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TWO FAST EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY

TWO FAST EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY
W lHi,l VI inIn lI'n IN Nai ni AulL.
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helng y Fast kIpress, stops only AZ pilnol'
lal Stations, tllaA Pullman Palace sleep.
lnH Jars for Columbus, Pittsburgh, phllh.
ltlHhla and Now iOlk without change. aud
unt one change 20 iioston, baltimore aud
Washington II arrives Ia New York early
We npAl eNenliig' Only one nlshl out aud
giveA Daylight Wow Of tlio fnf famed
SCENERY ~ lho pennsy wanna railroad,
.fAsTLiNE, EXPRESS leaves I'M
len nepol, ~, Llula, every evening, stop.
plnR only ~ principal stations, with
rullman Palace Cars fer Louisville nnd ON,
oinhhlli Palace hlpeplng Car for chicago,
ana the tyOfiie fiOnoor Lane VI hulls
nAn Palace Drawing h0Om sleep.
Ink Cars
For Columbus, pitlaburgh, Philadelphia aud
New YORK without change
ss'leing tho only Line practically under
nne management between ~ Louis and
New hork, passengers arc assured " through
opnnectlOaA, ANA are not subject TO delays AZ
lnleflnodlatu points incidental 10 other
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Rgfhe Quickest Time Ia regularly made
ny THIS Lane, aud fare always aA low IN by
ul nor routes,
AZ Tickets Tor sale ut all ti,ket Offices In
tho West and South,
l., Z, ilRMkR Gen Pass, Agent poonylya-
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

cd at Quiros is'a and, where the celebrated
and venerable Eli Jennings, an
american patriarch, is, like Robinson
Crnsoe, master Of all SURVEYS. The
island Is about three miles long and
one to one and half wide, and is
some two hundred miles north-north-
east OF the Samoan group. 1t is owned
entirely by the patriarch, who has been
there over thirty years. Mr.. Jennings
IS married to Samoan woman. and
has large family. He is well.todo.
and happy as lord. Capt. Ransau,
hs son-in-law. with his wife and three
children, came up as passengers bv the
schooner The little ones are as shv as
deer, and they speak their native IAN
guase.
The Samoa Times, good,sized week
~, English in its tone and style, has
made its appearance at Apia, the first
number being issued Oct. g. 1t COM
plains bitterly of the wrangles among
The various consuls at that place.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30
Intellectual Test of Nations.

SO far AS the general ability Of the
people of u nation to read and write is
q proof Of their superior enlightenment,
the Americans have no rivals in oil the
world. As readers we lead all nations
We ale 42,OOO,OO0. The population OF
England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland
33,O0O,O00; of France, 100000, OF
Germany, 42,O00,OO0. In 1870 there
we're published in the United States 574
daily, 1895 weekly and 1902 other
papers md periodicals. In 1877 the
figures were: dailies, 100; weeklies,
622l; all others, 1914; total, 1914.
England has but 2252, Germany but
1885, France but 1862 and Italy but
935. The total for the four nations,
embracing an aggregate population OF
1877 ,OOO, 900, is but 6,73l, or 1913 less
than supplies the American population
of 42,OOO,0OO. The distribution Of our
daily and weekly papers among the
several states is instructive. They are
not by any means apportioned accord
ing to population, though New York Is
always first. 1t appears that New York
has 81 dailies. Pennsylvania comes
next, with 76; Illinois third, with AZ; and
curiously enough, California fourth,
with 40. In that state Of less than
$4,000 of the European race they have
4 more daily papers than Ohio, with her
5000 900, Is more than Massachusetts,
or Indiana, II more than Missouri, ~
more than Iowa, as many lacking one
as Wisconsin, Virginia, and Georgia
combined, and more than eight times
as many as either Minnesota, Delaware
or Oregon. If, then, the reading OF
current publications is an irrefragible
test of the superior instruction of 81
community generally, the population
Of California stands at the very summit
of modern civilization, 50 says Cali
fornia exchange. I"'t
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30
TOolc's Christmas Story.

