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Business Oarda. LAWYERS J. Montgomery Smith, Attorney at Law, Mineral Point, Wixconnin. Will practice In the State and United states Courts. 16-441 y Aldro Jeuka, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Dodgeville. Wisconsin. Will practice In all state and United ltc courts. office in Jones A Owens' block. 11 Wilson A Mcllhon, Attorneys and Counselors at law. Office In City Bank, Mineral Point. T. Scott Anisley, Attorney at law, Miner*! Point. Office east front room City Hall. J. F. Grace, Attorney at Law, Highland, Wisconsin. Conveyancing, collecting and general legal busi ness promptly attended to. B. Tcrnes, Attorney at law, Highland, Wls. Collections promptly attended to. Office over Krent s store. Lanyon ic Npcnalcy, Attorneys and Counselors at law. Office over Post <Jffice, Mineral Point. Money to Loan on first-class real estate ecu clty. O. C. Smith, Attorney at law, Dodgeville. Office opposite M. K. Church. Attends to the general practice of law In the circuit courts of the state, and the comity court In all probate matters. PHYSICIANS. 11. i*. Mix, llosiieop tiik Physician and Surgeon. Suc cessor t( • r. 11. W. Osborn, at office lately oc cupied by lir. Osborn, Mineral Point, Wisconsin. William Itaftlmaii, M. Si., Physician and Surgeon. Office up stairs In l.' iiabaii’s block, opposite W. T. Henry’s bank. Mineral Point. I'. W. I'altcraou, M. D. Office over James’ Jewelry store, Mineral Point, AVIs. Office hours from nto 10, A. M. and 1 to ■!, P. M May be found In bis office nights. 4ly Van lliiacii A 'lull in an, PiiiMi iANH and Surgeons, Mineral Point, Wis. < mice In <lraber’s block. x v-43tf. Office hours from 1 o’clock till 2 p. m.; and | from 7 till h p. in, -Night calls answered at rooms opposite the U. I N. Hotel. DENTISTS. J. 11. U'lntccudrr! Distikt, Uoom* over Gumlry Gray’* store, Mineral I’olnt, Wisconsin. Mlroiuoxiae, or laughing gas, given. 2fltf J. M, Hales, 1). !.. Dental rooms in Goad's lilock, over G. 11. James' Jewelry store. Mineral i'olnl. HOTELS, errv hoi ii,, Makk Tkkkii.i., proprietor. Mineral P dot, Win. Well furnished muniß, good tables and reasoii ule ( barges. First-class barn. I noi l 1., No noi.AH Shim rn, proprietor. Foot of High street, Mineral Point. '1 lie (ilohe is a first-class hotel in every respect, is centrally located und I In-prices charged are moderate. A good barn. Wt J. ■!' nit j , AU< TIONKKK, COMMISSION Sa I.ENMAN AND OFN fi:\i. <ommii.no aoknt, Mineral Point, Wls. niiiee In city Hall building. Salei attended to in an> part of lowa and adjoining counties. Collections promptly made. : i MMoNH.- Cm< i it Count—lowa County:— Mar> J. Spcnsley, as adniiniKtratrix of the estate ol John Spciisfey, deceased, Plaintiff, vs. I li/uhctli links. Janies Hicks and Caroline lin ks, Ids wile, Henry J. Hicks and Fli/.aheth Hicks Ids wife, Martha Shatter and Fredrick similei her husband —and John Anderson, I lien Anderson, John Jobniion, F.ver Johnson and Andrew Johnson uh trustees of the Norwe gian l.utlieian Church, Hefeiidants. I he state of Wisconsin to the said defendants, and • nch ol tlu tu: Von nrc hereby sniiiinoiied to appear within twenty days after tier service of tins Kiiiniiions, • vcliislvc of the day of service, and defend Hie above entitled action in the court aforesaid; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against yon according to the demand •>l tin < oinnliiint, of which a copy Is herewith tn cd upon yon. 1..\ N VON A: SPKNSI.KV, Phiintiif's Attorneys, r o \ddross. Mineral Point, iowat'o., Wis.’ V It 'Hie complain! in this action is on file in tin ollU c of the Clerk of said court, nt Hodge vilh* in said con nly. I. an yon A Siknsi.kv, ini:*.! w: Plaintiffs Attorneys. Farm for Sale or Rent. I nthT lot sale oi rent u farm of 1-to acres, situ and in I lie town of i.indcn, nhont four and one hall miles north west of the city of M incrul Point. I here nrc Good Improvements, I*vm lllmg house, hnrn. and other huildings. and lli< place will lc sold on eus\ terms. I mini re of Ft h 15. jss ;. ■jHnr.l WM. .1 FAN F1.1.. Farm for Sale. 10-1 Acres l'_. Milos West of City. 1 In- uml' Migm and otters for sale her farm, situ iilcl one ami one hall miles we>t of the city of Mineral Point. Said lanu enlains Pit acres; il*iil on ucn umlci tin- plow and the remainder nmher and meadow land A good dwelling and • •nt houses on the place. The tarm is well I* need and wi ll watered, and Is well adapted tor • bury purposes. h will he sold on easy terms. liionlre on the place. NIKS. FU/.AIIKTH HIHHI.NS. I I I*. I ■ ISST _*st f For Sale. I lie nndersj;:iicd otters for sale twenty acres of land, hrn-c and barn situated in the eastern part of the eii\ ol Mineral Point. There are ini lines<d tin* land under cultivation, the re mainder young timber, house and barn nearly new; a large cistern and a never failing well • lose to the house; a thriving young orchard on the place Will he sold < heapnnd on easy terms. I n|Uhe of the ow tier, JOHN OUFFN. Land for Sale. MM \'\ .M lIK l KMT In Sprinß Mivmi, Sauk roiini) all nmlcr cultivation. to acres Hccdetl <b*wu. also ’jo acres of Timber if needed. House and Maidcs on jucmlscs. W ill be sold one hall cash and one hall on time; or a discount lor all casli. or will (rude lor Rood bouse in Mineral Point. In.tube of ,n HAVID IIUOWN. N. K. VanMatre, Auctioneer. I lu- undersigned would respeetlblh Inform Hie public that be iv prepared ( “try ” sale# of every dc** notion on sbori notice. Farmers sales a ‘•pc. nilt> Mood references Riven. Will also attend b> sales of household roods and stock In the cit> ot Mineral Point, on .