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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
Rules for Handling u Gun.

NEVER handle a gun unless you know
how, nor suffer any person over whom
you have control to handle one, unless he
knows how. You have no right tn en-
danger your own life, or the lives of
others by handling dangerous weapons in
any other than the safest manner.
Always handle gun as if it was load
ed; never let it point at yourself or any
one else; never point your gun at any
living thing unless you mean to kill.
Hardly week escapes that the papers do
not report that some idiot has snapped
gun at some one, supposing it unloaded.
and therefore had the misfortune to kin
q human being.
Always carry your gun at halfcock;
never with the hammer upon the cap.
This rule is invariably violated. A
few experiments demonstrate its correct
ness.
Halfcock your gun; if it will pull Off
in this condition, take an ak and split
the stock, bend the barrel and sell it for
old iron.
If it will not pull off put cap on the
cone and let the striker down upon it;
now strike the back of the hammer with
n stone or against the door jamb, and if
the striker fits the cone deccntly we'll, the
cap will be exploded. This is what hap
pens when man carrying a loaded gun
with the striker down upon the cap,
shoots himself, while riding in n wagon,
in tumbling down, or climbing over Il
fence or stone wall.
Put Il cap on the cone aid let the striker
back almost to halfcock and let it fall. If
the handspring is good for anything, the
cap is exploded. More accidents happen
in this way than in any other A gun is
carried through underbrush, dragged out
of boat pulled on the ground by the
muzzle; your dogs jump upon you; the
hammer catches in your clothing; in
either of these, and in hundred other
ways, the hammer is liable to be drawn
back almost to hali-cock, and then let fall
upon the cap. If il is good one an eX-
plosion ought always to follow.
Now halfcock your gun, draw the ham
mer back nearly to full cock and let it
fall. 1t will stop at the halfcock notch,
and no blow is given. So always carry
your gun at halfcock If you cock it ex-
pecting 10 get a shot and are disappoint-
ed, hold the muzzle straight up in the air,
and let the cock back 81. halfcock.
If you know of no other way of ascer-
tanning whether gun is loaded or not,
than by putting it in your mouth and
blowing, or if you feel inclined to draw
the cap, retire TO safe distance and at
once blow out your brains, before you
kill or MAIN other people by stupidity or
elessness.--Amertcan Sportsman.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

en-, may be counted in this class of useful
birds. The planters employ the turkey
in Maryland in cleaning from their grow
ing plants the horrid tobacco worm; and
who has not witnessed the delight and ex-
element of the barnyard hen in the discov-
cry and pursuit OF a grasshopper9 What a
field, then, lies open to our poultry rails
ers in the vast, nndeyeloped, grasshopper
infested regions of the Great West
What a field for Thanksgiving supplies!
In the first year after the settlement of the
Mormons at Great Salt Lake their grow
ing crops were threatened with destruc-
ton by myriads of monstrous bottle
nosed crickets, when, from the mountain
Gus rocky islands of the lake, clouds of
little gulls descended upon the crickets
and maintained the battle for the saints,
from day to day, till they gave the saints
the victory. And the sea gull is not es-
teemed a useful bird. But the Mormons
have learned the value of the hen and the
turkey; and, moreover, in making glad
the solitary place, and in making the des-
ert to blossom like the rose. In their
numerous shade trees and orchards they
have made it musical with birds We
second the motion of the Vienna Con-
gress for the protection of useful BIRDS
Neto York Herald.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
The Republican Party.

The Republican party shows no signs
of decay. If its members make mistakes,
they manifest a willingness to rectify
them, If its servants fail to record their
wishes, the masses of the party quickly
make their diaapprobation felt, and the
response is prompt and satisfactory The
Salary bill OF the Forty Congress
was universally condemned. The Forty.
third Congress has repealed it. The nom
ination of Attorney General Williams to
the ChiefJusticesLip was not favorably
received by the Senate or the people 1t
was withdrawn by the President at the
request of Mr.. Williams himself. The
nomination of Mr., Cushing to the same
position was received at first with feel
ing of doubt. His fitness in legal attain
ments and experience was universally adj
mitted but his opinion on great political
questions which may possibly come be-
fore the Supreme Court for decision were
for the moment forgotten. Meantime, a
strong light was thrown upon his secret
history which removed all doubt and
President Grant fastened to withdraw
his name. These are striking events
in the recent history of the great
reform party of the nation. They show
tHat It's fTeSlueut, us SENATE anu us 1oH-
gress are in accord with the people, and
that they sit in their several places to
carry out, 50 far as in them lies, the
wishes of the ultimate supreme authority
in the land--the mass of the legal voters
Not since the closing scenes of the
great acts of reconstruction has the
Republican party shown its repre-,
sentative character so strikingly as
during the last month. If one branch
of the Government makes mistake, an
other branch hastens to rectify it; if all
err, the great body of the party-the rank
and file-asserts its right to judge and its
authority to condemn; and the alacrity
with which the Republican party officials
bow to the dictates of this great tribunal
of the people constitutes to-day, as 1t has
constituted during its whole history, the
secret of its tenure of power The rugged
vigor, the quick vitality, and the sustained
purpose of the Republican organization
to act as it is acted upon by the moral and
political sentiment of the people are ex
hibited in bold relief by its recent his
tory.-lnter. Ocean.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
NAN.

