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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04
cess OF the exhibition is guaranteed without

cess OF the exhibition is guaranteed without
regard to aid from Congress. An approprla-
tion will, however, be asked for, not to exceed
100000. to provide for premiums to be
offered to contributors.
A Washington dispatch Of the 10Th says the
negotiations for reciprocity treaty with the
Sandwich Islands had been practically COM
pleted and would be sent TO the Senate in
few days.
Lent Will begin this year on the 10Th OF
February, much earlier than it has done in
any year since 1869
The Commissioner Of Agriculture has fur
nished Representative Cobb, Of Kansas, sta
tistics relating to the grasshopper afliction.
He says the area Of this destructive visitation
comprises from 200 to 225 miles wide, extend
ing from the settlements Of Southern Dakota
through Nebraska and Kansas, over
500 miles in length, and inclining to the
south. few western counties of Iowa and
Minnesota report injuries, but not to compare
In severity with those Of the country west.
ne thinks the area of territory visited by the
grasshoppers in 1874 very considerably eX-
ceeds 100000 square miles, and does not
think 1t out OF the way TO estimate the num-
Der of people more or less severely affected
by this pest at from 5000 to 100000
Another fire was started in the Navy De-
partment buildings in Washington, on the
18th, and was evidently the work OF an in
cendiary, as was probably the fire OF the 2oth.
But little damage was done.
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the
night Of the oath, by four or five men sup
posed to be detectives, to capture the James
boys at their mothers residence near kear-
ney Station, Mo- A desperate encounter
took place. and the house was fired in four
different places The assailants were driven
off. A hand grenade thrown into the house
was cast upon the CRATE by Dr. Samuels, step
father OF the James boys, and its explosion
killed lad ten years old and so injured the
arm Of Mrs. Samuels that amputation was
necessary. 1t is asserted that the James boys
were not at the house during the fight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

sIT0I At III L-lI sNseINu, anu II HIuT.uI " nv
sSth the roll-esN showed the presence of $50 mem
hers. The Republican side hoped by thus refus-
Ing 20 adjourn 20 bring she thirteen refractory Re
publicaus 10 join them, and thus give them a two
thirds vote and enable them 10 bring mp the
civil Rights bill while the Democratic Nom bvrs
hoped for an adjournment before Monday, Feb. /,
sul THAI hv TIN. means the bill would be
thrown bac K on the calendar and its copsidera-
alton this session be thus defeated should an
adjournment not be had before TIE Isl thc MI
ceaI1 be reached on thai day BY majority vote
sgspcudinE the rules. nAaIery MOTIONS were
con iiuueQ up 10 midnight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04
A Unique Exhibition in Paris.

A very interesting exhibition is now
open in the Palais de rlndustrie in con-
nection with that of Fine Arts Applied
to Industry"-it is the retrospective
museum of the costumes, q vast display
of the garments of bygone ages. Here
may be seen the brocades and cloths of
gold and silver of the reigns of Louis
XIV. and XIV, the milk-maid caps and
linen tichus of the Revolution, the span
gled Grape and embroidered cashmeres
of The Directory. Here, too, are numbers
of old household articles pertaining to
the middle ages, silver-mounted oscar
celles, suspended 10 silverstudded belts,
portable silver cases containing fork,
spoon and (oh, horror of horrors in such
COMPREHENSIVE sometimes comb as
WELL tiny knives in sheaths of silver or
embossed leather these two last being
adapted to be suspended 10 the fair
owners girdle; specimens OF the grace
full feather fans so familiar 10 our eyes
in Venetian pictures, with handles of
silver or of ivory, sometimes studded
with precious stones, fans of the Louis
Nv. period, some painted by Boucher or
by Vatican, some with a peep-hole in
geniouSly contriyed on their pictured
surface, were among the most interesting
article \ model of a poor little baby
of the middle age, swathed in swaddliRg
bands of silver brocade, as tight and stiff
as ever was an Indian papoose, made me
wonder how the poor creatures ever sur
vivcd the treatment and lived to attain
years of maturity. -PGr5S CORES 9HdCtcs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04
Congressional Proceedings---A Dead
Lock in the House.
Statistics Relative to the Grass
hopper Raid.
From $4,000 10 100000 People More or
Less Seriously Affected.
Other Interesting News Items.
FOR EI(.N.

