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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
ADULTERATED COFFEE.
Mixtures in Which the Berry Is Almost In
visible
The Tonjon Talsgrspb

Chickory is the chief ingredient in the
cheap mixtures of adulterated coffee. be-
cause it soon makes hot water black, thick
and bitter, and so gives apparent strength
to what may contain little of the coffee
berry. Among other substances used to
adulterate coffee are, burnt sugar, roasted
and ground roots of dandelion, carrot, and
parsnip, together with beans, lupins and
other seeds. These are mixed in VARYING
proportions, the only vegetable matter
consistently in the minority being the
substance that gives a nom de guerre to
the miserable preparation. An analy-
sis of forty-three samples of coffee and
coffee mixtures purchased in London dur
ing March and April, 1856, shows an aver
age proportion of coffee in these samples
just so per cent, added to so per cent. of
burnt sugar and various vegetable sub
stances. Nine of these examples contain
from 50 to 93 per cent. of chickCry, etc,
averaging 40 per cent of other substances
than coffee. These mixtures are sold at
various prices, ranging from ten pence to
one shilling and four pence per pound.
The price of the pure Indian coffee, sold
in packets at the royal commissions stalls
is shilling and pence per pound. Up
on a moderate calculation the yenders of
many of the compounds just mentioned
must be realizing profits of something
like leo per cent, and the worse the mix
ture the greater the gain: but from the
report of the local government board for
1SS4-S5 on this subject We may call a
story which shows adultetation in excess.
Coffee. says the evidence, continues to be
one of the chief subjects tampered with
and about one-tifth of the samples exam
ined were condemned. The pecuIiarity in
one case was that the berries were actually
shown to the Inspector and ground in his
presence so that there seemed no hkeli-
| hood of adulteration. Chickory, how
/ ever, was found, on analysis. to be present
/ and the vender was fined It is possible
/ that this process was due TO the practice
/ of COMPRISING chiozory by machinery
I into the size and shape of cofee-berries.
! These sham berries are mixed with real
/ ones, and purchases, who sees what he be-
4 Eeves to be coffee ground before his eyes,
/ is hopelessIy deceived As chickory, only
[ costs 3 or pence per pound, the fraud i
/ very profitable. II Is no rare thing for
J so-called coffee to be sold which proves
/ on analysis, TO be composed of Il part OF
I coffee N SE of rhIrkory,t
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
importer, was declared to be insane Wed
nesday at Bloomington. Ill.

