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of lead in one thousand grammes of
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able vessel-best of globular form,
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to quietly suspended in the liquid for
a short time, the brass wires will be
found to be covered with brilliant cry
stalline spangles of metallic lead which
will daily become larger and more
numerous.
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that such an interview had taken
place.
Mr.. Voorhies-Then the gentleman
associates with men who do not tell
the truth.
Mr.. Randall asked Mr.. VOORHEES,
whether he would have voted for
Judge Davis, and advocated his cleo
ton if he had received the nomination
at Cincinnati?
Mr.. Voorhies-Judge Davis repre-
sents many things in common with my
own views.
Mr.. Randall-He is Republican.
Mr.. Voorhies-That is not the point.
I cannot join combination which
represents nothing that 1 am for. On
great constitutional questions Judge
Davis stood in troublous times where l
stood-in behalf of the citizen-while
such men as Greeley were hurrying
them into the earthquake.
The strong probabilities are, in my
judgment, that if Judge Davis had
been presented by Cincinnati he would
have been accepted by. majority of
the Democratic party of the country.
In that may be mistaken; 1 am only
stating my own individual opinion; 1
should have regarded him with very
great favor. 1t is quite a different
thing whether I should vote for q Re-
publican who has so much in common
with my own views, or for one who
has nothing in common with them.
Mr.. Randall should not vote for
either OF them unless they were in
dorsed by the Democratic Convention.
Mr.. Voorhies-That is right.
Mr.. Randall-And should vote for
either of them ifindorsed by the Demo-
cratic Convention.
Mr.. Bird would vote for either of
them if he was indorsed.
Mr.. Kerr stated that so far as that
statement in the Republican referred
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
A Silver Cayern-Perhaps.

The Louisville Courier-Journal mar
rates the following:
- A lady in Livingston county tells Il
story of cave which she visited in that
locality, when only little girl, in COM
pany with several friends and guide,
more than fifty years ago. The party
went to hill side, ala entered the cav.
ern through small opening, which led
between lodges of rocks. 1t ran in a zig
gag course, over precipices and into
large halls. One OF the latter contained
two human statues, covered with coat
ing of silver, which stood near the en-
trance, and appeared to be the guardian
deities of the place. Just beyond them
was a tree, which also shone In the
brightness of silver foliage A small
pool of water was in the centre of the
main hall, and reflected from its smooth
surface the CLEAN Of the same precious
metal.
The walls and roof, carved in the
rough molds of nature, were studded
with beautiful stalactites, which every
where shone as silvered over. No
noise entered the cavern, but an awful
stiffness, approaching sublimity, per
vaded its entire depths. 1t seemed an
enchanted cavern of the genii of the
NINE, the palace of the King of the
Gnomes.
The party soon became weary of the
solmen but magniticently picturesque
scene, and returned to the surface of
the ground. The author of this story
is yet living i'll Livingston county; but,
though she claims that she knows the
locality of the silver cave, she viii not
reveal it. The existence of another
equally wonderful cave in the same
neighborhood attaches an interest to
the lady's statement which it would not
otherwise possess. Citizens of the
county believe that the whole country
from the Tennessee TO the Cumberland
River is honeycombed with large sub
terranean passages. Rich minerals are
also found there in abundance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
The deacon laid down his knife and

The deacon laid down his knife and
dropped his lower jaw and started.
"What How! What did you say,
Johnin
~ say, father, that this good girl,
Huldab, is to be my wife.
"John, " gasped the old man, getting
ohis feet and reaching his hand across
the table, you've got plenty OF sense
if you do wear moustache! God bless
you, my boy; there amt no better
woman here, nor in New York, or any
where, than Huldah. God bless you
both | was afraid that you'd take a
different road, though"
Hurrah for Huldah and our John, :"
said George Harrow, the college boy,
and his brothers joined him. Even
the little Holmes children hurrahed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
The Watca of Boon Island.


