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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
FnOWEKs sUCCEssoR.
Gen. E. r. Jones to Run for LieUtonar
Governor with Gov. min.

Gen. E. r. Jones to Run for Lieutenant
Governor with Gov. MIN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29-The Democratic
State Committee met In the paflors Of the
Hoffman house at O'Clock to-day. Twen-
ty-seven members answered in person or
by proxy TO the roll call. Tie committee
appointed to tender Gen. II. W. Slocum
the candidacy of Lieutenant Governor
failed to report his decision as to accept
ance or declinatiOn, and in consequence
the State committee took a recess until 4
o'clock. At the second meeting Gen. Ed
ward +. Jones. OF Biaghamt0n, was chosen
for Lieutenant Governor.
GEN. JcNEs' RECORD.
Gen. Jones was Colonel Of the Sixth
Massachusetts legiment, which was at
tackled in Baltimore when Of the way to
Washington 10 lS6i. Gen. Jones was
born in Utica, N. Y, in 1898, and grew
up in Massachusetts. he recruited the
Twenty-sIXth Massachusetts regiment
after the discharge of the Sixth regiment.
He served three years in the department
Of the Gulf. He was in the Massachu-
setts Legislature In 1868, and in the same
year founded the scale works in Bingham
ton, N. Y, large establishment. Gen.
Jones is well-to-do and is distinguished
in Blnghampton charities. He lett the
Republican party in 1872 and supported
Greeiy. lie ran for Congress in 1874 and
1876 against Messss. Platt and Dwight,
and reduced the Republican majOrities.
lie was a campaign speaker tor Hancock
and Cleveland. For fighting his way
through Baltimore and reaching Wash
ingtOn first, he was thanked by President
Lincoln and his Cabinet. For his services
in the war he was brevetted Brigad.er
Gpnpral
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
THE RESUMPTION OF TRAFFIC.
FLOODS IN INDIA.
800 Square Miles Under Water In the
Presidency OF Bengal.

$500 Square Miles Under Water in the
Presidency OF Bengal.
CALCUTTA, Sept. 20.- Disastrous foods,
covering an area OF $500 square miles,
have occurred in the Presidency OF Ben
gal, the largest and most populous OF the
twelve main divisions Of British India.
A great amount Of property has been de-
stroyed and numbers Of lives lost. Many
families have been made destitute.
Houses, crops, cattle and portable goods
OF every description have been carried
away by the foods. The government au-
th0rities are distributing provisions and
clothing and doing all they can 10 relieve
the sufferers. False Point, which was
thought % have the best harbOr in Cal
cutta and Bombay, safe, roOmy, and ac-
cessibe to all ships, was struck by
storm wave on Sept. p and swept 80 com
pletely that most Of its inhabitants per-
ished.
DESTRUCTION IN TIE TYROL.
VIENNA, Sept. 20.-Disastrous floods
are reported to-day from many places in
the province OF Tyrol. The dispatches
are very meagre and details can yet be
niyeu.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30
Londonis New Lord MAYOR.

LONDON, Sept. 20.--Alderman John
Staples, II. 3. A., was to-day elected LORD
Mayor nj London.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-09-30

LONDON, Sept. 80, 4 A. MA steamer
has arrived at Rustchuk having on board
800 Russian volunteers, many officers and
much ammunition. The ROumanian gov
ernment fOrbids them TO proceed through
ROumanian territory.
Die Political Correspondent, Of vi
emma, says 1t hears that Turkey will nc
cept the ROumelian union upon condition
Of the payment Of tribute and customs
dtltiqa
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
Business Notes,

