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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22
CUsTER's LAST.
A Flsurishing City New Grown. -. o..
Of that Lonely Battleae,s ne

IfSitting Bull and his v.r,;o-
to return to the great valley Of ~ v We
lowstone, from which they ws, u LEI
PEELED only q short year ago s. are e.
New York Herald, they would 10y! y' 1le
know their old hunting grounds 'Gely
migration has poured in from a., .n'
tons. The wigwam of the Indie, s e
given place to churches and schools a ~
stores and newspaper officss aad
Tongue river, where Gen. Miles w.. Al
camped in 1867, there is town o' , en-
= population of nearly 1000 inhah;,.",a.a
The battlefelds Of the heroic Custs. .' u.s.
farms, and cattle Craze on the n1. ne
and hillsides where the saddest kun h1olns
lest of our Indian tragedies were sO "
Gently enacted. This generation = =
miliar with the rapid growth ot to ~ ~
and cities in what we love to call . .b'
Great West, but this settlement ofM
Yellowstone in so short a time : :
marvel. 1t WAS only yesterday % !.
were, that we printed the details of ~
battle and massacre that PLUNGED VAC :
whole country in morning, and to.d.r
our correspondent tells us of the on sas
ing of BANKS, the erection of tbeaters
of courts and judges and police. Ms
Yellowstone valley is forever lost tn tho
Indian. The blood Of Custer and h.
heroes was terrible price to nav 10, IT,
but, after all, they died in a nobIs,
cause. Our western country is tho
great monument of the heroes of on,
army, and their names will be forevs,
cherished as the martyrs of our ciyil,a.
ton.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22
nORNELLsynLE's MYSTERY.

Criminal Negligence Of = New York
Tewn that Has Become . Factor b
the Eurepean Problem.
New York Herald.
The town of Hornellsville, which be-
came famous during the labar war of
last summer as strategic point in the
campaign of the strikers against the
railroad companies, hw once more
issued from the original obscurity into
which it had relapsed. This time
HOrnellsville challenges the attention
Of foreign nations, and European Cab
inets will pronounce its curious name
with wonder, examine its position on
the map, and consider its population
and resources with hurried scrutiny.
GortschakOff will toss uneasily in his
sick bed rs he mutters Hornellsville;"
Bismarck will shudder with apprehen.
sion when he finds that Won Moltke, in
his celebrated desk with the multitude
nous pigeon-holes, has no paper labeled
"Plan for the Siege Of Hornellsville;"
and Beaconsfeld will study with eager
attention the story Of the deeds of the
Twenty-second and Fifty-fourth regi-
ments of New York State militia in the
beleagured town. The fact is that "a
person in full Russian uniform passed
through Hornellsvil.e by the Erie Rail-
way" yesterday morning, and this per-
son had "a through ticket from New
York TO San Francisco, and was very
reticent."
DiplOmatists should bear in mind
several points which may affect the po-
litical importance of this intelligence
materially. The dispatch from Horn
ellsville is carefully worded. It does
not state that a Russian officer passed
through the village, but "a person in
full Russian uniform" which is a diff
ferent matter. 1t is not said that this
person exhibited his commission, or
that there was anybody at the depot
competent to converse with him in
the Russian tongue. There is nothing
to indicate whether he belonged to the
army or to the navy. Moreover, what
proof is there that the good people of
Hornellsville know "a full Russian
uniform when they see it?' The trav-
eler might have been park policeman
off on leave of absence, or con-
ductor of some Pennsylvania railroad,
or deserter from Gilmore's band,
and no Hornellsvillian would have been
able to detect the imposture.
We cannot censure too strongly the
negligence Of the people who saw him
at the depot and failed to test his gen.
uineness by offering him treat Of
pound Of tsllow candles or scratching
him to see whether Tartar appeared.
Since neither one of these easy ex-
periments were tried, the world is left
in doubt as to whether there was a
Muscovite passenger in on u uniforme
the Erie Railway yesterday or not.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22
YELLOW JACK.


