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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02
Reckless Marriage Contracts Warn
ing TO (lergymeu.

The Rev. j. H. Noble, of Troy, married
runaway couple, the other day, not stop
ping to inquire as to the wishes Of the
friends of the parties, though the girl was
but sixteen years old and being acquainted
with her family, he must have known that
there were serious objections to her private
marriage. And il seems that he had been
equally indiscreet on other occasions. Vim.
Densberry writes to the Troy Wing to con.
denim him. II experienced, he says, ''the
same deep writhing agony only few years
ago when the announcement was made tome
bya neighbor thatmy little girl, only 10y years
old, had been clandestinly married by this
injudicious, unieeling reverend in question.
My feelings can better be imagined than
described when | learned that the cere-
mony of my daughter had been performed
III dwelling of very questionable charac-
ter, in secret and cowardly manner
There IS something very strange in the
fact that such marriages are by no means
uncommon, and that the clergymen who
perform the ceremony are frequently men
of the highest respectatility. 1t is hardly
possible that familiarity with marriage
services can breed for them certain
contempt in the eyes of these cergymen.
The relation is perhaps the most sacred
of any which it is in the power Of men
and women to enter into, and should never
be lightly accepted, whatever the circum-
stances of those who aspire to it may be-
Yet girls and boys, running away from
their parents, find no difficulty in getting
themselves united. Disparity in age,
feebleness in intellect, drunkenness, even at
the time of the acceptance of the bond, APP
pear to be no bar to marriage, though III
addition, it may be apparent to the oiliciat-
ing clergyman that the parties have Cd
capped from those who have the right to
protect them. This is all wrong, and
clergyman who so imposes upon the sacred
ness of the bond ought to be severely pun
/ sba al
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02
The White Mountains in May.

visitor who paid his respects to Mount
Washington rather earlier than is custom
airy, writes to western paper:
zone of the most signal adventures OF
life full of them has been the ascent Of
Mount Washington in the early part Of
MAY. before the winter fences and water
ways across the carriage road have been
taken down, when there are snow drifts
twenty feet deep to be shoyelled through
by the workmen repairing the road, and
when the Summit House is just emerging
from its wintry coverlet of snow.
"The Tip-Top House is entirely free and
clear Of snow, but on every hand the i'm
maculate element is still found in large
quantities, and the Summit House is halt
buried up
The views to be obtained from the
grand old mountain tops are now far
ahead Of any to be had in summer. The
sombre monotony of the panorama OF the
mountains stretched out on every hand is
relieved by the tops of lottest mountains
having caps of snow, while the lesser ones
are as fresh looking as III the summer
time. Then in every gorge and wave OF
the hills, one sees the charming little cas-
cades so busy in taking away the SHOWS OF
the past winter, which, as they leap care
lessly from rock to rock, send up their tiny
line Of spray to make the clouds which
cover the mountains at even tide.
"The roads are in horrid condition
now, but sixty men are at work on the
mountain road, and large gangs on the
other lines, so that all will be ready for the
opening of the season on June /"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

A SANDWICH ISLAND journal reports, as a
street scene in Honolulu, "a wife driving a
SHINING husband home. She was evidently
beating the man in severe terms, and with
out stint Of voice, for having lef her bed
and board, and stayed away all night. He,
with bang-dog look, walked quietly along,
and answered never word to his wife 3
TRADE of abuse This silence she appar-
emily construed into giving consent to the
truth of her accusations aud 1t in conse-
quence added fuel to the flame SO from
words she came to blows. Picking up here
and there on the streets stone
MS big as ones fist, she followed
up her recreant spouse, and with
accurate aim, at point blank
range, hit him some tremendous thuds be-
tween the shoulder. At these he merely
WINGED and kept meekly on his way while
he woman scorned' shouted her execra-
tions louder than ever At last q constable
yentured to expostulate, but was told by
the woman to mind his own business. at
was her own husband, to whom she was
lawfully married, and she had right TO do
what she liked with him for neglecting his
married duties" The policeman subsidized
before this strong minded Hawaiian female,
and the last he saw OF the pair, the strong
est vessel--in this case the female was
beginning apparently to relent, and having
ceased her loud talk and throwing of stones,
was crying bitterly, still following in the
wake of her husband toward her home.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

