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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

Of Northwestern, and it might tickle
the BOYS to speculate IN something new.
His brokers executed his orders, ana
the design was accomplished. The at
tenticn of Drew became absorbed IL the
success of the Erie bull movement,
and while he was watching the
rise Of the stock he paid little attention
to Northwestern. Gould found that
Drew was trapped, and kept away, oc
cupying his leisure moments IN engl-
neering the rise. Friday night Drew,
speaking to Times reporter, and still
entertaining some hopes of decline in
Northwestern, remarked loosely, :" l
heard Northwestern has risen" Yes
terday, at the close of Exchange, when
Northwestern reached $50, the remark
was made to Drew: Northwestern is
rising " Rising responded Drew,
E" rising, why it has riz. " Drew, real
izing the perfdy of Gould, fully, yes
terday, sold out tie Erie stock, which
he bought to skin the streets, and, it is
supposed, will use the proceeds to set
tie up with the successful parties. He
also unloaded a large amount Of
Wabash and various other stocks. 1t
is expected he will settle on Monday.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night
there was considerable excitement
among bankers, merchants and brokers,
caused by various reports which were
circulated relative to the arrest of
Gould, and it's connection with the Chi
cago and Northwestern corner. The
story, as it gained circulation, was that
the Erie company had determined to
arrest Gould again, that he might be
held in greater bail than one million.
This was contradicted in several quar-
tiers, but there seemed to be no ade-
quate grounds either for the assertion
or denial. Watson, President OF the
Erie, stated that it was the intention
to nave the bail made large enough to
in some way guard against Gould's run
ming away, but that was his only oh
ject, and totally disconnected with
stock jobbing. Watson thought that
one million was sufficient bail for the
present, although he deprecated the
custom of diminishing bail, as the pro
Ihere is much interest manifested con
corning the events of tomorrow in
Wall street, and the anxiety in regard
to the course of the market is intense. .
The World says " We are greatly
mistaken III the character of Mr. Wat
son if, having once grappledwth this
crying curse to our country in the per
son of one of its most notorious repre-.
sentatives, he does not keep his hold
with bulldog tenacity until he has
brought his quarry to the earth,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
African Exploration.

At meeting of the Royal Geographic
cal Society in London, November II,
the President, Major General Sir Hen
ry Rawlinson, said in his inaugural
- Let it be understood, once for all,
that there is not the remotest ground
for questioning the accuracy of Mr.
Stanley's statement of his meeting with
Livingstone. SO satisfied are Living
stones friends in England that the Lu
alaba River is identical with the Con-
go, that they have originated an indie
pendent relief expedition, to be called
the Livingstone Congo Expedition,
which will rendezvous at st. Paul de
Loanio, and have the cordial support
of the Portuguese authorities. The
Court of Lisbon are very DESTROYS to
open the Congo to civilized trade
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
I he Navy.

The Navy Department will soon offer
for sale, in accordance with the act of
last session, large number of I'M
serviseable vessels for which there can
be no further use, and which are not
worth the cost of maintenance. The
Board of Inspection have designated
among the vessels to be thus disposed
CT the Delaware and Guerrero, which
will be sold on the 10Th of December :;
and, in addition, the Niagara, first
class Iowa, Nevada, Illinois, and Sew
ern, of the second; and Nantucket
and Resaca, of the third, The iron
clads Algona, Catskill. Chickasaw,
Cohoes, Elijah, Hero, Wis, Jason, Kena-
din, Klamath, Koka, Lehigh, Marietta,
Minnetonka, Madoc, Montauk, Nahant,
Nantucket, Napa, Nansett, Niobe, Osce-
ola, Otsego, Piscataqua, Sandusky,
Shawnee. Tensgua, Wassuc, Yazoo, ard
Yoma, all of which are now LAID up ut
the various navy yards, and also on the
list for sale, and will be disposed of as
rapidly as convenient. All of these
iron-clads are past further use for
any purpose, and valuable only
for the iron and material which
they contain. From ten to twenty
thousand dollars each is all they are
expected to realize. The Department
will also discharge large proportion
of It's workmen in the navy yards and
reduce its expenses for the remainder
of the year. From one.third to one
fourth of the force in the Charlestown
yard will probably be relieved at an
early date 1t is understood that the
Department will ask next year for S10,-
Q00, 600, of which one-halt will be ex-
pended in the construction of ten
steam sloops of war, which it is conf.
IDENTIFY expected Congress, early in the
next session, will authorize.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
THE DEVIL FISH.
Capture ofUne at Bona vista.A Curfos.
ity Of Natural History.