-boil notice. Will 1..- in the cl In on Saturday s. All orders left at this office will receive prompt attention. N. K. VanMatke. Farm for Sale. 170 Acres; Well Improved; Good Buildings. I dew ire to sell my farm situated in the towu of Mineral Point. ll\e and one bait miles north east . t Hie city. Said farm contains one hundred and seventy acres- 100 acres under cultivation and meadow and remainder pasture and timber laud V Rood two story frame dwelling bouse P*'•••*. Rood barn and stone stable, the place is well fenced, and watered by three never-falling springs, the re is a small orchard and vineyard on the place W 111 bo sold on Rood terms. \pph to the owner. JMiii.i JOHN KKKMAN For Sale-A Bargain. Ton Acres of Land with 5 Roomed Dwelling House, N\ itb clstren and out bullditißS. Rood orchard and Rraperx. All well fenced and In good re pair. for further particulars inquire on Hu* piemlsea in the north east pan of Hie eitv. One half mile from t’iiv Hall, or of \\ 11. PrlAeaux at Pulford s I'rviß sto*re. :Uml J.VNE PIUHK.U X. Building and Lot for Sale. i’Ue stone bnildiUß on Jerusalem street for . uiuv years occupied by U S. Kcves as a black vmiili shop, together with the lot on which it is '■itnuled, i* i'tlcred for sale. The location Is a ' cry desirable one for a wagon and carriage taeion. Will l*c void veiy cheap, Inquire at I be Hemoerat oflice. „HmJ Hotel for Sale. On account ol ilov lining vcar*. I offer for sale • ■■>> lioiol i>ro|H'rtj within h tow nnli of the Min oval Point depot. The hotel building is from one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty hot long and from two to three stories high; I ante harn and rattle yards in connect ion. ‘ Uis hotel will be nold on reasonable terras. iitic the purchaser a good chance to pav lor it. The Hotel Is known as the “Mineral Point House” and lias a good run of business, which w itU a little effort can he largely increased. I or further |*articular inquire of the proprie tor. WM. WAI.KKR, *• it Mineral Point. Wk Notice to Physicians. Scaled proposals to furnish metical attendance unit medicine to the county paupers for the cn- Miir.jt tear, a id addressed to Ute Superintendents of the Poor. Uodgeville.Wts., will lie recehed bv them from >t. -oh 6th. ISS3, until nine (91 o'clock, a. m. on Aj ril (tb, ISSS, when tlie seals w ill be o|H'netl. offers comi>red, and contracts awarded to the lowed bidders. The right is reserved, however, u accept or reject any or all bids. We have divided the county Into physicians' dis tricts as follows; Ist Dish ict—Comprising the citf ami town of Mineral Point and town of Waldwick, ■Jd—The town and village of Hodgeville and the Poor Karat. na—The towns of Mifflin, l.indeu and Eden. 4th—The towns of Highland. Pulaski and Clyde. 6th—The towns of Arena and Wyoming, 6th—The towns of Ridgeway aiu\ Moscow. II ids will be received for each of the above dis* trlcts. ROBERT WILSON. GEORGE PAfLSON. PATRICK GRANT, Superintendents of the Ppot of lowa Ccc.Wls, I>ated March 6lh. 18S3. BlHltd THE Mineral Point, Friday, Mar. 23,1883. Geo. Crawford. Robt. M. Crawford, editors and proprietors. It is not our custom to commend any thing relating to politics found in the Plattcville Witness; but a communication contained in its laot issue and signed “ G. B.” pleases us exceedingly. It is an expression of contempt for the tariff legislation of the forty-seventh congress. The fol lowing sentence which wo quote from the article explains the writer’s position: “We have always been an advocate of a certain amount and kind of protection to industry, but the action of congress for the past three months, and the spirit exhibited in relation to it has driven us nearer to free trade than we ever were before.” “ G. B.” is not the only mistaken but honest free trader who has been driven nearly to free trade by the grasping avarice of the protected in terests exhibited during the last ses sion of congress. The people are beginning to see the tariff question in a light which they never saw it before. Before the present discus sion is ended all the iniquities o : the spoliation system which goes by i the name of protection will be held i up to their view, and then they will I reject its fallacies for the true doc trine of commercial freedom. At Madison, on last Friday night at about eleven o’clock, nearly two hundred student of the State Uni-j versity brought the tariff question | before the public in a most striking, if not a very commendable manner. Marching into the Capitol park, to time beat on a muffled drum, they proceeded to burn in effigy John VV. Hinton, of Milwaukee, who recently slandered the institution and its professors, because —as is the case with all colleges of good standing— the graduates which it turns out are almost invariably free traders. Mr. Hinton ought to contain him self, and not let his