importer, was declared to be insane Wed
nesday at Bloomington, Ill.
GEORGE U. Porter, aged 81, editor and
publisher of the Baltimore Journal of
Commerce, and Secretary of the Board of
Trade, died in that city Monday.
THE wheat in Wabash County, Indiana,
will average about fifteen bushels per acre.
Corn is suffering seriously for want of
rain.
THERE have been no fatal results grow
ing out of the explosion of fireworks at
Decatur, ILL.,. Monday night. Nearly
forty persons were burnt more or less
severely
Two hundred coal miners employed at
Reno's mine, at Mcdonald, Pa, struck
Wednesday for an advance of &c per ton
on the mining rate. The mines are clos
ed.
AT a meeting of the Association of the
Army of Northern Virginia at New Or
leans, it was decided to gather up the re-
mains of the Louisiana soldiers buried at
Manassas Junction for the purpose of re-
moving them to the receptacle of the as
sociatiOn at Metaire cemetery in New Or
leans.
The first inoculatiOn against hydro
pnobia ever done in America was per
formed Monday morning by DR.. Valen
tine Mott in the COrnegic Laboratory,
New York. DR.. Motifs patient was
Harold Newell, seven years old, who was
bitten by dog presumably mad last
Thursday week. The incubation was
made from a solution of hydrophobic
virus obtained by Pasteur himself from
the brain of a dog dead from rabies,
bits
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO July I3 Flour Qniet and unchs ged.
Wheat-"eaker but fairly active, cost 13zc be
low yesterday: cash, 7S1a; August, 20 1915; Sep
1s@9sc lower, cl, sd 34c above esteday S close
cash. IS; August, SO; September, 40 16. Oats
No special activity; August and September
opened easier and closed lsQ 14c better for Au-
gust others unchanged; cash, 2s1t; August. 29ka
G29A; September aJ,sQ 29a4 R,.- Quiet at
55}1. e"r'.y Quiet at 65. Fax ,eed-1.1Olf Tim
othy Prime. O5 WHISKY IL Port-Moder.
ately active irresul.r. ut closing steady; cash,
9.S0D9,S5; August, S21aQ9 s.; September . 921S
o. 95. Lard-Fair. tra te frazer. advanced sd
To-: n, d closed steady; cash. 6 5566 60; August
G219; September, 6.7212. Ssoulders-5 IS q ). 90;
short clear, CSC. d 20; she rt rbs, p. Butter
Fine rades firm: creameries 13a 164 dairy
100Eh Cheese-Better; full cI cam cheidars
7@515; h4ts, 7Q7a: young Am rcss SGIS14
Esgs-Easier: 1l13@12k. Eides and tallow I'M
changed
F. ur-Rec-ipts, 600; .hipm-nts, 900.
Wheat-ReSepts, 81 0O0; shipme nts 600O.
Corn n-Rec-ipts $4,000 shipments, 2S40O0.
Oais-R ceipts, 8; 600; shipments 322 coo
Rye Receipts, 1900; shipments. 900
Barb " Receipts 1000; shipments, 1000
fHICAn" July - Tho brow. ~ Juurns ro-
FOR Cattle-Recerprs, 900: steady: shipping
steers, 3.75u425; stocsers and feeders
25D400 cows bulls ami mixed, 5Ota 8 70
bulk, . 25@2 IS; through Texas cattle, , 400 head
10c lower; eras ers, SOC, 50; corr fed, 100
400. Hogs Receipts, 1,4O0; strong; fine higher
rough and mixed, 4.4504i5; packing and ship
ping, 50G495; light 4.4j14 95; skips, 2.75a 35-
Sneep-Receipts, 1000 strong and 10Q15c higher;
natives, 3O0G4 30: western 275Q3 IS; Texans,
9Oq3 90. Lamhs-Per head 125Q3.O0.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
She Had Been Yacinated.
MerchantITrayeler.


George and Mable were walking down
the avenue, and George was showing her
how much he knew.
"Yes," he said, science is constantly
making some new dis covery. Now there's
the tyrotoxicon."
what is that? 1t must be something
horrid."
at is. It's terrible microbe that gets
through your entire system. 1t is caught
by eating ice-cream," and here George
looked straight ahead with all the indiff-
erence he had in stock.
'What kind of a disease does it give
you:" she inquired suppressing a shud-
der.
Il don't know exactly, but / should
think it was something like the small
pox, only great deal worse"
She dind't speak for two or three min
utes. Then she laid her hand on his arm
and said in low voice;
George"
what is it, dearest:"
Il have been vaccinated."
In Georges humble estimation the ty
rotoxicon is the biggest failure on rec
ord.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
An American lnterloper.
London Truth


1t would seem that THE Winans" has
at last one friend in Scotland d-"The
Chisholm" The latter has let some ex-
tensive shootings and an arabic farm to
Lord Tweedmouth who has built a very
handsome lodge on the ground, and had
had expended many thousands of pounds
in draining. making roads, reclaiming
waste land, etc. One would have sup
posed that a landlord would have wished
to retain so desirable a tenant. Not so
The Chisholm. who has granted the Win
ans twenty five years lease of the prop
erty, without giving Lord Tweedmouth
the option of renewal, although there are
still seven years of his lease to run. Not
satisfied with this. The Chisholm has
Joined The Winans in trying to shut out
Lord Tweedmouth from access to the
high country road, within FIVE hundred
yards of his own door. Scotch land
lords have been in the habit of pleading
that The Winans is sort of American
interloper, who, having made money by a
railroad contract in Russia, is entirely
destitute of any of the feelings that ami
mate a Scotch gentleman. But here We
have Scotch gentleman consorting with
the interloper, turning ont tenant to
oblige him, and giving him opportunity
to do more harm. OF the pair L really
think that The Chisholm Is the worse.
1t is at least consolation TO think that,
besore this new lease to The Winans has
run ont. the Law Will be so amended as to
bring it home both to this hardened sin
ner and to The Chisholm, that they can
not insult all sense of right with lmpun-
ltv.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16

