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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
ernments On the etb 81 January 1877 were in

ernments on the 9th of January, 1877, were in
favor Of the Nichols Government" The Com
mission then enter into discussion of
the legal question upon which the right of
the respective Governments depended, and
say there was no judicial tribunal, ac-
knowledged TO be authoritative by both
parties, by which the legal title could be solved
The only hope of practical solution was by the
union OF SO many members Of the rival Legis-
latures IN would make a Legislature with the
Constitutional quorum, in both the Senate and
House, of members whose title to their seats was
valid under either view of the law. Such Legis-
lature was finally formed by the withdrawal of
members from the Packard to the Nichols Leg
islature, thus giving the latter body quorum Of
Returning Board members in both houses The
Commission conclude their report by expressing
ian earnest hope that the adjustment which has
been made of the political controversies of
Louisiana will be of lasting benefit to that State
and will be approved by the patriotic people Of
all sections"
THE Louisiana Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 9th
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
The Sultan Of Turkey.

BY ten o'clock in the morning, clad
in a fur-hned anteri, the Sultan takes
his place in the cheerful little room in
the right win z of the palace, which he
has made his own--a little gem in its
way-turnished in ebony and green
velvet; its only adornments a select Ii
brary, number of maps hung on the
walls, the buSts of his father and
uncle. and portraits of his father and
grandfather. The first person he sends
Tor in the morning is Said Pasha,
Grand Marshal of the Palace, with
whom he draws out the programme of
his day; he then calls for the other
Said PaShd, his First Secretary, with
whose assistance he carefully exam
ines all the papers sent to him from
the Porte. Occasionally, while still in
his dreSSing-gown. he receives Minis
tiers on pressing business, otherwise
he works at his papers Till about noon,
when he breakfasts. and shortly after
reappearS in his study dressed III the
Quaker-cut black frock coat, called
s0mbutct Then commence the OFF,
cial receptions, generally followed by
a second interview with his Grand
Marshal. after which he either takes a
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
The BastinadO.

ct. H." writes: - | am boiling over
with Indignation while reading the ac-
count of the fearful bastinading of
the unfortunate Ali Nasmi, narrated
in your Pera correspondence. A few
days ago | was reading an account of
this punishment inflicted many years
since on an unfortunate Englishman.
AS many of your readers may not be
fully aware of the horrible nature of
this torture, | give the account in the
victims own words. | am led to ask
how it is possible that in our day such
barbarous cruelty can be perpetrated
for so small an offense as the poor stu
dent was guilty of. and which he so
magnanimOusly owned. The writer
says: The victim was thrown fiat on
his face, and his legs bent up. 50 that
the soleS of the feet We're horizontal:
the feet were held in this position by
a long staff and chain. At first the
blows were moderately dealt; then
they were laid on more roughly, and
every stroke felt like the application OF
red-hot poker. At first the pam was
eXcruciating, but the feelings in time
became numb, and it was like beating
a bag of wool 1t was six weeks be-
fore he could walk, even with crutches,
and for more than three years his feet
and ankles We're very much swollen,
and, though twenty years had elapsed
when he published this account, he
still suffered He mentions instances
of the bastinado having been applied
for three days successfully, and, II
the person survived, the feet were
rendered useless for life; but in gen
eral, he observes, when between 800
and 600 strokes were inflicted, death
was the consequence. e." - London
TimeS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
DOMESTIC.

REroETs recently received at the Treas
ury Department IN Washington show that the
countcTtcitlng of CON- principally silver, is in
ereasing rapidly. Reports from the Black Hills
mention the coinage Of counterfeit hye-dollar
pieces and some arrests
\ MAN, named John Krpple, died in
Philadelphia, ON the 2lst, of hydrophoba He
WAS bitten IN the thumb, by his dog, three
mosths before, had the wound cautcritcd. and it
apparently healed thoroughly. No ill-cticcts
were felt untl - few days hclarc b,. death.
when the usual symptoms Of h,drophohia ap-
poared and the usual result followed.
Two LITTLE Boston lMassl boys.
named DudRy Rumble Jagged four and q hslf
years. and Stephen Cox (aSgd seyenl. Quarrelcd
at play. on the afternoon OF the 2lst, when
young himble, saying Il Will tx you. went
home, and procuring his fathers revolver shot
Cox through the temple. The wounded lad died
two h0urs after The fathers Of the BOYS are
prominent business men.
THE Chicago Inter. Ocean Of the 2lst
publishes crop reports from A59 counties In illi-
nous, Indiana. Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Pcnusy,-
sania. Kentucky. Tennessee and MapiA Ac-
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02