1.-THE following beautiful compilation, from forty
different pc. Is was made by Mrs. H. A. Deming,
ofthis city. Two or three years ago she published
similar compilation, entitled Life, whlch is
till going he rounds Of the press.-Editor san
francisco CaHl
In this grand wheel, the world, we're spokes made
all II Alex. Bronze.
lie who climbs high endangers many a fall.
Chaucer.
A passing CLEAN called life is DER lis THROWN
Nv. w Storey.
II glimmers like "a meteor, and is GONE Samuel
Times bat a hollow echo, gold pure clay Henry
Year chases year, decay pursues decay.-[samuel
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise;-LCon-
grove.
The flower that smiles to-day tomorrow dies. 49,
shelley.
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must
mourn Il Prior.
The human race are sons OF sorrow born David
Maliet.
Born TO be plowed with years, and sown with
cares il Byron.
hurst with vain hopes, and fed with doubtful
fears.--i Samuel Brandon.
And what do we, by all our hustle, gain?-lJohn
Pomfret.
A drop Of pleasure in a sea of pain l-lTupper.
Tired OF beliefs, we dread to live without; 10. w.
Holmes
Yet who knows most the more he knows to doubt.
-ISamue Daniel.
Alas what stay is there in human state?-
dryden.
Man Yields to custom, as he bows to fate
Contrasled faults through all his manners reign
Goldsmith.
Distinguished link in Beings endless chain
Young.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, g.
sBurns,
And tribes make the sum OF human things
Henry More
If troubles overtake thee, do not wall Il Herbert.
our thoughts are homeless, though our frames
are frall.-lPercival.
Time wen employed is Satan's deadnest Zoe
tCarlos Wilcox.
And speeions joys are bought with real Woe.--
Thomas Tickel.
The fereest agonies have shortest reign; =
bryant.
Great sorrows have leisure to complain. ~-
ItOffe.
One tonch Of nature makes the whole world kim
shakespeare.
For we The same are that our sires have BEEN
VIM Knox.
Nor II a true soul ever born for naught ID X.
Lowell.
Yet millions never think noble thought
Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays,
- Heath.
And God inlds himself in many ways
rennyson.
Life is but shadows, save promise given-lG. W,
Clark
OF change from woe to Joy, from earth to heaven
lNicoll.
The worlds wood in which all lose their way
Buckingham
fair where thousands meet, but none can stay
&C., Fawkes.
To sport their season, and be seen no more
Cowper
TIL tired, they sleep, and lifes poor play is oe'r
A Pope.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

advantage, can be trusted as it has been
and may be. Much depends upon the
farmers themselves. They must, as Re
publicans make their intiuence .telt uithin
the councils Of the Republican party This
they can do, should do, must do, if they
would insure the success of their ideas.
By allowing themselves to be bamboozled
by old Democratic and sore-head political
schemers whose only thought is the graf
itication of their own selfish desires and
ambitions, they would be merely throwing
themselves into the traps of their enemies,
and be sold out and betrayed in the end.
The way they have done in New lamp
shire is the wisest and best-Chicdgo
Epeaiao Journal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
Haroun al Raschid.