1t is related that when Toole was
acting in London, in "The Christmas
Carol" playing Bob Cratchett, a deli
cate little girl, one of the children of
the dresser of the theatre, whose pale
face and interesting manner fitted her
well for the part, played Tiny Tim. The
sickly little child was favoritc in the
theatre, and especially so with Mr..
Toole. During the performance Of the
piece, the artists sat down regularly TO
a supper of roasted goose and plum
pudding, which was in the present in
stance genuine material. Toolc was in
the habit of chopping the viands up
and giving them to the children per-
forming. Tiny Tim appeared to eat
seven times as much as her brethren.
She was the first to return her plate for
more, and always made away with more
than an ordinary adult could eat of
goose, supplementing this colossal re-
past with plum pudding enough for
half-adozen. Toole gradually felt an
aversion growing in him for the child.
Her pallor and sickness seemed to him
suspiciously allied with Indigestion, the
first fruits Of gluttony. He struggled
against this feeling for u time, but it
mastered him, and he could not think
kindly of the little one. One day, in q
fit of disgust, he sawed off n piece of
meat and bones from the savory bird,
and flung it into her plate with a
piece of plum pudding, which left little
for the others, hoping that for once the
child would be satisfied. But she
wasn't With punctuality worthy OF
landlord, she returned Tor more.
Toole was shocked My DEAR" said
he, "you will make yourself sick if you
eat so much. l gave you enough for
three or four big boys. You could not
have eaten it in this time. Where are
the bones? ?" he asked, looking at the
empty plate.
The poor child hung her head. Toole
spoke again, rather sharply.
Z" Please, sir" sobbed Tiny Tim, my
little sister ate it"
And, following the direction Of her
eyes toward the wings, there he saw a
hungry little horde Of ragamuffins
pitching into the Christmas cheer with
an energy that indicated how much
they needed it. A light was let in upon
him. Little Tiny had been filling the
sto. .achs of her hungry little brothers
and sisters, and not her own. She never
took another grudged morsel from the
table. Toole told the story to Dickens
who listened attentively, and, at its con
clusion, with burst Of warm enthusi
asm, cried, "Give her the whole goose
and half the plum pudding the next
time :" and if the actor did not follow
the warm-hearted novelist's instructions
to the letter, he acted up to the spirit o
them, and Tiny's family never lacked
square meal during the run Of the
"Christmas Carol" in London.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

