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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
Culture OF BrOOm-COrn

Broom-cOrn requires rich soil; bot
tom land is the best, and it should be
as free from grass as possible. The
reason for choosing clean land will APP
pear plain to a man who has raised a
crop. The ground should be well
plowed and made perfectly fine with
the harrow, then marked out with
shallow marks if to be planted by
hand, 50 as not to get the seed too
deep in the ground; but the best plan
is to plant with drill. The stalks
must be as close as nve or six inches,
to prevent the straw from becoming
too heavy. OF course, it cannot be
drilled with much regularity, but
must be cut out with the hoe to the
right distance while small. 1t is like
sorghum, grows slow while small, and
on most land it is positively necessary
to hoe the grass out, which gives IL
good opportunity for cutting out to the
right distance. After this is done, the
cultivation is similar to that of corn.
When the seed begins to fill, the straw
Will bend over from the weight, and,
TO prevent this, the full force of the
hands must be put to break the stalks
over, say ten or twelve inches from
where the straw grows out, or more
properly the head. The weight of the
seed will then, by hanging down, keep
the straw straight. Now comes the
busy season, and the time when labor
and care will add much to the value of
the crop. The green straw being alto
gether the most valuable, it is impor-
tant that it be cut before it turns red
and dried III the shade. TO do this. a
shed is necessary, with shelves on
which to lay it, say six inches deep,
and enough hands be employed to cut
the crop before any or much of it turns
red. The seed is stripped by means of
a machine made for the purpose, with
two cylinders, between which the corn
is held in handfuls. The process is
very rapid, only an instant being nee
essary to knock the seed all off. The
corn is baled before being sent to mar
ket. The price is very fluctuating,
running from $50 to $3.50 per ton.--
Journal of agriculture.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
Detective Ingenuity.

The old proverb, murder will out,
is constantly justified, and it is Curl
GUS and interesting to see how, as the
craft of crime deepens with the prog
reSS of civilization, the ingenuity of
discovery keeps equal pace with it.
Old-fashioned robbery, the foot-pad
and the highwayman riding up as in
the last-century English novels, and
presenting blunderbuss at the coach
window while the company alight aud
are relieved of their purses by the
masked Robin Rood, who leaps into
the saddle, and, touching his hat, with
round compliment to the ladies, gal
Tops away-all this has passed away
with the bailiffs and sponging- houses,
the Fleet and the Marshalsea. The
garr9ter and the masked gang of burg
lars are the familiar form of robbery
IN our day, while for great and diff
cult crimes the wits of raScalS are
matched with those of detectives, and
the rascalS are very sure to go to the
wall.
y recent capture of mail robbers
well illustrates this, and is signal
proof of the skill that foils the most
careful crime. Merchants and others
IN Philadelphia who had dealings with
boston tOHnd that the most valuable
ana important letters were constantly
mscarried. They disappeared with
out a cleW, and the correspondents
soon complained at the Postoffice De-
Wrtment, which, upon full informa-
HON grttlf.l i+~,1f Il
lul detective force to the discovery of
Inc thieves, but in vain. But similar
detective skill, differently employed,
struck the clue. The detective agency
"I an express company was busily en-
gagged IN the search for valuable bag
sage that had been stolen, and some Of
t"e agents, who had been shadow
ing two suspicious persons, followed
uem from house in Prince street to
,.e office of the American Express
'".npany, at the corner of Broadway
ana Fourth street. The suspicious
PERSONS here left two packages adj
dressed TO Canada. When they had
''. Tie detectives entered the Office
ana told the agents of the company
.'r-i suspicious that the packages con-
.aHeJ stolen goods. The packages
were at once opened. One was found
~ atain mailbag, and the other a
a-"Fellng bag or sachel in which were
VI" a.ainps OF mail-route agents out
G- ms discovery was at once made
A"'"n at the Postoflice, and its agents
.a'rlally examined the contents of the
,No bags. The mailbag contained
''I .-.",ed letters which had been evil
-...,iy mailed at York in Pennsyl-
ana and the sachel the working
. ..r..s oi route agent upon the Penn
?. ana Railroad. Here was the long
-eAI clue, and the Postoflice and the
% the end.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28