The Department of State st Wash
ington has received information from
the Consul General at Havana that
the collection of duties on cattle inn
ported to Cuba which was suspended
by decree Of the Spanish Government
In November, 1877, and on October.
1882. will be again enforced on and
after the 1st Of July.
The House of Representatives of
Michigan, has pas ed, over the Cover
nor's veto, the bill providing for min
GRITTY representation in stock com
panies. The vote stood 70 yeas, Is
nays. The house also passed the sen
ate bill suspending for five years the
operation of la relative to a specific
tax on gold, silver and lead ore.
The first wool sale that ever took
place in st. Louis was made recently.
The offerings were $4,000 pounds Of
Texas wool. The attendance was
quite large, and bidders were there
from Boston and Pniladel phia. The
wool was disposed of ia three lots -
80, 600 pounds at Is cents per pound
25, 900 pounds at JIG cents, and 5000
pounds at 155cents.
The monthly statistical publication
of the Agricultural Department for
May, which will be issued within two
or three days, contains comprehen-
sive statement OF the monthly wages
paid to farm laborers in all parts of
the country based upon what Mr..
Dodge, the statisticlan of the depart
ment, believes to be entirely trust
worthy data:
Eastern States. S25 81 Western States. S22 &c
Middle States. % 10 California. ,.,,., 1910
Southern States. IA 81
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
NOTES by THE WAY.

John Sherman wiuks one eye and
observes that his forthcoming tour OF
tho south will be for the purpose oi
removing sectional prejudices.
The British Government has order
ed the payment of 600 To each of the
widows of the Canadian voyagers
who lost their lives with WolSeley in
the Soudan.
Frye, of Maine, knows how TO make
an ass of himself as well as any other
partisan III America He says Dem
ocracy leads to crime, and the Gull
minatOn of all crimes is democracy.
The house in Philadelphia which
the people of that city gave to- General
Grant at the close of the war will be
sold nj auction on The Cd of June 1t
cost 1888, 600 when new, and is worth
about that much now, it is said
DIR. Il. w. Jones, secretary of the
Southern Historical Society, said at
Atlanta the other evening, in the
course of a lecture on the war, that If
Stonewall Jackson had been in com
mand at Gettysburg General Long
street would have been shot on the
field.
When train of cars runs over any
body in Mexico the engineer, fireman,
brakeman and conductors are arrested
and hurried off TO an interior prison.
Several train hands have been locked
up for more than year, and the
managers of the roads are trying to
secure their release.
Uncle Oyerton. cOlored III wears
old, of Jacks m, Tenn, had fall the
other day, and fearing that it might
result fla ally he came under convic-
ton of sin and expressed desire to
join the church. Thousands of people
assembled on Sunday to witness the
old mans immersion.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
The Tooth-pick Business.

The caricaturist of the future may
perhaps represent the typical Yankee
no longer as whiting, but going
through the process called chewing
the quill" In nearly every hamlet,
town ana city of the country the con.
sumption of the tooth-pick, both ply.
sically and commercially, has become
a national characteristic. Few, in
deed. are the hotels, restaurants, etc.,
where the invitation to have tooth
pick, Is unknown; while no private
house is considered well ordered with
out them. 1t has even invaded the
dominion of literature, and we are
no longer supposed to chew the cud, -
but the quill ''of reflection" For
this general result firm in New York
is largely responsible, as the introdgc
ton of the wooden tooth pick was
made by 1t. Said a member of the
Erm recently,
I'VE began TO make wooden tooth
picks fifteen years ago, and while an
other company now shares the whole
sale trade, we were the sole manufacs
ures of the article for ten years. We
have a white-wood pick made of pop
lar, and hardwood kind made OF
birch. The picks are all made in
Maine, the lumber of that state sup
plying the material. Sometimes we
flavor picks, say with cinnamon on
with winter green"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
Chinese journalism.

