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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
FROM THE CAPITOL,

The chief of the bureau of statistics
reports the total values of the exports
of minerals from the Uuited States as
follows: October, 1885, 81, ,476,059; Oct.
1884, S. 130. 176. Ten months ended
Oct. 81, 1885, $41, ,598419; ten months
ended Oct. 81, 1884, $40,4G7015.
DURING the month of October Ii, ,91S
immigrants arrived in this country, a
decrease of 6,179 compared with Octo-
Der, 1884. The decrease in the exports
OF merchandise during the twelve
months ended October 81, was $17,6AS,-
AL; decrease in imports the same year
was $50, 144,091.
REPORTS received at the treasury de-
partment indicate growing scarcity of
ten-cent silver pieces in all parts of the
country. In accordance with Instruc-
tions from the treasury department
about $4,000 in dimes were coined at
the Philadelphia mint about week ago
These however were found insufficient
to supply the demand, and the superin-
tendant of the mint has since been in
structed to coin into dimes all the in
current subsidiary silver coin there
may be at the mint.
1T is said that the secretary cf the in
terror has decided to send a special
agent to California to make thorough
investigations of all the land titles which
have been obtained from the United
States or upon which there is the
slightest shadow of fraud. In harmony
with this decision Commissioner
Sparks, who probably suggested it, has
refused to issue patents to lands till
after reports of the special agent are re-
ceived. 1t is said the appointment has
been made, and that the agent leaves
next week for California. Such ap-
pointments are nos made public, as that
might impede the work of the agent.
UNDER decision of the United States
Supreme Court neither a police officer
nor a private citizen can arrest de-
serter from the United States army
without warrant or order of military
authority. The court amended it's rules
so that medels, diagrams. and exhibits
of material forming part of the evil
dence taken in the court below in any
case pending before the United States
Supreme Court on writ of error or ap-
peal must be placed in tse custody of
the marshal of this court one month be-
fore the case is submitted, and be re-
moved within one month after the case
is decided, or take the chances of being
destroyed or otherwise dispofed of.
PATENT Commissioner Montgomery
has decided in an interference case that
in interferences proceedings if neither
applicants files preliminary statenaent
the senior applicant will, under rule
Ill, be presumed the first inventor and
priority awarded him; that in such
cases where the invention in controversy
is disclosed in the application of the
senior senior applicant ever thossh such
the present any claim to the patent Of
such disputed invention, and that in
such interference cases priority must
also be awarded such senior applicant,
notwithstanding the cath of the junior
applicant discioses the fact he has re-
ceived British patents for his invention
which antedates the date of filing the
other application.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

SOME of the most eminent architects
arc of the opinion that the chief source
of acoustical defects in hall is the
reflection of sound waves in such a
way that they strike upon the ear of
the hearer within certain interval
after the direct waves, and are recog
nized AS an echo or rescurancs. Ii is
ascertaned, in regards to the limits
within which this point exerts dis
turbing influences, that difference of
sixteen and one-half to twenty three
feet not only causes no disturbance,
but, under some circumstances, may
produce favorable enforcement of
the direct by the reflected sound and
that with diminished intensity the
difference may be somewhat greater,
but under no circumstances should it
exceed thirty three feet. In regard to
the acoustic conditions Of churches, it
is asserted that the ceilings, which in
theatres help the effect in the upper
tiers, in churches are too high for
this, and may produce resonances, or
echo. and that it is, therefore, neces-
sary to diffuse the sound reflected from
them. Walls as well as ceilings re-
qulre to be investigated in this respect.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
GRIM e,