ASHHOSo - ne OD0ooO u MIC Soue9tos
New York San.
Yellow fever was at it's height in Rio
Janeiro when the British steamship
Glen Sannox left Brazils capital q
month ago. On shore the mortality
was frightfully large. and yet, continued
the steward, the streets were not desert
ed nor did business languish. Men did
not drop down and die in the streets, as
they did three years ago, but they went
home and died nextdsy. Old residents,
even, were dying with the epidemic.
The dry weather and heat continued
longer than usually. A Brazilian news
paper said that in the last thirteen days
of February the mortality of the city
alone was 1872 from yellow fever. The
newspapers, however, account for only
the deaths recorded in the city obituary
registry; whereas. not fourth of the
dead are recorded. Water was so
scarce in the city that official notice
was given that any one having a foun-
tain playing would be entirely deprived
OF water. The Cunhense newspaper, of
the province of San Paulo, tells the
story that, in consequence of the ex-
treme drought, the parish priest organ
lied procession to carry the munich
pal miraculous images from Bos Visto
to Cunha. and that on February 18th
the prayers were begun, and such were
the faith and fcrvor with which the lit
anies were intoned that rain began at
once to fall. The city of Rio Janeiro is
surrounded with mountains, and in the
sickly season there is scarcely any breeze
until afternoon, when the wind rises
seward. In the morning it is u dead
calm; miasmatic vapor lies on the city.
A sailor then never goes Ashore without
his coffee and brandy. The first thing
on rising in the morning he is given a
glass of quinine and rum, then coffee
and brandy and then breakfast. The
decks are carefully sprinkled with car
bolic acid. The first thing the officers
do in the morning is to count how many
flags are flying as signals of sickness in
the shipping around them. Every
morning from twelve to fifteen signals
could be counted. There were, when
the Glen Sannox was there. nearly a
hundred red vessels in the harbor.
Some had been there for six months,
captain and many of the crew dead, and
unable to procure new master or to
till out the crew. The captain of the
British brig Agnes, while sick with vel
low fever, attempted to place the second
mate in command. The first mate re-
sisted and the crew took sides and
fought. Three seamen were hurt in
the fray, two seriously. Another Brit
ish brig could get no one to replace the
captain, who had died of yellow fever,
and new master came from England
to take the position. The captain, mates
and entire crew of the British
schooner Princess were in the Lazarette
hospital.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22
Charles Lees Treason.

A capital plan of the British ministry
for the campaign OF 1777 was the sci
cure and the occupation by military
posts of the Champlain and Hudson
valleys, from st. Johns on the Sorel, to
the city of New York. The object
was to sever the close union between
New England and the other states,
paralyze the powers of each section,
and so weaken the whole that the sub
jugatiOn of the resisting states might
become an easy task. TO accomplish
this endforces were prepared to 90 south
ward from the banks of the st. Law
renee, while other forces should ascend
the Hudson river, and these columns,
meeting near Albany, perfect the exc
cution of the scheme. Lieutenant
General Burgoyne commanded the
northern invading army, and Sir Will
liam Howe the forces that were to
penetrate New York from the south.
At this point q treacherOus officer
of high rank in the Continental army
appears conspicuous in the series Of
events that caused the evacuation of
Philadelphia. That officer was Charles
Lee, the senior major general under
Washington. He had been an officer
in the British army, served under
Burgoyne in Portugal, and had Aisen
to the rank OF lieutenantcolonel. He
had served under Braddock in the
disastrous conflict on the banks of the
Monongahela, and with Abercrombie in
the unsuccessful attack on Ticonderoga,
about twenty years before the time we
are considering. Lee had dwelt for a
time among the Mohawk Indians, who
made him chief, with the appro-
pirate name Of Boiling Water''-for
he was hot and ever restless man,
vain, arrogant, jealous, and quarrel
some. Failing to obtain higher pro-
motion in the army, he left the royal
service. came to America in 1878, en-
gagged in politics on the side of the
colonists, and when the continental
army was organized ne received the
commission Of major-general. He re-
signed his commission in the British
army, but required congress to in
demnify himself against any loss
which he might sustain as conse-
Quence of that act. Then he began to
play the part of an American patriot;
and to enable him to continue to do 80,
congress, in the autumn of 1916, loaned
him upon his own bond $4,000. He
was simply an INSCRIPTIONS and selfish
adventurer, whose influence in the
army was always -pernicious
Proud, censorious, and disObedient,
Lee had followed Washington AT a
distance with heavy force during the
perilous flight of the shattered Ameri-
can army across New Jersey late in
l776. pursued by the victorious troops of
CORVALLIS. Washington repeatedly
called upon Lee to push forward and
give him strength to strike the pursuers,
and he as often omitted to obey.
He evidently desired to have disaster
befall his superior, hoping thereby to
promote his own ambitious scheme to
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22

