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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31

There is wisdom as we'll as wit III
some of Josh Billings sayings, the
following for instance: The art ov
becoming ov Importance in tie eye.
of others liz not tew ovsrrate ourseIf.
but tew cause them do to it. Fiattery
liz like kelone water, tew be smeit
ov, not swallowed. Living on Hope
liz like living on wind, good way to
get full, but poor way to get phatt.
Many people spend their tine trieina
tew find the hole whar sin got into
this world-iftwo men brake throupS
the ice into a mill pond, they had
better hunt for some good hole tew
get cut, rather than get into long
argument about the hole they cum
to fall in.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
DOWN THE SLOPE.

- .-z---=@t- ~
With Saessin-s OF that tiin4mcF day
" hen ere - slowly lift from clay
ON winged breath
But man advances; far and hi igh
His forces fy with lightning stroke:
IiI, worn with wears, his Nigov broke,
lie turns To die:
Wen 10 : he ln4s il sti life;
New Ininistration and new trust;
Along a happy Nay that just
Aside from strife.
And all day following friendly feet
That lead on brayely to the light;
As one walk downward, strong and bright
The slanted street
And feels earth's benedictions wide,
Alike on forest, lake or town;
Nor marks the slope-he going down
The sunniest side.
q, .ounteOus Natures ) everywhere
Pcrchance at least one need not fear
\ change to cross from your love here
To Gods love there.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
The Jobbing Flour Trade

The way in which the flour trade
j. conducted III cities, is attracting
the attention of millers throughout
the country. One writer complains
very bitterly, and justly, of fictitious
brands, charging that almost all of
the iobbers OF flour are in the habit
of removing the original brand, and
subs stituting one of their own. He
shows the injury this course does to
the miller, iii that uo matter how
good an article he may make, he
fails to establish trade for his
brand, and gets no credit for it. The
consumer also, iuasmuch as he buys
the flour under a fictitious brand, be-
longing 10 the jobber himself, does
not know what millers make to ask
for, is entirely at the mercy of the
dealer, and forced TO pay ut his dis
Gretiou.
Twenty-Five or thirty years ago,
heai-scraping was not known, and
fictitious brands were but little
dreamed of. II mill made good
flour, ii and some jobber's brand had
the credit. 1t should be So now
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31

SIR :. BAKER PASHA'S force for
the conquest Of the Soudan, Will
consist OF two regiments of infantry,
each 900 strong, one regiment of ir-
regulars, 600 strong, two regiments
o4 cavalry, each 450 strong, two light
oalterieS, and one heavy battegy--iil
a4I iore@ OF some $500 men. The
country Is difficult, and the climate
very damp and feverish. There i
no opposition TO be apprehended in
the Held, but it will be interesting to
see now Baker pasha, who Is no. Il
Soldler, handles his little army. He
mas power OF lie and death in his
sommand. We hope he has power
70 watch over his own life and
health.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31

A California butcher is described
as owning dogs enough to make an
Atlantic cable of Bologna sausages.
a man living four or a We miles from
Dayton was so frightened few days
ago by large dog scratching at his
door, which he took to be a burglar,
that ke tainted.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31

Our cotton crop of last year was
:, $50, sos bales, or a722 S57 900 pounds,
worth about S250, 900 200 in currency
This crop was grown on about 800, :
o1Hi acres. The whole cotton grow
ing area of the Union, leaving out
Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia, is
@2H $50, ,ii0 acres-so that the last
crop represents only about oue-sixth-
ieth of our land which can produce
cotton. The estimated number of
hands employed in making the last
crop is Slo, ,egS, Of whom one fourth
were white men. Our rivals in cot
ron growingare faIing behind.
Smyrna has Virtually abandoned the
business, Egypt, in 1865, produced
only les, ,oS5 bales against 4o4, Ali in
1865; India, in 1865, 40, $40 baies
against $40, CAS- in 1868.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
e OVER IS r R s

ID V r h = I : f 30 s
- requested to hand in tneir favcrs early
,,,. week a. possible.
1,r,l..rs Tor JOB work or -JvertisIEg, when
..,t ,,, nssh VIII receive As prompt attention
= r ,...l ;i,.- cs.lle.i "a person
t,t,,stisssi.rat- aot uufler contract intssi b.,
......ssi the length OF lime desired. or
vii be continued and onai ecu ia. s,,
.-,..f oGt
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31