angry passions rise because the young men who go through the State University are freed from the muddling fallacy of protection. The irresistable conflict between free traders and the advo cates of the spoliation system is upon us, and the discussion which it will call out will lead the whole American people to the same con clusion as studying the subject leads the students at the University. The story comes from Rhode Island that in the recent republican state convention held in that state the favorite candidate for governor was compelled to withdraw, as he was unable to put up the amount of money demanded by the central committee, and the nomination given to a man who could pay Ids assessment. Republican politicians have a great deal to say in regard to the “ blundering” of the Wisconsin as sembly during the past winter, but have very little to say regarding the disgraceful action of the republican legislature of Colorado, in electing the disreputable Tabor 1.8. Senator from that State. John W. Hinton, it will be re membered came out with a circular in the stale campaign of 1881, advo cating (iov. Rusk's election because he was a protectionist, and quoted at length from speeches made by Mr. Rusk while in congress. *• Sorehead ” is the mild epithet applied to Gen. Ed. Bryant by the republican press of the state since his departure from the grand old party.” On account of poor health, Judge Parks has withdrawn from the con test for the seat in congress from the ninth district. The Next U. S. Senate. m. I'aal Pioneer Press, With the election of a United States senator from New Hampshire in June the hist of the class whose term began on the Fourth of March will have been chosen. In the elec tions that have taken place the Republicans have gained seats in Illinois, where Judge Davis gives way to Shelby M. Cullom, and in Oregon where Senator Grover was beaten by Joseph N. Dolph. A Republican loss occurs in Louisiana, where Kellogg is succeded by Ran dall Gibson. The Democrats lose in Virginia, where Iliddleberger, the Readjuster, takes Johnston’s seat. Their gain in Louisiana is offset by their loss in Oregon, so that they really suffer a net loss of one scat, while the Republicans enjoy a net gain of one. The independent party hereafter is changed from David Davis and Mahoneto Mahonc and Uiddleberger. This will distri dute the present senate as follows; republicans, thirty-eight; demo crats, thirty-six; independents, two. Of the twenty-five senators just elected, fourteen were re-elected, ten of them being democrats and four republicans. Of the twelve new senators, five, Cullom of Illinois, and Wilson of lowa, republicans, and Colquitt of Georgia, Gibson of Louisiana, and Kenna of West- Virginia, democrats, have been members of the lower house. Seven are new men, that is they have had no experience in congress. All of them are wealthy men. Three of them, Bowen of Colorado, Palmer of Michigan, and Sabin of Minnesota are millionaires. Dolph of Oregon is associated with Henry Villard in his railroad and steamboat enter prises. Riddleberger is Mahone's lieutenant in several important land and mining schemes. Manderaon of Nebraska seems to enjoy exemp tion from the charge of being either a millionaire or a schemer. The Locomotive. Mr. John Patterson, the efficient station agent of the C. & N. W. R’y, at Edmund, favors us with the fol lowing contribution upon the early history of the Locomotive. Mr. Patterson knows whereof he writes, and his biief, but comprehensive article will be found well worth the reading: Editors Democrat Having no ticed in your late issues, articles on the Steam Engine, I will here, with your approval, present to the readers of your paper a few statistics and facts pertaining to the Locomotive. Having served an apprenticeship with Stephenson & Cos., Locomotive and Marine Engine Builders, of New Castle-on-Tyne, I had there oppor tunities of acquiring information pertaining to the Locomotive that but few of your readers have. The idea prevails to a certain ex tent that Geo. Stephenson was the inventor of the Locomotive. Such however, is not in accordance with the facts pertaining thereto. The first Engine that traveled on its own wheels was patented and built by Wm. Murdock in 1784, but was never put to any practical use. The second was built by Treveth wick, a Cornishman, in 1804, and was tried near Penydanan, Wales, on the 12th, of February of the same year, William Richards, en gineer, the inventor and his partner Rees Jones being on the Engine during her trial trip; which was made on a tramway leading from back of the Plymouth Works to the Docks. It was but a partial success. In the year 1811, a patent was taken out by John Blenkinsopp for an engine having a toothed-pinion, to work in a track laid by the side of the roadway ; the design being to prevent slipping on an incline. Four engines were built of this pattern, viz: the Salamanca, Prince Regent. Lord Wellington, and the Marquis Wellington. The first two were used for a number of years, em ployed hauling coal from Middleton collierv to Tweeds, a distance of three and one-half miles. Hedley next appears in 1813 as a locomotive inventor and builder, building at Wylam for Mr. Blackett three engines, viz: Puffing Billy, the Duchess, and I.