This sort of speculation will do II.
country no good. 1t is only the 70
vival of bad habit that will be fol
lowed by precisely the same consa
quences in all cases. 1t is the renew
al of debauch, common enough COR.
years ago, which will bring on head
aches and heartaches. The countrr
will derive no benefit from it. tn
material advantage to the American
people Of this foreign war will denend
upon its duration, and the conseouen,
foreign demand upon American nro'
duction and industry, but this snec.
ulative mania will make the material
disadvantages apparent from tha
first. Flour already costs Sl.5O nor
barrel more to the consumer than i
cost a few weeks ago, and othar
commodities will follow in the sama
direction. The farmers having parted
with the bulk of their 1916 CROP win
get no immediate benefit from the in.
creased prices, and the war NAV ha
over before they will be able to reali7s
on their crop of 1877. Meanwhile. tho
cost of living will have been increased
to all by the speculative excitement
and the dollar which is earned in art,
ual service will not be worth as much
to the man who works for it, but
whose compensation has not been en-.
larged by the speculative movement
Some men may grow suddenly richand
Others suddenly poor, but this ex-
change of money on bets will be only
detrimental to the community at large
for the time being, and will in nowise
affect the ultimate influence of the
war upon the business of the United
States.
OF course, we don't expect to put
any check upon the gambling propen.
sity of the Board of Trade spectators.
They will make the most energetic
use of the opportunity which the war
excitement affords, and stand their in.
dividual losses and pocket their indi-
vidual gains without any regard tothe
real condition Of things. But word
of warning may keep the community
from placing too much confidence in
the ballooning of the Board of Trade
enthusiasts, and induce people gener.
ally to avoid the infection. This coun-
try has had sad experience in the
prostration and exhaustion consequent
upon the fever of speculation, and
those who look calmly out into the
future will prefer not to have another
era of dissipation which will just as
surely be followed by another era of
depression. Tribune, AprH27.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
PERSONAL.

THE President has appointed George
Schneider, of Chicago, Minister Resident to the
Republic Of Switzerland.
CAPT. GEO. BARKER, aged eighty five,
and believed TO be the oldest Free Mason in the
United States, died at Hudson, N. Y, on the
22d; and at Rochester, N. Y, on the same
day William Il. Lathrop died, at the age of
eighty -three, having been Mason for sixty
years, and being, at the time of his death, Com
mander of the Grand Commandery of the United
States
Elk PRESIDENT AND Mrs GRANT arrived
in Washington on the evening of the 23d
SENATOR BLAINE was interviewed by a
New York Herald reporter on the evening of the
Odd and stated that he had no expression of
opinion to make with regard to the change Of
political affairs in Louisiana. Being inquired
of rs to n statement made by n San Francisco
newspaper that he had prepared, and intended
to introduce, resolutions at the next SCISSOR of
Congress, expressing doubts of Mr.. Hayes cleo
ton, and proposing n new consideration of the
question by tribunal 10 consist of the Chief
Justices of all the States, Mr.. Blaine said there
WAS not the sligntes foundation for the story.
Gov. PACKARD issued lengthy address
to the Republicans of Louisiana, on the 18th,
and, early on the morning of that day. he and
his adherents, except one Metropolitan police
man, left the St,,te-fIo At noon the Lcgis-
lature ad ourned from Odd Fellows Hall to the
cecded with its business.
CALEB CUSHING, ex.Minister to Spain
arrived at New York on the Goth.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
POLITICAL.

