Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-13
TELEGRApHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

| THE German Empress has given to
the society of the ked Cross 5000 marks
and gold medal for the maker of tae
| best transporta3le laZaretto.
THE snow and ice have all disappear
ed from the strawberry fields in South
ern Illinois. The plants are in good
condition, and were in no way dam
aged by tfe severe cold spell of Fcbru-
airy.
THE Indiana Legislature hns passed
the bill reorganiziHg the militia, and ap-
Frepriaiing $4,000 annually for uni
forms and equipment.
GENERAL GRANTS salary under the
ret irement bill is $13,500 year, and
$l25 per month as Communication for
quarters.
NEARLY all of the 12, 600 men ems ploy-
cd in the coal mines at Pittsburgh and
vicinity are out on a strike for small
Increase Of wages. A .ong and stub
bonn contest is predicted.
The Ohio College of Dental Surgery
issued diplomas Wednesday night. the
gold medal being awarded to Carrie
Lloyd, the only woman in the class.
1T being expected that the National
Encampment, G. A. R., will be held at
Sacramento in 1886, the California
Legislature has appropriated $4,000 to
defray tho expenses.
3THE remains of the late George L..
Davenport, for whom the City of
Davenport, Iowa, was named, who died
in Florida, will reach the city to-day for
final interment. He was born in the
island of Rock Island, in the Mississippi,
in 1917.
Z. =. LEsPENAssE, of Harverstraw
N. Y, who is paying an election wager
by carrying pig and a rooster to
Washington, reached Baltimore Mon
day, and expresses himself as being
greatly pleased at tAe manner in which
the people have treated him along the
route. The fowl and peIker together
weigh 80 pounds
THE Grand Central Railroad of Bel
GUM laid quantity of steel rails in
1869. When they had been laid twelve
years, il had been neecssary to renew
less than per cent. of them, and then
they seemed to fail all at once, SO that
it was necessary to replace 46t per cent.
OF them in the thirteenth and 504 per
cent. in the fourteenth year. The best
OF iron rails laid at the same time lasted
hut three years.
GOVERNOR LOWRY, of Missis s,ippi,
has appointed General E. c.. Walthall
to succeed Mr.. Lamar as Unite1 States
Senator from that state. General Walt
hall stands at the head of the bar in
Mississippi, is fiae speaker, and is in
the prime of life. While he has long
bsen nn important factor i'll tho lead of
state politics, he has invariably declined
office. Ho has been the lifelong in
tImate friend of ex-senator Lamar.
BY order of President Arthur the In
terror Department, on Tuesday of last
week, issued patents for the lands in
Louisiana granted to aid the construc-
Railroad. These lands comprising
about 100000 acres, are what Is COM
monty known as tho Backbone grant,
and it was in regard to them that several
members of congress sent Il protest to
the president few days before, and in
regard to which the United States Sem
ate proposes an investigation. 1t is
claimed that the railroad company for
fe,ted its rights to tho3e lands by fail
ing to comply with the terms of the
grant.
AN alternative writ of in junction was
issued at st. Louis Monday in a suit to
restrain Jay Gould and other directors
from voting $22,000,000 stock Of the Iron
Mountai' Road at the annual election
# otlicG.s of that line on the 10th lust.
1t is claimed that Gould ct al. obtained
the stock by consplracg, and besides
that they operate the Missouri Pacific,
II road paraileing the Iron Mountain
route, and, under TIE law, parallel lines
can not be operated by the same man
agement. If tho Injunction is made
permanent. the men who are endeaNor
ing to oust Gould from control OF the
Iron Mountain and Wabash Will score a
victory.