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Gladstone and Hts Colleagues TO
Remain.

LONDON, March 20-Gladstone will
announce in the House of Commons to-
night Thursday that he has decided to
remain in office with all his colleagues.
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PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

ED SPIRIT: Announce A. j. PEAR
son as candidate for reelection to the Office
of Prssecuting Attorney; subject to the decis-
ion Of the Democratic County Convention.
Many DEMOCRATS.
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ED SPIRIT: Please announce ADAM
ARNOLD of sunsbury township as candidate
for Sheriff, subject to the decision of the
Demo mocratic county Convention. (
MANY DEMOCRATS.
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Ed. SPIRIT: Announce WILLIAM
CRAIG, OF Center township, as candidate for
County Auditor; subject to the decision OF
the Democratic County Convention.
MANY DEMbcRArs.
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AUDITOR.

ED. SPIRIT: Announce MICHAEL
HoEFFLER as a candidate for reelection to the
Office of County Auditor; subject to the deois-
ion of the Democratic county Convention.
MANY DEMOCRATS.
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Ed SPIRIT: Please announce ALEX
ANDER BUCHANAN, of Summit township, as
candidate for County Treasurer; subject to the
decision of the Democratic county Convention.
MANY DEMocRATs.
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TREASURER.

ED. SPIRIT: Please announce JOHN
MALLORY, of Salem township, as candidate
for the office of County Treasurer; subject to
the decision of the Democratic county Conven-
ton. MANY DEMOCRATS
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i N NO UN c EMENTS

Announcing names Of candidates So
each; tickets, 50 per thousand.
ehs- Announcements and tickets must be
paid for IN odpance.
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REpREsENTATIvE.

Convention TO nominate County Officers,
on Monday, the 7th day OF April.
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CORONER.
sEMI-ANNUAL REPoRT
OF THE
Infrmary Directors Of Monroe c..

To the Honorable Commissioners Of Monroe
County, Ohio: 2IA3 as'l
In compliance with the requirements Of
law, We have the honor to submit to you
this, the Grst semi.annnaI report of the con-
dition and standing of the Monroe County
Infrmary ior the six months last attending
March !. 1873. as7 ss
The general condition of the Inarmary
since our last report has been good and pros
peroas. The health of the inmates generally.
good. The number of inmates at present is
81; probably larger number than there will
be as the season advances. As a general thing
the number of paupers in winter is larger
than in summer, for the reason that We have
certain class of paupers who are able to,
support themselves in summer, without the
aid Of the county. ss -
The condition of the finances 10 IS follows:
RECEIPTS. .esp3Faq "a
Balance in Treasury at Sept Report, $3.50
1872 .SlSs3 OF
Amount collected. 1872, December
collection on Duplicate ........ 143s 80
Total .................... .s332s e3
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~Mr SpRAeur will pocket 500 0OC

~Mr. SrRAeuE win pocket $4,000
OF the peoples money in two years by
the passage Of the bill increasing .sala-
riss:
Back pay. $4,000
Pay for years at $500, $4,000
Total, $4,000
That's specimen of Radical Civil
Service Reform
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ED SPIRIT: Announce GEO. s ALdEo,
of Benton township.as a candidate COR Conn
ty Commissioner; subject to the decision Of
the Democratic County Convention,
MANY DRMoeRAn.
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ED. SPIRIT: Announce EDWARD OKEY
of franklin township.r as candidate fer
County Commissioner; subject to the decision
Of the Democratic County Convention.
MANY DEMOCRATS.