<ady Mary; the last named continuing to work up to a late period, and was taken to the Kensington Museum in 1862. Stephenson does not appear until 1814. On the 25th of July of that year he placed on the Killingworth Railway an engine named Blucher, which drew a load of thirty tons four miles per hour, on a gradient of 1 in 450, and was up to this time the most successful engine built. Up to 1822 Stephenson had built five locomotives, and in 1825, on the 27th of September of that year he furnished to the Stockton and Dar lington Railway Cos., the first Engine that ever ran on a public line of rail way, the management of which was entrusted to Mr. Timothy Hack worth. From 1825 to 1830 eleven new Engines were added to the company. But on the opening of the Liver pool it Manchester Railway in Oct. 1829, four engines appeared to com pete for a prize of TSOO to be award ed to the most successful, and were entered and named as follows: The Rocket, by Stephenson; Braith waite and Erickson, the Novelty; Hack worth, the Sanspareil; and Bunstall, the Perseverance. The trial took place at Rainhill on the Bth of Oct. 1829; but the first com plete trip from Liverpool to Man chester was not made until June 14th, 1830. Granger. (Continued next Aveek. ) GEN. A. C. DOOGEON THE TARIFF. A Stirring Letter from the Veteran Statesman. (Continued from Inst week.) More than a century ago New England manufactured fine, if not super-line broadcloth. Ninety-three years ago he who was ‘first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,’ was inaugur ated our first president. On that august occasion the hero, pat riot and finished gentleman ap peared before the two houses of congress, in the city of New York, April 30th, 1789, dressed in cloth woven at Jeremiah Wadsworth’s factory, in Connecticut. It was then good enough for Washington to wear. Now we are to be deluded with the deceptive argument that the manufacture of such cloth, with innumerable other tariff taxed articles is an infant industry not yet able to walk or even stand alone. Through oceans, wide, stormy and deep, rivers difficult of navigation and railroads, long, expensive and costly, in freights, custom house charges, etc., etc., have been kindly interposed by God and man and serves as so much protection to our infant, still it is squalls from fright at the ghost of an “Old English pauper,” and clings as for life to its mother Congress, and begs for more pap. The feeling heart of the Hon. Wm. M. Evarts has been pierced by the pathetic cries of our bantling. At a meeting of the disciples of Blackstone, (not farmers) held a few days since in the city of New York, he* pleaded with words interminable, for our “infant manufactures ” and I propose that he shall answer his own speech. May 17th, 1879, when transmitting to congress the reports of our consuls, on the state of labor in Europe, acting under the solem nity of his oath as secretary of state, Mr. Evarts, says: “The average American workman performs from one ami a half to tw ice as much work as the average European workman. This Is so im portant a point in connection with our abilities to compete with the cheap manufactures of Europe, and It seems on first thought, to strange (hat I will (rouble you with somewhat lengthy quotations from the report in support thereof. ■■ Within the last fifteen years we have demon strated our ability by the brilliant development of our own resources to exclude, by honest com petition. foreign manufactures to a large extent from our shores. The question which now per emptorily challenges all thinking minds is. how to create a foreign demand far those which are left after supplying our home demands ? We cannot stand still, for the momentum of increase will toon become so great that it will push it outward anyway. To push us safely and profit ably is of so much importance as to almost over top all other questions of the hour. This ques tion appeals equally to the selfishness and patriot ism of all ourciusens. but to the laborer It ap peals with ten fold force, for without work be cannot live, and unless we can extend the mar kets for our manufactures he cannot expect steady work, and unless our manufactures can undersell foreign manufactures we cannot en large our foreign market. The first great truth to be learned by our man ufacturers and workingmen is, that the days of sudden fortunes and double wages are gone. We must realise tbs fact that ocean steam commu nication has annihilated distance and brought the nations face to face. This drawing together of the nations means equalisation in trade, profits, wages, etc.: the advantage being with those who soonest accept the situation and show the most sensible continuity In the new paths at success. His more distinguished successor, the Hod. James G. Blaine, always a high protectionist, in a like report, made to congress June 25th, 1881, says: “ Undoubteftedly the inequalities in the wages of English and American operatives are Bore than equalized by the greater efficiency of the latter and their longer hours f labor. If this should prove to be a tact in practice, it would be a very important element in the establishment of our ability to compete with England