4 London telegram Of the 22d says the Brit
ish Government had demanded an cXplana-
tion and apology from Peru for removing
passenger from British steamer ut Callao.
On the sd King Alphonso issued two proc
lamations-onc addressed to the inhabitants
of Navarro and the Basque provinces, and the
other to the army. In the first he says while
he longs for peace, he wiz fight for his rights
that he represents the dynasty which their
fathers swore to obey; that he is Catholic,
and devoted to the church; that if they will
lay down their arms he will give them
full amnesty. la the second the King de-
mands abnegaton and energy.
Rev. Charles Kingsley died in London on
the 24th.
Vienna dispatch of the 24th says The
difficulty between Turkey and Montenegro
had been compromised,
farmhouse occupied by Pierre Dulude,
In Bouoherviie, Canada, was destroyed by fire
on the morning Of the 25th, and Dulude's wife
aud eight children persisted in the flames.
The eldest child was thirteen years old and
the youngest babe. Dulude was himself
seriously burned in his efforts TO save his
family, and was not expected to live
Madrid kilograms Of the 26th say that the
Carlists had abandoned the biseay provinces
and moved into Navarro with all their ma
teral of war Six hundred Carlists had sub
mitted TO King Mphonso in the province Of
Casleton de la Plana. Fugit.yes from Estella
assert that Don Carlos had shot several of
hccrs for treason. The Carlists had fired on
British vessel laden with telegraph cable OF
the BiScayan coast,
A London dispatch OF the 26th announces
the death OF the Emperor of China on the
18th.
A London dispatch of the eth says 10000
spanish troops were massod about Tailha
for an attack on the Carlist main position on
the road to Pampeluna. The King would
direct operations in person.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04
DOM E~TIC.

Several casualties are reported In Utah,
the result OF recent heavy snow-slides in
the mining regions In the Big Cotton
wood canon six men were carried away
by an avalanche and killed. The bodies Of
hlx persons who were killed by snow
slide in the city OF Alta had been recovered
Many were supposed to have persisted,
but their bodies are covered TO great
depth 10y the SNOW, and probably they will not
be found for some time. In one demolished
house was found the body OF Mrs Carey, sit
ting in rocking chair with an infant casped
In her arms Near them were the husband
and little girl All had been suHocatcd by
the snow.
\ New Ot'clps dispatch OF the 2Sd gives q
document signed by eight Northern cotton.
buyers and merchants Mt Shreveport, Jan.
-, expressing establishment at the state.
meuts made 10y Maj, Merrill and others. rep.
r,>entRg that community in condition of an
archr and Its people iawlcss and defiant, etc
Maj Nerrills statements are pronounced out
ragrously false AMI grouudlyss, and thr
document asserts that the only disorder,
There known to the sigucrs were caused by
Merrill just before election sending his su..
dioTs rsid'ug over the country aud arrcs,iug
unresistins citizens Tor imaginary onvuses.
who haduut been held f0r trial because there
was NO evidence a! guilt
News fyom California ON the 23d was to
the effect HAT the heavy rains still continued,
and that great damage had been douc by the
floods,
\ IRE in Washington on the 25.h seriously
damaged portion ~ the Navy Department
building, and few puh,ic documents were
destroyed.
According 90 the annual rcuor, OF TIE Cen.
'cnnial Commission .hy cut,rpri>, B, moving
onward with encouraging rapd..y. Tia,
bulldogs VIII be entirely completed by Gle
Il, Of February. lSsG 1, Is stated Chat .hs
commission viii not apply to Congress fsr
an appropriation IL aid IN the erection If t.e
or other work. as ;Ajs ha, boon
amply provided for, aud while ana lppruTr.a-
,l0u would give additional success, 10 ils
enterprise tae commission feel tina, thl sac
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