Ed SPIRIT: Announce GEORGE SUP
rss, of Adams township, as candidate for
County Commissioner; subject TO the decision
of the Democratic County Convention.
MANY DEMOCRATS,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

She came with gold in her hand, sweet wife;
but God knows that, far above
lne home and the wealth she brought, priced
the richer wealth of her love;
And she tried to persuade me that | helped to
pay our way, you see,
by the stories and rhymings, grave and gay,
she loved to seribble for me-
And children were born to us-first a girl
who'd her mothers eyes, they said;
Twas then that / wept my saddest tears since
Bessie and | were we'd
For when they laid the wee mite in my arms,
and spoke of its baby grace,
felt it hard | should never look in my little
darling's face;
That never in all the years to come her gentle
face should see,
Meier look in her laughing baby eyes as l dane
ed her my knee;
Nor mark, as the happy years roll'd on, each
varying, changing mood
The baby pranks, and the childish grace, and
the blush of maidenhood.
Then our boy was born, and my life stood still,
with sudden horror and fright
o Jack, old man, shall | ever forget that try
ing, awesome night,
When / paced this room here, through and
through, with gropng, helpless dread,
W lille my darling's precious life upstairs was
hanging on thread?
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

And of course had to be taken out around
our little demesne,
Where all its beauties were pointed out and
admired again and again;
And then, in the midst of merry laugh or
lightly-utter'd jest,
Poor Bessie would quite break down again.
and be weeping on my breast,
Talk of fthe-hem! why there she isl-thats her
knock, as sure as a gun!
Now you take your cue from me, old man, and
I'll show you little fun:
Bessie, my dear, this gentleman here is very
old friend of mine
Mr. Smith, Mrs. c.; Mrs c.. Mr.. Smith-in
the brietless- -barrister line!
Ha, ha. why, where is your memory, dear? As
the singers say, TRY back
Have you quite forgotten our old playmate
the illustrious DR.. Jack?
Hullo. what now? Well upon my word, this
really is a surprise-
Kissing another fellow, by Jove, under my
very eyes!
Only look at her now, old man-thcre's a pic
ture for you, eh?
why she's getting younger, and roster, and
handsomer every day!
Come, get us some tea, there's a dear, good
girl, and don't stand laughing there,
And We'll make it a jolly meeting tonight,
with Dr. Jack in the charr'
- Bel1y01j1
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15
NUMBER 20.

the bllssful past-much fewer; and he is
nlled with gloom. The only boon he
Graves is that he may be present when the
carpetbag owner calls with his check.
tie says there will then be a conflict
which will make the Franco-German war
appear perfectly ridiculous.
No CLOUD is so dark that there is not
light beyond. A wretched little tenyear-
old boy ragged and almost bare footed.
drifting along Detroit streets one day last
week, was asked where his father was.
Dead" responded the young gentleman,
amiably. where's your mother," Run
away" he answered His interlocutor
expressed sympathy, and observed that he
must feel lonesome. Did this interesting
child wipe the eye of selfish sensibility at
this speech? No; his nature ran in
broader, more humanitarian, and artistic
channels. His youthful, noble counte
nance glowed and frightened, and an ex
ulting smile played upon his lips. The
purest, sweetest dreams of his early years,
and tender anticipations of the future,
! mingled in that smile Lonesome? Not
bit of it, exclaimed the brave boy,
there's goin to be the biggest circus here
next week you ever set eyes ont" There
is a striking resemblance in character be-
tween this true-hearted youth and the
British child, who on being told that his
father was lost at sea, burst into tears, re-
making, "he had my best jack-knife with
him."
JUDGING from the experience with postal
| cards in France it will be well enough for
our people to be on their guard against
| the tricks and devices they are employed
to conceal. An individual in Paris has
been in the habit of sending, daily, several
postal cards addressed to himself, and
containing urgent requests from fictitious
persons to "call and receive the money"
and tell him that his carelessness in the
premises was very strange. These cards
were regularly delivered by the janitor,
who as regularly read them, as became a
dutiful servant. One of them was as fol
lows: Answer Yes or No. I am aware
the girls thousands do not concern you,
but you owe some respect to her family
Another requested the gentleman to call
on notary at once to acquire possession
| of the property of the late Nj. Bigourdin.
Seeing thousands thus at the command of
the man the porter lent him $4,000 francs,
| when the borrower Immediately dsap-
peared and was not afterward seen or
heard of by his unfortunate dupe
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15
The BOrerS of the Sea.

