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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-31

was dissuaded by those who felt that
the experience would further trouble
and depress her. She caunot be said
to be sick nor absolutely preStrated.
There has been reaction and no un-
usual prostration from causes stated.
PRESERVATION OF THE REMAINS.
The preservation of Gen. Grants
remains during the heated term for
period of Is days Is matter of no lit
tie Importance. Two days were oc
cusied In a thorough embalmine of
the remains; the cavities and arteries
being supplied with embalming fluid
which displaced the blood. In order
TO present favorable condition of
the remains the fluid now active will
tomorrow be displaced and replaced
by another operation with fresh fluid.
The processes of absorption also ren>
der frequent treatment of the remains
advisable if not necessary.
MESSAGES OF sYMPATAY.
MI. McGREGoR, July 27.-Among
the messages of coincidence and sug
gestlon today were the following:
WARRENsBURG. Mo, July s7, 1885.
MIS-. General Grant.
In behalf OF 10000 members of the Ancient
Order of United Werkmen in the United States
and Canada, tender the heartfelt sympathy of
the brotherhood
JoHN A. BROOKS
Supreme Master Workman.
PORTLAND, Oregon, July -, 1896.
Mrs. U. S Grant;
With the deepest sympathy offer my services
for the funeral services, if desired Please re
ply Immediately.
EMMA THURSBY.
A SUGGESTION AS TO PAIL BEARERS.
NEW YORK, July ga
Col. Grant, suggest that the pail bearers for
your distinguished father be none other than the
president of the United States and his cabinet No
greater honor, nor one more appropriate could
be conferred. Ed. PARSONS,
OF Virginia.
PLEA
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-31
| PLEA

WASHINGTON, July %,
Col Grant-Pray have your ather buried here
where he will always be remembered for his
achievements as a soldier and his wisdom as
statesman, and not in New York. where his finan-
clal trouble are SO much in the minds of the peo-
pie. WM MCKEEpMAN
PHILADELPHIA, July -, 1885.
To Col Grant:
The members of the first Blaine club in the
United States tender thei. sympathy to the family
of U. s. Grant, the incorrupuble president and
soldier of the republic.
THEo. A. GRAHAM, President.
TRYING TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-07-31

Mrs. Grsnt-Delaware tenders warmest
pathy OF her citizens in this great hour Of pr
and public grief.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

AT the late general convention OF
Woman Suffragists in Washington re-
ports were received from many parts
of the Union, giving encouraging state
ments of progress. Whatever may be
the differences of opinion in respect to
the merits of the question Of woman
suffrage it is on the whole gaining fav-
or. The women engaged in the move.
ment are not. as many unjustly allege,
few reputationless persons. but they
number many of distinguished talent.
who have long enjoyed a reputation
for their philanthropic and literary
efforts. Women are persistent in what
they.undertake, and are not apt to re-
linquish their purpose until they
achieve success. Woman suffrage has
able advocates in Congress. Senator
Palmer, of Michigan, made speech in
the Senate last week in favor of wo
man suffrage, to which opponents NAV
attempt to make reply by satire and
ridicule. but will hardly be undertaken
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
A HANDSOME COMPLIMENT.

The NcO England Farmer, published
at Boston, one of the best agricultural
journals in the country, pays the follow
ing compliment to the Wisconsin State
Agricultural Society The compliment
from this valued source includes not on
ly the report of the society, but is also a
tribute to the resources of Wisconsin !:
From Clinton Babbitt, Secretary,
we have received copy of the Wiscon-
sin State Agricultural, horticultural and
Dairymen's Associations reports for the
year 1854 neatly printed and sub
stantially bound volume of S25 pages.
If the agricultural character of a state
may be judged by the value of its an
nual agricultural reports, Wisconsin can
be behind none of her sister states as a
place to emigrate to, or to remain in
when there 1t is really refreshing to
read the reports Of her public meetings
where the farmers and professors from
the agricultural schools meet TO discuss
subjects of general interest.
In no public debate have we seen the
vexed questions of free trade and pro-
lection more earnestly nor more ably
discussed than in the agricultural meet
ings of the Wisconsin farmers. Eastern
men who propose to go West and grow
up with the country, will have to tiavel
beyond Wisconsin to find place to be-
gin as pioneer farmers. The best variety
Of apples, pears and the small fruits
the-means for destroying injurious in
sects the best methods Of dairying, anc
how to educate the children, and keeI
the boys at home on the farm, are ques
tons that are discussed with all the in
terest and familiarity to be expected il
the oldest Eastern states"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
PROPOSED JURY REFORM.

