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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05

ONcn pain beat on my heart
And we'll nigh killed IL:
shuddered al the smart.
But said God willed It."
And down. and down again
With awful power.
Fell the great hand OF pain
Hour after hour
While like mighty fail
The fierce blows hurt me.
cried. God doth prevail,
He'll not desert me-"
Blow upon cruel blow
The great hand gave me.
Yet cried, : He doth know,
And He viii save me-"
/ did not loudly cry,
Aud ask Gou reason;
] knew He'd tell me why,
In His own season.
In His good time" | said,
In trusting blindness,
And was not afraid
To wait His kindness.
! did not trust in vain,
God drew me nearer. 4
He whispered, Smile agaiu,
The way is clearer
And 10! my mortal sight
Gould reach To heaven!
My faith dispclled the night,
And light was given.
Ella Wheeler, in Standard.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05
HILLS BRIGADE.

BY THE REV. LEANDER g. cOAN.
.sComrade, I've been mad to-day,
Nigh mad enough to swear,
Thinkin' about the War and the South,
And all that we suffered there;
Those four long years, the dead we left,
And those who came home TO die,
or what we fought and hoped for
Mad, with good reason whyl
II can't forget they were rebels:-
That this was their General Hill!
We have heard their yells before
II seems | can hear them still.
To think OF that yell in Congress!
Well, let us move back the hands
He! boas,in' Of fathers house, while
No thanks TO him, il stands!
- Yes, lifted his hand agin ii,
And sot 1t well on fire,
And knocked out the underpinnin',
Or, at least, twas his desire.
And when father caught and cuffed him,
Lettin' up with half enough
To come back crank and sassy,
Is a-usin' the old man rough
Then there's that Wilkes Booth Hambleton';
Doughtaces a-crawlin back
To obey their old time masters,
And hear the slaye-whip crack
Centennial Well, I'm Tor it,
And peace, and goodwill, and SUCH
But it seems they're askin' of us
jest leetle too much.
There's Gettysburg and Antietam,
The horrid Wilderness, too;
Fort Pillow, Macon and Andersonville,
With Writ and his wicked crew.
And we've got to knuckle at last!
To swallow our shame and chagrn;
Confess we were wrong and are sorry,
That loyalty was sin!
of comm back they'd been decent,
Hadn't sneered over Lincoln's grave;
Had left of braggin' Of treason
And the cause they couldn't save;-
I'd have swall owed all resentment,
In spite of this wooden leg;
And as fur goin agin' en-
| wouldn't have moved peg.
a. ! was ready to bury the Ratchet,
To forgive and try to forget;
But begin JEFF. Davis pardon
Is rather the wust thing yet!
The Centennial splurgc OF oblivion
Was good so fur as II VENT
To bottle well up our anger,
But TO give TO their venom vent"
The Corporalis Northern blood was up,
AS he muttered and hobbled away;
From the look and tone he carried,
reckon it wasn't to pray.
AT every step HE wooden stump
Came down with vicious vim!
And it Is my calm opinion
They get no help from him.
He sees an nsolent menace
In the venom OF Hills TRADE,
The germ of another secession,
The stuff OF which rebels are made.
But you can depend upon it,
Whether with ballot or blade,
Enough upon call will rally
To wipe out Hills Brigade.
ALTON, n. H., March H.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05
Plan or An Apple Orchard.

Mr.. T. Peters, an extensive nurserymen,
Of Delaware, recommends the following
plan of planting young orchards, now
adopted by many of oul most successful
fruit. growers. The arrai cement is shown
AS follows:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05

LOOKING unto Jesus" is the grand
specific for anger in both it, aspects, as a
sin and as suffering. Its dangerous and
tormenting fire, when it is kindled in a
human breast, may be extipguisbed best
by letting in upon il the love wherewith
lie loved US. Let Faith arise, and make
haste and open the doors of an angry
heart to the compositions which flow in
Christ cruciied the incipient tumult will
be quenched like spark beneath flow
ing stream. If you abide in Him, sinful
anger will be kept or cast out, and that
which remains, being like His own, will
neither trouble you nor hurt Drother.--
Arnot.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05

