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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-30
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There are great many persons in
the world who are well enough to 90
to bail, but too sick to attend pray
er meeting.
The English revision of the Old
Testament has been carried as far as
the seventeenth verse of the twenty
third chapter of Ezekiel.
The London Saturday Recieac saws
that the American public schools,
from the lowest to the highest, are
theaters of public display"
The Jews free school of London
gives religious and secular education
to 5000 children at an outlay of S37,-
900 a year. The Government In
spector praises the high efficiency of
the school, and awards it $4,000.
Experiment has proved that in
school-rooms lighted by windows on
both sides the children suffer more or
less from injured vision, and so inn
portant has the subject been consid-
cred in Germany, that law has lately
been passed forbidding such windows
in schools.
"A meeting of the House of Bishops
of the Episcopal Church has been called
in Philadelphia, on the 18th of October
next, to take into consideration the
election of missionary Bishops for
Africa and China; to receive and act
upon the resignation of Bishop Adams,
of New Mexico and Arizona, and to
transact such other business as may
come before them.
There is said to be scarcity
of school-teachers in Canada. At a
recent examination at South Hastings
there was but one applicant for first
class certificate, and he retired. All
the nine applicants for second-class
ones failed, and three-fifths of those
who applied for third-class ones were
unsuccessful. The cause of this state
of things is said to be the low salaries
offered.
"A commission of eight persons
was appointed by the late general con-
ference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Zion Church to meet with
like commission of the Colored Meth
odist Episcopal Church for the pur-
pose of forming a plan Of union of
the two bodies. The united church
will number about 100000 commune
cants. In order to prepare the way
for union, the Zion Church has sub
mitted to it's conferences a proposal to
make its bishops life officers. AT pres
ent they are elected for term of four
years.
The number of public schools in
Switzerland to-day is 5,0SS. The pop
ulation of that country is estimated at
100000. The number of pupils in
the public schools in 1872 was All ,76O,
and at that time there were $3.50 men
and 1,724 women teachers in the
schools. The canton Berne had the
largest proportion Of schools, SIT.
There are 57S schools exclusively for
boys; $50 for girls, and 1924 which
are attended by both sexes. The ex-
penses of the schools in 1872 amounted
to SlS0,000. The salaries of teachers
range from $500 year to $50. Those
who receive low salaries, however,
have free house rent, the use of arabic
land and are provided with fuel.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-30
TOO STILL.

Good dame, the evening chores are done,
Come sit thee at my side;
How lonesome is the silence of
This house at eventide.
How different was the hour, good dame,
A few short years ago,
When through the homestead twenty feet
Went running to and fro.
When this still Preside rang again
With all the reckless noise,
With all the merriment and wit
OF ten bright girls and boys.
How fast they came along, good dame,
And then how fast they went
wish had been with them
More easy and content.
There was Henry, ready with his laugh,
And ready with his tears,
His were music, wit and beauty, TOO,
Our pride in those bright years.
There was Herbert. generous and brave,
With forehead broad and fair,
His voice so like his mothee's voice,
And clustering auburn hair.
These were the first to 90, dear dame,
Longest has been their stay
These never with the others came
To gatherings sad or gay.
The others, scattered through the world
Their destiny fulfill,
And we are left alone, dear dame
This house is woeful still
AUGUSTA Moore, in ". Y. Evangelist.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-30
CENTENNIAL ITEMS.

Some importantad ditionS and i'm
provements have recently been made
in the departments occupied by the
German Department, which comprise
excellent displays in several of the
more prominent buildings. Germany
has done nobly in this great Worlds
Fair.
They are coming, Father Hawley,
300,0 strong. | allude to the chill
dren connected with the public schools
of the land. The new rule admitting
the youngsters at half rates works to a
charm, and school children are coming
in numerously and enthusiastically
from all directions. ! shall not be
surprised if fully 300 900 such visitors
pass through the gates during the next
three months. Cor. Chicago Journal
Ladies who are planning to visit
the Exhibition at Philadelphia would
do well to dress simply and sensibly.
Plain, neat garments are the most APP
propriate, nice ones are almost certain
to be injured. In some parts of the
Exhibition grounds the dust is very
penetrating, and the asphaltum walks
become sticky under the hot sun In
the Main Building the passages are
necessarily sprinkled to lay the dust.
And to see long dresses trailing
through the water is not only disgust
ing, but such obstacles seriously inter
fere with the comfortable locomotion
Of the crowd. A short walking-skirt
i, indispensable to comfort and neat
Dpss
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-30
The Philadelphia Press thinks