They crossed tho lonely aad lameniing sea
IT'S moaning lemod but singing wv III thon care
n asked her "a brave the loneliness with me Z!
What loneliness she said, I'll thoa arr theIe!
af1r and cold On the horizons rim
Ioored the tall lighthouse, ike ghostly sign;
They sighed moi az the shore bennd gre" uIn,
rose Of jos they bore acTcss the URINE.
They gained the barren rock, and made their nome
Among the wild waves and the sea-birds Wild
The vipfrv Winds blew force across the foam,
Bui IN each others eyes they looked and smiled
.loet the lighthouse scnt its warnings wide,
Fed by their faithful hands, ans ships in sight
with ioy hehe!d 10, and on land men cried,
'ISok clear md steady burns Boon Island llgh' I!
,na ,r.le nes trimmed the lamp with busy hands
'Shiue far and through tue DARK, sweet hSh'' INC.
bring sairlv back the sailors from all lands,
TO waiting lHye-wIie, mother, sister, bride :"
No temrest shook the calm, though many storm
Tore tho yexcd ocean into furious spray;
No chill could mud them IL their Eden warm,
And gently timo iapsed onward, day by day.
said | no chill could find them? There IL one
Whose awful footballs everywhere are known
with echoiug aohs, who chills the summer sun,
Aud turns tAc happy heart OF youth to stohei
Inosorablr Death, silent guest
AZ every hearth, before whose footsteps nee
Al JOYS, rho rules the earth and, without rest
Rulns the vast shudderinB spaces OF the sea:
Dsalh found them: turned his face and passed her by
Eut laid finger on her lovers lips,
And there was silence. 1hCn the storm ran high,
And tossed and troubled sore the distant ships.
Nay. vi o shall speak the terrors Of The night
Tho spgcchlcsH sorrow The supreme despair?
still like ghost she trimmed the waning light,
Dragging her slow weight up the winding stair.
with more than oil the saving lamp abe fed,
While dashed 70 madness tue Wild sea she heard;
She Kept her awful vigil with the dead,
And Gods sweet pity still she mlnlatcred.
0 sailors, hailing loud the cheerful beam
Piercing so far the tumult OF the dark,
A radiant star hope you could not dream
What misery there sat chershing that spark!
Three times the night, too terrible to bear
Descended, Ehr1udod in the storm. At last
The sun roFc clear and still on her despair,
Aud all her striving to the winds she cast.
And bowed her head and ,t the light die out
For the wide sea lay calm IA her dead love.
When evening fell from the tar land, IN doubt,
ylinly to mud that faithful star men strofe.
Sailors and Iandsmen look and womcn's eyes,
For pity ready search In vain the night
And wondering ncighbor unto ueighbor cries:
''Now what, think you, can all Boon Island light?
out from the coast toward her high tower they sailed
They found her watching silent by her dead;
4 shadowy woman who nor wept nor walled,
But answered what they spake, till all was said.
Ti1y bore the dead and living both away,
VITA anguish time seemed powcrless 10 destroy.
She lurued aud backward ga2od across the bay,
Lost in the sad sea lay her rose Of joy.
Atlantic Monthly,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
An UNDERGROUND River.

The Crawford County Gnd.) Demo-
0rat, gives the following, on the author
ily of " one of the best citizens of the
county :"
" Two men named John Z. Stanley
mad Frederick Henninger, were en-
ployed to dig a well on the farm of
Benjamin Ellis, who resides in Wash
ington county, near the line of Harrison
and Washington counties. They had
proceeded but short distance, how
ever, when they encountered bed of
loose 'nigger-head rocks, which,
upon being broken open, were found
to contain water ana other substances,
supposed to be ore Of some kind. When
they reached the depth Of sixty feet
from the surface, they came to a large
cave, which they followed a distance
of ten or twelve feet, when there before
their gaze was Il beautiful river OF clear
water, which, upon examination, was
found to contain an innmnerable num-
Der Of small white fish Upon closer
examination, ii was found To be sixteen
feet wide and five feet in depth, and as
clear as spring water. As an experiment.
a lighted candle was place dupon a small
piece of plank and set ahOat. 1t start
Cd of into the darkness With the cur
rent, and was soon lost to sight Sew
eral persons have visited this great curl
Os ty, and many were the conjectures
as to where the water came from and
whittier it went, but nothing satisfac-
tory could be arrived at "
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14

