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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
FlOrida's Debt.

If every embarrassed Southern State
would initiate the course of Florida, there
would at least be no doubt AS to the con-
dltlon of its finances. Florida has lust
published an account of its debt. We
presume that ii is perfectly accurate, and
1t shows that the whole liability of the
State is under S5,000,000. Ofthis amount
$1,000 900 are bonds guaranteed for rail
way objects If the railway succeeds,
the State will not be obliged to pay the
interest. Hence the actual debt is less
than $4,000 900, while the valuation of the
State at a low figure is over $50 600 900
The result is not discouraging for com
munity that for ten years has been raw
aged by violent rebellion. by long
reign of ku-kluX outrages, and a res0-
luse persistence on the part of the Democ-
racy to ruin the reputation and the pros
perlty of the State. Nowhere were the
acts OF the Democratic associations more
infamous or more bloody than in Florida.
Human nature will forever blush at the
eard-ofimmoralities and cruelties Of
many OF It's young men. But we believe
this period Of disorder is passing away,
that some sense of shame has reached
e. en- the most corrupt of the opposition
leaders, and that an immigration of wiser
State industry, decency, and humanity
The soil of Florida seems chiefly suited
for the cultivation of fruits and early vege-
tables for the Northern markets, and
as a winter resort for Northern invalids
But for the ceaselcss political dis
turbanccS and outrages it might already
have won large share of immigration,
and have seen its more fertile lands
teeming with semi-tropical productions.
There are, indeed no more valu-
able sites than the whole line of coast
from the Savannah swamps to the point
OF Florida tor the purposes Of winter res
licences, and for the practical and indus
triOus Cultivator. The indolent popula-
ton will pass of. The wasteful and idle
have no secure rcsting-place anywhere.
But II is probable that not many decades
will pass away before the thin and anguish
ing community that now family cultivates
its willing soil will be covered up in a
stream of immigration and renewed by a
foreign intermiXture.
The sooner this change can be brought
about the better for the welfare of all its
people, and the government of Florida
has already set useful example to other
States in the exhibition of its actual debt
and its prospects. We should be glad to
know more of its resources. 1t would be
satisfactory to all the people to hear what
railways 1t possesses, what is the product
OF its agriculture, how far good order is
preserved in its midst, whether the des-
perate men who once ruled its politics
have been punished or suppressed
whether honesty and economy have been
introduced into its finances, and whether
the country is yet sufficiently quoted to
welcome the return Of orderly citizens.
There is, no doubt, a necessity for a rigor-
Gus reform of morals and education in
most of the Southern States before they
can deserve confidence.-Haper's Weekly
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Swiss Law for Collecting Debt.

AMONG the customs which would seem
to have remained unchanged since the
Oath of Grutli, must be reckoned the
mode in which dstraint for debt is man
aged in Canton Schwyz. On judgment
being delivered, the officer of the court re-
pairs to the debtor and effects the dis
traint. This is done in accordance to
form which provides that household
goods are the last to be touched ANYTHING
else which can be found about the dwell
ing being primarily liable. The articles
thus taken possession of are valued by the
legal appraiser, and when their amount is
ascertained TO be sufficient TO satisfy the
claim, they are sent off bodily to the cred
itor, no attempt being made to convert
them into money by sale at auction or
otherwise.
1t need perhaps hardly be added that
such system is not very popular among
creditors. A Lucerne tailor having sued
well-to-do Sch0yzer for 40 francs, was
surprised TO receive, one morning, per
steamer, two old portable stoves. Another
creditor recently received an old carriage,
IN lieu of the interest on a mortgage; and
third was accommodated with a load of
stone, in answer to his demand for pay
ment. 1t is also reported that a doctor,
resident in canton Zurich, sued a man in
Schwyz, and was awarded a quantity of
manure. Angry at this mode of payment
he emptied the stuff in a neighboring
stream, and for this act Of contempt of
court was duly fined 1t was doubtless
wrong TO detile the stream, yet one can
not wholly refrain from sympathizing
with the enraged doctnr.-SJciSs Times
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Tricks on Farmers.

