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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
PHUNNYGRAMS.

When man dies and leaves nice
Young widow with plenty of money, and
You see her walking out with the execu-
tor on Sunday afternoon, a change is i'm
minent
A yeung lady in Cambriaborough,
tired of "going it Alone" has married
John Rightbower 1t is altogether prob
able sac will "order him up" on winter
mornings Miners Journal.
"A Leavenworth man told lie, and
then said: :" l hope to be struck dead If
| have not told the truth" He had
scarcely ceased speaking when he fell to
the floOr-a man having knocked him
down.
"A lady went into carpet store re-
Gently, and, pointing out carpet, asked
the proprietor what it was. " Brussels, y
says the proprietor. Brussels" quoth
the lady, passing her hand over it..
"Seems to me the BRUSHES don't stick up
much"
"A young man charged with being
lazy was asked if he took it from his
father al think not" was the reply.
Fathers got all the laziness he ever
had"
If another fellow goes to see your
girl. don't shoot him. 1t is better to make
a dent in his head with an ak. Then if
he dies it will he easy to show the jury
that it was an axident.-Terre Haute
Gazette.
A Little Falls editor has received his
Christmas box. 1t came from the hired
girl and hit on his ear. She says no man
can come kissing round her when she is
making pie-crust. Not much.-Rome
Sentinel.
1t is said that one reason why female
telegraph operators are not more numer-
Gus is, because if one of them wished to
go to a ball she'd get up and 60 even II
the Presidents message was coming over
the wires.
In Lowell, the other day, a discour-
aged mill girl said to her clearinghouse
mistress, who was lamenting the fate of
boarder who had e]oped with scala
wag grocery keeper, You keep US on
bull.beef at four dollars week and then
expect us to be as contented as angels"'
There is no love like mothers
love-no heart like a mothers heart.
Her affections go out for her offspring,
no matter where he may roam or what
the circumstances in which she may be
placed. An instance was seen yesterday
when mother entered the Central Sta
tion and found her child, who had been
lost from home for hours. She sprang
wildly forward, eagerly caught him by
the hair, and as she hauled him around
she tenderly exclaimed: go! Bob Mas
tiers, III wallop you for this when we
get home!"-Detroit Free Press.
old Ira Thornton was very mean
man, and had difficulty sometimes in
drawing his breath, because he be-
grudged the air necessary for that opera
ton. One day the old fellow was at
work upon the high beams of his barn,
when he lost his balance and fell heavily
upon the floor, twenty feet below. He
was taken up for dead, with fractured
skull, and carried into the house. All
efforts to bring him to consciousness
were unavailing, and the doctor was
called. Finally the doctor, having ire
panned him, turned and asked Mrs
Thornton for a silver dollar to put in
where the piece of skull was wanting.
At this remark Ira, who had been breath
ing heavily, turned in the bed and
groaned out: "Wouldnt cent do as
well?"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
THERE IS probably no way in which we can

THERE Is probably no way In which we can
benefit our readers more than by recommend
ing to them for general use Johnson's 4nc.'yne
Li,anaent. 1t is adapted to almost all the pur-
poses of Faiaily Medicine, and as specific
for coughs, colds, whooping cough, soreness
of the chest, lame stomach, rheumatism, spit
ting Of blood, and all lung difficulties it has
no equal that ever we saw or heard Of
THE proprietyo of giving condition medicine
to horses, cattle and sheep was discussed and
admitted by many of the Agricultural Soce-
ties throughout the State last fall, aud we be-
lieve that in every case but one they decided
in favor of .Sheridan's Cdcdt1y Condition fow-
ders. Good judgment.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

TOLEDO, Ohio, finds itself in curious
quandary over case of mistaken identi~
ty. A citizen disappeared some time
since very mysteriously, and a few days
afterward mans corpse was> found
floating about near the docks. There
upon Coroner impaneled jury and
held an inquest, the body was identified
as that of the missing man, verdict re-
turned in accordance with the facts, and
the funeral was properly solemnized.
Subsequently the missing man returned,
much to the surprise and delight of his
friends.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

