Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-02-15
LOCAL ITEMS.

lUGAL III EMS.
Lancaster will hold her city cleo
ton March II.
The revival meetings of the NJ. E.
church have closed.
Rumor has it that Milwaukee is
to have new 100000 hotel.
The Platteville Times says that
lefty is without a skating rink.
The original Georgia MINISTRIES
will show at the Opera House on
Friday evening, Feb. %.
| Our grain dealers have of late been
buying large quantities of oats
and selling immense quantities of
corn.
The price Of live hogs has gone up
considerably during the week Good
hogs will bring $500 per hundred
weight in this city.
A fire company has recently been
organized in Brodhead. The indie
pendent says that thirty members
are already enrolled.
The city treasurer wines to re-
mind those who have not yet paid
their taxes, that the time is growing
short in which to pay.
Six boys were arrested in Shulls-
burg last week for disturbing the
revival meetings in progress in the
p. NJ. church of that village.
Nick Hartert will give a grand
ball at his hall in this city, on next
Wednesday evening, the 20. Smiths
String band will furnish music.
Mess pork is selling in Chicago at
SIS per barrel-a rise in price Of
more than eight dollars per barrel
within the past three months.
Milwaukee Journal: Archbishop
Heiss will to-day, Tuesday, leave
Europe for New York, where he will
remain but day or two and will
then come direct to Milwaukee.
The handsomest advertising cards
we have ever seen are published by
DR.. J. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass,
who will send a set of them to any
address on receipt Of letter stamp.
At the skating rink on Saturday
evening the prize of pair of club
roller skates, offered by the propr!e-
tor of the rink to the most graceful
lady skater, was awarded to Miss
Margie Cox.
The Pick and Cad says that it is
reliably informed that more oats are
shipped form Shullsburg, than any
other station upon the Chicago,
Milwaukee e st. Paul Railroad west
Of GAINESVILLE.
"The Coming Man and His Wife,"
will be the subject of Rev. +. l..
Eaton's lecture at the NJ. f. church
next "Wednesday evening. All who
have heard Mr.. Eaton pronounce
him to be q fine lecturer.
A committee is ut work in Mil
waukee raising funds for the pur-
pose of securing the permanent
location of the state fair in that city.
The whole amount required is Sl0,-
900, and the subscriptions SO far
received aggregate $4,000.
John Cullen, f. Cullen and G.
Sonborger have purchased the right
to manufacture and sell Purinton's
Agricultural Boiler and Feed Steam
err in the counties of Lafayette and
Grant. They are live energetic men
and will undoubtedly meet with
good success in making sales.
Rev. A. W. Mann, of Cleveland, a
deaf mute, on Monday evening last
preached a sermon to Milwaukee
deaf mutes, using the language of
signs. The service was held in the
boys chapel at All Saints cathe-
dral, and lasted an hour and thirty
minutes. During the sermon a
death-like silence prevailed, not a
word being spoken. SO says the Mil
waukee Journal.
Tobacco is coming to the front as
one of the staple products of Grant
county, having been grown with no
little success during the past three
or four years although the crop this
year is not as large as in the past on
account of the damage done by late
frosts. Mr.. VIM. Nelson, Boscobel,
one day last week, sold some 5000
pounds of his own raising, at
. twenty-five cents per pound, which
netted him the sum of $780,
Herald.
W. Z. Rowe, county Treasurer,
was in Madison last week for the
purpose of paying Iowa county's por-
ton of the state tax. The Dodge
: vile Star says: "The amount re.
ouired for this year, and which was
paid by Mr.. Rowe, was $40, 409S1
, Next year the amount required to
be paid on the county Indebtedness
to the state, will be $4,000 the in
: terest on which has been paid up tt
date when it viii become due. The
year following, which will be in 1885,
: it will only require $1,000 and tn,
interest thereon, which amount vii
satisfy all the remaining indebted
! ness Of iowa county to the state, or
.. account of the railroad bond matter
!. after which the tax payers will ex