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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
AHorse Thief Captured at oconomowor

OCoNoMowoo, Wis, Sept. Il valuable
horse was, last night, stolen from a man
named Kiniff, near Hustisford. A tele-
gram to Marshal Berse, giving descrip-
tion of the horse, reached here about
$50 O'Clock this morning. About half
an hour later the marshal found
the thief and the horse. The
thief had just sold the animal to
August Nartozka, of Milwaukee, at the
cattle fair, the bargain being contingent
of the ability of the animal to go single.
A harness had been borrowed and a trial
was about to be made. The stolen horse
is worth 5000. The name of the thief
was Randall, and it is known that he has
served a term Mt WaaDuu
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

THE heaviest rain storms know in
western Scotland have prevailed through
out the past few days.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

Massachusetts, has spent $1s,0o0,O0o in
soldiers monuments since 1861.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

Tur American slo"p Mnyhowcr won the
first race in the International race series
Tor the American cup yesterday, over the
English cutter Galntca, which proved to
lac a powerful antagonist. II was the
greatest yacht day New York has over
seen, aud the interest aud excitement
were INTENSE. 1t was a day of glory for
Ho+ton, as tho Moyhower is the last and
rrctticst Of her products of naval archi-
lecture. The wind and weather were about
favorable as it was possible for them
to be.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

An official telegram has been received
at Washington confirming the report of
the capture of Geronimo and his band
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
ON THE HOME STRETCH.

THE democratic congressional conven.
tion at Waukesha had better try and
agree on some candidate and make re
nomination. Its stubborn contest il
certainly not going to give the party any
additional strength in the district. The
thing to do is to set out all the candidates
voted for and take up new man on
whom the delegates can agree and who
will draw the most votes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

at Washington confirming the report of
the capture of Geronimo and his band.
THIEVES entered the Office of the Page
Shoe company, in Milwaukee, Monday
night, cracked the safe and secured over
$400 in money.
ExP PRESIDENT Arthur is again reported
very low, with no hope that he will over
be better, and his death may be expected
AT any time.
After casting the s9th ballot the Wau-
kesh convention adjourned until to-day,
the record at the close standing: Ackley,
.; Delaney, 10; O'Meara, 7; Martin, =.
InE freshmen class of the university
Of Wisconsin, for the year beginning to
day, promises to be Il good deal the
largest in the history Of that institu-
ti0n.
II il said that the new line Of the Wis
consin Central, from Iron station, on the
old line of the road, to Hurely, IrOnwoOd
p,........,v v,.,.e.,, :. - J., Ill
-. rr a..
new line.
Fnrrr earthquake shocks occurred
yesterday in the vicinity of Athens.
A very slight shock was felt at Charles
ton ond a very severe one nt Evansville.
lndiana.
. h'S''Al'h from o"'i" says II i le"r'u
u revolution Will break out WHCb IIinCe
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
\ Quiet Game.
New York Mail.


Gentleman ,outside the polo grounds
Sonny, is there a game going on in
sides
Small Boy-1essir.
GenIeman-Are you certain: I don't
hear any howls, or boots or Kisses.
Small Boy-Dat's cause Sullivan's en-
pirin the game.
After the most exhaustive practical
tests in hospitals and elsewhere, the gold
medal and certificate of highest merit
were awarded 10 st. Jacobs Oil, as the
best pain-ouring remedy, atthe Calcutta
International Exhibition.
So great is the demand for Swiss con-
densed milk that fresh lilk is consider
ed by the inhabitants Of Switzerland as
too valuable an article of diet for their
own use. So they quench their thirst
with the product of the vine and inebriety
prevails among them to large extent
From Or. Foote'S Health Monthly.
Prof. Grote, Brooklyn Board of Health,
says Red Star Cough Cure is free from
opiates and highly eficacious. Twenty
five cents.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

ExPEEsrDEST Arthur is again reported
very low, with no hope that he will over
be better, and his death may be expected
nj any time.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

AFTER casting the s9th ballot the Wau-
kesh convention adjourned until to-day,
the record at the close standing: Ackley,
.; Delaney, 10; O'Meara, 7; Martin, ,.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

THIEVES entered the Office of the Page
Shoe company, in Milwaukee, Monday
night, cracked the safe and secured over
800 in money.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10

