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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
President Cleveland's Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1S.-The president
to-day issued the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON. Nov. 8.

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EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON. Nov. 8.
To the people of the United States:
1t is my painful duty to announce the
death of Chester A. Arthur, lately presi-
dent of the United States, which oc-
CURED after an illness of long duration
at an early hour this morning, at his
residence in the city of New York.
Mr.. Arthur was called to the chair of
chief magistrate of the union by the
tragedy which cast its shadow over the en-
tire government. His assumption of the
grave duties was marked by evident and
conscientious sense of his responsible
ties and an earnest desire to meet them
in Il patriotic and benevolent spirit.
With dignity and ability he sustained the
important duties of his station, and the
reputation of his personal worth, con
spicuOus graciousness and patriotic tidel-
ity will long be cherished by his fellow
countrymen. In token of respect to the
memory of the deceased, it is ordered
that the executive mansion and the sew
eral department buildings be draped in
mourning for a period of thirty days and
that on the day of the funeral all public
business in the departments be suspend
ed.
The secretaries of war and of the navy
will cause orders to be issued for appro-
riate military and naval honors to be
rend cred on that day.
Done at the city of Washington this
eighteenth day of November. in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-six and of the independence
of the United States of America one hun
dred and eleventh
GROVER CLEVELAND.
THos. F. Bayard, Sec'y OF State.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
A son BORN.

To Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry. Of
Battenburs.
LONDON, Nov 23.-Princsss Beatrice.
wife of Prince Henry, of Battenburg, and
youngest daughter of Queen Victoria,
has given birth to son. Mother and son
are doing well.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
Interest in the National Rauk oueStio
Secretary Mauning'S Health has not Erckcn
Down

WASHINGTON, Nov. %. The Evening
Star tonight says the report that Man
ning's health had again broken down is
denied at the treasury department, and
by gentlemen who have seen hin fire.
quently. In fact he is very hard at work
on his report, and shown no signs of
breaking down.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
The jury Locked Up for the Night.

NKw YoKk, Nov. 23.-At o'clock to-
night the jury in the McQuade case re-
ported that they were unable to agree.
They were then locked up for the night.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
The Storm Interferes with the Running of
Trains

ST. PAUL, Nov. 23.-The roads running
through the northern part of the state
and II Dakota are having some trouble
to-day. In the northern part of the state
along the Manitoba line there is not
much snow but the high wind which ha.
attained the velocity of gale, has inter
fered considerably with the running of
trains The Northern Pacific is expert
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
Expressions Of Sincere Sorrow in Washing

WASHINGTON. Nov. 1S.-The personal
regard in which exPresident Arthur was
held in Washington was shown by express
sions of sincere sorrow on all hands
thi. morning at the news of his sudden
death. The receipt of the first bulletin
was followed almost Immediately by the
half-mastIng of the flags on the wings of
the capitol, on the white house and de-
partment buildings, on Che courthouse
and district buildings, and on the hotels,
schools and private buildings. Soon after
the receipt of the press bulletins, Col. La
mont received from James c. Reed, ex-
President ArthuT's private secretary the
following telegram:
New Iork-Ex- president Arthur died
at O'Clock this morning
The president was ct once informed
and addressed the following message to
eX-president Arthur's sister, Mrs. VI Gel
roy: The Executive Mansion, Washing
ton-Mrs. John Z. McElroy, 123 Lexing
ton avenue, New York city: Accept my
heartfelt sympathy in your personal
grief, and the expression of my sorrow
for the death of one, who was my kind
and considerate friend. The people of
the country Will sincerely mourn the loss
of a citizens who served them well in their
highest trust, and won their affection by
an exhibition OF the best traits of true
American character"
The president then prepared an official
announcement of the sad news and an
order for the half -masting of flags and
draping of public buildings for thirty
days, and directing that they be closed
on the day of the funeral. He also issued
an order to Col. Wilson to commence
drapiug the white house Immediately.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
Arrested on a Serious Charge.

