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Fairfield, Iowa "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
Jefferson County
Vol. VI, # 50
Transcribed by Debbie Nash

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
  --Clayton TURNEY, St. Louis, is here.
  --W. A. TODD, Chariton, is in the city.
  --Henry WITTE, of Cincinnati, is in the city.
  --M. MAHALL, Canton, was in the city to-day.
  --Scott WASHBURNE, of Muscatine, was here to-day.
  --C. L. HAINES, of Liberty Mills, Ind., is in the city to-day.
  --Dr. N. STEEL, of Beloit, Kansas, has returned again to the city.
  --The Tribune says Johnny ACHESON has married a Keokuk widow.
  --L. A. PALMER, of Mt. Pleasant, will address the CLEVELAND and HENDRICKS club this evening.
  --A. W. JACKSON and wife, of Libertyville, were in the city last night visiting their daughter.
  --W. H. DAVIS and wife started yesterday to visit friends in Ohio for a few weeks. Geo. W. WHITE has charge of the store during their absence.
  --We acknowledge the receipt of a very pleasant call this morning from A. R. WICKERSHAM, now of Holton, Kansas, who stopped over on his way to Iowa City.
  --J. F. LOEHR, of Libertyville, was in town to-day. John says Libertyville is troubled because they are not to have the narrow guage. If that is all that troubles them they need'nt lose any sleep about it. Libertyville is fortunate.
  --George C. FRY, Chairman, is out with a call for a Greenback county convention to meet in this city on Saturday, October 18, to nominate candidates for the three county offices which will be filled by the republican nominees.
  --Hon. B. J. HALL, democratic candidate for Congress in this district, will address the people of Jefferson county, in this city on Saturday, October 11th, immediately following the adjournment of the democratic county convention.

Landscape and Decorative Painting. (Page 1)
Miss Minnie RHODES is engaged in Landscape, Portrait and Decorative Painting, in the CAMPBELL building, north of the Presbyterian church. She is prepared to fill orders from any one desiring her services, and will do her utmost to please those who patronize her. Call and see her work, and give your orders. She will continue to give instructions in painting to pupils, and give lessons from 2 to 5 o’clock, P.M. and will guarantee entire satisfaction.