completion and equipment of each Sec
ton of ten miles. The bill also pro-
vldes that. the government shall make
no payments for the transportation of
its troops or property over the proposed
railway extension until the amounts
thus earned by the railroad shall equal
the total amount Of the subsidy adj
vanced. 3agi
TILDEN'S INCOME SUIT.
| A New York dispatch of the 10th
says arguments in the case of the
| United States VS.. Samuel j. Tilden,
to recover $1,000 Us an annual IN
come-tax for the year of 1861, with
interest from the 3Oth of June, 1862,
were begun this morning in the United
States district court. There are nine
counts in the complaint, to all of which
demurrer is made on technical grounds,
the merits of the case not being gone
into. 1t was decided to take up each
count separately. The first count
charges s., 900 back tax for the years of
1861 and 1862. Tilden's counsel claim
that the laws passed about that time
were recognized as necessary war
measures, and annulled the law reuuir-
ing the payment Of the income tax in
that year. Judge Blatchford sustained
the demurrer, giving Tilden the first
victory. !
DEATH OF A CONFEDERATE COMMODORE.
A Baltimore, Maryland, dispatch
of the Goth says Commodore George
N. Hollins died last night of para
lysis, aged seventy-nine years. He was
in command of the sloop-ofwar Cyane,
which bombarded Greytown, Nicara-
qua, in 1854. AT the commencement
of the late civil war he entered the
confederate service.
TREASURY STATEMENT.
An Associated press telegram Of JAN
of Goth says from the weekly statement
the Secretary it appears that treasury
now holds $345, 49,, $50 IN United States
bonds to secure national bank circrla-
ton, and 13,6S3,0O0 to secure public
deposits. United States bonds deposits
for circulation for the week ending to-
day, $432, 0OO Bonds held for circula-
ton withdrawn for the week ending to-
day, $60S,OOO. National bank cir
culation outstanding for the week
ending to-day. - gold notes, ST.
435. 120; currency, 1919, 557 ,049.
Internal revenue receipts, $685.
2S6. Customs receipts, $4O7 ,SSl. Re
ceipts national bank notes for redcmp-
ton, for the week ending to-day, com
pared with the corresponding period
last year-1S77, 1851, 900; 1878, 81, 247-
600. Receipts to-day $3.50, 900 currency;
So, All ,191 gold. Special fund for re-
demptlon of fractional currency, &c.
100000. Special deposit of legal ten
ders for redemption of certificates of
deposit, 1876, ESQ., 900; coin $l32, OS9,5 SIS;
including coin certificate, $39,696,6OO;
outstanding legal tenders, $346, 943,775
THE WEARY PACIFIC RAILROAD BILLS.
The house committee on Pacific rail
roads to-day read arguments on the
Northern Pacific railroad bill. The ar.
gumeuts were made by the attorney of
the company in advocacy Of the pro-
posed extension Of time for the compile
ton of the main line and branches.
Delegates Jacobs and j. J. McGilvea, of
Washington Territory, spoke in oppo-
sition so far as the extension relates to
the branch across the Cascade Noun
tains. Senator Mitchell stated that he
could not agree to the bill as offered by
the company.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30
The British Empire.

The colonies and dependencies of
Great Britain cover ono .hlrd of the
surface OF the globe and contain nearly
one-fourth of its inhabitants New
foundland is the Oldest colony, the Boer
country in Africa the latest addition.
In this hemisphere Britain holds:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

The salt product of Michigan in No
vember was 16O, 46S barrels. The pro.
duct for the year is ,634 us barrels.
This is 1862 barrels more than the
product Of 1876 and the largest amount
ever produced within twelve months.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

The Aston Library New York; now
contains $4,000 volumes, 1900 OF
which have been added during the last
Is months. During the past twelve
months $50, 600 has been spent for books
for the instution.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

The sizzle of frying doughnuts can be
heard by telephone considerable dis
lance. Another machine is TO be per
fected TO transmit the smell.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

In Africa she now holds "a, $50 square
miles of territory and 100000 subje
India has an area of $4,000 square
miles and u population of 190,5OO,O00
souls, and her other Asiatic possessions
swell these huge figures to 927 900 square
miles and l93,360,00O souls. In Europe
she has in Malta, Heligoland, and Glib
raltar 10000 subjects, and in the three
Kingdoms, the birthplace of the race,
about 33.OOO,OoO people. Hence, the
total number of souls under British
sway is nearly 250000,000, equal, as be-
fore said, to one-fourth tho worlds pop
ulation, while the area of the empire
covers third of the worlds surface +
Toronto Globe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30
Camp.Life OF Russian Army Officers.
Correspondence San Francisco Chronicle.