DETROIT, Nov 23.-Dr. DAVID II. Weir,
of Oscoda, was arrested at London, Ont,
to-day for the murder of a young woman
in that place aud will be held for e1tradi-
tion. DR.. Weir kept a drug store and
privite hospital. Miss Mabel Clark aged
20, was patient in the hospital for some
time, but on November she managed to
inform her friends that she had been sub
iected to the grossest indignities. In
tense excitement was caused by the story
and Weir left town Two or three days
later the girl died aud Weir was held to
be responsible for her death
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
State Historical Society

which great alarm was felt, has arrived at
Frankfort, Michigan, IN search of her'con-
sorts.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, SR.. formerly
minister to England died at his residence
in Boston, at the age of 70. His mental
powers began to decline ten years ago.
and for the past two years he had been
unable to identify the members OF his
family.
JOHN MCBRIDE, one of the oldest resi-
dents OF Dixon, H., made an unsuccess
full attempt to commit suicide Sunday
night by taking large dose of paris
green.
EDGAR LOMBARD, of the Boston ship
ping fir1 of A. C. Lombard & Sons, com
mitted suicide Monday forenoon in
Young's hotel, in that city, by placing
drOp-light tube in his mouth and inhal-
irg the gas until he was asphyxiated.
Family troubles caused the tragedy.
FOR the eighteenth time in seventeen
years, the planning mill of j. X. Russell
G Co, Fulton street, Chicago, has been
gutted by flames, the loss being $4,000.
The cause Of the last blaze was the over
turning Of lamp in curtain-rod fac
tory on the upper floor.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
DELANEY'S SUCCESSOR.
The President Experiences Some DIFF
ficulty in Filling the Office.
Public Interest in the National Bank
Question is ViSibly Increasing.
The Report that See. Nauniug'S Health
has again Broken down Disputed.


Sen. Bragg and Another Prominent lawyer
Decline the Appointment OF Attorney GEN
eral.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The president is
experiencing some difficulty in filling the
office of United States district attorney
for the eastern district of Wisconsin. A.
X. Delaney, the former incumbent, re
signed the Office at the suggestion of the
president, in order to accept the demo
cratic nomination to congress from the
second district of Wisconsin. nov repre-
Sented by General Bragg. The election
resulted in his defeat and he has since
made formal application to Attorney
General Garland for reappointment as
United States district attorney. Some
time ago the president rendered the posi-
ton TO General Bragg, and after some
delay, received a letter from HIM saying
that it would be impossible for hixj to
accept. The Office was then rendered TO
another prominent lawyer of Wisconsin,
and he, too, declined with thanks.
Interest i'll the National RanS Question
WASHINGTON, Nov. Inquiry at the
treasury department showed that rs the
time for the assembling of congress ar-
proaches, the public interest in the
national bank question il visibly increas-
ing. The comptroller of currency is now
receiving letters from all parts of the
country making suggestions rs to a more
permanent basis for the national banks.
These letters come, not only from per
sons interested i'll the national banks, but
from officers of the state banks. private
bankers and from prominent manufact
urers, and mary merchants seem also to
have directed their attention toward the
maintenance of the existing system.
Comptroller Trenholm, said to day that
he was very much pleased to receive sug-
gestions.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
The Blizzard Ended.

BIsXAEcK. D. T., Nov. 23.-At noon to-
day ths snow stopped falling, and the
greatest blizzard ever experienced in
North Dakota was brought TO an end
The wind il still strong, but no snow il.
flying, and the citizens are out IN full
force shoveling drift. and making roads
Scott the stage driver between thi. city
and Fsrt Gates, has not been heard from
He was due here at seven O'Clock last
evening, and there il much alarm among
his friends
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-26
OURLITTLE MEN and WOMEN