A joint resolution has been intro
duced in the legislature at Madison for
a constitutional amendment. allowing
verdicts of juries to be received by a
less number than full panel. Much
can be said for and against such pro-
posed amendments. We are inclined
to the opinion that the majority of the
people favor such an alteration. The
change should not be made without
careful consideration. The jury sys-
tenn is recognized in all governments
where the rights of the people are re-
spected. But because tie jury SYSTEM
is venerable for its long use in this and
other countries it is no argument why
it should not undergo changes. All
progress in the science of government
necessitates change aud alteration
without this the world would be at a
stand-still.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

in their stead professionals who make
business of being on hand to secure the
fees attaching. No good man ought to
be excused from serving on a jury be-
cause he wants to attend to his own bust
ness, though after serving he might be
exempt for FIVE years. The objection to
creating special commission of five to
elect jurors is the increase of public
offices and consequent expense The
town clerk of each town is usually intelli-
gent, and widely acquainted, and has
list of all male residents. and could well
select the number of jurors the town
should supply, and might be required
not to select the same persons for a
period of five or ten years. Another i'm
provement would be to enact that it
shall be no bar to an intelligent man
serving on jury in criminal case to
have read or heard the details of the
affair if he has no prejudice that will
prevent him from weighing the evidence
impartially, he ought to serve. The ends
of justice and the interests of tax payers
demand a revision of the jury system,
1t is to be hoped that the movement in
augurated by Mr.. Hazen will not fail to
result in reform, r. F. ROBERTS.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
IMPURE WATER.

1t takes line on line and precept on
precept' to keep the best of us in the
track of good sense. For years, the
Union has been convinced that the most
prolific cause of bad milk and as con-
sequence, poor butter and cheese, lay in
the impure water that ws drank. 1t
furthermore just as firmly believes that a
great many farmers do not know what
constitutes good water. Another pro-
portion do not IRE whether their COWS
have good water or not, so that between
the action OF ignorance and Indifference,
but few of the farmers who make bust
ness Of keeping COWS for dairy purposes
see to it that their COWS have only pure
water. We are convinced, as we said
years ago, that the value of chez in
Wisconsin would be enhanced fully one
cent pound if all the patrons of fac
tories would agree to the appointment
of an inspector in each factory, whose
business it should be to visit each farm
as often in the season as possible and en-
force the observance of the proper care
of milk and the isolation of the COWS
from impure water.-Jeferson County
Union.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
A NIGHT OF PERIL.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, February 10.-The
800 inhabitants of Jones Island, drso
late, bleak strip of land in Lake Michi-
gan, at the mouth of the Milwaukee
river, narrowly escaped destruction last
night. On the lake shore of the island
theice is piled ten feet high, and on the
opposite side huge snow-drifts are piled
one after another. A fearful gale ragged
on the lake last night, and the waves be-
gan washing over the icy barriers The
people We're aroused by the food, and
many narrowly escaped death trying to
cross the ice to the main land This ice
was found broken, and they had 10 re-
turn. They were thoroughly drenched
by wading through the slush, ice and
water knee deep. When it was found
that the escape was cut off, they repair
ed to the second stories of the larger
houses and wherever they could perch
out of reach of the water. The night
was one of horrors, and the suferings of
the poor people were excruciating, as the
mercury was Is degrees below zero.
The gale subsidized by daylight and the
angry waters receded. Many Of the
people were almost crazed by fear and
their terrible suferings. 1t was almost
a miracle that no lives were lost.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
FOREIGN.

The fall of Khartoum and the muir.
der of Gen. Gordon, the brave British
commander. produced a great sensa-
ton. throughout the British empire
and has excited the notice of the
civilized world. Some persons are
weak enough to predict that England
will relinquish its hold in Egypt and
withdraw. This is a mistaken view.
England will renew the war with re.
doubled vigor. Mahdi, the false prophet.
and his blood-thirsty followers are
doomed to terrible discontinue. The
defeat of the English will in the end
result in the permanent control Of
British authority in that portion of
Egypt, aud upon this will follow civ
ilization and the introduction of
christianity. The world win be great
ly the gamer by the present disaster.
as appalling as it is.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
TIE GREAT SNOW STORM.

The great snow storm on Sunday
night and Monday last seem to have
been combination of the warning
elements of nature. In some places it
is reported that while the furious
winds were driving the snow into
heaps, vivid flashes OF lightning were
seen. Science has a plenty of work to
explain the various phenomena in
nature that are so frequently occur
ring. The snow storm on Monday, in
view of the wide extent oe country
over which it passed, was no doubt
the greatest which has been witnessed
for many years. Many thousands of
people were imprisoned in their houses
on Monday last, pot daring to encount-
er the wintry blasts, unless from stern
necessity.
The reports from various towns in
this and other states speak of the al
most unprecedented fall of snow, the
huge drifts, the blocking of railway
trains and the suspension of all out
door business. The 9th of February,
1885, will probably be marked as a
period In the calendar as one Of thp
notable days Of the past.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
THE DAIRY IN DENMARK.

