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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
CABLE FLASHES.

ST. PETERsBURG.-An epidemic of in
iluenza is prevailing in this city and rapid
" spreading. Already half the population
are afflicted with the disease. including
the ear, the czarina and two of their chill
dren. As yet no fatal cases have been re-
ported.
BERLIN The presidents of the national
liberal party and the old imperial free
conservative party have issued a notifca-
ton that the cartel has been renewed In
the reichstag and also for the coming
elections. This combination of the parties
will assure a government majority in the
reichstag.
THE PerSians have now 10 doubt that
the European tour has upset the shah S
equilibrium. After he returned to Teheran
he went about the palace shifting i'll an
unlikely fashion, and now he never stirs
abroad without complaining of abominable
smells. He has ordered hundreds of hous-
es to be pulled down, foul slums 10 be de
molished. and new streets to be built,
while the very latest and the crowning
| proof of his madness is the royal order for
| the commencement of systematic santa
| ton at the Persian capital
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
CRIMINAL.

SUITS have been filed against Col. John
n. Ingram. the defaulter, cx-treasurer of
the school board of Jacksonville. Ind,
and the deficit is said to reach $50 900.
HARRY CARLTON was hanged at the
Tomba Prison. New Pork. Thursday morn
ing for the mHrdGT Of Policeman Brennan,
October %, 1888.
A SNEAK THIEF entered the Delaware
Bank at Wilmington, Del, Saturday
morning, snatched $50, 900 in securities
from the counter and escaped. The secur-
tiles belong to John C.. Patterson, who was
clipping coupons when the raid was made.
New YoRK-Mrs. Olive E. Friend
Mrs. Emily Howard, Orrin A. Halstead
and George Halstead, the remaining cleo
tric sugar alleged swinders, entered pleas
of guilty in the Court of General Session
to an Indictment for grand larceny in the
first degree. They were discharged on
their own recognizance some time ago,
when they pleaded not guilty. On Friday
they withdrew that plea for one of guilty.
They were remanded for sentence.
AT st. Louis Saturday morning Casper
Clispy, a machinest in the Missouri Pacific
shops entered the house of John Arson,
d fellow workman while the family were
at breakfast, and shot Anson and the lat
ter's two daughters, Mary and Agnes. An
son and Mary were mortally and Agnes
seriously wounded. The murderer then
blew out his brains He was lover of
Mary AnsOn, but had been forbidden the
house because of his bad habits.
ASHLAND, Wis.-Ed. Baker, the saloon
keeper, charged with being one of the
robbers of the Iron Exchange Bank, at
Hurley, in September last, must stand trial.
His preliminary examination was finished
Tuesday night, and the court deeming the
evidence sufficient to hold him for trial, he
was bound over to the February term of
the municipal court in bonds of $4,000.
Judge Cate, of Stevens Point, will assist
in the defense.
MARSHALL. Ho.-Last Sunday night
about II o'clock a colored deputy police
man named Vinegar, while drunk began
firing into a crowd of white people coming
out of an opera house at Higginsville,
twenty miles west of this city. One young
man named Percy was shot through the
head and fatally wounded and others were
more or less injured. The negro fled i'm
mediately after the shooting. Squads of
men are securing the country for him, and
the chances are that he will be captured
The community is greatly excited.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
VIEWING THE DEAD.
Thousands of Visitors Pass the Bier Where
jeff Davis Lies.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Dec. 9.-The city
is filling with strangers, the
rains bringing In veterans from most Of
the southern states. Gen. John b. Cor
don. who Will be the honorary grand mar
shal of the funeral procession, arrived
this evening. and all the arrangements
for the funeral viii be completed. Gen.
John Glynn- grand marshal. this
morning visited the cemetery and
selected the space to be occupied by the
military and civic organizations during
the obsequies The display will be the
most imposing ever seen IN the South and
military companies from Mississippi, Ala
hama, Tennessee and Georgia will be rep
resented.
The guards are still on duty at the city
hall and by actual count 400 persons
viewed the body between the hours of 10
and Ii O'Clock this morning. Fully
e0.Oo0 persons viewed the remains on
Sunday, The work of decorating private
and public buildings stih goes
on, and By Wednesday almost
the entire city will be in mourn
ing dress All places Of amusement busi-
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
AHoIrT woNiEN'S CII-BS.

