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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

nesday a witness testified 10 tanning
human skins-presumably taken from
corpses from the almshouse-tor various
doctors, and exhibited pair OF uppers
for slippers made from the skin of
woman. Governor Butler at once issued
an order removing the management. and
designating the state board of charities
to assume charge OF the institution. This
they refused to do.
The Irish convention 10 merge the Land
in the National Lsague began proceed
ings Wednesday, at 10 o'clock. in Phila-
delphia- President MONEYS address was
eulogistic of P.rneii and asnlnciatory of
the English Premier. There were TWEEN
ty-iye female delegates in the meeting,
and Mrs. Parnell occupied position of
honor on the stage. Secretary HyLes' re-
port showed that in the last wear so 03S
had been received; that $66 657 had been
cent to Ireland for league and relief .ur-
pores, and that $50 branch leagues exis-
ted in the United States and Canada.
The Merging and Resolution Committee
was composed OF one delegate from each
State and Territory. Speeches we're made
by Brennan and Egan, the latter stating
thai while he was reasurer of the league
81 ,230, 600 passed through his hands.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Sweet Home.

Payne's "Home, Sweet Heme," as
new stands, was changed by the author
two or three times after it was first
written. As originally written the song
was az follows:
Mid pleasures and palaces though We may roam
Be it ever SO humble, there is no place ike home.
A charm from the skies seems to ha low there
Like the love of a mother
Surprising all other).
Which, seek through the world, is nser met with
elsewhere.
There's spell in the shade
Where eur infancy played,
Even stronger than time, and more deep than
despair.
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain;
Oh, give me my lswly thatched csttsge again.
The bi Do and the lambkin. that came at my cali.
Those who named me with pride,
Those who prayed by my SIDE
Give me them, With their innocence, dearer than
The joys Of the palaces through which I roan
Only swell my hearts anguish-therss no place
like home.
AS PUBLISHED BY Ms. PAvNE, IN NEW YORK, IN
1881.
Mid pleasures and palaces 'thoueh we may roam,
Be it ever 10 humble. there's no place like home.
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which, seek through the world, is neer met with
e-SeuneEe.
Home, hsme, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home! there's no place like
hcmei
An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain
Oh! give me my lowiy thstehed cottage again.
The birds sing gayly, that came at my call
Give me them with the peace Of mind Searsr
than all.
Home home sweet, sweet home,
There's no place like Aomei there's no place ike
home,
How sweet It's 10 SAT meath fond fathers smile,
And the cares Of a mother to soothe and beguile.
Let Others SeE-at mid new pleasures to roam,
But give, oh give me the pleasures Of home.
Home, home sweet, sweet homei
But give NE. oh. give ne the pleasurts Of home.
To thee I'll return oyerburisned with care;
The hearts dearest solace viii smile on me there
No mere from that co tage again viii roam;
Be It ever 50 humble there's place like home.
Home home sweet, sxest home
There's no place like homei there's no place ike
home
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

THE trustees of the fund of million
dollars which Mr.. John f. Slater gave
year or two ago for the education Of
the colored people of the south, have
Just held meeting in New York to lay
out the work for the first year. 1t has
been invested so that it will produce
the sum of $50, COO year. The policy
has been adopted of giving assistance
to existing institutions which are will
ing to undertake the work Of training
colored teachers. This is the part Of
wisdom, and will produce much better
results than would be possible by an
effort to establish u separate Institution
in any given locality. The increase of
facilities for education among colored
people must necessarily be slow. They
can best be advanced by the careful
training of acceptable teachers, and
not by the scattering of resources in
attempts to do too much in the line of
general education.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
CRIME.

