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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
III EGHA 80.

FIGHTING is imminent between the
llovas and the French i'll Madagascar.
PROFESSOR PACKARD, acting presi-
dent of Boradoin College, died suddenly
Sunday.
THE Right Rev. William jacobson,
ID. d., Bishop of C'ester, died Sunday
DWIGHT H. MOODY, the evangelist,
suiled from Liverpool for New York
Saturday.
DURING the twenty-four hours ending
8 O'Clock Sunday night, there We're fifty
seven deaths from cholera ut MarseIlles,
and thirty-siX at ToulOn.
n is reported that Miss Hill has with
drawn her suit against Senator Sha-
ton i'll some evidence furnished in her
behalf.
THE deaths by the cholera plague con
tinue TO increase in Marseilles and Tou-
lon. The Mayor of the latter city is one
of the victims.
A LONDON dispatch states that should
the house of lords reject the franchise
bill in the fall, the government will dis
solve parliament, and a general cleo tion
VIII take place before Christmas.
Tug cholera still increases in TouIon
and Marseilles. Thus far two sisters of
charity are among the victims at Tou-
lon, the death of the lady superior of
the convent being reported to-day.
THE Times this morning says: "The
platforms concocted by the Republican
and Democratic Conventions are both
unworthy of respect. They are DIS
tinguished by the absence of clear con-
victions, by evasion and by trimmings,
by service rivalry in h4ttering the
masses and by panderlng to popular
prejudIces modern dcmagogues and
Sociol quacks.'
A MEDICAL authority of Paris says
that corrosive sublimate il the best dis
infcctant i'll drains end closets; for
apartments he recommends phenic acid,
and advises anybody suffering from
diarrhea to take Immediately ten drops
of laudanum in glass of water.
when tbs cholera has once declared
itself, he continues, lit should be
treated with opium. Since absorption
is difficult. and sometimes impossible to
cholera patients, alkaloids should lie
employed, of which morphine is the
most powerful He thinks that NOR
phine will b. the great remedy should
there be an epidemic of cholera.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
tHOM TIE CAPITAL

THE pre- Sideut is getting ready for his
summer cruise. The steamer Dispatch
|]lyfg at the navy yard fully equipped
tea nrovisioned, and as soon as some
matters of importance now pending are
disposed of, he will board her for a
cruise along the North Atlantic coast,
stopping at Newport and some other
points. and going as far as Mount Desert.
His family will go with him.
FRANK w. SANRoRN was arrested
Niahfay at New York charged with
.otfer&ng forged voucher and receipt for
goods delivered at the bureau Of medi-
zine Of the navy department. Sanborn
asserts his Innocence. and states that
two years ago. Daniel w. Corrigar,
chief clerk of the bureau, Informed
him that he had made arrangements by
which Sanborn could y,et money on a
contract, before the goods were deliv-
cred. if he (Sauborn) would lend Corri
gan 800, and that Sergeant General
Wales was party to the scheme. San
born willingly went TO Washington
with the officers.
THERE were but l13 public acts passed
at the last session of congress, including
the thirteen appropriation bills, which
leaves an even 100 as the record of the
session. There are 324 m mbers of the
house. and IS senators, or an even 4Ot
in all, which gives but one bill for eacl
four &C thesa, including both houses
Delegate Raymend, Of Dakota, appear:
to have been the most successful mem
Der in securing legislation, for a!thous 4
he has no vote he secured the passage o
two bills for the benefit of that territory
while his share of legislation woult
have been oEe-fourth of a single bill
The two bills the passage of which h
secured were to provide additiona
Judges for Dakota and to double tn
membership of the legislature.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
Derenses Against Cholera.
London Times.

