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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-21
Published March :, 1SU,l

AN ACT relating TO assaults with intent To do
great bodily HARM ana TO prescribe the punish
meut therefor
The people OF the state OF Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly. do enact as follows:
Stctioa i. II any person beng armed with
dangerous weapon, a sauitS another with intent
TO do great bouiy harm, he shah be punished by
imprisonment in the state Prison not more than
hive years, or by Hue not more than five hundred
dollars nor less than one hundred dollars
Section :. lhi, act shall take riicct ana be In
force from and after it, pa sage and publication
Approved February =, 1871. CORY.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-21
Published March {. 1877. |
CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT in relation t, judgments.
The people OF the state OF Nisconsn represented
IA senate aud assembly, do enact a. follows:
Section /. No judgment heretofore rendered and
dockcted III any court Of tcJrd in this state shall
be opened, vacated or set aside upon the ground
that the attorney Of record In the action In which
such judgement was rendered was, nc the time
% the commencement uf such action aud the
rendition OF such Judgment, a citizen OF another
state
Soc. 3. This act shall take effect and he in force
from and after rs passage and publication.
Approved February 80 1874 .E-COPN.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-03-21

\ MOTHER may never find words in
which to express the emotions which
surge through her heart on finding her
babe, just dressed IN its Sunday best,
stirring the contents OF bottle OF ink
into the coal ashes with the haiT-brush,
but she will try 10, and Try with all
her might. -RDBte Sentinel.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
THE EASTERN WAR.

The Russians have captured Tellische af-
ter brief bombardment, together with a
small Turkish garrison.
Adyices from st. Petersburg, 3lst, say ne
gotiations with the Kars garrison had been
broken off, and bombardment recommenc-
ed. Gems. Heymann and TergukasOff had
effected junction near Hassan Kalch, and
it was reported az Constantinople that Or
chanie had been captured, with Cheyket
Pasha and several thousand troops.
Dispatches of the LIST say that Mokhtar
Pasha's position is considered critical, but
not desperate. 1t is officially announced
that 100000 Turkish reserves are to be i'm
mediately called out for active service. Of
fetal returns Of the killed, wounded and
missing on the Russian side from the COM
mencement OF hostilities to October 81, are
placed at 81 ,942.
Dispatches of the 4th from the seat of war
in Armenia were extremely contradictory,
the Russians claiming to have gained i'm
portant positions from the enemy, who were
said to be in full retreat, while the Turks
claimed to have repulsed the Russian ad-
vance with great loss to the invaders. The
reported capture of Orchanie by the Russians
is officially contradicted, and Chevket Pasha
is said to occupy commanding position at
the junction of the roads leading to Orchanie,
LovatZ and Plevna.
The Russians, advancing from Olti to
turn Erzeroum, were compelled to retire in
consequence of a snow storm. A Constan-
tinople dispatch of the 9th states that the
Russian General Gourko has died of his
wounds.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
A Scared Conductor.

Sweet are the uses of retributive JUS
tice. In passing through train on the
New York Central Railroad to collect
tickets, the conductor encountered,
east of Utica, a colOred man who had
neither ticket nor medium of exchange,
and, after a desultOly discussion,
stopped the cars and kicked him off the
platform. A few weeks afterward, the
conductor took chair in a barber-shOp
in Albany, under the ministration of
colored man. The barber covered his
customers face with lather, whipped
out glittering razor, and, while he
was improving its edge by means of a
strop that dangled from the wall, re-
marked to the gentleman in the chair:
g Say, boss, you doesn't know me, does
you? Does you remember de fellah you
LANDED from your tram up at Tribes
Hill? Dat was bad thing for you to
do, sab, an | remembers it we'll"
Right here the conductor bounded from
his chair and danced around the room
with the lather dripping from his chin
and his hair standing on end. He was
finally induced to resume his seat, on
the barber's pledging himself to do no
mischief, but he did not enjoy the shave,
and breathed more freely when he was
outside of the shop.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
Haps and Mishaps.