DURING 1867 there were manufac-
tured in the United States ass, 1858 tons
Of iron rails and $3.50 tons of Bessemcr
steel rails-total. 462.1OS. From that
time to the end of 1877 the production
Of steel rails steadily increased, so that
at the end of the latter year, of the
764, 200 tons rolled in this country, 49,
1863 were of Bessemer steel to 49,, $50 OF
iron.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22

In Rhode Island there are Az ,h,f
gle women who pay taxes, anu n
average property is $4.5iO escn, ~, 4
largest amount on which any Sms
them is taxed il $756,7W, owne'
Providence woman.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22
The Sleeping.Car Was Full.
Virginia New Chronicle


He got on the train at Colfax, and
walking into the sleeping-car, pulled
out ~, and demanded Of the African the
lower berth.
CAN full, sah."
CLOVER berths all taken? Well, I'm
devlish sleepy: I'll take An upper berth;
but It's pretty note that man can't
get lower berth ON this road. Here,
chuck that sack into some safe place,
and be careful and not smash the bottle
in the top. Take this money, quick,
and get the bed ready"
Ode lower berths is all full, sab, and
10 is dc upper. Everything was gagged,
sab, before we Left Sacramento. Ye
So"
"The h you say"
When the man finished blowing off
his steam he bounced out into the other
car, slammed down his valise, and woke
up another man who was snoozing in
his seat, to tell him that the sleeper was
full. The other man informed him
that he knew all about that four hours
before.
The disappointed passenger then put
his carpet-saCk under n seat, and COM
posed himself to slumber by running
his knees rs high up on the back of the
next seat rs possible, while he slid down
on his own seat as low as he could, uu-
til the back of his head rested on the
top Of brass screw which was used in
the upholstery. In this position his
body assumed the form Of letter N
turned upside down. At first he mag
ined he could rest forever in this com.
Portable position, and dropped off to
sleep.
The conductor came along soon and
woke him up for his ticket. He was
under considerable obligations to the
conductor for waking him up, rs be did,
for he found that his joints were getting
stiff, and another fifteen minutes it
would have crippled him for life.
He next put his sack ut the end Of
the seat and used it for the end Of
pillow. When he laid down his head
on the carpet-ssck his cheek became
smeared with u fresh quid Of juicy to-
bacco which the sack had picked up
from the floor. He then remarked
g. \ few times, re-
NOV ID the tobacco, and coiled himself
up for nap.
He was in good position, and his feet
stuck through the end of the seat and
hung into the aisle. Presently man
got up to get II drink, and he had to
move the obstruction by pulling them
through the ornamental work and hold
ing them in the air until the man got
his drink and went back BY the time
seventeen other passengers had drank,
he concluded his position mi hit be i'm
proved, and asked brakeman to turn
two seats facing each other The brake
man said:he couldn't. He had the same
luck with a baggage-master and news
boy. He then tried to pick the lock
with his knife, and broke four blades
out Of six in eleven minutes.
AT length the conductor came along
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-05-22

THE amount of pine lumber timber
left standing in the forests of the timber
states is said to be 225,OOO, 900 900 feet,
but i: is only question of time when
this will he exhausted, if the work of
consumption and destruction goes on.
without greater effort 10 provide for y
renewal Of the supply.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
ENGLISH GRAIN MARKET.

