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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
The C. A. r.

MINNEAPoLIs, July 22.-All the in
coming trains running in sections are
loaded down with Grand Army dele
cations. Gen. Logan came overfrom
Milwaukee here OH a special train ut
noon He was given grand recep-
ton all along the line of march from
the depot to Gen. Washburn's resi-
dence, whose guest he is. At the
West hotel 4 great crowd collected
and cries for speech rent the air.
Gen. Logan bowed acknowledgements
but declined to speak He will deliver
an address at Camp Beath during the
afternoon. Both St. Paul and Min
neapolis are thrown open and all prl
vate residences, and the crowds can
hardly be accommodated. A great
rush is expected to morrow when the
grand parade will occur.
MINNEAPoLIs, July 22.-General
Sherman just come IN from the lake
and was greeted with the widest en-
thuSiaSm.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
ACCIDENTS A

THE boiler in Carters sawmilI in Mon
roc County, Indiana, burst Monday
evening, killing three men and fatally
injuring four others.
THE small town of San Jose. Cal,
was almost destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The water giving out, claret was
used to prevent the destruction of the
old mission church.
A VIOLENT hail and rainstor2n swept
EIstern Nebraska Friday night. The
ram did serious damage at Omaha; and
at North Platt hailstones az large as
hens eggs fell.
BY boiler expl. sion at Mount Yer
non, Ohio, Monday, two trampS sleep
ing in blacksmith shop near the scene
were killed-one named John Carey
and the other unknown.
THE schooner Deborah H. Deborah,
coal laden, foundercd off Beck's Beech,
N. j., on the night of June %, in n hur-
"ican3, and the ten persons on board,
including the captain and steward 5
wives and child, perished.
A ROCHESTER, Pa, dispatch says:
Johnson's row of five flame tenement
houses with their contents was entirely
destroyed by fire at an early hour this
morning. The flames spread SO rapidly
that the occupants, twenty-five in num-
Der, barely escaped with their lives. The
loss is about 5000.
A BLOOMINGTON, Ind, dispatch says:
Last night the boiler at Carter's saw
mill. in the southwestern part of this
couRty, exploded with terrible resvlts.
OF over dozen men who were in the
mill four were killed outright and all
the ethers injured severely. The killed
are: John Carter, Wesley Carter, VIM.
Graves, and q. Creaver. Tie mill was
blown to atoms, and pieces of debris
were carried several hundred yards. and
the dead and wounded men We're buried
in the rsins. All the bodies have been
recovered
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
Magnetic Platitudss

NEW YORK, July 22. The Herald
collates the vows of host of leading
men on Blaine's letter. The republi-
cans who swallow Blaine are full Of
praise of the letter. Indeed, their
laudation is overdone-it has a forced
tone of over-acting; they protest too
much. The devotees of nigh tariff
are very plimentary, but all mod
crate protectionists, revenue reform
ers and free traders will point out its
fallacies on first perusal.
The letter is regarded as skllliul
attempt to divert the canvass from
the record of Blaine He sees
the best element of the party
cleavlng away from him. The con
demnatlon Of his public course, his
connection with jobbery; his aid rem
dered to all the profigate and jobbing
legislation form picture OF the self
seeking, country-plundering polltl-
clan. from which hundreds Of thou
sands of republicans are turning
away.
Biaine's letter can call none of them
back. H can not, says one, make
people forget his misdeeds by merely
telling them that the country has
prospered. He can not satisfy them
that he Is a clean-handed man by
simply giving a few figures from the
census TO show that the country has
grown ia the last twenty years.
There is much laughter among
men of disciplined, logical minds,
over Blaine's contradictions. lie re
flutes the arguments of the protec-
tionists themselves. He makes the
ridiculous claim that the tariff mas
developed he western states, proves
that they have grown rich faster the
further off they were from protected
industries. He shows that Iowa,
which has the least and fewest manu-
factures, has grown faster than the
states which have had the benefits OF
the tariff poured into their laps.
One leading republican denounces
the letter as a piece of unmttigated
demagogism another as g bid for the
vote of everything; another called i
"a bundle of contradiction" third
deems it the vain endeavor % turn
away from his record.
Another prominent politician calls
| it such a letter as man would write
only when he saw ruin to his political
| fcrfrnae
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
CRIME