Three or four weeks ago two men trav-
eled through Wayne County pretending
that they wanted to establish township
libraries, which were to be kept at some
farmers house, and the books loaned out
free Of cost Calling upon wealthy
farmer they would ask if he would take
charge of the library. If he would, they
asked him to write his name on a piece of
paper which was 'to be sent into Detroit
to the County Auditors" The fellows
then cut the sheet into slips, turned them
over and wrote a note of hand on the
other side, leaving the farmers name to
back it. They served half a dozen or
more farmers this way, writing notes of
$50 or 500, to run thirty days, and sign
ing any name they pleased, so long as the
note had good Endorsement. Two of
these notes were shaved in Detroit, and
their wOrthlessness was not aScertaincd
until yesterday. The fellows are doubt
less making a like tour through some
other portion of the State at the present
time. People cannot be too careful how
they put their signatures to papcr.-De.
tr0it Free Press.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
The Wear and Tear of Life.

The cares, anyieties and misf0rtunes of life have
much TO do with shortening it as disease. They
in fact the source of many ailments and physl-
cal disabilities. Nervous weakness. dyspepsia,
affections of the liver disturbances of the bowels,
headaches, hypochondria and monomania are
among these distressing fruits. Ii il. therefore, of
great importance that persons whose minds are OPP
pressed with heavy business responsibilities, or
harassed by family troubles, or excited byspecula-
ton perplexcd by multiplicity of enterprises, or
in any way overtaxed or oyerworked, should keep
up their stamina by the daily Use of a wholesome
tonic. Thousands of persons thus circumstanced
are enabled 10 bear up against the difficulties in
which they are involved, and to retain their
strength, health and mental clearness, by the
regular of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Dis
eases which are prone TO attack The body when de-
bilitated and broken down by over-much brain
work, eXhausting physical labor, are kept at
bay by the resistant power with which
this Incompatible tonic endows the nery-
Gus system and the vital organs. At this season.
when the heat is cooperating the elements of
strength from every pore. an inylgorant il alb
soluely essential to the safety and comfort of the
public and is required even by the more robust if
they desire to keep their athletic capabilities in
status quo. Hence a course of Uostetter's Bittcrs
is particularly useful at this period of the year
defense against the invisible disease afoat III a
sultry atmosphere. II Is the most potent of all
preventive medicines. and for all complaints which
affect the stomach. the liver and the bowels, and
interfere with the perfect digestion and assimila-
ton of food ii is the standard remedy
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Something About Lace.

IT has been wondered at by persons I'M
acquainted with Responsibilities of mech
anism that machine made lace should be
so inferior to that made by hand 1t is
not only true that it is, but that, for vari-
Gus reasons, it must always continue in
ierior. In lacc-making it is essential that
the ends of the thread be loose Now, UNI
til machine has been devised which will
pick up these loose ends as a Devonshire
lace maker or a Belgian nun does, it is
useless 10 expect from the automatic ma
chine the SotneSS and elasticity, the even
ness OF thread, or grace of pattern which
comes from intelligent fingers. | do not
desire To snub the machine made gimps
and fringeS that give style to English
and American ladies' dresses. which the
traveller misses so much as he proceeds
through Europe toward the East but they
are not lace.
There are but four real classes of lace
although the specialtieS of different coun-
tries are innumerable. Point pillow.
drawn, and applique are the generic kinds
of lace proper, and the name Of each, to a
woman's understanding, designates how it
is made Point lace. indeed, meaning
made by the needles point, is untrue to
its name since it is partly pillow twisted,
but pillow lace, drawn lace, and applique
lace are what their names indicate.
OF. drawn lace and applique lace no de
scription is needed. OF pillow lace the
usual method of work is thus Upon
the pillow, which is nearly globular, a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
The Lie Of n Lifetime.