for our abate of the cotton goods trade of the world. h the two prime motors which may be said to form the basts of the cotton manufacturing in dustry, namely, raw material and labor, we hold the advantage over England In the first and stand upon an eqality with her in the second. Having the raw material at our doors, it fol lows that we should be able to convert it into manufactures, all things else being equal, with more economy facility than can be done by .England, which imports our cotton and then manufactures it in her own mills. The expense of handling,transportation and commission must be an important item in this regard as compared with onr turning in the fiber from our cotton fields to onr mills, and shipping it In the ad vanced form of manufactured goods. Add to this the secondary fact that it costs us no more to handle and manufacture the same than it costs in England, and we stand on an undoubted equality this far in the race of competition. The inequality of wages between English and American operatives is “ more than equalized ” by the con ditions mentioned by Secetary Blaine. His testimony is clear and fully corroborates that of his im mediate predecessor, Mr. Evarts.! The statements of both these emi- nent ministers of state specially charged with the conduct of our for eign relations, clothed with all means of procuring the most accu rate and reliable information, and having before them reports of our consuls, on this subject, from every station in the world, is so conducive that little is left to be said on the subject. It may, therefore be as sumed that American operatives, considering the hours they labor, their great efficiency and the results they accomplish for their employ ers, and the cost of living here, as compared with that of Europe are receiving the same wages, or prob ably less, certainly not more, or higher, than are paid in Europe for. like service. Add to these considerations the fact that we are twenty-five years ahead of the most advanced country in Europe, in mechanical appliances and labor saving machinery, through which manufactures are greatly cheapened, the argument it would seem that our manufacturers require in addition to natural advantage no further protection in the home mar kets is incidental to a purely rev enue tariff, becomes unanswerable. The illimitable productions or our republic so favored of heaven, the matchless energy and enterprise of her people, speak trumpet tongued in favor of fr edom of trade. It is replete with blessings and benefits for ourselves and our prosterity. It cultivates amity between the distant portions of the globe, binding them together by a constant interchange of kindly office in a thousand ties of interest and affection. It shows men their mutual dependence on each other and cherishes a feeling of brotherhood for the whole human race. It breaks through the sordid barriers which, without its influence, would confine each being to his own narrow spot of earth, making the inhabitant of the most ungenial cli mate a commoner of the world, supplying him with its various pro ductions and opening to him all its magazines of science, literature and art. But time and space forbid that 1 should further tax your columns or the paitence of your readers. In the bonds of free-trade I am your brother and friend, A. C. Dodge. AVQCA ATTRACTIONS. RY P. F. GALLAGHER, Editor and Agent. It snowed last Sunday and cover ed the ground all up. The snow is nearly all gone now. Last Saturday was the wannest day we had, the store doors being kept open. Sunday and Monday however were cold. Fred Chirst brought suit against O. P. Underwood for wages claimed by defendant. The case was to come off last Saturday, but was adjourned for one week. Henry Cane and son Henry with John Brownwell started for their Dakota farms on Wednesday, th 21st. Frost Bros, have their store pretty well filled with goods. They have a large stock of groceries. The old soldiers met last Saturday night to form a Grand Army Poet. The Avoca House will soon change hands. Mrs. Geo. Williams will remove to her other house known as the Wisconsin House. Samuel Parks has a large stock of candies, nuts, oranges, and all goods necessary to make a good meal. Every freight train going west has from three to ten car loads of em igrants, nearly all “ bound for Dakota/’ Morris Husk, Henry Kelley, W. A. Kelley, and Theodore Harris, together with their families started for Sioux City, lowa, the first of the week. John and Carrie Erickson started for north western lowa on Tuesday morning. H. Hampton, who has been living in Dodgeville the past year removed, to Avoca a few day ago. Charley Gallagher's sale on Mon day was well attended. Stock and grain brought good prices. Mr. Thomas of Lone Rock cried the sale. MIFFLIN ITEMS. S. Cushman, left for Dakota on Saturday. R. Willis will go to lowa in a few days. W. Jones and John Thomas start ed few the west last week. The Adventist church dreed its meetings a few evenings ago, with an addition of forty members. COBBJTEMS. J. Bailey, agent for McCormick mac! ; ery at this place, received last week twenty-seven machines—bind ers and mowers,. Will RdUags, freight and passen ger agent at this- depot, after a year and a hall