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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
LATEST TFLEGRAMS.
WASHINGTON.

MRS L. T. Letter gave tea Saturday
to Mr. and Mrs Matthew Arnold and
Miss Arnold. Mr.. Arnold was unable to
be present owing to a lecture engage
ment..
THE prediction is made In Washington
that Mr. Bland, as chairman of the
coinage committee, will prevent the
passage of bill to stop the manufac-
ture of the daddy dollars.
WHILE resisting arrest at Malone, n.
Y, Tuesday, VIM. Hatfield, fugitive,
stabbed the Sheriff and another man and
his wife, but was captured after being
shot through the thigh.
In the Proteus Thurday last, General
Hazen submitted series of kilograms
sent by him from Washington Territory
last September to the Acting Chief Sig
nal officer regarding the loss of the Pro
teus and return of the Darlington party,
then Just madc known. The object of
the kilograms was to have sledging
party sent from Upernavik to meet
Greedy at Littleton Island.
PROFESSOR DODGE, of the agricultural
department. estimates the corn crop at
1,551 ,066, S35 bushel, the wheat crop at
400000,0 900 bushels, and the cotton pro-
duct at 100000 bales. The attention of
farmers is called to the folly of attempt
ing 10 acchmatize southern corn in the
more northern districts.
JOHN N IRWIN, Governor of Idaho
Territory, has returned to the Treasurer
of the United Srates n draft for $500,
sent him as salary for the quarter ended
Oct. 30, and declined also to receive the
salary due him ending Dec. 81. He
states he has been unable to attend to
the duties of the office since July |, and
does not consider he can conscientiously
accept pay.
BONDED whisky interests, ii is feared
by interested parties, will receive rough
handling by the Committee on Ways and
Means. A majority of the committee, it
is figured, are opposed to the entire
system. The Deputy Commissioner is
particularly friendly to the distillers and
whisky men, and does not hesitate to
interest himself in their behalf
ALL bids for the superstructure of the
new government building at Pitts5urg
being 100000 in excess OF the amount
appropriated therefor they have been
rejected. The foundations for the entire
building will be laid. and an additional
appropriation for the superstructure will
he applied for through congress.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04

JAMES SUMMERS, one of the counter
feiters captured at VlEcennes, H., last
Friday, has been identified as the motor
ious John Sprasue, alias Spray, one of
the most noted counterfeiters in the
country. The Government officials have
beez looking for him for a year. Sprague
is fine looking man and well educated.
FIVE unclaimed corpses lie in the
market-house at McDale, Texas. Three
men were taken from saloon at mid
night by fifty armed and masked citi-
zens and hanged to tree, for horse
stealing. Six friends or relatives of
the deceased victims read into town and
forced fight with the suspected lynch
ers, in which two of the assaaItipg par
ty were killed and two others mortally
wounded
HAVING been charged with the muir
der of his wife, in suit brought by her
father at Indianapolis, Captain johnson
produced, under positive orders from
the court, sixteen letters from ne dead
woman, clearly detailing the events of
criminal intimacy between herself and
Mr.. Henry, of Nashville. johnson had
carefully guarded the reputation of his
deceased wife until her father brought
the scandal before the public.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES =.

