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Sewing Machine Sales For 1877.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
NUMBER 40.

remark: The man who wouldn't kick a
ilghtnlng-rod man wherever he finds one
Is unnt 10 enjoy the liberties for which
washington fought and Thomas Paine
wrote The justice had paid SIS 900 for
llghtnlngrods on his house last spring.
IHE number Of stars visible to the
naked eye In the entire circuit of the
heavens has been usually estimated at
about 5000. An ordinary opera-glass will
exhibit something like ten times that
number. y comparatively small telescope
easily shows 100000 while there are tel.
escopes in existence with which. there is
reason to believe not fewer than %, ,0O0, coo
stars are visible. And yet, when all of
these are seen and nun bered, the eye will
have visited but mere spcck in the il
limitable bounds of space.
A STORY is told of woman who freely
used her tongue to the scandal of others,
and made confession to the priest of what
she had done. He gave her ripe thistle
top, and told her to go out in various di-
rections and scatter the seeds, one by one.
Wondering at the penance, she obeyed,
and then returned and told her confessor.
To her amazement, he babe her go back
and gather the scattered seeds; and when
she objected that it would be impossible,
difficult to gather up and destroy all the
evil reports which she had circulated
about others.
A MDDLEFIELD farmer has "rastled"
severely, this year, with cabbage-worms.
When they first put in an appearance, he
gave them dose of slaked lime, followed
by lime unslaked, charcoal, pounded oys-
ter-shells, copperas water, hen manure,
carbolic acid, bromo chloralum, kerosene
ION the application of the latter "they
wriggled their tails and asked for more'')
magic oil, vermifuge, elixir pro- cough
syrup, anodyne llniment, sneeZing snuff,
several washes and dyes for the hair con-
dItlon powders, and various remedies of
the day, after which it was about IAN even
thing for the cabbage and worms. AS
last resort he gave them dose of sperm
OIL which eXterminated every worm, and
he has this year the best lot of cabbages
he ever raised in his life.
THE new discoveries in Egypt will add
plausibly to Wendell Phillips lecture on
the Lost Arts" 1t now appears that the
smelling of iron was carried on in Egypt
from the very earliest period. Mr. Charles
Vincent, in an English scientific Journal
sets forth some new facts in reference to
this subject: 'In the sepulchres of
Thebes may be found delineations of
butchers sharpening their knives on
round bars of iron attached to their
aprons. The blades of the knives are
painted blue, which fact proves that they
were OF STEEL for in the tomb of Rameses
III. this color is used to indicate steel,
bronze being represented by red. An
English gentleman has recently discover
ed near the wells of Moses, by the sea,
the remains Of iron works so vast that
they must have employed thousands of
workmen. Near the works are to be
found the ruins of a temple and of bar
rack for the soldiers protecting or keep
ing in order the workmen. These works
are supposed to be at least three thousand
wears old -
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02

step of the high stone flight, glaring at
one another A fight seemed imminent ;
we were well matched. l was the taller
and heavier, but Potts was more nimble
on his pins. At running, however, |
could beat him all hollow, and Potts
knew it, and knew, therefore, that fl .ght
would be useless unless he could pre-
viously disable me. But he was man
OF presence of mind, and preferred to ne
gotiate before the fighting
Look here" he said, rapidly, "I'm in
an awful hole. We've always been good
friends, and don't see that it can harm
you to keep your eyes shut for minute
while | get away"
| had taken him by the arm as he spoke,
and held him with grip so firm that he
did not need an answer He drew him
self together for dash at me, but waited
for an answer as l spoke.
''Pottsn' said, "your escape would be
my ruin; and I'll not let you go till I'm
dead
Potts looked at me amazed.
"What are the odds to you if l get out
of the clutches of lot of Jew swindlersg'
Simply, | shall have to pay your debts,
and be sold out stick and branch" :"
"On your honor, is it so?'
con my honor, it is''
Roberts, | had no idea of this. I'll
cave in. Don't hold me so tight. | give
you nay word III not bolt"
l took his word, and we walked up and
down the street for half an hour talking
over his affairs. Presently the car arrived,
and the bailitfs and | saw him safely
started for the county Jail.
Next day | resigned my office.
After that | acted as Potts solicitor,
and had the pleasure OF offering Moses
and Mosheim sixpence on the pound,
which they accepted and released Potts
| don't think they lost by him, either
they had plucked him pretty well, before
He's coming this week for the fishing; if
you're here you'll be glad to know him,
for you don't often come across a better
fellow than Capt Potts.-Betgrauia
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
A Warning to Lovers.

