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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

The Doom OF PRIMoGENITrR RE-
\ mother bulwark of British aristoc-
racy is threatened by the Liberal
iconoclasts s-the law of primogeni-
ture. That is said 10 be the next
point of attack, as soon as the Irish
church disestablishment bill Is pass
ed, which, in all probability, will be
this month. The law of prim0geni-
ture is relic of Norman feudalism,
aud Was a contrivance expressly ln-
vented 10 prevent the minute distri-
tuition of real estate. 1t ~ wholly IN
the interest of the arisfocfacy, anu
iniIaical to the interests OF the peo-
pie. This law provides that Il man 5
eldest son shall inherit ali his real
property, and If he has no sons, the
estate il transferred To the next male
relative, leaving the deceased man 5
v lie and daughters in poverty The
law is oppressive to children, olher
than first-born, and deletsrious in the
last degree TO the nation nj large
The only wonder is that the English
people have SO long acquiesced IN It's
thornhty. As they are getting the
apper hand now, We think they will
not aeguiesce much longer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

A FUSNY ANEcDoTE.-Gen
Slocum, in his lecture on the "Mili-
tary Lessons of the War" tells the
following story in his reference to the
battle of Bull Run:
The influence of our officers over
the men, and the state of discipline, IL
best illustrated by an incident which
occurred on the field in the heat of
battle. An officer, who has since be-
come very prominent and we'll
known throughout the country, was
then in command of u brigade OH the
right of our line, While riding over
the Fl I'D he discovered soldier con-
cealed in hole in the ground which
was Of just sufficient dimensions to
afford him shelter. The General
rode up To him, inquiring as To his
regiment, and ordered him to join it
at once. The man, looking him full
in the face, placed his thumb upon
his nose, and replied No you don't,
old fellow, you want this hole your
self -
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

To TELL THE ACTUAE VALUE or
CoWS--Thc American Stock Jour
nal in reference to the su ject says: f:
Now We can go into dairying
neighborhood, and point to farmers
who'are losingfrom two to three thou
sand dollars a year by keeping cows
yielding two hundred pounds of but
Ter a year, instead of those that
would yield from five To six hundred
pounds in the time. How many
dairymen can tell the relative value
nf each cow of his herd by actual
test. There il a little Instrument
for this purpose that don't cost much;
hut very few dairymen know any
thing about. 1t is called "Ldet0niet-
e." constructed by placing a nam
Der of glass tubes, of equal length
aud diameter, in "A wooden frame,
The milk from each COW is pi.,ced in
some of these glass tubes there they
stand side by side, ana yoG can see
the de- IN OF cream that rises in each
tabe, representing a certain COW and
estimate her relative value thereby
These Instruments are kept for sale
IN Philadelphia and other cities.
Might not our farmers profit by
the above item"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

HERE are Mrs. Stanton's eXpecta-
uons of the next two decades -
Twenty years Why, | expect to
be walking the golden streets of the
New Jerusalem by that time, talk
ing with Noah, Moses and Aaron
about the Hood, the Pharaohs, the
journey through the Red Sea and the
Wilderness. We shall be holding
conventions by that time on the
banks of the Jordan with Eve, Sar-
ah, Rebecca. II Huldah, Miriam, Ruth,
Naomi, Sheba, Mar, Esther, Eliza
beth and Tryphosa, and all the
strnng-minded women, honorabiy
mentioned in sacred history. Do you
not know that | have vowed never
TO go disfranchised into the Kingdom
of Heaven? In the meantime, 1 eX-
pect Ia discuss sanitary and suanptu-
AIRY laws, finance aud free trade, re-
ligion and railroads, education and
election, in the councils of the Amer
lean Republic. Twenty years, Why,
every while male in the nation will
lie tied TO an apron string by that
time, While all the poets and phiios-
ophers Will be writing essays on the
Sphere Of Man -
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
Changes in the Usages of Trade.

