Iowa Old Press

Weekly Journal
Fairfield, Jefferson co. Iowa
Vol. VII, Issue 2
November 6, 1884

Friday Facts.
- John COLETT, of Atchison, Kansas, is here.
- J.F. KILLEIR, of Durango, Colorado, was in the city to-day.
- Charles T. DAVIS and Frank WHITIMORE, of St. Louis, were in the city
today.
- Hon. John H. CRAIG, of Keokuk, is in the city today.  He speaks tonight
presenting democratic issues.
- The independent republicans of Chicago filled Music hall to overflowing,
last night, to listen to addresses by Franklin MadVEAGH, Wirt DEXTER, and
E.G. MASON.
- Colonel J.G. O'NELL, who commanded a Tennessee regiment in the rebellion
and was a leader in the Fenian raid into Canada died in Galveston,
yesterday, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
- The postmaster general has arranged with the Illinois Central road to use
a fast mail train from Clinton to Springfield, and to shorten the time to
New Orleans one hundred minutes.
- When you go to the polls next Tuesday don't forget to plump a vote square
for Hon . John S. WOOLSON for Congress.  He will make one of the most
creditable representatives our district has ever had.
- The vice presidents of the Baltimore and Ohio road have failed to
negotiate a renewal of the lease of the Illinois Central tracks for an
entrance to Chicago and ajectment proceedings are threatened after Saturday
next.
- Near Long Creek, Oregon, Tuesday, a party of whites stole upon a band of
Indians and shot and killed two braves.  The feeling against the aborigines
is intense among the whites, and an Indian outbreak is threatened.
- Senator WILSON was in town today and after paying his respects to
Postmaster General HATTON, held a reception in the postoffice parlors, where
a few of the faithful met the Credit Mobelier states man. -- Burlington
Gazette.
- The Woman's Home Missionary Society began its fifth annual meeting
yesterday at Boston, an increase in finances and in number of missionaries
being reported.  The old board was reelected, and Mrs. C.R. BLISS, of
Chicago, was added to the vice-presidents.
- At Reading, Pa., yesterday, a locomotive and two cars jumped the track and
fell through a trestle the engine tumbling upon the Reading iron works
boiler house and demolishing it.  Two persons were hurt, and travel was
delayed.
- Hon. John S. WOOLSON, the next representative in Congress from this
district, was in the city today.  He spoke at Abingdon last night, and this
afternoon speaks at Pleasant Plain.  This evening he will address an immense
audience at Washington.

Saturday Sayings.
- Vote for John S. WOOLSON.
- J.A. BUCKNER, Davenport, is in the city.
- W.S. CHASE, of Chicago, is in the city.
- S.W. BRAMHALL, of Burlington, is in the city.
- Charles F. KRUSE, of Cincinnati, was here today.
- The Rock Island sold 226 tickets to Washington last night.
- Freights 25 and 26 on the "Q" have changed time. See time card.
- Miss Dora McVAY, of Danville, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. Lou THOMA.
- Last night was hallow'een. We guess the boys were so much interested in
politics that they forgot the day and date.
- Oscar H. HERRING, of the General Land Office, Washington, D.C. came home
last evening to spend a few days vacation and vote.
- Capt. BURGESS had good meetings throughout the county, and his speeches
are highly spoken of by those who heard them. -- Mt. Pleasant Journal.
- At Washington last night and on the train coming over, we observed that
the cheering was louder and more earnest, and the enthusiasm greater for the
Hon. John S. WOOLSON than it was for the Plumed Knight.
- Prominent politicians from Louisa county, who generally know whereof they
affirm, told us at Washington last night that Hon. John S. WOOLSON would
have nine hundred majority in Louisa county.  And the best posted
politicians in Washington say that his majority in that county will be at
least six hundred.
- There were very nearly three hundred people from here in attendance at the
grand republican meeting at Washington yesterday and last night.  The C.B. &
Q. Band and the Plumed Knights went over, and the "Silk Hat Brigade," which
attracted so much attention, numbered nearly one hundred.  Washington
promises to return Fairfield's call next Monday, and go us one better.
- The story that the Tribune gave yesterday that Senator WILSON was in
Keokuk fixing up to bulldoze the democrats of that city to vote for WOOLSON,
was incorrect.  Senator WILSON (whom we don't love even as well as the
Tribune does) was in Washington all day yesterday and last night, and
consequently could not have been in Keokuk.  We don't think Mr. McELROY
meant to misrepresent matters, but he was evidently imposed upon.  And the
statement that Mr. WOOLSON will not be here Monday is also incorrect.  Mr.
WOOLSON will be here as advertised, and don't any of you neglect to make a
note of it.
- The Mt. Pleasant Free Press (democratic) on the 11th of September,
speaking of the nominations (sic) of HALL and WOOLSON, said:  "Mr. HALL and
Mr. WOOLSON are too well known to the people of Henry county as able,
upright and reliable men to need any extended notice from us.  They are both
worthy sons of worthy sires, and are to the manor born.  Both respected and
trusted citizens of the cities in which they reside.  Both have honorably
served their constituents as state senators, and each has gained a state
whide reputation as an able and judicious legislator."  Now the same sheet
cannot say anything too mean and filthy of Mr. WOOLSON. "O, consistency thou
art a jewel."

City Council.
Regular Meeting of the City Council of Fairfield, Iowa [By Authority]
Council chamber, Oct. 30, 1884.
The Council met pursuant to adjournment.  It was resolved to reduce the
salaries and per diem of the Trustees.  The following bills were allowed by
a vote of the Council:
M. ROBINSON, night police ..........................$30.00
R.H. MOORE, printing proceedings and ordinances.... $24.95
Judson HIGLEY, street commissioner one month .......$40.00
John MOLLER, running electric light for one month ..$60.00
T.T. HARRIS, marshal ................................$30.00
On motion the council adjourned til Friday evening, November 15th, at 7 P.M.
T.F. HIGLEY, City Clerk.

Monday Melange.
- Vote for WOOLSON tomorrow.
- The town will be painted red tonight.
- Tomorrow and the great agony will be over.
- The "ruling passion" was strong in the rain today.
- D. WITKOWAKY, Jr., of Chicago, was in the city yesterday.
- Hon. M.M. WALDEN, of the Albia Union, was in the city today.
- Hon. John S. WOOLSON spoke to a good sized audience in the park this
morning at ten o'clock.  He speaks at Keokuk tonight.
- Every good citizen, who has the best interests of the first congressional
District at heart, will cast his ballot for Hon. John S. WOOLSON.
- We are having trouble getting reliable boys to deliver our papers, and
have been obliged of late to put a number of them in the postoffice.  We
trust our readers will bear with us until we can get reliable boys.
- Look out for night before election roorbacks.  Don't be bulldozed or
chizzled out of voting for the person you desire to support.  Assert your
independence.  Drop a vote for WOOLSON and you will never regret it.
- We make the prediction for tomorrow the Grover CLEVELAND will be elected
President and John S. WOOLSON member of Congress from this district.  We
have always made it a rule never to say anything we cannot prove or take
back.
- A vote for Hon. John S. WOOLSON for Member of congress in this district,
will be a vote for the faithful and honest administration of the affairs of
the district.  Mr. WOOLSON will make a representative of which his
constuents will ever be proud.
- A very pleasant surprise tea party was given Saturday evening  by Miss
Myra McCOY, in honor of the birthday of her aunt, Mrs. Joseph McCOY, at her
residence.  It was very ingeniously arranged to be a complete surprise.  The
girls sent Mrs. McCOY over to Mrs. J.P. GAGE's, telling her that Mrs. GAGE
was not feeling well and desired her to spend the day.  When she returned
she was almost overcome with surprise and emotion, -- the house full of
company and tables loaded with the best things the market affords. Among
those invited and present were Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah MESSENGER, Mr. and Mrs.
W.B. MURRAY, Mr. and mrs. C.C. RIS, Mr. and Mrs. Perry KING, Mr. and Mrs. L.
PETTY, Mr. and Mrs. RICKETS, Clint PRICE of Indianola, Mrs. J.P. GAGE, Mrs.
INGALLS and Mr. and Mrs. R.H. MOORE. There were a number of handsome and
useful presents left for Mrs. McCoy, among which we noticed an elegant
silver tea service and a dozen knives and forks from Miss Myra to her aunt.
With Miss Myra and Miss Myrtle devoted, with their uncle and aunt, to the
entertainment of their privileged guests, nothing is wanting to the success
of a social evening.  The girls seem to have mastered the total depravity of
inanimate things in the culinary department as the choice selecton of
"creature comforts" well attested.  Among the good things of Fairfield we
shall always count the tea parties.  May their number never grow less.