The Chicago Evening Journal has little
faith III womcn's clubs In an able article
on the subject it says: The prevailing
fashion among the ladies' of New York at
the present time appears to be the estab-
ment of clubs Three such institutions
have sprung into life within year and
there is talk of forming fourth. \ wide
difference of opinion is expressed 10y the
journals of the metropolis as to the good
or evil effects produced hy this form of
club life upon the women who seek to en-
JOY it. Ladies' Cmhs il is to he feared,
never were much of success, either So
cially or rs Il means of ahordrng enjoy
ment to their members. Perhaps the most
celebrated aides club IN the country Is
Sorosis. of New York, which is composed
for the most part of lively, intelligent
women who intrude themselves upon no.
body, and who generally seem to have a
pretty fair time of 1t, And yet tshall 1t be
contessed?l Sorosis has been nicknamed
hy some irreverent New Yorker, The
Cooperative Order Of Ancient Tab5y
Cats. " and the name sticks to Sorosls
like Il burr to your trousers leg IN the
dark Is ii to be wondered at that
many and many an excellent dame
hesltates to join ON that account?
If the actual truth must be told there
are several very excellent reasons why an
exclusively ladies club can never be in
tensely popular with ladies. In the first
place the inveterate clubman, who finds
ecstacy in cunningly-devised dishes and
eontentment in gazing through the win
dows on a rainy day at the muddy croas-
ing, has no counterpart in the opposite
sex. 4 man finds one of his deepest pleas
ures in heStowing admiration; n woman
in receiving it. Consequently, woman
would be out of place in the clubman' 5
chair at the window; while the clubman
would he wretched in the graceful wo-
mans place on the muddy crossing. In
the second place. woman rarely derives
amusement from conversation or associa-
ton with those of her own sex for more
than ten minutes at a time, while her hus-
band, brother or lover as the case may be,
can enjoy with perfect peace of mind
twenty-four hours of uninterrupted COM
panionship with bos ON friend or an old
schoolfellow And finally, then, what
hope can the average woman entertain of
finding happiness i'll a social institution
from which the incarnate monster. man,
is rigidly excluded? The women whom
men most admire are not the sort who
affect womens clubs. No acknowledged
belle or popular beauty of any community
was ever known to banker after club life.
The beauty finds her congenial sphere IN
the home. where her friends of both sexes
gather to do her homage. 1t must be ad-
mitted though, with all difference. Of
course that the mere mention of woman
club conveys to the unreasoning masculine
mind an impression of blue spectacles
black cats and green tea that hardly har
monies with ones sense of the beautiful
or attractive. Women who desire to rul,
the affections of men keep religiously on
of women's clubs
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13

