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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16

THE solidty with which the so-called
Liberal Uniouists support the British
Ministry offers little hope of speedy
dissolution Of Parliament, which will be
the next great step toSG5d the triumph
of Home Rule cause. Every effort will
be made by the government to postpone
the day of dissolution as long as possible,
and the Liberal Unionists will be even
more plant supporters of this policy
thsn the ayowed Tories, for the
former know that general election
Will mean the political death of
most of them. Ii is possible that the
present Parliament may continue in ex-
istance until 1898, when 1t will expire by
reason of the seven year limitation, bat
it Is likely that the iucompetency of the
government to satisfactorily deal with
/ Irish affairs will force it, notwlth
standing the solidity of its support
/ in the Commons and its aversion
/ 10 dissolution, to throw NJ
its hands long before that date is reached
| The bye-slectiors have shown almost
conclusiyely that in England there is &
/ popular electoral siority favorable tc
the Gladstone policy; in Scotland ant
Ireland sentiment is overwhelmingly fol
him. When the country is given an op
portunity TO again speak, every indica
tioa is that it will be very decidedly fol
! Justice TO ireland.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
Gable Flashes.

PRINCE WILLIAM has been inaugurated
Iuler of Germany.
A VIENNA paper reports that Russia is
preparing for an invasion of Bulgaria.
TWENTY persons have been killed by
! avaauches in the Trentina Valley.
The Porte has notified Prince Ferdi-
nand that his position in Bulgaria, is
ineligible.
The inhabitants of the Arran island,
as starving.
TEE Danish government has forbidden
the importation of American bacon,
steam lard and other undressed pork
products.
The emperor in his reply to the pope's
letter OF coincidence, expressed desire
for a continuance of the existing good re-
lations between Germany and the vatl-
can.
TEE hungarian government has decid-
ed to remove the iron gate impediments
TO navigation in the Danube in accor-
dance with the Berlin treaty.
The Government has sent to Count
! Manabrea, the Italian ambassador at
! Paris, counter proposals to those offered
| by France to serve as a basis for the
! sumption of negotiations for treaty of
! commerce. between the two countries.
! The lower house of the Hungarian diet,
| by p vote of 1S5 TO Sc, has approx ed the
| convention delimitiug the frontier be-
| tween Hungary and RUumaEia.
PRoF. LEM, the African explorer, does
not believe that Stanley has met with
| I, I,+ frE b.
| been detained.
! HEAVY snow storms have completely
| stopped traffic in Norway and Sweden
| snd greatly impeded traffic in northern
! Germany.
UHE Hungarian Government has decid
! ed to remove the iron-gate impedimeEts
| to navigation in the Danube in accord
! ance with the Berlin treaty.
II is stated that Emperor Frederick's
! reply to the message OF coincidence sent
/ by President Carnot, of France, was very
cordial and that he expressed the hope
that the relations between the TWO coun-
tries might continue friendly.
ADVISES from Massowah says that
| Chief Debeb and his followers, who hith-
| erto have been powerful allies of the
| Italian forces, have deserted TO the enc
t my. taxing Win lh6Ln arms SIu III
meuts with which the Italians had sup
piled them.
The driven well patent has been de-
| clsred invalid, and even before this It
has expired by its own Limitation. There
is now no reason why farmers should not
every where use this method of securing z
| a supply of water for their homes and
stock, and also for irrigating purposes
THE government has issued orders to
| expedite the collection of stores in War
saw. Many officers who were on furlough
| have been recalled to their regiments.
The attitude of the powers regarding
Bulgaria irritates military and public
circles in Bulgaria
The Premier of Italy has seut tels-
gram to the Italian Ambassador at Paris,
instructing him to demand of the French
Government the punishment of fifteen
French soldiers who stopped some italian
railway officials al Modane and by threat
ening them with bsyonets forced the
Italians TO knesl before them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
NUGGETS OF NEWS

