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FAIRFIELD, IOWA "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Vol. VII, Issue # 3
Transcribed by Debbie Nash

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 Tuesdry. 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 orror 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 CIEVELAND 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 [Ed. note: 'e' in change is inverted.] 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. Every 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 rdturn, $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 n 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 yor 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. ‘T is 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 publlc 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 stapleand (sic) 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
WOOSSON’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.