1t was a curious circumstance vii,
which our readers may not all be famn
lar, that originally determined that tha
beginning of the year should be the ~.
of January. 1t seems odd to begin tba
year IN mid-winter, especially as thero
is nothing in the heavens or on tbe
earth to mark that as natural point ~
reckon from. The solstices and eors
ncxes, as open to observation and -.
periodically recurring, were noticed ana
marked with more or less accuracy even
in the earliest times; and, accordingly
most of the Oriental nations began Their
year at the autumnal equinox, as tba
Jews also did as to their civil vear
though their ecclesiastical wear ,her
dated from the vernal equinox; tbss
Mexicans too began their year at the
vernal equinox. All the ancient north.
ern nations of Europe and the Perm.
vians of South America commenced the
wear with the winter solstice, and co
did the early Greeks and Romans: the
Greeks, however, subsequently changed
to the summer solstice, and the Romans
under military exigency to be men,
toned IN moment, adopted, in the
year 1853 B. c., an ordinance which
thereafter marked for them, and still
marks for us, an artificial time for New
Years.
In that year there was a serious revol,
against the dominion of Rome within
the so-called Spanish provinces. Tn,
Lusitanians, ancestors of the present
Portuguese, and the Vettones, tribe of
Central Spain, making common cause
together, defeated two Roman Govern.
ors, marched at will over the peninsula
and pillaged even in the nelghborhood of
the Roman capital in Spain, now Carta
gena. The Romans at home took these
events so seriously as to resolve on send.
ing consul to Spain, step that had not
before been deemed necessary for more
than forty years; and, in order to hasten
the departure of the military, they even
decreed that the consuls for the wear
should enter office two months and
half before the legal time. The consuls
were always elected in the fall, at the
close Of the military year, but the day
for entering upon office had long been
the 10Th of March, near the vernal equi.
noX the time when military campaigns
were wont to begin; but at this time
and for this reason the day for entering
upon office was shifted from the 10Th of
March to the 1st of January, and thus
was accidentally established, as it We're,
the beginning of the year which we still
make use of at the present day. Julius
Caesar long afterward reformed the cal.
endar in very essential respects, but he
did not disturb the beginning of the
year, which remained for the Remains,
and consequently for all nations and all
ages, where the exigencies of Spanish
revolt had once placed it a century and
half before Christ.-N. Y. Eoening
Post
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

\ KANSAS hypochondriac, meditatilg
upon the death of a dogfaneier in his
neizhborhood, gives vent 10 the mourn
full thought: '' Our great men are a.
pctering oui sort "a rapid Ike these times.
Whisky kills most on EN-: some tHmbIes
overboard; and 'caSionally one gets
hung. -Br25lgQ Argus
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

NolAssrs CookfES.--Two cups Of mo-
IaSscs. one OF sour cream, one table
spoonful Of ginger. one teaspooutUl II
soda. one >altSpoontul of salt, flour suttj-
yicnt 10 make il thick enough TO roll outs
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

Dir. WILLIAM +. ROssETER, Of Bridge
port, Conn, has just died frQm The et.
iects of inhalinc ether which he was adj
minjstering,to q patient four weeks ago.
II producea symptoms similar 20 those Of
tvThoid fever and diphtherla.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-02-04

THE extravagant habits of life in
America find new illustration in the
Hartford scavenger's experience, when
he found, in emptying a barrel, 800
interest bearing Treasury noto among
the refuse He did not refuse it,
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01
TAKBOtsO, sUUCHERNER.

The last Tarboro' ,Sotthernc1 con-
tains the valedictory of Mr.. Walter P.
Williamson and the salutatory Of Mr..
Dossey Battle.
We part with the first with regret
and extend cordial welcome to the
last.
Mr.. Williamson is high-toned,
chiva!rous gentleman and bold and
vigorous writer. Principle rather than
mere policy has governed Lis course
as an editor, and his retirement from
the sanctum, to engage in the practice
of the law, will be loss to the profes-
sion, which We know will be siuceI civ
regretted.
MIR. Dossey Battle takes charge of
the editorial columns of the Aouthel1ler.
with reputation as a writer well es-
tablished. This paper is household
necessity in the section of the state in
which it is published, and we are sule
it's old standard and character will be
maintained.
Mr.. Charles remains as one of the
proprietOrs and is one Of the best
newspaper men in the state. The
SOttthCr1teJ ebters upon tEe earlier
years Of is semi centennial uaier fav-
C.ah[6 aISDl19S
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01
Fort Fisher.
stfWMMINaT0N N. q.
September 28th, 1875.