The mint at Philadelphia is now work
ed from s q. N. to midnight every week
day. Only $4,000 in silver bullion is
required for coming s., 600.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
DOWN TINY CAME

back and buoy Is. Bearing away from
her antagonist Il quarter of a mile away
at five knot gait, the Mayilowcr was ap
parently ahead, and close To the Judges
boat. Not close enough. however, for
with n twist of her long tillcr Captain
Bradford shot the handsome Galatea into
tho windward between Luckeuback and
her rival and crossed the line second
ahead, amid the widest applause.
The official start was Galatca lO:56.lI;
Mayhower 1o:56l2. Both yachts started
across the channel on starboard tack and
began their
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-09-24

Wonder if the sea serpent could
swallow all the stories that are told r.
bout him.
The following worls, if spelt back
ward or forward, are the same: "Nsme
no one man."
A clergyman was telling marvel
Gus story, when his little girl said:
"Now, Pa, is that true, or is it only
preaching"
A man may read law and become q
lawyer; be may study medicine and
be called doctor; but if he wants to
be blacksmith he must work ut his
trade.
An eating-house keeper advertised
for ga boy to open oysters about fifteen
years old" An oyster ought to be
able to open itself long before it reach
es its fifteenth year.
"Was your husband on the stand
yesterday" asked lawyer of q wo.
man, in q case in which husband and
wife were witnesses. s'No," she answer
ed. with q SNAP" he wasn't on the stand.
He was on the set. That's tue kind
of u man he ia, whenever there is any
thing to set on, from satin sofa to
the top rail of worm fence"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-09-24
JOHN III. LILO YD.

D.
By Wbat
Msrysco "
hom4 okr ih he
and reliable Mr. ay
JOHN H. LLOYD
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-09-24
1]uytry.


Don't worry or fret
About what people think,
VI your ways or your means,
OF your food or your drink,
II you know you re doing
Your hest every day,
With the right on your side,
Never mind What ''Ihey" say
Lay out in the morning
Your plans for each hour,
And never forget
That old Time is power;
This also remember
Mouy truths old and new.
The world is too busy
To think much of you
Then garner the minutes
That make up the hours.
And pluck in your pilgrimage
Honor's bright flowers.
Should grumblefs assure you
Your course will not pay,
With conscience at rest.
Never mind what they" say.
Then let us, forgetting
The insensste throng
That jostles US daily
While marching along.
Press onward and upward,
And make no delay
And, Tough people talk,
Never mind what they" ssy.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-09-24

Before purchasing Fertilizer for w, the ri b. your n,: e.
8 oil and he
the one eighty 4 5
Marysc De
Aaryi
planters o
de.Ig frs
Company not it, W.
Collector Sal. vi" CAD orders and ri. aro much time
ii two
All
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
RELIGIOUS READING.
His Workmanship.

Theodore Monod once made nse of this
beautiful illustration. He said: eff a piece
of iron could speak, what would it say2 It
would say, 4 am black, I am cold, am
hard Perfectly true. But put that
piece of iron into the furnace and wait
awhile, and what would it say? The
blackness is gone, and the coldness is
gone, and the hardness is gone'-it has
passed into new experince. But if
that piece of iron could speak, surely it
would not glory in itself, because the
fire and iron are now two distinct things
that remain distinct to the last. If it
could glory it would glory in the fire and
not in itself-in the fire that kept it a
bright molten mass. So in myself I am
black, I am cold, and I am hard, but if
the Lord takes possession of my soul, if
1 am filled with Love, if his Spirit fills
my Icing, the blackness will 60, and the
coldncss will go, and the hardness will
go; and yet the glory does not belong to
me, but to the Lord, who keeps me in a
sense of his love-"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
Temperance Notes.