The renowned Caliph rose one morning
in a very melancholy humor. He at once
summoned his Grand Vizier, who hast
ened to obey He thus addressed his pre-
mier;
II feel very disconsoate. had a
dream last night when beheld all the
women of my kingdom at the foot of my
throne, bcSeeching me to help them.
Their grievances were that they were un-
happy asking me to remove their wretch
edness and / must admit it is true their
life is very hard"
The Grand Vizier replied: "Sre, as
sure you there is no ground for their com
plant, and that among all not one would
consent TO exchange her condition"
81 am aware that my ministers are al
ways ready to deal in such phrases when
ever they are reproved that the people and
their interests are neglected Butt swear
by Allah shall have you strangled ifyou
do not produce in the space Of one month
one happy woman, Do you hear? But
one single instance out of my whole king
dom. 1t is certainly a demand OF no
great hardship. And now you may 90 III
peace, and | shall expect your return af-
ter one month. But if you have not com
piled with my commands by that time,
fear my wrath"
The Grand Vi2ier retired disheartened,
as you, my gentle readers may well mag
inc Hr Al once soneht an interview
with the President Of the Bardad nolice
from whom he obtainpd noor comfort
who EXPRESSED a serious doubt whether
one banpy woman could be found in Ha
rom n Roschid,s entire kinrdom-nav in
tbe whole world LEAVING him with .
heavy heart the Premier undertook the
task himself we'll knowing Thai his life
was at stnke As man Of acute under
staudinr, he commenced his INQUIRIES
With the Snltana Taken Inv SUNRISE she
replied, DO YOU exnect me to be happy
when tse Calinh scarcely devotes an hour
to- me. bvt instead walks the streets all
night in disguise while must he filled
with cone,anf broad of his meeting With
some accident at snv timog Do moi thjnk
ofitl THE yeIy n6orest woman is han
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
Winter Yard for Sheep.

ONE Of the important things in the win
ter care of sheep is that the yard where
they are allowed to run shall be absolute
ly well Uttered and dry. They never
should be compelled to move about or
stand in yards that are covered with
muddy litter, much less the actual mud
itself 1t is sometimes difficult in the
West, with our changeable winters, with
alternate freezing and thawing, to keep
the yard in proper condition without US
ing large amount of litter.
1t should, however, be done at any cost
of material, and when once there is a suf-
ficient layer Of straw in the litter, the sub
sequent quantity used will be found to be
but little. Since on most Western farms
there is always much straw that must 90
to waste, End since also the litter and
drippings make most valuable manure, it
will be found to be economy in the end,
from this point of view.
Besides this the clean outdoor bed to
stand on in wet weather. and the clean
and warm one in cold weather, will so
promote their ell.being, and consequent
~ health, as to prevent the occurrence Of
those diseases incident to sheep that must
be subject more or less to wet, and at Ger
tain seasons Of the year spongy pasture.
Muddy yards prevent sheep, and indeed
all animals, from moving about and tax
ing the exercise absolutely necessary to
comfort and health The absolute dry
ness of the yards is especially necessary
TO the long'wooled sheep, since they are
especially susceptible to foot rot, fouls,
and the other diseases incident to mud
and uncleanly care
If little straw be scattered over the
yard at proper intervals after the first
good coating is given in the autumn, the
sheep viii pick little of tho better por-
tions, and be all the better for what they
tread under foot Western Iiural
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29
4 /" Trivial Letter."

The New York Tribune says: d" In the
case Of Mr. Cushing trivial letter to
Jefferson Davis decided his fate in the
Senate and in the Executive Mansion"
This letter, tished up from the musty and
almost forgotten rebel archives, which the
independent organ of d party yet to be
born calls trivial" was addressed to the
president of the Confederate States"
spoke of the Union as already lover.
thrown" and recommended 10 the chief
of the new government a man VINO might
Che writer thought do the State tConted-
eracy) some service. This letter would
not have been deemed trivial when it was
written, in 1861, by anybody who loved
the Union. 1t could not have been writ
ten by any patriotic American citizen.
Letters bearing on State affairs are never
trivial A similar letter by Jessie d. Bright
cost him his seat in Congress, and cut off
his political career forever Inter Ocean.
THE LaGrange Reporter desires to call
the attention of the press OF Georgia TO
the following matter: Within the last
three months two or three well-knOWn
men in Georgia have been announced
dead, and the newspapers have written
| eloquent obituaries over them. But these
men, with a perversity as provoking as it
! is inexpicable, still live. Now, when a
newspaper in good standing makes the
solemn assertion that any man is dead,
that man should die. For him 10 live, is
| a dangerous infringement on the liberty
/ Of the press. We hope the Press Associa-
/ ton will petition the Legislature to pass
/ a law that 4 man announced dead by the
/ press must die.
The paid choirs OF Boston worship
God in song for $4,000 year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