ZONE OF MY HUSBANDS. ~ Single ladies,
in general, do not approve of the remar-
rage Of widows A young lady in Pitts
burgh, who was approaching the middle
ages, was in the habit Of saying, whenever
she heard OF a widows marriage There
now That woman has got one OF my hus-
bands"'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

Ia CHINESE suicide in San Francisco left
as his dying confession a letter reading
Chinese young man, Hemul Hake Foo,
,,Tanty-nine years old. Have sick. Would
nye' From Canton, 2 ward. Name Sun
word, Farmer. China Saelep Company.
! have soul. Had boot on my bad. l dead
NV, Can't live.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

Do Nor LET THE CATTLE INTO THE MEAD
ows, Some farmers allow themselves to
fall into the miserable and costly practice
OF letting their cows, early in the spring,
roam at will over the fields they propose to
NOW the coming July. Nothing is more
injurious. The ground, always wet III the
spring, is trodden into such an unequal
surface that, besides the Injury to the grass
roots, moving is made more difficult; and
the loss in the subsequent crop is many
ZINES greater than all the cattle getin their
perambulations. Keep the COWS and other
cattle in the barn or barnyard, or some
small lot adjoining, till there is grass
enough in the pastures to give them a good
bite; and then when turned out, with one
feeding of hay each day, they will have
lnst what they need to secure to them the
best health and to the owner the largest
profit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02
Social Life i'm China.

In China man and wife never walk to-
gether arm-in-arm in public, or even side
by side, but the wife always follows her
lord at a respectful distance, as the women
always do among the American Indians. At
social parties the sexes sit ut different
tables, occupying separate looms and Wis
Iting only among themselves. Strangers
of opposite sexes are never introduced, nor
do the women ever speak of the men, un-
less relatives or intimate associates of the
family. There Is no such thing as social
life, in orr sense of the word, among the
ChinoAe, and all their social and domestic
theories and practices are based on the
idea OF womans inieriority and insignif.
canoe.
She is regarded only as servant and an
underling, and in no sense fit to be COM
panion and equal for man. She feels her
lnteriority, and ia the main submits cheer.
fully to her fate. So thoroughly is this feel
lug Of ineriority ingrained in her nature,
that IN the only book ever produced in
China by female author, the proposition
is eravely stated and deliberately argued
and illustrated, that "women were made
for the same purpose that tiles are--tor
men TO tread upon.
They are astonished to see the freedom
and equality allowed between the sexes
among Europeans and argue strenuously
against it, and, when vanquished in the ar.
gument, they reply with their usual stub
bornness and per inacity: "May be good
Englishman; Chinaman, no good"
Since the coming OF European ladies into
China, some of their own women have be-
gun to entertain some little idea of their
rights, and it has now become a proverb
among Cinnamon, that 1.-THE two most dan
gerous things that can be imported into
China are foreign women and foreign gun.
powder" Yet, on the whole, the
weaker sex are rather kindly treated, and
IN general, are not muah abused.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

The Montreal Witness learns from part
les conversant with the condition OF that
city, that there are between two and three
thousand dwellings, standing vacant, repre-
senting diminution OF population to the
extent OF from ten to fifteen thousand per-
sons This shows that the emigration TO
the United States is still continued. II is
not unusual for 200 French Canadians to 60
off in single day from the Bonayenture
Station.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

anxious crowd engaged about the dog. We
came quickly home and kindly left the
bass line and hook 10 farmer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-02

GEN. BoYNToS, Of Augusta, Me-, had
bullet extracted from his hip, recently,
which he received in the battle of Drury's
Bluff The bali had moved seven inches
from the point Of entrance, and was deep
seated. 1t had produced great suffering
Tor six years.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

The DETROIT FREE PREss.-At
the head of all the papers pub
ished i'm the Peninsular State, tor
the freshest, latest news. for the
most complete Commercial, Marine
and Market Reports; for the most
authentic State, and Nationalnews;
for the best local department-city
affairs, &c, is the Detroit Free
Press. Every man or family de-
sirous of securing Il first-rate State
newspaper cannot do better than
to send for the Free Press. We
will receive and forward subscrip-
tons for any of the editions.-week-
ly, tri-weekly and daily-that any
Of our friends may desire to order.
Weekly, 50; Tri-Weekly, 81;
Daily, So.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