o. represents standard apple trees, thir-
ty feet apart, forty eight trees TO the acre;
$, represents standard pears or cherries,
thirty five to tae acre; X, dwarf pears,
dwarf apples, dwarf cherries, plums,
peaches, or ounces, eighty-two TO the
acre. There will he eight rows of apple
trees, six trees in a row, on an acre. Mr..
Peters arguments in favor OF dis plan
are, briefly, as follows:
1t is great loss TO plant and grow an
orchard on the old principle--trees forty
10 fifty feet apart. This arrangement pro
yides for 100 trees 10 the acre instead Of
27, as on the old plans thus putting on one
acre what would require six acres, planted
forty feet apart II is easier and cheaper
to fertilize and cultivate one acre than six.
The intervening trees, being dwaris and
close growers, will not interfere Mt all.
The trees can be headed 50 low as to shade
the ground and the trunks, which Is iDdis-
peDsable 10 successful fruit growing.
Grain or grass seed should never be sown
in young orchard, and with this close
arrangement there is no IDducement to do
so, as the farmer cannot turn in stock
without having his young fruit trees de-
s,royed Trim all fruit trees in the month
OF June, except newly planted orchards,
which should always be trimmed in the
spring after planting, whether fall or
spring planting .-Ohio Farmer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-04-05

ONE dandeIlon seed would seem to lie
enough to cut up all atheism by the roots.
its hnely-spread balloon with its seed
hanging like a miniature car as it floats
through the air is certainly piece Of
mechanism perfect for the end in view
Prot. Chadtou77e.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
A Singular Trade.

THERE is singular trade in Paris.
All boarding schools here are extremely
DESTROYS to have among their pupils the
highest prize man. There is an annual
examination of all the school-boys of a.
given standing in Paris. One of them is
the highest prize man. To have trained
the highest prize man is the best possible
advertisement of a school. Boarding
school masters are consequently always
on the lookout for boys who promise to
carry off this distinction Their parents
hold a sort of auction OF the bright bow
and cOnf1de him to the boardin g-school
master who bids highest for him A
hopeful candidate for the Derby is not
more sedulously watched and trained
All the masters take the utmost pains
with him. He is drilled, and crammed
and examined, in school hours and out of
school hours. He is made to feel, night
as well as day, that he was born, fed and
educated for no other purpose but to carry
off this great prize. He leads the life of
the Strasburg goose, whose liver is to
have the honor of entering pate de foie
gras.-Scribner for April.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
another Wonderful Shower.

The truthful genius who presides over
the local columns Of the Burlington
Haaoh-Ege, gives the following graphic
account of recent strange event in that
locality:
Yesterday afternoon about four O'Clock
the residents OF South Hill, In the vicini.
~ of Perkins meadow, were amazed al
most beyond expression at most singu.-
lar and inexplicable event At the time
the sky was comparatively clear, and but
few people were out of doors. Suddenly
little daughter of Rufus Rosenbaum.
who owns the South Hill butter factory
came running into the house crying out
that it was raining bread. Her father
sternly reproved her for using such exag--
geration, but she insisted that she told
only the truth, and he dropped his ham,
mer on the anvil, and ran out. Amaze
ment sealed his lips when he saw the,
ground already thickly covered with bits.
OF white wheat bread about three inches,
long and two wide, while it was still fall
ing quite rapidly, but almost as softly as
snow, while the people were out gather
ing 1t up and examining it. Mr.. Rosen-
baum found, to his still greater surprise,
that the bread was palatable, and actually
Duttered with an excellent article of oleo
margarine. The Perkins Meadow peo-
pie, overwhelmed with establishment aft
er gathering small sample lots of the
bread to show their neighbors, started off
fri IL, i
But as they reached Webb street they
were surprised to find that the shower
extended even that far, and the
bread that fell there was buttered on both
sides, and had the top crust cut off. As
they came on down Summer street thew
passed through a severe shower of sugar
crackers and warm mullins. But when
they reached Barnes street the scene beg
CARED description. For in that favored
locality the atmosphere was full of Boston
brown bread, and hot raised biscuit, while
farther down, on Angular street, it was
raining corn bread and late buckwheat
cakes. 1t was unfortunate, however, that
before the Barnes street people could get
out to enjoy this shower of modern man
ma, heavy storm of knives and forks
came rafting down, which drove the peo-
pie hastily into their homes. This storm
was of short duration, and within fifteen
minutes after it ceased, there was not a
crumb Of bread or a knife or fork to be
seen on the ground, the geese, which grow
IN that neighborhood at the rate of IA
to the square foot layin Or deVOurpd everv
thing.
AS postscript to the above we would
state that Mr.. Rosenbaum has Just called
at the office with the information that
Theodore Daniels, who was digging a
well for Mr.. Ihrockmorton, had just
struck a running vein of sweet milk.
The supply appears to be inexhaustible,
and they are going to send the we'll to the
Centennial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