Tuesday Tit-Bits.
- We will know all about it tomorrow.
- C.W. JACKSON, of GAlesburg, was here yesterday.
- Bets were freely offered today with no takers that New York would go for
CLEVELAND.
- We estimate that Hon. John S. WOOLSON will be elected by at least five
hundred majority.
- Mrs. George DOWNS and Mrs. CARMICHAEL, of Brighton, are visiting with Mrs.
Capt. BURGESS.
- A democratic meeting was held at the ocurt house last night, and was
addressed by Hon P.G. BALLINGALL, of Ottumwa, and C.E. STUBBS, of this city.
- That veteran democratic war-horse, Hon M.M. BLEAKMORE, who has been
sojourning for some time in Van Buren county, came home last night to vote.
- The election is progressing very quietly, and a full vote will be polled.
Jefferson county will give John S. WOOLSON six hundred majority.  Mark the
prediction.
- At the time of going to press there were 968 votes polled here.  We
understand 1020 is the largest vote ever polled in this township.  It looks
very much as though our vote would go over 1,200.
- Just as we go to press we learn that a fire broke out in the residence
occupied by Robert CLINKENBEARD, near Mr. TEMPLETON's elevator, and that the
house and most of its contents were consumed.  We could not learn any
further particulars.
- The republican meetings here yesterday and last night were the largest and
most enthusiastic of the campaign. There must have been ten thousand people
here.  Washington sent over about three hundred, and about two hundred from
Libertyville were in attendance.  Hon. John S. WOOLSON spoke in the park in
the forenoon.  In the evening, at the opera house short addresses were made
by Hon. M. M. McCOID, Rev. WILLIAMS of Washington, Prof. J.R. WILSON of
Parsons College, Capt. T.J. HYSHAM, W.G. ROSS, John M. GALVIN, J.M. HINKLE,
Chas. D. LEGGETT, C.D. THOMA, J.S. McKEMEY, S.J. CHESTER and others.  Capt.
W.T. BURGESS held forth at the rink.

A Letter from Mr. CLEVELAND.
As is well known the editor of THE JOURNAL has been opposed to the election
of Mr. BLAINE, but we have not cared to use the columns of this paper, the
majority of the patrons of which differ from us, to the furtherance of our
private opinion.  Nor did we make up our mind to vote for Mr. CLEVELAND
until the 25th of this month.  The BLAINE campaign has been conducted so
much on the principle of filth and indecency, that we resolved on that day
to cast our vote for Grover CLEVELAND.  We were sitting at our desk at the
time we made up our mind, and before us lay a block of our note-heads.  "We
took our pen in hand," as the love-sick swain would say, and dashed off a
few lines to the great Governor of New York.  We told him that we had made
up our mind to vote for him, but that we presumed one vote among fifty
millions of people, in a State that was sure to go against him, was of very
small consequence; yet that was the way we felt, and we had pleasure in
communicating the fact to him.  We knew that his volume of correspondence as
governor of a great State must, of necessity, be enormous, and his personal
correspondence as the chosen leader of a great political party, very large.
For these reasons we did not ask for, nor did we even dream of a reply.  Mr.
CLEVELAND has been absent from Albany during the last fortnight, trying to
outdo Mr. BLAINE in the "circus" business in New York.  Appearances indicate
that he has been successful and that the great State will give its reform
governor its electoral vote, thus making his calling and election sure. On
Friday morning he arrived home from his trip through Connecticut, and on the
same day took time, amidst his arduous duties, perplexing cares and great
anxiety, to acknowledge the receipt of our letter.  The letter, in its
entirely, is written by the Governor himself, and shows that he feels keenly
the terrible methods used for his defeat.  He writes as follows:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
Albany, Oct. 31, 1884.
R.H. MOORE - My Dear Sir:  I thank you for your kind letter of the 25th.
This has been a horrible campaign, and there have been lies enough told to
satisfy the needs of mendacity in the nation for all time.  Thanking you for
your comforting tender of support, I am
Yours Very Truly,
Grover Cleveland

Wednesday Wanderings.
- "I told you so."  McCOID.
- A.G. HAGUE, of Libertyville was in the city today trying to get some
comfort out of the returns.
- GARFIELD, without a plume, carried Jefferson county by 750.  The Plumed
Knight is obliged is obliged to accept 321.
- 327 majority for BLAINE in 1884 against 750 for GARFIELD in 1880 don't
speak well for Mr. BLAINE's managers to this county.
- BLAINE's majority in this county is less than 225, GARFIELD four years ago
carried the county by 750.  Evidently under the management of such bosses as
the WILSONs and the JUNKINS the old time republican majorities are a thing
of the past.
- Mr. WOOLSON's small majority is largely due to the influence the
prohibition question has had on the republican vote.  WILSON's pet
prohibition project has cost Iowa half of her congressional representation.
And it will finally cost the republican party the state.
- List of letters remaining in the postoffice in this city unclaimed and
advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 4th, furnished THE JOURNAL by
Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster:  Frank ABBOTT, W.H. COPELAND, Callie E.
BEANS, Mrs. FITZPATRICK, Mrs. H.A. DuBOISE, T.D. JAMES, H.W. STRINGER, John
THOMAS, Mrs. Sarah A.L. WRIGHT, ULM & VANCE.
- Died, at his residence in Abingdon, Iowa, after a protracted illness, Nov.
1st, 1884, Charles H. McCULLOCH, aged 62 years, 1 month and 26 days.  He has
been a resident of Jefferson county thirty-nine years, and by his upright
deportment and corrrect business life, he has made many friends.  His
funeral sermon was preached by Rev. Banner MARK, Nov. 2, to a large audience
of old neighbors, relatives and friends.  He leaves a wife, four children
and many relatives and friends to mourn his loss.  But they sorrow as those
that have no hope, for having sought and found the Savior, he died in great
peace.  J.G.T.

THE ELECTIONS.
The presidential election yesterday in the nation was one of the most hotly
contested national contests in the history of political parites, yet it
seems to have passed off quietly in all parts of the United States.  As to
whether Mr. BLAINE or Mr. CLEVELAND were yesterday elected is still an
unsettled problem.  The probabilities are that Mr. BLAINE is elected.  At
both headquarters they are claiming the elction of their presidential
candidate.  In this district Hon. John S. WOOLSON is surely elected by about
200 majority, although the democrats are claiming Mr. HALL's election by
about 100.  Mr. WOOLSON's figures are, as given us by telephone:  For HALL,
Des Moines 1510, Lee 617; total 2127.  For WOOLSON, Henry 612, Louisa 695,
Jefferson 331, Washington 386, Van Buren 200; total 2224, making WOOLSON's
majority 97.  In this county a fuller vote was polled than ever before, and
the republican county, state, congressional and national tickets were
elected by majorities ranging from 321 to 331, Mr. BLAINE only receiving
321.  Four years ago Mr. GARFIELD carried the county by 750.  This don't
augur well for the republican management.  The people getting sicker and
sicker with bosses and boss rule from year to year.

- The bosses were not pleased with the nomination of Mr. WOOLSON, yet he ran
28 ahead of the Plumed Knight, the candidate they were pleased with.

The Election.
Of the presidential election the Chicago Herald (independent) this morning
has the following:  As The Herald goes to press with this edition the result
of the Presidential election of Tuesday is still in doubt.  Everything
depends upon New York state, where the vote cast for the BLAINE and
CLEVELAND electors is so close that the official canvass will doubtless be
necessary to determine the choice with anything like satisfaction to anyone.
The indications are that the plurality for the winning ticket will not much
exceed 1,000 votes.  Both sides claim the state and will doubtless continue
to do so until the official count is made.  As New York goes so the
Presidency will go.  CLEVELAND has carried Connecticut by about 1,000 and
New Jersey by about 4,000.  this is not disputed.  the 15 votes of these
states, added to the 153 from the South and the 36 from New York, give
CLEVELAND 204, or three more than are required.  The Republicans have not
succeeded in carrying such states and would make it impossible for CLEVELAND
to win with New York.  though they claimed Viginia, the latest and most
trustworthy accounts are that the South is solid.  As to Indiana there is
grave doublts, with changes favoring the Republicans, but Indiana and
without New York CLEVELAND cannot win.  The Democrats have had hopes of
Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Nevada, and California, but these states have
al chosen Republican electors.  The contest thus narrows to New York, with a
paltry thousand or two ballots marking the advantage of one party over
another for supremacy in the nation.  The latest and most reliable accounts
from New York are that CLEVELAND'S chances are good for a plurality of from
1,000 to 2,000.

Later - 2 p.m. - We just had a telephone talk with Mr. HUTCHINSON, of the
Burlington Gazette.  He says 1847 precincts, outside of New York and
Brooklyn have been heard from, which figuring in the two great cities, give
CLEVELAND a plurality of 1,000.  He says from private advices received, the
state is now ceded to CLEVELAND by about 4,000.

