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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
FROM THE CAPITAL

THE Senate Thursday, on motion of
Senator Dawes, took up and passed the
House bill appropriating $50, 600 for the
starving Blackfeet Indians in Montana.
Mhs. JoNFs, wife Of Congressman
Jones, of Madison, is much improved
to-day, and Mr.. Jones says there are good
prospects of her recovery.
GENERAL HAzEN, chief signal officer,
has reduced Sergeant Otto Holtnorth,
of the signal service, to the ranks, and
formally RI commended his service, to
the ranks, and formally recommended
his dismissal from the service for rlttlng
Lieutenant Greely's private papers.
The commentator will be approved.
THE Department of State has received
from Cork, ireland a solid silver n odel
of Shandon Church in Cork, intended
for exhibition at the New Orleans Ex-
position. This is the church made
famous through the familiar poem en-
titled BELLS of Shandon," by the late
Francis Mahony Father Proutl
President Arthur will probably not be
ale to visit the New Orleans Exposition
until some time in February. His pro-
gramme of social entertainment, which
was recently issued, will prevent him
leaving Washington until after the 9th
of February.
REPRESENTATIVE BAYNE aud other
republican members have getten up n
pamphlet on the Mexican pensio n bill,
which will be circul ated for political
effect. 1t CO. sists of the Mexican pen
sion bill, with the Senate amendments,
aid the speeches in its favor made by
Messrs. Keifer Taylor, Townshend,
Cannon, Reed, Bayne, ana Cutcheon,
and those made against it by Messrs.
Warner, Hammond, and Herbert. Over
10000 copies of the document have bsen
ordered.
A NUMBER Of Kentucky cattle lately
exposed to pleuro-pneumonia having
been shipped to Texas, Representative
Ochiltree asked information from Mr..
Loring, Commissioner Of Agriculture,
concerning the shipment, and has been
informed that the exposed cattle left
Kentucky through the negligence of
the Government Inspector, but, now
that they have been shipped, every
possible precaution will be taken TO
keep the animals from mixing with
ct. ers until all danger of communicat-
ing the disease is past.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
ACCIDENTS.

A C0NFLAGGATIoN in the business por
ton of Holly, Orleans county, N. Y,
consumed $4,000 worth of property.
The fire at Sioux City, Iowa Saturday
morning caused a loss of $59,S00, on
which there il insurance amounting TO
$3l 5000.
THE chair shop of Smith, Day & Co.,
and Baldwinville, Mass, was burned
Saturday morning. LOSS, $50, 900.
FIRE Saturday. damaged the upper
portion of the building ot Henry Martin,
corner of Main and Twelfth streets,
Cincinnati, Ohio, to tie extent cf $10,-
600, and water caused an additional $10.-
600 damage.
DINING. CAR No. 900, OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad burned ut Bedford
Idaho, Friday night. Loss, $ll, 200; in
| surance, $4,000.
THEODORE A. HAWNAN's fine residence
four miles from Lafayette, Ind, was
burned Saturday morning. Loss, 81 800;
insured Tor 5000.
THE buildings on the south side of the
pubic square ut Hamhurg, Ark, burned
Thursday. Total loss, $4,000; partly
insured.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

without money. One of his regi-
ments, the Zepita, recently disbanded,
after trying to shoot its colonel.
Several prominent citizens of the
south have arrived from Lima, trying
to make terms for Caceres, but Presi-
dent Iglesias is showing little desire to
treat with them. The government
has recently increased the hospital
and sanitary tonnage taxes in Calloa,
which led the steamship companies
raising their fares 30 per cent. Steam
ship business on the south coast is
very dull at present, but sho I'D peace
be made in Peru it will promptly re
vlye. The Peruvian government is
medisatlng imposing heavy import
duty on kerosene in order to promote
the production of the native Al ticle
from the petroleum fields which are
known to exist in the north of the re-
public.
In Magdalena nothing has occurred,
but the government is watching the
enemies of order. In Panams an eff
tort is being made to reconstitute the
state, and if the Columbian guard
does not set energetlcally the scenes
Ia Santander will be repeated there.
In Santandar the convention en-
deavored to exceed its powers. The
majority and minority desired to act
Individually. The convention was
dissolved and rio,isg followed, during
which several p>rsons We're wounded.
The Columbian guard will assist the
government should the state author
tics prove unequal to the task of
maintaining order. In Telima Presi.
dent Gabriel Gozales is struggling to
maintain order, but his subalterns are
against him. 1t was upon the from
tiers of this state that the expedition
was formed which robbed and mur-
dered in Guaduas.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