and the person having the greatest num-
Der of votes for President considered
| by the court to have been lawfully
given and certified, shall be President
II such number be a majority of the whole
number of electors lawfully appointed.
Ii no person has such majority the state
OF the vote shall be Immediately certified
TO the House of Representatives, which,
from the persons having the highest num-
Der, not exceeding three, on the list or
those voted for as President, shall choose
the President Immediately by ujga Uoce
vote, the representative from each State to
nave one vote, if majority of its delega-
tlon agree on one candidate, but otherwise
the vote of such State shall not be count
ed A quorum is to consist of member,
or members, from two thirds of the States.
ana a majority of the States shall
be necessary for a choice The vot-
ing must continue until a President
is elected; in case the House fails to elect
before the 4th Of March next following,
then the Vice President shall act as Pres
1dent, as IN the case of the death or con-
stitutional disability of the President.
The person having the greatest number of
electoral votes for Vice President, to be
counted and determined as above pro-
vided, shall be Vice President, if such
number be majority of the whole num-
Der of electors; if no person is thus elect
ed the Senate is to choose a Vice Presi-
dent by majority of its whole member
ship. Finally, it is provided that no JUS
tice of the Supreme Court shall be eligi-
bic or elected as President or Vice-Presi-
dent until the expiration of two years after
he shall have ceased to hold office"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
A Recommend.

WHEN Justice Potter reached lis office
yesterday morning man about forty
years old and decidedly old-fashioned in
look was there waiting for him. He
talked about the weather for while, and
then remarked:
ga man down here on Larned street
sent me to you, saying that you could
recommend me to some nice-Iooking
widow"
The court has become used to such ap-
plications, and without betraying any sur
prise he gave the stranger written direc-
tions to find widow who lives in the
northern part of the city. The man went
away, but returned in the course of two
hours, one Of his eyes growing black and
blue, a scratch on his nose, a torn coat
collar, and a generally unsettled look. He
sat down, pulled up his pant leg to ex-
hibit the marks of a dog bite, pointed to
his eye and grimly observed:
81 believe you recommended me to a
widow"
Eyes"
But she didn't want to marry-didn't
seem to care anything about the holy
bonds of wedlockp'
81 didn't think she woulGp sighed
his Honor, as he turned to his law books
again.
The stranger looked at him for five or
six minutes, and then went out without
another word.-Detr0St Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Disasters by Floods in New England.

BosToN March 81
The damage by the freshet on Saturday
over New England must have been over
$1,000 900, and perhaps a dozen lives
were lost Miniature Mill River disasters
were seen on ali sides. The city was COM
paratively unframed, choked sewers and
cess-pools being the worst damaged. AT
Clinton, Messy Pond, which furnishes a
broad plateau Of $50 acres, gave way and
was soon drained. A tannery was knocked
from its foundations, four tenement houses
foated off, and 100 rods of fence and
road were washed away. At Fullerville
the wooden mill buildings were swept
away and not a vestige left The damage
in the Shetucket, Quinebang, and Yontie
Valleys alone was hundreds of thousands
In Norwich the churches were deserted
and thousands were excitedly helping to
save property. At the foot Of Shetucket-
street Hill the water was two feet deep,
and on the wharves themselves, ordinar-
lily eight feet or more above the
water, men were navigating in boats
and on RATS. The Baltic dam gave
way at about noon, and soon the
stream began to rise rapidly, and on
its foaming bosom came down bales of
cotton, whisky barrels, buzz-saw and
tables and ali sorts of furniture. The
water was thirteen inches higher than in
the great flood of 1857, and five inches
higher than in 1907, when there was a
destructive freshet at Baltimore. A boat
was capsized and four lives lost at Yer
sailles. Mrs. Coleman, who had become
mother but three days before, jumped
from window and was drowned with
her babe. At Taftville, George Black
man was caught while in boat, with the
debris, and borne helplessly over the dam,
standing erect.
Details continue to be received of losses
by Saturdays storm. Dams continued
breaking yesterday and to-day. Losses
in the neighborhood of Clinton, Mass.
aggregate $3.50, 900, and about Norwich
Conn.,, to-day, five men were drowned
by the washing away of dam embank-
ment which they were strengthening.
The aggregate loss in New England is
enormous
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06
Counting the Electoral Vote.

