Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-01-02

Napoleon Graham, of the town of
Mifflin, had valuable horse stolen
on the night of Monday, Dec. 18th.
The horse was a dark brown gelding
seven years old, weighing about 1900
pounds, name hanging down on
left side and left eye injured. Mr.
Graham has strong suspicious as
who the thief is, but SO far has been
unable to overhaul him.
The annual festival and ball of
| st. Pauls Catholic church will be
held in the City hall on Wednesday
evening. January IA, 1885. These
entertainments are justly popular
and the coming one will if possible
be made to surpass those previously
held. Lovers of pleasure will miss
rare treat if they fail to attend.
See announcement elsewhere.
The ball given on Christmas Eve.
for the benefit of Mr.. John Wilkin-
son-who was injured in a railroad
accident some time ago-although
not largely attended, was success
financially, netting the snug sum
of over s130. The weather was
intensely cold or there would have
been a larger attendance. The
managers desire to return thanks
to the public for the interest taken
to make the affair success.
Geo. I. Smith, of Fremont, Wau-
packa county, and the leading
citizen Of that place, died at his
home, on the Goth, of a lung diff
Guilty brought upon him about five
years ago, when he was chased by
timber VOLTS in the pineries. The
wolves followed him four or five
miles, and in his exertions to reach
his camp he strained his lungs to
such an extent that it resulted in
consumption.
The Bible Depository of this city,
kept by Rev. John Bennett at his
store on High Street, has just been
restocked with an elegant and COM
plete assortment of both Bibles and
Testaments. The public do not
generally seem to understand that
these books are sold at the cost of
production without profit to anyone;
so that if Bible is sold at $1.0O, it
has cost that to get it into the De-
pository. We hope that the people
generally will take the advantage of
the opportunity offered for cheap
Bibles and Testaments and so help
the society in its work.
The common council has taken
the preliminary steps to have the
city charter amended at the coming
session Of the legislature, so that a
tax can be levied upon the property
of the city to be used for keeping
in repair our sidewalks. Although
ahead in many things, Mineral Point,
has never had good reason to be
proud of her sidewalks. The poor
condition of the walks has we
believe been mainly due to the
system under which they have been
constructed and kept in repair.
liz llONC w IdSO bill0 oS OgCLli
changed is in the right direction.
We regret to chronicle the news
that James Swift has decided to
close out his mammoth stock of
goods, and is going to move west
and engage in another business. Mr..
Swift has been in business in this
city for about ten years, during
which time he has worked up the
best retail trade in southwestern
Wisconsin. For some time he has
been closing out his stock at cost,
and will on January II, at 2 o'clock
D. m, offer his store building at
public auction. The building is sit
uated on the east side of Main
street in the heart of the business
portion of the city. 1t is a fine
two-story building, 1872 feet long,
with plate glass front. This is a
rare opportunity for some enter
prising merchant to secure a fine
location, a good building, and an
established trade Darlington Re
publican.