A. G.. bort, a prominent citizen of
Omaha, was found dead in his flour
mill near Papillion, Sarpy County, hav-
inc been caught in the machinery and
crushed to death.
The 9-year-old daughter of S. b.
Childs, a conductor on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, was
drowned in well at Osceola, Iowa,
which was left uncovered while being
repaired.
At Norton's Ferry, o., physician
prescribed a mixture containing lucuia
for Mrs. j. w. Grey; the drug-clerk
substituted acOnite by mistake. and in
few hours after taking the medicine the
patient was a corpse.
Shooting accidents: Jake Ray,
while hunting near KokomO, Ind, shot
at a squirrel. The ball glanced toward
the residence of County Commissioner
David Smith, seriously wounding his
son, Otto, years old, in the alb
dOmen.-A young man named Bucking-
ham was seriously wounded at Terre
Haute, Ind, during n Scuffle with COM
panion.-J. n. Mcmillan, living near
New Bloomington, Marion County, o.,
while out hunting, slipped off fence by
a rail turning with him; his gun-ham-
mer struck against the rail, discharging
the contents of one barrel, which enter
ed his temple, and killed him instantly.
AT Somerset, o., William Finck and
William From were out hunting, when
Finck accidentally discharged his
gan and lodged the contents in From's
heart, killing the latter instantly
"A little boy at Scranton, Pa, put a
cartridge in toy-pistol, and while at
tempting to cock the pistol the load was
discharged into his abdomen, producing
probably fatal injuries.-The body of
Charles Perry, aged IS, was found in
the woods near Nyack, n. Y. His
double-barreled shotgun was lying
across his body, the contents of the
right barrel having entered the head
behind the left ear, indicating accident
al shooting.-At Cowansville, Ont,
Peter Cowan, Jr., Sheriff of the County,
went out hunting accompanied by his
book-keeper. When returning home
they became separated in the thick I'M
derbrush, and the book-keeper, making
a mistake, took COwan's hat above the
brush for partridge, and fired, the
contents of the gun lodging IN the I'M
fortunate gentleman's head, from which
he died two hours afterwards.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
Foreign Notes.

The Shah of Persia intends to make
an ineognito trip to London and Paris
next spring.
Making lint for the Eastern hospit-
ais is now the fashionable employment
in London. The Queen and the Prin-
cesses set the example.
-Gillow and Co., the most eminent
uPholsters in London, occupied precise
ly the same site in 1777 that they do to-
day. London shops are very long lived.
The Emperor William is to have a
golden wedding next spring, and very
great festivities are expected in Berlin.
Many potentates are to attend it, and it
is even hoped that Queen Victoria will
appear.
During the trial at Moscow recent
", of a person named Sauftleben, charg-
ed with embezzlement, Maj Gen. Har-
tung shot himself in Court, in cOnse-
quence of a witness accusing him of
theft. The affair caused much excite
ment.
On his recent visit to Edinburgh
Gen. Grant had the pleasure OF starting
the new printing-press constructed by
Messrs. X. Hoe & Co., of New York, for
the Herald and Erening Times
Mr.. Parnell, NJ. P, at a public din
ner recently given in his honor at Kill
mallock, declared his intention to per-
sist in course of obstruction in Parlia-
ment until England shall yield to Ire
lands demand for legislative independ-
ence.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
A Warming to Baseball Catche RS.

On Monday, Judge Mattice, of Greene
County, signed the necessary papers for
the admission of Samuel Lindsey, Of
Greene County, to the Poughkeepsie
Hospital for Insane. Mr.. Lindsey's in
sanity is the result of an injury received
in a game of baseball at Oak Hill ear
" in September. Layman, of the Lone
Stars of Catskill, pitched for the Cairo
Club on that occasion, and Lindsey was
the catcher. The striker struck at the
ball, tipping it just enough to throw it
out of the straight course, and the hard
ball struck Lindsey on the forehead He
was insensible for several days, but at
ter fOrtnight's illness attempted to re-
turn to work. Last week, however,
symptoms of insanity were observed,
and he began to have violent spells,
manifesting a disposition to injure or
kill somebody, so that it became neces-
sary to keep him manacled and strap
ped. The physicians think the concus-
sion and shock have caused an etfusion
of blood on the brain. Time and rest
may possibly bring about a recovery,
but the chances are not favorable.
Lindsey was received at the hospital on
Thursday last.-RosdoW IN. ~ Free
man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
A Canary Which Sings I" A Life on the
Ocean Waye."