Ane HIiautlp.lla PfeSS thinks
that King Ahasueras organized the
first National Exhibition, quoting
from the first chapter of Esther to
prove the point: '.In the third wear
OF ms reign. about SO years before
Christ, he made feast unto all his
princes and servants: the power of
Persia and Media, the mobiles and
princes OF the Provinces being before
him. Then he showed the riches of
his glorious kingdom and the honor
OF his excellent Majesty many davs,
even an hundred and fourscore DAVIS"
Inc Press grows enthusiastic over the
tact that Ahasuerus' exhibition was
Kept open one hundred and eighty
days, precisely the time fixed for the
duration of our Centennial show"
There is wonderful display of
agricultural implements in Agricul-
tural Hall, forming one of the most
interesting and important features of
that department. 1t is thought that
the exhibition will result in an inn
mense trade in agricultural nipple
ments in the United States, from the
people OF other countries, who, having
seen the numerous machines of Ameri-
can manufacture, cannot fail of adj
mlrlng their many superior qualities.
South American visitors, for example,
have sent home the most favorable
reports concerning the recent tests of
mowers, reapers and other machines,
given under the auspices of the Agri-
cultural Department, and it is expect
ed that the sale of such implements in
Brazil and the Argentine Republic
will, rs elsewhere, be largely in
creased in consequence of the Exhi-
bltlon. Canada, also, has a very credit
able exhibit of this kind of nipple
ments, and so have several other coun-
tries, but none are equal to the display
made by 'our own Columbia
The Centennial livestock display,
embracing the finest exhibition of
horses, mules, dogs, horned cattle,
sheep, swine, goats and poultry ever
seen in this country, will open ut the
new yards which have been established
at the intersection of Lancaster and
Glrard avenues, at Il cost to the COM
mission of $4,000. Over 1000 stalls
for horses and cattle have been erect
ed, and all of these substantially built
and conveniently appointed being
abundantly supplied with water and
Illuminated at night with gas. All
the yards will be under the surveil-
lance of the Centennial Police. the
Centennial Bureau of Agriculture
having supervision of the entire ar
rangements. Animals for which en-
tries are already being made, are of Il
class entirely different from those that
are usually seen at county and State
fairs, as the conditions of admission
are based on the lineal descent from the
purest breeds. The Canadian display
will undoubtedly be a very fine one,
the whole number of animals from
that country amounting to over $50.
These are being selected by commits
sion chosen by the Provincial Govern
ment, which pays all transportation
charges on condition that animals are
such as to do credit to the country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-30
How a Man Looks for Clean Clothes.

Did you ever see a man try to find a
shirt or a handkerchief or something in
the bureau drawer where his wife keeps
her clean linen? 1t mostly happens
when he's in hurry, when he has got
his fireworks temper on, and his wife
has got the baby on her lap or she is
"up to the elbows" in dough lie
finds the white clothes arranged in
such symmetrical layers as only wo-
man after long practice can accom-
plish, and he dives in good deal as he
would fish for nubs of kindling in a
barrel of shavings, pitching every
thing right or left on to the floor.
Meanwhile, as he fails to get the re-
quired article, stewing and swearing
and Offering up selected expressions of
relief to his feeling in suppressed
tone OF voice, and vowing, in way
especially designed to reach the ears of
his wife, "that it does beat the old
Harry thing can't be put where it
can be found" About this time his
wife yells out from below that the ar
ticle sought is right at the top, when he
sarcastically wants to know if she sup
poses he has ''got no eyes" then tears
around into that linen ut more furi-
Gus rate than ever, swearing that the
shirt amt there. for he has got clear
to the bottom. And then he gathers
every thing up in bunch and rams
them back anyhow, just as he can grab
them, in savage handfuls, tearing
around and jerking things all over
with q laAa.naao 10,
sings out in sort of abstracted way,
as if addressing no one in particular,
that he can always tell where to find
any thing he needs at his place Of bust
ness in moment, that he keeps a
place for every thing and every thing
in its place. Just about the time he
has worked himself into a red-hot
worry Of boiling-over Impotence and
got the whole room in a litter, his
wife glides in and lays her hand on the
missing article-rigbt in the drawer
where he jerked it out and then
rammed it back again-in that quiet
way that woman has of maddening a
choleric husband into fit state for the
lunatic asylum. -Deaf-Nute Ad0ance.
THEY had company to tea. The
table was set out splendidly. The bis
cults were as white and light and fiaky
as snow, and the cake was just lovely.
The company were delighted with
everything, and were enjoying them
selves hugely, and getting the modus
operandi Of making the biscuit which
were too lovely for anything, when the
infant of the household unfortunately
whispered MA, why don't you have
such tea when there amt company"
-Donbury Ne,os.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18
in 1870 and 1865 respectively