,
| EDITORS JOURNAL Il observed in
your paper of this morning, that some
friend Of yours has named me as q
proper person to organize the survi-
wing defenders Of Fort Fisher, for the
demonstration to be had during Fair
week. I would respectfully inform
you that I was not one of the defen-
ders of Fort Fisher, having resigned
the command Of; that post on the 4th
day Of July. 1862. Any action on my
part in the matter would certainly be
presumptuous, inasmuch, as there are
in Wilmington many gallant survivors
OF that memorable and heroic
fight. Among the most prominent of
whom. I will name Major Jas. Fl. Hill,
and Major Jas. Riley. the first as the
Adiutant of the Commander of the
Fort, The lanaeutcd Whiting, I con-
slider the proper representative of the
undying glory achieved by North Car
oli,sia,as, in the defense of that last
stronghold of the Confederacy.
Had the movement taken a wider
range, say the defenders of Cape Fear
or, the defenders of Wilmington, I
with many others, might have been
interested and participated in the so.
cial reunion of which you speak.
Very Respectfully,
JNO. J. HEpRICK.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01

lar class of meD. but for the benefit OF
the whole people thoroughout the
State. This is the Institution We seek
to build up one that will make it>
benign iniurnce felt by all classes of
men throughout the State, and when
the greatest good will bs done to the
greatest number, by encouraging all
useful learning, and not one intended
only for the manufacture OF mere clas-
slcat scholars.
The people want a place where a
youth can be taught the principles
of the occupation by which he is TO
earn his bread, where, in word, all
useful learning and not that which. to
a certain extent, and in comparison
with it, may be considered mere orna.
mental learning may be had. Such an
Institution can never be found at
Chapel Hill. Let it be encouraged
and supporte by all classes of people
throughout the State.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01

The peach season is about over, and
She Delaware growers have already
commenced to count the costs of their
enormous yield There can be no
doubt but that their fears for the
profits have been fully realized, and
the returns have been absolutely a
loss in many cases. Fully Il third of
the fruit has been allowed TO rot on the
trees and many Of the farmers have
not picked any of their peaches since
the shipment Of Hales. From the be-
ginning of the season up to last week
3, 139 900 baskets of fruit have been
shipped to points north, east and west;
adding tt this one million baskets,
which have been shipped by various
water lines, the total Will loot up over
four million of baskets already mar
keted. This is an average of a hun
dred and sixty thousand baskets sent
from the Peninsular orchards every
day to supply the Western, New York
and Northern markt ts. OF this enor-
nous quauity of fruit New York has
received about l, 800, 600 baskets. The
Boston markets have been we'll sup
piled, and coupled with the points OF
shipment III New England, have been
next to the Western points, the most
renunerative to the growers, about
fifteen cars per day having been sent,
the total number shipped to these
points being nearly $50, 900 baskets.
The cost OF shipment is about 40 cents
per basket, or about $3.50, 600 III freight
has been paid for fruit shipped to
New Engl nd. The entire cost of
picking. shipping and marketing the
enormous crop has been about s., 900,
900. and when the season closes this
will be increased to nearly 81, 500, 900.
There now remains about six days Of
large shipments, the Smock, late Craw-
ford, and various canning varletle
ing cop. Ihls vii swell the total
shipment this season tOabout c, 900, 900
baskets of fruit; but, had the markets
warranted it, there il little doubt but
that even 12,00O. 900 baskets could
i have been shipped from the Peninsula.
Altogether, the effect of the present
crop has been disastrous to the ZACH
interest of the Peninsula, and will re-
suit in the grubbing out of many of
the orchards, and 1t is quite likely
that many years will elapse before
| such another immense crop of fruit
will he grown in Delaware aud Mary
! land
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01
The cotton Prospect.