These figures "lct down" the pretcn-
tons ofsome of oar villages which have
been claiming $500 and 5000 popula-
ton, to their proper level Sout Ha-
ven has shown the most rapid recent
growth of ALL The stimulus of the new
railroad to that place, and the develop
ment of the fruit interest in the vicinity
may be stated as the reason. Our ven
cradle County Seat has already been
outstripped by two of its competitors,
whereas ten years ago it was the only
village ofany pretentionS in the county.
SOCIAL STATISTICS.
The following is a resume OF the So
cial Statistics as complied by the Couu-
ty Clerk under Il special act of the Leg
isaturc passed at the special session Of
1870.
Valuation Of the County Real Es:atn
S10,756,230 Personal Estate $3,104,
$50 Total 81, SG0, $50.
Public debt (TownshipD 1868, $50.
Taxation, State $74230. County
$415,000. Town, including School and
other township taxes, 500, 724,43. Total.
$119, 166,OS2.
Whole Number OF Paupers supportcd
during the year, q. Annual cost Of
Support 500 each
Whole Number Of Criminals conyic-
ted during thcyear, 27.
Libraries, Township, 4. Volumes 1922.
Church, 8. Volumes go. Sabball
School, %, Volumes, 1861 Private, IN
GLIDING those OF Lawyers & Clcrgym0
"a Volumes 1921.
Wages, Average wages Of laboring
men per month and boarded ST. &.
Average wages Of day laborcrs with
board $l00, Without board, 81, 43.
Average wages Of Carpenter per dal
without board. $2,5S11 Average wa
ges of female domestiCo per week 80 0G
Average price Of board per week t.
labOring man $50
Schools High, ), Grammar, j Grade
common, s, Ungraded common, 1871
Average number Of teachers, Male 81,
Female l09
Income of Schools, from taxation.
S57, %, from public funds, $j,O54G@,
from all other Sources, 81 $500.
Average nurnher Of pupils, male.
4,74S, female, 4,722o.
NEWSPAPERS published in county, &.
Circulation from 800 to 1000. Char
acter, Republican. | Democratic.
2lndepandent and Neutral in polite.
1 advertising.
The following table shows the mum
Der OF church organizations IN The coun
ty, their building etc
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Oh, the beautiful goods that the
Avery Bows have inst been put
ting into their show cases! Jew
elry and every thing elsc-just
step in and see for yourself; we
know you will when you see their
new column in the Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

SAD OCCURRENcE.-Wc under
stand little son of Mr.. w. J.
Sellick, was kicked by n horse at
Kalamazoo, fracturing his skull ;
and that his life is despaired Of
We trust that it may not prove as
bad as reported-it is sad at the
best.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Have you seen the new Ameri-
can Steak Broiler? 1t is the new
est and best invention yet brought
out. For sale at Howe & Cows
and at Mills Brothers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

THE NuRsERY.-Onc of the
finest little publications for chill
dren-the most beautiful reading
and elegant illustrations, is I" THE
Nrsery' Magazine, published at
Boston, Mass, 10y J. L. SnoREY.
Terms, $3.50. We will send the
Nursery and Press one year to
any address for $3.50. a.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Who said that Dan Gabriel
would spend Christmas in Chica-
go? Guess he necdn'tte another.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

,HCHRIsTMAs TEMPLE.-Thc Free
Baptist Church Society OF Paw
Paw, on Christmas Friday Eve
ming, Dee. Odd, 1870, are going to
have n magnificent time. The
preparations are in progress on an
extensive scale, and every body is
invited to join with them for 4
good time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