constant service is taking a few days vacation. On Thandaj morning; he started oa a trip to Mil* waske* aodChicago. DODGEVIUEDOINGS. BY ELISHA MOKCOM. The store building formerly owned by Mrs. J. S. Richards, on north Main street, has been purchased by Joseph Perkins for the sum of SHOO. J. C. Trezona started with his car for his future home in Crandon, Dakota, on Wednesday last. Luke McSherry, of Ridgeway, has purchased the saloon business for merly owned by Francis Hill. A large delegation of the lovers of sport were in attendance at the Knight-Lewis wrestle at Mineral Point, Tuesday last. K. T. Thompson, of the firm of Gullick, Thompson & Cos., returned from a visit to southren Minnesota on Tuesday last. He reports a con siderable amount of snow on the ground, and the people generally strong, vigorous and happy. Wesley Hocking returned to the Madison school of telegraphy on Tuesday. Post office inspector, Mr. Pulcifer, passed through this village last week. J. P. Smelker’s new cornice was placed in position upon the front of his office last Saturday, and it gives to the building a neat and finished appearance. The public schools closed Thurs day for a week's vacation. Both teachers and pupils have worked hard this term, and will no doubt, return to their work with much in terest and renewed vigor. Wm. Davies, W. H. Davies and Charles George and wife statred for Dakota last week, with three car loads of personal effects. A number of men from Canada have started to peddle cloth in this vicinity. John D. Dave/, an old and respec ted citizen of seventy-three years, died at his residence in this village on Wednesday night, March 14th. The I. O. of G. T. held an open session on Monday night. The hall was so crowded that an entrance was difficult and many were com pelled to remain outside. The speak ing and singing were good, and the people generally seem to be taking an unusual interest in the organiz ation. The local last, week should have read: The special meetings at the P. M. church were closed on Sunday night. But the words, were closed, were omitted. The Dodgeville brass band has commenced to practice again, and it is hoped that it will soon regain its past reputation and be recognized as the best in lowa county. All lovers of music wishing to assist the boys will be paid off in real fun and a genuine good time at Spang’s hall on Friday night, March 23. Tickets one dollar. REWEIMTEMS. Since our last writing several changes have taken place. Adam Dolphin sold all his right and title in the Rewey House to Mr. John Cavanaugh of Platteville. Mr. C. makes a very pleasant and agree able landlord and the weary traveler will surely find rest if he will but go there. Oliver Rewey, who has been our railway agent ever since the station has been opened was relieved last week by Mr. C. E, Fitch. Mr. Rewey has always discharged the duties of his office in a very satis factory manner both to the officers of the road and also its patrons. He intends trying the farm and says that railroading is too dependent for him. Mr. Silas Cushman, one of our well-to-do farmers, started for Da kota last week. It is hoped by his many friends here that he will re turn thoroughly disgusted with Dakota. Mr. George Elgar, who lias been visiting his brother Will, returned home last evening. George always finds a welcome in Rewe}-. “Dy ” Stout has opened up a blacksmith shop in this place, and any one in need of repairing can call on him as he has the reputation of being a first-class workman. Mr. J. W. Rewey has begun to stock his farm with some of the finest stock in the country. In a lew years he will show us one of the finest stock farms in this part of the state. We are glad to know that the Mifflin correspondent of the Chron icle did not hurt himself dangerously when writing his last article. He should l>e careful in regard to his statements about the “ Rewey” folks. “ Reweytte.” RIDGEWAT ITEMS. T. K. Ryan has left Canterbury’s employ. Mr. Cliffs, of Black Earth, is running the warehouse for the present. James Dougherty has sold his hardware store and stock to a gentle man from Pennsylvania. Ridgeway cannot afford to lose such a man as James. Mr. John Harrison, of Middle burry, has recently returned from Dakota, where he has brought some land. He is well pleased with the country and says he will remove there if he disposes of his farm here. James McClosky will open bis new hotel at Bameveld about the Ist of April. He has a good bouse and will no doubt have a large share of the trade. Mr. Ed. King sold at auction a large number of cattle, sheep and horses- on Saturday last March, 17th. SCENES IN CORNWALL The Headlands—Falmouth —Trebah — Glendurgan—Penjsrrick—The Home of the Fox Family —The "Polytech nic ” Pendennis Castle Cornish “ SlHes “—etc., etc. All Graphically Described for the Readers of The Democrat. EY M i FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT. Last summer was wet and backward in Eng land as well as in the United States. Farmers seemed to despair of their com being fit to cut before the rains of winter should come on. Al though it was the 2Sth ol August when we went down to CornwaU from London, hardly a sign of harvesting could we see in the counties we passed through. Even