From all the cottonsections,s shipping
to this place, We. hear that cotton is
coming forward with great rapidity.
Owing to the two cts, that the cotton
has opened very fast. and that labor
Influenced by the fact that planters are
paying about one sixth of the crop to
house it's quite plentiful The gcan-
ges do not seem to try to control the
delivery of the crop-the putting it Oh
the market SO as not to have q glut
early in the season. In fact it is donbt-
full if the Grange men bers themselves
are not obliged to sell to make their
C, ntracts good. We do not know how
this will result this season., but We
think if there has been season in sew
erai when the crop ought to be dsliv-
cred slowly, it is the present. F z.f ,
yhe old crop hes heen worked down
in the foreign markets very gradually,
aud had become SO low SIX weeks si1ce
everywhere. ........ f..t.. .,...
The manufacturers who have been
running ''sLort time, or stopped be-
cause of their being unable to. cell
their goods, had begun toresume ope-
rations having gotten clear of the over
stocks of manufactured goods on their
shelves and in their warehouses;. Con
fidence was gradually increasing in ali
br inches of trade; when, suddenly, SIS
if by magic almost. the crop is ready
and mnst come out of the fields or be
injured. Must it therefore be offered
as rapidly Are we obliged to sell at
once. and all al q times These are
questions for serioussdeliber AS
we are SHIPPING now, the, pressure to
sell will forcs prices down a,s1 the
crop not bring so much by mahy mil
lions of dollars., It is true cotton is
bw bnt at &C.. to 124e. fat homt, these
is profit. Rapid delivery will force
the price lower and perhaps below the
n A -l.l- ~s.~As =
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01

hJ'ti'l'y Wish tha' peace and
h,t
tilr proclamation must il. I.su, d. and
il i9, | -hnlI instruct thr command J
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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-10-01

from Africa TO some OF the Atlantic
States. Our State Geologist says some
OF these ores are among the best known
for steel.
Nearly all of the larger railroads are
using steel rails. Each year statistics
show an increasing number used.
When trade revives and we recover
from the great panic, the increase in
the use of these rails will De much
greater and with it the demand for
these ores will increase.
Good walnut lumber, well seasoned,
sells in the northern cities from $40 to
300 per thousand a view of the wal
mt forests here shows a rich freight.
On the east Of the mountains O single
party contracted for one milii on of To-
cust pins to ship to Europe, for ship
building. The supply Of locust on this
to supply the world for long time to
come, with the material for ship pins.
Merchants in the northern cities,
ship raw hides from every part of the
! continent, for the purpose of making
| leather. Many of them ship the hides
to the interior for tanning as it is cas-
Ter to send them to the bark than to
ship the bark to the hides especially
is it SO in regard to white oak bark
tanned leather,
The white oak forest here, would be
equal to any demand that could be
made on it for tanning purposes for
great many years, while the wood
would make good fuel for making
charcoal pig-irop. Thus the rest
that is in the way of cultivating crops
on the mountain land, making it ex-
pensive to clear. would become an ele-
ment of great wealth.
Tbe water power Is very great. and
is easily made available aud equal to
any demand that can be made on it,
Some of the valleys are very rich
and will grow from 40 to 50 bushels of
corn to the acre the corn sells from
40 to SO cents per bushel. Wheat of |
very superior quality is grown iii
abundance, and sells from Is certs to |
81 per bushel.
Mnch of the mountain land is very !
rich and yields good natural pa5turage |
grass springs up as soon as tue timber |
Is taken off. You see persons here al
most every day from Tannessee aud |
South Carolina, buying beef cattle Of |
superior quality, taken from the moun-
tain ranges
These lines of railroads comp!c ted
ahd viii make these mountain valleys /
places of great summer resort iOr the |
climate at that season, can n0 where !
De excelled in the United States.
1t Eeome to me a atatement Of these j
tacts is sufficient to show tnat the >ys
tens OF roads begun, ought to be com
pieted
Beef sells here from / 70 ; cents pr
pound, chickens 10 to II CENTS eggs
"n cents per dnT"n and butter !2} !
cents pr pound. dence yen See Why /
living 10 So rhesp- /
We have juet had two rainy DAYS: 10
the feelings there IL great difference
i'll rainy day here and in the low
country.
Ynu must come and try the climate
for yourself then you can form an
opinion on y"ur own kno~lcdge.
YOurs Truly. IT.