TuE Lawrence, Mass, cotton mills are
reducing production and dismis5ing
many employees.
FIRES of Friday Six stores at Or
angehurg. >. c.; loss $t5. 1090; n hotel at
Rye Beach, N. v, loss $25000.
The Lafayette Touring g-mills at Chip
pewa Falls, Wisconsin. which were
burned Tuesday morning, We're valued
at $50, 900.
The sausage factory of \. Heller, ON
Astor street, Milwaukee, was damaged
to the amount of $25, 900 by fire Monday
morning Chief Engineer Foley, of the
Sre department, narrowly escaped being
killed by Il falling weather vane weigh
ing one hundred pounds,
\ MISPLACED switch threw passen-
ger train on the trestle-work near sun
bury. Pa, Wednesday, the engine, ten
der and haggage-car plunged to the
bottom, a@d the first coach stopped when
halfway over.
4 COMPANY engaged in boring for oil
at Wartield. Kentucky, struck a flow of
gas which blew five thousand pounds of
tools into the air. The roar of the well
can be heard three miles
BY three fires, Saturday. twelve per-
sons were burned to death. Four chill
dren nj Clarendon. S. c.: six children
near Live Oak. Fla. and lady and a
child at Atchison, Kan. The last are
wife and child of { f Styles, agent for
the Missouri Pacific Railway.
i lN alighting from his coupe at his
residence in New York Monday evening
General Grant slipped and fell upon the
i,y sidewalk. being painfully wounded
rear the hip. No bones were broken but
the sciatic nerve was bruised, and the
General is compelled to keep his bed.
AFTER the terrible disaster at the Nir-
gnius mine in Colorado. party of
thrty-one persons left Ouray to bring
in the dead. In returning with the
coInSes, sleds containing four bodies
wee carried by an avalanche two thou
sand feet down the mountain and five
hundred feet over a prccipice.
As Mrs GENERAL SHERMAN and
daughter got into their buggy at St.
Naver'S church, st. Louis. Wednesday,
the horses became frightened and madly
plunged off. colliding with 4 lamp-post,
and wrecking the vehicle. from which
the hdies were rescued unhurt. One of
the animals. having broken its back was
shet,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
TIE HUNTINGTON LETTERS.

The Huntington Colton letters
many of which have been published
are miserable mess indeed. 1t is said
that the worst ones, THAT is, those cal
cuatcd to make the worst ha"oc with
regulations have been withheld for
the present. Those that are given to
the public are bad enough. They re
veal the soulleSsncSs of members of
II etcat corporation striving to gam its
ends J j n K. IoauS or foul, "frtd orols
ing out all the corrupt and Corrupt
bic clements in congress and III pub
lie life IN state and nation; and deal
ing with them as merchantable stuii
buying them like sheep i'll the
shamblcs aud valuing them as he
would value draught horses tor what
they could pull, lie was, according
to his own showing, sllrcwd manlp-
ulator lie packed and mpacked com
ulittecs. He held the brake on legisln
ton He had corruption reduced To II
tine art To east the lily of corruption
and have senators and congressman
rise 10 il and to play them for awhile
as President Arthur plays Il five pound
trout or an eighty pound bass, and
then to put them into his basket was
IN act which he seemed To enjoy,
much MS fisherman does, merely for
the Saa of the fish lie caught and the
skill II required TO catch them He
evidently has as much contempt for
his catch us if they were mere dog fish
and suckers. He describes some of
thcm ms mon who can be convinced
bat they must have solid reasons,
some as hungry cr,sses, others rs
mon whom hls undcrliuSs nave
switched but who are likely
to br switched back again by
the other side. Tie tells how
he fixed mp the committees
in the senate; how it costs piles of
money to fix things, and he estimated
ii would take 500, 900 To pass one bill
which he deemed of minor import
aucc These things he writes about as
coolly as, and IN the same connection
with, his comments on the price Of
IRON and ties for track laying.
This Huntington is one of the mcr
whom tEa late "SayiOtl,. of thc Marty
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
NO. 90.

years, was dismissed from the house
for cheating at cards There was a
gathering of men at Schenck'S upon
the evening of the scandal for the
purpose ofplaying poker. They play
for very heavy stakes at Schenc6's.
The players are supposed to be gen.
tlemen, and the game is not played
always with the same care as would
be exercised by professional gamblers
During the evening in question the
players around the table would an
nounce their hands upon the call
without showing their cards, tossing
them on the table face downwards.
The Colousl won oftener than any
one else, and had made several hun
dred dollars. Toward the close of
the evening there was $500 on the
table. Hands were called. The
highest hand in the call until the
Colonel was reached was three
queens" At this the Colonel threw
down his cards negligently as he said,
Il have straight flush, and,began
to rake in the money. Hold on
said the holder of the three queens,
you may have made some mistake; !;
let me look at your cards, and before
they could be swept into the pile, the
three queen man picked up the Col
onel's hand. There was not in il a
single card of the hand declared
There was no possibility for any mis-
take At once there arose perfect
howl of contempt and anger. The
noble Colonel was bounced out of the
ordered out West, although Ruther-
ford 3. Hayes tried to save him
from being sent away from Washing
ton.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
CsHatt