are fat and square, but Others are COW
cred with towers and castles. and have
deep caves within them, filled with q
light green or deep hue so peculiar to
bodies of thick ice. Sailing among
these bergs and with Fairweather on
the one side and the glacier on the
other, and feeling the chill air which
ali this ice creates, one may easily
imagine himself among the ever frozen
barriers of the distant north.
1t was nearly sunset when we began
to near the Muir glacier, an the day
was nearly ended when the towering
cliff wss reached at last, and our now
dwarfed ship anchored near the frown-
ing precipice. The shades of evening
had gathered about the islands passed
during the afternoon, and half hid
from sight the lower ranges and the
trackless forests far awav. But the
Falrweather peaks were visible still,
and glowed with s. ghostly light in
their isolated hight like heaps of phos,
phorus hung above trees. Around us
aoated icy fragments, grinding against
one another or floating solitary and
majestic down their Tatery way The
air was sharp aud cold, aud a gloom,
familiar on November days at home
when the sky is overcast and fiecks of
snow begin TO fall and daylight fades
away, hovered about the scene. Now
a deadly silence reigned, and again g
loud, harsh moan was heard as the
glacier cracked, or a long, continued
roar broke the Stiffness as mass of
snow and ice. tottering moment, fell
headlong into the space below. The
scene was grand past all conception,
wild and awful, hushing ali with ad
miration. No other wonder of nature
equals this glacier of untold age as it
comes silently yet irresistibly down
from its birthplace to the sea, crying
as it moves; the embodiment of
strength, the destroyer of all life. All
the glaciers of Switzerland combined
would not equal this of Glacier bay.
From i,e foes and clear weather we
have come to Sitka, among green trees
and rain and fog. Lying at anchor
ali night at the entrance to Cross
sound, our course the following morn
ing led past the Takon glacier, meas
urIng sixteen miles across its mouth,
and latsr into open sea where the
Pacific stretches its SOLITARY wastes on
the one side and the western slopes of
Alaska rose beside US on the other.
Alaska facing the ocean is much like
Alaska facing the inner channels.
There are the same high mountains,
covered with never ending forests,
long ranges, white with snow, reach
ing above the trees and the land lock
ed fjords. The highest peak near the
coast is Mount st. Elias, rising nine
teen thousand feet above the water
level, but next in altitude to it is Fair
weather, which fortunately appeared
to US once more as we sailed toward
Sitka. Seen from the ocean it is mora
beautiful than when viewed from ans
other direction, for it stands near the
sea, and looks with unobstracted Wis
ion upon the trackless waters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

IMMEDIATELY after the presidential
election, the Milwaukee Sunday Tele,
graph mad lugubrious editorial
wherein 1t called upon the few soldiers
in federal offices 10 get ready to vacate,
as the democrats were bound to clean
them cut" The republican senate
and assembly caucuses meet this after,
noon and evening, and republican
love for the men who carried the gun
and the kuapsack will be demonstrat-
ed. The DEMOCRAT would be very
glad to see the old veterans provided
for. There's many pensiener, draw.
ing meager pittance of from Sc to
$40 per month who would consider
one of the small legislative places 3
god-send. But while the DEMOCRAT
would like TO see them provided for
it has no faith in republican profes-
sions; and when the list of the sue
sessful ones are published, it will be
safe to say that good majority o.
them will be composed of--not tn
men who faced death and hardship
in the late war, but rather politica
sluggers and petty ward politicians
Let everyone watch the list.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
Marrying Men of Genius.
Boston Herald.