1t is said that Swift & Co., of Chicago,
have made arrangements for establish
ing a packing house at Sioux City.
James Harden, of Rural Retreat,
Douglas county, Ill, took strychnine by
mistake for quinine Sunday afternoon,
and died soOH after.
Loggers in northwestern Wisconsin are
having the best of weather for their Oper-
ations and the Chippewa cut will reach
6OOO00,eO0 feet.
Mr.. John Sherman, of De5 Moines, Ia,
a nephew of the Ohio senator, Is at Oma-
ha, negotiating for the purchase of the
Republican, owned by the heirs of the
late S. =. Rounds.
The family of II. L. Brown, nine in all,
living near Mason City, Iowa, were taken
violently sick ct Supper Saturday even
ing, asd MIR. Brown and one child have
died. How their food was poisoned has
not been discovered.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
EydTtS is Amusing.
-y-,-,.z-R s--a-rT.s,--

But the moss amusing mag in the SEN
ate 10 watch Is Evarts. He l. e most IN
easy creature. During q cam mpaign
speech, or any other for that matter, he
tries every vacant seat in the Senate. In
each he settles himself comfortably,
shrinks into the secIuson of his lose fit
ting garments and superabundant collar,
chats q moment with some Senator. takes
three immense yavns, and moves on TO
try another. Evarts' yawn, By the way,
l. one OF the features Of the Senate II
happens regularly once IN three min7tes
ana lasts By actual measurement tEei7e
seconds. II begins with sudden collapse
about the lips, which resembles ancient
pictures of earthquakes, and ends with
sudden contortion Of features that
suggests volcanic eruption You won
der hoS the skin assumes its normal
Losition again, bat IN some way is does.
Abort every third time Mr. Evarts covers
bis face With both hands, and Heaven
only knows what distortions go on then.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
don preacher, is the latest convert to

! don preacher, is the latest convert to
! home rule.
The Illinois State Supreme Court has
confirmed the annexation of Hyde Park
| to Chicago.
TIE six great coal companies at the
East have seeded to make reduction of
so cents per ton in coal.
NINE valuable horses. smUggled over
| the Canadian border without payment of
duties, were seized at Dewitt, Iowa.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
Township Local Option law, for the reg
ulation of the liquor traffic.
TIE Canadian government has deter
mined to grant no further aid to immi-
grants.
The late Mr.. Alcott was a vegetarian,
may be good for you," he used to say to
his daughter, 'but it is not for me-"
The formation of wholesale grocery
trust Is rumored. 1t is said the dealers,
who are already more or less at the mercy
of existing trusts, propose to combine
into 'union" for protection and profit.
THE funeral services of Miss Alcott
were held on Thursday. They were en-
tirely private, only invited friends being
present. The burial will be in the old
Sleepy Hollow" grave yard at Concord.
HENRY WARD BEECHERs own version of
the Tilton- Beecher dispute, prepared by
himself some time before his death, is to
be punished, with the sanction of Mrs.
Beecher.
THE debt statemet shows shat the re-
= 8 h.. i - &, l.,
month Of February amounted to $7,756-
366. Total cash in toe treasury S572. =
390,989.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has just decided on expending an addi-
tional 100000 in increasing its equip
ment. The first step will be to add 5000
freight cars of different classes.
HE Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers of Lafayette, have sent thou
sand dollars to Arthur, of Chicago, to aiJ
the striking engineers on the Chicago,
Burlington Quincy.
THE Rock Island bridge at Leaven-
WORTH portion of which was destroyed
by fire sometime since, has been rebuilt,
and trains are now running across the
same to and from Leavenworth.
IHE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
made Reduction of 226 men from its
force at its car and machine shops at
Fort Wayne, Ind, Monday, on account of
the great falling off of freight business.
THE locomotive engineers of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Northern Railroad
running between Chicago and ST. Paul,
struck on Wednesday in sympathy with
their brethren of the Chicago, Burlington
and Ruincy Railroad, of which it is an
adjunct.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Accidents and Failures.