Jolsg HsNESSY. discount clerk of the
Ranque dr Peuple al Montreal. embez-
Zled 81, 0fjQ. which sum was made good
by his uncle.
In tha celebrared murder trial of
Highau at Watertownt y. Y. for kill
ing Mr.. Games, the jury returned ver-
dict of not guilty.
HENRY PAPE, charged with several
attempts o wreck trains on the Norfolk
4 Western railroad. has keen arrested
at Lyr ,hturg, Va. His father is also inn
plicateS.
ROSE HIRAM, formerly a lady's maid
to Lady Vaudeville. has begun suit in
New York to recover 100000 damages
for false IMPRISONMENT at the instance of
Lord and Ldy Vaudeville, who charged
the maid VIII larceny.
CHARLES RUSSELL shot and killed
Charlec LeNis in Cincinnati Monday.
The men wee colored and Lewis had ir-
suited Russsls sister during the after
neon. and Wien the men met last night
they quarreltl with the above result.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
GENERAL NOTES.

A DESPERATE fight for right of way is
i'll progress at Youngstown, o !io, be-
tween the employees of the Pittsburg,
Cleveland and Toledo road and those of
the New York. Pennsylvania and Ohio.
WITH a capitalization eff $125. 900, The
Chronicle and The Telegraph,of Pitts
burg, will be consolidated, retaining
both names.
RowELL and an alderman of New
York are to have a six days walking
match in that city in February, for $500
q side.
SEVERAL saloon keepers of Missouri
Valley, Iowa. who had paid the license
Zee of 5000, were indicted by the grand
jury, and fined from $500 to 300 each.
A Boston man, named George Oakes
Clarke, left in trust for his family an
estate valued at $500, 900. and g:ne rous-
ly provided that when his race runs out
the money shall go to Harvard college.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has been informed
that the missing Charlie McComds is
probably with band of Chiricahua In
dams who are daily expected to arrive
at San Carlos agency.
TWENTY thousand coal miners in the
bitimOuS regions of Westmoreland,
Blair. Bedford, Huntington; Center and
Clearfeld counties, IRE preparing to
resist a proposed reduction of wages.
EIGHT member. of Company G., Hi
noIs National Guard, of Bloomington,
who signed petition asking Captain
Jones TO resign, have been ordered by
Col. Bennett &c apologize to the Captain.
If not they will be court-martialed and
eIishonorably discharged.
GEORGE r. CLARKE, of Chicago, at the
close Of gospel meeting at the Pacific
mission, caused a Christmas dinner to
be served to five hundred poor persons
Bountiful tables We're provided at the
Newsboys' home, all the hospitals, the
Old Peoples home, the jail, the bride
well, and the insane asylum. Ex-Alder-
man Jonas distributed over a ton of
chickens, as well as other dainties, no
4pplican being refused.
FREDERICK c. BuRCHARD deposed at
San Francisco Wednesday, in the Hill
Sharon case, that lie was engaged to
Nisl IIill IN tSSf, neoti. iar IT Sen.
Sharon's country reeidence, but she
broke off the match for financial reas-
ons. During their love-making period
Miss Hill informed him that her rela
tions with Sharon were simply those of
friendship, and that two other persons
greatly desired to marry her.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
An Old Letter Of Henry Clay
Kansas CITY Journal.

J. d. Allen, Esq, of Shawnee,
Kan. sends US the original letter, of
which the following is copy, in the
handwriting of Henry Clay, and
bearing his frank Mr.. Allen, at the
time it was received, resided in
Athens. Ill, and. as he writes US, dis
covered it on Monday last, while
locking over some old letters We
copy it in full:
WASHINGTON, June 26, 1S40.-DEAR
SIR: / have received your favor, re-
questing an EXPIRE ssion of a sentiment.
| can only be very brief In my opin-
ion, the most alarming fact which
strikes the eye of an attentive obsery-
or, in surveying the face of our coun-
try, is the corrupt and demoralizing
practices to which the administration
party resorts to maintain itself in
power Misrepresentation, falsehood.
bribery, forgery, perjury, corruption
of the ballot. boxes have been estab-
lished upon members of that party.
When one party employs such means.
sooner or later, IN selfdefense and
from necessity, the other party viii be
tempted to appeal to the same arts,
and the corruption OF the whole mass
will quickly follow. Then, farewell
TO liberty. All my hopes rest on Nov
ember. Yours respectfully,
a. CLAY.
NJ n Allan
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
\JiIIoNIyS LaojfI