ity OF Natural History.
Abiding to the report that in Bona.
vista harbor gigantic cuttle-fsh was
captured, measuring thirty feet from
the tip of the horns to the extremity of
the tail, and having bill, the top of
which resembles that of the largest
eagle, and the under part that of par.
rot, correspondent of the st, John
On. s. Telegraph says:
If the captor of this thirty-feet
cutie could have procured enough rum
to preserve it (no easy job certainly, it
would have been a fortune to him.
Barnum and Agassiz would bid against
each other furiously for possession of
the creature, and the managers of the
British Museum would have sent out
an agent to compete. Perhaps the
highest bidder of all, provided he is in
pocket just now, would have been Vic
tor Hugo; as he could confront the
world with this, and prove that his
celebrated devil fish, in the 'Toilers Of
the Sea-, is no fanciful creature, and
that fact is stronger than fiction. )
That some specimens of the cuttle-tish
have attained enormous dimensions is
well established. In oriental tales.
they are represented as throwing their
arms over ships hull, and dragging
her Under water; and some of the older
naturalists accepted these stories as
true. There are, however, we'll
authenticated instances of divers in the
Indian seas having been caught in the
long, 1.-THE arms of this fish, with their
cold adhesive powers, and held by the
monster in its clammy embrace till life
was extinct. Nothing can be more hor-
rible and repulsive than one of the large
cuttle-tish, with it's fabby, corpse like
freshness, its livid hue that comes and
goes so strangely, its uncouth agility
and its ghastely green eyes that are
enough to paralyze its victim. It's head
protrudes from muscular sac, and is
distinct from the body. The mouth is
armed with a pair of homey mandibles,
resembling the bill of parrot. Sur
rounding the mouth are the tentacular
appendages or arms, which serve at once
! for instruments of locomotion and or
gans for Selling and holding of prey.
! They are eight IN number, each being
supplied with double row of sucking
| disks, which act on the principle of a
cupping glass, and beng applied to
any surface, adhere to it, at the will
of the animal, with such force that it is
easier to tear away the substance of the
limb than release it from its attachment.
Each of it's eight arms carries one hun
bred and twenty pair of sucking disks.
Flinging out pair of these tentacula,
the cutie seizes its victim which, in its
struggles, comes in contact with more
and more of the fatal disks in success
sion, till it is powerless in the grip OF
its enemy, whose sharp, horny beak
soon tears it to peces. am inclined to
think that the correspondent has been
accurate in his measurements, or has
accepted secondhand statements. This
much, however, is certain-that .
gigantic cutie has been captured, o.
dimensions sufficiently large enough to
satisfy the most devoted lover of the
marvellous.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
A Malt House Destroyed by a Dog,
From the n. Y. Sun Of Thursday.

From the n. \. sun OF Iuursuh!'
Yesterday morning large woody
dog in Schmidt & AlteAbrandt's malt
house, Mt North Seventh and Sixth
streets, Williamsburgh, set fire to the
building, entailing damage OF $50,
600. The dog persisted in the flames,
In the RUNS his charred carcass was
visible. One of the proprietors of the
malt house pointed to the object, say
ing. There is the fellow who caused
the ruin. When we stop work he was
always placed in the furnace room,
where he rolls himself up to sleep IN
front of the fire; being woolly fellow,
his hair took fire, aud he rushed into
the drying room, communicating the
flame to the combustibles stored IL
there.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
Boston Pluck.