THE art Of shop keeping is carried to u
high degree Of perfection in a certain
Western town When lady rides up to
2 store in the place, three clerks seize the
bride, two take the horse by the tail and
yank him close to the stile.block. Two
more cle-k ks spread roll Of Brussels car
pets across the sidewalk, while the mer-
chant in white kid gloves, white vest, and
iork.tailed coat escorts the lady to luxu-
rious dIyan, where she sits at ease and
makes her purchases.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-01-29

The paid choirs Of Boston worship
God in song for $4,000 . year
The New York herald., 1874-07-18

ne totd damage donse bv the 0rdssn- pper raid Is
elnauase'n e snapy 10 loss or about on. 'meVM Q,
me crop or about the II the arer, tge yletd
throughout the State lods diminished rrO.p any
cause something OceT ana h0Lr Ultshtn> per
acre betOU the average 10 erterds Orey O7iy obon
One-tenh O the area or The state ad iuOlUes obOut
Ont-thirteenh Of the reputation.
Unless. therefore, the grasshOppers take into
their heads, Ike Genghls Khan, wnen he had
overrun all Asia and turned mis- arms against
the richer cities Oi Europe, to leave the
tmniy settled frontier and glut their rayenous
appetites on the magnificent wheat fields which
extend or 100 miles east OF the rayaged district,
the general crop prospects OF Minnesota VIII not
be seriously impaired ny the ravages OF the grass
hoppers. The great mass OF our farmers are en-
JoylnX the promise o. abundant prosperity. the
cities and towns Ill share IN treir good fortune,
the railroads VIII have no dtminution OF receipts,
If they are not oppressed with granger farms, and
wnle twelve tnirteenths OF our farming popuia-
ton are thus blessed by Providence with abund-
ant harvests and our CIVIC population with the
rewards oil other interdependent industries, they
can afOrd to be generous tie suffering people of
our southwestern irOntlers.
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
THE WAR ON DOGS.

The daily dreadful catalogue OF rabd dogs at
loose on the streets still continues unabated The
determined action or the police officers in de-
stroying, on sight, these raging vehicles OF de-.
struction seems with all their efforts not yet to
compass or prevent all danger. Several children
have been bitten whose names are unknown
and 1t Is to be hoped that their
names will never be brought to pubic
notice as victims to swell the unhappy list
OF hydrOphobial disasters OF this year. In ali parts
OF the city are to be seen dogs roaming abroad,
unmuzzled ana masterless Rabies in its early
stages Is subtle aud difficult OF diagnosis, and
animals aff1lcted with lt should at once
be taken to the pound and the owners
ii discovered. heavily fined. No dog
whatsoever should be allowed abroad without
sufficiently protective muZZie. The danger Is no
vain one, nor Is the terror false alarm. Preven-
ton Is much better than cure, and by adopting
reasonable security may tend to lessen the univer-
sal nervous horror which now harnesses tue public
mind.
mad dog was shot yesterday morning by Officer
Jacobs, of the Fifteenth precinct, at No. ia Sixth
avenue.
Onicer Fitzsimmons. OF the Seventeenth precinct,
killed a mad dog yesterday morning at No. 5S2
East Tenth street.
rabld dog was shot yesterday afternoon by
Oficer Lloyd. OF the Twenty second precinct, ut
No. 697 Eighth avenue.
Ufiicer Cunningham. OF the Sixth precinct, shot
a mad dog yesterday at No. 50 Elm street that had
bitten several children whose namesare at present
unknown.
AT diteen minutes to three O'Clock yesterday
OF the seventeenth precinct, at No. &c Third
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
A JOINT JOURNALISTIC EXPEDITION.
From the Evening Mail of yesterday

From the Evening Mail of yesterday
The HERALD reprints a long aud exceedingly in
teresting editorial from the London Daily Tele-
graph, announcing that the proprletors OF the two
journals have arranged to send a JOINT ex peditiOn
for the exploration OF Central Africa, in order 10
carry out the great and partially executed plans
OF Livingstone, to expose the operations OF the
slave traders and to solve the remaining problems
OF Central African geography. The expedition
Will most nttngly, be entrusted TO Stanley whose
achievements have been better appreciated since
the recent publication OF Llvingstone's letters,
and whose original selection for African expl0ra
ton has been so handsomely justified,
II Is to the credit Of the HERALD that the an
nouncement OF this new and important expedition
should nave come drst from the other side IL is
10 the credit OF Journalism that an American and
an English newspaper should do Tor the interests
OF science the work TO winch governments have
proved unequal. II the Joint expedition is a sue
the authors Of 1t will not lack due aacknowl-
edgments, and mankind will be largely the gamer
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
CUBA.
War Operations Ag ainst the Guerillas-A Money
Dealer Obedient to the Executive
House Rents Advancing.
HAVANA, July17, 1874