Thursday Transpirings.
- A.B. OGDEN, Denver, is in the city.
- W.H. CHESTER, New York, is here.
- Are we to have a repetition of the contest of 1876?
- Ed H. LANE, of Cleveland, O., was here yesterday.
- Jefferson county has too many mug-wumps for comfort.
- Mr. WOOLSON ran 28 votes ahead of BLAINE in this county.
- As the election is now over let us pay our foolish bets and go our way.
- The next republican campaign will not be one of slander. Stick a pin
there.
- If the republicans had nominated ARTHUR the contest would not now be in
doubt.
- The dude, the pharisee and the mug-wump were important factors in this
campaign.
- Do you still think that BLAINE is the strongest candidate that could have
been nominated?
- Mr. WOOLSON's vote in this county was 2,015, Mr. HALL's 1,707, leaving
majority of 308 for Mr. WOOLSON.
- Hon. James B. WEAVER is defeated for congress by a majority of 56.  This
isn't a very good year for majorities.
- Mr. SIPPEL received a majority of 160 more than the man with a plume in
this county.  Charley got the mugwumps.
- Another campaign such as just closed by those played out political bosses,
the WILSONS and the JUNKINS, will produce enough mugwumps to give this
county to the democrats.
- Joseph LYMAN is elected to Congress in the ninth district over W.H.M.
PUSEY, the present incumbent.  Thus have the republicans of the ninth
redeemed themselves.
- The sturdy republicans of Jefferson county will now doubtless awake to a
realization of the fact that the sooner they bounce their political bosses
the better it will be for the party in the county.
- The Washington Press, in its headlines, says "We crow while we can,
anyhow."  That is about the principle of the BLAINE press.  CLEVELAND is
elected, and they might just as well admit it first as last.

GARFIELD's majority in Jefferson county was 750.  BLAINE's majority is 283.
From this it would seem that our wood are full of mugwumps.  The campaign of
slander and indency injured their candidate.

The Chicago Herald has a telegram of the 5th from Augusta, that Mr. BLAINE
took dangerously ill at his home yesterday morning after securing the
returns during the night.  His family physician was at once summoned, and he
ordered perfect quiet for Mr. BLAINE.

The total vote in Jefferson county for President gives BLAINE 1,987 and
CLEVELAND 1,704.  In Fairfield township BLAINE received 621 and CLEVELAND
448, making 283 majority.  In the townships outside of Fairfield the great
magnetic man has but 110 majority.

It was a mistake that one of the political bosses in this county was
intoxicated at Washington the other night and during the pow-wow in this
city election eve.  He is a teetotaler (?) and don't drink, yet he was as
crazy as Guiteau all the same, and just as dangerous.

We notice by the Davenport Gazette that Miss Florence, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J.C. KECK, well known as former residents of this city, was married at
the KECK mansion in Davenport, Wednesday evening to Mr. Stephen W. HOOVER,
of Rock Island. The affair was a brilliant one, and the presents numerous
and costly, as well as elegant and useful.

It is idle to say now even that Mr. McCOID would have been a stronger
candidate that Mr. WOOLSON.  Mr. McCOID couldn't have carried this county at
all, would have fallen behind Mr. WOOLSON's vote in all the counties of the
district.  In Des Moines county as against Mr. McCOID, Mr HALL'S majority
would have been 2-500. Mr. McCOID would have been beaten at least 1,500.
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FAIRFIELD, IOWA “WEEKLY JOURNAL”
 JEFFERSON COUNTY
Vol. VII, Issue # 3, Nov. 13, 1884
Transcribed by Debbie of the Jefferson Co, IA USGenWeb Project

Friday Facts.  (Page 1)
--Jay GOULD commences early to pull Grover’s leg.
--The Burlington Gazette claims Hall’s election by 57.
--The democrats intend to paint the town red to-morrow night.
--The bosses have all gone in their hole and taken the hole with them.
--Isn’t it about time now to have “Old John Brown” sung by the veteran editor?
--It is necessary for the good of society to have mugwumps, pharisees, dudes and tumble-bugs.
--The official canvass will be made in New York next Tuesday.  It is to be hoped that those 43 precincts will be heard from by that time.
--If WOOLSON had kept the WILSONS out of the campaign in this county, he would have been elected.  He should have received 500 majority.
--JUNKIN called Bob LOUDEN a liar for saying there were fifty mugwumps in Jefferson county.  Bob did lie about it as the vote showed about four hundred.
--Mrs. W. S. HANLON and little Lester, who have been visiting with Mrs. B. M. MIKESELL and Mrs. R. WATER, returned to their home in Sigourney yesterday.
--Mrs. James ARMSTRONG and Mrs. J. F. POTTS, of Libertyville, were guests of Mrs. Capt. BURGESS last night, and to-day left for Galesburg for a few week’s visit.
--Roscoe CONKLING is not exactly a Democrat, but he would receive a warmer greeting in a Democratic meeting than he would in a Republican. – Chicago Herald.
--The republican loss in this county over the vote of four years ago is about four hundred votes.  This is the way the grand old party is marching on under bosses and boss rule.
--Charles A. DANA of the New York Sun, who has been a strenuous opponent of Grover CLEVELAND during the campaign, concedes that he has carried New York and is elected.
--We were in error about GARFIELD’S majority being 750 in this county four years ago.  He only received 591, yet that is 287 votes more than BLAINE received out of a much larger poll.
--Hon. John S. WOOLSON was a popular candidate in this county, if he is defeated as he ran ahead of BLAINE.  But the bosses campaign defeated him.  MCCOID had 652 majority in this county four years ago.
--Our friend MCELROY, of the Tribune, is so elated over CLEVELAND’S election that he concluded to crow in this week’s issue.  He sent over to this office this morning to know if we didn’t have a large cock, saying “I never had occasion to use one before.”
--John B. FINCH, Chairman of the National Prohibition Committee says the total prohibition vote will aggregate 200,000, and that four years ago it was only 11,000.  He concedes the state of New York to CLEVELAND by 2,000, and says the official returns will not materially change these figures.

The Election.  (Page 1)
 Of the presidential election the Chicago Herald (independent) this morning has the following:
 The clouds of doubt are somewhat cleared this morning and the election of CLEVELAND and HENDRICKS now seems assured.  All uncertainty as to Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia have been removed, and a Democratic majority in the Electoral College made safe and immovable if New York has been carried for CLEVELAND.  If the Republicans have had hopes of electing Blaine without New York such hopes have now been shattered.
 As to New York, there are still conflicting claims.  On yesterday, Chairman MANNING, for CLEVELAND, and Chairman JONES, for BLAINE, issued manifestoes, each declaring his own candidate’s success in that state, and warning the people against contemplated frauds by the opposition.  The Republican figures, made yesterday afternoon, gave the state to BLAINE by from 67 to 1,000 or more plurality.  The Democratic figures varied from 1,500 to 3,500.
 Official returns have now been received from many counties.  The usual corrections of first reports appear, neither side suffering much from the errors.  Official and unofficial, every district in the state was reported, showing CLEVELAND’S plurality to be about 1,500, the Sun making it 1,477, and other papers somewhat higher.  This agrees closely with the calculations by precinct gains, and unless great errors have crept into the reports New York is as safe for CLEVELAND as if his plurality were thousands instead of hundreds.
 The official count must now be awaited.  It may possibly develop errors or inequalities sufficient to reverse the result.  All the chances are that CLEVELAND and Hendricks are elected, but only the official canvass of the votes in New York, and perhaps in other states, can end all controversy and anxieties of rival partisans.
THE LATEST.
 The following dispatch was received here about 2:30 p.m.:  “Jay GOULD this morning sent the following to CLEVELAND:  ‘I heartily congratulate you on your election.  All concede that your administration as Governor has been wise and conservative, and in the larger field as President I feel that you will do still better, and that the vast business interests of the country will be safe in your hands.’ “

FAST OWL EXPRESS.  (Page 1)
New Line Between Chicago and St. Louis.
 Commencing with Sunday, Nov. 2d, 1884, the Burlington Route (C., B. & Q. R. R.) will run fast mail trains between Chicago and St. Louis.  These trains will be elegantly equipped with Pullman Sleepers, Reclining Chair Cars (seats free) and first class Coaches, and will run through without change as follows:
Going south, leave Chicago 8:30 p.m., Aurora 9:40 p.m., Mendota 10:55 p.m., Galesburg 1:30 a.m., Bushnell 2:20 a.m., Vermont 2:57 a.m., Beardstown 3:50 a.m., arriving at St. Louis 7:45 a.m.; Going north, leave St. Louis 8:00 p.m.,  East St. Louis 8:15 p.m., Beardstown 11:50 p.m., Vermont 12:39 a.m., Bushnell 1:15 a.m., Galesborg 2:10 a.m., Mendota 4:50 a.m., Aurora 6:05 a.m., arriving Chicago 7:30 a.m.
 The time of these trains is equal to any of the competing lines.  Direct connection made in Chicago with through trains to and from all points North and East, and in Grand Union Depot at St. Louis with through trains to and from all points in the South.

