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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

Congressman knute Nelson, of the
firth Minnesota district, who although
q republican, had the saving good sense
to vote for the consideration of the
Morrison tariff bill, has been renomi-
mated on tarn-reform platform. He
il reported as having subsequently Civ
en- the following reasons for breaking
away from his party i'll tn" House and
casting his vote in favor Of tariff re
duction:
voted for the consideration not be
cause il was such Il bill us should like
10 vote for on its final passage, but be
cause | am in favor of tariff reform, to
which our state and congressional plat
forms are committed, and the consid
Grafton of this bill was the only oppor-
tuuity given for any expression in tay-
81 tariff reform this session. | had al
Su another reason for voting to consid
cr In the early part of the session |
introduced bin at the instance of
several farmers alliances. who were
anxious to secure cheap Irvine for har-
vcsting purposes, 10 put hemp, iutc,
MANILA and sisal grass and all Irvine
and cordage from the same on the free
list; aud while my bill was not reported
back, the substance of it was incorpo-
rated in the Morrison bill. where the
items are put on the free list The
cost of Irvine is quite an item for our
farmers, and il would afford them con
siderable relief to put these items on
the free list
Mr. Nelson Will doubtless be reflect
cd. as his district is largely republican,
five must have republican repre-
sentative from the fifth Minnesota dis
trict, We are glad 10 know that he will
he a low -tarin republican.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
The Lancaster Teller.

Frank Wunderle was over to see
his Lancaster friends this week and
brought samples of the favortte drinks
prepared at his Minenal Point manu-
factory. He has soda. sarsaparilIa.
strawberry and buck soda. pops and
ginger ale, buck beer, seller water and
champagne cider. Tasters says the
articles are very fine, and Mr. Wunder,
lie is reported to he doing a lively bust
ness
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

SECOND WEDNESDAY.
No. Running Race-PurSe $1,000.
Half-mjle heats; best two in three
First horse $500, second horse
$500, third horse $1,000.
Ne. Green Trotting Race Purse
$5o.oa. Mile heats; best three in five.
First horse $500, second horse $l5OO.
third horse $1,000.
THIRD DAN-THU R$DAN.
No. ; stake Trottiug Race For
stations; mile heats, best two in three:
entry for each nomination $1,000: the
association will add to the stakes
$1,000. First horse 90 per cent. of the
entire stake, second horse TO per cent.
of the remainder; third horse the bal
ance of the money.
No. 4 Running Race-PurSe 800
Halt-mile heats: best three in
five. First horse $1,000. second
horse 5000. third horse $1,000.
No. 5.-Trotting Race-PurSe 500.
For horses that have no record lower
than $50: mile heats; best three in
five. First horse 800, second horse
$4,000, third horse $1,000.
FOURTH nAS--FRTnsN.
No. 6-Running Race-Purse 500
mile heats; best three in five. First
horse $4,000. second horse $500
third horse $500.
No.1-Trotting Race Purse S3oo.ot
/ Free for all trotterS and PAGERS: mil,
heats; best three in five; First hors,
$4,000; second horse, 5000; thirt
horse $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
PROGRAMME OF RACES.
II Mineral Point. Wis, August 3iSt
and September LIST. 9d and 81.

FIRST DAN-TJ E>pAN,
VIII be devoted t. making entries,
locating articles for exhibition. etc.
Admission free.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
More Life Needed.

There seems to be growing Senti-
ment among attorneys in different
parts of the state that our Supreme
Court needs some life in it. Several
of their decisions of late have tended
to weaken lawyers respect for the
learning of that honorable body and
our reports are falling from that high
position in which they We're placed by
the decisions of our former Judges
Poor decisions ought not to be toler
ated merel, upon the ground that the
supreme Court judgeShip should be a
life nNSitiNn
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
The Granhic News takes the folio

The Graphic News takes the follow
ing hopeful view Of civil servic reform:
Civil seryic reform is not such a
delusiOn and snare as it has been
painted. We are prepared to see both
parties endorse it in their platform.
In Ohio, at least, George IL. Pendleton
is on top, and when the people have
an opportunity they are very likely to
vindicate both him and the important
measure which is so closely associated
with his name. 1t is within the line
of probabilities that he may yet be
called upon to serve his party on that
very issue
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
\ Debt Paying Administration
The Madison Democrat.