y solicitor of the town of Ross, in Here
tordshire, England, named j. III Skyrme.
died suddenly n few weeks ago. Few men,
to all appearances, are more sincerely
mourned than he was. All the newspapers
IN the neighbOrhood published laudatory
obituaries; societies passed resolutions of
respect and coincidence; the shops of the
town were closed on the day of his
funeral He was reported to be rich and
had been universally respected. There
was apparently no doubt, nor reason for
any, that the life which had just closed
had been an unusually honorable and
prosperous one; and yet the necessary in
vestigation of his affairs revealed almost
Immediately that he was very far from
such man as his neighbors and friends
had supposed. His whole life had been a
lie, and his business transactions were
based on forgery. Pretending to make in
VestmentS for his clients, he had APP
propriated their money to his own use.
ana imposed sham mortgages upon them
as a pretended security for their loans
tie had also forged other papers, had
pledged his clients title-deeds, and left his
bank account overdrawn to the amount of
twenty thousand pounds. Almost all his
neighborS were his victims, and he left
no assets. He is now supposed to have
poisoned himself to avoid exposure. which
could not have been far off
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Preserving Summer Butter.

/ PROMISED, when telling you how my
wife kept her eggs good all winter, to
tell you how she used to keep butter
sweet and good from summer to the next
spring. 1t is short story, and true
one. When butter was plenty and good
in summer time we had more than we
could use, but we did not sell it to the
country storekeeper at the lowest prices
of the year, prices that were ruled by the
miserable quality of most of the stuff we
bought for butter-nor did we buy rancid
roll or tirkin butter at twice that price the
next winter She made brine that
would bear an egg-that is, brine with
salt enough in ii to make its specific gray
ity about the same as an eggs. The egg
should Just float at the surface of the
brine and not above it. This brine was
boiled and skinned to cleanse it of any
impurities in the salt; and about one tea
spoonful of saltpeter Qevel measure) was
put to two gallons of brine. The brine,
being put into the vessel to be used, was
now ready to receive the butter.
OF course the butter must be good in
all respects, or no method will preserve
it even as good as it is but this method
has the great merit of not allowing
bad lot of one week to spoil good lot
of another week
Roll the butter into Jumps of from one
to five pounds, and carefully wrap it up
in a rag or cloth, which should be
secured by string Then drop il into
the brine, and keep it under with a board
and light weight upon it. Next week
do the same way, and so on just as long
as you please. Be sure that it is kept
under the brine-my wife insists on
that point as common failure; SO | re-
peat it.
By this method, which am sure is not
new, one lot of butter is not disturbed by
the putting in or taking out of another;
and that the butter can be kept about as
good as it went in l can testify. We do
not use the method now, because we can
always, here in Delaware Co, n. Y, get
good butter in the market all the year
round, and we do not now make our own
butter, and perhaps do not feel quite the
same necessity for economy as we did
twenty light years ago; but in any local
ity where there are not dairymen of skill,
who produce fine article of butter at
any season, the method is truly valuable.
Cor. Of C0l}trU Gentleman
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31

WITH several years close observation
and experience, we have come to regard
late spring, and on into midsummer the
most favorable season of the year for
pruning in this Misunderstanding with the
season north or south. After the tree is
warmed into new lite from its winter rest,
the sap in full flow, and the tree fairly in
leaf, the sooner the wound is made, the
more readily and soundly will it close over
with new growth of wood If pruning
be done, as much of it should be, at a
time when the bark slips, care should be
taken against loosening it, or if loosened,
or bruised, To pare it off smooth. The IA
cility with which the process OF healing
takes place and goes on, depends material
~ upon the smoothness of the rim of the
wound.
Nothing like specific instruction or di-
rections can be given in pruning. SO it
appears 10 Us, for we find no operation. in
the care and growth of an orchard that
taxes our judgment and skill more. To
our mind, the subject can be spoken of
only in a general way-that every one
who undertakes to properly prune a tree,
must, in the main, lean upon his own
judgment. We would say, cut out
smoothly all weak and Struggling branch
eS, and all that appear likely to rub or
otherwise seriously interfere with their
better fellows during the future growth of
the tree. Take off all water-sppOUts, vher-
ever found, whether springing up from
the roots of the tree or ont from the main
trunk and branches
If trees are set very full of fruit, we do
not hesitate to remove some of it with the
branches which ought to be taken out.
What is left will be improved. both in
size and quality. When branches, two
inches or SO, are removed the wound
should receive a thin coating of waxen
liquid that will adhere and resist the eff
fleets of the weather When pruning
either orchard or nursery trees, late in the
fall, or in winter. for cions, or for any
other object, we invariably leave a stump
OF the limb or twig, an inch or more in
length, to be shortened in close to the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Transplanting in Windy Weather.