LUCIUs A. WHITE, pleaGed guilty at
ST, Lawrence Monday, to forging
Brazilian securities, subject, however
to future decision as regards the con
additionally of the law under which he
was indicted.
JOHN PIERsoN, a convict i'll the Neb.
raska state penitentiary, is said to have
confessed to the murder of Colonel
Watson b. Smith in December, 1881, at
Omaha. He alleges that he was paid
$500 by the keeper Of variety hall for
the work.
AT Tecdmseh, Michigan, on Saturday
evening, Aaron Palmer fatally shot
brothers named Burford p. and Edwin
p. Anderson. The would-be murderer
has escaped. Search was yesterday
nj ade for him y over two hundred cit
izena, who intend to hang him.
w. KEECH and Norman Millard, OF
Galena, have been convicted of con.
spiracy to defraud one Gilbert, form.
er partner of Keech. The first-named
gets two years and half in the State
Pcnitentiary, and the latter was sent.
enced to pay fine of $400.
NEAR Akron, Ohio. Tuesday morning
the body Of John 7. Hopp, a cigar m an
ufacturer, was run over by freight
train. He had been on a collecting
tour. but no money was found on his
person. 1t is expected he was murder.
ed, after which the body was robbed
and placed on the track.
Col. THOMAS SAYLoR, for eight years
postmaster at East Saginaw, Mich, has
been held in $4,000 to appear in the fed
eral court at Detroit on charge of de
frauding the government of $6,696.7 "a
by means of false vouchers. His success.
sor, VIM. G. Gage, has been indicted for
similar offense, the amount involved be
ing 81 900.
JOHN PIERSoN, the convict in the
Nebraska prison who confessed to kill
ing Watson b. Smith, has served five
terms in Joliet, one i'll Chester, two in
Columbus, Ohio; one in Louisiana, and
one in Anamosa, Iowa. Some time age
at Mt Bloomington, Ill, he accused him
self of killing Murray Mcdonnell, and
as side issue, said he was old man
Bender. These stories having been
found to be fabrications, it is presumed
that the preseLt disclosure is likewise
untrue.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

MANDALAY, the present Burmese
capital which is just now made the
object Of interest to the world by tn e
British invasion of Burmah, is de-
scribed AS beisg built Oh site, which
twenty or thirty years ago was a
mere jungle. The city is luclosed by a
brick wal, twenty six feet high, creme
lated at the top. Twelve gates pierce
the wall, and from these macadamiz-
cd roads hundred ie.t broad intersect
the city. The number OF houses inside
the walls is supposed to be about 1S
coo, and the population is estimated
at about so, 600. Within the city walls
sre the Kings palace and gardens, the
treasury, arsenal, powder magazine
and mint. The houses, as rule, are
mere huts, raised on posts five or eight
feet high, and made OF bamboo, with
q thstch Of leaves; but there are some
houses, particularly those of the Chin
esq, i'll which masonry is employed
In many respects Mandalay Is said to
be superior TO most Indc- Chinese cit,
les
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

ONE of the most remarkable OF
clocks has just beer constructed in
London for banking establishment.
1t is on the 24hour principle, and is
notable as possessing probably the
simplest method which has yet been
resorted to for indicating time accord
ing 10 the new enumeration. The
clock in question has only one hand,
the long minute hand, and the figures
around are placed as heretofore. In
stead, however, OF indicating the
hours, they Indicate the minutes only,
which are marked from 5 to 60. The
hours are shown on sunk dial re
volvimg under the upper dial, space
bang left in the upper dial in which
the next hour figure comes forward
instantancously upon the minute
hand, completing its circuit Of sixty
minutes that is, in word, the soil
tary hand marks the minutes, and the
sunk space shows the hour.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

A PORTION of the Canadian press
has set up a protection claim 10 the
effect that Canada has an equitable
title to the territory covered by the
state OF Maine, and no little excite
ment has been created by the discus
sion of the subject The matter is
hardly serious enough to be grave'y y
discussed, but the Canadians will find
in the achieves Of the two govern
ments treaty negotiated In 1912 by
Daniel Webster, then Secretary of
State of the United States, and Lord
Ashburten, the diplomatic agent OF
the British Government in accordance
with which the present boundary line
between the United States and Can
ada was established. 1t viii not prob
ably be changed in consequence of
any absurd clain that the Canadians
may now set up.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

SINGULARLY enough. examination
made of the painted windows, SO celc
brated as works OF artistic genus and
skill, OF the old cathedrals of Gag land
and Continental Europe, show that
their superiority consists really in the
inferiorIty of the glass, lis richness in
the poverty of It's constituents, in the
very imperfectlon Of its uneven thick
ness, and in the Imperfections OF its
surface and It's body, all covered as
they are, by the accumulating dust OF
ages, and honeycombed by the cor
roding effect Of time Like the faces
OF a diamond or ruby, each little wave
and thread and blister becomes, by
interference, refraction, and the re
Election OF the light which plays up
on it, n new source of the gem-like
brllllance, harmony, and beauty
which distinguish the painted glas !
OF former centuries. The glass max
ors Of America and England now aim
to reproduce the perfection OF this
old glass.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