THE Massachusetts, House of Represent.
atives, on the Goth, rejected-ll7 to 1o6-tho
Prohibitoy Liquor bill, which had previously
passed the Senate.
IN the Nichols (Louisiana) Legislature,
ON the Dist, number of the Packard members
of the Senate and House took their seats. Seven
Democratic me nbers who had been seated sub
ject Ia contest yielded their seats to- and intro
duced, the colored Republican members who
claimed the seats on the face of the returns.
Ex-Gov Warmoth made speech. in which he
said: " We have been whipped in the battle, but
have at least preserved our sclf-respect in an
honorable contest, aud are prepared now to offer
our allegiance to the only existing government
and TO fairly cooperate in anything which may
be suggested
The LOUISIANA Commissioners returned
TO Warrington on the 24th, and visited the Ex-
ccutivs Mansion during the session of the Cab
met. Business WAS suspended, when there
Was an informal conversation between them
and the Cabinet respecting their mission. The
Commissioners furnished the final report of
their proceedings 20 the President who returned
thanks for the satisfactory way in which they
had discharged their duties. The Commission
ers are said Ia speak in warm terms of the
kind manner in which they were received at
New Orleans by both parties, and appear to be
perfectly satisfied with the result of their mis-
sion.
The bill prohibiting betting on cleo
tons, pool-selling at races, etc. passed the New
York Senate on the 24th-sses, -: noes none.
GEN. AuGUR announces As follows, in a
telegram of the gath. the withdrawal of the Fed
erUl trnops from the vicinity of the State House
in New Orleans: " The trcops quartered at the
Orleans Hotel, in this city vacated it at twelve
O'Clock meridian to-day, and Proceeded to Jack
son Barracks. This hotel is the only building
III the immediate vicinity Of the State-Housc
that has been occupied by troops during the past
year, and not once during that time have the
troops occupied the State House or any part of
IT,"
TINS Louisiana Legislature, in joint SEES
SION on the Oath, elected Judge II. NJ. spofford
Democratic caucus candi3ate) United States
senator, the vote being. Spotiord, I4o; Wilt. / /;
blsak, -
The report Of the Louisiana Commits.
sicsers 10 the President is dated New Orleans,
April Il, and opens mp with an account of the
condition IN which the Commissioners found
The rlvSl State Governments on their arrival
a. that city. They SAY they found it 70 be
very difficult 70 ascertain the vrceise ex.
tent 70 which the respective Governments
we've Acknowledged in various parishes out
side ef New Orleans, bat 1t is safe to s,y
that the charges which had taken place in the
A. shes after the organization Of the e,o Gov.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02

oopding b these reports, wheat seems to be un-
usually promising; in the A59 counties covered,
l26 are reported excellent, 304 average, and only
20 poor. Peaches likely to be at least a
partial failure; in $50 counties they are reported
inquired or wholly destroyed; in 1871 fair or an
average crop is prophesied, and in only 81 are
they promising. Apples promise very finely. Ct
counties reporting fine crop, 309 an average
crop, and but As poor or partial crop. Cherries
end smaller fruits seem to promise about an
average crop.
SIX HUNDRED Cheyenne Indians, under
the leadership of Chiefs Standing Elk and Dull
Knife, surrendered at Red Cloud Agency, Neb.,
on the 2lst. The ponies surrendered number
about 700.
A RECENT Washington dispatch says the
Postmaster General had issued An order that
hereafter appointments of Postotice clerks route
agents, mail-route messengers or local agents.
shall he made only for six months, and that at
the expiration Of this period no reappointment
will be made unless the appointee pass salts
factory examination.
THE National Exchange Bank, of Min
neapolis, Mimi. closed its doors the Oath. It
stated that the financial embarrassment of
its President, Fl. Miller, of Troy, was the chief
cause Of the suspension.
Gov. HARTRANFT, of Pennsylvania, as
COMMUNICATIVE of the Grand Army of the
Republic, has issued general order designating
May 30 IN Memorial Day. Wherever there
posts of the Grand Army to lead in the
good work, the Commander -in-Chief, in behalf
of their surviving comrades, asks the citizens
TO take steps to decorate the graves of the gal
liant dead, and secure proper observance Of the
day.
THE New York canals are to be opened
for navigation or the 9th of May.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02

