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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

The consular report hon ChSmni&,
|6axony, states that the e1laries Of rail
rosd employees are small; the surerin-
tendent's salary is the highest, u ,6Sl;
few employees receive over 81 900 per
annum. Section hands are paid $144.75
to $174.5O DER year. A certain sum is
allowed to all employees for clothing and
some are furnished with houses and
servants. Ticket agents receive l per
cent. commission ON tho tickets they
sell. The engineer and firemen are
allowed for any savings they make in
the coal and oil furnished to the trains
by the government. The salary of an
engineer is $3.50; fireman, $500; con-
ductor, $444: ticket agent, 1928 and 5000:
freight master, $571. The panic of 1873
wrought great changes in Saxony, as in
the United States.
A consular report from Turin, Italy,
says: Railways run by the national gov
eminent pay their engineers from $50
to $40 month, common laborers from
so to 60 cents per day. chief conductors
from $3.50 to $500 per annum, station
masters $500 to $1,000: Pensions are
provided for employees after certain
number of years of faithful service land
to their widows in case Of accident OF
death while on duty. Females who
guard the crossings receive Is cents a
day; ticketsellers 20 cents, their hours
OF labor averaging four Or five per day.
The cost of living for laborers is about Is
cents day. 'Y7@Nfe+
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
Serve an Injunction On Disease

By invigorating feeble constitution, renovating
deblitased physique, and enriching thin and
innutritous circulation with Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, the finest and most highly sanctioned,
aud the most popular tonic and preventive in ex.
istence. 1t strengthens the stomach, remedies
torpor Of the liver and bowels, and gives health
full impulse to the secretive and discharging fnc-
tons of the kidneys and bladder. Not only does
II arrest and prevent the recurrence OF malarial
fevers, but it furnishes the only adequate safe.
guard against them to persons who have never
been afflicted with those maladles, but would be
liable to incur them if incidentally. unprotected.
IT eliminates from the blood certain impurities
exciting causes of those agonizing complaints,
rheumatism and govt, and it is moreover, an ex.
ceuent remedy or an enfeebed or overweight
state OF the nerves. and for mental dependency
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

|pQt it out Of IL misery, when tVo Of -
others made rush to their wounded
comrade's assistance. Pringle saw them
coming when only twenty yards of, and
fred his remaining barrel, in his hurry
missing both, but soaring one of them
away. But the other made for his hui
man antagonist and sprang upon him,
gripping him by the shoulders with one
pair Of hands, and holding to his waist
with the other. In a jify the animal
had torn off Prindle's upper clothing,
and was gnawipg at his throat. which
was fortunately protected by several
folds of a silk handkerchief, and the
animals teeth being very long, prevent
ed him from opening his mouth wide
enough to get good hold. A struggle
ensued, but Pringle could not get rid of
his assailant until he (Pringle) tripped
and fell on his side, wien, as he lay, he
caught the baboon by the throat with
his right hand and succeeded in getting
him under. He then seized stone
and battered the animals head until
life was extinct. Fortunately for him
the remaining three held aloof Or the
consequences might have been very
serious. Mr.. Pringle, who is strong
and active man, standing several inches
over six feet in his stockings, tells us he
has several times had to struggle hard
with strong men, but he never had a
tougher job than to master that baboon.
These animals are very destructive. and
do great damage to lands and gardens.
Mr.. Moolman. of Zaaifontein, Hantam,
had fine lot Of watermelons, which he
had intended to bring to market. When
he went to pick them he found that the
balloons had been before him and
scooped out the pulp of every ripe melon
ON hand.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
Pay Of Railroad Employees in Europe

Consular reports recently sent to the
state department at Washington en-
brace statements in regard to the COM
pensation of railway employees in vari-
Gus portions of Europe, from which we
learn that the yearly compensation in
France is as follows: Engineers, S405
to $579; tiremen, S30S: watchunen, 1921 F.;
chief of baggage, $3.50; baggage men,
1881; portcrs and servants, Sl9S; chief
of freight, 1888 to Sl,15S; clerks, 1921 +;
ticket agents, men or women, $500 to
1857; workmen, Sl15. The consul re.
marks that the cost of living is less in
France than in America, and the living
poorer. The work on railways is more
subdivided, and quite different from
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
WOman's Seaside Love.