HofTman's ms lorlty, l9,iiJ-
Mr.. Tilden, you know what this contrast
attests. Right well do you comprehend the
means whereby the vote of 1865 was thus
swelled out Of all proportions. There are
not u 600 legal voters living in these wards
to-day, though they gave Hoffman l. ,443
majority Had the day been of average
length it would doubtless have been swelled
to 20. 900 There was nothing but time
needed to make it 100, 600. if 50 many had
been wanted and paid for.
Now, Mr.. Tilden, call upon you to put
stop to this business. You have but to
walk into the Sherif's. Mayors and Super
visors Offices in the City Hall Park, and say
that there must be no more Of it-say ii 50
that there shall be 70 doubt that you mean
it-and we shall have tolerably fair cleo
| ton once more Probably a good part Of
the 50, 600 Supplied with bogus naturaliza-
ton certificates will offer to register and to
yote-some of them pretending not to know
that they are no more citizens Ct the United
States than the King of Dah)mey ls-but
/ very few will vote repeatedly unless paid
for it. and We shall not be cheated more
than 10 900 if you simply tell the boss work
men that there must be no more illegal
voting instigated and paid for.
VIII YOU do II? Your reputation is at
stake. The cowardly craft which
Would not play false. ard yet would wrongly
win"
will not avail. II We Republicans are
swindled again rs we were swim
died last fall, you and such as you will be
responsible to God and man for the outrage.
Prosecutors, magistrates, municipal au-
thorites, are all in the pool We have nc
hope from the minions of justice. and the
villains have no fears of the terrors of the
law. appeal to you and anxiously await
the result Yours, HORACE GREELEY.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18

The false figures of Mr.. Tilden's letter are
being exposed and held up to public con-
demnation on all sides. The Albany EreH-
ma Journal has demonstrated that in his ex-
hibi, of New York State taxes and finances
he mas given fraudulent figures, and this is
the more easy Of belief, for it is plain that
in the treatment of the national finances he
has resorted to similar practices.
For INSTANCE, he states that the Federal
taxes Of the past eleven years reach the g
yantic sum of four thousand five hundred
millions" wherel, the total Federal taxes
f,r the Ta,t eleven years do not reach four
thousand millions, and Mr. Tilden's state
ment is more than FIVE hundred millions
wide of the truth
But the statement i still more false in
what it implies than in what it says. 1t Is
mean. To CONVEX the impression that the
Government has cost $4,000, GOO 600 in
eleven wears. leaving out Of view the facts
that over SGj0. 600. 900 Of debt have been
paid over $1,000, 100000 of interest on
the debt have been met nearly 100000
0OO Of war claims have been extinguished
These have nothing to 90 with the running
expenses of tie government, They grow
ont of the Democratic rebellion
The Chicago T15me says the meanness
,-g ,.rf,;-ra-- .f Mr. TIden's statement
NAV he thus exhibited a. He states that in
eleven years Of peace the government con-
sumod : 500 100000 Of taxes, leaving it
to be assumed that the Government expended
annually FOR its support an average exceed
M Si09 100000, when the fact was ,Ethat,
during the eleven years Of peace, the eI-
peniiture, for the support Of the Govern
ment were 81 40, 4l&,OjO, or an average Of
Sl32 ,000 ,0O0,-a difference of 1000
900 a year
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18