walk in the palace grounds or trip
on the Bosphorus IN his yacht. He dis
likes driving. but on Sunday he drove
over to STEAMBOAT, where | saw him, to
inspect the arrangements of the new
Chamber of Deputies. He dimes short
ly after sunset, takes no raki before
his dinner and no wine with that
meal. Once or twice week he invites
some members of the Cabinet to spend
the evening with him, and talks to
them On public affairs; other evenings
are devoted to music; he has a special
planlst-an attached to the
palace, and sometimes the palace
troupe performs pantomime for his
amusement. About eleven, or earlier,
he retires to his harem, which, ex-
pressed prosaically, means to go to
bed. He is perfectly conscious that
his constitution is not robust, and his
physicians say that he adheres most
faithfully to their advice for the pres
ervation of his health. No one who
saw the Sultan, on Sunday, examining
with interest every detail of the new
Chamber, visiting the Imperial Lodge,
mounting the Tribune, noting the silk
stuffs which cover the benches, and
jauntily descending the broad stair
case of the Dara-ei.faaouna with Said
Pasha, could conscientiously conclude
that the mems S0na was wanting in
that slender frame, although the frame
is undeniably slender, and the express
sion of the face anxious and sorrow
full. London TRUTH
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

The costs of tuition per pupil in
the Boston schools is three times that
OF twenty years ago.
The receipts of the American BIZ
BILE Society during 1876 were S543, SO /;
621, 1926 volumes were issued.
In late number Of Wdcn1iIldn's
MGgozine, Mr.. Playfair advances the
theory that the education of the rich
should be more carefully looked after
than that of the poor, on the ground
that poverty Is in itself a school.
of the $4,000 Germans in New
York City, $4,000 are Protestants,
10000 are Roman Catholics, CO. 900
are Jews, and $4,000 are unclassifed.
There are forty-one German Prot
estant churches, beside several chap
els, embracing IA, 900 communicates.
The Mennonites, at a General Con-
ference, recently held at Elkhart, In
diana, resolved that all members of
the church who had voted at the Pres
idential election should be admon-
ished, and that every minister should
try to induce his members to abstain
from voting. Until 1871 the Men
nOnites in Southern Russia were eX-
empted from on" of the duties Of
European citizenship-military duty.
DR.. NJ. w. Taylor, in his fifth
lecture on Preaching" to the Yale
students, said that the clamor for
brevity in sermons is a bad omen for
the churches. mo great theme" he
said, lean be treated in fifteen min
utes. Therefore, brevity means the
Punishment of doctrinal instruction
and systematic eXposition-and, as a
consequence of that, spiritual dwarfs
and piety from which manhood has
disappeared.
The following is taken from the
recent report of the Columbus (Ohio)
schools: - 1t is the unanimous opin-
ion of our committee that married
women ought not to be employed as
teachers in the public schools. We
believe that, however conscientious
and competent they may be, the cares
and duties of the household unfit them
for the work we require of our teach
ers. For this and many other reasons
the married women were dropped from
the list at the last appointment of
teachers
The superintendent of the Schools
of Baltimore, in a report just issued,
complains of the results in teaching
penmanship in that city. He thinks
that the defect arises from an "eXpen-
diture of much labor in trying to make
young children write with a free hand
before they have been trained to form
the letters with good degree of eX-
actness. He complains also that
reading does not receive the attention
that it ought. Instead or using the
spelllng-book FOR teaching spelling, the
superintendent thinks that great adj
vantage has been gained by using the
readers, inasmnch us pupils are, by
this means, taught to spell words in
ordinary use. In regard to arithmetic,
he says; This subject is well taught
III most of our primaries. but too many
teachers are in the habit of devotlng
their instruction exclusively TO the
mere working of examples in the adj
dltlon, satisfaction, multiplication
and division of large abstract numbers.
by interSperSing these exercises with
suitable examples involved in the or
binary business of everyday life the
subject is rendered much more inter-
estlng and at the same time more
profitable
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02
The War and the Spectators.