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-Nillard is
somewhat better, but he is still suffer
ing from nervous prostration His
resignation, as president of the North
ern Pacific railroad, will be presented
al the annual meeLlng OF the directors
January 4th. The probable sue,
eessor to Willard is being
freely discussed in the street.
1t is thought that Frank Billings, of
Boston, will be pushed by the New
England stockholders and A. j. Cas-
sell, of Pennsylvania, by other par
tics interested.
Nothing positive can be ascertained
from the officials of the Northern Pa
cific company or from members of the
bond syndicate regarding the much
talked of change although develop
nents are expected shortly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
4 Wonder Among Widows
Boston Traveller


A few days ago prominent tinan-
cier died in this city, leaving widow
hardly half his age, whom he married
for second wife some fifteen years
since. Atthc time Of his second mar
riage he had several grovn.up child
rem who, as usually happens, we're
very angry, and wEo insisted that his
new wife had accepted him on &C
count Of his wealth. Despite the diff
ference Of their ages they were IN
sympathy and lived happily together.
She always resented the charge Of
mercenaries, and now that he Il dead
she has opened boarding hoase, re
solved to take care Of herself. Al
though her late husband was held
worth several millions, it is given out
that he had lost his fortune in Wall
Street and that he left no will. Some
OF the widows friends have urged her
to insist ON hor legal rights. but she
stubbornly refuses to. The dead
financier, who deyotedly loved her, is
thought TO have provided generously
for her in his will. But even If tn1
will had been destroyed she would be
entitled to her dover, but she will al
low no action in her behalf.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
READS LIKE A DIME NOVEL.
A Story of Down East Biood-Thirst-
inaSS

BIDDEEFoRD, Me-, De-: ..31.--Several
pools of l'2RA on the snow Sunday
morningle Il 3 bs1iefstkat a muir
der had been COMMITTEE the previous
night in this connection. DIR. Grafton
says he was called Saturday night by
two men, who wanted Kim to go with
them. They refused to give their
names, and when they reached Frank
lin street they bandaged his eyes.
After traversing several streets they
entered house. The doctor was led
to an uncarpeted bed room, where he
was locked in, the men leav-
ing him. Here he found a
young woman with deep cash
extending from the right ear down to
the throat. Size wa extremely weak
from loss of bloo1. 81 . said, Doc
to,., g. Cats sak say ny life. p" He
feared she would die while he was
there, and doesn't think she could
have lived five minutes longer with
out care. After bandaging her
wounds, the doctor knocked at the
door, which was opened, and he was
Immediately taken to another room,
where he found man with a
cut from the nostril to the mouth.
After treating this patient he was taken
back to Franklin street and blindfold-
ed where the men left him and they
were out of sight before he could un-
bandage his eyes and look about him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
CATCHING COLD"
People Who Wrap Up Most the Great
est suffers.

DIR. c. L. Page says, in the Popular
Science Monthly, that in his efforts to
catch cold' he has worn low shoes
and walked around in snow and slop
until socks and shoes were saturated,
and, i'll that condition, sat am hour,
going to bed withoat warming his feet.
In midwinter, and on the approach of
cold weather, lie has left of his tlan-
mel underclothes and his overcoat. He
has slept with current of air blow
ing directly on his head and shoulders.
Ca a very cold, damp night in the fall
he has, at bed dtime, sat naked 10 min
utes in draft After wearing a fan
mel nightgown, and sleeping under
heavy bedclothes one night, he has
put on cotton nightgown and slept
under light covers the next. On a cold
rainy morning he has, after raising,
sat naked for an hour and then put
on his shirt and trousers, almost satu-
rated with water from hanging near
the window. He his repeatedly tried
these and simular experiments, but
has never caught cold He has be
come cold and then warm again. That
is all,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
The Mind Dependent on the Body.