HE joint resolution, which was recent
~ passed by the United States Senate,
proposes to substitute for Article - of the
Constitution new article, of which the
main features are the following:
9 The electors are to ballot in their re-
spective States for President and Vice
President as at present, but the list of
votes must be sent to the presiding JUS
tice OF the United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court, at time and place
to be fixed by law, is to publicly open all
the certificates and count the votes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

"A milkman was lately seeking the aid
of the police to trace the whereabouts OF a
family who had left the neighborhood,
owing him eighteen shillings. " Well, [
suppose there was nine shillings' worth Of
water in that milk account" remarked
the inspector. 'That's where it gals me
that's where it hurts :" replied the deal
er. 'They were new customers, and L
hadn't commenced to water the milk YETI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

Three or four Detroit girls were the
other day discussing the character and
standing of certain young man, and an
old lady was close listener. One Of the
girls finally remarked: Well, | guess
he's rich, for saw him coming out of
bank the other day." And | guess he
drives street car" put in the old lady,
g for I saw him jump off car one day
last week "-DetroSt Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

"A freighter attached an odometer to
his wagon-wheel before leaving the Black
Hills, and the instrument recorded 2481%
miles as the shortest distance between
Custer City and Cheyenne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

There are over 10000 robbers on the
Mexican border, and a herd of Texas cat
tie stands about as much chance as pig
in a school of sharks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-06

CoNsTANTINoPLE kilograms of the Both
ult. say that Turkey had decided to post
pone the payment of the April coupons Of
the public debt until July.
CAIRO Egypt dispatches of the Both
ult. state that the plague had appeared at
Bagdad, and that there were ten deaths
daily. All arrivals from the Persian Gulf
were quarantined for fifteen days.
The Belknap articles of impeachment
were presented to the House on the 30th
ult. The first charges him with receiving
money corruptly while in office. The
second charges bribery as defined by the
statute. The third charges the payment
of money to him for continuing corrupt
persons in office. The fourth charges him
with receiving gifts while in office to infu-
ence him corruptly. The fifth charges
him with taking money corruptly for the
use of himself and others.
THE water-works reservoir, near Wor-
cester, Mass, containing nearly 100000,
600 gallons Of water, gave way on the
evening of the S0th ult. The waters
rushed down the valley in solid mass
twenty feet high, sweeping everything
before them. No lives were lost, the peo-
pie having received timely warning of
the impending calamity, but the damage
to property is immense, aggregating many
| millions of dollars.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-24