AsINeULAR accident happened recently
10 sawyer named George Flynn, employ
ed in a logging camp ON the Saohomish
river, Wyoming Territory. Flynn was
engaged in saving near Il fellow workman
who was using a steel wedge and a sledge
splitting timbcrs. As the latter struck
the wedge a blow small piece of steel
flew off, and flying III Flynu's direction
hit him in the throat, cutting an ugly
cash through his windpipe and lodging
in the bronchial tube. The effect was
that Flynn could not breathe, on account
of the obstruction, for short time He
was seized with violent fit of coughing
almost Immediately, however, during
which the steel was thrown out and the
injured man quickly regained his breath.
On the examination of the wound it was
found that in breathing, the air. instead
of coming in Flynn's mouth, entered the
aperture made by the steel.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
FOREIGN.

ONE hundred and fifty-fve new cases of
cholera are reported from around Brin-
dis, Italy, and 46 deaths.
FIGHrrNG has taken place between ir-
regular troops of Turkey and Montene-
gro ON the frontier.
Mr.. CREDLAND, British Consul at Mobile
has been transferred to Charleston, and
Mr.. Sadler, British Consul al Panama, to
Chicago.
A dispatch from Paris confirms the
report of the loss of eight French tor
pedo boats in n storm on the Atlantic.
THE great hall and entire right wing
of the university of Brussels vas burned
Wednesday. portion of the library
was saved. Loss 100000.
The standard says: ~ speedy settle
mcnt of the Afghan frontier questions
seems hopeless. The Russians are claim
ing Khamiab, which, as is well known has
been an Afghan possession for thirty-tiye
years.
Two regiments of the Imperial Russian
Guard have arrived at kichinof, the cap
ital of Bcssearabia. There Is considerable
uneasincsss in official circles here over
the situation i'll the east.
TuENEy has paid to Russia another in
staIment of G5O.OOO ON the war indemnity
and has authorized Russian torpedo
boats to pass the Dardanelles on their
way to Odessa.
THE various Turkish diplomatic repre-
sentativcs abroad have been ordered to
ascertain the views of the powers in re
| gard to the Batoum affair. A portion of
/ the ministry maintain that Turkey is en-
/ titled to summon the aid of England, by
virtue of the cyprus convention, ON the
| ground that the action of Russia threat
ems the Sultan's territory.
RussIA's action in closing the port of
Batoum is a gross breach of faith, and
is most discreditable to the Car. If
Russia continues To act this way she may
find general league against her in
volving an exclusion from international
intercourse which she is scarcely able to
! afford.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16

PARIS, July 1+'-President Grevy has
signed the decree for the expulsion of
Duke D'Aumale from France. If Duke
De Chartres initiates D'Aumole in litigat-
ing the question of the republics right
to expell him. The chamber of deputies
will take action looking toward the con
tiscation of all property in France be
longing to the Orleans family.
Livery Stable and Eleven Horses Burned.
CHICAGO, July 1.-THE HAery stable on
Thirteenth street, between Michigan and
Indiana avenues, owned by f. F. Morris,
burned this morning with eleven horses.
Peter Smith and wife, Charles Smith and
James Flannery. employees of Morris, and
lodging over the stable, had to Jump from
second story window. Charles Smith
had his back broken. He was taken to the
hospital where it is said he cannot recover.
The rest also sustained broken limbs. The
cause of the fire is unknown. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
FRIDAY, July 8.