! The pavilion was empty save for
these two, but wanderer outside hap
pened to be so placed that the treacher-
Gus ocean breeze waited to her the fol-
lowing conversation, which she did not
consider sufficiently sacred to avoid or
to keep to herself.
Now, Charley, it's of no use; l can't
marry a man who hasn't the means to
| live in Newport summers.
Charley, gloomily-You never knew
this blasted place until this season.
IreneHThat is very true, but this sea-
son has shown me what need to make
me happy.
Charley-A house at Newport with q
man attachment-the house of primary
Importance, the man of secondary. very
much OF secondary. / never saw girl
so changed as you are by this little taste
of this confounded place. wish the
whole concern-the whole island--was
at the bottom OF the ocean. l wish one
of those torpedoes would send the ours
ed town, villas, four-in-hands and all to
destruction. l wish
Irene--I don't suppose it occurs
to you that we should go up with the
town.
Charley-I don't know as that makes
any difference; there'd be only two idi-
OTIS less.
Irene-You needn't be so abusive, sir;
l haven't said that | hadn't great re-
gard for you.
Charley-But you have said that
you've greater regard for house than
for me. Against villa at Newport
I've no chance. Irene, l can't see how
you can be so foolish. Why, how do
you expect to marry one of these swells?
You're not one of them. You're just a
hanger-on, a sort of chance visitor,
amongst them. You're pretty, know,
awful pretty-but there are scores of
girls as pretty rs you.
Irene-Thank you, sir; you'd better
take your pick amongst them.
Charley--NO; l want you.
Irene Idiot that | am?
Charley--Precisely.
Irene-Well, sir, decline the honor.
It's ofno use. Since I've been in New
port I know just what l want and |
wont have anything else. I'll live and
die as am rather.
Charley vindictiveiy shying stones
in the waves)-Well, I've one thing
more to say. think this cursed place
has more to answer for in the way of
decentralization than any old Sodom
and Gomorah that the Bible ever scared
up. Last winter l knew you as girl of
sense. This summer four-in-hands,
yachts and all the rest of the show have
turned your brain.
In the long, sulking silence that fol-
lowed the wanderer outside strayed
away, and presently meets Miss Irene
Macgillicuddy, radiant beside young
man with hay-colored mustache in
dog-cart, while Charley foots it up the
path road in the dust, viciously switch
ing the whitened, burned grass by the
roadside and contemplating, doubtless.
the inward and outward cussedness"
of this "blarsted place." Reader this is
a true story.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
HoIIoway's Pills and Ointment.

:, HoIIoWay'8 Pills and Ointment..
health and Beauty-how to secure them-Female
Irregularities-Beauty is as indispensable to the
happiness OF woman, as Is health to her exist
snce: the loss Of charms being regarded az a
greater affection than death itself Holloway 5
Pills and Ointment have done more towards pre-.
cidental to the sex. than all other advertised
medicines united. Thousands OF lovely females
have had their constitutions ruined and beauty
lants and poisonous lotions. The mild, soothing.
and restorative influence OF Holloway's great in.
ternal and external remedies in all complaints
in the spring-time of womanhood, or In the
Autumh, OF Turn OF lie. ..... 1874
IMroBrANT CACrIoN.-None are genuine unless
the signature OF j. HAYDOCK, as agent for the
United States, surrounds each box Of Pills and
Ointment. Boxes at IS cents, 62 cents and 81
each.
eB There is considerable saving by taking the
larger sizes. HOLLOWAY s. Co. New YORK.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
It Seems impossible

That remedy made Of such common,
simple plants as Hops, Buchu, Mand-
rade, Dandelion, &C., SHOULD make so
many and such marvellous and wonder
full cures as Hop Bitters do, but when
old and young, rich and poor, pastor
and doctor, lawyer and editor all tes-
tify to having been cured by them, you
must believe and try them yourself,
and doubt no longer. See other COL
umn.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
A Shepherds Fight with Five Full.
Grown Male Balloons.