Four weeks ago the Unitarian Asso-
citation OF Boston voted $50, 900 for tho
erection of new church of this denoml-
nation in Washington. Fearing that the
late fire would interfere with the large
appropriation, the local Secretary in
Washington wrote to ascertain If this
money would be forthcoming in view Of
their great calamity. An answer was
Immediately received to the effect that
the fire would make no difference what
ever w,th tie intended donation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
WINTER is now fairly upon us. an

WINTER is now fairly upon us, and
the teams are fastening to the lumber woods
in various parts of the country. Our advice
to every man who goes to the woods, be he
captain, cook, teamster or any other man, is
to take along good stock of JshasoH's A,eo-
dyne Liniment and Parsons PlUgatire PiRS.
Many months Of labor lin the aggregated may
be saved by this precaution.
BAD enough to look and feel bad yourself !;
but no excuse tor having your horse look and
feel badly, when for small sum you can buy
She,iddn's CdpdIry Condition Po,cdrS, which
given in gram two or three times a week will
make him look and feel well.-Com.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

RURAL BEAUTIES AND CITY BELLIES
Country girls not whit behind their metropoli-
sisters in the natural elements of loneliness, bat
it must be conceded that the city bellies best under
stand the art of preserving and heightening ther
personal beauty The perfect features lose half
their attraction unless the complexion Is properly
cared for and If the pretty girls of the rural districts
wish compete with the Fairstars of the fashion
able world in refined attractions. they must pay due
attention 10 this important point. They ought TO
know for the fact is notorious, that HAGAN's MAG
SoLIA BALM imparts to the skin a delicate, pearig
appearance sunproducaule by any other preparation
under the sun. No matter how the cuticle may have
been roughened by exposure or by the SUM-
the Balm will render it soft and pable. and removes
blemish.-l)om,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
Suburban New York.

Quite spirited contest is goin. on
at the present moment in the thriving
towns of West Farms, Yonkers, Morris
ania and West Chester, as to whether
they shall be consolidated under one
government, or continue their individ-
ual existence. Morrisania includes no
less than ID separate villages, West
Farms has 10, and West Chester and
Yonkers as many more. All have sep
arate municipal government, with a
separate Indebtedness from $500 to a
S1,000,000 One party favors the con-
solidation of towns, and an independ-
ent government, while another pro-
poses to annex the whole to New York
at once, and possess the privileges OF
that city--the right to gas, water, po'
lice and municipal govecnment-with-
out separate expense The subject
will come before the New York Legis-
lature this winter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

QUEBEC is to-day the most quaint
looking city on the North American
continent, with its ancient cathedrals,
churches, converts, monasteries and
market places; its little, old-fashioned
and dilapidated dwellings,, low one and
two story houses, plastered and painted
both in white and dlngy colors, with
bright green shutters and high and
steep red tile or bright implanted tin
roofs, with queer little dormer windows
peeping out of them, and tall chin
neys topping high over the gable ends.
The business thoroughfares have some
solid stone buildings fronting on them,
but few of which are of modern de-
sign.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
Mains.
BY EMMA LAZARUS.