A hint for the day: Boycott the bottle.
A Hoosac Falls (Mass.) employer of
1,500 men, has posted notice that any
Que of his workmen seen entering q
drinking saloon will be discharged.
In the report, in one of the New York
dailies, of a notable social evont-thc
giving of reception by the Sorosis, in
honor Of Mary Anderson, recently-the
significant fact is noted that the menu
differed from similar affairs for men only
in 'the entire absence of wine from the
table,"
In England there are more than four
teen hundred parishes where the traffic is
forbidden, and where it does not exist:
it has been for many years expelled from
two large districts in London, tw large
sections of Liverpool, one large district
each in Birmingham and Manchester. 1t
was entirely driven out from the great
manufacturing town Saltaire, in York
shire, more than thirty years ago, and
from the large manufacturing town Bcss-
brook, in Ireland, and from district of
county Tyrone, containing sixty-two
square miles, more than thirty years
ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
The Cost Of Drinks.

Temperance advocates tell us that if
everybody would stop drinking beer and
and whisky, business would Immediate
ly revive. That sounds like an over
drawn statement, but it has often been
shown that those who drink pay more
money into the Golfers of the saloons than
the whole country pays in taxes. If it
were not so evident that the appetite
clouds the reason it would appear amaz-
ing that men, who will haggle over few
cents in the price of pair of boots,
which are sold at a very small profit, or
will buy adulterated coffee because it is
little cheaper than the genuine, will
pay immense profits on the beer OF whis-
ky they drink without thought of the
way in which they are imposed upon.
The following statistics are qnoted to
illustrate this drain upon the drinkers:
A glass of beer costs five cents. There
are $40 glasses in barrel, so.that the
retailer receives $32 for every
barrel of beer he draws. The profit is
something like 400 per cent. At least
IS, 900, 900 barrels of beer were consumed
in this country last year, for which the
drinkers paid the aggregate of $780,
OOO,OoO. Whiskey and other strong
drinks average seven cents glass, or
$4.4s a gallon at retail. About 7S, S,000,-
900 gallons were imbibed in this country
last year, the drinkers paying therefor
nearly $3.50, 900, 900. Imagine the hula
balloo that would be raised if the retail
ers of groceries and provisions charged
such tremendous profits on their goods.
Now, supposing this $500, 900, 900 spent
yearly for drinks that do no good were
saved or spent for articles of use and.. real
comfort. That vast sum would buy
good suit of clothes for every man in the
land, give every woman decent dress
and bonnet, and clothe and shoe every
child. The economic use of $780,, O,000,-
900, put where it would do the most
good instead of. where it does the most
evil, are incalculable, and those who tell
us that business would at once revive if
everybody stopped drinking do not ap-
pear to be very far out of the way after
all.-SprinqfelI Union.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
A Truth That is Apparent.

"Fully cight-tcnths of the crime COM
mittcd in this country" says Judge Noah
Davis, of New York, ''may be attributed
to the use of strong drink" This truth
is so apparent that we might add it does
not require judicial mind to so inform
the public, although it lends very en-
phatic endorsement to what this journal
has always and will always maintain. Re-
move the iniquitous system Of selling in
toxicating beverages, and you purify the
moral status of every community. Every
advocate of reform should recognize the
necessity of protesting against the liquor
traffic before they can ever hope to better
the world.-West Grore (Penn.) Mde-
pendent.
Among the regulations of newly
formed church among the Z'lius ID
South Africa is the following: No mem
her of this church shall be permitted to
drink the white mans grog, or natl's
beer, nor touch it with his lips.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
IN FAVOR OF THE MINERS.
Judge Thurman Decides the Hook
ing Valley Dispute Over Wages.

DCCluCS ChC 11OSA
ing Valley Dispute Over Wages.
Ex-United States Senator Allen G.
Thurman, who was selected by the
miners and operators arbitration board
of the Hooking Valley, to act as
umpire in the recent troubles among them,
has rendered his decision in favor of the
miners. The price of mining in the Ohio
Central and Hooking Valley districts has been
in dispute between the operators and miners
since the beginning of the strike on June 26,
1854 From the close of the strike until No
vember l, 1885, the price paid was fifty cents
ton. Then the miners quit work with de-
mand for sixty cents ton. The operators
declined to pay this price, and stated that
they were unable to do so with
out great loss. The operators and miners
agreed to submit the matter to the arbitra-
tion Of ten men, five to be selected by each
agree, they were to select an eleventh man,
who was to act as umpire and decide the mat
ter After careful consideration Mr.. Thur
man says:
my duty is simply to decide. To make
elaborate argument is no part of it. 1t is
sufficient for me to say that I have care
fully read the evidence and believe that
L unQeTSIanu ana remember IL. Inc queSGlOn
is; Can the operators of the two districts pay
the advance asked and compete with other
districts! Now considering the facts stated
in the testimony. the amount of coal an
nually mined and tho length of time that the
trade has been carried on, it seems to me to
he fairly inferable that the business must
have been, on the whole, profitable one.
My decision, therefore, is that the operators
of the two districts can pay the advance
asked, sixty cents ton, and compete with
the other districts"
Now everything is expected to be peaceful
IN the mining regions in the future.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