The HERALD's reporter was invited
upon yesterday to take peep Mt the
many beautiful things in the way of
handsome and costly millinery at Iral-
sons. There were beautiful night flow
ers for wedding dresses; the finest of
orange blossoms for bridal toilets, i'm
ported from France; the lotest styles
of imported lemon shade and brilliant
cardinalred flowers, exquisite imita-
tons of natural cherries and punches
OF grapes that defy detection, in fact
all hues and shades of silken velvet
flower goods of the rarest and most re-
cent styles.
There was heavy plush of drab blue,
cardinal-red, pink, myrte.green, seal
brown and grey, costing in France six
dollars per yard; there we're silk velvets
of every imaginable tint, color and
shade from the navy blue to the deli.
cate cream color; there were ostrich
feathers, blue, grey, black, brown, pink
and red, worth fifteen dollars each;
there were bordeaux of feathers of
rare beauty and of divers brilliant or
toned colors; there were ladies ard
misses bonnets, certainly richer in
coloring, trimmings and costly laces,
than have ever before been brought to
Dallas, bonnets imported direct from
Rue dc Uioisnot, Paris, and exhibiting
in their faultless make, all the
innate taste OF Partisan workmanship.
The curled combing costing six and
eight dollars apiece, elegant ruchings,
ribbons and laces from the boulevard
DIES HdiienS, Paris, were all beautiful
but what struck the reporters eye
were those three hundred switches of
human hair Of all shades, from the
raven black to that rare grey color,
costing twenty-five dollars per ounce
lrnlsons establishment Is credit TO
Dallas, and an evidence of the cult
waited taste OF the ladies OF this Queen
City. Everything that can appeal TO
the sense of beauty OF the fair behold.
ers Ia there. A visit TO this emnorinn,
Of fashion will well repay the readers
of THE HERALD.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-09-24
Gully GERALD.
THE HERALD

IL the only piper IN Northcm Hros that
DuJiishcs fM associated press rcportS.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-07-22
The Range Lights.

The conference committee of the two
Houses of Congress have agreed on the
sundry civil appropriation bill, and as
the bill agreed upon contains an appro-
priation of $4,000 for range lights for
this harbor, it puts the question beyond
any doubt. Our citizens are to be con-
graduated on the success OF the efforts of
the friends of the bill, in both Houses, in
getting the appropriation through. The
bill also contains, among other items. the
following: For the Grand Rapids post
Office, $4,000; Port Huron custom house,
$4,000; for signal light on the crib in
Lake Michigan in front Of the city of
Chicago, $4,000; for building light
house and steam-fog signal station at
Little Traverse bar, $4,000; for building
lighthouse with a fog-bell on Round
Island, in the straits of Mackinac, $12,-
600.
There has been no action taken as yet
in regard to the increase of the appro-
priation for our harbor improvement
from $4,000 to $4,000, but whether or
not the increase is made, Cheboygan has
received, probably as much as could have
been expected under the false idea of
economy rs developed by the controlling
party in the House.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-07-22

Last Sunday after delivering the
dredge at this harbor the tug o. B. Green
started to Mackinaw to coal for her re-
turn trip. She was closely followed out
the channel by the Saugatuck, the cap
tain of which knowing the channel bet
ter than the captain of the Green, who
had never been here before, sailed past
him. Capt. Napier,of the Green, ac-
cepted this challenge, and at once pulled
out and gave race, being at this time
about third of mile in the rear.
From this place, as the Tugs pulled out
of sight, it could be seen that the race
was going to be al exciting one. The
two boats were seen off .Point Saub,' y
when they were nearly abreast. The
race resulted in victory for the o. B.
Green, which reached the dock at Mack
inaw nearly a mile ahead Of the Sauga.
tuck. carrying broom upon her bow as
a token of victory. The o. B. Green is
said TO be one Of the very best tugs in
Chicago. and her success was no surprise
to those who knew her.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-07-22
Railroad Rusnors.

The Little Traverse Republican again
gives currency to the old rumor that the
Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Jack
son, Lansing & Saginaw roads would
consolidate few miles below Petoskey
and run OH one line to Mackinaw, and
that the line will go north Uid Little
Traverse. This may be all well enough
for the people over there to think, and
for the G. r. & /. folks to talk, but the
Jackson & Lansing folks claim to know
nothing Of such pending arrangements
and the managers of that road say that
propositions looking to this end have
been declined long ago. We do not an.
ticipate that any forward movement will
be made by either of the above named
companies until the commencement OF
the Mackinaw & Marquette railroad
which, at present, appears indefinitely in
the future.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-07-22

The Northern Light, published at
Sault st. Marie, Ont, says that during
the past couple of weeks the water in
the river has been two feet higher than
it has been for thirty years past at this
time of the year. Upon one occasion it
raised nearly five feet, OVERLOOKING the
canal. and doing considerable damage
At that time it rcceded very rapidly
even below its usual standard, leaving
some boats in the canal hard aground.
Ever since, day and night, every two
hours the water rises and falls to great
er or less degree. ibis singular circum-
stance as yet remains a mystery among
our Swans.