Gray earth, gray mist, gray sky f:
~sTbrough yapors hurrying by,
Larger than wont, on high
Floats the horned, yellow moon.
Chill airs are family stirred,
And far away is heard,
Of some fresh-wakeued bird,
The querulons, sbrill tune.
The dark mist hides the face
OF the dim land no trace
Of rock or rivers place
In the thick air is drawn;
But dripping grass smells sweet,
And rustling branches meet,
And sounding waters greet
The slow, sure, sacred dawn.
Past is the long black night,
WI h its keen lightnings white,
Thunder and floods new light
The glimmering low east streaks.
The dense clouds part between
Their Jagged rents are seen
Pale reaches blue ana green,
AS the mirk curt ain breaks.
Above the shadowy world,
Still more and more unturled
The gathered mists upcurled
Like phantoms melt and pass.
In clear-obscuro revealed
Brown wood gray stream, dark field
Fresh, healthy odors yield
Wet burrows, flowers and grass.
The sudden, splendid CLEAN
OF one tim, golden beam
Shoots from the feathcred rim
OF yon hill crowned with woods.
Down its ombowered side,
As living waters slide,
So the great morning tide
Follows in sunny floods.
From bush and hedge and tree
JOY, unrestranod and free,
Breaks forth in melody,
Twitter and chnp and song:
Alive the fcstal ali
With sauzc-wingcd creatures fair,
That flicker everywhere,
Dart, poise aud flash along.
The shining mists are gone,
Slight films Of gold awift-blown
Before the strong, bright sun
Or the dcep-colorcd sky;
A world OF life and glow
Sparkles and basks below,
Wherc the soft mcals arrow,
Hoary Will dcw-iall, lie.
Docs not the morn break thus,
Swift, bright, victorious,
With new skies cleared for u,
Over the soul storm-tost?
Her night was long and deep,
Strange visions yeXcd her sleep,
Strange SORROWS babe her weep,
Her faith in dawn was lost.
No halt, no rest for her,
The immortal waudcror
From sphere to higher sphere,
Toward the pure source of day.
The new light shamcs her fears,
Her taithlossness, her tears,
As the new sun appears
70 light her godlike way.
-LPpncoH's Magazine.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

The SUPREME QUESTION. il
the most important of earthly bless
ings, and therefore the nervous anxiety
of the sick to ascertain the relative
merits of the various medicines in use
is not surprising. With the last two
years many thousands of invaiids have
abandoned the preparations of the
pharmacopolist for the remedy intro.
duced by Dr. Walker, of California.
under the'somewhat eccentric name of
VINEGAR BrrTERs. That this new Veg
etable medicine is winning golden
opinions of all sorts of people" is be-
You'd doubt. The accounts we hear
of its extraordinary effects in cases of
chronic dyspepsia, rheumatism, liver
complaints, malarious fevers, nervous
prostrations and many other distress
ing diseases, certainly justify the pop.
ularty which it has everywhere ac-
CURED
DIR. Walker claims for his specific a
remedial power over all disorders that
do not involve an irreparable destruc.
ton of bone and fibre, and results SO
far appear to have justified the claim.
In this age of wonders we are not dis
posed to deny the possibility of any
phenomena not directly at variance
with the laws of nature, and as it. is
held by many Psychologists that all
maladies proceed from the same gene.
ric cause, we see no reason for the in
credulity with which some people re-
gard the idea of Universal Medicine.
DR.. Walkers preparation seems des-
tined 20 be universally approved.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

If YOU WISH to purchase tickets to or
from Europe, or draft on Great Brit
ain and the Continent, address +. Il.
MCCLURE & Co., Bankers and General
Passage Agents, 365 East Water street,
Milwaukee,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
The Signal Service.

With the view of diminishing the
expenses of the signal service, and at
the same time possessing the power of
suddenly increasing the number of
stations from which reports are to be
had i'll any section of the country which
may at any season of tho year be espe-
cially threatened by storms, which at
different seasons seem to pass more
frequently over particular portions of
the territories OF the United States, the
organization of a moblhzed corps of
observers has been commenced. This
corps, which viii consist of picked
men, skillul and chosen for their
special fitness for its contemplated
duties, will be equipped with
portable apparatus comprising all in
strumonts that Will be required for use
at any station to which they may be
suddenly ordered. The stations will
be properly occupied in each section
OF the country IN reference to the
storms to which that section is hahitu-
ally exposed ut particular seasons, and
will be designated in advance and pro-
per telegraph connections for those
stations be previously arranged. 1t
will be possible to occupy in this way
the stations with great rapldity. The
period of danger for which they may
be occupied being passed, they win be
abandoned, and the force LETT free to
be transferred for the protection OF
other sections whose seasons Of danger
may be then approaching.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