"METLDY, you are the most good-for-
nothin', tritlin', owdacious, contrary piece
that ever lived"
'Oh, mal' sobbed Matilda, Il couldn't
help myself-'deed l couldn't"
Couldn't help yourself? That's a
pretty way TO talk! Amt he a nice
young man?"
"Yes'm."
'Got money!"
"Yes'm"
"And good kinfolks?''
"Yes'm."
"And loves you to destrackshun
."Ies'm"
"Well, in the name o. common sense.
what did you send him home for?"
"Well, ma, if | must tell the truth,
must, l spose, though I'd rather die. You
see, ma, when he fetcht his cheer clost to
mine, and ketcht holt of my hand, and
squez it, and dropt on his knees, then it
was that his eyes rolled and he began
breathin' hard, and has galloanses kept q
c7eaki7a' and a creakln', till | thought in
my soul somethin' terrible was the matter
with his in'ards, his vitals and that fus-
tered and skeered me so that | bust out
a-cryin'. Seem me do that, he creaked
wOrse'n ever, and that made me cry hard
tl anu lllt udIucT L CIltu the ndTUtT ne
creaked, till all of a sudden it came to me
that it wasn't nOthin' but his gallowses /;
and then | bust out laughin' tit to kill
myself, right in his face. And then he
jumpt up and run out of the house mad as
fire; and he amt coming back no more.
Boo-hoo, ahoo, boo-how
"Metildy," said the old woman, stern
ly, 'stop sniv'lin' You've made an ev-
erlastin' fool of yourself, but your cake
amt all dough yet. 1t all comes of them
no count, fashionable sto' gallowses-
"spenders' believe they calls 'em. Never
mind, honey! I'll send for Johnny, tell
him how it happened, 'pologize to him,
and knit him a real nice pair of yarn gal
lowses, jest like your pas and they never
do creak."
"Yes, ma" said Matilda, Frightening G
up; ''but let me knit 'em."
so you SHALL honey; he'll vally them
heap more than if l knit 'em. Cheer
up, Tidy; it'll all be right-you mind if
it won't"
Sure enough, it proved to be all right.
Tidy and Johnny were married, and
Johuny's gallowses never creaked any
more.-Lippancot for 4Septenber.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
VOLUME XXVI.
Poetry.
TIE OUTCAST.
BY MRS. n. NJ. B. GOODWIN.

bI mhs' " NJ. b. GOODWIN.
SIZE gazed at the pitilcss sky.
At the cold and barren earth
AT the hungry river rushing by,
AND IN deep despair resolved TO die,
Cursing her hour Of birth.
Her soul was deeply stained by crime
A wreck cast mp from the City's slime.
Why does she tremble and shrink
At the ghastly thought of DEATH;
Why does she fear Lethe's cup 10 drink:
Why fear in obliyion's arms to sink,
If this life is but breath?
Does the spirit-germ in her darkened soul
Revolt at death as mans final goal?
Does vision OF childhood hours
Sweep o'er her fevered brain:
A dream Of wildwood bowers,
OF sunshine, buds and flowers,
Before temptation Gamer
A vision Of home and its bliss, now lost
To her sin sick soul 20 tempezt-tossedy
The bell in the church-tower gray,
within whose shadow she stands,
~ calling believers to kneel and pray;
hhi" the gate OF hell'' just over the way
Throws Its red light across the sand
10 where the rivers cold, dark wave
The hem Of her fouler garment laves
' II should kneel with the rest to pray,
/ wonder if God would heart
/ am weary of sins uuhallowed sway
Wlll no one teach me the better way:'
She cried in her doubt and fear;
Bat with glances Of hate and insOlent pride,
by the pious throng she was thrust aside.
We talk Of "thts Gospel day?n
We call thtS Christian land
on, God! When sinner to Thee would pray
From the temples gate she is turned away
Alone in the street TO stand.
NaHtonly, wickedly forced from the light,
Left fainting and dizzy in darkness and night.
And when, in the dreary morn,
Win white lips eyermore dumb,
With garments e-dripping and torn,
Face hunger-stamped and sin-worn.
She's dragged from the rivers slum.
Can you, from your brow, wash the mark c
Cain|
Can you call from carth's depths the soul 20
have sIaIuf
CHRISTIAN Tuf0n
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
How to Become Distinguished Man.