An earthquake shock disturbed La
moille, H., Sunday afternoon.
AT La Crosse, Wis, the Milling Com.
pany's Block, on Front street; loss, so
OOO
NATIONAL gas caused q confagration in
Beaver, Pa, which destroyed or damaged
several buildings.
FIRES: At Holly Springs, Miss, the
Rush University, for colored students OF
both sexes, was destroyed; loss, $4,000
THERE was an earthquake in southern
California Wednesday morning, but no
serious damage was done.
A CoNFLAGRAT1oN in the business part
of Ligenier, Ind, destroyed number OF
buildings and stores; loss, $4,000.
Owing to pluro- Pneumonia which has
again broken out among the cattle in
Middlesex county, n. j., thirty-two head
were killed Other herds in the vicinity are
affected and will have to be slaughtered.
HOLLANDS drug store, Strauss bank
building and two grocery stores were
burned at Ligonier, Ind, loss, $4,000.
At Warsaw, H., Henry Shaeffer-s dry
goods establishment was destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
A CAN of parafne in New York
caught fire and exploded, causing dam
age OF over 100000. The principal los
ers are j. II. BunneI & Co, electrical and
teIegraphers supplies, and Simon Boeche
& Co., glass importers.
MISS Folks, a Yankton county ID. t.
sch Dol teacher, who passed the night of
the great January storm with her pupils
in the school room, is showing signs of
mental arrangement.
Ar Berlin, Wis, Thursday night, the
Emmett Block, occupiedsby C. TIuesdelI
and by A. Ford, clothing dealers, was
burned, and 2. Swetting's store badly
damaged the loss being 22,000; insurance
$4,000
TIE Hong Kong mail which has been
received at San Francisco, in the steamer
City of Sydney, gives the particulars of a
terrible earthquake in China, on Decem-
Der 10Th, which continued for several
days. Some $4,000 persons are said to
have perished.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16

Ex-President Hamlin was one of the
speakers at the Grand Army department
camp fire in Portland Friday evening.
His address was mainly upon the great
developments in science and the arts that
characterize the present century. 1t the
course of it, he said, speaking of the tele-
phone:
"And yet, perhaps, more marvellous
than all is that little instrument which
put Us in communication with those we
love hundred miles away. Ny wife and
your wives have tongues, as 1t were, a
hundred miles long, and if by that little
thing of telephone we're in communi-
cation with my good wife at the present
moment I should hear saying: Hannibal,
be careful and not catch cold.'"
An hour or so after this, when the
memory of Mr.. Hamlin's address had
been partly obliterated by speakers who
had followed him. Post Commander
Sawyer raped to order and announced a
telephone message from Bangor. All
eyes turned in the direction of the yener-
able Bangor statesman where ne sat sur
rounded by g bevy of young ladies who
were i'm pOrtuning him for autographs.
Mr.. Sawyer continuing, sale: Ladies
and gentlemen, we have received a tele-
phone message from Bangor. Is says:
Hannibal, don't firt with the girls.'
The applause that followed drowned re-
plT.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
BROUGHT HOME FOR BURIAL.
The Body of I. J. Potter Arrives at OttumM a
and is Pla ed III Receiving Vault.

The Body of I. J. Potter Arrives at OttumWa
and is Pla ed III Receiving Vault.
OrTUMwA, Iowa, March 13.-The funeral
train bearing the remains of I. j, Potter
reached this city at 12:45 to. Gay. The
carriages wore in waiting to receive re-
lations and friends and an immense
concourse of people had already assem-.
bled to pay their last respects TO one
whose death all our people look upon, as
a personal loss. Two thousand people
in carriages and on foot followed the
funeral ccrtege to the cemetery. GA
arriving Mt the grounds the ca-ket was
borne to pine grove in the center OF
the grounds, and ErIes services were con
ducted by Rev. L. IL. Siey ana J. Nj. Nc
Elroy of this city. An opportunity was
then given to look upon the face of the
dead and the throng passed silently by
the bier, taking last look upon the face
of their friend and neighbor. Toe body
was then placed in The receiving vauit to
await burial in the grounds he had years
ago selected and adorned.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
SrtRI INCREASING.