SOME fresh information. about the
Gulf Stream is given by a Boston sci
enlist. 1t is a stratum OF warm blue
water not more than fifty fathoms
deep, and it flows due east at rate
that would take 1t TO England within
100 days. OF Cape Hatteras this
nOrthward flowing stream is in the
form OF n fan, its three warm bands
spreading out over the Atlantic sur
face to an aggregate breadth Of 167
miles, while the two cooler bands OF
an aggregate breadth of 80 miles,
are interposed between them. The
inuermost warm band is the one that
shows the highest temperature and
speed, its velocity being greatest where
it is pressed literally by the artic cur
rent, SO that the rate OF four miles an
hour is occasionally observed. The
peculiar blue color OF the water prob
ably is because the river silt washed
into the Gulf by the Mississippi is held
in suspension.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES,

FINE specimens of copper ere have
been found on a farm near Argyle,
Wis.
HEAVY rains are reported at San Luis
Obispo, Cal, where ten inches fell in
twelve hours, doing damage to the
amount of 500, ,0C0
s. B. PACKARD, ex-governor of Louisi-
ana, paid $75, 900 for . farm of 1,260
acres near MarshaIltown, Ia, and will
become cattle king.
DURING the present month Chicago
packers have slaughtered and salted
$4,000 hogs, against 500, 600 for the cor
responding period a year ago.
A STORM Tuesday raised the Railway
river 60 high that residents in some por-
tIons Of Railway, N. j., had to move
to the upper stories of their dwellings.
HIcH tides Tuesday flooded the streets
of Hunters Point, l.. l., and carried
away platforms. bathing-houses, and
walks at Coney Island, Rockaway and
Cape May. Tho docks along thu water
front in New York were submerged,
causing suspension Of business for
several hours.
COMMITTEES representing the Nation
al Cattle Growers Association and the
National Cattle and Horse Breeders
Association met at Springfield, H..
Friday, to consult as to terms of con-
solidation; an agreement being reached
for the formation of a new organization
TO be called the Cattle Growers Associ-
alton Of the United States, with head
quarters at Chicago. The constitution
OF the old cattle growers association
was adopted with slight alterations.
VICE PRESIDENT HENDRICKS awoke
Wednesday morning, in indianapolis,
with pains in his side and stomach, and
was placed in the care of the family
physician. About 5 o'clock in the after
noon Mrs. Hendricks left his bedside for
few minutes, and on her return found
him dead. His face bore no indication
of pain, and his eyes were only half
closed. During the day there had been
nervous twitching of the muscles of
his face, The physicians attribute his
demise TO an affection of the heart.
He was born in 1919, near Zanesville,
Ohio.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Setting Up the Pills"
New York Tribune

Give me pill and pony OF bran
dy."
The speaker was well-dressed man
who had stepped up to the bar In one
Of the largest liquor saloons uptown.
Tee bartender handed out large,
white pill, the size of big marrowfat
pea, and poured out the brandy. Tho
customer took q gulp of brandy, =
drink of water, and walked away.
"What was that pillf"a q Tribune re-
porter who had watched the proceed.
ings asked of the bartender.
HQuinine,n was the short reply.
DO you do drugstore businessf"
inquired the reporter. The bartender
looked curiously at the questioner and
then said:
1--WE sell lots of quinine. If we
didn't keep it our customers would 90
to the drug store for their liquor as
well as their quinine. II would do no
good to kick, so We set up the pills.
QuiHine TO q certain extent acts on
the system like liquor. Men who
drink much or go in for any excite
ment until the ordinary stimulants
fail to operate on their nervous sys-
tenn often take to quinine, opium or
its compounds, chloral, absinthe, and
so on. No. we don't keep opium or
chloral We've begun on quinine.
That's enough for the present.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