Saturday Sayings.  (Page 1)
--M. C. SHORE, of Rockford, is here.
--A. GOERTS, New York, is in the city.
--E. MORGENTHALER, St. Louis, is here to-day.
--Mrs. C. A. JERMAN, of Ft. Wayne, is in the city.
--W. S. CUMMINGS, Fredericktown, O; is in the city.
--The road to fortune is through printers ink. – P. T. BARNUM.
--“Ma! Ma! where’s you pa?  Gone to the white house, ha, ha, ha!”
--The sorest men in the town are the bosses, the WILSONS and the JUNKINS.
--Frequent and constant advertising has brought me all I own. – A. T. STEWART.
--The course of this paper is not inspired by whether it will make or lose subscribers.
--My son, deal with men who advertise.  You will never lose by it. – Ben FRANKLIN.
--The boys will have another telegram to-night that New York has gone 1,200 for BLAINE.
--Mrs. C. D. FULLEN received the following from a friend in Mt. Pleasant this morning:  “Alice CARPENTER, a teacher from Des Moines, Edith BAUGH, Prof. WOLFE and Etta TEETER were all drowned in Tracy’s pond last night at 10 o’clock.  Lou SATTERTHWAITE and Miss Lu CRODE were saved.”

The Presidential Situation.  (Page 1)
 The most significant thing on the situation yesterday was the admission of Jay GOULD, the great railroad king, that Mr. CLEVELAND was elected, and his telegram to the President elect congratulating him.  Mr. GOULD has been one of the leading spirits in the BLAINE campaign.  And to-day we have additional high republican and BLAINE authority admitting the defeat of their chief.
 Hon. Emory A. STORRS, of Chicago, one of the ablest workers for BLAINE, said to the National committee yesterday:
 I think the matter is now definitely settles.  It was a hard fight, but I do not see any reason now to continue to doubt that CLEVELAND is elected.  We might as well accept the result quietly and agreeable, take our medicine in the proper spirit and make the best of the situation.  No one will be more willing to congratulate the successful candidate than the defeated one, and I am sure that when the result is accepted all around, final and conclusive, the same feeling will animate the whole Republican party.
 The Albany Evening Journal, the leading BLAINE paper in New York, concedes the election of Mr. CLEVELAND in the following manly manner:
 There seems to be no longer doubt that Gov. CLEVELAND has been elected president.  Ever county has sent in its full vote.  After a careful verification the results assure Gov. CLEVELAND a plurality of about 1,000 in this state.  The vote will not vary 200 on either side of the figures.  New York gives CLEVELAND enough votes to elect him.  The Journal has devoted all its energies toward securing another result, and it now reluctantly admits that the election has been decided differently from its desire, because it believes that prompt recognition of the will of majority is essential to the maintenance and preservation of American institutions.  So long as the people of the United States have decided to transfer the federal administration to the democratic party we are glad that the decision has been made in favor of a democrat from New York state.
THE LATEST.
 A telephone message was received this afternoon from Mr. HUTCHINSON, of the Burlington Gazette, saying that the Western Union Telegraph Company now concedes New York to Cleveland by 1,000 plurality.

Sigler’s Pullman Car Excursion.  (Page 1)
 On December 9th, 1884, a grand excursion will leave Chicago for the City of Mexico, California, and Honolulu, via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.  Round Trip Tickets, good for six months from date, will be sold at the following low rates:
 Chicago to City of Mexico and return, $117.00; Chicago to San Francisco and return, $117.00.  San Francisco to Honolulu and return, $110.00.  Special rates from points between Chicago and Kansas City.
 For tickets, rates and general information, address,  H. C. SIGLER, No. 54 Clark street, Chicago.

Monday Melange.  (Page 1)
--Where is Dr. George H. BALL?
--E. P. HILL, of Chicago, is in the city.
--M. J. JUNKIN has returned from the West.
--D. C. GRIFFIN, of Washington, is in the city.
--A. B. WILDER, Iowa City, is in the city to-day.
--Why isn’t somebody congratulating Mr. BLAINE?
--Will GLAZEBY, of Burlington, was here to-day.
--HACKETT is in the city to-day.  He is not taking any election pools, now.
--Mr. J. W. HOWARD and family, formerly of Fairfield, have become residents of Eldon. – Eldon Review.
--W. H. CRAIL and wife, of Batavia, are spending a few days here visiting their parents, Capt. And Mrs. B. F. CRAIL.
--The Eldon company is sending a car load of selected front brick to Fairfield, this week. – Eldon Review.
--Mr. HALL’S majority, according to the unofficial returns, is only 15.  The official count may yet show Mr. WOOLSON elected.
--The vote on congressman in the first district is exceedingly close and the result will not be certainly known till the official canvass is made next Monday. – Mt. Pleasant Journal.
--Mr. WOOLSON has a larger majority than BLAINE and LOGAN in every county in the district except Des Moines which shows him to have been a strong candidate. – Mt. Pleasant Journal.
--While we are in the prophesying business, having predicted Monday that CLEVELAND would be elected, we now make the guess that President ARTHUR will succeed Grover CLEVELAND.
--The Sage of Maple Shade, Col. John W. DUBOIS, is out with a pome on the election of CLEVELAND, and will read it at the jollification, if the returns don’t come the other way, Thursday night.
--The news now received from clerical sources to the effect that Governor CLEVELAND is to be married this winter to a young lady in Buffalo will have to be confirmed.  The public is naturally distrustful of reports from that quarter after all that has happened.
--Learn to subdue your passions.  The country is not going to the devil as fast as you think it is.  Whether BLAINE or CLEVELAND is elected, we will all be here next year, THE JOURNAL will jog along, the oldest paper in the state will continue to stink, and the merchants of Fairfield will be as prosperous as ever.

Tuesday Tit-Bits.  (Page 8)
--“Give us a rest.”
--“Tell the truth.”
--“Burn this letter.”
--It is hard to give up.
--“Let us have peace.”
--I. S. FELGER, Chicago, is here.
--Thomas REDDIE, Keokuk, is here.
--Pay up your bets on Congressman.
--E. H. BLAIR, St. Louis, is in the city.
--Geo. B. THOMPSON, of Chicago, is in the city.
--V. CHAMBERS, Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
--To-day will settle the Presidential question.
--M. S. HUGHETT, of St. Joe, Mo., is visiting in the city.
--The official vote of Jefferson county gave Mr. WOOLSON 316 majority.
--No less than $1,000 was bet in this city on the congressional contest.
--The Almighty couldn’t give us as nice weather as this before election.
--So far dry goods boxes have been safe but better lock them up to-morrow night.
--As a surprise to our readers we will say that the official returns show Charley SIPPEL elected.
--Hundreds of thousands of republicans who voted for BLAINE are not sorry he failed to get there.
--The last election cooked boss WILSON’S goose for a return to the United States Senate.  ‘Tis well.
--Lost, somewhere in the city, a garnet ear ring.  The finder will be rewarded by leaving it at this office.
--The official count canvassed yesterday, gives Hon. B. J. HALL 70 majority for Congress over Mr. WOOLSON.
--Four years ago President CLEVELAND was unknown as a public character.  Who knows what may happen to us in the coming four years?
--The democrats threaten to paint the town red Thursday night.  It is possible but not probable that the republicans may use the brush and daub on the paint.
--The Chicago Herald says that among the men who triumphed with Governor CLEVELAND last Tuesday are nearly all the prominent surviving leaders of the republican party twenty years ago, and then mentions George William CURTIS, Henry Ward BEECHER, James SPEED, Admiral PORTER, Joseph W. HARPER, George W. JULIAN, Lyman TRUMBULL, James R. DOOLITTLE, A. G. CURTIN, George HOADLY, Carl SCHURZ, Benjamin H. BRISTOW, Bishop HUNTINGTON, President ELIOT, Professor SEELYE, Edward EGGLESTON, William EVERETT, Theodore LYMAN, Charles Francis ADAMS, Thomas Wentworth HIGGINSON, Henry L. PIERCE, and Francis A. WALKER.  The Herald must have accidentally omitted our name.

Wednesday Wanderings.  (Page 8)
--Daniel GREEN, New York, is here.
--C. H. MARTIN, Quincy, is in the city.
--S. B. THOMPSON, Danville, is in the city.
--W. H. WEAVER, of Rockford, is in the city.
--O. C. STAPLETON, of Des Moines, is in the city.
--W. T. THAYER and C. W. Beeman, of Chicago, are here to-day.
--A. B. WILDER, representing the World’s Fair, was in the city to-day.
--E. J. DANIEL, of Fairfield, was in Keokuk Monday. – Gate City.
--Mrs. Judge STEWART, of Chariton, is visiting Mrs. James M. SLAGLE and other friends here.
--The Hawkeye elephant has gone the way of all the earth.  The “ruling passion” with the old beast, “was strong in death.”
--D. M. PARRETT, of Batavia, was in the city to-day.  Uncle Davy is naturally feeling good over the election of Cleveland and Hall.
--We believe the election of CLEVELAND has taken the rheumatism right out of Sammy NOBLE.  He has been voting an unsuccessful ticket for twenty four years.
--The BLAINE journals are not going to give it up, not they, but they are abusing St. John all the same for being an instrument to the election of Grover CLEVELAND.
--Joe KLINEMAN has opened a billard hall in the room formerly occupied by Mr. TOWNLEY, on the northeast corner.  We wish Joe the best of success in his new enterprise.
--Hufford, BRADSHAW & Thoma are building a “condition” as Mrs. PARTINGTON would say, to their drug store.  Lou says they are “building up to the sky and back to the alley.”
--The New Orleans exposition opens Dec. 6.  The main building is completed.  In the machinery department sixty six boilers are in position.  A system of water-works supplies 3,000,000 gallons of water daily.
--There will be a leap year party at the opera house Friday evening.  Our young ladies who have it in charge, threaten the boys with a “boss” time.  We want something to relieve the monotony of New York returns.
--I. MESSENGER and wife left last night for California, where they will visit relatives and friends for a couple of months.  THE JOURNAL, which follows them on their journey, wishes them a pleasant and profitable time, and a safe return home.
--List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 11th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster:  H. M. BURNABY, John S. BOLTON, Pastor of R. C. Church, W. W. DUNLAVY, C. L. DUNHAM, Carol FRIDOLFSON, Charles HILLMAN, Laura HOUGHLAND, Lewis LECLAIR, Phil LOEFFEL, Frank STEVENSON, C. L. STEWART.
--It is no longer a secret.  At 6 o’clock to-morrow evening, at the residence of John W. GOWGER, in Ottumwa, will occur the marriage of Mr. Verner W. WHITE, of this city, and Miss Pattie INGALLS, the handsome and accomplished daughter of the late W. D. INGALLS, of Polk township.  Mr. WHITE is one of our squarest young men, and he may well congratulate himself in having won the heart and hand of such an excellent young lady as Miss Pattie.  THE JOURNAL extends its heartiest congratulations to the young couple who are so soon to start out on the voyage of life together, to bear each other’s joys and sorrows.