The session of Congress. now closing. was
commenced on the 9th day of November.
1875, and is upon the ninth month of its
existence, vet not u single act calcu-
lated to benefit the great mass OF the
people of the United States, to revive their
DEPRESSED industries, and to start them
forward again on the march Of prosperity
has been placed on the statute book.
Nothing has been done to hasten the re-
sumption Of specie payments, nothing to
restore our maritime supremacy, nothing
10 omen to our manufacturers new markets
on our own continent now enjoyed by Euro
pean powers. The strength OF the army
has been reduced, to be raised again, the
efficiency of the navy has been crippled,
the important question of cheap transport
alton. so vital to the mechanics of the East
and to the farmers of the West, has been
ignored, and the entire session has been de-
voted to the manufacture of political capital
for use by the Democrats in the pending
campaign. As General hurlbut. of Hi
nois, said in debate, few days since;
Every brokon official kicked out for
thievery, every cashiered officer, every name
less yagabond was invited, solicited, urged
to testify. Partly for revenge, partly for
witness fees, partly for cheap notorety,
these birds of evil omen flocked to the Capt.
toll. thronged the corridors. took possession
of the committee rooms and of the commit
tees, prompted questions, invented answers,
retalled old scandals, picked up second
hand, the dead refuse of the streets, to be
greedily swallowed by the mouths that stood
arape for such carbon food.
The common rights of individual citizens
we're grossly violated, the sanctity OF private
correspondence outraged, the telegraphic
messages unlawfully forced from their pro
per keepers, citizens imprisoned by order OF
the House for no valid reason, and all the
rights of private individuals secured by the
Constitution trampled down by the decree
of the House of Representatives. Secret
sessions were held, parties charged with
wrong-doing kept in ignorance, and the
poor privilege granted to all criminals OF
an open Investigation and of meeting wit
nesses face to face was denied"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18
NORTH FERRIsBuRon-The severe drou

NORTH FERRIsBURGH.-T severe drouth
has compelled many farmers in this vicinity
to drive their cows the distance OF one and
two miles for water. Ii mas caused also no
little disappointment of expectation as re-
CARDS the grain crop. There seems gener-
ally not to be more than from one halt to
two-thirds the yields OF former years. In
fine. all vegetation begins to present very
scared and sad appearance.
Hon. n j. Allen and wife having spent
several weeks at Alburgh Springs have re-
turned. They will defer their visit to the
Centennial for 4 few weeks on account of
the very warm weather.
NJ F. Allen, the conductor Of the Butter
Market. shipped Ia week 50 tubs or 20OO
pounds prime. ranging from Is u % cents.
Lindsey Dean, who for several years has
been engaged II the keeping OF fowls for
the production of eggs, has now on hand
more than 200 hens Of the Leghorn and
Bramsh varieties. lie reports his business
very profitable also that he intends TO en-
large extensively his operations during the
Fail.
The town Of Monkton abounds in repre-
sentative men for the coming canvass tor
that Office. No less than SIX Selt-nOminated
candidates are IN the field
Widow Willoughby died at the residence
OF her son, Guy Willoughby, on the llth
inst. aged = years.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18
rbe Democracy on Intimidation.

