Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-03-05

. MONDAY evening Oh lIllS Ntth In
programme, consisting of vocal anC
instrumental music. recitations ant
! tableaux. was of first-cIass order, anC
was well received by large and APP
preciative audience. The same wa!
repeated in Fayette on Wednesda,
evening.
The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporte
SAYS: \ subscriber at Beloit sends u
sample of Sumatra tobacco grown b!
him the past season, of which he ha
about 100 lbs. The leaves are rattle
small, but otherwise show as fine {
| texture and finish as any imported
article We have yet seen. Usually the
Sumatra tobacco grown in this countr,
has been devoid of the gloss and fin,
texture Of the imported article. anC
this sample is about the first we have
seen that can match it. If the entire
lot will run like the sample sent, anC
such quality can be produced here, w
see no reason why Wisconsin growers
cannot turn their attention to raising
Sumatra tobacco, and beat the almond
eyed cOolie at his own game.
One Of the latest and most usful in
yentions is the stamped letter sheet
which will soon be issued by the gov.
erment. the post Office department hav.
| ing adopted it. 1t is letter sheet anC
envelop combined, perforated line
running around the sheet with the mar
row space outside ovSrSpread witt
mucilage 50 that the sheet may be fold
ed and securely fastened. The letter
when ready for mailing. resembles the
style in use before envelopes were in.
vented. This the government stamps
in loose sheets and collectively in pads
and will be put on sale soon at some OF
the leading post offices throughout the
country. AS it can be produced at a
very low figure, and affords the SAME
security that an envelope does, it is eX.
pected to take the place Of the posta
card to considerable extent.
Shullsburg Local: Tommy Lee, oul
street commissioner little twO-year
old boy, met with a serious accident
Tuesday, of this week. While playing
in the yard he got hold of some dried
up weeds, that had stood all winter,
among them being the Stramonium,
comOnly called JimSen weed, and ate
some Of the seeds Of it. They are a
deadly poison, and Immediately after
eating them he was thrown into con-
WILSON'S; Spasm following spasm, I'M
til life was dispaired Of. But at going
to press we are glad to state that
strong hopes are entertained Of his re
coyery We would caution parents
and property owners about letting rank
weeds grow and remain about the
premises. This sad happening will be
Il warning to Mr. Lee and should be t.
every parent.
\ very distressing accident occurred
near Potosi last Tuesday night, Feb
ruary %. Mr.. Joseph Pluemer, a
farmer living about three miles from
Potosi, started home in the evening
with a wag0n-load of lumber. No one
knows how the accident happened, but
some way the wagon must have tipped
over. throwing him under the whole
load of lumber. He was completely
covered with lumber, with the excep-
ton of his head. He was found
Wednesday morning, and the team
was standing clos5 to the lumber and
the wagon. The body is said to
have been terribly mutilated, for the
head of the man had been stepped on
by the horses and the body was badly
mangled by the fall off the lumber
The deceased leaves wife and child
rem to mourn his loss. Relatives of
the unfortunate man live in the
vicinity assville Current.
The Grant County Democrat is labor
ing under mistake in regard to ON
complaint against certain city papers
for publishing one of our local items
as dispatch. There was no sell in
the notice as we published it. We
described the large sheet of dry bone
in the Kennedy mines at Highland
but did not claim that it was any very
recent discovery. because we knew
that it had been worked for some time
past and proitabN. But some city
papers made special dispatch out OF
the notice, and further stated that the
sheet had just been struck. and that il
caused much excitement in the lead
region. And when we referred to &
local exchange re-publishing the dis
patch as a matter of news, we had nt
thought of striking at Bro. Peck, be
cause he did perfectly right in pub
fishing the substance Of the dispatch
rs news. But we thought it rathe
good joke to have our next door neigh
Dor, The Tribune, publish the dispatch
and give credit to The Inter Ocean
( when all the truth it contained wa.
published in The Democrat some
weeks before.
/ The Teller says; There is nothing
in the divorce suit now pending unde
the title Dewey VS.. Dewey to make i
of interest in the newspapers, excep
the prominence of the parties. Her,
at home it is known they have Hvet
apart for many years. Both have beer
highly esteemed and no cause for tn,
separation has ever been discussed. |