One of the London theatres is adj
Eefused by twelve men who pace
the streets in costume, carrying on
their backs elegantly framed full
length portraits, in oil, of the mem
bers of the company.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-31
lob FRIr1'TW9

.e IS branches, neatly al rror'l ~ exc
.....i =, this office oa reasonable terms.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

JUsr1cE's CoURT.-Before Justice Mayhugh.
Alex. Roderick, Mexican or Californian,
bought horse Of John Kirkman for one hum
bred dollars. Not having the coin ready, Alex.
left huge bag of bullion about as big as three
bricks, that he represented TO be worth 81, 200
After he had left kirkman examined the bull
lion and found il to be n chunk of lead. He
forthwith entered complaint, and Sheriff Fitch
put officer Baugh on Alexis track. Baugh
found him about thirty.lve miles from town.
pointing towards Arizona. The Justice held
him to answer before the Grand Jury ON a
charge Of obtaining goods under false pre-
lenses.
Two Cinnamon kicked mp n row on the
street and received an invitation to leave SIS.
which they did, md departed.
Peter Gamble got in too much tanglc-foot
on Saturday night, got on his muscle and into
the station house about the same time. He
paid SD 80 for the fun and went his way.
W. ii. ST.. CLUE alias Tiger Bill. plead guilty
TO the charge of carrying concealed weapons,
and was fined Si2 90, which lac paid, undwcnt
his way.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

Mr.. p. W. JOHNSON, of Swansea, brought
down on Sunday three thousand pounds of
lead, the first shipped from the White Pine
Smelling works. Six thousand five hundred
pounds more will come down in "A few days.
Ihis lead contains large percentage of sill
Yer. -.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

NEW BUILDINGS keep goingup all over town,
large livery stable and hay yard is being
built Mt the lower end Of Commercial street by
Mr.. John George. Our lumber dealers are
constantly making additions 10 their stocks
We believe that Wilsey d Co. have the largest
stock and are doing tho best business. This
IL what would bc expected, for they advertise
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18
District Court proeeedins.-Aueu,, Term,

HON. GEO. d. KEESEr, JUDGE, PRESIDING.
The first term Of the District Court for this
district opened at the Opera House on Mon
day, at 10 A. On motion of ID. L. waldron.
warren Earll and j. II. Flack were admitted
10 lhe oar ana were appointed committee to
Hand, W: NJ. Gillespie. l. c. Gray and AIcGee
presented their names to the committee.
Nenire issued for trial jury, returnable on
day.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

Sheriff Fitch received telc,
graph dispatch yesterday dated ut Moran.
stating That man by the name of Hughes
shot and killed ono Dunn, on the 10th. in
Glover Valley. II is reported that Hughes is
on the way in TO give himself up. No further
particulars could be learned up the timo of
going to press
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

ELKo County GTASD JUHY.-Thc following
Grand Jury was impnnmclcd or Monday, the
10th. This is the first Grand Jury over called
in tho county: G. a. Griswold, j. ". Eplcv,
I. j. Henley, Ed. Scitz, NJ. Small. +. W. Lau-
mcistor, j. Il. Dali, John Day, +. IIoncymnn
), w. Elyson, George Scitz, Robert Carter.
Frank Denver, William Taylor, c. II. Shop
pard, III. Woodwork, A. j. Thompson
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

AN unknown man died in the County Hos.
pitnl on Saturday. lie wns brought to the
Hospital two days before from somo thrco
miles mp the river. lie had been sick about
two weeks when brought in and was wholly
unconscious from the time no arrived up TO
his death
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

oNALh lots OF gold dust from Montana. and
~ IRON rom Idaho, are daily purchased by +.
NJ Idor N Co, bankcrr, ut this place
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18
Read Ihi.,