A Fine Grocery Stock.  (Page 8)
John A. MONTGOMERY, at the old stand of Albert MAIRE, has one of the finest, freshest and cleanest stocks of staples and fancy groceries, vegetables, canned goods etc., in the city, and is selling it at remarkable close figures.  What remains of the old stock will be offered at rare bargains.  A car of new flour just received.  S. J. CHESTER is now with Mr. MONTGOMERY, and will be pleased to see his old time friends and customers.

Hair Store.  (Page 8)
Mrs. Sadie MOWER, one block east of the northeast corner of the square.  Any one desiring work in that line will do well to call:  MRS. SADIE MOWER.

Removed.  (Page 8)
G. W. TOWNLEY has removed his stock of watches, clocks and silverware to the Myers building, on the southwest corner of the square.  He cordially invites all his old customers, and as many new ones as can make it convenient, to call on him at his new quarters.

Mr. Hall’s Majority.  (Page 8)
Hon. B. J. HALL’S majority as representative in Congress from this District, by official count, is 70.  The majorities by counties are as follows:
HALL’S MAJORITIES.
Lee county   728
Des Moines  1466     - 2194
WOOLSON’S MAJORITIES.
Henry county  606
Jefferson  316
Louisa   668
Washington  388
Van Buren  146     -  2124

Total majority for Mr. HALL        70

Thursday Transpirings.  (Page 8)
--H. LAMPUT and A. W. DAVISON, Chicago, is here to-day.
--Miss Mattie JACKSON, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day.
--R. A. WILSON, and Mrs. WEISER, of Dubuque, are here to-day.
--J. P. WALES and Ed JACKSON, of What Cheer, were in the city to-day.
--A statement of the condition of Farmers’ bank is promised us for publication as soon as completed.
--Hon. Ed CAMPBELL, of this city, is booked for a speech at the democratic jollification at Burlington to-night.
--Prayer service will be conducted at Y. M. C. A. rooms Thursday evening, as planned by International committee:  Regular Gospel services next Sabbath 4 p.m.
--The wife of Hon. Hiram PRICE, of Davenport, died at Washington City Tuesday.  And the same day the wife of Hon. M. V. GANNON late democratic candidate for attorney general, died at her home in Davenport.
--The New York Independent, which has fought CLEVELAND all along, says:  “Grover CLEVELAND is chosen President.  We deem the returns conclusive on this point.  Grover CLEVELAND as our President elect, we intend to treat with the respect due the office.”
--Mr. CONKLIN has his revenge.  The county of Oneida, in New York, gave Garfield in 1880 a plurality of 1956.  This year it gave CLEVELAND a plurality of 69.  This change of 2,015 votes, as the fates have decided, is sufficient to carry with it the thirty-six Electoral Votes of the Empire State and to determine the result in all the States.  It defeats BLAINE and makes CLEVELAND President, Oneida county is his home.

A Sorrowful Story.  (Page 8)
 The following additional facts have come to light regarding the drowning of Prof. WOLF at Mt. Pleasant.  It is a heartrending story and will be perused with great sorrow by many of our citizens to whom he was well known.
 Friday night members of the senior class of the high school were spending the evening with Miss Mary TRACEY, one of their number.  The superintendent and two teachers were of the company.  It being moonlight and the weather mild they thought to terminate the evening’s enjoyment by a boat ride on a small lake near by.  Seven of the party pushed out from shore, and had gone but a short distance when the boat sank in fifteen feet of water, caused by too heavy a load in one end of the vessel.  Misses Lulu SATTERTHWAIT and Emma LUCRADE, the latter a teacher, assisted by Charley TRACEY, a lad of 15, who had gone along to row, reached a small island, which was but a few feet from where the boat went down, by the aid of a large plank, and thus escaped.  Prof. J. W. WOLF, superintendent of the city schools, Miss Alice CARPENTER, principal of the high school, and Misses Edith BAUGH and Etta TETER, daughters of two business men, were drowned.  The other members of the class saw them go down and heard their cries, but could do nothing to help them.  They gave the alarm as soon as possible, but it was an hour before the first body was recovered.  Every effort was made to revive them but it was of no avail.  The young ladies who remained on shore when the others pushed out, kissed their classmates good-bye, and laughingly told them they would meet them on the other shore.  They also asked Prof. WOLF, as he stepped into the boat, if he had any parting message for his wife.
 The Des Moines Leader says, Miss CARPENTER clung to the oar until her hand was stiff with cold and that as she loosened her hold, her ring caught on the oar.  This held her until her finger hurt so that she took the other hand and pulled the ring off, after which she sank.  Prof. WOLF, though an excellent swimmer, made no effort to reach the shore, but cried “we’re going down; pull for the shore.”  It is supposed from marks on his breast that he was hurt in the upsetting of the boat.  The ring of one of the surviving ladies was found in his hair, showing that she had clutched him by the hair as they all sank.

FAIRFIELD, IOWA “WEEKLY JOURNAL”
JEFFERSON COUNTY,
Vol. VII, Issue # 4, November 20, 1884.
Transcribed by Debbie of the Jefferson Co, IA USGenWeb Project

Saturday Sayings.  (Page 1)
--Fred S. SANFORD, of Washington, well known here, is fitting up a new billiard hall in the elegant rooms upstairs, of the new Alston block.
--We understand that the county, school, city and all other trust funds placed in the bank of S. C. FARMER & Sons is abundantly secured, and that the bondsmen are all indemnified against I ss.
--We had to run off an extra edition to-day of last evening’s DAILY in order to supply the demand for extra copies, on account of the list of the creditors of Farmers’ bank.  Copies can be had by applying at this office.
--Iowa wanted BLAINE for a candidate more than any other state, and guaranteed him 100,000 majority.  His actual majority is so small that a magnifying glass will be needed to make it resemble one of the old-times affairs. – Chicago Herald.
--The leap year hop at the opera house last evening was by far the grandest affair of the season.  There were about one hundred couples present, including old and young.  The supper, which was an elegant one, was served in the north room of Stubbs’ block.  The ladies who managed the affairs of this party, deserve great credit.  It was a rich treat for the men, who all, with one accord voted it a grand success.
--The Chicago Tribune is at last compelled to throw up the sponge.  Its headlines this morning are:  “Gone Up;” “Almost the Last Chance of Blaine’s Election Now Passed,” “All but Three Counties in New York State Have Reported;” “More Than Half the District of New York Have Been Canvassed;”, “And Cleveland is Still 872 Ahead.
--The Demon of Bull Luck Still Pursued Him;” “One of the Greatest Statesmen of the Age Probably Defeated by a Fanatical and Silly Side Issue.”

Notice.  (Page 1)
Those who have deposits in the bank of Samuel C. FARMER & Sons, now closed, are requested to meet at the office of C. E. NOBLE, on the west side of the park, on Monday at 1:30 o’clock sharp, to consult about our interests in said bank.  By order of Depositors.

Ministerial Association.  (Page 1)
 The Mt. Pleasant District Ministerial Association of the M. E. Church met at Agency City on Monday evening Nov. 10, and continued in session until Wednesday evening following.  B. MARK was elected President and A. R. MILLER, secretary.  The opening sermon was preached by N. W. HALL, of Sigourney, I. O. KIMBLE, of Washington, preached on Tuesday afternoon and President MCFARLAND, of Iowa Wesleyan University delivered a very fine educational address on Tuesday evening.
 Very able and interesting papers were read and discussed.  Among these was one on “The relation of the Christian voter to Political Questions.” and another on the “Influence of Methodism on other Religious Denominations.”
 On Wednesday evening a very large and interesting Children’s Meeting was held.  Addresses were delivered by O. S. MARTIN, by I. O. KIMBLE and by S. R. FERGUSON.
 The next session of the Association will be held at Brighton, on the third Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of May, 1885.