A visit to the Chinese printing
establishment, says a Sam Francisco
paper, is productive of much that is
interesting. Movable types are in use
III San Francisco Chinese newspaper
offices. The manner of getting a
Chinese newspaper on the press and
printing is very primitive. The editor
takes American newspapers to friends,
from whom he gets q translation of
the matter he needs, and after getting
it written in Chinese In mannersatis
factory to him he carefully writes it
upon paper chemically prepared.
Upon the bed of the press, which is OF
the style that went out of use with the
last century, IS Telegraph stone.
Upon this the paper is laid until the
impression of the character is left
there. A large roller is mixed and
passed over the stone after it has been
dampened with wet sponge, aud
nothing remains but take the impress
sion upon the newspaper to be. The
Chinese pressman prints three papers
every five minutes, five papers in the
same time less than Benjamin Frank
lin had record for. A Chinese print
ing Office has never been struck by
lightning
The life of Chinese journalist is 8
happy one He is free from care and
thought, and allows al the work of
the establishment to be done by the
pressman. The Chinese compositor
has not yet arrived The Chinese
editor, like the rest of his countrymen
is initiative. He does not depend upon
his brains for editorials, but translates
them from the contemporaneous
American newspapers he can get.
There is no humorous department in
the Chinese newspaper. The news
paper office has no exchanges scattered
over the floor, and in nearly all other
things it differs from the American
establishment. The editorial room is
connected by ladder with hunks on
the loft above, where the managing
editor sleeps, and next to it is, invari-
ably, a room where an opium bunk
and layout reside.
Evidences of domestic life are about
the place, pots, kettles and dishes tax
ing up about as much room as the
press In one instance, on Washing
ton street, barber shop is run in the
same apartment with the editorial
room, aud, in all cases, no disposition
is shown 10 elevate the position of the
''priuter" above his Surroundings. If
an editor finds that journalism does
not pay, he gets job washing dishes
or chopping woad, and he does not
think he has descended far either.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
The Nanne Aqueduet, France

The Vanne aqueduct, France, which
is some 81 miles long. is said to be the
most important and costly VOL K that
has ever been constructed of artificial
stone. This aqueduct, which supplies
the city of Paris with water, travers-
ing the forests of Fontainebieau its
entire length, comprises q to 3 miles
of arches, some of taem as much as
so feet in height, 1 L miles of tunnels,
and eight or ten bridges of from rs to
125 feet span, for the bridging of riv~
ers, canals and highways. The smaller
arches are half circles, and are gener
ally of a uniform span of about 80
feet, with thickness at the crown of
some 16 inches; their construction was
carried on without interruption
through winter and summer, aad the
character of the work was not at all
affected by either extreme of tempcra~
ture. The spandrels were carried up
in open work to the level of the crown,
and upon the arcade thus prepartd
the aqueduct pipe was melded of the
same material. the whole becoming
firmly knit together into perfect
monolith. The construction of the
arches was carried Oh about two weeks
in advance of work on the pipe, and
the centers struck about week later.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22

'sWhat does the trade amount to in
wooden picksi"
well l should say about twelve
thousand cases a year, one thousand
of which Is exported to Europe and
Mexico. A case contains one humid
red boxes, and each box contains
twenty-five hundred picks. So you
see, there's billions in It"
Has tne business increased much n
About twenty five per cent In the
last three years Orange-wood picks.
imported, are to be found IN some
clubs, and also favored wood pick
from Japan. Quilts are wholly i'm
ported. Russia and Sweden furnish
the material, and these countries,
with France and Germany, also
manufacture the article as We get it.
The work is done altogether by hand.
Peasant-folks, after their daily work
is done, sit down with sharp knife
and add to their pin money by cut
ting these quilts. This adds to their
price here, of course. Perhaps some
inventive American Will construct a
machine some day that will turn
them out rapidly and make them as
popular as the wooden picks now
| seem to be"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
VARIOUS MATTERS.

Manhattan Island, on which the
great city of New York is built, was
once sold for $22.
1t is said that in the works OF
Shakespeare there are more than $50
quotations, illusions, references and
sentiments derived from the Script
ureS.
-Over-done beef or mutton is, a
family doctor writes, quite as indl-
gesuble as hard boiled eggs; it should
be well cooked to be heaIthful, but
rather incliniug to be underdone.
The collapse of the mining inter.
est IN Nevada has reduced the popu-
lation of the State to IL 900. 1t is
thought, however, that the saltpeter
beds may induce fresh immigration.
President Gilman, of Johns Pop
kins University, has made plea to
the various colleges to consider plan
by which an inter collegiate system
of granting degrees may be adopted.
-Four new twelve-story apart,
ment houses are 10 be erected on the
west side of Central Park, New York.
just above the American Museum OF
Natural History, this year. That
section of the city about the park will
have an enormous population by and
by.
The merchants of New Orleans
have subscribed the money (Sl5, 900
required to put in operation there the
new system OF quarantine and disin.
lection decided u9on by the board oil
health. The new SYSTEM provides for
scientific disinfection and short detsn
ton.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
Whom the Car Has to Consult.
London Spectator