EDWIN BOOTH is playing five weeks en-
gagement in Boston.
THIRTY bands were in the lord mayors re-
cent inaugural procession at Dublin.
MRS KATE CHASE formerly Mrs. Sprague)
is to make an actress Of her eldest daughter.
ADELINA PATTI declares that she would
rather broil beefsteak than bring down the
house"
Mrs. THURBER, Of American Opera COM
Pany celebrity, is said to have offered a hand
some sum for an opera composed by an Amer
dcan.
AN English version of Sardou's latest sue
cess, "Georgette," will be soon produced in
London with Mrs. Bernard Beere in the lead
ing part.
NINE HENRY GREvILLE is now writing
for the American stage a drama out of her
novel cleopatra" most striking charac-
ter of Russian life.
MANAGER JAMES W. COLLIER, of the
Union Square theatre, New York, has
Bought the manuscript Of John McCullough's
AGladiator." for 5000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
Hone Th0u In God.

Despair not, though thy life is dim,
God cares for thee; hope thou in Him
And do not fear to haste along
With trustful song,
For blessings shall around thee throng.
Why all things change seek not to know,
God makes the spring-time come and go;
And no one guides thy Life but He,
Oh, quiet be,
Until His reasons thou dost see.
The shifting shadows Of the day
Are sometimes dark on each ones way
And thine own path that seems in night
Leads on to light.
So forward, strong for God and right.
Do troubles gather round thy head?
Steep is the path thou hast to tread!
Hope still in God, yield not to fears,
But through thy tears,
Read the good story of the years.
God cared for thee little child,
He led thee when the way was wild,
He gave thee joy with every day,
Oh, hope and pray,
He shall light up the homeward way.
He who has been thy helper yet
Will not forsake, will not forget;
He blesses, and thou shalt be blest;
Oh, tired heart rest,
Be sure he only sends the best.
Marianne F'arninght
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
The Prayer Meeting.

We write upon an old theme, but we
have the testimony of personal expert
ence to bear which may be of service.
Our circumstances were such that for
number of months we were debarred
from attending the weekly meeting in the
place of our residence. Now again it
has been our privilege to unite week by
week with Gods people in prayer and
conference.
Our testimony bears first upon the
matter of habit. 1t is easy to form the
habit of attendance. 1t is easy,
when one is so disposed, to find excuses
for remaining away. There is no end to
the convenient reasons that may be
found if we have mind to allow passing
inclination to determine our conduct in
thisregard. Our experience teaches us
that we must make our attendance upon
the prayer-meeting matter of duty. It
must not be at the mercy of passing in
clination. For although our general
desire is to be with Gods people in the
place where prayer is wont to be made,
yet there may be backward eddies in the
current, and so the inclination of the
moment might keep us away when the
strong sense Of duty would hold us to
our course. When we make it duty to
attend the prayer-meeting we soon find
that it is d privilege.
Our testimony bears, secondly, upon
the value Of the prayer-meeting. Our
attendance had been intermitted long
enough for US to feel afresh its value
when the privilege was restored. And
now we welcome the sweet hour of
prayer. We are burdened with many
cares; cur life is busy one. But the
time we spend in the place of prayer is
not time lost even from our work. We
are rested and refreshed while we turn
aside from our usual occupations, for the
hour of social worship. Our soul is re-
freshcd. We get new view of divine
truth. We catch the echo Of some
precious promise. The love of God IS
shed abroad in the heart. We have an
opportunity to testify of Gods love. We
can join our petitions to those of Others,
praying, "Come, Holy Spirit, come"
The prayer-mccting so, becomes, as it
were, little section of heaven let down
into the midst of the toll and care of the
daily life. The hour comes to close,
and we go away refreshed, more ready
for the work we are called upon to do.
We have left out Of view here, as. will
have been perceived, any consideration
of the praycr-mecting as a place OF
Christian work. We have looked at it
simply in its bearing upon the Christians
own character and religious comfort.
This other view of it might be dwelt
upon, but we do not take it up now.
But we wish to bear our distinct and
emphatic testimony to the great value o.
the prayer-meeting in securing Christian
comfort, and maintaining Christian pro-
gress. The disciple of Christ, providen.
tial hindrances apart, cannot afford to
miss the stated meeting for prayer and
conference. He is robbing himself when
he neglccts it.-American Messenger.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
"Compensation."