A new inscribed rock, 20 feet high
and SO in circumference, has been
found in India, which forms the rudest
and vet the most valuable monument
found thus far in the western part Of
that country 1t is rounded, conical
stone and bears the edicts of Ashoka
and Rudra Dana. The first of its Il
paragraphs begins: This is the edict
of the Raiah Priyadarsi, the beloved OF
the GODS The edict relates to moral
and religious duties, and abolishes the
killing of animals. 1t is ordered that
supplies of vegetable food shall be pro-
vlded for all, that ministers of morality
shall be established, that officials
shall not modest ascetics, and indi-
Gates that the rajah hereby abandons
hunting, festivals, ambition, declares
that peace is better than beneticence,
and that "a man must honor his own
faith without blaming that of another,
so that but little wrong will occur, >
adding that while a man thus increases
his own faith he "iniures that of
others The date OF the monument is
fixed by the allusion to the Greek kings
reigning at the time, 25S b. G. Then
Buddhism became the state religion.
This important discovery puts an end
to both the European and native theo-
ries that have assigned fabulous an
tIquity to the rock temples Of India,
which are of Buddhist origin, and now
cannot be allowed a higher antiquity
than the date of AshOka's monument.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
CHOOSING A WIFE.

John Harlow, young New York law
yer, told mis- partner that he wanted to
go home for a week He said that he
wanted to see his father and the boys,
and his sister, but that he especially
wanted TO ride old Bob to the brook
once more, and To milk Cherry again,
iast % see how it telt to be farmers
boy,
John said the old lawyer, abe
sure you tiX up match with one of
those country girls; no man is fit for
anything till he is well married, and
you are now able. with economy, TO
support a wife Mind you get one of
those country girls, The paste and
powder people here aren't tit for Il
young man who wants a young wo-
m lu.
The next morniug John Ind letter
from his sister Part Of it run thus:
"lye concluded. old fellow, that if
you don't marry, you'lldry up and turn
- parchment. I'm gong to bring
home the smartrst girl | know OF
course she don't know what I'm mp to,
but yoa must prepare to cnpitulate.
In toe old home they were looking
for tile son. The tumily proper con
low, Johns two brothers, ten md
twelve years old, and Huldah, the
"heip. ' This last was the daughter of
u neighbpring farmer, who was poor
and helpless rheumatic, and most of
the daughters hard earnings went to
help out the scanty subsistence ut
home. Aunt Judith, the sister of
John smother Cooked after the house
hold affairs of her brother-in-law. hy
coming over once a week and helping
Hgldah darn, and mend, and make,
and by giving HIuldah such advice rs
h'r moNpeucncc was supposed To re.
lgra. But now Deacon Hurlows
aughtcr had left her husband to eat
his turkey alone in Boston, and had
brought her two children home to re-
aolve the paterual blessing. Not that
Mrs. Amanda Holmes had the paternal
blessing chiefly in view in her trip.
She had brought with her very dear
friend, Miss Jenct Duutoa. the accom-
pllshed teacher in the parnaSsus Fe-
male Seminary, Why Miss Janet Dun
ton came to the country with her friend
She could hardly have told, Not word
had Mrs Holmes spoken To her ON the
subject Of matrimonial schemes. She
would baye repealed any insinuation
that she had ever dreamed that mar
raPe was desirable under any con.
ceiyahle circumstances She often de.
c.arel, sentmrntally, that size was
welded To her books, and loved her
leisure and WAS determined to he M
old maid. And AL the time this sin
cere Christian girl was dying to confer
herself upon some worthy man OF con.
genial tastes which meant in her case.
luSt what it did in John Harlow's-
some one who could admire her al
tainments.
Mrs. Holmes and her friend had ar
rived twenty-fours ahead of john. and
and the daughter of the house hnd al-
ready installed herself rs temporary
mistress, by thoughtlessly upsettiug,
reversing, and turning inside out all
good Huldah's most cherished arrange.
ments. All the plans for the annual
festival that wise and practical Huldah
had entertained were vetoed, without
a thought that this young girl had
been for wear and half IN actual
authority III tie house, and might have
some feeling OF wrong in havinga guest
for week oyerturn her plans for the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
Wit, Hum0r and Wisdom.
HAPPINESS is internal, not ext