We do not, ike some of our con-
temporar1es, accuse the Russian
Government of habitual and deliberate
bad faith. Its statesmen are probably
no worse than half the diplomatisis of
the continent, who are all, from
Prince Bismarck downward, possess
ed with the notion that guile is upon
occasion an allowable weapon. They
regard the making of feints as part of
statecra.t, just as it is part of strategy,
and have no more scruple about gain
ing time by assurances than about
preparing an ambuscade. But we do
think, as we have all along main
tanned, that the foreign office at St
Petersburg has not the full control
over the acts of Russian agents which
is enjoyed by ether foreign offices.
The Foreign Minister may give as
surances in the most perfect faith ;
but he does not appoint and can not
remove either the Governors General
or the Commanderin chief, and if
they act for themselves, the Gar, who
alone can control all alike, may for
personal or dynastic, o, even political
reasons, feel compelled to side with
them rather than his Foreign Minis
ter, who, again, when this has occur
red, makes the best of it. He may re-
sign, and according to western ideas
he should resign; but that is not the
way of despotc courts, where resig-
nation is regarded as implying an i'm
pertinent censure on the sovereign.
If NJ de G .ers meant resigning, be
would not resign, but fall sick. Eng
land can not conquer Russia, and can
never be III a position in which few
concessions would not induce her to
make peace. The Russian war party,
therefore, though not aided by the
people, had little TO fear from the re-
sistancs of their opinion. 1t is the
army only, and the statesmen, that
the Gar has to consult or to convince.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
$50 HARNESS for S18

Is Money any object yoH2 Bny AZ wholesale prices
Our No 0 at S23 worth SIS. No. ! at tis worth SIS
No. at ST. worth $50. 900 SITS SOLD LAST YEAR
Goods sent approval TO any place IN the 4 r.
AGENTS WANTED IN every town. Address
CHICAGO SADDLERY CO, ll3 Adams ST. Chicago III
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
Art and Artists.

The cornerstone of the gigantic me
mortal to Victor Emmanuel on the
Capitol Hill, at Rome, has been laid.
The convent of Ara Coell and other
buildings on the summit will have to
go, and many structures below the
hill must be removed in order TO show
the monument to advantage.
The last OF what may be called the
leading exhibition of the season of
1854 'S5-that of Contemporary AM
erican Art, at the Museum of Fine
Arts in Boston-opened on May 9Th,
aud is to remain open until June FL.
1t consists of 1856 oils, two pastels,
eleven water colors and ten pieces OF
sculpture, 212 numbers in all, by 1876
artists.
W. w. Ssory's sketch for the Lick
Mountain a. San Francisco to Key.
the author of THE S ar Spangled
Banner" has been approved. The
poet Is sitting under colunned cano-
py, writing the famous song. Above
him stands America with tie unfurled
star spangled banner. her outst1 etched
hand pointing onward. The has re
lief at the base represents a group OF
singers and instrumentalists. 1t Is
pronounced a graceful and ideal con,
ceptlon, in which are the spirit, the
poet and the singers of the song.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
What CrOwfOOt Said.
Chicago Herald.

In 1883 several of the Blackfeet
were taken i'll with typhoid fever, and
Crowfoot himself was down with it..
Believing he was about to die, he sent
for all his head men and held coun.
Gil with them. He said that there
were no longer any buffalo to hunt,
and that they were dependent upon
the white psople. He couuseled them
to live at peace with them, and never
attempt to fight them, as such an at
tempt would end in defeat for them,
they (thc whites were so numerous.
They should always be loyal to their
white Mother" as it was to their
interests to be so. Crowfoot recover
ed, and last summer, in company with
the chiefs of the Bloods and Piegans,
visited Winnipeg. He came back
greatly impressed with the power of
the whites, and said they could pro
duce as many soldiers as there were
blades of grass. Therefore Gro wfoot
will remain loyal, and the Crees,
Bloods and PIegans will also remain
loyal. The half breeds are much more
dangerous than the Indians. The V
are harder and better shots.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
DON'T SKIP THIS.