~ had suffered for about Is months with chils and
fever; bottles Of Bristols sarsaparilla cured
me. Y. RANDALL. lone City.
with health ruined aud no hone Of recover 7 BE.
gan using Bristols sarssparilla and Pills. continued
ihc'r U.S. Tor months. and an nov quite welL"-GLo
lSGALr.-. Sacramento.
Il tried all the different Sarsaparillas. Bristols
alone relieved me ot constant succession OF boi's
and rustulcs. -. COLLINS, Portland, Oregon. -
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

NEW "mE.-Workmen began putting up an
additional wire on the Railroad Company's
line, on Monday.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

To THE LADrEs.-Dr, Mcigs wishes the Ia
dies Of Elko to overhaul Their linen chests and
see II they cannot find some old linen that will
do for bandagcs and dressings Tim, they would
nkc To contribute to the County Hospital.
Also old sheets md Hil such articles thut hive
become of but little use in the family. All
such things will bc thankfully received 10y the
Doctor and those under his care. Please re-
member the unfortunate
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18
Our Only Au,horiZed Agents:

T.v. JULIEN. Agent of the Pacific Union Express
Company. Is Agent for this paper at Winnemucca-
L. p FISHER. 20 and p New Merchants Exchange.
Is our only authorized agent In san Erancisco, CAL
HUDSON MENEr, Il Park Row. IL our sole agent
In New York City,
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

DANCER OF MIsCEGISATIoN.-Quee interro-
cations frequently come from Eastern passeu-
gers travelling for the first time to California,
and the innocent manner in which they are
got OIL make them go down with Il relish to
old stagers on this coast. The other day. on
the arrival of the west-bound train nj the De
pot, sharp-fcaturcd, quizzical. looking old
dame stuck her head out of "a window from "A
Silver Palace coach and, upon seeing large
number of our duslly aborigincs who gencr-
nlly collect upon the arrival of train. asked
Paul Moroney: why in the world they al
lowed those horrible Indians to run round
among the white women so indiscrimiratcIv?
Is there not great danger Of them all brcom-
ming white very soon if this is permitted z"
Evidently she does not entertain u very high
opinion Of the morals of our people.
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

SrSniY ScHooL.-Wc are glod to mote the
fact that We now have Sunday School Mr..
Cook deserves praise for his cHrriion in affect
ing so important n work The school is held
ut the Opera House every Sunday, giving the
little ones n chance to dress up and enjoy a
pleasant hour in reading the Scriptures aud
singing praises t. the Givor ~ nj good. A
moro appropriate place will be obtained ns
soon Ns arrangements for the necessary money
can he mnturcd
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

Mineral IIITI. DIsTUrcT.-We saw some
very rich rock from tlis district H. tho hand. Of
]. X. Suttcrl"y. The New Jersey Company
has been incorporated - work the lodcs aud
now have EiN men AZ work un their mines. \
large lot Of ore j. being SACKED and will ~,
forwarded To- Suu Francisco this week. The
SAY tina: this rock Is rs rich ~ s.!Iy that
has ever com" ont az Whit" Pine. \ mill is
Ia bc built Immediately
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

The sister of Fish, the Railroad King ofthe
East, passed through for California on sun
day. She is all woman, Fat, healthy and rs
jolly "as any other man" Anna Dickinson is
good i'll her line hut this bright and thorough
~ practical woman can knock the socks" of
from her IN commanding the admiration and
respect Of the public, and as for ralroading
Charley Croker can teach her nothing new
Her style takes out here because there is none
OF your simpcriug, false mOdesty about it,
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

OFFrcEEs Dunno and Woodbridge, Of the
New York police, passed through town on the
Nth with Marley alias "Roddy, the Black
smith" BY the way, this gentleman offiCiatcd
as ole of Dryers seconds ut the prize fight.
near this town, some weeks ago. He is under
indictment, for highway robbery in New York
The crime VAS committed three years ago and
his companions in the job went mp for six
years Mt the time. R"ddy Will probably get
chance to take the sen air down on the island
The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-08-18

Ia waters tho mineral qualities OF which will impar,
now life to the onorvaCd system and restore Youth
ful regeneration to the whole human organization
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
The Coming ship,