HAPPINESS is internal, not external.
u HOPE this hand is not counter
felt" said a lover as he was toying with
his sweetheart's hand.
THE best way to find out is to ring
it, was the reply.
SAID Mr.. Cantwell to his clergyman.
who had a great disrelish for hypoc.
risy
How can ] best help to reform the
world 2"
"By beginning with yourself' was
the conclusive reply.
MADAME, l am glad to see you"
"Sir, cannot say as much to YOU"
"Ah, madame, you might, did Won
but suffer politeness to overcome We
racity."
A LITTLE boy, after watching the
burning of school-house until the
novelty of the thing had ceased, started
down the street, saying:
"I'm glad the old thing is burned
down / didn't have my jogfry lesson
nohow ~
Ok a wet, miserable, foggv London
day in autumn, Charles Lamb was ac-
costed by Il beggar woman, with ''Pray,
sir bestow little charity on poor
destitute woman who is perishing for
lack of food. Believe me, sir | have
seen better days" $50 have ~ said
Lamb, handing the poor creature
shilling, $50 have | It's a miserable
day Good-bye!"
One day little girl, about five years
old, heard a preacher praying most
Justify, till the roof rang with the
strength OF his supplications. Turning
to her mother, and reckoning the ma
ternal ear to n speaking distance, she
whispered:
Mother, don't you think if he was
nearer to God, he wouldn't have to talk
so loud z"
A MAN while driving number of cat
tie to Boston, had one of his COWS enter
a barn yard, where there stood young
lad. The driver calls to the boy:
6 Stop that COW, my lad-stop that
cow"
Il am no constable, sir.
Turn her out, then"
"She IS ri ght side out now, sir"
Well, speak to her, then.
The boy took off his cap, and very
handsomely addressed the COW, with
"Your humble servant, madame
The drover rode into the yard and
drove the COW out himself.
A SYRIAN CONVENT to Christianity,
as the story goes, was urged by his en-
ployer to work on Sunday, but he de-
clined.
But" said the master, "does not
your Bible say that if man has an
OK or an ass that falls into pit on the
Sabbath day, he may pull him out "
Yes, answered Haydn; "but if the
ass has habit Of falling into the same
pit every Sabbath day, then the man
should fill up the pit or sell that ass"
The story has a sort of swivel
"moral, which will fit a great many
disputed points in these days.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-14
A Good Hit.

An honest shoemaker, of Kent coun-
tv, England, has lately put forth an al
vertiscment which shows that the re-
covery of the Prince OF Wales has
made a deep impression upon him.
The advertisement appears-accordlng
to an able journal, which, however,
suppresses names--bonG ride in coun-
try weekly of Kent county, and is as
follows:
"Notice. In consequence of --,
the practical teetotal bootmaker OF
-, being very i'll in consequence Of
his having caught a severe cold through
attending Divine service on that cold,
damp night, New Years Eve, in the
large room connected with Ebenezer
Chapel, -, he therefore hegs that all
the Christian ministers who are per-
sonally acquainted with him will offer
M prayers to Almighty God for his
safe recovery to perfect health at the
many churches and Christian dissenting
chapels in many large towns that he
had frequented in his younger days,
ms hundreds of the poor IN - and
the surrounding villages are awaiting
for him to supply them with more
cheap strong boots and shoes from his
establishment, -, which has been
established for more than three years. ="