Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-02-19

were each sentenced to three months lmpris-
onment at hard labor besides the payment OF
a fine of seventy-five dollars. They appealed,
and will carry the case through the courts.
The National Crop Reporter Jacksonville,
ILL publishes estimates of the percentage OF
the last crops of barley and rye in the hands
of the producers Oh January -, in the States
of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin.
The percentage of barley on hand at the date
named in the five States, which produced III
1878 some $500, 900 bushels, Is placed AT
80 $40 per cent. The rate of consumption,
by which is meant both shipments and
home consumption, is the highest in
Kansas and the lowest in Wisconsin, being
respectively 3, and GG per cent The per
centage of rye on hand averages 70 6-lO per
cent, or a trific less than l,l43,0W bushels.
The consumption is the heaviest in Kansas,
being eighty per cent, and the lightest in Wis
consin, being seventy per cent Returns rela-
tive to the condition of the growing grain in
dictate slightly increased prospects for Feb
ruary |, as compared with the indications on
January 10.
Speaking of the praying temperance move
ment The Chicago EOentag Jou,zai of a recent
date says: The praying women of Ohio are
carrying the stgonghods of King Alcohol with
out much opposition. Occasionally, however,
they lind an obstinate subject, but they keep on
praying, singing and cxhorting inside or in
front of his place until in spite Of himsef, the
tratlicker in tirewaeris finally forced to strike
his colors and surrender at discretion. There is
something heroic in the fearless zeal of these
women, and the prospect is that this VIII
soon become one of the most powerful and
effective temperance movements ever inaugu-
rated in this country"
The committee to investigate the condition
of the homcsteaders in Northwestern Iowa
have recently returned to Des Mones. In the
counties of Lyon, Sioux, O'Brcn and Osceola
there is great restitution, and, unless relief
be speedily granted, there will be much suffer
ing, and many must leave their claims
The Boston School Board has, after long
debate, refused to reconsider their unfavorable
action relative to the admission of ladies to
membership. The vote stood 30 in favor to
81 against.
The Board of Navigation Commissioners at
Washington have adopted resolutions favor
ing the opening up and improvement of the
great water lines, and denouncing what they
| term "the false cry of economy"
A Washington telegram of the nth says
Secretary Fish was emphatic in denounCing as
untrue the statement of the Paris Pdtjje that
"sharply-worded notes have recently been eX-
changed between the Governments of Ger
many and the United States nor was the Ger
man Minister aware of any subject for the oc-
cason of unkiud feeling between the two
countries.
Secretary Richardson has reported to the
United States Senate, in response to their ill.,
quiry, that it will take four years to have silver
enough coined by the mint to replace the
fractional currency.
At meeting in New York city on the 10th
of the eheap transportation Association, in
formation was given that "peopes freight
road" would soon be built across the CONT
ncnt, which would be managed in the inter
ests of the people. After the work shall be
fairly begun il will be completed in three
years.
Several so-stycd Doctors in Chicago have
been arrested and held to bail in the sum OF
ST, 600 each on the charge of publishing and
circulating obscene literature through the
mails.
Letters from Fort Laramie, received in
Omaha ON the 18th, say that Lieutenant Rob
inson and Corporal Coleman, in charge of a
lumber train, were killed by Indians on the
9th, twelve miles east of Laramie Peak, on the
Cottonwood. Their bodies were recovered on
the 10th, riddlcd with bullets and scalped. A
dispatch from Cheyenne of the llth says it
was thought that the Indians had agreed upon
general uprising along the Platte. The
agent at Red Cloud reported to General Ord
on the 18th that Miniconia Indian on the Sth
had shot and killed his chief clerk, Frank
Appleton, Agent Howard, from the Spotted
Tail agency, has written that several large war
parties had left, it was feared to 90 upon the
war-path.
The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbaudry on the 18th adopted platform of
principles in which they announce the pur-
poses and objects of the Order A memorial
70 the Patrons OF Husbandry in the Cotton
States was also adopted, declaring in favor of
mixed husbandry in the South, instead of cN-
pending the energic, of the people in raising
single crop.
\ Springfield lll.) dispatch of the nth says
about eleven railway companies were running
under the schedules of the State Board of
Railway and Warehouse Commissioners Not
all Of these had formally notified the Board OF
their acceptance, but had quietly altered their
own rates to suit. The Toledo, Wabash n
Western had signihed its intention to reduce
its passenger rates TO three cents per mile,
the Board rate, being nearly two cents less
than II wanted 70 charge.
The praying temperance movement in Ohio