.ScHate-Senator Sewell, from the com
mite on pensions presented a report in
the case of the vetoed bill granting a pen
sion to Margaret d. Marchand, widow of
Commodore Marchand. The committee re-
peats its former support in the case and
recommends passage of the bill over
the presidents objections. Referred.
The adverse report upon the nomina-
tion of Solicitor-GeneralJ John Goode was
then taken up. 1t is said that the pro-
gramme of operations in respect to this
case had been arranged by republican
members of the Judiciary committee by
which Edmunds had assumed the task of
speaking upon the subject of Goodies all
legged in competence. as evinced in the de-
cisions on file in the department of jus
tice. To Hoar was assigned the task of
explaining Goodies alleged connection
with the tissue ballot system of carrying
elections, while ingalls, was to dwell upon
the Pan Electric developments and Goodies
connection with the matter. After
a long debate the nomination of Goode
was rejected, there being four majority
against him. The secret session then
ended, the doors of the senate and the
other doors were reopened, and the senate
adjourned.
House-Iu the house, Immediately
after the reading OF the journal. the
speaker announced that the regular order
was a vote on demand for the previous
question on the motion to refer to the
committee on invalid pensions the
veto message of the president
granting pension to Sally Ann
Bradley. Amid great confusion
I Burroughs, of Michigan. on the
( part of the republicans and Mason. of
/ Indiana, representing the democrats, en-
/ deavored to come 20 some agreement to
/ prevent the time being frittered away
/ with roll calls and finally agreed tina;
| the demand for the previous question
/ should be Withdrawn and Grosyenor, OF
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16

Await the rheumatic sufferer who resorts TO Hos
letters Stomach Bitters That this beniSuant
Cordial and depurent is 4 far more reliable rem
eiy than colchicum and other poisons used to
expel the rheumatic virus from the blood, Is 4
fact that experience has satisfactorily demon
srrated- IL also enjoys the advantage OF being
unlike them-perfectly safe. With many persons
a certain predisposition to rheumatism exists,
which renders them liable to its attacks after ex-
poSure in wet weather, to currents Of air changes
of temperature, or TO cold when the body Is hot.
Such persons should take wine glass or two OF
the Bitters as soon as possible after mourning
risk from the above causes, this superb protec-
tive efyecrualy nullifies the hurtful influence.
For the functional arrangements which accom-
pany rheumatism. such as colo, spasIas in the
stomach. palptatiol Of the heart, imperfect di-
gestiou &C. the Bitters is also most useful rem
edy. Il is only necessary in obstinate cases to
use il with perSistency.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
AREMARkNBLE MELL
1t Yields Oil, Mineral water and Gas in Great
Quantities.
San Iuis ObiSno Trilunr

quantities.
San Luis Obispo Tribune.
For some months past DIR. Nichols,
Judge Adams and Alfred Walker have
been boring for oil near Miles Station, on
the Pacific coast Railway. A flow has not
yet been reached, but there is a flow of
warm white sulphur water, from which
rises a column of gas burning yard in
height. The locality is the base of a hill
lying between San Luis Creek and Cave
Landing, fronting northeasterly. The
surface rock Is serpentinc, with occasion
nj groupings of dark sand stone. In one
of these sandstone groupings ap eXuda-
tion of oil has been observed. and it was
determined to investigate and determine
what the formation might bring forth
An excavation was made and the rock
blasted away, was found permeated with
petroleum, and when placed in the fire
burned tiercely. With this slight pros
pect, 1t was decid ed to bore in the usual
manner for an oil well. The different
formations penetrated correspond very
closely with the formations found in bor-
ing for oil wells in Pennsylvania. There,
it is understood, three strata of sand
rock must be passed before the flowing
oil Is reached. Here two such layers
have been penetrated, and now the auger
is in the third. Before reaching the last
stratum flow of warm sulphur water was
struck, and from the lower sand rock
comes a large volvmne of gas. These
now come up together, the water flowing
at the rate of 400 barrels a day, being
heavily impregnated with white sulphur,
and having & temperature of $40 The
gas bubbles out of the water, and being
lighted, sends up flame about three
feet in height, burning continuously. The
boring will be continued until the sand
rock is passed through the expectation of
of striking oil. Should oil not be reached
the well will be of great value. The local
ity is a sylvan retreat of remarkable love
illness and the climate the most genial and
balmy the health or pleasure-seeker could
desire.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16

"When you left Washington were
matters favorable to Dakota?" asked a
friend of o self appointed representa-
tive who had spent the winter at the
capital.
"When left there DaBota's interests
were in most excellent shape" he replied.
81 feel much encouraged"
"What was it that encouraged you so
much?"
"Why, sir, beat the senator from
Missouri in six straight games of poker
and left him just about broke Oh, tell
you we are guarding Dakota's interests at
Washington very closely"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
CRIMlNALITIES.
The Prouty Divorce Case Before the Court