MANY stories are current as to how in
ventors have borrowed or stolen their
ideas from Nature, and there has been
much ingenious discussion as to whether
hints thus appropriated are properly pat
entable. Boring is an example of natural
processes that have been thus used by art,
and it is remarkable that the lowest crea-
lures are the most skillful mechanics in
this particular. An eminent living in
ventor, who had made fortune out of
patent auger, hit upon the method follow
ed by the most successful insects which
bore into hard wood. And SO we are as
sured that the celebrated engineer, Brunei,
in constructing the Thames tunnel, but
initiated the shell-lined burrow OF the
Teredo naralis, or ship-worm. This mol
lusk in shape resembles worm, and sur
rounds itself with shell open at both
ends From the mouth it can protrude
its short foot, and the other extremity of
its body: the "tail' is bifurcated, one
prong being the inspirator and the other
the expirator tube of the siphon which
constitutes the animals nutritive ap.
paratus.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

She put my hat and my stick away, and with
tender and wifely care
Led me, who seem'd SO helpless and dark, to
my old ACCUSTOMED chair:
And there she left me minute or So with
kiss and gentle word,
While she ran to bring the children down: and
my heart was kindly stirr'd
As l looked about at the pleasant ROOM and
out on the garden view,
That all seem'd SO familiarly strange, so old,
and yet SO new
And l dropp'd back into my chair once more,
with longing akin to pain,
AS l heard the children come skurrying down
to welcome me home again.
0 Jack, there are times and feelings, old man,
that language can never paint;
And words, when speak of that crowning
scene, seem weak, and feeble, and
faint
Feeble indeed to show one tthe of my bosom's
passionate swell;
But l dare say you can picture it all far better
than words could tell.
| could scarcely see them at first for the tears
that dimm'd my yearning sight,
As they ran to meet me, with eager JOY, my
younglings bonnie and bright;
And then they Chamber d up on my knees, with
merry, welcoming cries,
And | look d for the first time in my life in nv
little darling's eyes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

'ts seven years since you went away, and |
have been married five;
What YOU thought | hadn't the cheek' to
propose to a girl? Why, man alive,
Ills the strangest, most delightful thing that
ever happened, you see:
| didn't pop the question at all. Twas
Bessie proposed TO me!
Here, Edie and Sid, you may run off now, and
have a game o play;
Come, you know what mamma was to bring
you home, if you be good children
to-day;
Your uncle and have lot o things that we
want to talk about;
And you shall come in again. nv dcars, when
we've had our gossip out.
And now for my tale though | hardly know
what Bessie would say if she knew
BY Joye, how she'll open her eyes when she
comes to be introduced to you!
As told you, she's spending the day with a
fricnd-hcr cousin, by the bye
Who's just been obcying the old command, to
increase and multiply.
Well, you know what our prospects were, old
man-ouT mothers, and Katc's, and
mine
When you badc us goodbye to 90 to sea in
the navy doctoring line:
With the mothers pension and jonture, you
know, she was pretty well off, and Men
We thought | was sure to make my mark,
what with the bar and the pen.
/ remember how yo,, laughed at my rhymes,
you unbclicymg Jew,
And used to rout me out from my books to 90
and idle with YOU;
But, the mother and Kate believed in me, as
our foolish women folks Will,
And Bessie dubb'd me her laureate, and knight
Of the gray goose quill.
You know what Bessie was as a child, in the
door e.ll I,,-tr, ll,--
With her big brown eyes and golden head and
her pretty wiIful ways;
How she plagued, and charm'd, and quecn'd it
DER us youngsters oft and oft,
Yet what dear little heart il was, how cling
ing and tender and soft
Her brother Willie and I were cold particu-
lars = bear in mind,
And the good old rector and his wife were al
ways hearty and kind;
So that hardly day would pass away but
found myself, you see,
In The quaint old garden with Bessie and VIII,
and who so happy rs we?
Heigho. they were pleasant times, old man-
fresh and hopeful and true,
Ere the foot Of Time had trampled and solid
the sheen Of life's morning dew
When think of those garden walks and pranks
what tender memories rise,
With Bessie the center figure of all, with her
merry, mischicyous eyes
Well l went to Heidelberg, as you know, to
finish my school career,
In that quaint old home of spectaced lore,
mceTschdums and lager beer;
And when came back, my child playmate had
yanish'd, and in her place
Was fair girl-woman, shy and sweet, with n
gentle, winsome face.
And loved her, | loved her-God knows how
wei from her first shy, welcoming
glance,
With passion rs strong, and tender and pure,
~ the love of old Romance
And she she was always pleasant and kind
with the friend of her childhood gay,
But whether my darling loved me or no was
more than | could say.
Willie and Kate were engaged, you know, and
they'd look so conscious and shy,
That We used to tcaZe and banter them both,
his sister Bessie and |;
And when they'd begin To whisper and sigh, /
couldn't do less, you'll own,
Than draw sweet Bessie away with me, and
leave the lovers alone.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

