Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-16
WASHINGTON.

THE Senate passed the Indian appropri-
alton bill, including an item of $4,000 for
schools in Alaska.
The Senate has passed the bill grant
| ing right of way to the Baltimore d Ohio
railroad through the government grounds
in Philadelphia.
As secretary Manning will not attempt
to resume duty at the treasury department
his friends propose that he be appointed
minister to Austria.
The house of representatives has pass
ed bills authorizing the construction of
twenty-five bridges, mainly over the Miss
issippi and Missouri rivers.
3 SENATOR MAHoNB, from the Committee
on Education and Labor, has reported
favorably the bill to pay government Ia
borers for extra time over eight hour a
day since 1868.
SATURDAY was a field day for bridges
in Congress. The lower house passed
this authorizing the building of twenty
two bridges, chiefly over the Mississippi
| and Missouri rivers.
THE senate, by vote of 30 to 13, pass
ed bill authorizing the inhabitants of
the territory of Washington and the ad-
jacent part of Idaho to form state gov
ernment.
The treasury department has authori-
Zed the collector at Baltimore to permit
the shipment to Chicago of a bronze sta
tue of Schiller, sent from Bremen for
Lincoln park.
THE April report of the national de-
partment of agriculture shows a reduc-
tinn of = from last in the
area seeded to winter wheat, Illinois lead
ing the decrease. California exhibits the
best condition. The damage by the Hess
ian fly has been very slight.
The house of representatives by a unau-
imous vote, passed resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee of seven MEM
bers to investigate the cause of the rail
way strike in the southwest, with power to
send for persons and papers.
THE house committee on territories has
agreed to report bill for providing for
opening to settlement such portions of the
Cherokee strip as are not occupied by
tribes of Indians, the compensation to be
$1.25 per acre, and to organize the terri
tory of Oklahoma from the present In
dian Territory and public land strip.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has dis
allowed the claims of the Globe Mutual
Insurance Company of st. Louis, and
twenty-four other Insurance companies,
amounting iu the aggregate to $94,S7361,
for losses under policies taken by them
upon steamboats, employed i'll the govern
ment service in transporting troops and
supplies for the use of the army during
the civil war in 1861 and 1862.
Fishing SuperstitiOns.
American Angler
My father, an officer in the British
service, was an enthusiastic amateur sea
fisherman. A great many years (alas!
how manyD when was little chap | used
to accompany him on his fishing trips. He
it was who taught me to catch mackerel
with a trout rod and fly or rather with
a white or gray feather tipped with scar
let and made i'll the form of a tish-not
hy-a kind of amateur fishing that |
recommend to visitors to the coast of the
Gulf of st. Lawrence or to the seaside
generally, for the reason that lively
mackerel on a trouting line is as game as
a salmon and from having a tender mouth
Is more difficult to get into the boat The
good old gentleman was genial and gar
rulous and nothing Delighted him more
than to converse with the fishermen on
the coast.
On one occasion, on the east shore of
Flfeshire, Scotland-near Pittenween, |
think-a group of fishermen were seated
on the beach lazily mending their nets, at
distance of fifty yards or SO from
boat that had been drawn up above high
water mark. Two or three pigs were
roofing for muscles some further distance
off
Happening to point to the animals and
make some remarks respecting "those
swine" my respected progenitor was as
tonished to see every man leap to his feet
with horror depicted on his face, run at
utmost speed and place his finger on a
nail or ring-bolt or thole-pin or other
piece of iron of the boat to break the
evil spell. At the same time my amazed
parent was solemnly warned never again
to utter the word swine" on the seacoast.
If he should have occasion to mention
the malign animals at all he was to call
them "beasties." Subsequent inquiry
could only elicit confused statement
that the devil enters into "swine" mot
beasties'') causing them to run down a
steep place into. the sea and spoil the
fishing