in Cornwall itself, the most southern and the mildest of English conn ties, the wheat, oats and barley stood in the fields uncut. All Utis, although a source of trouble to the farmers, was in onr favor. We i had come to see the Cornish country and thus found it green and beautiful as in early summer. It was quite dark when we reached Falmouth j station. Friends were there wailing for us and j we were soon driving out of the town, climbing j the steep lull leading to the west It was a pret ty sight to look back at the twinkling lights of ! the town and shipping and to watch the flashing lights of the light-house across the harbor ol St. i Mawes. A drive of five miles over perfect roads, 1 up hill and down, in deep shaded lanes, by the sea shore, and over hill tops whence we could j see lights out at sea, brought us to our destiua tion. Luckiy we had had no rain and the scent i of the sea mingled with tho perfume of the | honey-suckle in the hedges, and now and then j with a faint whiff of burning peat had quite j refreshed us after our tiresome journey from i London. It was delightful the next morning to j wake, and see the fields and woods, the beauti ful Helford river, and the headlands, one of them Rosemulliou Head, a patchwork ol fields and crowned with quaint old Norman church em-1 bowered in trees. Beyond all was the sea dotted ! here and there with sails. It rained almost without cease the first week | of our stay in Cornwall. It does not rain always | in England as some people think In fact 1 have j seen the earth parched and vegetation burnt there as well as tn America. But last summer was a wet one, and the last few days of August were \ especially wet. The clouds seemed to be upon ; us all the time. They swept from off the sea on ; the laud, part of the time like huge billows of mist, aud part of the lime as wet as veritable 1 billows of ocean. It was good weather for the ; complexion. It did not hinder us from exploring the lanes about Trebah. or from going to Fal mouth, or from making sundry other excursions > in the neighborhood to Passage, Durgan. Mawnam Smith, aud up the Helford river. To my mind | there is no prettier country in Cornwall or in England than along the coast from Falmouth j west to the Lizard promontory. Winter is al- i most unknown, roses bloom outdoors ail the j year round, and both sea and land combine to j make as pretty scenery as one can see anywhere. It is delightful to visit any of the show-places in j the neighborhood, especially those belonging to j Die Fox family. At Glendurgan with its ex- j quisite slopes and glimpses of the sea, we saw I fuchsias aud geraniums covering one aide of the I house, palms and camelias growing in the open i air, aud calla lilies blooming iu the ponds with | the water lilies, At Penjerrick, the home of the I late Miss Caroline Fox, whose memoirs have ! been lately published and widely read, we I found even more astonishing proofs of the de lightful mildness of the climate. It was very interesting to us to know that through these beautiful grounds many of Englands most fa mous men and women have strolled, that even Thomas Carlyle, "the sage of Chelsea.” had been wont there to express his enjoyment ol the scene. In the neighborhood we noticed some very deep lanes, the sides of which reached in some places to the height of from fiteen to twenty feet. The hedges were covered with ferns, blackberry bushes aud flowers, and ou top were elm and ash trees, which cast a dense shade ou the roadway beneath. It was very pleasant to walk through these cool, leafy tunnels. One could fancy them in early spring with sides spangled in pale primroses aud deeper cowslips, the rooks squab bling iu the budding trees overhead. Even the far-famed lanes of Jersey and Guernsey can not surpass the deep irregular oues of Cornw all. We visited Falmouth several times ou market day, ordinary day, aud once in the evening when we attended the exhibition of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic society, which was well wortli seeing. This society was established iu 18S;>, aud is quite noted throughout England; in fact, it lays a claim aud a well-founded one, to the honor of being the original model, out of which have grown the international exhibitions, which iu the last half century have done so much for mankind. We found the handsome hall lighted by electricity, aud filled with a great many beautiful things, works of art, novel inventions, models of machinery, etc. South Kensington had sent several cases filled with treasures of art. The hulk of the machinery exhibit was in the Drill Hall in another part of the town, but we had not time to visit it. It was owing to the exertions of the Fox family which is so closely connected with everything belong ing to Falmouth, that the "Polytechnic” was started and kept up, having last year celebrated Us • jubilee’’ or fiftieth anniversary. It may be worth while noting that a member of the Fox family was appointed U. S. Consul at Falmouth by George Washington, and that a member oc cupies the same position now. Falmouth is a very pretty place on one of the safest aud most beautiful harbors in England. It is comparatively anew place, although to an American it looks old enough, having been founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, Iu the reign of Henry Vlll—the sixteenth century. The two castles guarding the harbor, SL Mawes aud Pen dennis castles, were built at that time. Charles II is said to have been hidden in Pendennis cas tle at one time during the civil war. When X visited the castle iu 1874 a garrulous old woman took me about aud allowed me to climb in a dark recess where she stated Prince Charles lay hid. Queen Henrietta Maria embarked from Falmouth when she fled from England, and re mains of Oliver Cromwell’s camp when he be sieged Pendennis castle are still to be seen there. To many Cornish people now in Ameri ca, Falmouth is chiefly to be remembered as tHe port whence they sailed for the new world, the voyage often taking from six to twelve weeks. I suppose Falmouth has changed but little since that time. There is still the same long, crooked, narrow, water-side street, generally well filled with fish women, soldiers from the castle, and sailors from all parts of the world. There are still the smells of fish and tar, the displays of marine stores, aud the crowd of idlers on the Market strand. For modern improvements one must see the beautiful castle drive, visit the handsome new hotel, and the terraces of pretty houses on the hills above the town with their well trimmed hedges of holly, box, bay and laurel. Falmouth has many pretty residences, and next to Pen zance seems to be the favorite seaside resort in West Cornwall. It was well filled with visitors last summer. We spent a few very pleasant days at Tregedna, a delightful place where the house was complete ly smothered in front with jessamine and roses. The weather was ail that could be wished and we enjoyed exceedingly our excursions in the neighborhood, and through the shaded lanes hung in blackberries to the pretty beach at Mainporth. One misty afternoon we spent in fishing out in the channel, and in visiting the caves along the shore. Overlooking the beach and perched ou the tow of a sharp wooded hill was the romantic place called “The Crag," com manding a fine view of the channel. Coming from there one evening we had opportunities of testing two kinds of Cornish stiles both made of long narrow stones with deep spaces between. One had the stones on a level and in the other the centre stone was high, the others leading up to it They both seemedjwell-fitted for bringing people to grief on a wet dark night However, I liked them better than the stiles made by stick ing flat stones into the sides ol the hedges. Most Cornish hedges would make good fortifications. Some are at least five feet thick at the base. We left Tregeina one evening, an 1 in the twi light that most charming pan of the English summer day. drove to Filtrick near Redruth. At first through shaded lanes and past thatched cot tages we went and then came into a bleaker, higher country. We passed the quarries of Kabe ■where most of the famous Cornish granite comes from. We seemed then to have reached another country, different in almost all particulars from i the one we bad left. The soil was blacker, and instead of thatched cottages and green hedges i we saw stale covered granite houses, and hedges j bore and stony. The few trees and shrubs on the hill-tops were all blown away from the south-west wind. It was dark when we drove j throw Stithians, but we could tee rows of while-.. ashed houses, the homes of many of the miners working the mines near Redruth. Stith- 1 ions church, a fine aid building with church | yard peeping In at the windows. Inns sail up i greatly as we rattled by. It was a little startling ; st times to near tome cheery voice sing out j "good night," the sound apparently issuing | from the side of the hedges as we passed by. It wa* only the greeting of some (Kilotriu, miner going to or coming from his work ami in visible to ns by means of the bright sifte lamps on the trap. It is a pleasant c .-tom that of wishing those you pass on the country r.-a-ls -goo-1 night." Soon after passing Stuhians we reached die classic O Tiilage of Four Lanes (.1 am not sure that it is a village but it is a very ugly place) where we crossed the road lending from Redruth to Helstoa. Another mile and we too reached our destination. The clatter of mine machinery made itself heard the instant we stopped. It seemed to come in whitts with the wind over t arn Urea and also from the west. However, one soon get? used to noise of the stamps or ■ Stamp ses." r. m. I UVKKTISKniAS. New Life is given by using Brown’s Iron Bitters. In the Winter it strengthens and warms the system; in the Spring it enriches the blood and conquers disease; in die Summer it gives tone to the nerves and digestive organs; in the Fall it enables the system to stand the shock of sudden changes. In no way can disease be so surely prevented as by keeping the system in per fect condition. Brown's Iron Bitters ensures per fect health through the changing scasons.it disarms the danger from impure water and miasmatic air, and it prevents Consump tion, Kidney and Liver Dis ease, &c. H S. Berlin. Esq., of the well-known firm of 11. S. Berlin & Cos., Attorneys, Le Droit Building, Washing ton, D. 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