We were out in the fields one summers eve
how well | remember it still =
And somehow we two had wandered away from
loyc-lom Katie and VIII,
Till we came i'm the dusk to the lone black
mere, where the aspen branches wave,
And she coaX,d d me to tell her its legend grim
of love yond the grave.
Thcr l look'd down into her soft brown eyes,
with their witchng and lustrous SPELL
And whisper d, Dear. Eve another tale that
| should like to tell -
When We heard merry shout from behind,
and up came Willie and Kate,
And the loving words died out on my lips, and
l knew my story must wait.
But she seem'd from that very time to grow
more shy and distant, YOU see;
Inever could meet her out alone, or tempt her
TO walk with me;
And when | tried to draw her aside to whisper
loving word
she'd flush and tremble and flutter away, like
pretty frightened bird.
saw She Stunned me- and said TO myself,
with proud and passionate throe,
she loves me not, and would spare us both the
pain of telling me so;
And I'd rather, God knows that my heart
should break, in its silence bitter and
drear,
han I'd pester woman with whispers and
vows that she doesn't care 10 hearn'
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15
Church Statistics.

The following table of the various re-
ligious denominations in this country is
compiled from the ninth census. 1t will
be seen by the figures given, that church
property has more than quadrupled dur
ing the last twenty years, while member
ship has increased only fifty per cent:
Years Membership. Churches. Property.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

A VIRGINIA railroad conductor has in
vented a revolving signal-light, to be at
tached TO the rear of trains, by which the
engineers behind them can tell by the
speed of their rotations, as shown by the
succession of different colored lights, at
what rate the trains are moving, and when
they are at rest.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15

A CONNECTICUT man purchased a horse
of neighbor, which upon trial did not
prove the kind he anticipated. Not car
ing to keep the animal, he applied dye
to his hide that made him lovely black
and resold him to the aforesaid neighbor
The animal was subsequently sold to the
first purchaser, his appearance having in
the meantime been again changed, and
now both parties desire to know (which
man should sue the other"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-05-15
VOLUME XXVI.
BESSIE AND /.
IN TWO PARTS.


ENJOY d your dinner, have you, my boy?
Well come, that's jolly, you know,
Though | wish that Bessie had been here,
too-she's longing to see You so.
Here, bring your chair to the fire. old man,
and don't be afraid o the wine;
ANA we II have a quiet weed, if you like, and
chat on 'auld lang syne"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-15
MODOC JUSTICE.