One great change that has taken
place in the usages and course OF
business Is In the lessening difference
between the amount of the trade OF
different seasons of the year. This
fact has hardly yet received the re-
cOgnitiOn it deserves, and people still
talk of the spring and fall trade just
as they did ten years ago, when ev-
cry considerable merchant came to
the city just twice year, and all at
the same time, to buy enough goods
to last till his next semi-annual visit.
This is not the way now, every body
knows and that it will never be the
way again, we think we will show
before this article is done. Let no
one hope again to see the large or
ders an 1 long credits-for they go to-
gether of the "gOOd old times :"
they ;-re gone forever, and we at
least have no desire to see them
back again.
The spirit of modern improve
ment is responsible for the change
by means of railways andtelegraphs;
of splendid illustrated price lists, and
numerous circulars !; of travelling
statesmen and newspapers and more
perhaps, tlian all of the cash system.
Instead of large orders every spring
and fall bought at long credit. we
have smaller purchases made all
through the year, of such goods as
are from time to time needed, to be
paid for in cash, thus making
a steadier and more healthy trade.
During the war credit was to a
great extent abolished, and since, in
this part of the country, has been
looked on with no favor. AS a matter
of course, in this state of things,
people only buy as they are able to
pay for their purchases and as few
are able TO pay eachfor a six months
supply-and those who are able do
choose tO-they buy little more at
the spring and fall than at other
seasons. Price lists and circulars,
and every convenience for ordering
by letter just when he needs the
goods, make this to the obvious in
terest of every merchant. Beside,
travellers are going over the country
all the time, and it is well known
that goods can very often be bought
cheaper of them than at the office
from which they come. The ease
and cheapness with which goods, es-
pecialiy of the more valuable kinds,
can now be sent in small quantities
at any season, by express of fast
freight lines, is another considera-
ton that has aided to produce this
change. TO so fine system is all
that reduced, that there is little
more trouble in sending case
of goods thousand miles, it may
be, then there is ia sending letter.
Il The Iron Age.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
Rejection of the Alabama Treaty

IOiH tiic NeW lOTh w OrlQ-
The all but unanimous rejec-
ton by the Senate, OF Mr..
REvERDY JoHNsoN's Is treaty for the
settlement of the Alabama claims,
will surprise nobody who has watch
ed the current of American feeling
on that subject since the treaty was
made public. The almost universal
tone of popular sentiment in
any concessions on this subject or
abating any part OF. the claims origin
ally urged by Mr.. ADAMS in his
able communication to the British
government. 1t is not merely the
strength Of our case, however, which
makes our people SO infiexible. The
necessities, or supposed, necessities,
Of our domestic politics enter very
largely into the determination of
our public men, and render it inn
probable that any settlement will
ever be reached unless the British
government shall concede all, or
nearly all, that we have ever demand
ed. No political party wishes to go
into national election with the
Irish population of the country uni
versally hostile and indignant. This
class of citizens have, as general
rule, voted almost unanimously
with the Democratic party but the
impetuous patriotism which hurried
so many of them into the war,
where they were conspicuous for
headlong bravery has encouraged
the Republican party to hope that,
by adroit appeals to their military
recollections and fostering their hat
red to England, it may divide the
Irish vote. In the fervor of the
Fenian excitement, most of the Re-
publican Journals and leaders OPEN
ly famed the flame. The Fenians
constantly held up the depredations
of the Confederate cruisers which
were lifted out with the conniVance
of the British government, as a
means of enlisting the general senti-
ment Of the country i'm favor of tire
Fenian cause and by this means
the prosecution Of the Alabama
claims has become so entangled with
the Irish feeling that no political
party will dare to settle them!except
on a basis Of pretty rigorous justice.
Concessions are quite out af the
question, because our England-hat-
ing Irish citizens hold the balance
of power in this country, and will
vote against any party that consents
to lower our just demands. 1t is
idle to reason upon any prospect of
settlement, if this powerful and eX-
acting element be left out of view. No
party can consent to receive any
thing less than justice without com
mitting political suicide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
Fitz-Greene Halleck