SEA FOAM BAKING PowDER.-In another
column will be found the card of the old and
reliable house of GEO. F. CAN'T Il Co., who
have won an enviable and solid reputation as
the inventors and proprietors of the best
Baking Powder in the world" All through
the Eastern States it is universally used and
countless praises are daily received from
dealer and consumer. Those who have used
it will have no other, and those who have not
have yet to learn the delights to be derived
from sweet, pure bread.-Aneriedn Newspaper
ReDorter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
W1LHorr,s ANTI PERIODIC OR FEVER AM

WILHoFT's ANTI-PERIopIc OR FEVER AND
AGUB ToNIc-This invaluable and standard
family medicine is now a household word aud
maintains its reputation unimpaired. Its in
dorsed by the medical profession, and pre-
scribed daily in the Charity Hospital and
other Hospitals in New Orleans. Wilhofts
Tonic is thus highly recommended by the
leading medical men of the country. and is
worthy Of such Endorsement. WHgELocK,
FISLAY e. Co., 'roprietors, New Orleans.
For SALEBY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

A MATERIAL reduction of rates has re.
Gently been made by the Sherman House,
Chicago. Its proprietors are determined
that it shall continue to be the most pop
ular hotel in Chicago with business men
and the travelling public in general, and
they are accomplishing their purpose.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

MosT people like to hear of good thing.
We will tell them in confidence that, If they
want to be dressed well, they should wear the
Warwick Collar. An old adage says that with
a nice collar and clean boots man always
looks well dressed. Remember the Warwick.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
Pianos and Organs.

Fine new rosewood pianos for $500
Fine walnut organs, six stops, 1925.
Good second hand pianos, $50 to $500
Reeds Temple of Music, Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

ECONOMY comfort, looks, all combine 70
make SILVER TIPPED Shoes indispensable
for children. Try them. Never wear through.
at the toes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14

If you have one of those frolicsome
lads in your home, school or neighbor-
hood take care of and watch over him,
and the time will come when you will be
proud of that boy.-N. 0. Adcocate.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
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The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04

The following resolution passed the Z.
s. Senate on the Goth:
That in all cases under the civil ser.
vice examinations for positions under the
government, when a disabled United
States soldier, his wife, or the widow of
deceased soldier dying of wounds or dis
eases contracted in the line of duty as
such soldier, or his orphan child, shall
pass such examination at the standard
fixed by the said rules, such persons shall
have precedence for appointment to any
existing vacancy, anything in the rules
of ali civil service to the contrary not
outstanding.
Senator Alcorn spoke and voted against
this resolution for the reason that appoint
ments in the government belonged ex-
clusively to the executive and admins
trative departments, and that they should
be left to perform the duty without sug-
gestion from Congress. But he based
his opposition upon still higher ground,
which is explained in the following ex-
tract from hisremarks
But, sir, there is another view of this
case. This resolution practically excludes
the Southern States from any participa- |
ton in the offices of this government. |
But, sir, craftsmanship demands that all |
the people of this nation shall be recog-
nized; that none shall be by law excluded.
and however contemptuously Senators I
may treat suggestions, / say that the
highest duties of craftsmanship demand
that the Southern people, who participated
IN the rebellion, but who stand to-day
ready to go forward under the constitu-
ion, under the laws, and under the de-
hands of that patriotic duty which they
I'VE to the Government, should be recog-
lized, and that they should be permitted
o share in the offices of the nation. Up
o this time they have been almost totally
and the effects of that exclu-
ion are to-day apparent in the land.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
The Radical Republican Pro.
Srl mime.