In great many instances young men
spend half their lives in changing from
one thing to another before they learn
what they are competent to perform. A
correspondent writes thus: AS general
rule, the best place for young man to
begin life is right where he is. He need
not go a hundred, or three hundred, or u
thousand miles away from home to try
the world; that particular spot where he
lives is a part OF the world, and just as
good place to try as some other particu-
lar spot three hundred miles off. In the
Eastern States, where society is settled,
and things change but little, where bust
ness is held in fixed channels, and GER
tain families are supposed to have a pre-
scriptive right to do everything that is
done, there is not much inducement for a
young man to remain at home, unless be
possesses the genius and enterprise to
break through the traditions and regula-
tions that hamper him, but no such con-
ditiOn of things exists out West; here
everything is new, fresh and plastic; and
young man may do his part in molding
things to his purposes 1t is very COM
mon mistake for youngsters, who have
not vet butted their tender heads against
the hard angles of the world, to imagine
they possess superior talent, if they only
had an opportunity to exhibit it. If they
live on farm, there is no chance there to
show their genius. If they live in a
country town, it is entirely too small to
spread their wings in. They yearn for a
great city where talents are appreciated
and imagine that there is the field for
them to rise to emlnence and wealth, and
vet they had better stay right where they
are, and make their beginning in the
locality where they were raised If they
really possess genius or special aptitudes
they may first develop them and test the
metal they are made of in the limited
sphere of their native place, and, if the
experiment proves satisfactory, afterwards
transfer them to a wider sphere of action.
Thousands of young men who go to great
cities to try the world, find the world IN
such cities too much for them, and they
learn too late that it would have been bet
ter for them to make their trial in hum
bier and safer sphere.-Neao York Herald.
"PrppIE who are worth noticin should
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02

A revivalist asked an African if he
had found the Lord. "Golly," said Sam.
DO, ''am de Lord lost?"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02

people who are worth noticin should
never forget that everything they say and
do il watched by somebody, and it il
ekally true that the good things IL gener
ally forgot. but the bad ones never"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-10-02
,Tis the venemous snake in the qlass,

A MAN in Whitehall kicked another
man and was arrested for so doing. When
brought before justice of the peace, he
informed his honor that the man he had
kicked was a lightningrod man. The
justice at once discharged him, with the
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-22
For the Dallas Herald.
My Thirteith Birthday
by L. E'cLAIR.