From lecture delivered in London
by dairyman from Denmark:
If we want our COWS to treat us well,
we must begin by doing the same TO
them. We all know how much a clean
and comfortable aid airy house, togeth-
er with good and palatable victuals,
contribute to our well-being and happi-
ness, and in this respect we are in no
way different from our friends, the COWS.
In order that our COWS may prosp r, it is
not only absolutely necessary that they
should be kept clean in themselves, and
we'll fed with fodder specially selected
with view of producing the best milk,
but due regard must be paid to warmth,
and light, and ventila ion of the build
ings in which the COWS are kept, and the
of this cannot be too strong
ly emphasized. Moreover, everything
should be so arranged as to enable the
herdSmen to do the necessary feeding,
watering and cleansing with the mini
mum of labor and the maximum of
good results. A special care and knowl-
edge in the management of the ventil-
alton and regulation of the temperature
is necessary, if we wish to preserve a
good coat on the animals, and this is of
great importance in the spring, when
they are first put out to grass and ex-
posed to chills.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

Judge Anthony Van Wyck, by re-
quest of many citizens, will deliver a
lecture ON Rome; the Eternal City," in
the Congregational church on Friday
evening, February 81. This lecture
was delivered by the Judge in this
city some years ago, and was regarded
one of more than ordinary interest,
therefore its repetition is now request
ed. The lecturer will speak of Rome
from what he saw and learned during
sojourn in that city.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
IMPROVING JURIES

WooDwoRTH, Jan. %. The bill intro
duced by Assemblyman Hazen to i'm
prove the jury system is a move in the
right direction. In addition to the quail
fication threading and writing why not
insist on the R. R. r.? A man fit to
serve on ajury should not only be able
to read and write, but shou be familiar
with the fundamental rules of arithmetic.
He cannot be considered intelligent I'M
less so qualified. The opinion is very
generally held that the Interests Of Justice
would be subserved by allowing two
thirds majority of jury to bring in a
verdict. Why not make this amend
ment now? An evil that has long exist
ed is the judge excusing farmers and
business men from serving OH juries
when selected and summoned, and using
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

with logical argument. The ultimate
triumph of woman suffrage is among
the things inevitable. That its adop-
ton will prove Il panacea for ali the
evils of bad government cannot be
claimed for it, but that it will prove a
power for great moral reforms seems a
reasonable conclusion; that it will
elevate the standard of our civilization,
it promises hopefully. We are not
now pleading for woman suffrage, but
in noting the progress of public opin-
ion desire to say that the people may
as well come to the conclusion that the
ultimate adoption of woman suffrage
is a manifest destiny.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

The Executive Committee of the
State Agricultural Society adopted a
resolution at Madison on Wednesday,
last week, by nearly unanimous vote,
to exclude the sale Of spirltuous liquor
and beer from the fair grounds during
the annual exhibitions of the State
Agricultural Society. That is sensi-
Die resolution, and will have the APP
proval of all who desire to advance the
legitimate interests of the Society. If
our county agricultural societies
would adopt similar resolution, they
would gain the patronage and good
will of large class of respectable
citizens who now stand aloof and with
hold their influence and support.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
a NECESSARY WORK FOR THE
FUTURE.

All of the great enterprises the past
half century which have revolutionized
industries, changed the channels of
trade, and accomplished what were once
deemed impossibilities, were in their
incipient stages decided as utopian.
visionary and mere vagaries of un-
balanced minds. For months past the
freight traffic war between competing
railroads in carrying the products of
the great Northwest to the eastern
sea- board has raised the question
what is the practical remedy for this
disturbing difficulty, which is likely to
be increased in future years until the
problem is solved. If all these COM
peting railroads were taken possession
of and controlled by the general
government, as has often been suggest
ed, there would be order and uniform
regulations. But there is little hope
that in this country the railroads will
ever be taken possession of by the
government. The feasibility of a
great water highway for steam vessels
from the Mississippi river direct to
New York is beginning to be earnest
ly considered. The bill before Con-
gress for the construction Of the Hen
nepin Canal, as ship alter passage
from point on the Mississippi river
to the terminus of the present canal,
running southwesterly from Chicago,
is the first link IN the chain of int err
communication; from Chicago to De-
troit or some point near the head of
Lake Erie, and from thence reaching
the New York and Erie canal at Buffa.
10. The canals to be constructed are
to be of sufficient depth to float ships
and the Erie canal widened and deep
ened. The action recently taken by
the New York legislature asking Con-
gress to pass the bill making an APP
preparation for the Hennepin canal
c)ntemplates giving an impulse to this
great enterprise. Notwithstanding the
great advantages which railroads afford
freight transpor alton, they cannot
compete with water transportation.
The construction of a water way for
ship navigation, from the Mississippi
river to the Atlantic, is an enterprise
which may not be accomplished soon,
but is certain to be realized at no
very distant period.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
PEDESTRIAN FEAT.