FRIDAY night and Saturday morning
the New York police captured eight
counterfeiters, including two women,
whose operations they have been watch
ing siRce last August.
THE Commissary of Police in Brussels
left New York Saturday for Belgium
with the church securities, amounting 90
800 600, which Canon Bernard some
time ago appropriated and brought to
this country.
CaARGKs and specifications sgainst the
Rev. K. Heber Newton, rector of All
Souls Episcopal church, New York, have
BEEN filed with Bi,hop Potter, who may
either quash them or order trial. The
complaint is that, in course Of sermons
delivered last fall upon the inspiration OF
the scriptures. Mr.. Newton expressed
views at variance With the rtcogniz d doc
trines of the Episcopal church.
THE first ard second mates of the
steamer Tropic. running between Paila'
delphia and the West Indies, in the fruit.
carrying trade, were arrested by the q.
S. marshal upon the arrival of the vessel
at Philadelphia, Saturday, upon the
charge of violating the neutrality laws in
transporting arms and ammunition to
Miragosne for the Haytias rebels. The
vessel, it is also alleged, conveyed the
company of rebels who captured Mrs
goane. the latter part of March, from Ia
aqua 20 the port named.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

THE South American earthquake is
at its old tricks. Tho whole Republic
of Colombia has been shaken up lately.
Few lives were lost, but church walls
were cracked and thrown out of plumb,
pillars thrown down, houses demolish-
ed in certain villages, tidal waves invad-
ed cellars and swept away everything
loose on the whurves, and in enc place
n prison WAS demolished and the in
mates set free. A large island at the
mouth Of the Atarto disappeared and
didn't leave any word where it had
gone or when it would return. A war
rantey deed OF real estate in that frisky
country wouldn't insure a perfect title
by long ways. A tolersbly vigorous
earthquake is liable to sink mans
plantation So deep that an exploring
party couldr't even find the hole it
went in at.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
A Wisconsin Snake Story.
From the Rome Sentinel.

Henry Fish of Lee Centre, who has
lately come from Lone Rock Wis, says:
Andrew Harter of Lone r 1ck went out
on rocky part of his farm one day
last spring, aud while looking around
saw the head of q rattlesnake protrud-
iag f;om er3vice lin the rock. TAX
ing in the general surroundings, he con-
cluded that it must be a regular den Of
rattlesnakes, so he built pen about
ten feet square and three feet high
about the place and awaited results.
The pen was watched, and with wire
snare something like fish snare seven.
ty-nine snakes, varying in leugth from
Is inches to 5 feet, were, during the
summer, landed in barrel placed in
side the enclosuse. Four of the largest
were placed in the barrel Oh Decoration
Day, and in November they were still
alive. As they had been placed in the
barrel as soon as they left their winter
quarters, they had lived whole year
without anything to eat. As the snakes
had not thawcd out this spring, when
Mr.. Fish left it was not known whether
they were still alive or not"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
News by Wire Reduced to
Close Quarters for Con-
venient Reference and
Easy Reading.
WASHIN4TON.

GENERAL Green B. Raum, the United
States Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
rendered his resignation to the President
Saturday, which was accepted.
SENATOR and Mrs. Edmunds are now
on their way to Mexico, and expect to be
in the City Of Mexico this week.
Ex-VIcE PRESIDENT WHEELER is in bad
health. He is threatened with loss of eye
sight, and is also suffering from insomnia.
THE Naval Advisory Board meets We'd
nesday to consider their plars for the new
cruisers as modified by the bureau officers
of the Navy Department. Secretary
Chandler wants the plans completed as
soon az possible. He wants the advertise
ments for bids published By May l.
Ex-senator William Pitt Kellogg visi-
ted the Court House to offer bonds for his
appearance to answer indictment against
him for corruptly receiving money in the
star-route cases. By agreement Of coun-
sci bail was fixed at $4,000. Mr.. Kel-
logg offered Lester A. Bartlett as surety,
and he was accepted.
SINCE fixing the date of the sale of the
Othe and Missouri lands in Kansas and
Nebraska, the interior department has
discovered that they had chosen Decora-
tion Day. The dete of sale has accord
ing been changed 10 May 81.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
0chiitree. of Texas.