The reduction of the public debt
was $9,O6LS97 for June and since
January LIST it has been S54,327, $40.
over $5000O,OOO of reduction of the
public debt in six months The lar
gest reductions of the public debt ever
made in an equal length of time when
no retmding of the debt was in pro
gress. Has old mush-hcad Hiscock
heard of this: How do these figures
look by the side of his silly yawp in
the house few days since about a
deficit this year
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
No Steamship Subsidy at this Session.

TIC WuUTsON ItIlDCIUJ.
The senate conference committee
gave up the contest for the 100000
donation from the public treasury for
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
and the post Office appropriation bill
was agreed to. The Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company will have to plod along
another year with what it can levy on
the Pacific railways, as it cannot get
an 100000 grab from the public
funds. But the postmaster general
who has etfectually stopped this rat
hole into the treasury will catch it if
ever that angry corporation can get a
chance ut him.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
From Our Local Exchanges.

! 4NA-A AA-S AION=C 44hc NAAASAAIAS.
The extensive hardware and jewelry
store of Daugherty * Co. at Barneyeld
was entered by burglars, last Monday
night, who stole therefrom watches.
jewelry, revolvers and cutlery valued
at between 5000 and $500. and also
what change had been left in the
money drawer over night, which for
tunately was not much. The entrance
to the store was effected through a
back window, which the burglars
reached by the aid of a ladder which
they had borrowed from the depot.
DR.. Robert Willis intends. in the
course of a few days, to remove from
Dodgeville. to his former home near
Mif1in.
The Lancaster Herald.
John Zimmerman. young man OF
about twenty, residing at Dickeyville.
while shooting of a small cannon yester-
day afternoon, was severly injured III
the head by its premature discharge.
He is in danger Of losing one eye.
1t is now authoritively stated, based
on reports received at the Office of the
Chicago Burlington and Northern rail
road Co. that a gap Of only forty miles
remains to be made between La
Crosse and Dubuque and twenty-five
miles between Lacrosse and st Paul.
When these are completed the entire
line viii be ready for business. Twelve
miles Of track remain to be laid to open
the line from LaCrosse to Prairie du
Chen. and this will be closed this
week
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

now ones
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
4 More Sensible Tariff.
The Farmer

\ tariff by which revenue of POO
million dollars year should be raised
and no one unduly protected, would be
Il good deal cheaper and more accepta-
bic to the people of the United States,
than the one whereby l25 million dol
lars should be raised for revenue and
500 million dollars exacted from the
people for the benefit of protected
mnnnfa rtIIrrrS-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09

\ dispatch from Eau Claire, Wis,
announces that the farmers in that
part Of the state are renewing their
interest in grange matters, and are re-
organizing old lodges and establishing
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-09
Friday, July 8, 1856.

The Milwaukee workingmen are OPP
posed to running a workinmen's ticket
for state officers.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1886-07-20
Pixley Is Sarcastic.