Senator w. s. Maxwell, on Tuesday
morning last, walked to this city from
his residence in Somers, three
miles west of here. The snow was so
deep and no track broken, he did not
deem it prudent to venture with a
horse and sleigh. The snow some of
the way was waist deep and the mer-
curry 10 below zero. Mr.. Maxwell was
anxious to take the train for Madison
to be at his post in the Senate. and the
only means by which TO accomplish
that was to come to this city on foot.
Such a journey through deep snow and
polar atmosphere requires more than
ordinary heroism.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

A notice for Republican county
convention, to be held on the 9th of
February, 1885, at the office of the
Register of Deeds, In this city, will be
seen in this paper. The purpose ex-
pressed in the call for the convention
is, to nominate candidate for county
judge. Delegated conventions fairly
constituted, whether peoples, or party,
have, by long usage, been regarded as
the legitimate method Of selecting can
didates. Hasty action by attempts to
commit voters in advance to favorite
candidate, thus forestalling public SEN
timent, is not the most fair way for
office aSpirants.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

Sherburn S. Merrill, General Man
ager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railway, died at Milwaukee
last Saturday night. Mr.. Merrill had
fol many years been prominent in rail-
road affairs, He was man of SUI
perior tact and ability in matters per-
tanning to railroad interests, and it APP
pears that IN a legitimate way he had
acquired large property. But the
mere fact of his being man of wealth,
that alone, would not have entitled
him to the encomiums he is receiving.
had he been one of the penurious,
stingy sort of rich men. He was liber-
al in charities, therefore his memory
deserves to be honored.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

There have been all sorts of guess
ing and predicting who Cleveland
would select for his cabinet. We have
given no attention to these sayings,
but now comes the report from Wash
ington that a rebel Senator from Mis-
sissippi, Lamar, is being proposed for
a member of Cleveland's cabinet.
This same Lamar, quite recently, in
the Senate of the United States, re-
marked. No man in my presence shall
call Jefferson Davis traitor" The
very mention of such man as Lamar
for cabinet position, if nothing more,
is disgrace to the country,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

One of the chief purposes of the
dynamiters in England and their CO.
workers elsewhere is to brighten Eng
land to relinquish it's grasp on Ireland.
The deluded dynamiters. instead of
helping the cause of Ireland, are bind
ing the chains of that country strong
er. A London paper reports a Catho-
lie clergyman in that city as having
said of the late dynamite explosions,
"That the most brutalized scoundrel
in the world would have hesitated if he
could have seen the restitution,
amounting to persecution, which has
been brought upon the Irish in Eng
lish cities since the terrible dynamite
explosion in London" Ireland's de-
liverance lies in an opposite direction
from the dynamiters.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

The oldest inhabitants are reviving
their recOllections of past winters, in
respect to extreme cold days. deep
SHOWS and blockading drifts. In COM
pairing notes it is generally agreed by
the old inhabitants that in all the ele-
ments which go to make hard win,
ter, the present, up to this time, has not
been surpassed, with only one excep-
ton, during the past forty years. Per-
h&ps there may be those who have
been weather observers in Wisconsin
who will differ from this conclusion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
WINTER WHEAT.

The prospect of the growing winter
wheat appears to be discouraging both
North aud South. The Commissioner
of Agriculture for the State of Ken
lucky reports unfavorable; the freez-
ing and thawing during the winter has
lifted the wheat plant out of the
ground and greatly damaged its future
prospect. Besides, owing to the low
price, from Is to 20 per cent less was
sown last fall. The Commissioner OF
Agriculture of Virginia reports still
more unfavorable condition of the
wheat sown last fall, and that the
quantity sown is fully 80 per cent less
than in previous years. The condition
of the crop in Wisconsin is not reported
being yet too early for accurate calcula
ton.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

a Milwaukee correspondent of the
Sunday Inter Ocean makes terrible
arraignment of our Wisconsin legisla-
ture The writer says: ut can be as
sumed with safety that never before
in its history has Wisconsin been in.
flicted with so much ignorance, com.
bined with offensive conceit, in our
legislative body as at the present time. f"
The present legislature is composed
of many new members, with whose
history we are entirely unacquainted,
but will presume to say that the Inter
Ocean correspondent has overdrawn
the picture, and misrepresented the
body he so severely criticizes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

A joint resolution has been adopted
by the Senate nd Assembly at Madison
to admit of no new business after
February 16. This looks towards a
short session, but what has happened
in former years may happen again
such resolutions have often been re-
scinded and the time for new business
extended.