The particulars appended are taken
from a South African paper: Mr.. John
Pringle, who lives with Mr.. Christian
Neser, i'll the Hantam, went few days
since in search of stray sheep, taking
his double-barreled shotgun with him.
While climbing a mountain he sudden
ly came upon five full-grown male
balloons, and thoughtlessly fired and
disabled one of the number, the others
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

WHEN a young man enters journal
ism" he weaves spiders web of words
around a fly of an idea. In time he
learns to secure the fly without web,
and when he holds it up for inspection
everybody can see just what 1t Is. A
good idea in sea OF words Is like
Venus with linen buster on buttoned
up to the chin.-7tuner's Falls Reporter.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

WHEN any person Of wealth dies in
Paris, the front door of the house is
draped with black velvet, with silver
fringe and molding The curtain is
looped up at the sides; and inside the
doorway is an altar. with crucifix and
candles burning, and ornamented with
flowers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

The rice crop in the Philippine
Islands this year is total failure. This
is depressing to the boarder who, re-
Wondering how little rice it takes to
make five gallons of soup when the
crops are abundant, will tremble to
think of the amount of overwork that
will be forced upon one grain now
Burlinoton Hamkcue.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

UN1oN.-Unite your good flour with
D. B. DeLand & Co.'s Best Chemical Sal
eratus if you want extra bread, biscuit
and pastry of all kinds. United they
rise, divided they fall. =
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
AVOID
QUACKS & QUACKERY

Sufferers from Nervous Debility Lost Msnhoo
and other effects Of early indiscreions, instead I
tampering with Quacks who advertise remedl(
free. can be cured for life BY enclosing ~
for Book and Recipe for sefcurs BY sinI
physiological means. The book is : rel,
Marriage Guide Of : soopsSG ,n .nsn ~
quackery, and the Recipe has been used /
authors private practice upwards Of twenty ID
and cured over 40, 900 cases.
Address DR.. z. WILLIAMS,
AS6 e. WArII ST., NuwAUKSE w
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
EsTABLISHED 1851.
Electro Medical Insttut4
MuXAnYIR. WI

Nervous and Rheumatic !
ierers from Early indisrsus
Impotence, affections Of d, 4. 3
neys, heart, lung and y
should not fail 70 consult y . .
.dentially DIR: MCNAAAM \
BROADWAY. He ha. !sa. :
with the aid Of electriei'!l,1
win stop those nightly emls!
build up the nervous sy',sa |,
store the sexual powers y |. y
fuli HipnY and the mlld =
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

original cheerfulness and strength, me IT,
skill in the treatment Of Seminar w W.
or Nervous Exhaustion cannot % sAo'u''
healing art ADrCirculars sent Tree.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
r RUTHS.
Hop BItters are the PureSs ~
Best Bitters ever MADE.

n
They are compounded from HOP; bs<l
Mandrake and Dandelf0n,-tn QUE I'D u
and most valuable medicines in tne .or,ruS
contain all the best and most curative p Issd
of all other Bitters, being the giesS Hnt|
Purifier, Liver Regulator, and L,le ..' a N
Restoring Agent on earth. No alse' .bss hd
health can possibly long exist wne.. thsr N
tiers are used, % varied and perfect A'
erations. .4 ~. .rsd "
They give nav life and vigor to 'ne r.e ind
infirm. To all whose employment =. 81 N
ularity of the bowels or urinary oi ls NS,inuHl
require an Appetizer, Tonic and mi' a;rsly ~,
these Bitters are Invaluable. being n..t.xict
| tive, tonic and stimulating, without
ing. q ,mptorss-
No matter what your feelings or .!TT Han Bns1]
what the disease or ailment u, use a. ION s1
Don't wait until you are sick, ou' y sucs
feel bad or miserable, use the Bitter n..u ~
may save your life. Hundreds nav la 81
| by 50 doing. AIS5OO-S8 viii %
case they will not cure or help. friends 81
Do not sufI.. yo<.an or let you, on yi,.,r
fer. but use and urge them to use ny iIs drug
Remember, Hop Bitters - no ,n VA Re-, ~
drunken nostrum, but the Pures, ~. sn rrepd a
cine ever made; the =" 1nvene Isonid Be u71
Hope :" and no person or fAmiI!
out them. Try the Bitters to-cA!, prrln|
TRY HOP COUGH CURB AND PAIN '''
For sale by all druggists.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21