j. G. Christopher, barber at Balls
ton Spa, is the possessor of a remarkable
canary bird, the voice of which has been
developed in peculiarly painstaking
manner, so that now this educated
songster can successfully render the
well-known air, IS A Life on the Ocean
Wave" The bird will commence to
MARBLE like any other of these pets,
but after uttering a few notes will imme-
diately strike into the tune, and when
its voice has attained full height the
above tune will be sung entire, and in
manner that sounds singularly melodi-
Gus and attractive, literally setting to
note its natural vocal powers. This
was only achieved after the most dill
gent and patient attention. As soon as
the bird was old enough to pick up a
living it was put in room apart from
all others, and music box also placed
in the apartment that was kept per-
petually going, repeating the one tune
over and over again, so that this singu-
lar pupil had no other person to learn
from but that. After four months of
such apprenticeship, the owner was re-
warded by hearing his little favOrite
render " A Life on the Ocean Wave"
as naturally and perfect as if that was
the song of its ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tribune.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
EAST AND SOuTHEAST

The President, Mrs. Hayes and two sons,
Secretary Evarts and two daughters, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Sherman, Attorney General
Devens and others, left Washington on the
3Oth for Richmond, Va, arriving there the
same day. The Presidential party were met
by a reception committee composed Of dis
tinguished citizens and escorted to Monroe
Park, where welcoming address was made
by the Mayor Of Richmond, which was re-
sponded TO briefly by President HAYES and
Messrs. Eyarts, Sherman and Devens. In
the evening there was general reception at
the Exchange Hotel. On the following dav
the Presidential party visited the State
Fair, where they were received by Gov.
kemper, and in the evening there was an
other reception at the Executive Mansion.
An explosion of boiler in the saw-mill
of Shoemaker & Powell, Shippensburg, Pa,
on the 3Oth, killed son Of Mr.. Shoemaker
and man named Bowers, and wounded two
others.
Capt. W. W. Wells, commandant at Fort
Clinch, Florida, died ofyellow fever on the
31st.
Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall, who mysteriously
disappeared from new lOTh lily IN March
last, as mysteriously reappeared at his for
msr home ON the 1st instant. His disap-
pearance was attributed TO his former
alleged connection with the Tweed Ring,
then undergoing investigation. He was in
London during the larger part Of his alb
sence.
A collision on the Philadelphia and Erie
Railroad near Ridgeway, Pa, on the LIST, re-
suited in the death Of both engineers and
firemen Of the colliding trains, and one
brakeman. Another brakeman and several
passengers were severely injured.
The wife of Stephen May, of Mechanics
vile, n. Y, took her four young children,
and going TO creek, threw them in, fol-
lowing herself. The eldest, aged 9, got
ashore and raised an alarm, and the mother
and one child were rescued.
A very decided earthquake shock was ex-
perienced throughout Northern New York,
New Hampshire, Vermont and lower Cana
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
Science and Industry.

Nearly every lumber-mill on the
Saginaw River is also a salt-mill, the
brine being boiled by the exhausted or
waste steam from the sawmill.
They have been successful in COM
pleting a paper chimney 80 feet high in
Breslau. A chemical solution prevents
any chance OF fire.
"A Maryland peach-grower is said to
have shipped 20 barrels of peach-kernels
to Dayton, o., recently, to be used for
chemical purposes" ...
Rancid butter is liked in Iceland,
and commission of Icelanders are in
this country to establish an agency for
forwarding the article in large quanti-
ties.
The novel Bilierica and Bedford
Railroad, in Massachusetts, whose gauge
is but "a inches, and the rolling-stock
almost like toy-cars, has been opened
for public travel.
Vermont has lately sent the first
powder-mill machinery ever exported
from this country to Russia. 1t is to be
erected near the city of st. Petersburg.
Russia has long been a good customer
for our locomotives.
"A wash composed of lime, salt and
fine sand or wood ashes, put on in the
ordinary way of whitewash, renders a
Single roof much safer against fire
from sparks and falling cinders, in case
of fire in the vicinity.
"A French chemist is said to have
in !,
which to illuminate the numbers on
street doors at night. Figures traced
with it are so lustrous as to be read even
on dark night, and the preparation of
the compound is said to be simple, in
expensive, and not injurious.
1t has often been attempted to
measure the speed of the electric cur
rent The return of the current, in an
experiment, to the very place whence it
started, having been to Persia and back,
distance of { 400 miles, was instantane-
Gus. Electricians have endeavored to
give measure to the speed of the cleo
trio current, and the best thing that
they have been able to do is to say that,
at least, it travels at the rate of 100000
miles a second.
Herr Bocfnger, an ingenious gen
tleman of Heilbronn, has invented what
he calls PatentirtepetroleumkOchap-
parat-in plain English, patent petrO
leum cooking apparatus, which pos
sesses the peculiar quality of lighting
itself at any specified hour. The ma
chine is furnished with an indicator, the
finger of which can be turned to the ap-
pointed time, and when the time arrives
the fire begins to burn, the water to boil
and the meat to roast. A man who
wants an early breakfast-supposing
him to be the fortunate owner of a
Observation-Disclosures = has
thus only to arrange matsers over night,
set the indicator, and on rising next
morning he will find every thing ready
without the Intervention of sleepy and
probably NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. serv-
ant
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