"Compensation."
"Compensation! compensation"
Is the iquor-dealers' cry,
AS they see the peoples freedom
And their bondage drawing nigh;
"Give, oh! give us compensation
For the losses we may meet;
Let us have remuneration
For past gains-to us so sweet"
Let them first make restitution
OF the plunder that they gain
From the mothers, wives, and children,
OF the men their trade has slain;
Let them give remuneration
For the lives by it destroyed,
Then well talk Of compensation;
Until their claim is void
Let them show the compensation"
Which they give to those they wrong
10 the poor, by drink made poorer;
To the weak, who once were strong.
Who will pay the wretched outcast
For the ruin drink has wrought?
Who will pay the drink cursed children
That by sin are sold and bought!
Who will compensate" the mother
For her boy by drink laid low!
What will pay her for the anguish
She has suffered from that blowl
Who will pay for sullied honor,
Blasted hopes, and ruined life;
For future full of terror,
For past with horrors rife?
"Woe to him." says God in anger,
"Who shall give his neighbor drink;
Who shall tempt the weak to ruin,
And his soul to hell shall sink!"
God is just; His truth eternal;
And He careth for His own.
Law of man that dares dishonor
Word Of God shall be o'erthrown.
God is just; just compensation
At His hand they will receive;
And His judgments stand for ever
From His sentence no reprieve!
Let us leave to Him the measure
Of their guilt and its reward,
While we work to crush the traffic
That drives souls from Him, their Lord
National Temperance Advocate.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-01-27
His One Fault.

No one can estimate the results which
may flow from habitually throwing the
weight Of his own influence on the side
of the truth. A traveller on the French
Broad came one day, in his search TO,
horse or mule to take him further on his
journey, upon dilapidated house, where
lived man celebrated in the region fo1
his bad habits. He was then just recov.
ering from debauch. After some con-
versation, the host informed his visitor
that he was sure he must be Yankee.
swell, my FRIEND" said the other, II
am Yankee, and whatever you are, you're
a very decent fellow. You've only one
fault, and if you won't shoot me, I'll tell
you what it is"
II won't. What is it9" he asked, smil.
ingly.
"And you won't draw that butcher
knife you carry in the back pocket of
your trousers9"
81 don't carry one, so I won't draw
it," he answered, now laughing out
right.
'It's that flask of applcjack in your
side pocket. Throw it away, and there
isn't anything you couldn't make of your
SELF"
"Do you believe that?'
'I don't believe it; I know it,
"Then I'll throw it away"
"Do it at once. Pitch it out of the
window, and never taste the stuff again"
He took the flask from his pocket, and
gazed fixedly at it for moment. Then
he said:
"But how can I do it, stranger2 What
other comfort has q man, that has had
such losses and disappointments as I've
had? It's only when 1 take it that 1 feel
like a man."
"It's only false manhood"
The man rose and paced the floor with
an uncertain step, finally pausing to say,
Are you preacher??"
"No, I am not, but I can't bear to sec
a fine, manly fellow like you going
straight to ruin, without saying word
to stop him."
With long swing of his arm, the man
threw the flask out of an opening in the
wall, saying, when he had done so, ''Sir,
I don't know your name, and may
never see you again, but I solcmnly prom
ise you never to taste drop of the stuff
from this time forth forever"
He kept his word, as the traveller months
afterward asccrtained. As he also learned,
the reformed man had often before come
to the brink of making the same rcsolu-
ton, but on this particular day it needed
but feather Of remonstrance to turn the
scale.