The PrOuty Divorce Case Before the COURT
JANEsvILLE, July 14.-Y Yesterday the
divorce suit of Mrs. Charlotte w. Prouty
against the Rev. Enoch c. Prouty, came
up before Judge John r. Bennett, in the
circuit court for Rock county. This Is
the sequeal of the celebrated Prouty-
Hines slander suit, when the Rev. PrOuiy
brought suit against the church council
in Beloit, who had expelled him from the
church for alleged intimate relationship
with Mrs. o. S. Hines, and which litiga-
ton was discontinued because the plain
tiff was unable to give security for the
costs. The grounds on which divorce is
asked are deserion and failure to sup
port. There was no appearance on the
part of the defense. The case was hel d
open for further testimony.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
THE BLACK HAWK PEysloNER.


As good deal of fulschood has been
circulated by republican organs about the
poor old Black Hawk pension claimant,
whose little pension bill met a veto, it
will be Of interest. rs well as an aid TO
truth, to publish the veto. Here it is:
To the house of representatives:
| herewith return without approval
house bill number three thousand and
forty three, entitled AN act granting Il
pension To Lewis W. Scanland."
The claimant filed his declaration for a
pension i'll 1854, alleging that he contract
cd chronic diarrhea while serving in Il
company of mounted Illinois volunteers
in the Black Hawk war.
The records show that he served from
April Is, IS52, to May 2S. in the same
year.
lie was examined 10y board of sur
geons in 1881. when he was said to he sew
enty five years old. In his examination
he did not claim to have diarrhea for a
good many years. On the contrary he
claimed to he affected with constipation,
and said he had never had diarrhea of
late years, except at times when he had
taken medicine tor constipation.
! ann inclined to think II would have
been n fortunate thing if in this case it
could have been demonstrated that man
could thrive So well with the chronic di-
nrrhea for tifty-two years, as its existence
III the case of this good old gentleman
would prove. We should then, perhaps.
have less of it in claims fer pensions
The fact is in this case there is no dis
ability which can he traced to the forty
days military service of fifty-four years
ago, and think little if any more infrm-
lty than Is usually found i'll men of the
age of the claimant
Entertaining this belief, l am con
strained to withhold my signature from
this bill. GROVER CLEVELAND.
After passing that bill, what kind of 8
claim is il at all likely congress would re
fuse to pass?
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
Urging the denomination of Goode.

WASHINGTON, July 1+.-Ex-Sen. John
son and Representatives Tucker, Cabel,
Wis, Croxton and Trigg waited on the
president this morning and urged the re-
nomination of James Goode. as solicitor
general. They represented that Goode
had not been fairly treated by the senate
and was not given sufficient opportunity
to refute the charges which led to his re-
lection. member of the delegation is
authority for the statement that the pres
ident, after listening to their representa-
tion, expressed sympathy for Goode, and
stated that he had the case under consid-
Grafton, but had not yet determined what
course to pursue
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-07-16
ASHLAND.
The Place Steadily Growing in Favor with
the Tourists.

lhN iA'F 1efHbiAs 'lV~ib- AH Win
the Tourists
ASHLAND, Wis, July 14.-That this part
of the country is growing in favor with
the tourist cannot be disputed; particu-
larly is this true with the south, for near
ly every southern city is represented
Louisville, Ney Orleans and st. Louis
each have thus far furnished their full
quota of pleasure seekers, and probably
never before in the history of Ashland
has such boom been experienced. The
steamer Barker, which makes daily trips
between Ashland. Washburn and Bay
field, has all that it can attend to. and
Capt Brewer. who so ably manages If, is
kept busy night and day The arrival of
the Ann Arbor band has about completed
the programme and the Hotel Chequame-
gon. to-day, offers more attractions than
any hotel IN the country. Manager
Brown has succeeded in keeping the table
up to its former standard of perfection
and it Is doubtless if single guest will
depart, this season, dissatisfied or unviI-
ling TO return another year when the warm
weather sets in.