Prof. Orion, of Vassar College, died re-
Gently in South America, where he was en-
gagged in scientific researches.
A Panama dispatch gives particulars of an
attempt recently made to assassinate Presi-
dent Barrios, of Guatemala, by Felix Pajes,
a fanatical priest. The President was din
ing; the priest entered, drew revolver and
fired. The first shot missed. The President
then closed with him. During the struggle
a servant entered and shot the would-be as
sassin dead.
A number of London and New York
bankers have formed a syndicate for the
purpose of funding the old Southern and
Western defaulted bonds-State, county and
cent. and the others at 6. The Legisla-
lures of the States in interest are to be
asked to pass a uniform law, levy
ing an annual tax upon the as
sessed property for the payment
of the interest and the raising of a sinking
fund for eXtinguishing the Indebtedness;
and furthermore providing that no injunc-
tion or stay of proceedings shall be granted
by any Court or Judge of the State to pre-
following States were embraced in the sched-
ule; Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississip-
pi, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Nebraska,
Minnesota and Iowa.
There is 10 be lawsuit about Cleopatra's
needle. The steamer which picked up the
needle in the Bay of Biscay demands a high
er rate of salvage than the contractor feels
able to pay, and the obelisk will be detained
at the port of Ferrol, Spain, until the matter
is adjudicated.
Four leading players of the Louisville
Baseball Club have been expelled for SELL
ing games and other discreditable acts, and
it is intimated that other professionals con-
nected with the ST. Louis Brown Stockings
and other well known clubs are guilty of the
same otIense.
William Lloyd Garrison, the great anti
slavery leader, has published letter de-
the Southern policy Of President
Hayes.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
Denominaiionalism in England.