their directions fall In with commercial re-
quirements, well and good; if not. 50 much
the worse for the communities TO whom
they are not available. That such con-
dition of things can exist much longer is
well nigh impossible. The imperative
needs of imperial Russia itself must force
on some comprehensive scheme for de-
veloping national wealth, and an extended
railroad system, if not possible from IN
ward resources, will assuredly be permitted
to foreign capital.
But Russia is getting out of this almost
impossible rut The entire energies of her
centralized government have been for sew
eral wears directed to the amelioration of
Russian farmers. The government has
built railways, elevators, and loaned money
TO the agricultural operators for the pur-
pose of stimulating the production and
handling of wheat The great drawback TO
all schemes advanced by the Russian gov
erncnent for internal improvement-an
annual deficit amounting almost to nation
al bankruptcy-h been overcome. until
to-day the government can show a surplus
above and over its animal expenses and in
view of the great expenses involved in her
schemes of internal improvement. it pre-
sents something altogether new and un-
heard Of IN the history of Russia's finances,
and introduces the certainty that the world
may confidently look forward to vast
increase in the productiveness from these
parts of Russia that are now within her
railroad system, that include four-fifths of
first-claSs land which is yet untitled.
The Russian peasant farmers labor under
difficulties. and yet with all of these diff
culties has proven capable of making good
the deficiency In the worlds wheat harvest
even under the depressed prices that have
ruled during the past year. What will
she be capable of doing when events have
forced her, as they must soon do, to bend
her energies to cultivate idle lands and set
her agricultural population free from those
who prey so heavily upon it. Our consul
says that under favorable conditions Rus
sia could supply the whole world with
wheat. But so can America. The world
has greater capacity for the production
of wheat than it needs. But the capacity
to produce -four is another thing, and
while the Russian government may by
painful and energetic attempts work
its people up to an equality In wheat pro-
duction, she has far to go before she can
hope even to begin its manufacture into
flour.
1t is in -four manufacture that the
American producer must look for profit III
wheat We have too many competitors In
the latter to hope for much more than the
bare living that other people will accept in
payment for raw wheat. Wheat has gone
after cotton Both are uncrewned kings
The Milestone.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
DRAPED FOR DAVIS.
The Action of One of Jef7s Admirers
Causes a Sensation in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec Mrs. Frederick
Fairfax, southern lady by birth, daugh-
ter of the late Lieut.. Cook of the United
States army, is an ardent admirer of the
late Jefferson Davis. At her house at
285 Second street today bunch of Grape
hoated from the bell knob and draped from
the windows on the upper floor was wide
strip of black stuff In the center of each
of the three window siIis black was fasten-
ed by rosette. Two of them, one at each
end, were red while the one In the middle
was white. The hues and manner of their
arrangement were combined to form the
colors of the dead confederacy. A number
of colored people gathered on the sidewalk
opposite the house swearing and loudly
criticized the action of the inmates but
went no further
MONTGOMERY. Ala. Dec. 7.-Goyernor
Seay today issued proclamation eulogiz-
ing Jefferson Davis, whose fame. be says.
Is the common heritage Of the people of
every southern state, and calling on the
people to meet together the day IF the
funeral and show their reverence for the
illustrous dead.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
WASTE OF GOVERNMENT FUNDS
/ Reports of the Agricultural pcpS' tmcnt
That Are NalucleSS

Reports of the Agricultural pCpS' tnlcnt
That Are Naluclcss
MINIATURES. Dec. "a special TO the
Evening Wisconsin from Washington,
says: \ striking illustration of the great
waste IN the matter &c printing public
documents Is shown 10y what is transporting
ON the lower end Of PENNSYLVANIA avenue.
In great warehouse there Is stored an
enormous mass of obsolete literature
known rs the report of the department
of agriculture. The report is tor the
year 1873, and about fifteen months af-
ter it was prepared is to be sent out to the
esteemed constituents. COucedipg that
the report had some value when fresh, il
Is now worse than useless, because the
government viii be put to the expense of
handling it and in transporting 1t to all
parts of the Union There is no building
in Milwaukee, except perhaps the exposi-
tlon building or Angus Smiths elevator,
sufficiently large to hold all these books
If sold they might bring half cent a
pound. Meanwhile the report for 1882.
in preparing which Sccretar Rusk con-
suucd the midnight OIL remains in manu-
script form, because there is no money
which can he used for printing it.
\ Joint resolution was passed in the
house today to appropriate S2oo,OOO for
printing 100000 copies of the agricultural
report of 1899,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
An Intelligent Dog.

Who says dog has not intelligence?
4 Gardiner lady set a dish of soup out in
her yard the other day to cool. 1he dish
was very hot, but had handle The
house-dog soon came along by the fra
grant dish, lured by the fascinating fra
GRANGE. contemplated the fragrance long
enough TO find that it was his fayorite
soup, then taking the handle between mis-
teeth. he backed off several rod. very care
fully. pulling the dish after him to place
which he considered both cooler and more
sequestered He waited for the broth to
cool. devoured it with infinite relish. then
dragged the dish back TO the spot where
he found it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
CLENELAND'S WORDS.
The ES-President Tells a C. A. Il. Post some
Plain Truths.