THE Coroner's jury in the Van sickel
poisoning case, in Brooklyn, n. T.,
found the effects of poisoning by arse
mic administered to her in tea by her
hus band, John Van Sickel.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

Iratc parent to dandy son" Oh
YER don't want to go into business,
don't yer, o. yer want to be a clerk
in the post -hoflice, do yer Post-hof-
fee, indeed Why, all you're mt for
Is to stand houtside with your tongue
hont fCT people 20 Wet the stamps
against.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

Mrs. ELKNs, ageI 70, lately drove
her own team, with load OF apples,
from Jackson, n. H., through the
Pinkham Notch of the White Noun
tains to Guildhall, Vt. cage cannot
two
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

A FRENCH society has decided that it
prolongs the lives and increases the
happiness of dogs to make them work.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
CONSERVATIVES, READ

Would you that distressing cough, and bring
back that healthy yigor till lately planted IN your
cheek II you wouls do not delay for, ere you are
aware, it will be too late.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

The Princess MathiIde, who was ex.
tremely partial to Theophile Gautier.
went 70 zee him laid out after death.
and vept abnuJantly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
\ CHALLENGE

s extended to the rorti to place before the public
i better cough or lung remedy tnan ALIENS
LUNG BALSAM.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
CAUTION.

Re not deceived. Call for ALIENS LUNG BAL
"a Directions accompany each bottle
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM

Is your hope It has been tried by thousands such
you who have been cured many, in their gratitude,
have lent their names 10 us that suffering humanity
can read their evidence and believe. Don't expert
rnent with new and untried mix ures-you cannot al
ford itbu try al this invaluable article. II Is
warranted TO break up the most troublesome cough
in few hours il not too long standing II Is war
ranted to give entire satisfaction in all cases OF lung
and throat difficulties.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
J.N. HARRIS 4 CO, Cincinnati. o

.r- Sold BY all Medicine Dealers
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12


nm lamps FxprcroRAsr is both palliative ana
curative in all Lung Complaints brone l'..7'
i. standard remedy for Coughs ana 1'4-' az
uesds only : s-tlI = pr'vaiss Toyt2-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12

warranted to break up the most troublesome cough
in few hours il not OF too long standing IL i war
ranted give entire satisfaction in all cases OF lung
and throat difficulties.
UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE or ITS MERITS.
READ THE FOLLOWING.
WHAT WELL KNOWN DRUGGIS $ SAY
ABOUT ALIENS LUNG BALSAM.
SPRINGFIELD TENN, Sept. II, ls'5.
GENTLEMEN: Ship six dozen Aliens Lung bal
sam at once We have a bottle LETT in our store
II has more reputation than ans cough medlclx We
have ever sold, and have been in the drug busl.
ness twenty seven years; we mean Just what we Say
about the Balsam.
Very truly yours, ...,.r.r
HURT TANNER.
AGAIN RFAD THE EVIDENCE from Druggist
who cured by of the Balssrn ana no" sei'9 1t
largely ,... ,,4.h{r.,
t. G. Cottren. Druggist at Marine City, Mchlggan'
writes SEPT ~ 1871 :" am out OF Aliens Lung pa
sam send me half gross IS soon as on Can / 49, ~
rather be out OF any other medistne IN my store ~
Lung BslsSm never fails to do good FOR those aiic'su
with cough
Itis Harmless. to the most delicate child
II contains no opium in any torn. .
IL is sold by Medicine-dealerS generally
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-12
UNSOLICITED EVIDENCE OF IT'S MERITS.

WHAT WELL KNOWN DRUGGIS ; SAY
ABOUT ALIENS LUNG BALSAM.
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