The sachel had been stolen from a
maIl-wagon while going from the New
Y ork Postotlice to Jersey City. One
of the drivers was arrested, and his
capture led to that of a man named
Kelly, the apparent leader of the
gang, and woman with whom he
lived, and other confederates. The
woman's house was searched, and in a
trunk claimed by her were found let
tiers mailed few days before in Phil
adelphia, containing checks payable in
Boston. Other letters were found
from which the Enclosures had been
taken, and it appeared that money had
been paid upon forged Endorsements
of signatures obtained in this way.
The last man who was arrested was
found to be the important confederate.
He was mail-driver who allowed the
bags to be taken from the wagon.
When the bags had been thoroughly
rihed, they were carefully done up in
packages and sent by express to vari-
Gus distant cities, addressed to ticti-
tious names. All traces of the bags
thus disappeared.
1t was a clever scheme, but not
clever enough. Corruption wins not
more than honesty. AS Fielding is
fond Of saying, it hath been remarked
by some wise philosopher that the in
genuity which is devoted to knavery,
if turned to honest industry, would
not only suffice to carry the world far
forward toward virtue, but would
make the knaves prosperous and re-
spectacle citizens. In the meanwhile,
it is comfortable to see the constant
evidence that, sharp as crime may be,
justice is sharper. -Ha1per' S Nonthly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

At the conservation of Trinity
Church in Boston, lately, Edward
Eyarett Hale, James Freeman Clarke,
Rufus Ellis, and other Unitarian
clerrymen, received the communion
from the hands of the Episcopal
Bishop.
President Eliot, of Harvard Col
lece. has written letter to Prof.
J0ynes. OF Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tenn, saying that he thinks
that the parents of children who go to
high schools should contribute a part
Of the cost of maintaining such schools.
Tie would have grammar schools for
fine poor and open the high schools to
all who could not afford to pay, but lie
would impose a tax of forty or fifty
dollars year upon the children of
wealthy parents.
The Rev. DR.. Ryerson writes from
London that he has been favorably
impressed with one feature of the pub
lie worship which lie observed in all
the churches-Anglican, Wesleyans,
Baptists and Congregationalists -
which was 'silent prayer after The
benediction, SO solemnizing and i'm
pressive to the mind and heart, as the
last act of worship in the house of
God" He mentions the custom in
contrast with congregations who are
in the habit of jumping up and has
tening their preparations for departure
at the very moment, and sometimes
before the minister pr0nounceS the
final Amen
Jews, Protestants and RomaniSts
all agree in receiving AS canonical the
books of our Old Testament. But as
the Romanists would add to these the
apochryphal books. SO the Jews insist
on adding their oral law. They say
that when the written law was given
to Moses, inscribed on two tables Of
stone, God also gave another and YER
bal law explanatory of the first, which
he was commanded not to commit to
writing, but to deliver down by
oral tradition. When Moses came
down from the mount, they tell
us that he first repeated this oral law
to Aaron and has sons, and then to the
seventy, and finally to all the people,
each of whom were obliged to repeat it
in his hearing to insure its correct re-
membrance. Just before his death,
they say, he spent month and six
days in repeating it to them again;
and then, they assert, he committed it
in a special manner to Joshua, through
whom il was impaired to Phineas,
and so on through the long line of
prophets, and afterward of teachers,
down to the time of Judah the Holy,
who lived in the second century, by
whom it was committed to writing
lest it should be lost. This work, con-
sisting of six books, is the famous
Mishna of the Jews, which, with its
C'mara, or commentaries, constitutes
their celebrated Talmud.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC,

In the anxiety to have early crops,
people often work the ground while it
is wet. But nothing is gained. Not
until it will pow Ter when it is dug is
it fit for turning up.-Gardenef's
Monthly
If fruit trees have been gnawed
by mice and rabbits during the deep
SHOWS, if it does not amount to entire
Kidding, smooth off the torn and
rough edges and paint thoroughly
with grating wax, or make plaster
of dry and fresh COW manure and
cover thickly and bind on with cloth.
An excellent recipe for brown
bread-Set sponge at night with white
flour. In the morning take enough of
the sponge to make two ordinary-sized
loaves. Add to this two-thirds of a
coffee cup of Orleans molasses and
knead it like any bread, using unbolt-
ed Graham flour instead of white
flour.
Why in the olden times did men
live to such immense ages? 1t was
not permitted that meat should be
eaten until after the flood. SO if you
want to live long in the land it is time
to begin preparations for the early
garden, for there is where many of
Gods blessings come from. -Iooca
State Register.
Baked Fishx-Buy a two-pound
white fish. If the gills are red, eyes
full. body firm and stiff. the fish is
good With sharp knife scale it:
cut off the head. and split the fish
nearly down to the tail. Make a
dressing of bread crumbs, a little but
ter, pepper and salt, slightly moistened
with water. Stuff the fish with this :;
then bind it together with fine cotton
cord or tape, three inches apart. Lay
the fish on a wire gridiron in drip
ping-pan and pour around it a little
water and melted butter With q
spoon dip this up and pour over the
fish frequently. Bake one hour. Serve
with the gravy of the fish or drawn
butter.
One of the most interesting parts
of a vegetable garden is a hot-bed for
starting seeds early. 1t is best to put
up the beds in the warmest and most
sheltered spots we can find and to
keep cold winds from the manure by
covering it with branches of trees or
mats: and the glass should always be
covered with mats at night. Toma-
toes, elephants, peppers and cucum-
bers are the first seeds to be sown in
this way. Cooler frames can be got
ready for caulihower, lettuce, beets,
celery and early York cabbage. The
caulitiower is particularly valued
vegetable, and no expense spared to
get them in perfection will be regret
ted when ones efforts are successful.
-Gardeners' Monthly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
Reform in the Dining-ROOm.