The signs of war thus far have
chiefly manifested themselves in this
country on the Boards of Trade. The
Russian Bear has been metamorphosed
into a huge and impetuous Bull, who
has been engaged in tossing grain in
the most fantastic aid amusing man
ner. The "scalper' has been in his
element. The man who has been ac-
customed for some time past to hang
around the outskirts Of the wheat
corner all day, awaiting turn of half
cent bushel one way or the other,
is now kept dancing and bowling about
to keep track of variations of several
cents every few minutes. This is the
very paradise COR parliamentary of
speculation. Already the widest ru-
mors of gain have infected the people
One man is said to have made 800, 900 +;
another four times as much, another
pledged his watch for margin and re-
tired with 5000 in his pocket a few
hours later; the possibilities of gain
are limited only by the imagination,
and nobody contemplates the theory
of loss. Whether this delirium of
speculation will last long enough to
take in very wide circle outside of
the Board of Trade depends on cir
cumstance, and the extent of the evil
it will produce Will be only limited by
its duration.
We speak now of the speculation,
pure and simple, which has grown out
of war and rumorS of war. OF course
there was reason for legitimate rise in
the price of wheat, and in proportion
of other grain and produce. The
wheat market had been abnormally
depressed for some months, owing
mainly to the fact that Russia, antici-
pating war and the closing of its mar
kets, had unloaded to Great Britain
and realized on its property rs rapidly
as possible. The United States were
Informed that none of the American
crops would be wanted abroad. In
addition to this, the extent of the crop
had been overestimated, and wheat
sold far below what it was really
worth. 1t is not surprising, there
fore, that sudden disclosure of the
certainty that Great Britain would
need all and more than the quantity
of breadstuffs that America can sup
ply should have given quick and mo-
mentous impulse TO the market. SO
far. SO good. But in all this there was
no reason why wheat should sell all
the way from Sl.65 to $3.50. and all
the way back, within the space of two
days. The fact seemed 10 be entirely
ignored that, when it reached SI.SO,
wheat was really higher that it had
ever been before. Ii is true that it
once sold as high as $3.50 during our
own war. but this was when gold was
worth two and nearly three times as
much as greenbacks. Now that the
gold dollar is worth but few cents
more than the greenback dollar. wheat
at 81 50 a bushel is higher than it ever
was. Perhaps IL was CLEAN Of some
thing of this kind that caused ii to 90
back, yesterday, at a rate which
the advance of the day before.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-02

THE Massachusetts, House of Represent
atives, on the 2oth rejectedll7 to l06-th,
Prohibitory Liquor bill, which had previously
passed the Senate.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-20
Caroline Harter vs.. A. Lcitz,

FOURTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PAR.
- ish Of Orleans. No. A,607.-By virtue of a writ
&c fouS pe o or * n persh 81
leans, In the above entitled cause, will proceed
to sell OF public auction, az the Merchants and
Auctioneers' Exchange. Royal street. between
District Of this city. on SATURDAY, July II
1877. at II O'Clock m, the following described
p.Rpp GfkTATN LOT OF GROUND. together
: on, situated In the Faubourg Livaudais, formerly
in the parish OF Jefferson. in this State, an
now in the city of New Orleans, designated by
ed by Levee Rousseau. First and Second streets
Thesaid lot measures thirty two feet three inches
and three-sev Of an inch front ON Levee
street. one, hundred and forty-nine feet one
inch and half on the division line Of lot mum.
Der two. and one hundred and forty-two feet
three and two-third inches on the division line
Of lot number four, and thirty lone feet six
as per particular. plan drawn by B. Buisson
surveyor dated fifteenth June 1912, and annex
ed to an act in the Office of @. Boudousquie late
2 notary public in this city. from Edmund Soniat
teenth June. 1912.
Seized in the above suit.
\ Terms-I. In cash for a sufficient amount to
pay plaintiffs claim, say the sum of seven hun
cents. with interest as per judgment. and costs OF
suit and taxes due ON the property. 2. The pur-
chaser to assume the payment of promissory
note. secured by mortgage on said property
for the sum of six hundred and twenty 1--we
dollars, drawn by defendant to his own
order. and by him Endorsed, dated on the
tWenty-second Of June, 1870. and payable on the
ment OF the age of majority of the minor, Jacob
kaufman: 8. And the balance of the price OF
adjudication If any, ash Isl, On the spot ,nv
Civil Sheriff of thu Parish OF Orleans.
je19 90 iy10