The Areonant Of san Francisco is noted for
the originality Of some OF its schemes of political
economy. The latest relStes 10 the paciicstion Of
Ireland. which X states IN the following paragraphs
Oar suggestion Is this EaSlSad Is oouteulplat
ing the appropriation Of Irish lands 10 be turned
over 70 the non-rens- paying tenants-I1 other
words 70 rob the landowners N the interest Of
the clSSS OF tenants who nos or Will not pSy
their rents; who feed needles IN potatoes 20 the
landlords COWS snd Turk for the landlord, rife in
hand behind the hedges 10 kill him. This proposed
ooup-onise OF taking lands from their owners and
giving them 70 the non rent-rSylng tenants n
order 10 induce them 30 abstain from criminal
acts Is 70 COST the imperial treasury gl5Q0000o0
l$7SoQ10ool. and, II addition. England Is 20 con-
cede home rIle and 81 independent parliament to
Ireland England Is q commercial nation, and Is
rich beyond Computation: ii has vast nSvy aud
merchant Hest In tie Dominion Of CAnRiS Rnd
IN Australia are vast unoocapsei agricultural and
grazing lands; mountains Sbo1ndlRc in game !;
oosAn tnletSs bays lakes Sno rivers aho1EdlaE II
nsh. Instead OF using the $7Soo0oooo 10 provide
land for tenants and thus postpone ths evils OF
SgrArlanlSr. anarchy, Nnd rebellion against the
lav to = lister day, use il 70 remove the discon-
tented from Ireland Have general roieo corral
the whole cSboodle Of lriSh tenants. Catholic
priests. home-Tals politicians drive them down 70
The Ssspo-1s with their household pots. their blsn-
kess and personal elects, their ps1psrS and pigs.
Snd p1i them On bosri such feet as could be
gathered for their expiration and send them 70
Australia o. British ColuEhis. Queen Charlotte
snd Vancouver islands. with pstch Of the main
shore, voald BE ever 50 much larger thSn the part
Of Ireland nov inhabited by tins diSooateatsd bat
industrious sld handwriting population. Two
millions % persons sxiled would nd Ireland Of sll
its priests, politicians. pSlps-S- no1-relt-pSyInS
ts1SntS snd ~hESkey- drinking Insl-coatentS snd
lssve IL happy prosperous, loyal island Send
these two million 6lSoo1tsltS 10 one. either, or
both Of the localities indicated. aii them 20 bald
cottages IS good IS they now occupy, give 10 them
each PIC. build them 3 church II every conmuc-
ify, give them usnv priests Is sod foS them,
give them fishing tackle farming implements.
mechanical tools S2i [res license 20 DISH vhfS
X. s1i let them fight OF thsir destiny as better
men have been compelled 70 DO who hsys gone
into the Wilderness - cSrve OF empires and lay
OF. foundations OF civilized government
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-25
Stock Notes.

A. 3. Matthews sold 81 two-year old steers
to Elgin Rex, at S25 per head.
Mr.. w. G.. Seale, of Dover township.
shipped, last Saturday, a thoroughbred Poll.
ed-Angus bull to West Va.
Messrs. II. c. Chi!es and Tol Graves
shipped. Tuesday last. l car load of hogs to
Kansas City: Thos, Chinn | ear. and Proc.
tor aud Warehouse ! car.
Marshall Progress, Dec. l7:-.The cattle
case of the Leonard Bros. comes up again
this week in the U. S. court al Kansas CITY.
1t il for black cattle killed between New
York and Chicago while being shipped from
Scotland. They hrst brought suit for 500, 900
and got a verdict for $4,000. The railroad
got d new trial which comes off this week, ;,
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-25
Have Not Been Beaten,

Waddelfs Patent and Red r. have not been
beaten. Like Banquo's ghost, they will not
down. except when eaten. Having again
been put up they still wear the crown as
the whltest, pureSt and most superior flours.
THESE, with the other grades of flour, can he
had al all grocery stores. Exchanges made
at the Office of Juo. w. WaddeIl i Co, d11ts
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-25
BE SURE TO GIVE ME A CALL.

VIM. III. CARTER
DEAL EsTATE AGENT, COEDWATEE.
II KANSAS. Has for sale 10. 90 acres o;riok,
Ell lands in barber and Comanch- county. han
purposes. These lands are among the hest In
the slate and will be sold extremely low. viii
t1y and sell lands. pay taxes. &c , Tor non-re.-
iuents. correspondence solicited and charges
moderate Refer to any prominent busIn,Ss
man IN Lafayette County lMo. po,e.t
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
81 Told You So"