NJ. Wilson, who had charge OF the
senatorial party, brought with hiu
from Washington not only gifts of
flowers from Miss Cleveland but also
an autograph letter from the president
to Mrs. Hendricks. This letter, Mrs.
Hendricks says, was one purely of
personal coincidence and sympathy
and not one that she would care to
give out for publication.
When Mrs, Hendricks returned to
her home from. crown hill cemetery
the old homestead residence, which
had been left in,charge of q committee
of ladies, was diyested of all the
memorial floral tributes and other
sharp reminders of her great sorrow.
The CRATE fires had been lightsd and
everything had been done to
restore the rooms TO their former
homelike appearance. She passed the
evening IN company with Mrs. Thorn
ton, her niece: Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan,
her brother and sister-in-law, and Mr..
and Mrs. Niles, of Washington-very
intimate friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Niles
will remain with her until the end of
the present week, when they will re
turn east.
OFFICES AND SCHOOLS CLOSED AS A
MARK OF RESPECT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. lin accord
ance with the presidents order, all
the offices of the general government
and of the district government were
closed te day as mark of respect to
the memory of the late vice president.
The public schools and many of the
business houses were also closed, and
at noon there was . general tolling of
bells; it was ike Sunday. At the
white house a few callers put in an
appearance, but they were informed
that the house was CLOSED. The
official part of the house was
entirely deserted, and the president
and Col. Lamont spent the day in q
private part of the mansion. livery
public building is most profusely and
appropriately draped in mourning,
and all flags are at half mast. The
white house WAS never so we'll draped
as to-day, the mourning emblems be-
ing of the most imposing character.
HOW THE DAY WAS OBSERVED AT NEW
YORK.
NEW YORK Dec. From the bat
terry to the high bridge today every
where flags were floating at half mast
in memnry OF the dead vice president.
The federal and many private build
ings were appropriately drapsd. The
postoffice, municipal office, courts and
exchanges were closed, and during
the afternoon there was a general air
of holiday down town.
= In Brooklyn business was entirely
suspended at the navy yards and
flags were half masted. The courts
all adjourned early and the munich.
pal and federal offices closed at noon.
Dispatches from Boston, Philadelphia
Baltimore, New York, Chicago and
numberlcss other places indicate SINH
lar observances throughout the coun-
try.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Mystery Explained.
Texas Siftings.

where did you send the summer,
GusG" asked Gillhooly.
Most of the time at Saratoga" re-
piled Gus De Smith.
WAS fat old Mrs. Snively of Austin
there too, this years"
Yes; she was there as large as
life"
What does she do there every
year2"
''She is trying to get rid of her liver
troubles"
But why does she always take her
unmarried daughters with her to Sara
togaf"
Sure, she wants to get rid of them
to-"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Fires.
FIRE CONSUMES THE WARNER HOT

FIRE CONSUMES THE WARNER HOUSE.
EMPORIUM, PA, Nov. 80. - The
Warner House, new and elegant
hotel, was destroyed by fire this morn
ing. The fire was discovered about
o'clock, and burned SO rapidly that
the guests had much difficulty in es-
Gaping from the burning building.
Three of them are dangerously and
many others slightly injured by jump
ing 10 the pavement. Loss, $25, 900
Insurance, $4,000. Brown & Hy.
mans clothing store was also damag
ed to the extent of "a, 600, and Ho,
gan's grocery store was damaged to
the extent of $4,000 with no iasur
anCe.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Feeble Frames, Shaky Nerves

And dyspeptic stom schs are usually found In
conjunction Vitality is lacking In all three. How
can this be createdi Simply by using Hostet-
ter's Stomach Bitters with regularity, sustaining
from habits incousonant with health, and by tie
OF digestable diet. As an initial step 70
ward the reinforcement OF dsplessd system, 9
resort to Hostetter's Stomach BitteTs Is noSi
on 9 vitiaton of the gastric juices and the pres
ence OF bile in the stomach, and having regulated
and, as it were, fabricated the digestive mechan-
ism, sets il and keeps it at " ork An immediate
gain in vigor Is the result The food is converted
into blood, upon which the system draws for
nutrition, the nerves as they acquire yigor be.
come tranquil, the muscular fiber gains substance
and bsriness, and appetite and sleep improve.
Constipation, fever and aqua, rheumatism and
renal ailments yield 10 the Bitters.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Items for Husbandmen.

