Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-08-17
VOL. XIII.

As proof of which trade gives its men
the steadiest AID most secure employ
ment IN citiss, it is claimed that there
are in proportion to the whole number in
the trade more butchers who own shares
in building associations than any other
class of workingmen.
NR. SPURGEos does not recover from
his forced withdrawal from the Baptist
union. IL letter which has just appear
ed in London he says: 81 have incurred
much Odiun, yet am L not discouraged
Though l seem tO have spoken in vain, l
trust there is Jet enough love for sound
doctrine among Baptist5 to prevent
these errors having unlimited sway"
THIS campaign is certainly developing
with the free tIade papers that are sup
porting Harrison and the Republican
papers that are against the Chicago
platform and the protection papers that
are for Cleveland and the other papers
that are not quite sure who they are for,
there is a degree of freedom of opinion
precedent.
THE city of Findlay, Onio, has found a
new solution of the immigration question.
Recently lot of newly arrived Italian
immigrants, employed upon tha railways
being built in that city, made much
trouble, whereupon the city authorities
loaded them into three cars and shipped
them direct to New York, where they will
be put on a steamer and sent home. That
is novel way of facing the difficulty,
but is an effective one.
RUSSIA imports annuity 350,00O,0O0
pounds of cotton, chiefly from America
and Egypt, but it is believed that the
recent acquisitions of the Gar in cen
trail Asia are excelently adapted for cotton
Khiva and Bokhera, and an expensive
system of irrigation is being created to
develop other land for this crop.
II is said that the Baluba negroes of
Central Africa do not see any wrong
in selling their wives and children, but
make distinction between domestic
slaves and slaves for export. A chief
who was expostulated with on the subject
said they only soId their troublesome
wives out of the country, never the good
ones. In on. case, it is reported, tribe
got tired of their chief, who was continu-
ally fighting with neighboring tribes,
and sold him into slavery.
COLONEL CHARLES CHAILLE LONG, the
head of our legation to Corea, has advis-
ed the state department OF revolution
which took place on June "a, in the
course Of which mary people were stoned
to death by infuriated savages, whose
animosity was excited againSt Christians
to such an extent that all the legations
were placed under heavy guard. AS the
we're still in progress at the
tho next advioes from Corea will be
awaited with great interest.
TuE Parnell commission bill passed its
third reading in the British commons but
with an important amendment. When
the bill was in committee, John Red
mond had submitted an amendment en-
powering the commission to compel the
attendance of witnesses and to i'm
prison for contempt, but it WAS rejected.
The same amendment in the form of an
additional clause, WAS proposed by the
government and adopted. This will
make interesting .reading for the pro-
prietor OF the London Times, as he will
be compelled to choose disclosing the
person wko sold him the Parnell letters
and going to prison.
PRor. HADLEy of Yale believes that
America holds the record for the fastest
railroad time. The trip of the West
Coast flyer over the 400 miles between
Edinburg and London averaged $50
miles to the hour. The professor has the
record of trip on the West Shore rail
road between East Buffalo and Weehaw
ken, also 400 miles, when the average was
81 miles an hour, and during a part of
the trip the train attained tie remarkable
speed of S3 miles an hour. The Ameri-
can trip was made in July, 1885, and &C
oording to Prof Hadley's collection of
such achievements, it has never been
beaten.
The suspicion is reasonable that the
industrial riots in France are instigated
by political schemers and are OF part
with the BoulaRger agitation. The great
middle GLASS in France il, moderately
satisfied with the Republic, as it would be
with any orderly government, but the Re
public has failed to satisfy the sxpscta-
tious of the lower classes and has equally
failed to command the confdenc. of the
upper classes so-calied. The French hav
ing been so long educsted 70 that idea of
centralized power which some Americans
are trying to Introduce here, look to the
government to redress every wrong and
cure every Ill; aud when the government
tails, rs it must, to do this, the result is =
riot or revolution.
Mn. PowDEBLr and the knight of labor
| executive board have determined upon
the plan or having published in the Eu-
ropesn papers an impartial account of
the condition OF labor in the coal regions