Among the notable people who
visited New-York in 1887 was we'll
| hammered but somewhat silent
young man, who was landed at Nor
folk, Va, from French frigate, in
the month of March, and upon whose
cards were engraved Prince Louis
Napoleon Bonaparte. During his
two months sojOurn in New-YOrk
Halleck became well acquainted
with him, meeting, "the pretender
TO the French CROWN" as he was
then styled, often in society, and
| having seat next to the Prince at
cellOr Kent. Times change, says
| the Latin proverb, and persons
change with them. How astonish-
ed old George the Third would have
been had any one shown in a mirror,
like that of Cornelius Agrippa, such
| vision of the future as his grand
daughter being on visit to the
nephew OF man whom in his day
English satirists were accutomed to
ridicule asa little COrsican sOldier!n
Relating to the poet my having seen
Victoria leaning OH the arm of Louis
Napoleon as they entered, with Eu-
genie and Prince Albert, the Grand
Opera at Paris, he remarked "'Tis
indeed strange. l thought him a
| dull fellow, which he certainly was
while among men, but sprightly
| enough when surrounded by young
I-ladies. He would sometimes say,
| When / shall be at the head of
| affairs i'm France or, when become
Emperor and then looked upon
him as being as mad as Il March hare,
or as my poor friend Mcdonald
Clarke" To Alfred Pell he said of
the prince, that he was "a rather
dullman of the order ofWashington."
A lady friend of the poet remembers
Mr.. Halleck describing him 'as a
person who never looks you in the
| face, and who always drops his eye
| if an individual in turning Suddenly,
| detects him looking at you )" adding,
| on her own part, that "the Emper-
| or still has the same disinclinatiOn to
| looking any one square in the face"
The poet and prince exchanged din
| ners, the latter dining with Halleck
at Villegranh's, while he was enter
tanned by Louis Napoleon at
| the City Hotel. When Napoleon be-
! came Emperor, and confessedly the
first statesman of Europe, until his
laurels as such were somewhat dim
| med by the Prussian Bismarck, the
poet was often asked for letters of
introductioG to his imperial friend,
but, with his characteristic diff
dence, declined Obtruding himself
| upon the notice of the Emperor, tho,
however, to this day retail MS a
kindly remembrance of his poet
friend. .[-Wilson's Life of Halleck.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

JOHN STUART MILL.-At the age
of not more than eighteen he wrot c
"a series of articles for the Westmin-
ster Review, which attracted much
attention, and were attributed 10
some of the ablest writer's OF the
day. He began with peppering the
Edinboro for its notions upon gov
eminent and political economy,
when that journal was in its glory,
and Jeffrey and Sidney Smith were
fitting against "a world in arms'i
and confident of course. But the
peppering soon became a cannonade,
and after the batteries were PLANTED
and the guns i'll position, and the
brave boy had got the range, he
poured into the eneny's works such
u shower Of shot and shell-hot they
were, too, red-hot-that they were
obliged TO abandon their entrench-
ments, and take a position in~the
rear.-FrOm "PhantasmagOria,n i'm
chronological Journal for April.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

LIST OF PATENTS Issued from the United
states Patent Office the week ending April
l3, 1869, and each hearing that date; officially
reported through the Western Patent Agency
of Ilerthel 4 Co, Patent Attorneys and So
licitors, opposite the Pestonice. Third St, Mo
ILLINOIS.
f. w. Hewitt Geo. Gorham, Pecatonica
Seeder and Cultivator.
Benj. F. Masters, Middleport, Plow.
Andrew Runstetier, Peoria, Corn Planter.
VIM. Emmons, Sandwich. Horse Rake.
James Armstrong, Jr., Eimira, Guard At
tachment for Cultivators.
AmaSa Foot, Assigner, &c, Earlvile, Uar-
vester.
Thomas Moore & +. II. Day, bloomington,
linking Apparatus for color Printing.
IOWA.
James b. Sexton, Assignor. &c. Pelia, Gull
tiyator.
Thomas Smiley, Abba, Tool for shaving the
edges OF the soles OF Boots and Shoes
MISSOURI.
Moore Hardaway, st. Louis, Bolt Machine
James O'Conner, Jackson, WheelwrightMa-
chine.
Is Il. Williams, Laciede, Harrow.
Elijah Young Fayetteville, Seed Planter.
KANSAS.
Abram g jacques, Leayenworth, Wagon
Brake and Tongue Support.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
AnOutrage Experimentation Mar
riage,

From the Lafayette Qndl Courier.
A young fellow, who resides in
Knox county, had for some time
been paying his addresses to young
lady at Nincennes, made a prOpoof, !
of marriage and was accepted. In
accordance with mutual agreement
made by the parties, they went to
that city to get married. The young
man left the girl at the hotel to go
and get the license, aud a minister
to marry them. In due time he re-
turned with two men, one of whom
he introduced as Baptist minister,
who asked the couple if they were
ready, and, on receiving an aflirma-
tive answer went through the mar
riage ceremony. The honeymoon
went s'merry as a marriage-bell'
until the next day, when the happy
couple arrived at the girls mothers,
when the gay deceiver informed the
object of his deceit of the true
state of affairs aud bid her adieu.
The fiend of this gross and glaring
outrage is permitted to walk the
streets of Vincennes with a boastful
air as if he had subdued an empire,
while the physician of the outraged
girl So . that she Is lying at her
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