PROSPECTUS FOR 1887
The Serial story for the year, by that charming
writer for children, Mrs. NJ #. Butts, will be en-
titled,
WANDERERS IN B0-PEEP'S WORLD.
1t will tie accompanied with twelve full-paRe
drawings by Elizabeth S. Tucker. The author Of
Little Talks about Insects" gives an amusing se-
ries about
TINY FOLK IN RED AND BLACK,
n which she tells about ants and their wise and
curious ways-how they work, how they harvest
TEN LITTLE INDIANS,
by Mrs. Helen E. Sweet, tells many interesting
things about Indian boys and girls, their sports
and their strange ways OF living The History
Chapters for the year will consist OF
ADVENTURES OF THE EARLY DISCOVERIES
by Mrs Frances A. Humphrey, following on from
the voyages OF Columbus given last year, and re-
lating thu story OF Ponce de Leon and bis search
for the Fountain OF Youth, the romantic tale OF
De Soto the exploits OF Capt John smith In Viz
gina, etc.
All these will be profusely illustrated, as also
will the and short stories by Mrs. Clara
Doty Bates Sara Z. FarmaB. Mrs. Olive Howard,
Charles f Skinner, Bessie Chahdier, IL II. Hud-
son, sic.
The yearly numbers will have seventy five full.
page pictures.
Only 800 a Year,
tW-Specimens free to intending subscribers.
Address orders 10
d. LOTHROP q CO., Publishers,
Boston, Mass, U. s. A.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
THE FARMER SAT IN HIS EASY
CHAIR

The farmer sat in his easy chair,
smoking his pipe of clay,
While his hale old wife with busy care
Was cleaning the dinner away:
\ sweet little girl, with fine blue eyes,
ON her grTndiathcr's knee was catching flies.
The old man laid his hand on her head,
with tear on his wrinlllcd face;
He thought how often her mother, dead,
Had sat in the scli-same place.
As the tear stole down his hall-shut eye,
Don't smoke" said the child GLOW it makes
you cry"
The house dog lay stretched out on the floor
Where the shade after noon used to steal;
The busy old wife by the open door,
Was turning the spinning wheel;
And the old brass clock on the mantcltrcc
Had ploddcd along to almost three.
still the FARMER sat in his easy chair,
While close to his hcavng breast
The moistcncd brow and the cheek 50 fair
OF his sweet grund-child was pressed.
His head, bent down, on her soft hair lay:
Fast asleep were they both, that summer day
-CbarIcS Gdmdgc Eastman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01

ing the eggs are removed to other bas-
kets in another heated room, to which
they are dexterously carried in cloths,
each containing about 80 eggs. No one
but a neat-handed Cinnamon could carry
such "A burden without brealiage! Here
the eggs remain for about fortnight,
each egg being frequently moved from
place to place to cqualizc their share of
heating. After this they are taken to
third room, where they are spread over
wide shelves and covered with sheets OF
thick, warm cotton; at the end of am
other fortnight hundreds of little duck
lings simultaneously break their shells,
and by evening perhaps couple of thou
sand fluffy little beauties are launched
into life and are forthwith fed with rice
water. Duck farmers (who know pre-
cisely when each great Matching is due)
are in attendance to buy so many hun
dreds of these pretty infants, whom they
carry off to their farms, where there are
already an immense number of ducks
and geese of different ages, all in sepa-
rate lots. The geese, by the way, are not
Matched artificially, owing to the thick
ness of their shells, consequently they
are not so very numerous as ducks
Still, nocks numbering GOO or 800 are
reared, and are provided with waffle
shelves on which to roost, as damn
ground is considered injurious to the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
NORTH CAROLlNA'S PRlMEvAL
FORESTS.
Letter in y. Y. Tribune. |

In the Allegheny region now stands
the largest body of hardwood timber in
the temperate zone, and here upon the
frontier between the sylvia of the North
Atlantic and of the South is grouped an
opulcnce of arborescent form unknown
elsewhere unless it is parallcled in some
favored forest of Japan. The size attain
ed by individual trees under these moist
skies and upon this fruitful soil is as
noteworthy as their variety. We saw
that day by actual count 20 species that
would cut 50-foOt stick of timber, and a
few days later in going the same dis
lance on the flank of Newman's Bald
another bare-topped peak, separated by Il
sag from Clingman's Dome, all of these
with IA half-dOzen more two pines (P.
mitis and =. taeda), two hickories &C..
and silver bell (halesia). The other big
trees were cucumber magnolia and tulip
poplar. white ash and black locust, red
and sugar naples, black gum (nyssa),
DaSSWOOu. sycamore, Dldch CHERRY, DUCK
eye and black birch, beech and chestnut,
red, white and chestnut oaks, black
spruce, balsam and hemlock.
One might journey across the continent
of Europe and back again and not find
half as many. And these were only
the giants. The botanist of the eXpedi-
ton named from memory in the evening
81 distinct tree species that grew along
those II miles of mountain road. Upon
all this copious growth there rests the
charm of hoary age without a symptom
of decay. Here is the forest primeval,
without figure. Its seeds were sown
before the era of man. The chestnut and
tulip-trees have had the leisure of long
centuries to reach the girth of 20 feet and
more, which is common among them, for
abundant moisture has been their safe
guard against desolation by fire. Veneer
able in their gray antiquity, majestic in
their columnar strength, they wear that
placid expression of longevity, which
unites the remote past with the distant
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
ALL THE WORLD AKIN.