My dear, whatever you do, never
marry man of genius" was vein
of advice IN which poor, nerve-wreck-
ed Mrs. Thomas Carlyle was much
addicted to indulging with her young
lady friends; not, probably, because
she thought the alarming surplus of
genius thrown on the matrimonial
market was in danger of setting in a
general stampede in that directioa,
but because the bare possibility of one
case of such misery in million
seemed TO her enough to justify a
warning cry, Rightly or wrongly,
woman get the credit of drawim !
sweeping, universal conclusions from
ingle instances, and where the in
stances are of a peculiarly exasperat-
ing kind, the thing is hardly to be
wondered at. That at the very time
when she herself was dutlfully stay
in;r at home, the house pandemon
ium of hammering carpenters and
splashing plasterers, and nothing but
a dark closet left her TO sleep in. her
husband in Germany should entertain
her in his letters with little but a
catalogue of the cats that had cerenad,
ed him the previous night, and of the
roosters whose growing had walked
him up at dawn. and of the dead dogs
he had seen floating on the green
waters of the Rhine, all this might,
perhaps, have been enough to justify
her at moments in sympathizlng with
the Roman emperor's amiable wish
that the whole tribe of men of genius
had but one neck, and there were a
onvencient axe ready to hand. And
yet, on the other side, how many of
the young women, who, after reading
the recent biography of Nathanial
Hawthorne and his wife will Law the
book down with the sigh: "Ah, that
heaven will only send me such a
husband Never marry a man of
genius! Why; I will take vov of
perpetual virginity unless can find
one somewhere" And the young
lady is not so far wrong Stupid and
commonplace men have too many
advantages already in the world so
we'll fitted to them to be allowed a
longer monopoly of the claims that
they furnish the only material out of
which ideal husbands can be made.
If a woman must have a man 10
worship why should she never be
INDUCED in one toward whom the act
of alteration involves less exhaustlng
strain.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
THE NOR'WEST COAST.
Alaska Cod and Herring Fisheries
The Wonders of Glacier Bay-A
FIfty-Mtle- GLACIER.

If the waters along the coast of
Alaska are only made use of as they
should be, writes correspondent
from Sitka to The New York Evening
Post, the disturbances sometimes
arising between Maine fishermen and
Canadians regarding the cod-fsheries
off Newfoundland will soon become
annoyances of the past. If we utilize
all TIE cod that are in Alaska, we
can afford to give England undisturb-
ed possession of the "banks," for the
channels along which we have been
sailing are absolutely alive with as
fire specimens of the fish as one may
wish to see. There is but little at
tention given to cod at the present
time, though 800 tons of dried and
salted boneless cod were shipped last
year from KIlisnoo, a Lerring-oil fac
tory south of Chilkhat and nearly due
east from Sitka. 1t is an unsavory
resting place, this Kllisnoo, for COM
bined with the oil factory is phos-
phate or guano establishment which
emits an oaor that is perceptlble for
miles around. If they cared to, the
Kilisnoo people could ship unlimited
quantities of cod. The water is filled
with choice fish, averaging 27 pounds
IN weight each, and they can be
caught far more easily and at much
less expense than can those found in
eastern waters. Say what one pleases
about Alaska Indians, the fact re-
mains that they are excellent work
men and expert fishers. At kllisnoo
at Chilkhat they are employed In
various capacities and give general
satisfaction. At the beginning of
each season they purchase complete
outfit of clothes, rubber coats, gum
boots, and all, and live upon so little
that at the end of their work they
have laid by a considerab be sum. 1t Is
the opportunity to work provided by
me white man that will 90 more than
anything else to eDlighten and civilizs
| the Alaska Indian. Missionary work
may accomplish certain amount OF
good, but once incalcate the idea Of
| thrift is good thing, and the native
will begin to enter upon a new life OF
which as yet he has had hardly a
| glimpse.
Kilisnoo is located on the southern
banks of narrow channel that leads
out of Peril straits, and Is In the very
center of the best herring grounds in
| Alaska. The native herring here
swarms in countless numbers. and is
a delicious morsel. The kilisHoo
fishermen think xothing of bringing
in fron three hundred to five hun
dred fish a day, AID in some of the
lnlets they do not use nets at all, but
drag barbed sticks through the schools
which catch the fish by hundreds.
The herring is very oily. and early IN
the season often yield four gallons Of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
A SCRAP OF HISTORY.
Orrespondence Between General
Washington and Alexander Ham
The Inter Ocean