slowly turn Times pages DER, and feel I'm grow
ing old
The paer leaves of life are now beginning to unfold
Youths rosy red is fading fast, its coors turning
gray;
Tho shadows of the passing year are gathering
DER my way.
Iu looking back, how short they seem, those years
that lie between
This day and one so long ago, when was seventeen
And yet Times gr eat revolving wheel dozen
Has dipped its tyre beneath the wave that leaves
the other shore
What bright and girlish memories-what Visions
What varied fancies, precious hopes, lie cold and
They wilted, one by one and died, like all earths
transient flowers;
And now they sleep within the tomb OF dear, de-
parted hours. 'I.rD
Gone, gone forever nanght avails our wild regret
fnl tears; .Ef
No wall OF longing can recall our youths receding
In vain We stretch gearing arms for pleasures
past-in vain ss' 49,
The morning dew once brushed away will sparkle
not again. p
My life has reached its noon-tide hour-thc zenith
of its day
NIysteps are yerging ow within the calmer stsadi-
erway. t
leave behind the summer fields Of youths I'M
broken green;
Before me lies the golden light of antumn's har-
know my brightest hours are-forover past-and
yet, . 49,
My heart in looking backward, feels no throbbings
1would not, i'll could, recall one single buried
year
No, let them lie in slumbers deep, as tho mid
In surgug pillows rolled above their long forgotten
graves. III sLl.s
] have no wish to lift the pail that on than darkly
give their memory to-day no useless tears or
Tho fragrant flowers Of early youth for mo, arecOld
The SIMMER roses Il my lls lie fading on my
head
All vi ,.slr bright aud prestine blsom care
got 10 renew
Itea,ssio slados on my hort to watet. their dy-
ing hue. -v41- fetr sf.
All blossom, " irrSssilal birth live bui little
lay them deun' spd 'arn 10 meet my Aal'iHh wi'h
sHa eaii pas through harvest time, out in the
o. shiI 1 SOONER r. !, i'll those who sleep within
ihf valet
God kooN .or many oil my time, deaths sickle has
lad low.
While lew indeed. are spared 10 meet the winters
falling snow.
My rave niong lfcs retrospect It's anxious search
ing sends
To fnd but vacant places now, where stood my
early friends.
Ny childhood and my youth are gone--its matters
little now, .
Ifthprns 81 roses fingered once upon my maiden
brow:
IT'S many vanished years since my girlhood
laiirside,
And gave my hand to one iOved-sh harry trust
ing BRIDE
Now, as write my passing ttonshis. hear the en-
Threwn open, and two little heels eOme ringing on
Ny pen is laid aside, while with loving arms en-
fold
A childish form with bright black eyes and curl
ing locks ofgod.
Our darling boy, the only one now left where three
were given
We gave the others back to God-bs wanted them
Tho angels moOrpd thsirIstIs barque. on the Eter-
nal shore;
but gone beforss
Full hsifny life Is spent, and re will not be part
Our God vii give me strength. know, to 4 r..
yet be strong
fzfn wonld ses my precious boy grown TO HE
m.nhood's prime
Tbsn VIII fuld my willing hands and wait my
Masters time
vrcksruss. Miss Dec. 8. 1s7e-
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-22
POETRY.


NJ
Pretend IN sheer md ihnrh,
- learn. thai Wondering In the grave
Ia laid A Southern calf
vi IL.
Thu, those who road The whole,
WIN end such laugh was premature,
Far here loo liesa soul.
Twin horn with other Eve;
Urbeedea nv their brother toes,
Who MI now nrc alive.
A a.. ,nd foot IN sneok moro plnin,
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-22

THE RAILROAD TO TEXAs.-In relation to
this, tie most important enterprise now
be fore our people, we are assured that Mr.
Bushnell, the contractor in New York, pro-
poses to furnish iron crossties md other
materials 10 lay the road 10 Vermillion-
vile, if the citizens Of New Orleans will
advance from S250,OO0 to SS00,000 TO pay
for the actual cost of labor in grading and
putting in the silling, bridging and lay
ing of track, the contractors agreeing tc
ask only the actual outlay, and give, tbs
people Of New Orleans their labor lien on
the road
There are crcsstiesrendy 10 bedelivered
MS fas, as they are wanted 10 COMPLETE the
road to Vermillionville. We understand
TINT the subscriptions wanted from our
people will he taken in monthly INSTALL
ments, and it is important that the matter
should be acted on at once. If IT is delay
ed until the bnyous are full, and part OF
the ground is under water it cannot be car
ried out until another season, by that time
the capital may have sought other chan
nels of investment. We hope that on,
citizens will take hold of the matter al
once and act promptly.-New Orleans
Picayuue.
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-22

A NOVEL CURE-An inveterate drunk
ard once asked a quaker whether be kne"
of method whereby he could cure him
self of his dominant vice. Friend, an
swered Broadbrim, ait is as easy as Keep
ing thy hand open" allow can that beF
said tie drunkard; Hevery man can keel
his hand open but as to ahstaining from
liquor, that's a different thing" 81 VII
tell thee, friend quoth the Quaker
"When thee has gotten gluss Of gin II
thy hand, and before thee dost raise the
tempting liquor to thy lips open they hand
and keep it open. Thee brenkest the
glass but thee breakfast not the laws OF 50,
briefly"
Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1873-03-22

We learn the bill creating the new
county Of Rockwall has become law.
This county is cut off from the northern
portion of Kaufman county by line
nearly east and west. The county is near
" square and very small, not exceeding
above 200 square miles, being northern
portion of Kaufman county, the inhaoi-
tants were very inconveniently distant
from the county seat. The county seat OF
the new county is also Rockwall. There
are nearly 800 inhabitants in this new
county. This and Delta nre the two
sma Hest counties in the State.-[Galves-
ton News.