Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-31
NEW YORK LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent

1
a great deal about Gen Grants indie
pendence before the Inauguration
! and declared tl,at he would make his
appointments 10 suit himself, in
which lac was highly applauded, now
that he Is actually doing So 10 some
extent, are as dissatisfied as any.
| There Is probably more q. satisiIc-
ton in the West at this coulse than
IN >he East, because the President
| has greater personal acquaintance
there than he has here, and needs
| advice less. Being outside OF any
political ring, | shall be satisfied +
| the appointments are such as shall
| bring III the greatest amount OF rev.
enuc. Congressional recommended
tions are not to be slighted, when
| unselfishly made, but when mem
Der is always looking toward re-
| election III his recommendation
there can, be no harm in overlook
| ing his advice.
| NEW YORK EDITORS.
y Boston paper has been collecting
statistics Of the New York editors
and publishers, which SHOWS that
printers ink and poverty don't al
| ways so together. Saying nothing
of James Gordon Bennett's princely
estate, the writer reports $. III. Wales,
of the Scientific American, as the
proprietor of u brown stone front
worth Sio0,000 Whitney of Cauld-
well Il Whitney, publishers of the
Sunday Mercury, has another such,
worth $'75, 900; Smith, of the Weekly,
| is similarly well ''GXei;" and Man
tom Marble, of the World, who ten
years ago was nobody, has Just NOV
ell into his SS0,00e house on Fifth
| auenue.
SCARLET FEVER
has prevailed to an almost alarming
extent III and about New York dur
ing the past winter. Though it has
not been of Il viruient type, many
deaths have occurred. 1t has been
mainly confined to children. The
open, changeable weather-of the past
| ten or twelve weeks has been par
ucularly conducive to sickness, and
1T Is IA wonder to our physicians that
more cases have not been reported
| y ST. LOUIS ADVERTISING AGENT.
SItwell Harris, manager of the G..
| w. Advertising Company, of St.
| Louis, appeared to-day before Judge
Downing, at the Toombs, and procur-
cd warrant for the arrest of j. III.
WlnsloW ~ Co., who carry on a bogus
! JcWelry establishment at POS Broad
| way, n. Y, for defrauding them.
The company have advertised Wins
low y Co. i'll los papers without re-
cciving pay.
Advertising agents as we'll as news
paper readers Will do well to beware
OF this class OF advertisers.
STINK TRIUMPHANT.
y few days ago the citizens OF Hud-
son City and Bergen appealed TO the
courts, asking that the Lodi Manu-
featuring Company be compelled to
remove their works. The company
| make abont 200 busels per dav of a
well-known fertiliZing manure. The
/ composition of poudrette consists of
various kinds of refuse. One of the
chief articles is the night soil OF New
\ ork city, for which the company
have the contract for ten years. 70
this is added the refuse of the Com
munipaw abattoir, and quantity of
bones, all shipped up the Hackensack
river to the factory wharf. The bones
are next ground in mill, then mix
ed with the other matters, and all
laid out under the sun to dry, every
breeze waiting the odor to the dwell
ings in Bergen and Hudson cities.
Last January, the company, con-
sldering the process of drying by the
sun rather tedious, had the LIQUID
mass thrown into a kiln, for the pur-
pose of speedier drying; but the
stencil arising was SO great that the
people in the adjoining cities, living
several miles away, had to close their
doors.
1t has been decided that the people
OF those cities must submit to the
stencil with the best possible grace.
MIR. SINCLAIR ToUsEY
has recently returned from Euro
pean tour, and is writing lively let
ters on what he saw, for the Evening
Mail, which IS, by the way, one of
our best dailies. Mr.. Tousey's letters
are different from those of any trav-
eler we have read, and if published
III book form would be more reada-
BILE than most books of that charac-
ter.
RIVALRY AMONG THE PUBLISHERS.
The reading public is faring sumpt-
uOusly just now on the rivalries of
the publishers, especially those of
the Harpers and Lippincott. Incon-
sequence of these we have from Har-
per preposterously cheap, but not
poor editions of Bakers thrilling and
popular story, Cast Up by the Sea" !"
Dilke's valuable sketch OF English
speaking nations in his "Great Bri-
TAIN" Hepworth Dixon's charming
and curious book on "Her Majesty'S
Tower" full of interest for the glinlp-
ses 1t gives of many 4 noted person
and many an absorbing incident in
English history. And Fields, Os-
good u Co, stimulated by HaTper's
cheap edition of Charles Reade's
Hard Cash" have just issued 25c.
edition of Foul Play" and proba-
bly, hold themselves in readiness to
do more in the same direction if the
Harpers show signs of continuing
this game. If the publishers could
only stand this sort of thing, it would
he as good for the reading public as
"a return to specie payment.
THE PRESIDENT IN CHRoMo-LITHo-
GRAPH.
Messrs. Fabronius, Gurney & Son.
1o7 broadway, have published "A
chromo-lithograph of Gen. Grant
and other prominent gentlemen,
which will, of course, have their sea-
son with the Velocipede and other at
fractions OF the times,