tIton.
The Inter Ocean
A letter TO the Baltimore Sun from
Cambridge, Md, states that in box
with one Of the oldest houses in Cam.
bridge, Nd, once the property of the
Murray fomily and now belonging 20
Col. Clement Sullivan, whose moth
er is Murray, has been found a
record containing in fair manuscript
volumes embracing a correspondence
between William Van Murray. Am
erican Minister Resident and Envoy
Extraordinary to the Netherlands,
and General Washington and Alex
ander Hamilton.
These letters were written after the
battle of Marengo had male Napo-
leon the arbiter of Europe, and they
extend from the year 1897 TO the year
1899. At that time the career OF the
French Republic was matter OF abb
sorbing political interest, and party
lines in this country were drawn by
sympathy with France or England.
General Lafayette had announced his
wish and intention TO revisit America,
but while publicly favoring his pro-
posed visit Washington and Hamll-
ton fearing the tendencies Of Jefer-
son, then a prominent candidate for
the Presidency, and the probability
that Lafayette would do all he could
to secure his election, were strongly
opposed to Lafayette's visit. To pre-
vent the consummation of such de
sign they opened and carried on a
correspondence with William Van
Murray, the American envoy 10 the
Netherlands, who also informally
represented our country with refer
ence to France. They urged that
every obstacle should be interpoSed TO
his coming and every possible expe-
dent be adopted. This correspondence
gave history of this remarkable
intrigue, for as such it must be char
acterized. 1t embraces the letters
written in connection herewith. The
devout and sincere patriotism OF
Washington was unquestionably the
motive that influenced his conduct.
These letters are copied in four
volumes, and the writing is close,
neat, and perfectly preserved. Col.
Sullivan to whom they belonged, pre-
sented thea to the Liberian Of Con-
gress to be valued. On his recon-
mendatioa a joint COMMITTEES has been
appointed by Congress to consider the
propricty Of purchasing them. This
committee has recommended that
s., 900 be appropriated for their puf-
chase. On one of the pages IS a
genuine, original autograph of Ma
poIeon the Great.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

The creamercs of Butler county,
Iowa, will. this season, pay out FIR
cream, $3.50, 600. Thus is better than
raising gram and taking the chances
of the fail.re of crops, etc The two
creamerles of this county are paying
out about s.. 600 per month, although
this is small compared to other 10
calitIeS in the estate, yet il has dono
very much towards bringing over the
tide of depression caused by the fail
urc If crops for the last two years.
This amount is at les.St double what
would have been realized If the cream
has been converted into butter on the
farm Had this been done, cents
per pound would have been the top
price realized ia store pay. While the
creameries have so enhanced its value
by making a quality OF butter that
sold for enough 10 pay for the extra
labor and, as n result, double the
amount of money has been distributed
among the people that would have
been, had the farmers made the but
ter A part of this the farmers have
received, in extra price. the balance
has been paid out for labor and other
expenses, but the community is just
that amount better off than if the
poor butter had been made instead of
the good,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
POND Ne Poison.

DR.. Samuel K. Cox, D. D.. Praeti'
cal Analytical Chemist, Washington
D c., who made thorough and care
fII analysis, reports that there is
,,ei,her morphia, opium, emetics nor
poisons in the Red Star Cough Care
that it must prove boon to those
whose systems shrink from the use OF
such compounds, and especially 70
mothers, who justly dread the evil,
aud, at times, fatal effects OF these
dangerous drugs. He further states
4 IS not only free from all opiates,
poisons and emetics "a thing which
not one cough preparation in ten caa
bsasi) but 1t is altogether an original
and most happy combination of the
best remedial agents, and it is as
harmless as It is effective.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
Gen. Grants Affairs.

NEW YoRK, Jan. 12.-Ths follow.
ing statement made by friend OF
Gen. Grant makes clear the action
taken to protect the ger eral, and why
the movement for raising funds was
stopped:
1.-TWO or three weeks ago there ap-
peared to be danger of sheriffis sale
of Gen. Grants official commissions,
swords, medals, souvenirs from for
eing countries, and other precious
personal effects. Hearing this,
and what appeared TO be
sure evidence before tho, m
that the danger of such sales was i'm
ninent, some of General Grants
friends resolved t. restore these his
toric and treasured objects, and also
his other personal effects by buying
them at their appraised valuation, or
at such sales if opportunity was of
ferez. Thev would have furnished
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
A PRACTICAL JOKE.
Serious sequel TO the Franks OF NJ err.
makers
Providence Journal
annn,t Snnlnr q "