If, by any chance, the disease pre-
vailing at Toulon should be true
Asiatic cholera, and if it should be
imported into this country, cur de-
fences have been rendered such that
we have practically nothing to fear
Thirty years have witnessed an enor-
nous difference in the sanitary state
OF England, an enormously greater
appreciation, among all classes of peo-
pie, of the way in which epidemic
maladies should be controlled. and an
enormous increase In the development
of machinery for controlling them
promptly and energeticaIly. Cholera
is not like smallpox, which now un-
happily prevails in parts of London,
and which admits OF being diffused
through the atmosphere, or by per-
sonal intercourse with the sick. In
this climate, at least, the contagion
of cholera resides IN the excretions,
and the complete chemical aisinfec-
ton of these and Of whatever article
of clothing or of bedding they may
have soiled, affords practically entire
Immunity against the spreading of
the disease. Such being the case, we
have now at every port, IN every town,
and In almost every village, a COM
sle.e sanitary authority, whose bust
ness il would be, IN the event of cholera
being introduced, to see that for
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
The Independents

New YORK, July IA The indie
pendent republicans general commit
tee met this afternoon at their new
headquarters, Carl Schurz presiding.
The following call was adopted unan-
imously:
The undersigned committee invite
all republican and independent voters
who disapprove of the nominations
made by the republican national con
vention at Chicago as unworthy of
their support and who think that the
interest of the good government and
public morals demand the defeat of
the republican candidates for presi-
dent and vice president and who are
therefore resolved not to vote for
Elaine and Logan, to meet in confer.
ence either in person or by delegation
for the purpose of determining upon
a common course of action in the
pending canvass. A conference will
be held at IL o'clock a. m, on the
22d Of July, 1884. in the
city of New York, at the University
Club theatre, Madison avenue and
Twenty sixth street Gentlemen de-
string 70 take part are respectfully re-
quested to report their names to 5. w.
Grierson, secretary of the independent
republican committee, No. 35, Nassau
street. The call is signed by the Of
ficers of several independent repub-
lican committees.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
ACCIDENTS.

FIRE damaged the Hamilton ru! ber
factory at Trenton, N. Y, 100000.
Five tiremen were caught by the fallin:
roof, and two seriously hurt.
KINGMAN & Co.'S large warehouse
filled with agricultural implements, al
East st. Louis WAS destroyed by fire
Sunday. Loss, $4,000 insurance $780,
600.
THE premature discharge of a cannon,
at Centralia, No, Friday killed two
men.
ONE FOURTH of the horse tails ut the
fair grounds in Columbus, Ohio, We're
burned. Lily j., the trotting mare, with
a record of 2:25!, ana valued at 1000,
was burned. She was owned by G. l..
Stewart, of Chillicoth. The loss on the
stables is not over 81, 600.
THE fire in the Toledo (O) lumber
yards, burned over twelve acres, des-
troying property belonging to the Mich
ell Rowland Company, Kelly Brothers
q Nelson, and Holland & Co. Aid was
ask ed of Adrian. Monroe, Detroit, Nor
walk ard Fremont. Engines from those
cities were soon on the ground and sue
cecded in cxtrnguishing the flames. The
total loss is about 100000 and the in
surancc is S350,OO0.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
4 Wonderful Clock


A clock that will run four hundred
days without winding is on exhibit
ton in a downtown window. 1t
stands under a glass shade about fif-
teen inches high, and is of very sim
pie construction. the only apparent
difference between 1t and'a Connect
cut clock of novel design is that in
place Of pendulum it has a time
measure of equal exactitude in the
shape of a rotary disk of brass con-
tanning springs, which wind and ua-
wind as it turns first in o2e direction
and then the other. The clock is a
European invention, and attracts
considerable attention from passers-
by.
A salesman. in examining lis me-
chanism to a reporter, said: There
have been former inventions of clock
to run as long time as this. but
never on any such principle or with
any success, as they never proved at
all accurate. Until this clock was
perfected, no one ever produced a
clock of plain construction and gen
eral usefulness that would run longer
than week, or a fortnight at the ut
NEST. A view of this wonder would
have delighted Huygens, the father
of clockmakers, who produced the
first timepiece in the shap? of clock
256 years ago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18