The life of the Russian officer, as /
have been able to observe here, away
from the glitter of parades and the ex-
element of battles, is occupied chiefly
by routine duty, tea-drinking, smoking,
and card and billiard playing, proper
tionately in the order named. The
duty seems hard and tedious, but to
some Americans it would seem harder
to drink five or six large tumblers Of
tea three or four times day. The
dentchiks" Official servants) do moth
ing but attend to the making of tea and
their masters pipes all day. Every
time the officer returns to his quarters
tea must be prepared, and the long
stemmed pipes ready to light, not only
for himself, but for any number Of
guests he may bring with him. The
tobacco used is always of Turkish
brands, or at least sold as such. The
Ukraine is tobacco-producing province,
but the leaf cannot be enjoyed by any
body besides the Ukraine people, with
their horse-constitutions. 1t would be
the height of imprudence for anybody
with weak lungs to ride in smoking
car in this region, even for half day,
for fear of suflocation, and corpse ex-
posed. to the action of the smoke of
Ukraine tobacco would be converted
into mummy in twenty-four hours.
THE petroleum trade of the country
has attained to enormous proportions:
and there is scarcely civilized spot on
the face of the habitable globe to which
this cheapest of all illuminators is not
now shipped. There are now under
engagement at New York. Philadelphia
and Baltimore fully two hundred vessels
to load petroleum for various parts of
the world. Ifthe shipping interest has
been depressed, the question arises
what would have been its condition had
not petroleum, taken rank among our
most prolific articles of export? 1t is
estimated that 10000 oil wells have
thus far been dug in Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, at an aggregate cost of
S192OO0,OOO. They have yielded about
SS,0OO,OOO barrels of oil, valued at
600 the wells at $500 900, 900 or 800. OOO.-
at the seaboard. All things considered.
petroleum is the cheapest Of all useful
articles of commerce.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-30

Her colonies at the Antipodes alone
rival in extent the biggest of the en-
pires Of old: ....
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06

balls took effect, three Of them passing
through Rnssel's body and lodging into the
counter behind him.
Immediately after the shooting, Ford,
Who, we understand, made no attempt to es.
cape, was arrested.
The murdered man is represented u have
been a quiet, inofensive citizen, but the
murderer, it is said by those who knew him
best, was right upon the cut aud shoot when
in liquor, but a pleasant and agreeable fell
low when sober, 30 far a. we know. The
members of the gang, however, say he has
been wanting to kill somebody for a long
time, and now has satisfied his ambition.
Ford is we'll known in this city. He il a
large muscular man, and abundantly able to
have hammered his victim to his hearts
comfort under ordinary circumstances, but
that he didn't choose TO satisfy his greveiance
in that matter, leads us to believe that Rus
Gle wa not one to be triffe with, and that
the differences between them was of no COM
mon character.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06

A fact overlooked by all orators and
newspapers is that the currency of the late
southern c%onfederacy was fiat" money.
Under the financial system of the rebel
government treasury notes were issued 40
the expenses of the government demand
them and they had no value except the
printed figures upon their face. George
Cary Eggleston in his REBELS Recollec-
tions" says of this money:
The prices which obtained were almost
seemed to be no sort of ratio existing be-
tween the values of different articles. I
bought coffee at $40 and tea at $50 a pound
on the same day. NY dinner at q hotel
cost me $40, while IS gained me q seat IN
the dress circle at the theatre. I paid 81
the next morning for The Examiner, but l
might have got The Wing, Dispatch, En-
quirer, or Sentinel for half that sum. For
some wretched tallow candles l paid $40 q
pound. The utter absence of proportion
between these several places are apparent.
and l know of no way Of explaining it ex-
cert upon the theory that the unstable
character of the money had s%uperinduced q
reckless disregard of all value on the part of
both buyers and sellers. A facetious friend
used to say prices were so high that nobody
could see them, and that they ''got
mixed for want of supervision" He held,
however, that the difference between the old
and the new order Of things vas = trifing
one. Before the war" he said, II went to
market with the money in my pocket, and
brought back my purchases in a basket
now l take the money in the basket, and
bring the things home in my pocket" =
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06
A RIPPLE OF EXCITEMENT.
Over h Killing Of John Russell b,
Baldy Ford-SturRis City's First
DeadwOOd Times, 18th.