TIE BEST PAPER.-The leading
Agricultural paper Of America is
acknowledged on all hands TO be
MoORE's RURAL New YORKER.
Twcnty-onc wears of continuous
and successful publication and
never poor number issued during
that time; but each succeeding
number growing better than the
last, until it has arrived ut a point
of perfection in its literary con-
tents, embellishments, typography,
beauty Of press work, and mag
niticent proportions, that throws
all rivals so far in the shade, that
they have ceased to envy, and
join in the popular verdict
"MooEE'S is the best, the largest
and cheapest" We will send the
RURAL and Press one year to any
address for 1925. Published at
Rochester and New York City by
ID. ID. Il. Moore, at SO per year
See prospectus for club terms &c.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Where is our Christmas Tur.
key? Somebody haint got it, did
they?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Buy n nice cutter down ut Har-
ris' and make your wife Christ
mas present.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

AS one more number completes
the year and closes the present
volume Of the PRESS, we will be
greatly obliged if all persons who
are owing for the paper will call
and settle before the close Of the
year, as we are anxious to Get in
all that is due so as to be able to
enlarge and improve the paper for
1871. 1851
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19
Jackson. lansing. and Saginaw
Railroad.

The Saginaw Courier says.an indication
ola largely increasing business on the
J. Land S. Railroad is the putting on
an extra train, which arrives here at
2:2O o'clock A. NJ. This train is in addi.
ton to the regular train and has already
brought in an immense amout offreight
Twenty-thrce cars, we understand, was
last Thursday ordered to this point for
Cincinnati The completion of the
Fort WAYNE, Jackson e Saginaw Rail
road opens a market to IT, country.
We have nearly direct mail commune
cation with Cincinnati, while the rates
can be chcapcned SO rs 10 more than
compete with the transportation oflum.
Der by lake to Toledo, and from thence
to the south by rail, rs lumber is now
shipped. A new locomotive, one of the
finest on the line, has just made its APP
pcarancp. 1t bears the significant name
of N0rth1cest, and reached here last
Tuesday, attached to the new freight
train spoken of above. These little ev-
licences of prosperity, affecting alike the
interests of the road as well as the coun-
try through which it passes, are hatter
ing indeed, and worthy of the consider
alton Of those who have the interests of
the Valley at heart
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19
From the pecatar Republican. r,rnW
The Census and Social Statistics.
Population OF she Townships and
villages AZ Van Buren, COunty.---
hneeresting Social Statistics.

ne following is full report Of the
popu'at'on OF tie different townships
and Villages in Van Buren, County, in
the order of population
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

"Wish you a Merry Christmas"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

New WARE Messrs.
Howe e Coy issue New Years
Address to the citizens of Van
Buren, County through the columns
of the County Press, this week.
They have a splendid and magnifi.
cent stock of Hardware, and are
willing to let people know il
through the sure medium of the
Press, and cordially invite the in
habitants ofthe surrounding town
ships to come and see their new
and mammoth stork-the largest
ever before opened in the county.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

Address r. V. Pierce, Md, 395
Main street, Buffalo, n. y, and get DR.
Sagc's pamphlet Catarrh free, or send
sixty cents and get DR.. Sagc's Catarrh
Remedy. $500 reward is offered by the
proprietor for a case Of Catarrh which
he cannot cure. Cut this out, a. you
may not see it again.
d.. Pierce's Alt Ext, or Golden Med
ical Discovery, cures Ministers Sore
Throat and Bronchitis.
30 The Kalamazoo and South Haven
r. II. is completed and trains will here
after be run regularly between Kalama-
700 and South Haven. ............
nrnr
e MARROW EscApE- Monday morn
! ing, as Mr,,Wm IN Quinn De- Es1thia village,
Watt rnniips.. tie ,hlach!nc forbprhgi
hubs in lsinen's spoke'Factory, his elo-
thing by some means .;Mas acaughtOn
,tlie sh$flh na IhssAtggG !ia f ~ Stepped
rs soonias possjb lc"sbnt.,n tnOe,t o
prevent his heing quito s4rialtSlxiH1Gr-
,ch The. ayfgW" zrroduiTl,: & '*c9Stsre
wound ON. his. hip, bGsJJes his Theip q
severely bruised, :aut i@Sch
thing was almost rntircly, stpriiNf tiTiln
HIM. Df.Js " Tkoinils &It.ssi&sa1lgsas9d
dressed tho 'wOumlairt heNyiH probably
soon he arbunHs"' sOtitiirsGscapc is
indeed y
.MT0TW TaSIT
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19