The ''coming ship" as the intended
rival of the Great Eastern is designated.
has at present been exhibited, in model
only, in San Francisco. It is to be of
the same size as the Great Eastern, ex-
cept that instead Of tWenty-eight feet it
will draw only eighteen feet, and it will
carry PrOpOrtionstely less tonnage. It is
designed to carry four times as msny
passengers as any present style Of ship,
and substitutes for hunks regular beds |;
it viii also give four times the space to
g state room. The San Francisco Times
says: The present mode Of bunking
passengers is unworthy of the age. Sea
sickness, if preventable By construction,
should be rendered obsolete. This
desideratum is attained in Thomas Sill.
ver's coming ship; it is secured by the
proportions of the ship; and by there
being 80 feet less of the hull out of the
water than in the Great Eastern, but
the motion is rendered almost inper-
eeptible by q new device. The state
rooms instead of being at the limits Of
the vessel are amidships, that is, along
the centre line of the ship, where the
roll is scarcely perceptible. The saloon
is to be 500 feet long, and clear of OBJ
structiou. It's not for dining. Instead
Of public table, there are to be two
restaurants at the extremities
the saloons. The ship will
sell passage only; the board being pay
able as meals are ordered. 1t IS con-
.emplated to carry second class passen- |
gers and third class in the same way
The present first class hunks viii be for |
bird class bertbs.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
The Penalty Of too Much
Brain Work.

DR.. Parker, of New York, recently
delivered alecturein that city, in which
he showed the evils proceeding from
the transgression of the limits Of their
physical powers by literary men, DC.
He saysi
HNo man can do head work faithfully
for more than four or five or six hours.
If that time is exceeded, all the phos-
phorus is carried of, and the man be-
comes irritable, broken down, and has
softening of the brain. ] have seen this
Overwork in lawyers, doctors, elergymen
and merchants, Who have worked the
brain ten hours. They have dropped
under the burden. You cannot violate
the law of God with impunity. Sir
Walter Scott did a large amount of
brain work in the day, but he did not
overwork himself. In his latter days.
however, he became pecuniarily embar-
rassed, and resorted to his literary pur-
suits to save himself; but he worked
too hard and completely broke himself
down. One of the best scolars ever
knew broke himself down in his young
er days, but he lived on to seventy,
though he could only work some four
hours day. After these hours he en-
gagged in vigorous exercises to keep him
out Of the house as much as possible,
and he continued one of the best pro-
fessoFs in the country"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
ABIamed Long Table.

The following, mark you, is Jim Pals
ley's uarratiye-don't you obserye-of
a nights adventure. One morning we
met him in the street. looking rather
melancholy, when he said:
Yesterday felt little bad, and.
mark you, went and took a small
drink; and that not improving my feel
ing, took another and auother, don't
you observe, and finally Igot a little
tight In the evening / went into the
country With a friend, mark you, and
thinking l would cool of, 1 took several
more drinks when l got there, don't you
observe; yet, strange to say, the more
drank the tighter l got, until went to
bed. During the night awOke, don't
you observe, and l couldn't imagine
where the mischief was, mark YOU
The room was as dark as Egypt. L
heard the clock strike two in some part
of the house, mark you. I became very
anxious to learn my whereabouts, don't
you observe, and for that purpose arose
from my bed, mark you, and after
stumbling over about dozen chairs
don't you observe, Icame to a table.
Now, mark you, IreAected that the
generality Of the apartments are a per-
feet or an OblOng square, don't you, OBJ
serve; and, moreover, that the geuer-
atty Of tables are square; and I deduced
from this, mark you, that by feeling
along the table until I came to a corner,
| could get off at right angles and reach |
a corner of the room, and by that guild
sd by the wall to roof or window,
don't you observe. Following out this |
Ldea, mark you, l began carefully to feel
along the edge of the aforesaid table, |
and finally gaining confidence, I went a |
title faster; the idea struck me that it |
was blamed long table, that could |
lot get to corner, don't you observe;
yet | persevered-and finally day broke, |
md when sufficient light penetrated
he apartment | saw, mark you, that / |
lad been following a blamed rouhd
able all night, looking for corner
lon't you observe"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
What Rum WiIIn0.