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
  --Ed LINK, St. Louis, is in the city.
  --Fred TISDALE, of Ottumwa, is here.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON speaks to-night at Brighton.
  --Mrs. C. M. BILLS returned to her home at Kansas City to-day.
  --D. R. LILLIBRIDGE and wife, of Davenport, were here last night.
  --The C., B. & Q. changes time tomorrow. Our time card indicates the changes.
  --Frank J. DEMARSH, of Perlee, was in town to-day and favored us with a business call.
  --D. A. HOLT, representing the fine cracker and biscuit house of F. A. KENNEDY Co., was in the city to-day and favored THE JOURNAL with a pleasant call.
  --Mr. and Mrs. Ed HUNT are rejoiced over the arrival of a girl baby at their residence yesterday. As this is the first girl of four children, their cup of happiness is overflowing.
  --The Red Oak Record copies our notice of the TURNEY-McCULLOCH wedding and credits it to the Mt. Pleasant Daily Journal. The Record adds: "The Record extends its congratulations to this happy couple, and only wonders why it is necessary for young men in Red Oak to go a distance for partners, when there are so many good looking and accomplished young ladies at home."
  --The speech of L. A. PALMER, of Mt. Pleasant, last night, before the CLEVELAND and HENDRICKS Club of this city, was a clear and gentlemanly presentation of the democratic principles and measures of the campaign, and was panegyrized by republicans as well as democrats. Mr. PALMER is a speaker of whom it is a pleasure to hear.
  --Last evening was the fifth anniversary of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. BAKER, and a number of their friends made it the occasion of a surprise gathering at their residence. They carried with them quite a variety of presents both useful and ornamental, spent a pleasant and enjoyable evening, and returned home, leaving with the Doctor and his good wife many good wishes for their continued prosperity and happ----s. [Edge of paper folded up.]
  --We return our thanks to a couple of serenading parties who visited our residence last night and night before, and treated us to a profusion of that which it is said "hath charms to soothe the savage breast." The party Thursday night was composed of several couples of young gentlemen and ladies, who came at midnights holy hour, and aroused us from the sweet slumbers of the night, with some choice vocal pieces. The party that visited us last evening was composed of a number of young lads who, with instruments, rendered some most excellent music. Come again and give us some more.
  --The Keokuk Constitution has the following account of the ACHESON-MERSHON wedding: "The marriage of Mr. John H. ACHESON, of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific freight office, to Mrs. Sue A. MERSHON, occurred at the residence of the latter, No. 1017 Blondeau street, last Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock, the Rev. J. S. HOYT, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiating, in the presence of the relatives and a few intimate friends. After the ceremony a delicious supper was partaken of, after which the company proceeded to enjoy themselves in various ways until a late hour in the evening. Those present were Mrs. SCHONTZ, mother of the bride, of Burlington; Mr. and Mrs. I. SCHONTZ, of Burlington; Mrs. W. K. LUCAS, of Des Moines; Mrs. Frank WILLS, of Sedalia, Mo.; Mrs. C. A. CLARKE and Mrs. S. A. GARRETTSON, of Kansas City, Mo.; Misses Carrie and Lyda WEYAND, Sadie and Gladdie BECKER, Rebecca SPIESBERGER, Carrie KLEIN and Opal MERSHON, and Messrs. Dr. O. P. McDANALD, Ernest KRUSKOPF and J. F. POLLOCK." Among the presents, which were numerous, handsome and costly, we notice a horse and buggy, a bed room set and Picturesque Egypt, from Johnny to his bride; set toilet mats, Mrs. C. S. CLARKE; fine French clock, Mrs. GARRETTSON and Mrs. CLARKE; silver tea pot, Little Virgie CLARKE, Louise and Earl GARRETTSON; half dozen knives, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. McCRACKIN.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
  --R. W. DENT, of Chicago, is here.
  --August GOERTS, New York, is here.
  --Justice Simon C. FRY, of Libertyville, was in town to-day.
  --SMITH’s Swiss Bell Ringers and Comic Concert Company will be at the opera house on Monday evening, October 13th.
  --Eugene LEWIS, an attorney of Moline, Ill., was in the city last night on his way west.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON, republican candidate for Congress, was in the city to-day, making the acquaintance of a large number of his republican friends in this county. WOOLSON will get every republican, and a large number of democratic and greenback votes in Jefferson county. We wouldn’t be astonished if his majority in this county would reach six hundred.
  --There were union Bible services at the Presbyterian Church last evening, at which the officers of the Jefferson County Bible Society submitted their annual reports, and Rev. J. B. HARDY, who has recently canvassed this county in the interest of the Society, gave an interesting review of his work. Rev. HARDY said it was with genuine pleasure, and feelings of emotion that he appeared before a Fairfield audience, and contemplated the changes that had been wrought since he first entered this place forty years ago. He said in those times he received but fifteen dollars a year for preaching, and remembers he went 160 miles across the country to purchase a pair of boots.
  --The Keosauqua Democrat is just now enjoying the luxuries due all first-class, fearless local journals. It has been sued for libel by Capt. TWOMBLY, the republican candidate for State Treasurer, who claims $25,000 damages from the Democrat for giving the facts developed by an investigation of the county treasurer’s office of that county, Capt. TWOMBLY being a former county treasurer. We were going to comment on the probable final outcome of this innocent little piece of political buncombe on the part of the Captain, but the Fairfield Ledger, the oldest and according to its own notion the wisest paper in the State, has made that unnecessary, by deciding the case in advance of the courts. The Ledger says Capt. TWOMBLY will gain the case, but will not get $25,000. Perhaps the court will knock off the ciphers and call it "$25 and costs."