FANNY BELLE killed .erself ut Cincin-
matt Friday evening because she dis
covered that her lover was married
man.
During the absence of her husband
Mrs. Herne fled from stock farm in
Dickinson county, kas, with a gambler
of Abilene, taking $1,000 in cash given
her for safe keeping.
GENERAL DIAZ was formally notified
by the electoral college Tuesday, of his
unanimous election as President of
Mexico, Great enthusiasm prevails at
the capital.
PETER MCDoNALD shot and instantly
killed Herbert Deming, near Ashland,
Wis, while handling atarget-gun. The
| ball entered the eye and penetrated the
brain. Mcdonald is in Jail Deming's
home was in Eau Claire.
WHILE Tom johnson (coloredl was
brutaIly beating his 10-year-old son,
near Iron Gate, Va, Friday, tie boy
broke away, ran to the river and jump
cd in. johnson attempted to rescue
I the lad and in the struggle both were
drowned.
! RUMoRS prevailed at Milwaukee We'd
neSday, that the assets of the Manufac-
| turer's bank. which recently failed, are
| $200, COO or $500. 900 less than the habil-
/ itles, and that the institution had been
managed in q Criminally c:relesS man.
| ner. the result being that depositorS may
not get 80 per cent. Th, receivers re-
port is daily expected.
LAIR. one of the men on trial at Grand
I Forks, u. T for the murder of the
| Ward boys, was acquitted Wednesday,
I .~,rnh
, The prosecution. it is said, will ask for =
! change ef venue in the other cases. C1e
OF the jurymen, NJ. J. Hellaud, has been
arrested, charged with perjury, in that
/ he went into the case determined that
! the prisoner was not guilty.
/ AT Charleston, W. Va. on the l6-h,
! Charles Spurlock. member of the Hit
\ BOYS lJe,se j sme>l gang, who murdered
| Alvin Woods and shot his father, Jack
/ Woods, near st. Albaps. in this county.
| in the latter part of April. was senteace1
| to be hanged on October Il next. be-
4 tween the hours of 10 a. m. and y.
m. His only request when the sentence
was pronounced was to be baptized.
! Notwithstanding he confessed to muir
/ der in the first degree, when brought
out for trial, he said last night that he
/ did so in fearing of the mob, but he
/ denied ever having killed any one.
Tue wife of William Scholes, a
wealthy cattle dealer at Bettsville,
Ohio. fled with the hired man, Eugene
EldIidge, ia her husbands absence, and
the latter ea his return home Monday
night. found tie decomRosing body of
an infant in his d serted house. 1t can
not be ascertained whether the child is
Scholes' or not. or how it came by ITS
death. A clew to the whereabouts of
the woman and her paramour has been
| found.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
CABLEGRAMS 5.

! CHINA rejects the demands of France
an. war appears to be inevitable.
YELLOW fever and dysentry are
fearfully prevalent on the Isthmus of
Panama.
to the murder of the bankers Leinhart
and Eisert.
A DISPATCH from Shanghai states that
there will be no fighting between the
French and Chinese.
THE Porte has sent circular letter to
the powers notifying them of its as
sumption of the postal service.
FIFTY.sEvEN deaths at Mar5eilles
and twenty-four at Toulon for the
twenty-four hours ending o'clock Sun
day evening.
THE English Tories are organizing
counterdemonstrations to the move
ment favorIng the franchise bill to be
held at London, Liverpool, and Man
chester.
THE health officers in Londen are
organizing the hospital service, in tie
event of The cholera making its appear
ance. Italy and Switzerland will CO.
operate to prevent the introduction of
IIlOItId llIO lIit'lI lGIIlIOTl'S- O"llLeI-
land Is willing to guard the French
frontier and examine all persons and
goods crossing it,
1T is officially announced that China
has given France the first measure of
satisfaction. The Chimes. Imperial
Gazette of the 10th instant, published
the decree, in accordance with the
terms of the convention of May II. In
this decree the Emperor orders the
Chinese troops to eyaCuate Lao Ki,
Lang Son ana Gao Bang, and withdraw
to this size of the passes leading to Yum
Nan, Kwang Ton and Kwang ST. The
evacuation will be completed within
month.
THE name of the American lady kill
ed in the railway disaster, near Pennis-
ton on Wednesday, was Mrs. Carrie
Ede'stein, not Edle5ton. She was a
widow and resided in New York, and
was the sister in-law of j. NJ. Eielstein,
manufacturer at Harrington, Eng.
Her body was much disiigured and only
by her dress was it identified.
A LONDON dispatch of the 17th says
that twenty-five perso's were killed
and forty seriously wounded by rail
road accident to-day. An axle broke
on the express train on the Manchc ster
and Sheffield road, a2d the train Jump
ell the track and fell through the bridge
Scenes underneath the bridge. after the
train had fallen through, were terrible
to witness. The carriages were reduced
almost to splinters. The 8roans Of plen
aud shiCkS of women and children were
heart-rending in the extreme. Some
delay was experienced before the vic
tim; could be eXtricatcd.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
From the Soudan