Scott Lord is prominent Democrat from
Utica. y. Y, and a member of the House
Judiciary Committee. He was one oil the
imreachment managers lie introduced
last Thursday. in the House, apparently
without much notice to the Southern Demo
cra:s, resolution declaring that all citizens
are entitled to protection under the fifteenth
amendment, and that it is the Judgment oil
the House that all attempts by force or In
timidation t. prevent the exercise oil the
right Of suffrage are condemned and that the
guilty parties should receive prompt ana
eiieetual punishment. This resolution placed
a great many Of the Southern Democrats in
a very awkward position, for its certain I'M
plieation was that the colored men OF the
South have not always been protected ana
that the instances in which they had been
intimidated are so conspicuous as to demand
a rebuke from the House.
Immediately the Southern Democrats be-
came alarmed. and finding it not difficult to
secure their usual following among the
Northern doughfaces, they commenced Ill
clustering to prevent vote upon this resoiu-
ton. The calling of the previous question
was resisted in every possible way. many
Democrats suddenly absenting themselves
neeessitatinr repeated calls of the House
amid excited encounters between individual
members, during one of which it Is said Mr.
Cox. after shaking his fist at an opponent
sat down and tore a palm-leaf fan into
fragments" Mr. Lord. however, supported
by a few Democrats and by the Republicans
stood his ground, and by the time the vote
came TO he taken the Southern Democrats
saw. that they were in for it, and they all
surrendered. except two who voted in the
negative.
The Democrats of the House have thus
been compelled to put themselves on record
as declaring that the exercise of the right o.
suffrage is in some States resisted and con
trolled by fraud, intimidation and violence
50 that the object of the Fifteenth Amend
ment is defeated, and that such outragei
ought to meet with certain, condign ant
eacctual punishment whether the crIm'
be one punishable by fine and Imprisonment
or one demanding punishment OF death. II
whatever point of view it may be looked at
this is an important declaration. 1t IS
Democratic confession that such enormitie
have been perpetrated. and that, too Oh
such scale that it Is no longer safe for tn
Democratic party to ignore them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18

MoRz EvpNcE.-Tilden Is a refOrmer-
50 We are told ly the Democrats. Not long
since the Oswego Palladium, a Democra tic
newspaper, gave Us the following evidence
Of the kind Of reform that Mr. Tilden he
lieyeS in
The manner Of conducting the reform
canvass in the personal interest Of Gov.
Iilden has been and Is quite remarkable.
Before the State Convention at Utica, the
Governor principal lackev. Mr. Dan Ma
gone, Jr., went about the State pcddling,
not only the State patronage already in the
gift Of the Governor, but mortgaging the Fed
eral patronage of 1877 in case Tilden should
be elected President. Mr.. Magone came TO
| this city one night about two weeks before
the State Convention. He arrived on a late
train and sent a messenger from his hotel 10
one OF our leading Democrats, who was got
out Of his bed on important business Mr..
Magone told his prominent Democrat that
he (Nlagone) came to Oswego By request Of
the Governor to say to him (the prominent
Democrat) that if delegation favorable to
Tilden were sent from this district TO the
State Convention, that be (Magone was au-
thorised to promise him (the prominent
Democracy all the Federal patronage in The
9th Congressional District in case Tilden,
or any man whom Tilden favored, should be
elected President. And, said the virtuous
Magone, IF you don't believe what | say to
you these were his words-'If you don t
believe what say 10 YOU, get on to the train
tomorrow morning come TO Albany with
me and hear from the Governors lips the
pom Sc So
Mr.. Dan Magone, Jr., was then on his
circuit of the State fixing things for the
State Convention, and the fair inference is
that he made similar promises and protes-
tations to people in other parts of the State.
OF course this was done in the interest of
reform
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-08-18

HIS clustering LETTER on ELECTION FRAUDS
In the election Of 1868, great frauds were
perpetrated upon the ballot box in New
York. The actual Republican majority IN
the State was overcome by fraudulent ma
iority counted in in New York city. How 1t
was prepared and managed is shown by the
following letter
Private and strictly Confidential
Roous OF DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE, I
October 81, 1868. !
Ny DEAR SIR Please at once communi-
cate with some reliable person IN three OF
four principal towns and in each city OF
your county and request him Expenses duiy
arranged t. this end) to telegraph to " II
liam NJ. Tweed, Tammsny Hall, at the MN
ute of closing the polls, not waiting Tor the
counts, PERSONS estimate of the vote
Let the telegraph be as follows
This town will show Democratic gam
Tor loss) over last year of (number) or TN:
one if Sufficiently certain This town VIII
give Republican Tor Democratic. majority
Of -
There is, OF course, IN important object tC
be attained by simultaneous TRANSMISSION
at the hour Of closing the polls. but ne
longer waiting. Opportunity can be taKef
/ of the usual half-hour lull in the telegraphl'
communications over lines before actual re
suits begin to be declared, and before th'
Associated Press absorb the telegraph witt
returns and interfere with individual mes
sages, and give orders to watch carefully tn
count. Very truly yours,
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
Chairman.