Items Tor HusDandmen.
A healing salve is made from the
yolk of eggs in Russia.
Put in good winter supply of road
dust, sand and gravel for the poultry.
Russia has imported nearly $780,
600 worth Of American reapers this
year.
Nothing will decrease the flow of
milk SO much as milking at irregular
hours.
The acreage of sweet corn for feed
ing hogs is increasing each year ia the
west.
Florida has law making the water
ing of milk offered for sale peniten-
tiary oFense.
Mr.. Badger, of Franklin, Mas-.,
raised SIX bushels of beauty of Hebron
potatoes on square rod of ground.
The pear is the longest-lived of the
fruit trees. There is one in Salem,
Mass, that is known to be 200 years
old.
Horse manure spread on the lawn
in the fall and carefully raked off in
the spring will nourish and thicken
the grass.
In the country tributary to Puget
Sound 5000 acres of hops was raised
this season. The average yield was
about 1, 300 pounds per acre.
Many old seeds that will germinate
with heat will perish in cold ground.
This should be borne in mind in lest
ing seeds In warm rooms.
A Chicago man proposes to 60 into
goat raising extensively on the out
skirts of the city. He thinks the nailk
will be preferable to the cows milk
that is distributed.
The owner of a Texas goat range
left !, 800 goats with hired man. The
man gambled away the animals and
| fed, and the owner is unable to re-
cover his property, because he can not
identify it.
The Rural New Yorker thinks De
Won cattle have been neglected of late
in this country, while in England they
are holding their own with the breeds
that are more popular In America.
For both beef and the dairy they de-
servedly hold high position where
best known.
It seems to be the universal opinion
of dealers that it is the poor quality of
cheese put upon the market that makes
the price of the product so low. Con
sumers are willing to pay fair price
for good full-cream cheese, if they
have any assurance that they are
getting what they pay for.
At the Wisconsin Experimental
Station they have been testing the
feed value to hogs of the droppings of
corn-ted steers. a test was made by
feeding the hogs certain amount of
corn when separated from the steers
and the same amount wnen running
with them. 1t was found that about
one-half more pork was made in the
latter case. The number of hogs was,
of course, limited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
ACCIDENTS.

Four children were killed and several
wounded in Jersey City by the fall of a
condemned four-story building at Nc.
Al Morris street.
A TRAIN on narrow-gaug road in
North Carolina was thrown down an
smbankment near Gastonia and twelve
passengers Were seriously injured.
A NEWSPAPER office and several
other wooden structures at Conway,
Ark, were swept away by fire Tuesday
morning, creating loss Of $25, ,00N, with
small insurance.
A BUILDING in Baltimore collapsed,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
A Nan with Purple Hair.
Cleveland Ohio Leader.

G. s. White was appointed guard
ian for Mrs. Harriet White, resident
of Euclid. Mrs. White il IS years old,
nearly blind. and an invalid. It was
stated that she has an ungovernable
temper, and strongly objected to the
appointment OF any one to manage
her property, but the need Of guard
ian was apparent. A male member
Of the delegation which waited upon
Judge Tilden attracted considerable at
tention because Of the fact that his
hat covered . crop Of bright purple
hair.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
A Pigeon in Love With a Piano.
Evansville Journal.

A lady IN this city has a pet pig.
con that is very fond of music. When
she wants It she goes in the parlor and
commences playing on the piano, and
no matter where the pigeon Is, it viii
start immediately for the parlor and
perch itself on the pisno. It appears
70 be perfectly delighted with the mu-
sic, showing unmistakable signs Of
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Manitoba

AN INDIAN RISING EXPECTED.
WINNIPEG, Man, Nov. S0.-The
recent Indian executions, it is expect
ed, will result in an Indian rising. 1t
is likely that they have appointed 3
time for general attack ON the fort
Dispatches have been sent from Battle
ford to the government, asking that
more troops be sent to the northwest
at once
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

ANOTHER California millionaire is
gone. Peter Donahue, of San Fran
cisco, died suddenly on Friday. He
was President of the North Pacific
Railway, and OF the city Gas Com
uanV
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04
Railroad MartarS
PURCHASED DEPOT GRoUNI

PURCHASED DEPOT GROUNDS.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Nov. 30.-The Chi
cago, Burlington & Northern Rail
road company today purchased for
depot grounds large strip of river
front here. The price paid was
SIS. coo.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-12-04

KING THEEBAw, of Burmah, is said
to be a young man of twenty-six, and
the youngest and brightest of the
forty -eigh: sons of his distir guished
Eather