| HAVE always found it a difficult mat
ter to make workmen understand the i'm
portance of protecting the roots of plants
that were being transplanted in windy
weather. Small, delicate plants are soon
destroyed if exposed to the hot sun and
drying winds. Large trees. will also be
greatly injured if exposed only for an
hour, and many fine healthy specimen
has been destroyed by exposure while "a
hole was being dug for its reception. |
have seen trees scattered about over field
in the morning, and there left exposed to
drying winds until planted, the same or
the following day. If the trees died or
failed to make a good growth, the nursery
men, soil or season were blamed, butnever
word said about carelessness at the time
o, transplanting.
One morning last spring | passed a gen
tleman'S place where one of our would be
great landscape gardeners was surperin-
tending the planting of a choice lot of
evergreen and other trees, which had just
arrived from well-knOwn nursery. Not
hole had been dug, or other preparations
for planting made, but trees were scatter
ed over the place, each specimen thrown
down near where it was to be planted :;
not a root covered or even sprinkled with
W dtti hitiIOu8H tIC W llIti SdS DIoNIllg dl-
most a hurricane at the time. Late in the
evening | passed that way again; the
larger portion of the trees were still lying
in the same position, only a very few hav-
ing been planted. | learned, few months
after, that the trees had died, and the pur-
chaser refused to pay for them, and | be
lieve the case is still in the courts. This
is but one instance in hundreds that have
come under my rather limited experience
noticing what my neighbors are doing :;
consequently, do not always feel like
taking sides against the nurserymen, even
if they do sometimes make mistakes our
posely or otherwise in filling orders for
trees.
Too much care cannot be given to the
protection of the roots of trees while being
transplanted. They should always be
kept covered with some damp material
such as hay, straw, moss or old cloth, and
not be uncovered till the moment arrives
to place them in the soil. 1t is to care
lessness in such matters that most people
are indebted for the greater part of their
failures in tree planting-C0r Rural Nelc
IorIFT
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
Inc Republican Candidate for Cover
nor of Minnesota.