A PUBLIC ENTERPRISE  (Page 1)
 That Commends Itself to Every Citizen of our County. – A new Atlas of Jefferson County.
 So many changes have been made since the publication of the old county map, that it has become almost worthless as a reference.  The property owners have long felt the need of something that will show Jefferson county as it is to-day.  We are glad to be able to inform our readers that Mr. O. C. HASKELL, of Des Moines, an old and reliable map publisher, has undertaken the preparation and publication of an atlas that will not only meet the demands, but will reflect the enterprise and intelligence of our citizens.  The Atlas will contain a fine engraving of the state house at Des Moines, will give a large map of the different townships, each township covering a page.  On the opposite page will be a township directory giving each property owners name, post office address, distance and direction from P. O., No. of acres owned, and No. of years resident in the county.  It will give the location of every farm, farm house, wagon road, church, school house, stream, the location of every town, &c.  There will also be a history noting every important event that has transpired in the county since its discovery and the date of its occurrence.
 Active operations for the preparation of the work have begun and canvassers will visit every farm, taking notes and gaining the necessary information for the work.  We hope our citizens will take pleasure in giving the information necessary to make a complete success.  The work is to be first class in every respect and will be sold at a price so low as to place it within easy reach of every body.

Monday Melange.  (Page 1)
--J. D. VAN KIRK, of Chicago, is in the city.
--S. K. HOWE, of Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
--Make haste now to surrender what you have lossed on the election.
--John SHIELDS, of Brighton, spent Sunday visiting his daughter here, Mrs. J. W. Hancock.
--S. A. DONOVAN, of Fairfield, visited his relatives in this vicinity last week. – Brighton Enterprise.
--The official canvass of New York is now completed, and CLEVELAND has a plurality of 1,105, and is consequently elected President of the United States.
--The Rev. J. H. CULLER, of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Burlington, and Rev. O. C. MILLER, of Cedar Rapids, are at the Lutheran parsonage to-day.
--Frasher, of the Brighton News, not being a good judge of the King’s English, inquires:  “What kind of a man is R. H. MOORE, of THE FAIRFIELD JOURNAL?  Is’nt he a kind of an Arnold?”  We are a full fledged mugwumps.
--While loading baled hay Friday for Geo. W. WHITE two teams belonging to Geo. KAUFFMAN and son took fright at the cars and ran away crippling one horse and making a wreck of both wagons.  Happily no persons hurt.
--A New York paper gives the following much needed advice which is well adapted to the latitude of Iowa:  “Most men have business matters to attend to which have been neglected of late.  It is a good time to stop talking politics and go to work.”
--The constitutional amendments submitted at the recent election, viz:  changing general election to “Tuesday next after first Monday in November;” reorganizing judicial districts; reduction in members of grand jury and for a law holding criminals without such jury; and for election of county attorneys, have been carried in the state by good majorities.
--Miss Lucetta STONE, wife of R. S. MILLS, of Brighton, died on Saturday evening, Nov. 8, 1884.  Mrs. MILLS was born in Ashtabula county Ohio, January 4, 1817, was a daughter of James and Isabel STONE; was married to R. S. MILLS on March 23, 1842.  She united with the Congregational Church in Clay the following year and ever lived as an exemplary Christian.  The deceased endeared herself to a large circle of friends whose presence and tears at her funeral attested the love and esteem with which she was held.  Mrs. MILLS was the mother of Mrs. James M. HUGHES, of this place.

JEFFERSON COUNTY’S VOTE.  (Page 1)
The following is the correct and official returns of the election in this county as canvassed by the Board of Supervisors this week:

Friday Facts.  (Page 1)
--Mark BAKER, Burlington, is here.
--W. CANTWELL, Lynn, Mass is in the city.
--W. P. JOHNSON, St. Louis, was here to-day.
--Fred S. SANFORD, of Washington, is in the city.
--Capt. S. H. WATKINS, of Libertyville, was in town to-day.
--Mrs. Mary MCELHINNY arrived from her trip East last night.
--J. H. GRAHAM, and Chas. D. SPENCER of Keokuk, were in the city to-day.
--H. S. COLE, W. S. MCCOMAS, S. J. ENRIGHT and G. B. HOLCOMB, of Chicago, are in the city to-day.
--The oldest editor in the state has gone to Dokata.  Wonder if he will sing “Old John Brown up there.”
--H. A. SPIELMAN, J. W. BURNETT, Harry ROOP and Miss Clara KING are attending Y. M. C. A. State Convention at Cedar Rapids this week.
--The bank building used by S. C. FARMER & Son, was sold in October by Mrs. Mary FARMER to John MARCY.  The deed was filed for record yesterday.  The consideration was $7,000.
--The Washington Democrat, above its flaming rooster, has the words “Glory to God.”  Most the organs exonerate God from any part in the election of Grover CLEVELAND, but change it on St. John and Conkling.
--The jollification meeting last night by the Democrats over the election of Grover CLEVELAND and B. J. HALL brought out a large gathering, but there was not as much enthusiasm as there would have been had the presidential contest not been so long drawn out, before it was known that Mr. CLEVELAND was elected.  The procession headed by the C. B. & Q. Band made quite a display, and there were such transparencies as the following:  A sick rooster label “Junkin’s rooster;” “Who will care for Logan Now,” “It is a Cold Day When Grover Gets Left,” “24 years in the Wilderness,” “The Mugwumps Did It,” etc., etc.  Speeches were made by Hon. D. P. STUBBS, Hon. Ed CAMPBELL, Hon. John J. CUMMINGS, I. D. JONES, C. E. STUBBS, James SULLIVAN and others.  The noise was kept up until a late hour, and the faithful returned home believing that it was good to be there, and that Grover had surely “Got there Eli.”

THE BANK FAILURE.  (Page 1)
Full List of the Creditors of the Banking House of Samuel C. Farmer & Sons.
 The following is an accurate list of the creditors of the suspended banking house of Samuel C. FARMER & Sons, as filed for record in the Recorder’s office yesterday afternoon, as provided by the assignment laws of the state:
 

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
--J. W. DAVY, of Cincinnati, is here to-day.
--James MCADAM, of Mt. Pleasant, was here to-day.
--Scott WASHBURNE, of Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
--W. C. BOWERS, of the Louise Sylvester Co., was in the city to-day.
--J. T. STANHOPE, Ben HASSEL and M. W. BOWER, of Burlington, are in the city to-day.
--G. o. p. don’t mean grand old party any longer.  It is now rendered get out promptly.
--Ret CLARKSON, of the Des Moines Register will not be postmaster general this time.  Some other time.
--W. B. MURRAY and Joseph R. MCCRACKIN are in Burlington to-day on Sterling mining business.
--President ARTHUR is writing the last annual message that a republican President will send to Congress for at least four years.
--Charley BECK has severed his connection with the Leggett House as clerk, and the entire duties now fall upon the broad shoulders of Bob CRAIL.
--Grover CLEVELAND will be President ARTHUR’S successor, and stranger things have happened than that President ARTHUR will be Grover CLEVELAND’S successor.
--Ed. MOSS and lady of near Birmingham expect to spend the winter at Tucson, Arizona, where the former will attend to his duties as one of the executive committee of the Blue Jay silver mine. – Keosauqua Democrat.
--Mrs. C. F. GEORGE has returned from a pleasant visit among relatives and friends in Kansas and Missouri.  She reports spending a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. S. B. HIGLEY who are pleasantly situated at Cameron.  Mrs. HIGLEY requested her to have THE WEEKLY JOURNAL sent to them, and of course it gives us pleasure to comply.
--The metrapolitan journals are all theorizing and philosophizing as to the causes of BLAINE’S defeat.  Some blame the prohibitionists, others attribute it to the crazy alliteration of Dr. BURCHARD, and still others blame Roscoe CONKLING, the mugwumps, the Pharisees, the dudes and the tumble-bugs.  In our honest judgment the lack of votes is what done the business for the old man.
--A number of the creditors of S. C. FARMER & Son met at the office of C. E. Noble yesterday afternoon to talk over the best plan of action.  A committee, composed of C. E. NOBLE, Dr. A. C. D. BRADSHAW and Prof. J. B. MONLUX was appointed to examine into the assets of the firm into connection with the assignee.  The committee was instructed to employ counsel, of thought necessary to protect the interests of the creditors.
--Mr. J. W. QUILLEN, of Fairfield, Iowa, after looking through several Importers’ Company’s Stables, dropped in upon the Messrs. Singmaster, of this place, a few days ago, and bought one of their highly prized two year old Clydesdale stallions, selected from a herd of one hundred head of their late importation.  The colt was shipped from here to Fairfield in care of his owner, Mr. QUILLEN.  It will certainly prove a splendid accession to the many imported horses in Jefferson county. – Keota Eagle.