the necessary precautions were taken
its diffusion; and it may be confident
ly affirmed that these precautions
would be effectual. A case of cholera
imported into this country By trav-
eler who had received the contagion
abroad would be likely to die out. for
want of opportunities of extension.
like lighted paper on a stone floor.
The authorities of the ports which are
in the most frequent and direct COM
munication with the South of France
will be thoroughly upon the alert;
and no suspicious case occurring in a
traveller would be likely to escape
their vigilance. There will be no dis
turbance of the ordinary operations
and channels of commerce, no re-
lance upon the paper plausibilities
OF quarantine, but state of complete
preparedness. to meet and to disarm
the invader if she would contrive to
effect a landing Still less. we trust,
in such case, would there be flight
of panic stricken persons from their
homes. 1t cannot be announced too
soon, or too clearly, that cholera is a
disease the conditions of diffusion of
which, as far as temperate climates
are concerned, are fully known, and
that these conditions are such as to
render the work OF prevention COM
paratively easy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
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The Oldest American City.

Tucson Arizona Cor, San Francisco Chronicle.
Tucson is the pride of all Arizon-
ians. They even claim IL to be the
oldest city in America and declares
that its organ antedates that of Santa
Fe. Before the advent of Americans
it was a Mexican hamlet, and still
earlier il was an Indian village. No
traces of its first occupants are to be
seen to-day, but the adobe houses and
narrow, winding streets are thorough
" Mexican. 1t is not sufficiently
Americanized even yet to contain
many frame houses, and the most
comfortable homes are made of adobe,
but the new courthouse is sufficiently
modern to belong to any Northern
city. Tucson itself is neithe, an at
tractive nor repellant town 1t invites
a neutral comment, being neither
very ugly nor very pretty. In spite
of its age dating back TO the sixteenth
century, there are no curicsities to be
seen worthy of mention, and even if
there were the people are too much
epgrossed with the present and the
future TO care much about the past.
Business is the first and only a.m of
the dwellers at Tucson, and of all the
towns IN Arizona this one impresses d
stranger as the lIveliest, the smartest,
and The most progressive. 1t looks
substantial, and the fact that the late
failure of Hudson & Co, the leading
bankers, had so little effect upon the
community, may be taken as prima
facie evidence that the town has
stability which can not easily shaken.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
One Widow and Her Spoons.
woman's Journal


There is now residing in Massachu
sets a widow past 80 years of age,
who tells the following facts Of her ex-
perlence as a widow with whom the
law dealt. She married young. To
furnish her wedding outfit she spun
and wove. With the money thus
earned she laid in stores of useful
things Silver spoons were among
the articles thus bought. BY these
she set special store, for silver spoons
in those days were not found in every
house
1t was not long before this young
wife was a widow. Then the law,
which had given all she possessed 10
her husband, now iuterposed again TO
see that nothing which belonged TO
the heirs of the husband should fall
into the hands of the widow. The
spoons belonged TO the husband; they
would go to his heirs. The young
widow pleaded for her spoons, and it
was finally agreed that il she would
pay the money value of them she
might have them. Forthwith she be-
gan to spin and weave, and with tae
money so earned she bought back her
spoons.
BY and by she married second
time, and again the spoons belonged,
according to law, 70 the second hus-
band. In process of time this husband
also died. Again his heirs were en-
titled to the spoons and so much be-
sides. But the taking of these cher
isked articles gave SO keen a hurt, that
its special pain yet survives. She still
tells how, for the third time, she earn
ed the money with which to pay for
those Spoons, and how they were con-
ceded to her only on her payment of
their money value. One of her de-
scendants of the third generation re
lated these facts TO me the other day.
They are still vivid to the RaInd of the
venerable woman, who dwells on the
injustice of the law to women
The spoons and the personal prop
erty Of wife or widow now belong
to her, but the husband still has the
life-use of the real estate of his wife,
and her children often live at great
disadvantage, deprived Of what is
rightfully but not legally theirs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
Farmer Wilcox and his Fighting
Cows
New York Sun