Providence Journal
On = recent Sunday a young mar
ried couple of this city visited the
nome of the lady's parents in East
Providence, and remained during the
day. During their absence few of
their intimate friends planned sur
prise for them. The furniture was
displaced, night dress was hung up.
on the clock and everything was a >ae
TO make a scene of disorder. The
jokerS eagerly awaited the return of
the uusuSpecting couple. The lady
preceded her husband into the house
and lit match. The fiickering flame
lit up the scene and displayed to her
startled gaze the disordered condition
of the room. Her eyes quickly fell
upon the wklte ohjsct near the clock.
The startled shrek she uttered brought
her husband bounding into the room.
In a moment she was struggling hys
terically, he vainly endeavored to
bring her 10 Ier senses and allay her
fears. Her heartrending cries brought
the practical jokerS trembling into the
room, and they gazed with hlanched
faces upon the terrible result of their
foolish act. 1t was evident that
something serious had happened, and
Dr.. Hihbard was hastily summoned.
he found, upon examination, that
the shock had caused the rupture OF
blood vessel in her head, the result
being similar TO conclusion of the
BRAIN. The lady, since then, has lin.
gered between life and death, but she
is now deemed to be in fair way
of recovery. The feelings of the per
pctraters OF the Joke can be better
Imagined than described. Suffice il
TO say that the act to them has had its
terrible lesson, and should be a warn
ing to all who seek to mako fun by
shocking the scnslbilities Of other feo,
nln
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
The Revolution

In medical practice, which has taken place with
in the past thirty years, has been very marked.
When Hostetter's Stomach Bitters first IN ce
thrir appearance, vioIent purgation, the lancet
ID narcotics were measures resorted TO with lIt =
tie regard to the idiosynerasies OF the sick Now
Infinitely more satisfactory results are accom-
p,iSned with the Bituers. The constipated are no
i)uger dosed and drenched, the fever stricken are
not weakened by bleeding, and sedatives have
taken the places Of opiates Dyspepsia. nervous
Pass insomnia irregularity OF the bowels,
rheumatism, aud chill and fever, are successfully
treated with this popular tonic and regulator. As
a medicated stimulant, it is professionally com
Tsended and is preferable as a means OF renew
ing exhausted energy, to the average tonics.
These statements rest upon ample evidence
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16
Francis E. Willard on High Living.

Il have formed settled conviction
that the world is fed too much.
Pastries, cakes, hot bread, rich gray
les, pickles and pepper sauces are all
discarded from my bill of fare, and |
firmly believe they will be from the
receipts of the twentieth century. En-
tire wheat -four bread, vegetables,
fruit, fish with little meat, and
milk as the chief drink, will distil the
aIembic of the digestive organs, into
pure, rich, feverless blood, electric but
steady nerves, and brains t1at can
think Gods thought after Him, as
they have n,ver been thought. This
is my receipt: Plain living and high
thinking, and this is my warning
With high living you will get exceed
ingly plain living"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

Cuba's two millions of people have
to pay s14, 900, 600 a year for the sup
port of the army and navy that keep
them in subjection. Though the
island yields Spain revenue OF S37,
900. 600, there is deficit of $1,000, 900
in the Cuban budget, and the customs
duties are mortgages for tempory
loans, and still troops and contractors
are unpaid and mutinous.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

THE latest slate for the cabinet /
than of the New York Stars predic
ton that it will be thus:
Baynrd Delaware, Secretary OF State.
Whitney, New York. Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Villas Wisconsin, Secretary Of the Interior.
Mcdonald Iniiann Secretary of War.
Mcclellan, New Jersey, Secretary Of the Navy
Garland. Arkansas Attorney General
Waller Connecticut, Postmaster General.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

TWENTY years ago copper was worth
s5 cents pound in New York City.
From that price itreceded to 10! cents
pound subsequent to the panic OF
1873. 1t is now worth IL cents a
pound. The enormous product of the
Lake Superior mines and of copper
mines discovered in Montana, Colora
do and Arizona have produced this
result The decrease has made con
tinueus progress under the highest
kind of high protective tariff.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-16

THE proposed project of transfer
ring the agricultural college fund
from the state university to an agri-
cultural college 10 be established will
encounter very solid opposition in
the legislature. Interviews with vari-
Gus members from the northern sec
tons Indicate very promo tnced hos
tility to the transfer,