HAVANA, July II, 1874.
Bodies OF counter-guerillas are forming l0r oper.
Ations in the hills near Trinidad, and two small
nymg columns OF cavalry have been organized to
protect the plantations and farms of the valley.
CAPITALISTS BECOMING oBEDIEyT.
One exchange ONCE reopened It's doors for bust
ness to-day. The Oroer of the Captain General re-
quiring bulletins Of the buying and selling prices
OF gold to be posted in conspicuous place was
complied with.
RENTS AND TAXATION.
Numerous complaints are made that landlords
are raising house rents, and thereby throwing on
their tenants the payment OF the extraordinary
taxes imposed by the government
EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY.
The Captain General has commuted the death
sentence OF two deserters and of a negro slave
convicted OF murder.
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
OBITUARY.
Surgeon H. 8. Pitkin, U. y. N.

surgeon Hs Ss F1tAIms u - Ne
special letter to the HERALD IRON Honolulu
Sandwich Islands. under date OF June 20, reports
as follows:-On the 23d inst. died Surgeon Henry
Stanley Pitkin, OF the United states ship Benlcia
DR.. Pitkln was q native oi Burlington, VI. The
funeral was largely attended The remains were
brought on shore for interment and escorted by
the Household Troops. the seamen and marines OF
the Ship with reve, sed arms, ana the members OF
Masonic bodies, and oil wed by the Ocers ana sew
eral oil HIS Majesty's AIDES. the procession pro-
ceeded to Sc. Andrews Episcopal church, where
services were held. HIS Majesty rhe King ana the
royal lamily were present. The long procession,
preceded by the government band, then
marched to the Nuuanu Cemetery. where the
impressive Masonic burial service was read by W.
Masters Fyie and DAYTON assisted by Past Master
A. D. Lartwrgnt Three vDlleys were fired by the
military over ms grave. d. PltKin was q graduate
OF The Medical College Ot Burlington, VI. lie en-
tered the navy OF the United States July Is, 1,62
During the wal ne served In both the NOrtn ana
South Atlantic squadrons and received honorable
mention in the attack Oh Fort FISHER. After the
cOncius on OF the war he accompanied Assistant
Secretary Fox on a mission to Russia. He served
In both the Mediterranean and Asiatic squadrons.
lie accom- anied Professor Agass.z on the scientific
expedition around Cape Horn on board the Coast
Survey steamer Hassler; joined the Benicia IN
August 1872, and was promoted TO the rank OF
lull surgeon december 2s OF the same year.
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
ENGLAND.
Cabinet Policy Toward the King Of FILA
Lawyers Troubles Alter Tichborne

LONDON, July II, 1874.
In the House or Lords this afternoon the Earl Of
CarnarvOn, Secretary OF State for the Colonial De-
partment stated that Her Majesty's government
was ready to accept the cesson Of the Fill Islands
ifit was made unconditional, but the sixteen con-
ditiOns proposed by Fiji were not acceptable. The
Governor of New South Wales had been instructed
to submit the views of the government on the
matter to the King and Inhabitants OF the FIJI
Islands.
WE'LL KNOWN LAWYER TROUBLE.
The benchers OF Gray's Inn have decided TO limit
the Kenealy inquiry to the iact whether or not
Lawyer Kenealy Is the editor of the En0lish,nan.
WEATHER REPORT.
The weather throughout England to-day is fair
LOSSES BY FIRE.
Thirtyfve thousand gallons of creOsote were
destroyed by the fire at Rotherhithe yesterday.
The New York herald., 1874-07-18
TaIEvES AL LONG BaANCH.

Gotta ges and Other Residences Entered
Large RObberies Reported-The Detcc-
tiveS ut Work.
LONG BRANCH, July IT, 1874.
For the past three nights a gang or thieves have
been operating among the cottages and hotels.
Several large robperes have been reported.
Charles McFadden's residence was entered by
three masked burglars last evening. His clothes
and watch and chain were taken. The clothes
were found on the main road, where they had been
thrown. The residences Oi Mr.. Hall, Mr.. Richard
son, MIR. Curtis aud Others were entered and
robbed. the gang was discovered entering Nj {.
Benefits cottage. They had procured LADDER,
and had IL placed AGAINST the second story window
Mr.. Bennett fired upon them, but they made good
their escape. several OF the leading hotels have
Several detectives are nere looking IOr the thieves