Rev. Henry Kendall in Popular Science
Monthly
The number of mans ancestors doub-
les in every generation as his descent is
traced upward. In the first generation
he reckons only two ancestors, his father
and mother. In the second generation
the two are converted into four, since he
had two grandfathers and two grand
mothers. But each of these four had two
parents and thus in the third generation
there are found to be eight ancestors
that is, eight great-grandparcntS. In the
fourth generation the number of ancestors
is sixteen; in the fifth, thirty-two; in the
sixth, siXty-four; in the seventh l2S. In
the tenth it has risen to | .024: in the
twentieth it becomes 1,04S,51G: in the
thirtcth no fewer than | ,073, ~ .S34 To
ascend no higher than the twenty-fourth
generation we reach the sum of 16.777
PIG. which is Il great deal more than all
the inhabitants of Great Britain when
that generation was in existence. For il
we reckon. Il generation at 33 years,
twenty-four such will carry rs back 792
years. or to A. u. 1893, when William the
Conqucror had been sleeping in his grave
at Cacn only six years, and his son Will
| liam II. surnamed Rufus. was reigning
over the land. At that time the total
number of the inhabitants of England
could have been little more than two mil
lions, the amount at which it is estimated
during the reign of the Conqueror. 1t
was only one eighth of ii nineteenth-centu-
~ mans ancestors if the normal ratio OF
progression, as just shown by a simple
process of arithmetic, had received II,
check. and if it had not been bounded by
the limits of the population of the coun
try. Since the result of the law of pro
erosion, had there been room for its eX
pansion, would have been eight times til,
actual population, by so much the more
is it certain that the lines of every Eng
lishman's ancestry run up to every man
and every woman in the reign of William
|. from the king and queen downward
who left descendants in the island, ant
whose progeny has not died out there.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
GIVE ME BACK MY YOUTH AGAIN.

Then give me back the time of pleasures,
While yet in joyous growth sang
When, like a fount, the crowdng measures
Uninterrupted gushed and sprangl
Then bright mist yelled the world before me
In opening buds marvel woke,
As | the thousand blossoms broke
Which every valley richly bore me,
1 nothing had, and yet enough for youth.
Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth.
Give unrestrained the old emotion;
The bliss that touched the verge of pain.
The strength of Hate, Loves deep DEVOTION
o, give me back my youth againl
( From the German Of Goethe
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Those men who destroy a healthy con-
stitution of body by intemperance as
manifestly kill themselves as those who
hang, or poison, or drown themselves.
The church and the temperance cause
have been ordering the reserves to the
front, and the reserve force of the church
in the world, to-day, are the God-fearing.
noble, intelligent, energetic women.-
Reu. Mr.. Wheeler.
All we little know how closely children
watch and initiate what we do. There is
a teacher, a Sunday-school teacher. who
lives in road hard by; opposite his
house lives family, from which five chill
dren come to the same Sunday-school he
teaches in. Two of them are in his class:
little does the teacher know the influence
over those children he has lost because
on the Sunday when he came out from
school he went into public house.
Think, teacher, of your eXample-vour
infiuence.-Sel.
While it is true that the people must be
properly educated before they will en-
force prohibition, it is equally true that
people are never better than their laws.
If the laws fall below the standard of
high moral reform, the people will. as n
rule, never go beyond their laws. So
long as our laws permit the sale and use
of any Intoxicating drinks, the people
will indulge in them. There is no doubt
ON this subject-hence the necessity for n
strict prohibitory law. 1t is our only
safety.-E1.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
ALECTURE-ROOM AT LElPSlC.
From the Troy Times. !