The expulsion of conservative Re-
publican members of the Legislature
by the Republican caucus, from their
political organization, indicates the pro-
gramme which the Radical Republican
managers, who have control of the party
machinery, have marked out.
Conservatism is not to be tolerated in
their ranks. This will be understood by
inquiry into the causes of the expulsion of
these loyal and steadfast standard-bearers
of their party, who had been selected
to represent it ON the Legislative ticket
with special reference to their hitherto
unquestioned orthodoxy as Republicans.
1st They had voted steadily for the
measures of reform for which the tax pay
ers have so earnestly petitioned.
2nd. They have steadily opposed such
iniquities as the Metropolitan Police and
Standing Army Bills. both of which are
designed to produce a race war at
frightful cost of blood and treasure; to
create capital for political use, and to
furnish the National Administration with
pretext for bounding our people with
its army.
3. They have opposed the outrageous
to take from the several coun- |
ties the election of tax-collectors, and |
vest the appointment of said officers in
the Governor. This unrepublican inno-
walton was designed to restrict the already |
limited power of the people of the white
counties to select their own agents for the
of their local affairs, and to
supply places for the adventures who
are quartered on the public treasury.
For these divers acts of insubordina-
ion, the Republicans, who were adjudged
ruilty of them, have been banished from
heir party councils. The meaning of
he proceeding is, that the Radical pro-
,ramme in this State is-unscrupulous
IMPOSITION of taxes and reckless squan-
Iering of the proceeds-the encourage
nent of strife between the races-and a
olicy of vindictive aggression through
Mt. The moral Of it is, there must be a I
borough union of all the Conservative
lements in the State in the pending can
ass. 1t
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
Admirable.

Nothing has exercised a more power
fll influence in eradicating the bitter
memories of the war, and encouraging a
spirit of fraternity between the North
and South, then the Order of Patrons of
Husbandry. This observation is sug-
gested by the following excellent address
delivered at the meeting of the National
Grange at Charleston in response to an
address of welcome by the citizens. Mr..
S. Z. Adams, Grand Master of the State
Grange of Minnesota, is the author:
It is to be hoped that the grand agri-
cultural interests of the whole country
will become fraternized. The monopo-
lies of the land are to be fought in the
north and west, as well as in the south
and east, and the advantages accruine to
the north from cooperation and combina-
ton are equally attainable and ENJOYABLE
in the south. Our cause is your cause.
and yours ours, with this difference at
present, however, that We are relieved
from bayonet craftsmanship.
l trust that through the instrumental
ty of our Order, we may become better
conversant with each others wants.
necessities and wishes, and that the
present burden of menace aud military
domination will give way to the estab-
lishment of union and harmony in our
land, through the exercise of your own
local pride and the free and frequent as
ISOLATION with your brethren and sisters
of the north. II firmly believe that
new era has dawned upon the people of
this country, whereby the animosities of
the past shall be consigned to the tomb
of oblivion, and the friendships and
fraternal sympathies of a united land be-
come green and perennial as your own
palmetto tree.
If this, then, be the glorious mission
of our order, that no contention shall ex-
list among Us, save that noble contention, |
or emulation, of who best can work and |
best agree; if a restored and happy peo-
pie can be brought out of the present |
dark and chaotic condition of affairs, let |
US all, with warm hands and loving
hearts, fervently say, God speed it.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
The Four Mill Tax.

Anything with his Excellency to keen
the burden of taxation as heavy as posi-.
BILE on the shoulders of the people. The
Legislature, composed of majority OF
his own political friends, passed bill re-
ducing the State tax for public schools,
from four to two mills on the dollar. He
has vetoed it on the pretext that it would
prove ga serious blow to the system ofpub-
lie schools" Anyman having a nObler OBJ
ject than the oppression and bedevilment
of the taxpayers, in view, would have
seen that the proposed reduction could
have been more than made up by curtaiI-
ing the extravagant expenditures attend
ing the system as at present managed, and
which were go clearly exhibited in the
address of the Taxpayers Convention.
The reason assigned was shallow expe-
dent to cover up the real motive st the
bottom Of the veto.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
DIRECT TR