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
  --O. TUCKER, Philadelphia, is here.
  --N. KELLOGG, N. Y., is here to-day.
  --When will this cruel rain be over?
  --L. F. KARNS, Dixon, Iowa, is here.
  --G. G. HARROWER, Chicago, is in the city.
  --W. T. ROBINSON, Waterloo, is in the city.
  --E. A. TAFT, Chicago, was in the city to-day.
  --Park C. WILSON, of Des Moines, is in the city.
  --W. MATTHEWS, of Kansas City, was here to-day.
  --Hon. D. O. FINCH, democratic elector-at-large, will speak in this city Saturday evening, October 18th.
  --The Keokuk Constitution say it is not yet settled where Speaker CARLISLE will speak in the first congressional district.
  --Mrs. Bell RODGERS, of this city, and her sister of Chicago, are on a visit to their father in Ireland. They arrived at Castle Bar, County Mayowe (sic), Sunday.
  --Mrs. Joseph CORRETTE, (nee Miss Nellie FINLEY) of Grinnell, Kansas, a former Fairfield girl, is visiting in the city at the residence of her sister, Mrs. James SULLIVAN. Her husband is an extensive and wide-awake business man of Grinnell.
  --Hon. D. F. MILLER, of Keokuk, has tendered his services, in consideration of love and affection, to George F. SMITH, of the Keosauqua Democrat, to defend him in his libel suit. The democrats will get more political thunder out of that suit than the republicans.
  --The Keokuk Constitution has undertook to defend J. D. M. HAMILTON, of Ft. Madison, from the charges of corruption brought against him by the Atlantic Telegraph, as one of the trustees who located the new insane asylum at Clarinda. That is a contract much larger than the editor of the Constitution. If Dr. GEORGE gets Miller HAMILTON out of that scrape, he will have to drink more buttermilk.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
  --F. A. TISDALE, Ottumwa, is here.
  --C. A. McARTHUR, Auburn, N. Y., is in the city to-day.
  --F. KRAUSE, E. E. LEVY and Frank CLARK, of Chicago, are in the city.
  --W. S. MAYER, of Des Moines, of the Pension Bureau, was in the city to-day.
  --Carl LEOPOLD, M. A. L. JAGGAR and C. W. WOODFORD, of Burlington, were here to-day.
  --Neal JONES returned yesterday from a visit of several days with his brother at Cantril, Iowa.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON is announced to speak at Libertyville to-night, that little village with an "insignificant post-office."
  --Hon. W. F. SAPP, republican candidate for presidential elector, of Council Bluffs, will speak in this city Tuesday, October 21st.
  --Street Commissioner HIGLEY went to work this afternoon to repair the dam at the electric light works, which broke on Monday night.
  --Over two thousand people listened to the speech of Hon. John S. WOOLSON at Brighton Saturday night, says the Washington Press.
  --Hon. Charles BEARDSLEY, Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, will address the people of Fairfield, on the political issues of the campaign from a republican standpoint Friday evening, October 10th. The ladies of Fairfield will make this the occasion of a presentation of a beautiful memento to the BLAINE and LOGAN club.
  --List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Oct. 7th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: J. ANTWINE, Mrs. M. H. BENNETT, E. BAUMM, J. J. BEUDELL, W. M. BLOSS, Matilda CUNNINGHAM, Dora CONNER, Orlando E. FLOWERS, Laura GRAMMAR, A. G. KING, John JOINT, Mrs. ROSEMOND, Mrs. RENO, Dollie SEEMONS, John WILSON.
  --Capt. W. T. BURGESS, of this city, was at Brighton Tuesday night and addressed the BLAINE and LOGAN club. A citizen of Brighton says no better speech has been delivered there for years. It was clear, forcible and eloquent, free from slang and abuse, and the audience was delighted. Had the weather been favorable a vast crowd would have greeted him, for no speaker can draw a greater crowd on as short a notice in that section.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
  --E. CLARK, Peoria, is in the city.
  --E. T. KIGGINS, New York, is here.
  --C. W. STONESIFER, Lincoln, is here.
  --M. BOSWORTH, Topeka, is here to-day.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON is in the city.
  --Thomas B. TUTTLE, Carthage, is in the city.
  --L. J. MURPHY, New York, was here to-day.
  --Charles S. VINCENT, of Davenport, is in the city.
  --J. L. KNOWLES and wife, of Burlington, are in the city to-day.
  --F. A. HASKIN and H. E. MEYER, of Chicago, were in the city to-day.
  --John W. PALM, the able editor of the Mt. Pleasant Journal, is in the city.
  --Hon. B. J. HALL, democratic candidate for congress in this district, was in the city last night.
  --A Butler speech is advertised for the Court House to-night, by Samuel CROCKER, of Columbus Junction.
  --Rev. A. B. McMACKIN, J. A. SPIELMAN and Joe BRADLEY are attending the Lutheran Synod now in session in Des Moines.
  --Col. R. ROOT, of Keokuk, deputy U. S. marshall, is in the city. The Colonel is anxious to bet $100 on WOOLSON’s election before he leaves town.
  --The town has not yet been "painted red," but the Red Front of J. E. ROTH & Co. has been painted more brilliantly brilliant, and it now sticks out like the headlight of a Rock Island locomotive.
  --The judicial convention held at Sigourney last week, nominated I. D. JONES of Fairfield for candidate for Circuit Judge in this judicial circuit. Mr. JONES is a good lawyer and a clean man, who would do honor to the bench if elected.--Washington Democrat. All of which THE JOURNAL endorses.  This judicial district does not possess a better or more competent man for the place than Isaac D. Jones.
  --The sheriff’s jury to set damages for right-of-way of the narrow guage thro’ the Jefferson county poor farm, met on Monday and assessed the damages at $590 or at the rate of $200 per acre. This is considered excessive and the company will undoubtedly appeal.--Birmingham Enterprise. $590 is a good deal of money for the impecunious, wheel-barrow road, which manages to get a train over their route every full-moon, to whoop up. They expected to get the right-of-way for 75 cents, which would have been within their means.

LIBERTYVILLE. (Page 8)
  A meeting of the township trustees was held here Monday morning for the purpose of settling with the road supervisors.
  The Hon. M. A. McCOID is to address the people at School House No. 8, Des Moines township, on the questions involved in the present political contest, on Thursday evening, Oct. 9.
  The hard rains during the past week have been attributed to the fact that Dr. HAYDEN is moving. Why this should cause any commotion of the natural elements of the atmosphere is beyond comprehension.
  Hon. John S. WOOLSON, of Mt. Pleasant, candidate for congress in the first district, is expected to address the BLAINE and LOGAN club of this place upon the political issues of the day, on Wednesday evening, Oct. 8.
  William HAGUE, who has been visiting for several days past at the home of his father, A. G. HUGUE (sic), left Monday morning for Hastings, Nebraska, where he expects to settle in the practice of law. The best wishes of his friends accompany him.
  There is considerable interest manifested in this community upon the final result of the election, and some of the more hopeful ones are backing up their opinions by the "root of all evil." The betting seems to be about equal between BLAINE and CLEVELAND. It will be a wonder if some one is not left.         NEMO.