Col. Thomas Porterhouse Ochiltree,
OF Texas, is prominent citizen and
bis name is frequently In the papers.
His political influence is doubtless
large in some quarters, but am griev-
ed that it does not prevail in all the ex-
ecutive departments of the government.
A recent incident was very touching.
Col. Ochiltree had been appealed 10 by
a personal friend to prevent the issue
of an order in certain department
| will not say which one. The order
had been prepared by a subordinate
officer, when Col. Ochiltree appeared
on the scene and demanded that it be
withheld. "As you are a member of
congress" said the officer, 81 will con-
sent to consider the question again, and
will submit it to the secretary" Col.
Ochiltree went away thinking that his
friend was all right, and the depart
ment officer went to the secretary and
told him about the matter. When he
heard the name of the congressman he
calculated: "What !! Tom Ochiltree;
Ochiltree, of Texas, is il? Issue that or
der at once" And the order va, issued
the same day.-Washington Capital.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

Having put their feet into it in their
first appointment, tho Civil Service
Comm issiOners find Themselves in q
very mortifying position. To go for
ward with Mr.. Keim IS chief examiner
is to forfeit all public confidence in any
practical results from their labors. To
retrace their steps is to admit that they
have msde blunder that is worse
than crime and that they are not
capable Of making fit selections Of sub
ordinates. Either horn of the diem
ma is decidedly humilia Ting, nc. doubt.
They rhould swallow their mortifca-
ton, however, as best they may, and
retrace their steps. The can afford to
admit they have made mistake.
They cannot afford to mako The very
name of civil service reform kissing
aud a byword. us it will be if the pres
ent programme is carried out.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Paruell States the Situation.
NOTHING To EXPECr FROM THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.

NOTHING To EXPECr FROM THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, May lin an interview on
Saturday, Parnell said: We have moth
ing to expect from the present parlia-
ment-absolutely nothing. 1t is abso-
lutely set in advance against every pro-
posal in the Irish interest-even against
such legislation as humanity demands.
We seem to be alone in parliment.
We are alone. We are foreigners
The very principles which the minis
try not long ago urged parliament to
apply in legislation for Ireland are at
present set aside as if the Irish people
were by themselves humanity for the
government of whom experience
proves nothing, and for whom a new
political philosophy must be discover
ed; and yet the Irish people practically
ask for nothing but the application to
them, upon their own soil, that taxa
ton and representation ought
to go together. They believe that they
know best what is good for themselves
and naturally feel, and will forever
feel, an unconquerable spirit of resist
ance to the form of government that
makes colonists of them in their native
land. The desire for self-government
among the Irish has never for one in
slant been quieted, and among them,
more than among any other people,
has been demonstrated to be absolute
ly unconquerahle. For England to
ignore this desire is political folly; to
attempt to govern the Irish without
concession to this desire is political
crime. But the folly and blunder go
on. Ireland has suffered hey ond po-
htical comprehension and England's
political growth has been dwarfed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Freeman, The Pocasset Murderer.
PLACED ON TRIAL.

BARNsrABLE, Mass, May 1.-Free-
man, who few years ago, iii fit of
fanaticism, killed his child and has
since been in lunatic asylum and
now pronounced sane, was placed on
trial today for the crime. Freeman
in his own behalf said, "four years ago
he was insane when the act was COM
mitted and believed ne was doing Gods
will; two years afterward it occurred
to him that it was an insane act and
never evaded the law of the land, but
thought he should obey God rather than
man. He should not in his own estima.
ton have been insane for eleven months
at least. He fully believed that re.
iigious experience had done for him all
it could. If granted q discharge he
would accept the first honorable posi-
ton offered that would enable him to
support his family. Freeman was then
arraigned on an indictment for murder
and plead not guilty. Judge Colburn
authorized his rem oval from the asy-
lum to the jail to await further action.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
A Sensible View