Wednesday Wanderings.  (Page 8)
--F. P. HUGGINS, of Davenport, is in the city.
--C. A. DUNHAM, of Burlington was here to-day.
--Prof. ROMMEL and son, of Mt. Pleasant, were here yesterday.
--Miss Lena PORTER, of Birmingham, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. RANEY.
--The Catholic Church is undergoing repairs, and a new roof takes the place of the old one.
--Hon. M. A. MCCOID is putting an addition of several rooms to his comfortable residence near Parsons College.
--Mrs. Louise SYLVESTER and Barny MAXWELL are stopping at the Leggett House.  The balance of the troupe are at the Jones House.
--Charles A. OVERHOLT, representing the wholesale music house of James A. GUEST, Burlington, was in the city to-day, and favored this office with a pleasant call.
--The sheriff’s jury in the case of D. E. FINLEY against the Fort Madison Narrow Guage gave $527.50 damages for right of way.  It will bust the concern to pay this amount.
--The Louise Sylvester Company, which appears at the opera house to-night in “Freaks”, is one of the best companies now traveling, and they give an entertainment of the highest character.  No one should fail to take it in.
--The Rev. O. C. MILLER, of the First English Lutheran Church, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will occupy the pulpit of the Lutheran Church in this city on Sunday morning and evening next.  A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present.
--A stranger put up at the Jones House last night, and left on the 4:15 Rock Island this morning, jumping his bill and taking with him an overcoat belonging to J. W. NICHOLS, the grain buyer, and an overcoat and $5 belonging to another guest.  He was evidently on the make.
--List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 18th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster:  Isaac ACKLIN, W. H. BAKER, C. J. EARICKSON, J. FARLEY, Jr., John GRIFFIN, Harry HOGUE, Miss Emma INGHRAM, J. W. MARSHALL, George R. SHAW, J. M. WASHBURNE, Mrs. Eliza WOLFE.

Thursday Transpirings.  (Page 8)
--A. G. BARHYDT, Burlington, was here to-day.
--D. G. KENYON, of Detroit, is in the city to-day.
--W. SCHOONMAKER, of St. Joe, Mo., is in the city.
--G. W. CHAMBERLIN, of Council Bluffs, is in the city.
--M. R. METZGAR, of the Moline Plow Co., was here to-day.
--G. F. FLETCHER and wife, of Iowa City, were here yesterday.
--Charles SCHOFIELD, W. A. CLARK and C. A. MITCHELL, of Chicago, are in the city.
--Mrs. Etta SEEVER (nee MCKEE) of Council Bluffs, was here yesterday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. JONES, of the Jones House.
--Masons & Morgan’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company is quartered at the Jones House.
--We are sorry to hear that Ona BRIGHT, daughter of N. Steel BRIGHT, is confined at home with scarlet fever.
--Fred SANFORD, of the new billiard hall in the Alston block, will have every thing ready to open out Friday night.
--Arthur BARTLETT, formerly night operator at the “Q” has been transferred to the day service, and Perry HEFFLIN, of Batavia, takes Mr. BARTLETT’S place.
--Any person desiring Unitarian pamphlets or papers, or information concerning Liberal Christianity, can be supplied gratuitously by addressing Mrs. C. T. COLE, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
--The Mason & Morgan Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, which appears at the opera house to-night, made a street parade this noon that attracted attention and universal admiration.  They give one of the best renditions of the famous play of any troupe now traveling, and should have a full house to-night.  The opera house is always crowded to its full capacity to hear Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and those wishing to avoid the rush would do well to secure reserved seats at Voorhies’ before entering the hall.
--The Louise SYLVESTER Company in “Freaks,” at the opera house last night drew out a good house and they played to the entire satisfaction of all present.  Miss Louise SYLVESTER, as “Theodolinda Goldbun,” rendered her part excellently, and brought down the house at every word and expression.  In fact, the parts were all well taken and charmingly rendered.  It was genuine fun from first to last, nothing stale, but all new and original.  We voice the sentiment of the entire audience in saying that it was the most enjoyable entertainment that has visited our city in years.  Every one went away thoroughly satisfied.
--Miss Kittie VOORHEES, of Fairfield, Ia., a student of the University School of Short-hand, is to be commended for the excellent progress she is making in the acquirement of a practical knowledge of Stenography.  Her lessons are received regularly and the quality of the work she does is even superior to that of some students attending the school here in person.  The idea of teaching a practical art by mail may seem wonderful, but the Short-hand School is achieving great success in this direction. – University Vidette Reporter.

FAIRFIELD, IOWA “WEEKLY JOURNAL”
JEFFERSON COUNTY,
Vol. VII, Issue # 5, November 27, 1884.
Transcribed by Debbie of the Jefferson Co, IA USGenWeb Project

Friday Facts.  (Page 1)
--L. ALFORD, Waterloo, is here.
--C. W. TUCKER, of Burlington, is in the city.
--Geo. E. MOELLER, of Decatur, Ill., is in the city.
--F. J. SAVAGE, of Deere & Co., Moline, was here to-day.
--M. HURST and F. W. CHILDS, of Chicago, are in the city to-day.
--The water works will be connected with the city this afternoon.
--J. W. NICHOLS, the grain dealer, is off to Kansas on a business trip.
--Mrs. Wm. FINLEY, of Concordia, Kansas, a former resident of this county, is visiting with her daughter, Mrs. James SULLIVAN.
--The Brighton News says “a democrat bank closed up in Fairfield Wednesday.”  Republicans seem to have fared as badly as democrats.
--Mrs. A. W. JACKSON and daughters Mattie and Maudie, of Libertyville, spent last night in the city, and took in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
--Aaron G. BARHYDT, a traveling salesman for T. W. Barhydt & Co., of Burlington, will be married in a few days at Lockridge to Mrs. Augusta STILL, of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.
--W. KIERSTEAD, jr., who has for some months served our city in the capacity of civil engineer, has gone to his home in New York, and Street Commissioner HIGLEY is carrying his books and doing his work.
--The opera house was jammed full last night to hear Mason & Morgan’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  This play draws greater than a mustard plaster.  Two or three times a season we are visited by a troupe that plays it, and the opera house is always crowded.  It never grows old or stale.
--During the last few days the clerk has issued marriage licenses to the following parties:  Aaron G. BARHYDT 45 and Mrs. Augusta STILL 23; Benjamin R. HOSKINS 26 and Miss Betsy PICKERING 32; L. R. CREMER 23 and Miss Anna PEEBLER 20; Jeremiah BATES 20 and Miss Vina ANDERSON 17.
--George W. DAHLMAN, of the south side boot and shoe store, was united in marriage at Belfast, Lee county, Tuesday evening last to Miss E. Florence MATTHEWS, of that place, Rev. B. F. DURFEE, of Keokuk, officiating.  THE JOURNAL extends its best wishes to the young couple for their continued happiness and prosperity.

Saturday Sayings.  (Page 1)
--H. HERROLD, Peoria, is here.
--D. FOX, New York, is in the city.
--J. K. IVES, Omaha, was in the city to-day.
--?. B. LANE, Rockford, Ill., is here to-day.
--H. A. WARNER, of Philadelphia, is in the city.
--F. K. STORER, of Des Moines, was here to-day.
--J. A. BUCKNER and Henry WICKS, of Davenport, were in the city to-day.
--J. P. HUDGELL to-day purchased two hogs of Mr. Register weighing 1140 pounds.
--Young men invited to the Gospel meeting at Y. M. C. A. rooms four o'clock Sabbath.  Reports from state convention will be given.
--Charles A. JEREMAN, D. K. MILLER, C. S. ROWE, W. H. STEWART, Daniel GRAHAM, Chr. THIESS and George MILLER, of Chicago, are in the city to-day.
--The total assets, good, bad and indifferent, of Farmer’s Bank, according to the report made by the assignee, is $38,066.88.  The liabilities filed with the recorder amounts to $34,945.65.
--Invitations are out for the marriage of Mr. J. M. RANDALL, of this city, to Miss Bertha DURR, at the home of the lady’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Casper DURR, in Batavia, on Tuesday evening next at 6 P.M.
--Every day it becomes more apparent that the successful business man is the one who knows most about his business.  In these days of close competition a superficial knowledge is not enough, every detail of the business in which we are engaged must be looked after.
--F. B. CLARK, who for sometime has been in the employ of HUFFORD, BRADSHAW & THOMA, has received the appointment as a postal clerk between Burlington and Council Bluffs.  He will to-night sever his connection with the drug store, and Monday morning report at Burlington for duty.  Frank is a bright young man, and we predict will make an excellent clerk.

