Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-03
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS

CIa1SAGV tORoGOTUND IL Elm GEi.
Miss Anthony is tall, angular,
homely woman, with hatchet-face
blue eyes, gray-brown hair and an
unmistakable nasal twang. She
dresses with very poor taste, and
like Horace Greeley, looks as if she
had just jumped into her clothes on
hearing cry of fire, while occupy
ing a four-story bedroom in a
strange hotel.
Mrs. Stanton is a handsome. round
faced, jovial old lady of sixty-just
such Il person as one would select as
| the beau ideal of n kind-hearted
| grandmother, and the last enc in the
world whom p stranger would ac-
cuse ofany leaning towards women's
| rights-so-called. She is the supe-
rior OF Miss Anthony in culture, abil-
ity and general appearance, and was
the favorite orator of the conven-
/ ton.
The Western News Company is
following the example of many oil
our heaviest and best firms, and is
about to move into an elegant five
story marble front at I21 and 123
State street, the future Broadway OF
| Chicago. II is doubtful if there is
another house in the city that more
fully eXempliiies what pluck, perse-
verence and sagacity may 90 here
| than this same Western News Com
pany. 1t is but few years ago that
a very few dollars would have bot
the entire stock of Mr.. j r. Walsh,
the founder of the house and present
President of the Company, and now
1t Is the largest establishment of th9
kind outside of New York, with but
one rival in that city The Company
employs more than fifty persons,
and last year did business of nearly
a million dollars, sending all kinds
OF books, pamphlets. newspapers and
stationery into nearly every town
and hamlet in the West. The num-
Der of newspapers daily furnished to
country dealers by this house is as
tonishing, and often reaches as high
as fifty or seventy-five thousand
| From fifteen to twenty-five thousand
copies of Chicago papers alone are
daily handled by the Company.
| With the additional room and in
creased facilities afforded at the new
store, this business will probably be
increased, as well as the wholesale
trade IN books, stationery, &c. BY
the way, think many of your drug
| gists and other retail dealers might
find 1t to their advantage to combine
with their established business a
newspaper and stationery depot. /
am told the profits are quite large,
and such articles generally find an
early sale in any community. AS
| the Western News company deal di-
rectly with publishers, and handle
more goods than all competitors put
together, they can offer superior IA
cilities, and / would advise dealers
having room for such a branch OF
business i'll their establishments, to
send to The Company for "A circular
giving full information and instruc-
tons on this subject. The Company
also do very large business in for
eign literature, importing directly
from the publishers, and have many
advantages in obtaining rare works
of all kinds. OF course, a large sup
| ply of standard works, and every
thing new that is published, may al
ways be found upon the counters and
shelves of the Company.
| The packing season Is substan-
| TALLY closed with, and it is evident
| that the general business this season
has been much lighter than it was
last. The statistics rs to beef-pack-
ing have not yet been obtained, but
| those furnished by all the pork-pack-
ers of the city show that the total
number of hogs packed was 597 ,954
| head against Sol ,299 last year. The
unfavorable weather, the high price
of hogs and the scarcity of the crop,
are the reasons assigned for this fall
| ing off. 1t is said that all consum-
| ing markets in the country are very
lightly stocked with pork, and our
most reliable operators predict a con-
siderable advance in prices during
| the coming summer.
y wealthy citizen named Burr died
| the other day, leaving an estate
worth halfa million dollars, the bulk
of which he is said to have willed to
charitable institutions, leaving to
| his Only relatives, some nephews and
| neiccS, mere nominal sums. But
now that the old man is gone, his
VIII cannot be found, and there is
/ considerable talk of foul play in re-
gard to the matter. 1t has caused
no little talk and speculation among
| those acquainted with all the parties.
The legal representatives say they
will sick for their rights like Burrs
unless tie will is produced, and some
| friends of the deceased, who evident
| ly think the Gngers Of some one have
| already stuck loo tightly to the will
| offer a reward of one thousand dol
| lars for It's recovery. 'Where there's
will there's IA way"-open for a
! fight.
| The estate of the late stephen y
/ Douglas is to be brought before the
| CUU.t -, III uOuuCISSs rosuit in {,
lengthy litigation. Though he died
| poor, he held possession of encum-
| bered property now worth three
| million dollars. 1t is claimed that
there was fraud and collusion in the
| settlement of the estate, and an ef-
/ fort is to be made TO set aside the
! transfers and recover a portion ofthe
/ property for the benefit of his chill
! dren.
| The PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND
/ SILVER.-A recent number of the
| Bankers Magazine contains some in
| teresting statistics of the production
of gold and silver, ann the amount