U,HEssEA E4EWIJy'r 1crukEs 1LR6sfE,aTT1E, !
l. danger of using common kerose shs rsleSni
Self Distinguishing. Nom Explosive ta absir ch
Persons should not risk the lives Oh nrsyeapi
by using any other. 1t saves lie anu p''''
ASH YOUR to dealer for it. Circulars free i
discount to the trade. Address & sNIrH
- Manufacturers, Janes'ine
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-03

committee to interfere with the state
organization of the National party,
but to assist them in forming a per-
feet and uniform organization. To
this end the national committee will
furnish weekly lists of councils char
tered in each state to the executive
committee of that state, if there be a
state organization; and, by the instru-
mentality Of this system of councils.
secure the organization OF states now
unorganiZed. From these local coun-
ellis the organization of counties. cities
and states will be developed as the ne
cessities of each locality may demand.
The National committee will pub
lish promptly campaign song book,
and it invites contributions from song
writer's. The songs should be accom-
panied by the music, or should be set
to popular airs. The committee feel,
that this crisis SHOULD bring forth
such songs as similar struggles in be-
half Of human rights have inspired.
The committee urges that local or
CARNATIONS be perfected rapidly, and
that tickets be nominated in localities
where there are spring elections. A
success in city, or town, or town.
ship, or in a village, is often the key
to more important victories. The re-
cent gratifying successes Of the Ma
tional party in local contests in New
York and Pennsylvania are encour-
aging to the workers in the cause
everywhere. These gains in the east
may be equalled and surpassed else
where by active and Jealous work.
The committee respectfully requests
that Greenback and Labor local or
CARNATIONS now in existence apply for
charters us National councils that the
unification of interests secured with
such harmony and enthusiasm by the
Toledo convention may be utilized.
The national committee invites
communications from the executive
officers of all state organizations Of
the National party, that there may
be cooperation and harmonious ac-
ton.
All communications should be adj
dressed to
D. B. STURGEON,
Chairman National Elk. Com.
Toledo, March II. 1878. Toledo, o.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-10-03
HOW J'O ORGANIZE GREEN
BACK CLUBS.

Lelow is simple form for the or
ganizataon of Greenback Clubs, Tor
the use of any community deslrous
of organization. Let the workers III
every town organize at once.
The M0ePe""e"t
+ Greenback club:
SEC. |. This organization shall be
known as the INDEPEN-
DENT GREENBACK CLUB.
SEC. .. It's object shall be, to ald IN
publishing the principles OF the Green
back party, to the people by getting
speakers, holding meetings. etc.
SEC. 8. Its officers shall be Il Presl'
dent. Vice President, Secretary and
Z Treasurer.
SEC. 4. Its meetings shall be held
4 from time to time, at such times ana
\ in such places us may be appointed by
the Club, through its executive com
mittee and proper officers.
SEC. 5. The officers shall be elected
every three months. and the first cleo
ton shall be held on the date OF the
abortion of this constitution.
SEC. 6. The expenses of the cluf
shall be betrayed by subscription.
SEC. I. Any person can become :
member of this Club by signing this
constitution.
SEC. 8. There shall be an executive
committee appointed by the President
whose duty shall be, IN connection
with the President and Secretary, tt
call meetings, and attend to Other
business of the Club.
SEC. 8. Upon the application of tel
members of this club II meeting shat
be called at any time
SEC. 10. This Constitution can b.
amended by Il two-thirds vote of thu
Club present at any meeting.
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citation of the valley is exuberant.
There is a bewildering diversity Of
grand and beautiful trees, wild I'M
conquered vegetable giants. draped
and festooned by creeping plants.
The moment you land upon the shore
you are confronted by solid wall Of
vegetation, through which, if you
wish to proceed, you must hew your
way with ak or mdchetd. Palms, OF
which three varities are noted. con-
stitute the majority of trees. Then
there are ''cow-trees," a hundred and
fifty feet high. yielding a milk of the
consistency of cream, used for tea.
coffee and custards. The sscaucho,"
or rubber tree. though of a different
species from that of the East Indies,
produces a gum which constitutes
most of the rubber of commerce. OF
ornamental woods there is no end.
Foremost among these is the ''Moira-
Pinima," or s'tortoise shell wood"
the most beautiful in grain and color
of any in the world. Enough is
wasted every year to veneer all the
dwellings of the civilized world. For
many years to come the exports of the
Amazon Valley must be mainly the
products of its forests. Contrary to
all that we might expect, the climate
of the Amazon Valley is temperate
rather than tropical. 1t is more
equal than in any other region of the
world. Year in and year out it
ranges from IS to 81 degrees-the
mean being 80 degrees.
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To the People of the United tates