Some years ago, in one of the eoun-
ties Of New York, a worthy man was
decoyed into a licensed tavern and
tempted to drink until drunk. In the
Idehrium of drunkenness he went home
and murdered his wife in the most bar
barous manner. He was carried to the
Jail while drunk, and kept through the
night Awakening in the morning and
looking around upon the wall and see-
ing the bars upon the windows, be ex-
claimed;
Is this jailp
yes, you are in JAIL answered one.
what am here for ? was the earn
est inquiry.
For murderr was the response.
With still greater astonishment and
esrnestness, he inquired:
Does my wife know itP
Your wife know it9 said some one.
why, it was she you killed.
On this announcement he dropped
as if he had been struck dead.
Let It be remembered that the consta-
ble who carried him to jail sold him the
liquor which caused his drunkenness;
the justice who issued the warrant was
one of those who signed the license;
and the sheriff who hung him also sold
liquor and kept ten-pin alley.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
THE eREo1AN BEND.


Let's have the old bend, and not have the new,
Let's have the bend that our grandmothers knew;
Over the wash tub and over the ehurn,
That is the bend that our daughters should learn.
Let's have the bend that our grandmOthers knew;
Over the cradle like good mothers true;
Over the table, tthe family round,l
Reading the Good Book mid silence profound.
Let's have the bend that at church they did wear,
Bowling them lowly in meek, humble prayer;
Not sitting erect, with the modern-miss air.
With the Glove of bonnet just perched on on
hair.
Leave the camefhis hump-he wears it for use;
Leave the donkey his pannier-and cut yoursel
From fashions that lower, deform and degraded
To hide such deformity most of themma
Let our heads of false hair and hot yarn skeins b
shorn;
Let our garments be easy and light to be worn;
Don't shake in December and swelter in June,
And appear like unfortunates struck by the moon
Let's spend the time in things higher than dress!
Time that was given us to aid and to bless;
Time that is heeting and passing away;
o! let us work while we call it dayl
Let's have the old bend instead of the new;
Let's have the old hearts so faithful and truel
Away with all fashions that lower and degrade,
To hide some defOrmity most Of them madeI
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
Importance Of Punc1uaIlty

After much torturiug experience I
come to this, that nine in ten do not
know the value of time, nor the moral
ity of a promise. Why is not an en-
Igagement to meet me at nine O'Clock as
sacred as any bondl Why is not the
understanding that a church service or
a lecture commences at the given hour,
an acceptance on your part if you 90,
of an agreement and why are you false
TO it by your tsrdiness, and why are
you not bad friend because of all the
little miseries you infdelity entails
The world, intercourse, affection, great
affairs, little details are cursed; pros
psrity, temper, character, life ieopaTded,
lost by want of punctuality. Uupunc-
tual people are everywhere, and eYery-
thing encourages them. It is taken for
granted that nothing will be ''on time"
and so everybody holds off to insure it
The first ten miutes of a religious ser
vice are apt to be martyrdom to
preachers and punctual people. There
ought 10 be some oontrivance by which
the taFdy shall be made as uaconforta-
bic as they, and they might hope a
change. But in this world it too much
happens that a comfortable stoIidity
possesses the sufferings come upon those
who must take their comfort out in
doing their duty,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-03-26
Qoehp.
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND.


There are brighter skies than these, I know;
Lands where no shadows lie
Fields where immortal flowers bloom,
And founts that are never dryl
There are domes where the stars are never dim,
Where the moon forever CLEANS,
And the music breath of the radient hills
Sweeps over the crystal streams
For often I've caught in the time of sleep,
A gorgeous glimpse of this hidden keep
Away in the land of Dreams
When night lets down her pan of mist $50
On slender cords of air,
And the purple shadows of dying day
Are teeming eyerywhere- 1
While unseen fairies chant lay
In the hly's crimson cells, y
And the solemn voice of the harmless winds
Break up the dreary fells-,
know by the cry of my soul within,
There's place where they shut the gates.on sin,
And the God of glory dwells!
The wall of the wind, the rivers voice,
The arch of western hills,
The beauty spread over the living earth
In slumbrous twilight stills
The yearning of each human heart,
For holier, better cline,
A higher life than this mortal course,
Bearing the seal divine!
Ahl sure there must be beautiful land,
Where the white robed millions ransomed stand
Chanting their songs sublimel