The following article was prepared for inser-
ton early last week.-ED.l 80
The Modoc Indians have been hung, the
treacherous murder of Gen. Candy and bis
companions is avenged, and justice is salts
fed in that behalf, slbelt this taking off was
not exactly in accordance with Grants
Quaker policy. But seriously, what right
aside from the might which makes right
had the United ates Government to hang
these Indians, any more than to hang an
equal number of British subjects, or sub
jects of any other Government, who might
have been guilty of similar offense on the
soil of Oregon, or Texas, or Kansas, or any
other border State? 1t must be remembered
that this hanging was in accordance with
the sentence of a military commission, and
was the work of armed soldiers in State
where neither war nor martial law had
been declared. A handful of indians, goaded
to desperation by the memory Of outrages
committed upon them, IS well as injustice
done them at the time, had engaged in
bushwhacking as matter of retaliation,
and for which few regiments of soldiers
we're seeking to punish them in the most
summary manner. The crime the Indians
COMMUNICATION which they have just paid
the penalty with their lives-was against
the majesty and in violation of the laws Of
Oregon, and that State was the proper pow
er to try and punish them. That course
would have been pursued, unquestionably,
had the murderers been the subjects of a
mower able and determined 10 pro-
tect them in the right of trial by
iury. But the Indian murdereis belonged
to a weak and despised nation, a
people who had been kicked and cufed
about from the time the white race became
a power on this continent, and SO they were
hustled "across the river" without any re-
gard to the laws of civilized nations in gen.
eral and those of ''the sovereign State" OF
Oregon in particular. Sin the whole his
tory of the relations between the Indians
and the white people on this continent,
says the New York Sun, "there is no chap
ter more disgraceful to the American ma
ton than that of the Modocs. The lang
ing of the half dozen captive Indians, just
as it is,win not be likely to relieve our Gov
ernment from the ignominy attaching 10
this wretched business from first to last"
The Sun rehearses some historical facts fs-
miliar to the general reader, but which will
bear repetition just now.
"The Modocs first became conspicuous il
1852. In that year troubles occurred on
/ the Klamath river in which both white
and Indian outlaws participated. There
were numerous robberies and several MUIR
ders. A certain Captain Ben. Wright, at
that time holding commission from the
| United States Government, was ordered to
punish any Indians guilty of depredations.
With or without reason, he chose to suspect
the ModoCs of having bad something TO DC
with the disturbances he was directed to
quell, and be resolved on brilliant piece oil
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-10-15
THE PROSPECT FOB WINTER.


1t is ominous TO bear OF the discharge of
mechanics and laborers by the thousand at
the beginning of winter, caused by the
sudden disturbance in financial and bust
ness circles. Reports of this character
come up from all portions of the coun-
try. 1t is falling heavily upon the
East, where terrible suffering must result
unless q reaction of an almost unexpected
character takes place in very short time.
The West is also suffering severely, while
the South cannot possibly escape the hard
ships this reVulsion is entailing upon the
people of the other Sc ctions. In the lum-
Der business of the Northwest six thousand
workers have already been discharged, and
factories are running Oh short time in vari-
Gus places. There has been a sudden and
very great contraction in the building Of
railroads, while the business of running the
roads already constructed has been greatly
curtailed, and the number Of employees re-
duced all round. So far the trouble result
to fall more heavily upon this branch of in
dustry than any other. The New York
Bulletin estimates that not less than sixty
thousand skilled mechanics and lsborers
will be thrown out of situations before win
ter fairly sets in, making with their depend
ents not less than three hundred thousand
people who will enter upon this Indictment
season without the employment they relied
upon to furnish to them the means of sub
sistence. 1t is not past hope that reaction
will take place yet, so as TO restore work
aud bread TO the industrious laborers, but
1t is beyond question that great hardship
will result from the financial disturbance,
whatever may be the extent of the reaction.
The great wealth of the harvest " Ill probs-
ably materially lessen the distress, but it Is
evident that the day Of extremity will be only
postponed, unless the people see the cause
that makes the rich richer and the poor more
wretched, and destroy not only the infamous
high tariff laws, but the banking laws which
enable a few gamblers in their desperation
to paralyse the banking institutions of the
whole country, and with them the trade
and commerce Of e great people. The pso-
pie who suffer most by just such crisis a:
we are passing through now, hold the rem
edy within their power, if they will only
exercise it by voting for and electing the
right sort OF men to Congress. Lst us ge
man into Congress who cannot be bough
by the Monopolists, and we will then stand
aehauce of getting our wrongs righted, and
our people would then become prosperous
and happy. The lesson which this crisiI
teaches the people of the whole country
should not be lost, and it will not be if th'
honest men combine to make it effective.