Monday Melange.  (Page 1)
--J. C. SINGER, New York, is here.
--J. D. VAN KIRK, of Chicago, is in the city.
--S. D. RUGGLES, of Chicago, is in the city.
--C. W. WOODFORD, Burlington, is in the city.
--Leroy JAMES, of Ithaca, New York, is in the city.
--L. L. WERTZ, of Lockridge, was in the city to-day.
--Mrs. E. S. HENN is visiting at Sioux City for a few weeks.
--There will be a meeting of the creditors of S. C. Farmer & Son at the office of C. E. Noble to-morrow . . . (unreadable) . . . 1:30 o'clock.
--Dr. BRADSHAW, C. E. NOBLE and J. B. MONLUX, who compose the committee appointed by the creditors, give it as their opinion, after looking over the report of the assets by the assignee of S. C. Farmer & Son, that the creditors will not realize twenty cents on the dollar of their claims against the estate.
--Two freights on the C., B. & Q. collided at Mitchell’s Crossing, between this city and Whitfield Saturday night, and twenty-one cars and the two engines were ditched.  A brakeman, whose name we did not learn, was killed.  We understand the fault to be the train dispatcher’s but that does not restore the life of the man or repair the damaged rolling stock.

A Card from Mr. Woolson.  (Page 1)
To the Editor of THE JOURNAL:
MT. PLEASANT, Nov. 19. – The county canvasses have been held in this congressional district, and the tabulated results have been published.  By the face of the returns the vote of this district gives Mr. Hall a majority of seventy four.
 Various irregularities and defects were found to exist in the several counties, and objections based thereon were presented and filed, or attempted to be filed, at the several county canvasses, to the end that a fuller and more deliberate consideration might be given them than was practicable during these canvasses.
 Some of these objections may be termed mere “technicalities,” while others reach far beyond that term as generally accepted, and directly involve the legality of the election itself in different precincts.  From different parts of the district it is suggested that if these latter were urgently pressed by me the election in several precincts must, under the laws governing elections, be declared to have been illegally held, the returns therefrom be rejected and the apparent result in the district changed.
 I have, therefore, deemed it my duty personally to investigate the grounds of these objections.
 Considered solely from the standpoint of law – of legal requirements – it cannot be denied, under the evidence obtained, that such radical defects exist, and in points so vital, as, that their existence highly jeopardizes, at least, the status of the election in the precincts affected.  These defects touch directly the legality of the election itself.
 Other objections, relating to the manner of holding the election and of certifying the returns, and commonly called “technicalities,” though well founded in fact, are mostly disposed of with little effort.
 The rejection of returns from any precinct must necessarily deprive many honest men of their votes.  Under no consideration would I accept such a result where, as a matter of fact, the actual voice of the voters is shown by the returns sent in.  The legal proposition cannot be questioned that a community is properly held responsible for official neglect or inattention on the part of officers it has chosen.  But if, notwithstanding such neglect, the returns forwarded declare the same result which would have obtained had this neglect not occurred, the objections to such returns include, in their full effect, more than consideration of mere points of law, and should be regarded accordingly.
 The honest intent of the voter is generally accepted as the controlling test, where the law does not otherwise imperatively require.  To that ascertained intent, intelligently expressed and fairly counted, our people are accustomed promptly to yield.  Such action is in complete accord with the spirit of our institutions.
 Having become satisfied that the defects and irregularities referred to have not prevented the voters from expressing, at the late election in this district, their desire as to representative in congress, and that the returns as canvassed give substantially the correct statement of the vote as cast – with the expressed concurrence of the district committee, I accept the result reached, so far as this question is concerned and leave to the consideration of such congressional committee, the fraudulent, illegal voting charged as practiced, and as overreaching the apparent majority returned.
 I desire to extend my most hearty thanks to the republicans of the district who so cordially supported the candidacy with which I was honored, and to the greenback and democratic friends who honored me with their votes.
 The principles of republicanism – firm, abiding, enduring – will survive the reverses of this year.  I believe they represent, more closely than those of any other existing party, the underlying, vital principles of our government.  And that the people will turn with renewed, intensified fervor to the republican party as presenting that which shall place us in a yet more exalted position among nations – shall extend to our citizens ample protection at home and abroad – and elevate and ennoble the character and standard of American citizenship.
Respectfully, etc.
JOHN S. WOOLSON.

Death of Capt. Jordan.  (Page 8)
Capt. Clement JORDAN passed away at 6 o'clock last evening.  Capt. JORDAN has been a resident of Fairfield since 1851.  He was born in Cumberland, Maine, March 25, 1794, and passed his ninetieth year last March.  In 1809 he went to sea a boy before the mast; in 1815 was promoted to first officer of the ship; in 1818, took charge of the ship James Monroe; was engaged in the West India, European and Southern American merchant trade; he figured conspicuously in the war of 1812 with the land forces and privateers; was taken prisoner twice during those troubles; followed the sea until 1836, then retired.  He was married June 12, 1820, to Eliza Dyer, who died in 1865.  He leaves four children – Emily D., Clement, A. Scott and Albert R.

Tuesday Tit-Bits.  (Page 8)
--I. B. WILDER, of Iowa City, is here.
--F. N. CHASE, of Cedar Falls, is here.
--Max STEMPLE, Burlington, is in the city.
--S. K. HOWE, of Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
--John F. LOEHR, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day.
--Max HAMBERGER, of Philadelphia, was here to-day.
--Joseph WEISBERGER, J. M. BARCLAY and C. B. CAUFFMAN, of Des Moines, are in the city.
--Miss Minnie SHAMP, of York, Nebraska, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joe M. WHITHAM.
--C. C. WHITE, of the flouring mills of Bridges & White, Crete, Nebraska, was in the city to-day.
--James HICKENBOTTOM is putting an addition – a second story – to his house on second north street.
--The Hawkeye, of this morning, says the wreck was at “Dead man’s Crossing, between Fairfield and Whitfield.”
--The brakeman who was killed by the “Q” collision Saturday night, was G. T. PHILLIPS, of Burlington.  He leaves a wife and one child.
--Rev. MCMACKIN returned last evening from Cedar Rapids, where he occupied the pulpit of the English Lutheran Church on Sabbath.
--Capt. Leslie BASSETT, the efficient, genial and accommodating postmaster of Richland, was in town yesterday, and favored us with a call.
--A change will take place shortly in the law firm of MCCOID, BRIGHTON & JAQUES.  We understand that Mr. MCCOID will practice law in Washington City at the expiration of his official term.
--Ed KENNEFICK returned from his three month’s sojourn among friends and scenes of his youth in the Old Country last night.  Ed says the first he heard of the failure of Farmer’s bank was at Davenport last night.

Wednesday Wanderings.  (Page 8)
--J. M. KILFOGLE, of St. Joe, is here.
--E. D. DANIELS, of Creston, is in the city.
--S. L. MURRAY, of Libertyville, called to-day.
--M. J. TAYLOR, and G. B. Satter, Burlington, were here to-day.
--W. C. SPAULDING and W. B. RICHARDS, of Chicago, are in the city.
--W. W. WEBSTER, the Marble man of Muscatine, was here to-day.
--To-morrow being Thanksgiving, no paper will be issued from this office.
--J. L. ALLWORTH, of Chicago, representing the Rumford Chemical Works, is in the city.
--Rev. C. S. MCELHINNY, of Chariton, is in the city to remain until after Thanksgiving.
--Union Thanksgiving services will be held at the Lutheran Church to-morrow conducted by Rev. Amass B. MCMACKIN, the pastor.
--Uncle Joe SIMPSON found a P. E. O. pin the other day, containing the initials of the owner.  The sister who lost it can have the same by calling at his residence and describing it.
--E. H. DAVIS, who has for the last three years resided at Brooks, Adams County, has returned with his family to this county, where he will reside hereafter.  He has leased the Lewis CHANDLER farm, 2 ½ miles northeast of the city.
--List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 25th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster:  Maud CRAFT, John CROSBY, T. COFFIN, V. H. DELANCEY, John HERMAN, Chauncey G. HOPKINS, Miss Lou LAMBERSON 2, John MCSOMERY, Mrs. R. OWENS, H. R. RIPPITH, Mrs. Charles ROOD, St. Clair & Watkins, William George SMITH, Emmet SMITH, George SPARY, Mrs. Gustafa STYCARNSTROM, Idea Se. . ?. . ., W. F. WOOLAND, Billie WILSON, W. WELLS, Miss B. R. WERDEN.
--The following is the programme of the Central Conference of the Ev. Lutheran Synod of Iowa, to convene in this city Tuesday evening December 2d in Pilgrims’ Ev. Lutheran church, of which Rev. Amasa B. MCMACKIN is pastor:  Tuesday evening – Sermon on Family Worship, Rev. G. C. HENRY:  Wednesday morning – Devotional Exercise; The Lay Element in Church Work, Revs. J. H. CULLER and J. W. KITCH; Question Box.  Afternoon – How Shall we Interest Children in Sunday School?  Rev. S. B. BARNITZ and Rev. S. RIDENOUR; Sermon by Rev. A. BELL.  Evening – Sermon The Relation of Church Members to the Sunday School, Rev. J. A. M. ZIEGLER, Thursday Morning – Devotional Meeting; Devotional Meetings:  Their purposes’ and Results, Revs. A. YETTER, B. F. HILLS and J. A. M. ZIEGLER.  Afternoon – Church Attendance, How Shall it be Secured?  Revs. G. S. HENRY, Josiah KUHN and J. H. CULLER; Business Session.  Evening – Church Members and Church Work, Rev. S. B. BARNITZ.  A cordial invitation is extended to all.