Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-04-21
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE,

Cook Co. w Om ans Franc hise Assoc
ciatiOn-M jor General ThOmas-Cel-
ebration OF the Fifteenth Amend-
ment-Memortat Meeting-TrRde-D
Ii. Fisk a. Co.-WhOlesale Clothing
Trade Philip WadswOrth Il Co.
MOney--Seed-Ram Norway
Oats.
CHICAGO, April II, 1S70.-The weather has
been remarkably pleasant most of the time
for the past week. and the work of farming
and seed-sowing has begun in earnest in the
farming region in tins latitude and as far as
a hundred miles north of us. We have had
several excitements here this week, First
we had
MRS. STATIONS LECTURE.
at Unity church-Robert Colyer's- Sabbath
evening, which was crowded to its fullest ca.
pacity; in pews, aisles, pulpit platform, gal
lerics, ana vestibule, and more than a thou
sand persons went away unable to get even
standing room inside the house. Next,
THE COOK COUNTY woMAN's FRANCHISE Asso-
CITATION
was formed by large convention-chiefly of
ladies-st Farwell Hall, Tuesday. Every one
seemed surprised at the number in attend
ance and the interest excited at mere bust.
ness meeting. Mrs. Stanton is expected to
lecture in Farwell Hall next Monday evening.
The same cay 10000 citizens quietly assem-
bled ON the Lake Front to show their respect
for the memory of
MAJOR. GENERAL THOMAS,
whose remains arrived from the West AT 4 y.
m. on the O., b. * q. Railroad, aud we're soon
atterward transferred to the Southern Michi-
gan Depot where the funeral car remained
TILL 9 p. m. As the train camo in sight a ga.
iute OF thirteen guns was fired, and one gun
every ten minutes atterward till o'clock.
The Court House bell tolled at intervals oi
i've minutes afternoon and evening, and the
flags on all the public buildings We're at half
mast. Leutenant-General Sheridan and the
other United States officers, with commit
tee of the Common Council, met those in
charge of the body at distance from the
city as an escort into the city.
CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
On Thursday, the colored people OF the
city celebrated the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution
by gra9d procession in the day time, and
resolutions, speeches and music in Farwell
Hall, at night The procession was two miles
long, numbered two thousand people and
was orderly and impressive. The various So
cletles were III uniform, and large numbers
were IN carriages and on horseback
The great wagon containing pyramid
OF girls dressed in white each carry
ing flag representing one of the
states of the Union, elected much admi-
ration, and another huge wagon containing
two church bells, which were kept ringing
proclamation of political equality-called
out hearty cheers all along the line Of the
procession. 1T was very successful demon
stration.
In the evening Farwell Hall was filled by
great crowd Of all hues-two-thirds colored
and the proceedings were marked with the
greatest harmony and enthusiasm.
Last evening there was grand
MEMORIAL MEETING
at Farwell Hail. the chief exercise being en-
logy on Major Gen. Geo. II. Thomas, by Gov.
John M. Palmer. The speech read much bet
ter than it was delivered.
has been very active this week at the prnci-
pal wholesale houses. At J.V. Farwell x Co 3
the buzz of conversation throughout their
vast stores between statesmen and customers,
was like the sound of distant waterfall.
The wholesale millinery house of
d. b. FISK co., SO AND IS LAKE ST.,
swarms with country milliners from top to
bObNohii any NdHb DttIlNt, hHu InGY are nav
ing the busiest time of their lives. One
swallow does not make summer, but a
thousand milliners at Fisks in one week is an
event worth noticing.
WHOLESALE CLOTHING TRADE,
Chicago is the chief mart for supplying
clothing for the trade of the Northwest The
most extensive clothing houses in the coun-
try are established here, and their trade ex-
tends to all the states and territories west of
the Alleghanies. And chief among these is
the firm of
PHILIP wADswoRTH & CO., "a AND SO LAKE ST.,
established in 1852, and during u period of
years, their business has increased
from about Sl50000 TO million dollars a
year. Having large manufactures within
Chicago and at the East, their long and thor.
ough acquaintance with the trade OF the
Northwest enables them to manufacture
goods suited to Its wants. Their goods are
distributed through all the Western aud
states and territories, and
their name IL the synonym for enterprise.
integrity and fair dealing wherever their
trade extends.
is abundant, and all business men look for
ward to the coming season IN hopes of album
dant and remuneratve crops. For when
farmers prosper, trade and commerce
flourish.
One of the mostimportant duties Of farmers
il to procure tho right kind of seed for both
planting and sowing Good seed producing
beautiful crops of excellent grain exhaust the
soil no more than poor seed producing crops
of poor quality. And though the soil be ever
SO rich and in tho very best condition, the
product OF poor seed must be partial, If not
total failure. For the primal law of vegeta-
ton, announced by God at tho creation, that
seed produces seed after its kind (Gen. /. H.
governs the vegetable kingdom to-day as alb.
solutely as when Adam was installed the
gardener of Eden. And it il the vorst Dos
slble economy to SOW poor seed because 1t is
cheap. The best seed is tho cheapest at al
most any price. The best seeds come from
Northern ATTITUDES, and do better when taken
from aeolder climate than the one whore
they are to be sown. There has been a great
deal said OF late about Norway Oats, and some
experienced agriculturists, disgusted with
humbugs, but who have now made trial of
them, have suggested that they were the old