The Raleigh IN. CO. Spirit of the Age
prints the following:
"1wO citizens of Raleigh, one a pro-
hibitionist, the other an anti, were
discussing the merits of the local-op-
ton movement here, when the anti
said that if Raleigh went dry 'the
country people would not come here,
but would carry their produce to some
other market, where they could get
their jugs filed
Our prohibition friend, seeing some
countrymen standing near, proposed
that they should go and ask them
about it. They did so, and one of the
cOuntrymen answered:
IF you had had prohibition law in
Raleigh | should not have been here
to day.,
'Ah, la l told you So shouted the
anti man, slapping the local option
man on the shoulder
No. continued the cOuntryman, I'll
you had had prohibition law in force
here | should have stayed at home and
sent my son. But, inasmuch as yOU
have grOg- shops here, which are all
the time leading boys astray, wa:
afraid TO send my son, so | had to
come myself
And the local option man slapped
the anti on the shoulder, saying: 'Ah
ha | told you so.'
The anti was dumfounded.
1t is au insult to the farmers for men
to intimate that it is the grOg shop
that brings them here. Those farmers
who trade only where grog-shOps en-
tice them are not worth much to tho
business of any cOmmunity."-(N Nation
al Temperance Advocate.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
CELLARS.

! 1t is the boast of almost every good
| housewife that her cellar can be made
so perfectly warm and tight that she
can "put down. in it in autumn all the
store of potatoes and other vegetables
that will be required by her family un-
til the following spring. People who
have furnaces in their cellars 90 to
great pains to wall off portions large
enough to hold such vegetables, and it
is, in New England especially, cOnsid-
cred as to high degree thriftless and
imprOvident to have a cellar which, in
the local venacular, "wOn't keep"
Now, however, up start the "ex-
perts," as they have most eXasperat-
ing habit of doing, and inform us that,
if we would keep away malaria and
other zymOtic diseases, we must allow
current of fresh air to flow through
our cellars at least once day through
out the year; that to seal up the eel
lars, even in midwinter, is to endanger
the health of every member of the
household.
"What," cry all the outraged ma
irons, "buy my apples and potatoes a
peck at timeq Pay double the price
in February that needs to be paid in
OctOberY Never! can't afford it,"
"But," argue these unsettling scien-
fists, "yOu can better afford to pay
more for vegetables than to pay enor-
nous doctors bills, and perhaps lose
your nearest and dearest ones by some
deadly fever. After all if you buy in
small quantities you avoid the loss by
decay and other forms of blight insep-
cradle from keeping large quantities of
fruit and vegetables"
But these arguments sound speciOus
to the thrifty housewife. 1t is hard to
have all of ones traditions and life
long maxims overturned in this cava-
lier manner, and she, and such as she,
will go on banking up their cellars,
so that not ray of light nor breath
of fresh air can get into them from
November until May. Many of them
will keep themselves and their families
perfectly we'll in the interval, and will
pooh pooh more than ever at the tex
perts." Some, however, will listen to
these plausible warnings, and will
spend perhaps twenty or fifty or hun
dred dollars more per year than they
might otherwise have done, in provid-
ing food for their families. 1t would
be wise for every one to study the sub
ject thoroughly in all of its bearings,
and then take his choice of evils
Kate Epson Clark.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
SMITHS SALOON.

81 hear that Smith has sold out his
salOOn," said one of a couple of middle
aged men, who sat slipping their beer
and eating a bit of cheese in a Smith
field street saloon, last Friday night.
eyes," responded the other, rather
slowly.
"What was the reasonF | thought
he was just coming money there"
The other nibbled a cracker abstract
eddy for moment and then said "It's
rather funny story. Smith you know,
lives on Mount Washington, right
wife, nice home and three as pretty
children as ever played out doors. All
boys, you know, the oldest not over
Smith is pretty respectable sort of a
citizen, never. drinks or CANDLES, and
thinks the world of his family.
Well, he went home one afternoon,
last week, and found his wife out shop
ping or something of that sort. He
went on through the house into the
back yard, and there, under an apple
tree, were the little fellows playing
keep saloon He noticed that they
were drinking something out of pail,
anu GItt IIlOg dCtOu bipSy' LILO yOuHS
est, who was behind the bar, had a
towel tied around his waist, and was
setting the drinks up pretty free.
Smith walked over and looked in the
pail. 1t was beer and two of the boys
were so drunk that they staggered.
A neighbours boy, a couple of years
older, lay asleep behind the tree.
My God, boys, you must not drink
that he said as he lifted the six-year-
old from behind the bench.
Yves playin' s'loon, papa, an [ was
sellin' it just like YOU said the little
fellow. Smith poured out the beer,
carried the drunken boy home and
then took his own boys in and put
them to bed. When his wife came
back she found him crying like "a child.
He came back down town that night
and sold out his business and says he
will never sell or drink another drop
of liquor. His wife told mine about it,
and she broke down crying while she
told it.n
This is true story, but the name
was not Smith Pittsburgh Dispatch.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26