OF THE TARIFF AND POLITICAL PROSPECTS.
New YORK, April 30.-The views of
prominent men are eage-ly sought af-
ter now on questions upsn which every
body is thinking. Gath in oaa Of his
late letters to the western press thus
gives the views of Gen. Americus V.
Rice, a prominent man in railway and
political circles in Ohio, in regard to
the tariff.
The general, as Gath tells it, has very
clear views in regard to the state of
things in Ohio, and expresses them with
great lucidity. He says: "The expenses
of the government growing out of the
war were the original purpose of laying
on the duties, and not the
CoDDLING OF EVERY KIND OF INDUSTRY:
not only manufacturing but agricul .ur-
al. 1t never was designed that all the
business interests, from potatoes and
lumber up to steel and copper, should
take each other by the hand and
PRoLoNG THE WAR DUTIES
away down to the present time, when
there is a demand that dollar shall
buy dollars worth. Everything else
is settling to its place, and this artifi-
cial system of stimulation, under the
name of the tariff, must take its share
of the rearrangement. l think the re-
publican party is
SLIPPING FROM POWER
chiefly because the tendency it has
shown for several years past been to
breed and stand by m0nopolics and
special interests. 1t has been b:com
ing and has become the party of the
unequal distribution of wealth and the
proceeds of enterprise. Men already
very rich get from the republican party
the chance to grow still richer. Inter
ests which have had twenty years and
more of special favor because of the
PUBLIC NECESSITIES
run to the republican party to have
longer lease of partiality and subsidy.
If the republican party had men
AS CAPABLE as IT FORMERLY HAD,
some among them would nave curbed
this tendency to take all the popularity
out of the party and make i: the party
of special interests, of monopolies and
of invidious powers. Being myself a
conservative citizen, on good terms
with the public men generally, mere
ly express the view that the
DEMOCRATS ARE NOW COMING IN AGAIN,
because they are looking out for the
consumer, the laborer and the COM
mon interest, instead of any body's big
fortune"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
GENERAL NOTES.

HERR Schultz, the founder of the friend
IL societief, has died at Potsdam.
The New York police Sunday made
about one hundred arrests for violation OF
the excise laws.
TRK rev superintendent cf insara &c
of the state of New York begins his adj
minissration by dropping the names of
seventeen employees from the rells of the
flee, efsctirg an annual saving of about
$sS,0o0.
The ScoTT bill. which has become
law Sf Ohio, prohibits the sale of liquor
to be drank on the premises. 1t fxss the
license for the sale Of alcoh olic liquors
al 800 per annum. /. exempts cities of
the first class from the operation of the
Sunday law.
THE cigar manufacture, of Louisyiile.
Kentucky, have scceded to the demand OF
the workmen for an asvance of wasss.
and strike there has been ayerted. AZ
New York eight hundred cigsr.makers
and two hundred psckers and strippers
have inauSurated strike for higher
wases. About eight hundred coal-miners
in o hio have quit work rather than sub
NIT to a reduction of twenty-five cents a
day in the rate of pay. The miners in
the Allegheny coal region have accepted
the lower wages offered by the em ,,loyers,
In the Tewksbury investigation We'd
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
The Libel ON the American Hog.

New YORK, May IA committee
of the importers of pork products at
Hamburg, writes to the chamber of
commerce here, that pamphlet by I
Brette, of New York, is mainly respon-
sible for the prohibition of the impor-
tation of American bacon, and says
the chamber should make it publicly
known. The pamphlet must he con-
sidered Il mere stroke of business en-
terprise and that no Importance what.
ever must be paid TO its remarks.
The committee add some re-
marks of the New York Staatz.
Zsitung with some other American
papers TO the effect that dead hogs
are used for the manufacture of lard,
and that product of hogs used for mer-
chantable purposes is called Lard A
/ have done the greatest harm and
contributed more towards establishing
prejudice against the American hog
products with some members Of our
government who without the expe.
rience of the matter to take u theoreti-
cal view of it, and it seems that the
public may be led to believe this lard
Is also tit for consumption.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Tame as a Kitten.