New 1pTk sun.
Chauncey Wilcox, few days since,
purchased and placed on his farm
two valuable cows-one Jersey and
the other a Durham. They were
placed in the same pasture. Shortly
afterward Wilcox discovered them
fighting desperately with each other,
using their horns in a most savage
manner. The owner of the cows
seized whip and ran to separate
them. Before he reached them their
horns became interlocked and neither
animal could separate herself from
the other. They struggled about the
field for several minutes, the owner
being powerless to dIsengage the
horns, Finally the Durham COW be-
gan backing rapidly and the other fol-
lowed her, and then pushed her still
more rapidly.
! Wilcox seeing that the two were
moving toward steep enbankment,
sought to turn their course by getting
between them and the bank, and lash
/ ing the Durhaxl with his whip. This
had no effect, and whes the c.ws
reached the SCOT they both fell to-
! gether down the bank. Wilcox sprang
TO one side to escape being carried
down with the cattle, but was struck
By the Jersey cow as she went down
and was Knocked down the bank also.
Wilcox's right arm and two ribs were
broken. Both cows were killed, th IL
horns remaining locked, and the con.
sequent wrench dislocated the neck oi
each animal. They were valued al
S400
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
The Committee Officers.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Star
says it is stated that VIM. Dickson,
who was made a member of the ma
tional democratic committee, will be
elected secretary when the committee
organizes in New York, the oath inst.
Sen. German, who is chairman OF
the congressional mmittee is spoken
of in connection with the chairman
ship of the committee. These two
committees have been working at
cross purposes heretofore and it is
now proposed to unite them and
while preserving the two organiza-
tions make the congressional COM
mittee the sub committee Of the ma
tional committee.
The names of ex-senator Wallace,
of Pennsylvania, and Samuel J. Kan
dali, were also mentioned in connec.
ton with the chairmanship.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
GOV. CLEVELAND AND
WORkINGMEN. II

WokklNGMEN. ny
In an interview with Nebl fl
Herald representative Gov. Cltw nd
speaks calmly and with independent
dignity of hls opposerS by whom he
has been miSrepreSouted: "ro-say
that have ever failed to embrace
every opportunity offered me to-ese.
vate the condition and subserve Nh
real interests of the worklngmen and
To protect him in all his rights is false.
This, however, is but evidence of the
readiness of some persons to make
careless statements when engaged in
struggle. and OF others TO accepts
such statements rs facts instead OF as
certaining the truth from the rccorE
Understand me; do not profess to
be infallible on this or any other queS-
ton, but | do claim that no sincere
aud honest workingman can examine
NV record and find from 1t anything
which tends TO show a lack Of Sympa
thy with and carr for the true inter
ests Of those who labor. am some
times afraid that at least a few of
those who pose as friends of the
workingmen do not keep them
selves fully informed as to what
is done for them by way of legislation.
As an illustration see it stated i'll the
papers as coming from one who pro
fesses to oe especially the friends Of
the workingmen, aud claiming to be
leader among them, that | vetoed q
bill preventing contract labor by chill
dren in the reformatorieS and institu-
tions of the state. In point of fact,
this bill was promptly signed by me,
and no other measure touching this
question has been presented to me. :"
Your course, then, on matters of
legislation as affecting the interests of
labor has been severely criticised by
your enemies?"
"Misrepresented is the word, en-
phatically replied the governor
''Falsehoods of q general character
have been circulated. . simple cur
sorry examination Of these falsehoods
must dispel them and clearly enlight-
en- the public as to their character
The record OF this Office is an open
one. and upon this record we raust
stand"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
TELEGRAPHIC.
GFNRRAL NOTES.

A NEW counterfeit $40 silver certifi-
cate has made its appearance in the
west. On the back of the hote where it
should read "And all public dues, and
when SO received" the word "all" is en-
tirely omitted.
NoTwITHsTANDING the prohibition
law, the distillers at Dubuque, Iowa, are
manufacturing as usual, and the saloons
are openly selling liquors. The whole
sale dealers are also busy, but they
send out their packages in new shapes.
THE Baltimore Manufacturers Record
will publish se:ai-annual statement of
the progress of the south, showing that
during the last six months yearly go
000,00 has been invested in new in
dustrial enterprises and in enlarging
those already established.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18

GALvERToN, Tex, July 1.-THE
News San Antonio special says that
parties in the western part of the state
confirm the reports that the sheep and
cattle industry in that part OF the
state is threatened with annihilation
by drouth. Sheep men with tlocks
are arriving daily at Eagle Pass seek
ing ingress into Mexico for water
holes. The streams on the American
of the Rio Grande are dried up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
What Nuisance,