Nobody doubts that the dining
room is as much in need of reform as
is the disposition of the Spitz dog or
the finances of South Carolina. The
dyspeptc head of the family, his Ian
guild wife, his bountifully-fed yet I'M
satistied-looking children-all show in
face and temper the need of a change.
The question has not been overlooked.
Men have tried to settle it by increas-
ing the amount of their bills with the
butcher and grocer, and by calling in
the wine merchant TO undo the blum
ders Of the cook but both endeavOrs
have failed. In dining-rOOm troubles
1t is always necessary to 60 behind the
returns, and this operation takes the
investigator at once into the kitchen,
where language fails as utterly as if
it were trying to describe the political
iniquitieS IF Florida or Louisiana.
To look to the cook for the
needed reform is useless. It is
only when the lady of the house
realizes that the head and heart are
pitifully dependent upon the stomach
that Bridget and Gretchen can be
frightened INTO bringing forth fruits
meet for repentance. During the past
three years this idea has dawned in
the minds of about one in every ten
thousand of New \ ork housekeepers.
and these have taken lessons at the
cooking school with results surprising
to their neighboTs and discouraging to
their family physicians. Through
this means many stupid husbands
have unconsciously become as inter-
esting as if they were newly-found
lovers, and women in search of hith-
erto unknown household comforts
have stumbled upon roses for their
own cheeks. Their example should
be initiated everywhere. 1t will bring
health to the household, discourage
ment to the rumseller, bankruptcy to
the coflin-maker, and prevent the COM
mission OF more sins than charity
ever coyered.-N. 7. Herald,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28
Great Public
Accommodation!
A. L. STlMS0N, Of Chicago,
BuVGr Of Goods for the COUNTRY

Has had many years Of experience the Purchasing
Agen, Of the n ndDItICAN Elk
I'Is E;sSs CO NY in the Sc
lection Of FARM. SHoP and HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES;
a.! .erts Of Dress Materials and Fine Toilet Articles
for Ladies' and Children: Gents Furnishing Goods
Watches and Jcwclry; Engagement and Wedding
Rings and Cards. Pianos. Bard Instruments and Nu-
sic; sabbAthschoo Books and Cards Of Merit, Fine
Stationery Law Books. Notarial Seals snd Stamps;
Public School Furniture; IudlaIubber Manufactures;
Ready Made Clothing Uniforms and Base Ban Club
OUTFITS; Seeds. Machinery. Yankee Notions. Electro,
Magnetic Batteries, Druggists sundfies, etc
Sent c. o, D., at no cost for purchasing Corre-
spondents questions to prices cNecrnlly answered
SPECIAL
CARPETS-Just now ! can purchase Fine Carpets
very low. brussels sl.t0)
FIRE ARMS. ETc.-Tho best manufactures OF Guns
ana Pisiolz, Powder, Caps aud Cartridges. Re-
yoyers at from " sl5
sETNES, TWIEE. GILLING.NETs and CORDAGE,
al sorts, a. bottom prices.
BLUE GLASS. Set IN Git Frames At from 600 20
500 each. 10 be suspended inside Of window.
price must be RENTED 10 adYsnce.l Also.
Blue Glass In sash and frames, unset. packed for
shipment 10 the country, by Express
Address
A. l.. sTIHSON, Purchasing Agent,
Asss. Express n iiidi.g, Chicago.
AHR 81. SOI-.Q
EvnUy rVngrIHSy 1n AnE ERrss Eus
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-28

RHEUMATISM QUICKLY CURKD.--H any
reader Of this paper suffers from rheumatism,
let him get his druggist to order tro bottles
of Durangs Rheumatic Remedy" from his
wholesale druggist in Chicago, or of Brown
Ing d Sloan, indianapolis, and just as certain
as the sun shines Tomorrow just as sure will a
cure follow. 1t is taken internally. Price, 81.
PATENTEEs and inventors should reau adver-
tisement of Edison BrOs in another column
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21
AFTER FORTY-ONE YEARS.
FRED. DOUGLASS AT THE SCENES
OF HIS YOUTH-M EETING
THE OLD MASTER