At the recent biennial session of the
Evangelical Alliance, held in Detroit,
the Rev. ). NJ. Buckley, d. D., present.
ed an elaborate statistical paper on
80 Denominationalism in which he
gave the following list Of different sects
in Great Britain, as returned to the Reg
istrar-G General, to the great amusement
of the audience as some long or peculiar
name was read:
Apostolics, Armenian, New Society,
Baptists, Baptized Believers, Believers
in Christ, Bible Christians, Bible De
Tense Association, Brethren Calvinistic
Baptists, Catholic and Apostolic Church,
Christians who object to be otherwise
designated, Christian Believers,
Christian Brethren, Christian
Eliastes, Christian Israelites, Chris
tian Teetotalers, Christian Tenn
perance Men, Christian Unionists,
Church of Scotland, Church of Christ,
Countess of Huntington's Connection,
Disciples in Christ, Eastern Orthodox
Greek Church, Electics, Episcopalian
Dissenters, Evangelical Unionists, Fol-
lowers of the Lord Jesus Christ, Free
Grace Gospel Christians, Free Gospel
Church, Free Christians, Free Church,
Free Church (EpiscOpaD, Free Church
Of England, Free Union Church, Cen
trail Baptist, General Baptist New Con-
nection, German Lutheran, German
Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Hal
leluiah Band, Independents, Independ-
ent Religious Reformers, Independent
Unionists, Inghamites, Jews, Latter Day
Saints. Modern Methodists, MormOns,
New Connection of Wesleyans, New Je-
rusalem Church, New Church, Old Bap-
fists, Original Connection of Wesieyans,
Plymouth Brethren, Peculiar People,
Presbyterian Church in England, PRINT
tive Methodists, ProgressiOnists, PrOtes-
tants adhering to the Articles of the
Church of England one to eighteen in
elusive, but rejecting order and ritual,
Providence, Quakers, Ranters, Reform
ers, Reformed Presbyterians or Cove
nanters, Recreative Religionists, Refuge
MethOdists, Reform Free Church of Wes-
leyan Mehodists, Revivalists, Roman
Catholics, Salem Society, Sandemani-
ans, Scotch Baptists, Second Advent
Brethren, Separatists tProtestants),
Seventh-Day Baptists, SwedenbOrgians,
Testimony Congregational Church,
Trinitarians, Union Baptists, Unitarians,
Unitarian Christian, United Christian
Church, United Free Methodist Church,
United Brethren or MOravians, United
Presbyterian, Unitarian Baptists, Welsh
Calvinistic Methodists, Welsh Free
Presbyterians, Wesleyan Methodist As
ISOLATION, Wesleyan Reformers and
Wesleyan Reform Glory Band.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Bishop McLaren, of Illinois, was
once local reporter on the staff of the
Cleveland Plaindealer.
Twenty thousand copies of the
cheap edition of Victor Hugo's ssHisto-
nv of Crime" were sold in Paris in a
single day.
John Hay, author of Little
Breeches," etc., lives in sumptuous
style in Cleveland, Ohio, where he mar
ried the daughter of very wealthy cit
izen.
President Eliot, of Harvard College,
and Miss Grace Hopkinson, daughter
of Judge Hopkinson, of New Hamp-
shire, were quietly married few days
since.
John Burroughs, the charming
writer on birds and nature, is a native
of Delaware County, n. Y, is nearly 40
and the husband of former pupil. He
prefers the woods and fields to all else,
and can equal Thoreau in his accounts
of what he finds there.
"A most remarkable case of longevi-
ty and bodily and mental vigor is fur
nished by Dr. Benjamin Walworth, of
Fredonia, N. Y, the only surviving
brother of Chancellor Walworth, born in
November, 1882, and, though in his
ninety-fifth year, still engaged in the du-
ties of his profession as physician.
Lucy Stone is 66 years old, 80 of
which she has spent in vain endeavor to
establish the equality of sexes. Her hair
is slightly threaded with gray, brushed
smoothly from her face, which is round
and plump, and bears but little traces
of her age. She is quite fieshy, dresses
plainly, and if met on the street would
strike one as a motherly ,philanthropic old
lady rather than an orator and revOlu-
zionist.
Prof. George P. Fisher, of Yale
College, the author of a book on "The
Reformation, has in press similar
work on 90 The Beginnings of Christian
ity, with View of the State of the Ro-
man World at the Birth of Christ" in
which he reviews in detail the historical
preparations for Christianity and docu-
ments of Christianity, and also the de-
velopment of the faith during the first
century after Christ.
Miss Rhoda Broughton lives the
greater part of the time in the beautiful
vale of Clwyd, Wales, and has doubt
less derived her love of scenery and
power of describing it from constantly
having before her the mountains and
wales of that beautiful country. She is
about so years of age, and is described
as spiritual in expression, with light,
quick, impatient manner. Her face is
an in ellectual one, with an appearance
of will and active Imagination. She has
a good figure, of about the average
height"
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-11-08
Shakespeare as a Man OF Business.

The reverential nature of the English
man has carefully preserved what they
thought the great excellence of their
poet-that he made fortune. 1t was a
great thing that he, the son of the wool
comber, the poacher, the good-fOr-noth-
ing, the vagabond (for so, we fear, the
phrase went in Shakespeare's YOUTH,
should return upon the scene a substan-
tial man, a person of capital, freehold
er, a gentleman to be respected, and
over whom even a burgess could not af-
feet the least superiority. The great
pleasure in life is doing what people
say you can't do. Why did Disraeli
take the duties of Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer with so much relish? Because
people said he was a novelist, an al
cGptGndlm man who could not add up.
No doubt it pleased his Utmost soul to
do the work of the red-tape people bet
ter than those who could do nothing
else And so with Shakespeare; it
pleased him to be respected by those
whom he had respected with bOyish rev.
erence-but who had rejected the imag-
NATIVE man-on their own ground and
in their own subject, by the only title
which they would regard, in a word, as
a moneyed man. We seem to see him
cycling the burgesses with goOd-humor
ed fellowship and genial though sup
pressed and half-conscious contempt,
drawing out their old stories, acquiescing
in their foolish notions, with every thing
in his head and easy sayings on his
tongue, full mind and deep, dark eye
that played upon easy scenes-now in
fanciful solitude, now in cheerful socie-
ty; now occupied with deep thoughts,
and now equally so with trivial recrea-
tions, forgetting the dramatist in the
man of substance, and the poet in the
happy companion; beloved and even
respected, with hope for every one and
a smile for all. Walter Bageh0t.