We are indebted to Mr.. George Torrey,
Grange Agent for Mississippi, james
Street, Liverpool, for price list of arti-
cles with which he will fill orders for the
Patrons of Husbandry. We are astonished
on looking over this list at the immense
advance which consumers in this country
have to pay on the original cost, and
which might be easily saved by co-opera-
ton among the Patrons. The enormous
additions TO the cost are caused by the
number of middlemen, who, under the
cid system, come between the manufac-
turer and purchaser, and must have their
per cent. before the goods are delivered
to the latter.
For example we will take few articles
from Mr.. Torrey's price list, of dry goods
and cutlery, the cost of which at our home
markets, is well known by everybody:
Bingham ........... s@25cts per ard.
Swiss Muslins ..-.... l2@ 80 =
Printed Muslins- ------ 3950 :
Bishops Lawn. ....-..- l0(940 . =
Ladies' Cloth Cloaks, minimum price, each,
So 90 and upwards.
Ladies' English Kid Gloves, per doz-, So SOC
$I2 90.
Ladies' Brussel Kid Gloves. per doz., 81 90
Gents Kid Gloves, 81 p more per dozen.
Flannels, minimum price, 20cts per yard.
Ladies' Merino Hosiery, minimum price ,
SO 90 per dozen.
Gents Merino Hosiery, per dozen, 80 90.
Linen hem stitched Handkerchiefs, medium
price, l5cts each.
Real Lace Handkerchleis, medium price, 81
30 each.
Linen Sheeting, medium price, scots per
yard.
Damask Linen Tabiings as low as Boots per
yard and upwards
Cambri needle work Edging 5cts and up
wards.
Broadcloth a low as 81 80 per yard.
| SKA Scotch Blankets as low as 81 % per
pair. (Same article sells here at from $G@
p Table knives and cast forks, "a pieces.
81 90
Razors 81 so per dozen, (usual price here
81 30 each.)
Scissors, best quality steel, 81 80 per dozen
The foregoing are mere specimens of
the large list embraced in Mr.. Torrey'
circular. To the prices here stated, are
added the duties, (Which are mere triae
on each article,) together with y per
cent for purchasing.
To avail themselves of Mr.. Torrey'
agency, Patrons in the different subordi-
nate Oranges can easily combine and make
up their orders, for such articles as they
may need, giving specific instructions az to
size and quality, and, if necessary, a
limit as to price. The circular will serve
as guide--though Mr. Torrey would have
consulted the convenience Of Patrons and
his own interest if he had made his list
still more extensive That the system of
dispensing with middlemen and getting
as near as possible to the manufacturers
may be tried, we would suggest that the
Patrons, at their regular meetings, make
up clubs and send on their orders. We
presume Mr.. Torrey has provided every
lodge. and many individual members
thereof, with his price list. Whenever a
lodge has tried the experiment, it should
advertise the result for the benefit of the
entire fraternity who are bound together
by the ties of mutual interests and a com
mon humanity.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04

We would state to the Vicksburg Her
aid that the point in Gov. McEnery's
interference against the adjustment of
the Louisiana difficulty is not so much in
the fact that his vote fell II, 900 short of
that of Lt.-Gov. PENIS, who advocates
the adjustment as in his personal interest
in the matter
1t will be remembered that Gov Nc
Enery's objection to the settlement is,
that though it will restore to their seats
in the Legislature the members who were
elected, and will give to the Democrats
and Conservatives their rightful control
of that body, it will leave unsettled the
gubernatorial issue of 1872, with Kellogg
as the de facto Governor. This is hard
condition, and possibly no settlement en-
bracing it, ought to be agreed to. But
we submit in view of Gov. McEnery's
direct personal connection with the issue,
it would be in good taste for him to leave
the decision to others.
w uO hui COHCuI III the I16TdIu lDLl-
nation that the advice of the Democratic
Congressman, Messrs. Gordon, Potter,
Lamar and others, to the Louisiana Con-
servatives to accept the proposed adjust
ment, is intermeddling with affairs that
do not concern them. The case of Lou
isiana is the case of the whole country.
The question will enter into the Presiden-
tial election, and will involve the result
one way or the other National parties
have divided upon it. Besides, if the
Conservatives of that State send their
appeals to Congress and expect the Dem
ocratic members to champion their cause
and to bear the brunt of the fierce strug-
gle, and to go down with them if they
should fail in the Presidential election, it
IS the right of those Congressman, repre-
senting the party at large, to have voice
N the deliberations for the settlement of !
he question.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
a ttorney-GcaeraI I!arri~--COrrec-
lion.