Owing to the pressing demands from
all parts of the country for the i'm
mediate organization of the National
party. the executive committee of the
National party of the United States
has adopted the following means of
action, out of which it is believed will
grow perfect and uniformed
organization of the party in the diff
ferent states.
Upon the application of ten or more
voters who have organized council
of the National party in any locality,
and elected officers consisting of a
chief a vice chief. scribe and a
treasurer. and reported the state.
postoisice, township and county. or
city and ward. in which tits organized
together with the names of the said
officers. the national committee will
issue to snch organization an engraved
charter emhlematic of the principles
and objects of the National party. and
constitution and directions for the
organization and government of the
council. Each application must be
accompanied by the sum of one dollar
This sum will cover the expense OF
issuing the charter. and will secure to
each council the privilege of obtaining
printed documents. badges, campaign
song books and other campaign goods
from the national committee at cost
or rs near cost as practicable.
The national committee will ais,
| issue charters TO young men scouncils
to consist of youths under age, upoI
the same terms and with lik,
privileges To those granted to thu
councils of voters. The object of tn,
formation of young mems councils i.
to inspire the youths of the countr,
with realization of the great strug
gle upon which the nation has nov
entered. and to educate them in tn,
vital questions of political econom,
and good government.
1t is not the design Of the nationa
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the Legislature. The Pilgrim
Fathers found no more barren soil
to sustain themselves when they skip
ped of the Mayflower at Plymouth
Rock and landed in Massachusetts,
than did the Greenback pioneers who
settled down here few years ago to
sow the seeds of their financial here
sizes. with the hope of seeing them
! grow up and flourish like the elm
trees that surround and adOrn Yale
| College. The people of the State of
| steady habits-cutest people anywhere
were the last, it was thought, in
the country by general admission to
be caught by the plausible theories
OF the Greenback evangelists. These
would do well enough for the crude,
uncultured grangers of the west, but
for the proudly intellectual, self
poised, and MISUNDERSTANDING
citizens of this conceited little COM
monwealth, such an idea was absurdi-
ty itself. No more conservative COM
munity in the country could be
selected to experiment upon with
such financial innovation. It is
made up of a variety of industries,
and in the thousands of mills and
factories that cover the soil of the
State the presence of capital is seen
and felt. Nevertheless, the Green
back movement has taken root in
Connecticut, not only among people
Of the working and small trading
classes, but among large and wealthy
manufacturers, until it has become
the one great source of talk and
speculation among rejecting men.
The politicians of both parties hardly
know what to say in presence of this
new factor in politics.
The st. Paul Globe, which from
the first has taken a manly and con-
sistent course in the advocacy of cur
rency reform, says of the present ma
tional bank system: "The national
bank system is pernicious one,
grossly unjust to the people at large,
who bear the chief burdens of the
government. Under pretense of Sc
curing the holders of notes of banks
from loss, the banks are allowed to
draw double rate of interest on their
circulation. They take the interest
on the bonds deposited as security for
their circulation, issue their notes as
loans and draw another large per-
centage OF interest, and pay nothing for
the printing of their notes, to say moth
ing of the profit that accrues from the
loss or destruction of their currency.
Thus they receive what in the aggre.
gate amounts to nearly, if not quite,
three legitimate rates, which has
been computed at from IS to % per
cent. of interest. In return for these
great and valuable privileges. they
pay simply tax upon the value OF
their property. much less in proper.
ton than other investments are fore.
ed to pay. The country is not enrich
ed in the slightest degree by their ex
istence. but is instead compelled tc
pay heavy tax for the privilege OF
using an inferior currency"