\ letter devoted to Leipsic university
would be worse than incomplete if nothing
were said about the hours devoted to the
lectures. The lecture-rooms are by no
means picturesque. They are furnished
with plain benches and desks, the board
running along the back of one seat serving
as desk for the seat next behind it.
There is everything necessary for work,
nothing for ornamcnt-everythin that is
necessary except fresh air. One advan-
tage about the lecture hour is that it is 10
minutes long. Fifteen minutes are allow
ed for the students to get into their places
and for the professors to get from one
room to another. Before the u minutes
are over every one is in his place, or, at
least, is expected to be there. The late
conner. who diSturbS the quiet by enter
ing the room a minute after the lecture
has begun, is greeted with a shutting of
the feet and Misses. \ glance around the
room at any of these lectures will reveal
the fact that among the 100 or 200 present
other lands are represented besides Ger
many. There are Il few Engli>hmcn
more Americans. here and there Russian
or a Swcdc. and a few Japanese. Not
long ago one of these yellow-sllnneC
oricntals, who had taken notes of the
lecture in German, was seen reading anC
TRANSMITTING his notes into English for tn,
benefit of an American who had been :,
unfortunate as not to understand the lee
ture. And yet the Japanese are barba
| rians
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01

the dircctness, the commanding port
noble affect.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race
of prophets. He saw with open eye the
mystery of the soul. Drawn by its Sc
we're harmony, ravished with its beauty,
he lived in it, and had his being there.
Alone in all history, he estimated the
greatness of man.
Slavery it is that makes slavery; free
dom, freedom. The slavery of women
happened when the men were slaves of
kings. The Moderation of manners
brought their moderation of course. 1t
could not be otherwise, and hence the
new desire of better laws.
The painter Giotto, Vasari tells us, re-
newed art, because he put more goodness
into his heads. TO awake in man and to
raise the sense of worth, to educate his
feeling and Judgment so that he shall
scorn himself for a bad action. that is the
only aim.
And | know no such unquestionable
badge and ensign of Il sovereign mind, as
that tenacity of purpose, which through
all change of companions, of parties, of
fortune, -changes never. bates no iot of
heart or hope, but wcaries out opposition
and arrives at its port.
\ man must be clothed with society. or
we shall feel certain barrenness and
poverty, as of a displaced and unfinished
member. lie is to be dressed in arts and
institutions, as well as in body garments.
Now and then a man cXqusitcly made
can live alone, and must; but coop uI
most men and you undo them. a.Td
Who can set bounds to the possibilities
of man: Once inhale the upper air, be
| ing admitted to behold the absolute ma
lures of justice and truth, and we learn
that man has access to the entire mind OF
the Creator, is himself the creator in tho
finite.
Seek nothing. fortune seckcth thee;
Nor mount. nor dive: all good things keel
The midway of the eternal deep;
Wish not to fill the isles with eyes
TO fetch thee birds of paradise:
On thine orchards edge belong
All the brags of plume and song.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-01-01
A SAD CASE.

\ pitiful story comes to Us of a scene in
a Philadelphia police station, where Il
rough tangle-haired woman. who had
been arrested, had fought like a fury.and
stormed at the officers in three languages,
was followed up a few hours later by IA
little tot of II girl. who looked from one
officer to another. and asked them if they
had put her mother in Jail. She was 50
little that the policeman had helped her
up the steps; but here she was. in search
of her mother; the degraded woman
heard her voice and called to her. SO
they swung open the door and let her in.
and the little thing asked her mother, who
had shrunk back. ashamed, why.
mother are you in jail:" Then the baby
dropped upon her knees on the stone floor.
and began to pray: "NoW | lay down
to sleep, and hope my mother will he
let out of Jail" There were tears among
those rough men al the sound of that in
nocent voice; and when the case was
brought into court the Judge whispered
to the woman to go home and try to he Il
better mother. 1t was the drink that
made the trouble. II is the drink that
is always working Woe Smut.