CAIRO. July 22. Messengers from
the oasis of Wap el KhaFjeb report
thatCol. Colville and Maj Worthey,
with Bedouin forces, arrived ut Brio,
in that oasis, after a ten days march
from Assioul, 300 miles distant. Their
horses were in good condition, not
withstanding the great heat. Col.
Colville hoped to proceed southwark
to Selemoh July 16, nine days jour
ney from Kharjeb. The route lies
through the very heart Of the desert,
and there is no water fit for drinking.
Colville'a intention was to take 125
men mounted on camels, and also
camel train of a hundred carrying
water sufficient for ten days and food
enough for two weeks lie
expected to direct his line
of march across the desert
by compass and hoped to strike the
Nile al Aumara some distance south
of Wady Halfa.
The shelkh Of Kharjeh thought a
collision with the rebels was probable
at Ammara, but Colville did not con-
slider this proof of sufficient import
ance TO make II necessary TO change
his plans. a messenger stated that
the inhabitants Of the oasis we're now
| friendly to the English A month ago,
however. when Major Wortley's adj
vance guard appeared 500 natives of
fered a feeble resistance but were
quickly dispersed at the sight Of fifty
rifles Of the guard. The sheikh Of
Kharjeh informed the English officers
that messengers from Mahdi had pass
ed through Kharjeh on their way TO
Tripoli. Colvillc expects TO reach
ulsmah by July 26th and Wady Hal
ia by the beginning of Aug,ast.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
FROM THE CAPITAL

AT the meeting Of the cabinet Satur-
day it was decided to take vigorous
measures to prevent the Introduction OF
! cholera into the United States. Presi-
dent Arthur issued a proclamation urg-
ing vigilance on the part of state au-
| thoritieS and our consuls abroad.
A PACKAGE containing $1,000 was for.
waGded by the assistant treasurer al
| New Orleans, by express, to TIE United
States treasurer, but when opened wa,
! found $4,000 short. There were cvi-
dences that the package had been
opened and reseaIed during transmits
sion. The loss will fall on the express
| compa9y.
IT may be stated positively that thc
president will not Issue commission to
John Jarrett, who was appointed chief
of the bureau of labor statistics, but
will appoint some one else. The more
the matter is inve estigated, the more
contemplate Jarrett appears, for there
is plenty of evidence TO show that even
since his appointment he has never re-
ferred to the President except in the
most vulgar and disrespectful way.
The president is receiving large num-
ber of letters from PlttSburg, written
by people who have heard Jarrett talk,
ana quote what he has said Jarretts
own conduct at the White House when
he came to see the president is said to
have preiudiced his case very much,
for he assumed an arbitrary and dicta-
torial air, as if the office had been
created for his especial benefit, and the
president was not much OF a man any
how.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

BoSToN casts about -, 600 votes.
The republicans who will vote for
Cleveland ana against Blaine already
enrolIc number 5000, and the mum
Der is daily increasing. The ind
pendent vote of Massachusetts, will
run from 20, 600 to $4,000. The low
est estimate of the independent vote
of New York city is set ut 10, 600. The
revolt in the state of New York is
every day growing larger ard aston
ishes the men who first led in repudi.
ating Blaine. The attitude of Tam
many hall and Of Ben. Butler and his
follo#ing are the only things that pre-
vent Blaine defeat from being a moral
certainty.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

Tue revolt OF the republic ans Of
Massachusetts, from the Blaine FL
kins Claytoa combination is assuming
every day more colossal proportions.
Among the Later boilers IS Mr.. John
f. Andrew, son Of the old war COVER
nor, whose announcement that he
shall support Cleveland causes quite
IA panic ia Blaine circles rs he is onc
of the bright promising young repub
lIcans of large influence III the state.
The Boston Globe says his announce
ment fell like thundcr-cI Up from Il
clear sky. Nis bolt means large fol
lowing from the best rank Of the
young, working republicans o? the
state.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