business at Stand>uU Hotels Overlooking
with >uhurhanitcS One Fatality Many
Frozen Hands and Fe-G
NFw Y,NN, March II, p. ru.-The
storm Is increasing ana l. absolutely uu.
prooedout,l. Al business has been par.
aly2yd. At the stock Exchange less than
fifteen thousand shares were sold. This
Is the smallest day sale oU record. The
produce markets are ali nominal. The
steamers City of Berlin aud In Cham.
Psgne arrived out. The weather s.opped
the coCrts. Every st,cut car in New
York, Brooklyn and dorsey CITY. ano
tie elevated trains arc stopped. Brook
lyn bridge and the ferries are almost
abandoned. The down towa hotels are
crammed with suburhaniues Tho Gle
waited roads run three thousand trains
daily, usually. They were never before
stopped. Wosterners declare that Dakota
mover furnished New Gorks blizzard of
to-day. or the forty mails due between
four Il. IN. ana noon, only two
arrived by two this afternoon.
News from Europe, where also
tremendous gales and snow storms oc.
curing, Is unimPortant aud uninterest-
ing, mainly relating to the coming obse-
qules OF the late emperor. At nine this
evening there was DO abatement in the
storm. Frozen cars and feet never wcrc
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
IN GENERAL.
MISS ALCOTT PASSES AWAY.

The Author of Little Women" Follows Her
Distinguished Father tc a Better World.
Miss Louisa NJ. Alcott, of Boston,
Mass, died Tuesday morning. Miss Al
cott was born IN 1888, and was the daugh,
ter of Amos Bronson AIcott, the theolog-
ian and philosopher who died Sunday.
When very young she was a writer of
fairy tales and later of hospital sketches,
as she was nurse in the army during the
war of the rebellion. She was the author
of Little Women" Little Men," "An
Old Fashioned Girl" and many other de-
lightful stories.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
\ JAPANESE GENESIS.
Oriental Tradition of the Creation of the
World.
Overland Monthly

Oriental Tradition of the Creation of the
World.
Overland Monthly.
In the beginning all things were in
chaos. Heaven and earth were not sep
Grated. The world fOated i'll a cosmic
mass like fish in the water, or the yelk in
an egg. The ethereal matter sublimed
and formed the heavens, While the
residuum formed the present earth, from
the mold Of which germ spr0uted and
began self-animate being, from which
sprang all the gods.
Gn the floating bridge of heaven ap-
peared a man and woman of celestial
origin. The male plunged his jeweled
spear into the unstable waters beneath
them, and Withdrawing it the trickling
drops formed an island upon which they
def fcended.
The creative pair, or divine man and
woman. designing to make this island a
pillar for a continent, separated, the male
to the left, the female to the right, tC
make journey around the island. When
they met the woman spake first saying
How joyful TO meet a lovely man."
The man, offended that the first use OF
the tongue had been by woman, de
manded that the journey be repeated,
after which he cried out exultingiy, "HoW
Joyful to meet lovely woman"
Thus ensued the proper subiechon
and this, according to the ancient lore ot
Japan, was the origin of the human race
and the art of love.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
WHEAT AND CORN.

Statistical Returns From the Department of
AGriculture-The Corn Crop the Smallest in
Years.
Statistical returns fIom the depart
ment of agriculture in Washington
for March relate TO the distribution and
consumption of wheat and corn, stock in
the farmers hands. proportion of mer
chantable corn and average price respec-
tabIy of merchautable and unmerchan-
table. The corn crop is the smallest since
1884 and the remainder on the farms Is
also the smallest in seven years. 1t is
estimated at sos 100000 bushels, against
603,oo0,000 bushels last year. The stock
of Sheat in 1887 in the hands of the far
mers is 100000 bushels, against I22,-
100000 last year. There has been used
in the seeding of winter wheat 81, ,OOO,-
600 bushels; Isl 100000 bushels IN eight
months consumption; 81, 100000 bushels
are exported in wheat and -four; 3S,OOO,-
600 bushels constitute the visible supply
aad the usual quantity OF minor elevators
asd mill stocks in the course of distribu-
tion betwsen farm stocks and consuu
srs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Jay Gould has arrived at the island OF
st. Thomas on his yacht, and is expected
to touch at Nassau and then land at Fer
nandina.
Clara Foltz, the woman lawyer, poll
tic3an, orator and 4 editor, of San Die.
go, Cal, proposes TO vote at the fall cleo
tion.
Mme. Carnot, the wife Of the president
of the French republic, has had seven
dresses made of the new color, absinthe
green.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
Railway Officials Fail TO Agree on Coal Raf
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