that the plants are insured against
their worst enemy = drought. How
often have seen beds in early June
languishing for moisture, the fruit
trusses lying on the ground, faintiDg
under the burden. and the berries rip
ening prematurcly into little more
than diminutive collections of seeds
When ground has been deepened as |
have said, the drought must be almost
unparalleled to resist the development
of the fruit. Even in the most favor
able seasons, hard, shallow soils give
but brief period of strawberries the
fruit ripens all at once, and although
the first berries may be of good size,
the later ones dwindle until they are
scarcely larger than peas. Be sure to
have a deep, mellow soil beneath the
pIants.-[E. p. Roe, in Harper's Maya
zine for September.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
Raising Strawberries.

We can now give our attention to
the formation of an ideal bed. In this
instance we must shun the shade of
trees above and their roots beneath.
The land should be open to- the sky,
and the sun free to practice his al
chemy on the fruit the greater part of
the day. The most favorable soil is a
sandy loan, verging toward clay, and
it should have been under cultivation
sufficiently long to destroy all roots of
grass and perennial weeds. Put on
the fertilizer with a free hand. Ii it is
barn yard manure, the rate of sixty
tons to the acre il not in excess. A
strawberry plant has large appetite
and excellent digestion. 1t prefers
decidedly manure from the COW stable,
but that from the horse stable answers
very well, but it is not advisable to in
corporate it with the soil in its raw,
unfermented state, and then to plant
Immediately. The ground can scarce
Iy be too rich for Strawberries, but il
can easily be Overheated and stimulat-
ed. In fertilizing ever keep in mind
the two great requisites, moisture and
GOODNESS, Manure from the horse sta
BILE, therefore, is about doubled in val
leaves, muck, or sOds, and allowed to
decay before being used.
Next to enriching the soil the most
important step is to deepen it. If a
plough is used, sink it to the beam
run it twice in n furrow. If lifting
subsOil plough can follow, all the bet
ter. Strawberry roots have heen trac-
ed two feet below the surface.
If the location of the plot does no
admit the use of a plough, let the gar
dener begin at one side and trench thu
area to at least the depth of eighteen
inches, taking pains to mix the surface
subsOil, and fertilizer evenly and thor
Oughly. A small plot thus treated will
yield as much as one three or fou
times rs large. One Of the chief adj
vantages of thus deepening the soil i
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
FARM FOR SALE.

The William Stearns farm is offered for sale.
This farm is situated in the western part of St
Johnsbury, threefOurths of a mile from GOss HOl.
low and six miles from the village of st. Johnsbury
the same contains 100 acres of choice land with
buildings thereon, with Sugar orchard of 6U0
trees Apple orchard of $50 trees choice grated
fruit. Running water at house and barn. Also Is
acres of pasture and woodland, part cedar one
half mile from said farm. Also 80 acres pasture
and wood land mile from said farm, in the
town of Lyndon. The same will be sold altogether
or in lots to suit purchaser.
32tf SIAS RANDALL, Administ'r
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-08-26
Gke GaIedumiam.
AnnIes for Cows.

Last fall a large farmer told me that
he was going to cut down all of the
apple trees in his pasture, because his
cows had done scarcely anything all
the fall but to travel from tree to tree
after fallen fruit, and as consequence
the quantity of milk for the whole
herd had been greatly reduced. Many
of the cows, it seems, became as badly
addicted to eating sour apples as some
of their owners do to drinking hard
cider, with about the same results
New England Farmer.