AT the close of the proceedings of the
Convention which nominated him for
Governor OF the State, Mr. Davis was
called for. After expressing his thanks
for the distinguished honor conferred
upon him, he said:
u am not informed, except by report,
what sentiments are expressed by your
resolutions But | doubt not that it is
correctly stated that you, in your sover-
eign capacity, sitting here in your prim-
airy councils, have expressed your disap-
proval OF the backpay appropriation, and
have demanded upon that subject such
legislative action as will demonstrate that
dormant conscience has been started
into life.
Upon such platform / am proud to
stand Its sentiments are the expression
OF my private thoughts, and | give them
here my public approval
L nave also been informed that you had
she forethought to consider other matters
whlchaie before us in the way Of duty as
party. and that you have spoken in no
uncertain tones ofthe political relations of
corporate monOpolies to the State. This
Is wise. 1t is in vain that we attempt to
Ignore their existence and their potential
force. When the lapse of time shall have
thrown into their proper perspective the
events which mark the origin and devel-
opment of the Republican party a philo-
sophie generalization, reducing its sub
Ject to its last analysis, will state that the
distinguishing characteristic of our or
ganlzation is its struggle with mOnopo-
lies of various kinds.
ut first encountered monopoly Of po-
lltical power in the hands Of the South.
1t fought that power upon the plains of
Kansas, and it was broken and over
thrown in its peaceful aspect But it
soon changed its appeara ce to organize
war-the war of slavery, incorporate
upon the indissoluble rights of man; and
our principles were once more triumphant.
With the coming of peace, it found in the
hands of the class which had formerly
been dominant in the south still another
exclusive right-the right to rule; and it
changed all that, so that, in that respect,
all men stood free and erect before their
Maker"
"OW duty in this direction is not vet
done. We stand today in the presence
of other corporate federations, which, I'M
like slavery, are not wrong in themselves,
but are simply wrong in their abnormal
tendency to encroach upon political
power. They have unquestionably been
the cause of a wider and more luxurious
civilization than mankind ever before en-.
joyed. They are also invested with many
chartered rights. But it is too true that
their propensities are to overbear the
Judicial, the representative and executive
departments of the Government Upon
these their subtle control is far too great
"A popular sentiment demands that
these evils be checked; but always, be il
remembered, with careful regard that We
commit no revolutionary violence upon
rights secured and sanctioned"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31

An ACT OF JUsTICE-DOubting Castle
was sad stumbling block in the path of
Bunyan's Christian, thought it couldn't
bar his way to Truth. We can sympathize
with the Pilgrim, for Doubt ALWAYS besets
us when we are asked to believe ANYTHING
particularly extraordinary. Consequent-
ly, when we heard, some eighteen months
ago, that physician in California had
compounded, from the juices and extracts
of certain herbs found there, medicine
that cured almost every variety of blood
disease, we were incrcdulous. Since then
we have had opportunities of testing the
accuracy of the report, and are free to adj
nit that our doubts have vanished Seeing
what we have seen, knowing what we
know, it is impossible for Us to question
the remedial properties Of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs. That this famous veg
etablc Tonic, Alternative, and Antiseptic is
a specific for Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint,
Chronic Constipation, Fever and Ague,
Bilious lntermittents, ScrofulOus faint in
the Blood, Incipient Consumption, Local
and General Debility, Rheumatism, Sick
Headache, and Diseases of the Kidneys,
seems to be a matter beyond the pale of
controversy fired fact IN n1edicM his
tory. The statements of friends, in whose
veracity and intelligence we have full CON
fidence, corroborated by our own personal
observation, compel Us TO admit the sur
passing merits Of the preparation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31

THE PHRENOIOGICAL JOURNAL for
August contains an excellent variety of season
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The late Joseph Howe, Lieutenant Governor of
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Horace Wells and the Discovery of An@sthesia
How to Use Phrenology; Living to Work as.
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Agricultural Hints: Progress i'll Virginia; Hand
some Faces and Bad Dispositions. etc. This valu-
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31

GoDEY's LADY's Book for August con-
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and wood, a beautiful colored fashion plate, ex-
tension sheet of the latest fashions design for
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valuable Work Department. is profuscly illustra-
ted. The literary contents are excellent and the
number, taken as a whole, is very attractive one
The beautiful chrome of ''Our Darling will be
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whether a single subscriber for $500, or a club of
six for sl4.e0. Extra inducements are offered to
getters-up of clubs. Published by L. A. Cooley,
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31
The SCIENCE OF HEALTH for August

is an excellent number. 1t opens with illus
trated article the Care of Feet; The Confes-
sions of the late Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer are
given; Sins Against the Body; excellent article
Green Corn giving dozen more modes of
preparing this universally used article of food !;
Causes and Cure Of Summer Complaints; Health
Resorts in America: Signs of Madness in Dogs :;
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-07-31

main stem. at our usual time for pruning.
IT cut close when the tree is in a semi-dor
mant state, the wood checks, the surround
ing bark deadens and protracts the pro-
cess Of healing over-HorticuHuris