Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-04


l hasten to bring you my words of cheer
To join the 'all haiin for scventy-two,
And hope ii be full Of gladness for you
Every one. | cannot attempt tn tell,
What the future may bring of good or i'll
For through it lies in the elcarest light
To Him above, Ills just out of my sight.
So I'll only wish the days as they pass,
May bear to the lad and alike to the lass,
To the ma;ron and maid, the father and son,
A harvest Of JOY thro' the year just begun.
But let me not as pass along,
Forget the Old year, in my greeting song
For though it is dead, to revive no more,
It's memories linger; full many score
Ofdays that were joyous, scenes that were
rare
When Spring came in with its bal1ly air,
Bringing the birds and fragrant flowers
Tocrown with beauty the woodland bowers
When the Summer sent over hill and plain
lis scorchng heat-BUr NEGLECTED. THE
RAIN,
TIL poor mother earth lost much Of her
grace,
For lack of soft water to cleanse her face
When autumn, not barren, Though scant of
store,
Ushured in Winter, with crown of hoar
The year that's gone, like each that went
before.
Hath left its mark--as waves do on the shore
Millions # human hearts lis impress bear,
In grieis untold, that all the nations share
And homes iorlorn, and wasted fields, fire
stained
And cities razed, where wealth ana a1uencc
reigned;
And fortunes lost, and prospects dimmed,
and waste
OF years Of toll are marks not so-n eiIaccd
From the history of the old, last year.
FOR years 10 come these frc-sp)ts viii ap
pear.
POLITICAL,
'Tis cause for warm and mutual graduation ;
Viewing The political stuation,
To find that all is well ; the prospect cheer
FIJI
To all save the "Cops," who seem to be
fearful
That their chances are slim fprV7rccess in
future,
Having made nary vote by their new depar
taIc.
In the Badger State, Washburn walked
DER the course,
The Earnest Man" beating, as John Ross
horse
Would beat any "scrub" But old Iowa
County,
Owing to roor backs, deccp,ons and bounti-
Ful dinners, elected Tom Patched, John
S;rachan,
And Bin Rowe to Office, DER three better
men.
flocal affairs lis not for me to tell,
As the county papers have done that so well
As to leave me little ornothing to say
Save to repeat things which week by week
they
Have told you in prose, eyccling my verse,
(Which, frankly acknowledge to be much
worse
Than Shakspearc's, or Byrep's or Milton's,
or Pope'a,
For the fact is my muse does not "lnow the
ropcs.v
You all know well, how with court man
damuses,
Through fault Of Williams or i~Horamuscs)
We've been loaded down, could collect no
taxes,
Until of late, when by some sharp practices
We've managed to dodge the law and the
marshal
And renew civil government a. least par,
tnl;
And now for time, we may feel "rrec and
easy"
Though the Bondholdcrs still are urgent and
busy.
ofMincral Point there's much that migat be
said,
If had time to write or You to read;
But I'll merely mention that our old town,
AS l have noticed wandering up and down
So many times last year almost three score,
Tocarry theTRlBUNE promptly 10 your door,
las held her own, and gained a little, TO.
in all pccts-and greatly in Il few.
The business is mostly Done upon the square,
But that It's squarey done | cannot swear
rather think there's some "closc shaving
done
Now and then, and little bit for fun.
OF NIL the work I've seen within my walks
TIE best are the Gundry Gray and Puford
blocks
To itcmize further is not necessary,
Besides, dear friends, I'm in a great hurry.
And 20 must coDc'ude May all wo.k this
year
Bring TO each ono Of yoa much profit and
cheer