So many schemes are put before the public for
the increase of newspaper circulation, which
seem to be plausible and yet are fraudulent, that
when legitimate, honest effort is made TO build
up the circulation Of a legitimate, honest paper.
by legitimate, honest means, people who have
been so many times duped, are very slow to res
pond to the genuine scheme We are led TO this
train OF thought by perusal Of the advertise
ment of THE AMERICAN RURAL HoHE OF Roches
ter, N Y, published in this issue Of our paper. TO
which we call the attention Of our readerS- We
are acquainted with both paper aud publishers
and take pleasure in recommending it as one OF
The very best farm and family journals in this
country. Every person who sends one dollar for
years subscription 70 the paper receives hand
some present which is donated by the advertising
patrons OF the psper. These premiums coDsiss
of Cattle, Land, Reapers and Mowers, Piows,
Books, Pictures. Organs ard thousands Of other
valuable articles The Rural Home Co is endors
ed by Hon Cornelius =. Psrscns, Mayor OF
Rochester, TO whom you can write IL you have
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TEND for sample copy il nothing more thsn 70 get
a look at this great twelve page, sixty column
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
PAINFUL IMPRESSIONS.

A remarkable characteristic
of the average newspaper read
er of the day is the eager
ness and ayidity one seeks
for painful impressions caus-
cd by perusing accounts of
human suffering. Is there a rail
road accident, a steamboat disas-
ter, hanging, lynching, a MUIR
der or anything of this nature
wildly written up and glowingly
pictured in repSrtorial descrip-
tive style, it at once becomes the
most interesting item of the paper.
Managers of our large and most
successful metropolitan dailies
pander to this corrupt and morbid
taste of their patrons. A reporter
will hs dispatched hundred
miles to gather the latest
and most minute details OF
some licentioas rase or revolving
murder, while the deeds of the
good and the yirtuous are never
known outside q nsrrow limit.
Full many a rose is born to blush unseen
And waste its fragrance on the desert air."
All this is evidence OF mental
disease, truth that can not be
contradicted. They are clothed
and in their right mind 10th evil
and recital of evil ways; with them II is
peace on earth and good will toward
men" s'Heaven on earth is printed on
their banner, while "all their ways are
ways Of pleaSantness and all their paths
are peace Z" Not all are conscious OF their
mental impairment; so long have they sur
fered from urinary, digestive and nervous
disorders, that they consider their feelings
and impressions natural and common 10
even healthful individuals. But IL all
such should regain perfect health aud
strength Of mind and body by using nr.
Guysott's yellow Dock and SRr-
saparillR, they would experience
change OF feeling that would be most graf
flying and pleasurable.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
For Good Purpoacs.

Mrs. A. NJ. Dauphin of 1889 Ridge Ave, Phila-
delphia, is well known to the ladies Of that city
from the great good she has done by means OF
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound She
writes Mrs. Pinkham of recent interesting case.
"A young married lady came to me suffering
with a severe case Of Prolapsus and liberation.
She commenced taking the Compound and in two
months was fully restored. In proof Of this she
found herself in an interesting condition. Infu-
enced by foolish friends she attempted to evade
the responsibilities OF maternity. After ten or
twelve days she came to again and she was
indeed in a NEST alarming state and suffered
terribly. l gave her a tables Joonful Of the COM
pound every hour for eight hours until she fell
asleep, she aweke much relieved and evidently
better She continued taking the Compound, and
in due season she became the mother OF fins
healthy boy. But for IKE timely use Of tho medi-
cine she believes her life would have been lost
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-22
The Old Reliable.

There are many good and well-lsan
aged railroads in the country, and IA
mopg the very best is the Chicago and
Alton. The equipments of this road
are second to none ia the world, and
for comfort, convenience, safety, and
good time it ranks among the best.
Courtesy and attention of its employees.
the great desideratum to the travelling
public, is marked feature in its man
agement. This fact is very frequent y
commented upon with pleasure by p-"-
pie who have occasion to patronize til.
Chicago and Alton. Two trains 4 day
each way run from Chicago to St, Lou's
and Kansas City, and no change of car
Is required to make the trip in either
direction, If you are going South OF
West, do not forget the Chicago and
Alton Railroad. A ride over it will dc
you good.