! A dispatch from st. Michaels, Talbot
county, Md, to the Baltimore San SAYS
"Fred. Douglass, United States Mar
visit on Monday, for the fist time since
he left here forty-one years ago, to the
scenes OF his youth. MI. Douglass tx
pressed wish to visit his former master,
Captain Thomas Auld, resident of St.
Michaels. Captain Auld had expressed
bis willingness and desire TO meet his old
servant, and this visit was mainly for
that pdrpose. Mr.. Douglass was receiv-
ed by Judge William H. Brufi: Captain
Auld's son-in-law, who addressed him as
Marshal Douglass. NO, no. exposiula-
ted the Marshal,'I am Marshal Dougla. S
in Washington here let me be Fred.
Douglass again. The meeting between
the former master and former servant
was pleasant throughout. Mr.. Douglass
said that in his book, which was wJitven
soon afLer his escape, he had made some
statements that lapse of time and refec-
ton had caused him 10 feel he had better
have left unsaid, and for aught that he
said that was u1iust to his old master or
bad wounded bis feelings, he begged for
giveness. In the afternoon Mr.. Doug
lass addressed large audience of both
white and colored people. He began by
referring 10 the difficult and embarrass-
ing position in which he was placed. He
said he did not come here to make
speech. He was not here TO fan the flames
of sectional animosity, nor to Create ill
feeling, nor yet to recount the wrongs in
ficted on bis race for Two hundred years,
nor TO go into antiquity for mater 70 stir
the blood and rouse The passions, nor to
indulge in political harangue, nor TO
egpound the Constitution of the United
States. Il come, first of ALL he said, 'to
see my old master, from whom l have
been separated for folty-one years 10
shake his hand, to look into his kind old
face, and see it beaming with light from
the other world. l bave had great joy in
shaking that hand, in looking into that
face stricken with age and disease, Tut
a3low with the light that comes from an
honest heart, and rejecting the glory
from the spllit world, upon whose border
he is, aud where we shall soon again
meet. Forty-one years ago l lett him.
l left him, snot because | loved Caesar
less, but because loved Rome more"
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21
THE TREASURE OF ISLAM.
A REMARKABLE WAR REsoURCE-THE
TRIBUTE AT MEcCA-1sIX HUNDRED
MILLIONS FRANCS AT TIE
TOMB OF MAHOMET.


WASHINGTON, June 19.-Mr. Della
paine, the charge d's6aires Of The United
States at Vienna, furnishes to the Depart
peut of State the following interesting
information concerning a Gel tain emark-
able war resource of Turkey, the So
called Treasure of Islam" The Sheik
VI Islam bas recently sent adelegaiion of
doctors OF the law to the cbeIit Of Mecca,
direct descendant of the Prophet for the
purpose of demanding funds 70 be applied
In defence of the Islam faith. 1t is Gus
topary on these solemn occasions for the
cherjf to assemble the college o. the ell
ders charged with tine guard of the pro-
phet's tomb, which will decide upon the
app opciate srm TO be furnished 10 the
Sultan f.om the treasure in Islam in
order to aid him in the war against
Russia.
This treasure is formed from those an
DUal offerings of tire pilgrims which are
accumulated in the kashbah Of Mecca -
These sepulchre3. which serve as oBertory
chests, are placed within the court Of t5e
mosque. Each pilgrim daily casts into
one Of these coin as Offering, which con-
stitutes the aims prescribed by the koran
as one of the essential elements of the
merit of the pilgrimage which ever Mus
selmau should make at least once in bis
life time to the tomb of the prophet. Ac-
coldingly every year about one hundred
thousand pilgrims come 10 Mecca, who
soiourn there month, consequently a
fund of at least three millions of francs
are annually received in these ofertory
chests.
Every pilgrim deposits IN fact an offer
ing varying in amount according to his
means, but which on the average may be
estimated as equivalent 10 five francs at
least for every day. Considering that
these are rich Musse]mans, whose otter
ings attain even the amount of 100000
flaDcs during heir pilgrimage, it results
hereby that the cberif of Mecca receives
on the average the value of 15,000,000 of
francs in annual offerings. One of the
oGeitory chests was opened during the
period OF the Russo Turkish war in 1928
Several large sums were Withdrawn, but
it was afterwards again closed. A second
chest was opened in 1854, during the
Clime1n wal, but the third has .no5 been
opened since 1415, during period of
now z62 years. Inasmuch as the annual
coneouisc OF pilgrims has rarely fallen
below 100000 it is coujectured That with
most liberal allowance the accumulation
of money in the lfst named offertory
chest cannot be less than 250,000, 900, and
it is fully believed that the Total amount
oS the treasure of Islam will exceed 600,-
non, 900 of francs, and eVan attain amuch
higher sum.
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21
Lincoln Institute FIogging.
THE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTING CRU
ELTY TO CHILDREN DEMANDING
THE sUPERTNTENDENT's
EMOVAI