BLAINE has solght the presidency
for ten years, during winch time he
nas planned, plotted and schemcd to
reach that station. Mr. Cleveland
has not made the slightest effort to-
wards the honors that were heaped
upon him. When rendered to him he
has accepted them Blaine is self
seeker Cleveland not Blaine has
thousands Of henchmen toply for SER
vcss in three campaigns and will pay
it in public patronage, thus pcrpctu-
ating the evils Of the civil service
Cleveland, free from such political
debts will go into the executive Office
with no mortgage upon the appoint
inc ,pWpr
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
A mode.trcomnetenen

In the way OF health Is more commonly our
share than exuberaace of that desirable
article. Let it be our aim to keep what We have
got net TO waste the blessed endowment by inn
prudent living and working. It may be safely
predicatsd OF Methuselah that he was not a dys-
peptic, The rapid rate at which this modern
generation lives, prematurely exhag.StS the phys
lcal energies OF many. 4 safe means Of their
neWal may be found in Hostetter's Stomach
Btters, genuine auxiliary Of digestion and Sc
cretics, and a PRIME source of vigor When :.
notice to quit is served with il the troublesome
tenant, dyspepsia, ae speedily eyacsates the
premises. and il is no less potent in bringing .
Yields 20 it and rheumatism cannot successfully V
oppose its depurating acsiea- Ii Is = fine reg,l-
iator of the kidneys and bladder, and tranquil
fzes and tones the nerves Il lays fosnda1 oo
of health upon which prudence may raise q last
ing sup7rstructure. Lastly though not least il
is commended by the medtNsi fraternity.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

MIR. LOGAN is out in letter Of ac
ceptance. 1t is as long as Blaines,
but has fewer ideas. While Blaine S
is bad logic, it IS good reading, be
cause well written. But Logan's is
made up of the old, worn out plati-
tudes of the party SIN )thered in words,
and each sentence is prolonged by a
procession of long tailed adjectives.
1t is mighty unintercsting reading,
and likely TO make even Blaine
man yaWn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

THE Blaine journals are complain
ng Of tbs opponents of Blaine as
mud singers" The republicans are
little else than catapults for throwing
mad. They are the organs who have
splotched Mr.. Blaine all orer. The
inefAceable tattoo upon his skin was
pricked in almost entirely y by the pens
of editors who are now trying to prove
that his political hide is the very pink
OF IN oral purity, su1i'used by the blush
Of conscious innocence.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
The National Educational Associate

The annual convention week of the
National Educational Association open
ed at Madison, Wisconsin, on tho 18th
inst. 1t was the largest gathering of
educators that ever assembled in the
United States. The weather during the
convention was most delightful, and,
although fully 5000 strangers poured
into the little city of Madison, of not
over $4,000 inhabitants, the visitors were
all SO well taken care of that scarcely a
complaint was heard. The whole of the
north wing of the new state capitol
building Just com; leted and yet unoc-
Cupied, was given over to the convention
for the school exhibit under the charge
oS DR.. Smart of Indianapolis, Indiana.
| This school exhibit was declared by all
TO excel that at the Centennial EXposi-
ton III 1876, and great credit is accorded
DIR. Smart for his untiriHg work in this
department. More than twenty states
were represented in the school exhibit
The exhibits from Iowa, Indiana. Massa-
chusettS, Ohio. California and Wiscon-
sin. being especially full. The opening
eNercisGs consisted i'll addresses of well
come by Mayor Stevens of Madison, and
Assistant State Superintendent Chandler
of Wisconsin. President Blcknell, of
Bostoa. delivered the annual addres ses
before the association. Three of the
largest churches i'll the city, the senate
and assembly chambers of the state
capitol and assembly hall at the uni
versity of Wisconsin, We're all occupied
each day of the convention
for the meetings. ami generally
the entire six large halls We're
/ crowded with people. The
[ lrrf,IrpS and IiSrll SSipnS ON bracej every
I phase of school work. Tue FrebeI In
/ stitute of North America. held its prin-
I cipal meeting IN the assembly chamber.
! and the address was delivered by james
/ McAlliSter. superintendent of schools of
/ the city of Philadelphia.
/ The results IF such a convention of
/ educators cannot but lie most beneficial
/ to the teachers and school officers iu
/ attendance, but will greatly add to the
effectiveness of school work in all its
+ departments. Tie association was most
/ fortunate il select rg Madison for its
/ convention. as the charming climate of
! Wisconsin was just the place the teach
/ erS desired after a year Of hard work.
I Besides the facilities for travel to and
from Madison are not eNcelled by those
I of any similar place in the country.
| The financial success of this conven-
/ ton has also b., II such as TO satisfy the
most exactiug. The convention was
some 500 in debt, which it has paid
End had between S3. 600 and $1,000 in
/ the treasury at the close OF the convcn-
1 tion. This will meet all expenses of the
I convention-pay for publishing The vol
ume of proceedings and still leave from
! one to two thousand dollars of a sur
+ plus.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