- rfar ;s7'tari - ii-fs--.t
- ''4' e':t. Very Respectfully
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1870-12-19


Us The Ra lical party has been
sinking 50 rapidly since the election
chat DR.. Beast Butler has ibccn called
in to prescribe He found the patton,
cxhaHsted"and speechless and with but
little hope. etfqfqaycr;yrg ID: Butler bag
~ l1 r'5 Sa2'TS2" "R% +,S Gl''
Il unless thcyedsa9change ofaTG'he
! r So: i'",
' 's:'''1 4! | e! e. , s's.+
fr-in.la@sfessS s NSt6. the verge
If the gravas-@tht Trrtfkas great CON
safafss I'D EaAE@ 'sSBEn tSJIF9 EaIqFsts s,
r. P,G NIL. M ACoMbaign in
fsTb2 4 > Ill Il r u Il II.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

Here is description of pleasant scene
between two colored members of the Louis
lana Legislature: Two prominent coiored
mem bers of the House of Representatives
had a set to last Wednesday in the hall OF
the House, while most Of the members were
in attendance on that august body, the State
Sena.e, sitting as a Court of impeachment.
Their names were Isabelle and Deslonde,
and becoming very excited on the bill tor
the extension Of the Jacksonville and Great
Northern Railroad to the river, through the
| city, they came to blows. Deslonde, who
represents the Iberville Parish, made the
frst attack, striking at Issbelle's head but,
missing his aim, the latter struck him on the
nose, bringing out flow Of blood. Des
londe then caught Isabelle in his arms and
squeezed his neck until they were separated.
1t is not learned whether . challenge to
mortal combat has followed this event.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

his race, viudicating them through the war,
and concluded by expressing his opposition
tc Bingham's amendment. He was listened
to by the Senators with the closest attention
and his speech is pronounced to be as able
and eloquent as anything delivered in Con.
gress in some time.
The Military Committee, after four hours
labor. has just presented their report in
Tennessee Buffers case. Four are for ex.
pulsion and four censure. The vote on the
matter will be very close.
Tho Senate Territorial Committee to day
agreed to report against the nomination Of
Potts for Governor of Montana, in place Of
Ashley
A vote will not be reached in the Georgia
case before the last of the week.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

Another instance of the professional inhu
manity of some school teachers is reported
IN Yesterdays Chicago Journal. This time
poor crippled boy applied FOR admission
before the school was opened and was push
ed back by Miss Rose with the words eve
have no pets here" The impetus with
which he wa, pushed threw him down the
high steps, striking his head and rolling to
the bottom. His old wounds, received in q
planning mill, were broken open, and he was
picked up covered with blood. It is feared
that he will never walk again. Miss Rose
has been arrested and it wsuld be we'll if she
could be made an example of under the law,
as an inhuman monster.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

Warren Leland, proprietor Of the St.
Julian Hotel, had little unpleasantness in
New York, yesterday, with George Wilkes,
editor Of the Spirit Of The Times, owing to
mplimentary paragraphs published by
the latter. Leland met Wilkes on Broadway
and struck him several times with his cane,
which was twice broken in the encounter.
Wilkes was not seriously injured. A duel
with deadly weapons is talked Of by the
friends of both parties.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17
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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

Helen Eckert, we'll known as the fat girl
of Easton, Pa, died on Sunday last. She
was Is years of age, and had been confined
to the house for the past two or three years.
In early life she was on exhibition, and trsv
eled under charge of Col Wood, lately of
CHICAGO
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

Rochefor.'s martyrdom is not very pain
ful. He is confined in a chamber, not a cell,
with courtyard for promenade at any time
during the day. Meals of soup, boiled beet,
roast neat, bread, and wine are furnished
free, with anything else from the restaurants
that he chooses to nav for
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-17

BerRh, beloved of beasts, has sued the
Sunday Courier, of New York for burglary !?
no, libel. The Objectionable article was
. lampoon in which WAS embodied an slleg.
ed diary of Berghs referring affectionately
to the calves of stage dancers.