On Monday the directors of the socie-
ty to pro ecC children from cruelty met al
their headquarters, 14l0 Chestnut street.
10 investigate the action OF their Secreta-
ny, Mr.. Benjamin j. Crew, relative to his
in. erference in behalf of an inmate of
Che Lincotn institute, WHO had been i'm
properly punished by an officer of that
institution, mention OF which was made
in .he "Record" OF May so. Miss Nc
Heory having addressed Letter covering
seven pages o. foolscap 10 the secretary
of the Society, charging him with unjust
Interference in the management of the
Lin oln institute, jnclosipg copy of the
'.Record's" article thereon, and calling in
question the authority of the society to
inves igate the affairs OF that institution,
Mr.. Crew referred the letter to the board
of directors of the society, and asked for
an investigation of his action in the case.
The result Of the investigation was not
only complete vindication of Mr.. Crew,
but also commended that gentleman for
the faithful discharge Of the duties of rs
office.
Ire society will demand removal
of Superintendent Hugg from the Lin
coin institute and if Lne order is com
piled with no further action will be
taken otherwise the society will avail
themselves of the power conferred on
them by law to protect the children in
The institute from what they deem to
be violence. Phia Record.
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21

The Shakers of New Lebanon, N. Y.
came near being burned out OF their
houses and qsiet bones last week. tne
buildings being fired by an incehdiary
q German member OF Inc society who
was angry because he had been found
fault with. He was treated, however
with great leniepcy, for a deputaiion
Of the elders mought him TO New
Y oIk and sent him home 10 Germany
The society paying his expenses. TDe
reason of this course is stated to be
that the Shakers, as matter Of pyinci-
pal, keep out OF courts of justice aiio-
gether.
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21

The mercury ran up to 10S degrees in
Sacramento, CAL. on Tuesday, 18th inst,
and at the railroad shops it reached 1O9
degrees. The Union says that when the
workmen handled iron lying out of doors
in the sun, it was necessary to use INIT
tens.
The Mobile (Ala) Register says;-"Our
people," by which it means the Southern
people, "have theory of government to
advocate and Defend; they do not drift
about in pursuit of incidents"
The model town in the State of New
York is Alfred. 1t has 1900 inhabitants,
has never had single glass of liquor sold
within its limits, and never pauper TO
support. ..-I.I.. l.#. =t -t.1..
Judge A. W. Sawyer, of the New
Hampshire Supre me Bench, has resigned
because of ill-health caused by too great
labor in discharging his judicial duties.
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21
DRUG STORES.
w f.. WILLIAMS.
DRUGGIST,

Keeps ull Incl I y !
pRUGs AND MEDIcINEs,I
pore, fresh, aud carofuIylsslected for /
.,onrvsING PRESCRIPTIONS AND
Pl1fLIISSd Pqli1IfLISd ORDERS for FAMILY USE.
y,..,-rHE BEST QUALITY oBTAINA-
Nsver sacrificing quality fol. .cheapness o.
srcosD-REASoNABLB PRICES.
suscal attention paid to compouniing
DESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY AND AC-
fNh'0'' CURATELY. BY
We, WILLIAMS. Druggist. I.
Corner Ninth and Market streets.
t.,s.ti Wilmington. Del.
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21

II is nourishing ana sustaining; can iho o
pidao,s Food has upon delicate consLitu
tom m1% is simply marvellous. Ridges Fog %
is recognized by the highest authority M IN
World over. Every label bears the sigma
tire of WOOLRICH & co. In cans, S9e|
DC; 81 .25, and $1.75. noVZo-lS
The daily gazette., 1877-06-21
The experience of some of the prisoners

The experience of some of the prisoners
in the New York Tombs is eclipsed by
that of an Indian in Ayacucho, Peru,
who had been waiting in Jail for twenty
years TO be tried for murder. He killed
a man in Street fight and the regular
Ipanalty oflhs crime is five years al hard
labor on the, guano islands. His case
was called in May last, and he was con-
| v CT / al d s ,ni eneed. The President OF
Peru has ordered an inquiry into the
matter.