THE people at Oshkosh are still
laughing over the lamenta5le fizzle Of
the Blaine ratification Meeting. 1t
was the sickest attemp. at enthusiasm
ever tried in tina. city, SO famed
for "fun with the boys"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
GEN. BRACES SPEECH.
Gen. E, S. Bragg was then intro
duced, and spoke as follows:

duu pOh0 DIS 1OllO"o-
LADIES AND GESTLEMES:-There are among the
American populatian large proportion of those
VINO vote who belong TO no political party as
such, who are not mere politicians, but who al
ways vote in such manner TO best promote
the interests and welfare of their country. 1t
would be useless for me to attempt any disguise:
| am democrat. / have stood by my party
through veal and woe, but recognize the fact
which so elegantly stated by De Tocqueville
in his democracy in America, that when
great war might ensue that whatever party should
be in power at the time and durinr its progress
anil at its close would gather TO itself great ectat
under which, year after year, growing in strength
it would grow in boldneSs and audacity until its
outrages and robberies called upon the public
conscience to expel it from the places that it
then occupied 1 believe that that time has
arrived, and the convention to which a
delegate the democracy of this state sent me as
one of its representatives, seem to have kept
abreast with the spirit of the time. 1t seemed to
have cut loose from its old traditions and men
and the Old roads where year after year the party
vehicle had been hauled along aud swamped. The
scales seemed TO fail from the eyes of the lead
ers, the ears Of the delegates were opened, and
and the voices that came from the east and west
reached them. The voices Of the young men
reached them aud nobly they responded. We
found ourselves arrayed against party having
at the head of its organization a man said to BE-
and he IS brilliant audacious. mag
netic Blaines magnetism was the principle
which seems to have led 70 his nomination. He
is magnetic but he has as well q magnetic side
which draws to him, as repcIIant side which
drives from him In what does his magnetism
consist! In a lively hope of favors TO come.
his color every Star Eoute contractor IN the land;
that sustained the Credit Mobilier: that brought
every stock gambler in Wall street TO his sup
port (AppIaosel 1t said te these neu. With
him for leader, and the public treasury to back
us We may again reveI In the ruins and plunder
and disasters resulting from a Black Friday
drew those men repelled from him
all the men who had made the
republican party respectable l mish
perhaps make an exception 70 that There are
some office-holders who are highly respectable,
and who would he right glad TO escape from
being chained to the ckarist wheels: but they
know that death attends them politically IL they
let Co. and they hold on hoping that something
may saEe them; that = SIN longer life Of political
position may be given them And it is well n
the economy Of politics that Ii Is 50. becane
there are 50 few that ve need them 70 act as PAL
bearers for the distinguished gentlemen that ve
propose to bury next November. (Applaue5
Knowing that this was the power that ve had 70
fight feeling that the sentiment Of the Amer5ea1
people demanded tha. they should be given >
man who represented higher aim. higher pr-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
Exclusion of Gas.

WHEELING, W. Va, July z2.-At
i've O'Clock this evening an explosion
of gas took place in trench on lZth
street, where new gas main IS being
laid. Supt. Dillon and Samuel Diar-
rah were badly burned, and 4 others
slightly.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

SAMUEL j. THLDEN is about to write
a letter to Gov. Cleveland congratu-
lating him on his nomination and as
surlng him Of the old sage's cordial
sunnort In the canvass.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25

AND now another trouble arises.
The old know-nothing editorials Mr..
Blaine used to write are re e-published.
It's a case OF too much record
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-25
ELKINs, Blaine's campaign manager,
says OF carrying Indiana that it is "a
mere matter of finance"

AN exchange says that the
"plumed knight" clubs have shown
the white feather already.