LEwrsrowN, Pa, Dec l0,-A local G.
4, r, post Is about to hold fair and fes-
tival In reply to letter soliciting con-
tribution, eN-President Grover Cleveland
wrote as follows:
1t is 50 refreshing in these days, when
the goc-. that Is IN the G. A. Ii. is often
preStihloed to the worst purposes, to know
that at lest one post proposes by its eff
forts to increase its efficiency as a chari-
table institution, that | gladly send a
small monty contribution in aid of this
object, 20 one can deny that the Grand
Army of the re public has been proved up
on by political demagogueS for partisan
purposes. and has yielded to inSihouS
Establishments 10 such an extent that it is
regarded by many good citizens. whose
patriotism and fairness cannot be queS-
toned, rs an organization which has
wandered 4 long way from its avowed de-
sign, Whether this design Is absolutely
correct or not, such sentiment not only
exists, but viii grow ard spread, unless
within the organization something is
done to prove that its objects are not par
tisan. unjust and selfish In this country,
where the success Of our form Of govern
mept depends upon the patriotism of all
our people, the best soldier should he the
best citizen. Yours very truly.
'EIEnN-o,ls u rsN~F,l. N\1N -
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
Money" Rupee" and Dollar -

In tracing the Derivation Of the word
money find it is from the Roman
word 'Moneta, because the first regular
mint was established by the Romans in the
temple Juno Moneta. The word coin
is, no doubt, from the Latin 'cuneus, -
meaning die or stamp: Many coins are
the English pound, the French livre and
The word dollar is short for joachim
thaler In Bohemia the word is thaler,
which is also short for joachimthaler or
money of the Joachim Valley,
where coins of this value were first struck
in the sixteenth century.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
LIVELY WESTERN BELLIES.
Foolish Maternal Ideas--Not Like Their
Mothers.

Iue'ss--INot ihtlT
Mothers.
The wish so often expressed by mothers
in the West that their daughters should
have good time, suggests an inquiry
as to what precisely is meant by this fond
aspiration.
A mother idea of a good time for
time she has failed to have herself If she
has been working woman, with
many children to care for, she will desire
that her daughter shall live at ease, and be
blessed, in the way of offspring, with some,
thing less than quiveIful If she has
worked too laboriously, she runs to the
other extreme by wishing her child to have
less than enough tc do.
So the mothers of the West, of the heroic
days of pioneering. unconsciously tell the
story of their own struggles and depriva-
uOns in the ambitions winch they indulge
for their children.
Along the roads over which her parents
journeyed in white-topped wagons, their
tent by night, their tabernacle, their fortress
in time of danger, the settlers daughter
shall ride in tailor made habit, or fare
luxuriously In a drawing car. Where the
mother stead-fast face grew brown with
the glare of the alkali plain, the daughter
shall carelessly glance out from behind the
tapestry blind of a Pullman section, :"
Where the mothers nand washed and
cooked and mended, and dressed wounds
and famed the Goals of the camp fire the
daughter will trife with books and music.
shall be soft and ''manicured' and daint-
lily gloved.
1t is one of the curious sights in the
shops of little town of frame houses -
chiefly of one story, where the work of the
house is not infrequently done by the house
mother, not from poverty, but from the
want III new community of a servant
clasS-to behold about Christmas time the
display of sumptuous toilet articles, imply
ing hours spent upon the care of the fem
mime bands This may be one of uhe
indications of the sort of good time that
is preparing for the daughters of the town.
There are other and more hopeful sug-
gestions, but none that seriously counter
act the plainly projected revolt on the part
of the mothers against a future of physi-
cal effort for their girls.
There are girls and girls in the West of
all degrees and styles of prettiness. The
career of the Western young lady in her
native environment is sometimes amazing
to persons of a sober imagination as to
what should constitute girls good
time" The risks that she takes, no less
than her extraordinary escapes from the
usual consequence, are enough to make
ones time-honored principles reel on the
Judgment seat of propriety.
In the novels she goes abroad and mar
ries an English Duke; in real life, not
quite so often; but she is an element of
confusion morally in all ones prophecies
with regard to her She may have talent,
and make an actress or singer, if she has
any capacity tor work; or she may marry
the man she loves and become an exemp-
larry wife That which in her history ap-
peals most deeply to ones imagination is
the, contrast between her fortunes and
those of her mother
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
FEARS FOR THE CHINESE EMPIRE
The Disasters Since the Young Rulers Ac-
cession Causing Serious Alarm.