In Pennsylvania the question oi
women holding office is about Ia be
given practical solution, without
touching at all upon the ground TAX
Ell by those opposed ta,or indifferent
about woman suffrage. Miss Maria
l.. Sanford. a young lady WHO has
been teaching q public school i'll
Chester county, is urged for County
superintendent of Common Schools.
There is nothing in the laws of that
State preventing woman from
holding the office, and she is strongly.
supported for the position.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

Ii IL said that the reason Why the
Chinese are so unalterably opposed
tn railroads is the peculiar burial sys-
tenn which prevails there. As there
are no public cemeteries, the dead are
inferred wherever it is most conven-
lent, and owing To the great antiqui-
" of the empire the territory has
become one vast burial ground. 1t
would be almost impossible Ia lind a
route for a railroad that would not
disturb some graves, and this the
Chinese woald by no means permit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

Henry Gardner, of Franklin, n.
H., has fountain upon his land
which is supplied by so powerful a
spring that its stream has not frozen
during the winter. 1t is located on
the brow of "A hill. The fountain has
become, 10y constant congealing, All
immense mass of ice twenty three
feet high and fifty feet in circumfer-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
The rapidity with which PLANTA

TIoS BITTERs have become q hoUs sholl ncocs :
sity throughout the civilized nations, is with
Out = parallel in the history of the world. over
i've million bottles were sold in twelve months
and the demant Is daily increasing Rich and
poor, yonng and old, ladies, physicians and
ctergymen, fn,t that IL reyiyes dropping spir-
IFS. lends strength to the system, yigor To the
mind, and IS exhausted nature great restorer
Ii Is compounded oil the choicest roots and
herbs. the celebrated Caiisaya Peruvia
Bark, etc. all preserved in pure ST. (ro;X
Rum. Ii Is sold by all respectable dealers in
every town, parish, village am; hamlet through
Norts and South Ameriea. Europe, and All the
islands of Tie ocean.
MAGNOLIA WATER--Superio 10 the bcsf i'm
ported German Cologne, and sold at hall the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

A Hibernian dress-maker i'm De-
troit was giving some ladies u recipe
for making mock cream, which she
pronounced a very superior subsiti-
tnte for the real article. In order TO
prove her assertion, she told of
grand wedding where it had been
served, and said, MANY took it in
Dxeference 10 the zeal .cxeaxsa-uunnt
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

In consequence of the fears grow
ing ont of the lynching operations In
Seymour, Ind AN ordinance has
been adopted which forbids any per-
son To stop there for more than two
days without some regular employ
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

gull struck its talons into fish
Oh the Potomac, the other day, but
vas unable either To bear il away ON
account OF its weight or to loosen
itself from its prey. After Il long
struggle the bird Was exhausted,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

In Pennsylvania, to furnish poison
to any one with the purpose of en-
abling him to commit suicide, Is 10
become an accessory before the fact To
a murder in the first degree, aud the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
.DVERTISERS

"a y ~ = y z ~ y
Are requested to hand In their iavors as early
u, th.. week as possible
an orders Tor job work or advertising, when
sent hy mail, will receive as prompt attention
j 4 parties called in person.
Advertisements not untier contract must be
,,,aipty marked the length of time desired, or
,bay will be continued and charged for till or
a rcd out.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

Loring, of Boston, has published
another of Horatio Alger's books for boys, en-
titled "Mark, the Match Roy 1t is COM
panion book OF Ragged Dick and Fame
and Fortune
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

Two Chinese villages were destroy
ed, recently, by the English fleet, ia
Chiness waters, in revenge for the i'll
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

Messrs. o. ID. Case 81 Co. have
just issued The American Year Book for
1859 1t contains just the information which
everybody wants hundreds of times year and
sells with unparalleled rapldty. even among
those who seldom look at . Subscription Book.
Nearly every family Will buy it, and it Will be
found about as great a necessity among al.
classes as the daily or weekly newspaper. -
Agents wanted. Send for circulars and full
information. o. ID. CASE 4 CO., Publishers
Hartford, Conn, Cincinnati, O., and Chicago,
Illinois.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
PAoKARD's Monthly for May has