In the statement of our correspondent
of the celebrated interview between Gov.
Ames and Chief Justice Peyton, in which
Ames sought, through the Chief Justice,
to control the decision of his son, Chan
celIor Peyton, in the Injunction case, At
torney-General Harris is reported to have
been in the conclave summoned by the
Governor. The Attorney-General in
forms us that our correspondent is in err
ror. He was not present at the (aileged)
meeting, and had no part nor lot in the
conference alluded to.
We have made this explanation cheer
fully in justice to the Attorney General,
and are sure our correspondent will ac-
cept the correction.
The main point in the matter, and for
the ventilation of which We have been
willing that our columns should be en-
ployed, was the high-harded and dis
graceful attempt of the Executive to en-
terfere with and pollute the Judiciary,
and the noble manner in which lis honor
was upheld and its purity vindicated by
the Chief Justice.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
The Rule and Ruin Programme of
the Radical LEADERS.

In addition to the vigorous protest
against certain things in the manage
ment of the Radical rulers that Z" do not
suit" it, which we have copied from the
Copiah Herald, an official journal, that pa
per makes strong complaint against the
Governors veto of the bill repeating the
law to prohibit the payment Of taxes in
State warrants.
Passing from that subject, the Herald
proceeds ito comment as follows on the
delinquencies of the majority of the Leg
islature
The last days of this session of the
Legislature are passing away, and the
people are wanting to know, what is being
done for their relief The act reducin 2
certain salaries, the amendment for bien-
NAL sessions and this bill, (Which was
passed, ''the Governors veto TO the con-
trary, Notwithstanding are about ali
that have been perfected.
The matter is, that we have no states
man to foresee evils and avoid them, but
only too many politicians, who, instead of
looking to see what the State needs to se-
cure its prosperity, to give stability to
business, peace to the people and protec-
ton to life and property, and counting
only the chances of their own peeuniary
and political advancement. They look
to no other end, and would sacrifice coun-
try and friends, on the altar of their ras-
callv ambition
Nearly two months have passed, and
ha L
been done with which the mem bers Of the
Legislature can 60 before the people
and ask to be sustained in another cleo
ton.
''There is no use Disgusting the fact
The Republican party is now at its crisis,
and the members of Legislature vir-
tnally have its fate in their hands,"
What will be the Heralds amazement
and Indignation to learn that the Biennial
Session Constitutional Amendment has
been defeated that the State warrant
bill has not been passed over the Cover
nor's veto; that there is a proba biIity
that the salary bill will be so emasculated
by supplementary acts as to destroy many
of its best features that the conservative
who opposed the rule and
ruin programme have been kicked head |
over heels out of the party by formal
caucus decree? We submit to our Co
piah cotemporary if it is not time for him
md other independent Republicans who
nave not surrendered their right of
thought, to begin to think of shaking the
lust from their feet.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-04
VIcksburg Testimonial 10 senator
White.

The citizens of Vicksburg have present.
ed to Senator White fine gold headed
cane as a testimonial of their appreciation
of his vote (the only one cast by colored
senator) against the Metropolitan Police
Bill. The cane was presented in a graceful
address by Senator Furlong, in the pres
ence of the other senators. Senator
White responded rs follows: e..
SENATOR FURLoNG YOU as
their representative, / tender to the citi-
zens of Vicksburg my grateful thanks for
the unexpected and hattering compliment
which, in the shape of this beautiful cane.
you have Just presented me. Feeling as
sured that this token of regard is in no
wise tinctured with political Significance, /
receive it, in the spirit in
which il was offered, as recognition of
my independence and honesty In doing
what believe to be RIGHT. Again i
thank you and the gentlemen yon repre-
sent.