After eating well cooked meal with a tolerable
appetite, TO be peStered with heartburn! Is that
your cSse my dear sir or madam II 50, rectify
the difficulty with Hostetters Stomach Bttters,
the national stomachtc. Ii vii. put the stomach
in good terms with its contents, and enable it 20
digest far more rapidly tn an carbonate of soda,
or ginger. or any ether carminanve. Such post
praudial helps are Intellectual and iujure the
stomach. Not SO the Bitters. Digestion is the
proximate effect OF its use, q function which
could not be resumed without the disappearance
OF .uch symptoms as heartburn, fatuience and
acdity Of the stomach. Bilious subjects also
derive speedily relief from it. As a laxative il is
effective and painless. Rheumatic sufferers teSti
II TO its good effects, and as diuretic it bears
high reputation Languor and laSsitude are sue
ces dad by feeling of vigorous energy when it is
resorted to- It quieIs and strengthens the nerves
a 1 a wiue-glassful swallowed before bedtime
enables one 70 court sleep successfully. Ii alsC
eradicates malarial poison from the system.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18

ELIZABETH, N. j., July 14.-B. w.
Terlinde, of this city. secretary of the
national committee of the greenback
party, accompanied General Butler
from Chicago to Buffalo, and says
Butler stated directly to General
Weaver, himself and others that he
had accepted the national and anti
monopoly nomination and would run.
lie will probably concentrate the
vote in New York and Massasschu-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
immigration From Germany.
Galveston rSsews-

Consul Catlin, of Stuttgart, writes
to the state department that in spite
of the numerous attempts to check
the tide of immigration from Ger
many to this country, 81 per cent. Of
those who immigrate from Germany
go to the United States Attempts, he
says, 10 check this movement or TO
divert it into other channels are nu-
merous indeed and determined. Let
tiers from dissatisfied Immigrants to
the United States are published IN the
leading newspapers, and efforts made
to divert the stream of migration to
South America or other German col
onies. There IS" he says. "a Ger
man colony at Montevidea, another
in Chill, and quite a numerous one
in Brazil. Attempts are made TO in
duce immigrants to go to Australia,
but without success, for of the 200,
600 immigrants who have left Bremen
and Hamburg In the past year 194-
600 sailed for the United States"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
The total number of negroes in the

The total number of negroes In the
United States is estimated at G. 600, 600,
or one-eight of the entire population
Only seven Northern states have a
higher colored population than 20,-
600, and of these the highest Penn
sylvenia, with IS, ,000 The census in
dicates the fact that the white pnpu-
iation doubles itself In every 25 years,
while the negro does the same in
every 20 years. From these figures
a writer in the North American Re
view, making allowance for foreign
and northern emmigration. concludes
that In 100 years the negroes in every
Southern State viii be double the
number of whites.
Over SO, 600 buzcnes OF bananas ar
rived IN New York last week In a sim
gle day.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18

delegates will divide their numbers.
sending emisSaries to the east and
west. They have a very large
fund, and will add to it by asses
ments. The union printers employed
in this city have $500 votes, half of
which are registered in New York.
1000 in Brooklyn, and the remainder
in Jersey City and the suburbs. Last
fall the Tribune discharged union men
and employed ''scabs," and since that
time the typographical organization
has wageda war against that paper.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
THE National Musical convention

THE National Musical convention
will hold It's first session at the Con-
gregational chapel on Tuesday at
2:30 p m. Dr. D. B. Hagar, OF Sa-
lem, Mass will preside. Papers and
addresses on musical topics will be
read by Prof J. w. Mason; Prof.
T. +. Seward and others will address
the convention.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-07-18
CRIME

IA SPECIAL from Alton, ILL.,, to the
Post Dispatch, says: A murder occurred
'at Rocky Fork, negro settlement about
TIN miles from this city. a c0lore d
MAN, named Williams, a tenant on the
farm.of George Sidney, was fired upon
asgassins while Mt the
door of his cabin getting drink of
water. Two shots took fleet near his
Peajs and Williams dropped dead.
Tghas i inb dew to the murderer.