PAoKARD's Monthly for May has
Chapter about Old Maids, by Alice Carey
Spasmodic Literature, by Edwin De Leon; Ed
ucation. by Horace Greeley; Hackmen the
World over, by Thomas w Knox; Song OF the
Anvil, by e Shepard; Seeing Snakes and get
ting to Heaven. by j A Sperry; An Appeal on
Behalf of Animals, by Geo w Bungay; Iiospit-
al "reminiscences; A Fenan Leader, by Rich
ard Yates; Woman's Beauty; Domestic Infe-
iieties, by Oliver Dyer; A Bachelors View
OF Babies, by Junus Henri Browne. ST. per
ahum. SsPackard, publisher, New York.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

LADY's FRIEND for May has an
amusing steel plate called The FIRST Visit The
colored fashion plate Is unusually brilliant. A
variety of we'll chosen illustrations present in
the most attractive light the present picturesque
fashions. The lovers OF fancy work will find
this department attended to. In literature,
Mrs Moulton leads oil with the Story of an Old
Young Man; Mrs Wood continues her story
and Miss Prescott, Julia Ward Howe, and
other prominent writers, have interesting arti-
cles. Deacon Peterson Philadelphia s., so
year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

:, all its branches, neatly aud promptly xe-
,.ntrt Al this Office on reasonable terms.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

GoDEY's Lady's Book for May is
very attractive. The embellishments consist
OF Steel Plate; Colored Fashion Plate Six
genuine fashions. a page of fancy work,
printed in blue; the regular extension sheet,
containing Al engravings. The Last Dodge: a
Street Scene in Philadelphia. Chignons and
Coihnres; engravings. The work department
Is embeilished with the usual number ofuseful
and fancy articles. In the literary department
VIII ne found articles from several Eof the best
writers in the land. So per annnm. Address
l. a Cooley, Phila.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05
LITERARY NOTICES.

GOULD d LINCOLN, of Boston
Mass. have the Annual of Scientific Diseoy-
cry or, Year Book of Facts III Science and
Art, for 1869, :. hibiting the most important
discoveries and improvements in Mechanics,
Csefni Arts, Natural Philosophy. Chemistry,
Astronomy, Meteoroiogy, &c. together with
list of recent Scientific Publications. Obitua-
ries of scientific men, etc. Edited by Samuel
kneeiand, NJ. D., Fellow of the American
Academy OF Arts and Sciences. With q fine
likeness of James ID. Dana. I2mo., cloth,
price, 81, %. The volume Is an unusually val
uable and interesting one. embracing as il
does record OF vast number OF remalkabl
discoveries.
The s.sfne publishers have also just issued
Evidences of Christianity with an intro
duction on the Existence OF God and the I'm
mortality of the Soul, by Ebcnezer Dodge, IL
D., President of Madison University, n. Y.
lsmo., cloth, 81 80. and '.Hall's Alphabet oil
Geology, or First Lessons in Geology and Min
eralogy, with suggestions ON the relations OF
rocks to soil, etc. Adapted as a text book in
academies and schools. BY 5. II. Hall, L. l.
ID, author OF Lectures on School Keeping, -
etc. With illustrations. 16mo., clsth, en-
6ossed, price 80 cents. This little volume,
prepared by one of the oldest and most success
fui teachers in the country, is admirably adapt
Ell to meet an urgent demand for such a work
recently manifested, in consequence of the
very general interest awakened in the public
mind on the subject of Geology a study by
the young, in our Academies and Schools
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-05-05

TILTON's Journal of Horticulture
for April has Sub-Trepical Gardening, by c
NJ Hovey; Remarks on the Pink Family, JOS
eph Breck; Hardy Apples, J A Warden; Green
houses. } Lord; Chapter on Lawns; Pine
Grossbeak; Fearing Burr; New Pepper; The
Croton Grape. Notes and Gleanings, consist
ing OF many pages of short articles on Fruits,
Flowers, Vegetables, Grapes, &c.-yery in
structive TO all growers for profit or pleasure.
So per annnm. Tilton n Co, Boston, Mass.