An agent of circus while in Gal
weston Texas, In the early part OF the
winter noticed well grown panther,
or as the Texans call it, Mexicon lion,
chained to tho wall in front of saloon.
Its color was beautiful drab, and its
graceful movements and beautiful skin
made the circus mans heart leap for
JOY. Suddenly a handsome, curly
headed little boy, about 5 years old,
stepped up to the animal and put his
arms around its neck. The panther
made 10 motion to harm the boy
Upon inquiry he found that the animal
was as docile as a house cat. The
saloon-keeper that owned it told him
the following story of its capture:
81 was visiting q friend of mine on
the Mexican border about two years
ago. We frequently went out hunting,
but had never met any dangerous
game, except an occasional bear, until
one day. We made a party of five
that day. We had bagged lot OF
small game, and when night came we
camped beside little rivult deep in
the woods. After supper four tired
men wrapped themselvs in their blan-
kets, while Briggs prepared to act as
sentinel until midnight, when [ was to
relieve him. A guard was absolutely
necessary, not only to keep up the fires
to prevent the larger animals from
coming near, but also to prevent a
surprise by Mexican bandits, who
would kill dozen men for q peso.
Shortly before midnight we were arous-
ed by the report of rife. To spring
up and throw brushwood and dry
leaves on the fire was the work Of
moment. A horrible growing and
crunching sound came from some
bushes few yards away. Briggs was
nowhere to be seen We cautiously
the bushes. As we drew
near We could see a lurid pair of eyes
glaring at us from the gloom. Taking
careful aim, I fred. With an awful
growl the animal bounded in the air,
and fell dead at our feet. Briggs, body,
terribly lacerated by the claws and
teeth of the panther, lay in the bushes.
Near by we found a pair OF cubs,
which We took with US. We started
to the ranch next day with the remains
of Briggs. After the poor fellow was
buried started for home, taking one
of the cubs with me. 1t has become
extraordinarily tame, and has never
shown the slightest fierceness."
The agent was not long in making a
bargain for the possession of the felis
pardus, and in the future it will jump
rings and do other tricks 10
amuse admiring crowds.-Pniladelp-
hia Press.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
Some Tewksburyism in Missouri.

sT. LOUIS, May 1.-Tae apparently
very highly sensational reports regard
ing the condition of the poor farm in
Pettis county, this state, which were re-
Gently put in circulation through the
SedAlia Democrat, seem to be confirm
ed, and the press of ihis city demand
an investigation, and the prosecution
of whoever is responsible for the
DIsGRAcEFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS.
A general overhauling of similar insti-
tutions throughout the state i expect
ed. The poor house in question is rep
resented to be an old, tumbie-doyn
rookery, scarcely fit for animals, and
the treatment of It's inmates, consisting
of over twenty insane, idiotic and di-
seased persons, many of thnm entirely
helpless, is said not only to be disgrace
full and abominable In the highest de-
gree, but utterly heartless and cruel.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

is very bright man, who would sacri-
tice the very best friend he has on earth
to the making of 3 sharp sentence. He
is very useful to-congress, where he has
served for twenty-five years. frst from
Ohio and then from New York. He is
the vigorous opponent of the
AVERAGE JOB
brought up in the house. but after all
he is the servant of Tammany, and
will do whatever it orders, so this rohs
him of half the credit due him for
what he does in congress. He is al
ways entertaining, but has said too
many disagreeable things in his time
to have many friends. Then he has
the vanity of sll men who devote their
lives to making literary frecrackers.
He imagines that he would be rated
much higher if he had been more
serious. The odds are, if he had been
serious, he would never have bsen
known at all. His candidacy merely
means 3 push for good chairman
ship.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04

type setting. and even more rapidly, so
that the cases are always full of type.
The chief difficulty heretofore has been
in the justifyipg, but this has now been
overcome, and is done with twice the
rapidity of the ordinary mode. The
inventor, Mr.. Page, believes that every
obstacle has been overcome and that
the machine is now ready for the trade.
If it really proves to be as successful
as it seems to be, it will take the rank
with the great labor-saving Inventions
of the century.-Hartord Coitrant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-05-04
CoIsniz.tisn 4. mexico.

SAN ANTONIO, May ii. L. Kirk
land, of New York, representing some
English capitalists, has just returned
from Soltillo, Mexico, en- route to E1-
rope, where he went for the purpose Of
getting the contract confirmed by the
authorities of Coapuita for large
tract of land granted by the general
government and sold to Judge Crosby
F. Maustoz by Governor Medero when
here last week. The purchase is In
conjunction with concession from the
supreme government for an extensive
colonization scheme of negotiation to
those parties IN vaiue about one hum
dred leagues of the best selected lands
IN the state.