lvpoChondria is a far more common maiaGy
thaa IS generally supposed. 1t has its degrees, it
is tue, progressing from mental depreSsions, or
the blues, to mental hallucination: but they
all forms of the same maady. Ii is significant
fact that this mental aiGnent is invariably accom-
plished by dyspepsia and nervousness, and the
fact that il readily yields to the Alternative action
Of HoStetterS Stomach BitterS, which pecu-
hariy adapted Ia the eradication of indigestion
aud nervous debility, proves that il originates in
those complaints. II will thus be seen how de
pendent the mind is upon the body for the pre-
servation of cheerful equilibrium, and also how
readily the causes of mental gloom may be re
moved. There is no Surer or pleasanter way of
shaking OF tit Of depression brought on by in
digestion than by swallowing dose or two Of
this agreeable medicine,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
Where TO see the Great Trotters OF
New York.

No two men in America have had
more experience with fine trotting stock
and ro0e are better judges than Calvin
NJ T - of the New York Club Stables,
2S rect ue2r Fifth avenue and Dan
MIC, at the Excelsior Stables, west 29th
street, New York, the champion double
team driver of the United States. Both
of these gentlemen say, that for painful
ailments in horses such as csts, bruises,
swelings, lameness, stiffness, st. Jacobs
Oil is superior to anything they have
ever used or heard of This is also the
opinion of Prof. David Robarge, the eel
ebratea horse-shoer of the metropolis,
and thousands of stock-owners through
out the country. As a pain cure for
man and beast St Jacobs Oil has no
equal. Dir. Priest recites the case of .
valuable trotter, so stiff from rheuma-
tism that he could not move an inch.
BY one, thorough application of st. ia
cobs Oil at night, the animal was COM
pletely cures, and was fit for the race
track, the next day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
More Floods.

EIcKsBURG, Dec. 3L-Heavy rains
in the past forty eight hours caused a
rapid rise In the small streams In this
section, delaying trains. There was
heavy slide in the cut twenty-five
miles south of here on the Mississippi
Valley railroad. The track has also
gone down along the cemetery road
preventing trains reaching the cross
ing point on the Yazoo river. It Will
require three days to repair the dam
age. There will be no trains over the
Eicksourg and Meridian road until to-
morrow evening.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04

COLUMBUS, Dec. 81 Big Kelley,
one notorious, and a 6 ang of express
robbers, were captured on the Bee
Line road, eight miles from here, this
morning Three Of tle parties es-
capped An otllcer Enre had been
taken into the Combination to rob the
Cleveland exp IS, ant number of
officers went OF with him with the
peSu1tc stated
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04
THE PHAIR SUICIDE.
Its Sensational Features.

WoNEwoc, Wis, Dec 31-The sui
eide of Mrs. Sophia Phair, formerly
Mrs. kuertsen. of Hillsborough, which
occurred last Monday, is still lively
topic of conversation here. She de
liberately planned and executed the
deed, cutting her throat before mir
ror in an upper room of the house
and then grasped the incision and
went into the cellar, where she re
mained for an hour in nearly help
less condition, when she was found
and then fought hard to prevent the
giving of any assistance. She linger-
ed for a few hours and died in great
agony. The belief exists that she
was implicated in some dark deeds
which it is thought preyed on her
mind and impelled the rash act.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-01-04

Mn. HARRY w. PEACE, president
Of the Vulcan Saw Works, in Brook
Iyn, New York, dcnounces the tariff
roundIy. lie says by its operation all
its protection on saw makers goes to
two out of forty-G saw makers, 1t
is, he declares, % positive damage to
the other forty three The two which
are given the monopoly arc those
which manufacture their own steel.
The others are compelled to buy 1t
and pay forty per cent. on all they
import, and a similar enhancement
Of the price ON the domestic steel
which they buy. The result proves
ruinous. Mr. Peace wants the tariff
reduced So that the forty three will
be ..olc to compete with the two lie
declares that rs saw maker he would
be perfectly willing to compete with
tho whole world, with no tariff on
other steel or saws" Bnt he is in
dead earnest for tariff reform