SAN FRANCIsCo.-Papers were received
from Shanghai last Sunday by the China
steamer telling that there is great uneasi-
ness over the stability of the empire in
China. The young emperor and empress
are believed to be unlucky, as there has
been nothing but disaster since their ac-
cession. There is no loyalty in China and
there is great fear that troubles will arise
from the inevitable distress this coming
winter. If any man of eminence saw
advantage in raising a rebellion, it would
go hard with the present dynasty. Mis-
fortunes that happened since the present
emperor s accession have received the dis
content felt at the irregularity of his sue
cession. This discomfort found express
sion at the time in the suicide of one of
tho censOrs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
A DUEL WITH RAPIERS.
Two Young southerners End Feud
In Bloodshed.

PoNoSA. Gala, Dec. ga duel was
fought near this city, Tuesday evening by
two prominent young men Of Pomona,
Harry Lucas. formerly Of Louisiana, and
Herbert Priestly, both aged IS. who
have been rivals for the hand Of young
lady of excellent family They have
had frequent quarrels. and finally Lucas
challenged Priestly to fight with Spanish
rapiers. The challenge was accepted.
and arrangements were made for three
minute bouts. at the end Of the
second bout when Priestiy had been cut
In the breast and head and twice IN the
shoulder the seconds became alarmed and
stopped taIr fight Priestly's wounds
were dressed and he was taken away from
town LAscas mas also disappeared. The
seconds are here and known. but 10 arrests
have been made. The young men are Of
good families and the story Of the fight
has caused much excitement
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13

ness houses, banks. etc. will be closed
Wednesday, The funeral will take place
promptly at II o'clock, and every organi-
zation in the city will participate. Chair
man Clarke, of the arrangements commit
tee, has arranged to have the funeral
ceremonies take place from the balcony of
the municipal building so the public may
witness the entire ceremony from Lafay-
cite square, which is directly opposite.
The board of trade today passed resolutions
of respect to the memory of the late jeff
erson Davis.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13

The little German Crown Prince seems
to have inherited some of the pleasing
qualities of his father. The Prince was
driving out with his governess. As usual,
the Germans cheered the little one. or
lifted their hats to him as he passed, to
which the young prince replied by raising
his bonnet. At last the Crown Prince got
bored with having continually to acknowl-
edge the salutes of the populace. Fling
ing himself back in the carriage, he said
to his governess: L am tired now and
shall not lift my bonnet any more to them,
no matter how much they cheer" You
are a naughty boy" replied the governess,
and unless you acknowledge the salute of
the people | shall not continue to drive
with you" The little Crown Prince sat
up Immediately ''Coachman, said he.
The coach1nan looked round stop the
carriage, coachman, continued the little
one: this lady viii get out, he added,
with lordly wave of his hand toward his
governess
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13

ment that Edward Silcott. cashier of the
sergeant-at-arms of the house of repre-
sentatives, had fed, carrying off about
s72, 900 of the funds entrusted to his care.
Among congressman who lose personal
deposits are: Rife, of Pennsylvania
$3.50; J. D. Taylor. of Ohio. 5000; Bou-
telle, of Maine, 81 800; Bayne, of Pennsyl-
via, 81 900; Butterworth, of Ohio, 1900;
Hermann, of Oregon, $500; Picker, ef
North Dakota 5000, and Parnel. of Ne
braska 81 100
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-12-13
a HWnlA

Why grown .su and women with natursd -
fective powers she uld neglect their small ailments
is realiy . puzzle. Hosts Of sthsrvtss ssnaisis
people thus bswfldsr eonsscsz-s- It y enc ef
the things which - the lass lAnsnfsd Lord Dun
dreary exclaimed, no fellah eaa lnd cut" Dis
eases grow faster than weeds. and, moreover,
beset one smother. Inepient Indigestion, touch
of biliousne=s slight rrsgularisy in the habit OF
body-what complex and serious bodily disturb
snce not local b1; general, do these not beget, II
disregzrded, Bafne and drive OF the foe q the
frst onset with Hoetester's Stomach Bifte:s, SOW
sreign among preveurivee- A constitution inyi1or
aiet q circulation enriched. . brain and stomach
trarquilizsd BY this national Medicine, becomes
we'll nigh fnvulnsraeis. 1hs Bnsafs eoaAferso
malaria, rhsanaasa 81 hAng ssaDlaint.