jority. Pendleton and Garfield and
Ewing and Matthews were the teams
then, with Stewart l.. Wo0dfOrd here
challenging everybody 1t is now
proposed to have General Durbin
Ward and Governor Charles Foster,
as the leading candidates for United
States senator, pitted against each
other, and other teams to be arranged
from such eminent talent as Payne,
Converse and Bookwalter, TO meet
Noyes, Butterworth and Keifer.
1t is said, however, that
Butterworths friends want him
with Pendleton. OF course, next TO
Hoadly and Foraker's joint meetings
the attraction would be Ward and
Foster. In his speech at Gallon on
Saturday the general took direct issue
with the governor, and it is said that
they will meet, even without the
others. The republican state commit
tee has been harping on joint debates
for some time, but last week, when
they began 10 fear they would be
given chance for joint debates, they
proceeded in hot haste to arrange
dates for Foraker up to within a week
or two of the election, and announced
them, so as to head off the movement.