Deadwood Times. 18th.
There was o visible ripple of excitement
among the members of the gang" this
morning upon the reception Of tile news
that Badly" Ford had killed q man at
sturgis City last evening. The circumstan.
ces attending the tragedy are somewhat
limited at the present writing. The partv
who brought the news into camp is a for
eigner and talks poor English. and in add.
ton to this drawback his English and the
circumstances Of the killing had been badly
mixed up by democratic whisky when onr
reporter found him, but from wha: we were
able to gather it seems that "Bsldv"
Ford was under the ban of the critter.
just enough to be on the cut and shoot
and from some reason, not learned. at.
tackled John Russell, a Texas herder. who
has . drove Of beeves in that section and
supplying the soldiers on a contract. Rms.
sell was standing at the counter in John
Scollard's place, when "Baldy" opened fire
on him, emptying his five shooter into his
body 40 rapidly that the victim hardly
knew who was hit until the firing ceased,
when he soon after expired. All the Eve
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06
NORTHERN DAKOTA.
A F

Bismarck, Oct. 3l.-A singular develop.
ment transpired at Fort Lincoln to-day.
Mrs. Sergeant Noonan, who died last night,
turns out to be a man. Mrs. Noonan was
a laundress at the post, and the most popu.
lar midwife there. She had been married
three times and was one of the widows of
the Custer massacre. Her husband is a
member Of the Seventh cavalry, now in the
field. There is no explanation of the IN.
natural union, except that the suppo ,ed
Mexican woman was worth $4,000, and was
able to buy her husbands silence. She had
been with the Seventh cavalry nine years.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06
THE FISHERY TROUBLES.
Causes Of Pending Difference betwee
England n h United States.

Causes Of Pending Difference between
England and the United States.
Correspondence New York Herald.
Washington, Oct. 20, 1S7S.-The SIS, $780,.
600 which the Halifax fishery commission
condemned the United States to pay to Great
Britain are due on the oath of November,
under the terms of the treaty, and the money
ia ready in London to make the payment.
But it is certain that the administration will
not pay it over until the British government
gives the most positive assurance that, in
prosecuting the fishery rights guaranteed by
the treaty, our fishermen shall not be subject
to interference from the colonial authorities
under the pretence of colonial laws.
The question which has arisen between
the Two governments on this subject resem-
bles the extradition dispute oftwo years ago,
and while it is thought that the action of
Lord Salisbury in the fishery business was
hastily taken and without thought of what
he was assuming, his course bears a singular
Likeness to that Of Lord Derby in the extra.
dition matter. In that case the United
States asked for the surrender of. Winslow
and others under the Ashburtoa treaty.
The British government refused to surrender
them on the ground that . local law of Great
Britain forbade them to do SO. Secretary
Fish replied that the treaty, being an inter
national obligation. must as toward Us, one
of the parties to il, be of superior force to q
local law, and on this a long paper dispute
followed, which resulted in the British gov
eminent finally acknowledging that it had
Numbered and that its assumption that it's
local laws were to be held superiort to a treaty
was %untenable. The criminals required bSy
Mr.. Fish were surrendered and this ended
the dispute.
In the present case Lord Salisbury, an.
p%arently having forgotten his predecessors
Notifying defeat, CURLY assumes even more
than he. According to his reply to Mr..
Welsh he holds that the local Law not Of
England. the country with which alone We
have treated on the subject, but Of one Of her
distant colonies, il superior to the obliga-
lions Of the treaty Of Washington. The
lavless attack on her fishermen by the New
foundlanders, the details of which you will
find below, was called to the attention Of the
British government. In reply Lord Sails
bury says that he has caused Captain Suli-
van, of the navy, to investigate the ccm-
plant, and that the captain reported that
United States fishermen ON this occasion
committed three distinct breaches Of the
local law, for which a stop was put to their
fishing, except in one case-where the mas
ter Of an American vessel refused 10 stop
fishing on Sunday. And hat Is all. He
simply and CURLY refers to Secretary Evarts
I the laws of Newfoundland, and j~ustiies
the driving of Of our vessels on the simple
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-11-06
Y grfss aud 9nkataiau.
ANkToN. DAKOTA.
esday Morning, November s, 1873.

democrats decided not to hold
neral offers q standing
red dollars for the con-
nswho may have been
attempting to rob
while In transit on
reward refers to all
'he fiscal year
:retary
toward
#, while
~ received
the associa-