Senator Vest of Missouri, Sawyer of
Wisconsin and Jones of Nevada are con-
side-ed the best story teIIers of the SEN
ate
Congressman Rockwell, of the Pittsfeld
Mass district. went 10 the white house
Thursday with five young bridal couples,
ali connected with Pittsfeld families.
B. F. Jacobs, of Chicago, stopped in
Washington over Sunday on his way to
Richmond, where the international Sun
day school lesson papers are 70 be pre-
pared, and addressed Congregational
Sunday school. He urged competitive
examinations for Sunday school teachers.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
Flat Headed Indians.

The custom of fistteuing the heads by
pressure was about universal among the
Puget Sound Indians. 1t was done in
infancy wits a hat made of cedar bark,
beaten, pressed steadily on the forehead
it has bsen so often described by numer.
Gus writers thet 10 further description is
here necessary. School teachers here
have been unable to see any difference
between the intellect of those whose heads
have thus been hattened sed those which
are natural. Some of the Indians, how.
ever, believe that 1t has caused numerou:
headaches among them in after life. Very
few infants are thus treated now.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
Nominations and Combinations.

WASHINGTON, March 12.-The following
nominations and conGrnations we're
made to-day:
Combinations Chas. S. Carey, New
York, solicitor of the treasury.
Nominations-Begiste of land Offices,
Robert l.. Tidwick, Des Moines, Iowa;
Michael G. Sanity, of Kentucky, associate
justice OF the supreme court of Wyoming.
Vim. NJ. BurceIl, United States attorney
for Dakota; United States consul, 4. j.
Jones, of Illinois, at Barraugville.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
Here's Climate for You.
Dr-.a-, (.4fal,a

The climate of the moon is known TO a
certainty. Its day, Or period of rotation,
is equal to one lunar month. lts night
il, therefore, equal to nearly fifteen ter
estrial days, and during this period of
absence OF the sun degree of cold is
reached of which dgellers on the earth
can have little conception. With the
dawn Of the iDnar day period of direct
sunshine equal TO nearly fifteen of our
days follo~s the night of untIsm pied
cold, and this season of constantly in
increasing and sccunulating heat, ua-
tempered By rain or clouds, must result
in state of temperature compared to
which the temperature CT Central Africa
would be ike winter in Alaska.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
The Sioux Reservation Bill.

The bill providing for the opening of
the Great Sioux Reservation passed the
National House of Representatives with
out division or opposition. Pierre, OAK,
went wild with Joy over the passage of
the bill. A procession headed by the
Mayor and Council paraded the streets,
cannon doomed and fireworks were set
off. The owner of one of the hotels ban
quetted 500 geople.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
THE SURPLUS.

Heavy Receipts Will Bring it Up to s155,-
100000
WASHINGTON. - Secretary Fairchild in
his report submitted to congress
early in December estimated that the
treasury surplus would reach $4,000, 600
by the eud Of the present fiscal year. 1t
is now stated at the treasury department
that owing to heavy receipts during the
past few months the estimate then sub
mitted vii. prove TO be too small and that
the surplus at the end of June, 1888, will
proably reach the sum of $155, 600.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-16
THE STOCK MARKET.


MI UtaIIIgs aS IlF as TossINTt go UNtf.
New YORK, March 13-By order of the
governing committee, the stock exchange
adjourned at u o'clock to day. The
losn market remained open only until
y 80
This morning the stock exchange
adopted the following resolution:
RcSOlred, That it is the sense of the
members present that all dealings, so
fer as possible, be suspended, and that all
deliveries go over until to morrow.