The Prospects of the Growing Crops Fair
ly Favorable, Especially for Wheat
Market Quiet with Small Supplies and
Demand, and Prices Generally I'm
changed.
LONDON, July 9.-The Mark Lane Espress
says, the agricultural reports, although
somewhat variable, are generally speaking,
favorable as to the appearance of the wheat
fields. The growth Of straw is everywhere
abundant. The plant is now strong
and the season so far advanced that
the chances of damages from
any future untoward weather are greatly di-
minished. Unless the summer proves ex-
ceptionally disastrous, a yield of rather over
IL 100000 quarters may be looked for as the
product Of the home crop. Barley has i'm
proved slightly in some districts, but the
crop is too much injured to yield anything
but poor barley. Beans and peas are still
fairly promising. In other respects
the agricultural situation is unchanged.
Small supplies and less demand
have been the Characteristic features of trade
for English wheat at Mark Lane and in the
country, but no further decline has taken
place. With moderate arrivals at ports of
call the floating cargo trade for wheat has
been fairly steady, with some inquiry for the
| United Kingdom and continent, but prices
closed six pence per quarter lower. Maize
unchanged. Barley slightly declined.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
THE INDIAN WAR.
They are Monarchs of all They Survey

They are Monarchs of all They Survey,
SAN FRANCISCO, July "a Silver City
dispatch says of the recent depredations
there by savages, the latter are
monarchs of all they survey. The
area of territory now invested by
them embraces some 1000 sqnare miles,
combining all natural facilities fol pro-
longed war. There are hardly 800 people in
Canyon City, and less than 100 of male adult
population armed. The main
street of the town is within easy
rifle range of surrounding esninences which
afford numerous points of vantage for the
attacking party, and the whole village is at
the mercy of an inconsider-
able number of savages, were they
disposed to sack it. The terrier
stricken inhabitants have taken refuge for
several days in a huge tunnel built for min
ing purposes, which affords the only safe re-
treat in the place.
In ali engagements that have occurred
these savages outnumbered the whites four
to one. Even when Howard gets up his
force will be wholly inadequate to cope sue.
cessfully with the savages.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
The Subcommittee,

New ORLEANS, July 9.-The Potter sub
committee present, Messrs. stenger, Black
burn and Cox. Geo. L.. Smith, collector of
customs, in answer to questions by Mr..
stenger, gave the date of his appointment
and of his predecessor. Also submitted a
list of regular employees showing all persons
employed or discharged since Judge Kings
appointment. Also books showing laborers
employed in the warehouse and other depart
ments at rs cents per day. There are about
forty persons SO employed. Recess till 3
o'clock. Note-The object of the committee
in calling for a list of customs employees,
probably, is to get. the name of Simpsons
friend who witnessed the bribery of raem-
Der of the returning board.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
sHERMAN's INNATE DISHONESTY.

Hts Conduct II. Connection With the Legal
Tender dct Explained.
1t seems to be impossible for John Sher-
man to be honest in his dealings with the
people. 1t will be remembered that the
Honse bill for the repeal of the resumption
act was amended by the Senate, or, rather,
the Senate agreed to q substitute making
greenbacks receivable forthwith for the pur-
chase of four per cent. bonds and for the
payment of custom dues after October LIST
next This substitute received the votes of
80 many hard money men in the Senate that
when 1t was sent to the House for
its concurrence the greenback men
were apprehensive that there was some
Sherman, as we'll as the President, approved
the Senate substitute. It was decided, there
fore, to write Secretary Sherman, and re-
quest from him statement whether he
would or would not use the proceeds of the
sales of four per cents for resumption pur-
poses. Accordingly Congressman Phillips,
of Kansas, wrote him two letters, asking
that very pertinent question. The first re
ply was decidedly evasive, and the second,
while being less SO, was susceptible of the
construction that he would use the green
backs thus received for resumption pur-
poses only. The greenback men Of the
House very wisely foresaw that such an in
depreciation of the law would act as a still
further contraction of the currency, and
they refused to concur in The Senate substi-
tute, although it was noticeable that nearly
every Eastern Republican voted to concur.
Sherman is now trying to turn the Phillips
correspondence to good political account
He has had the same printed at the expense
of the public, and it is being circulated
through the West and South at the
public expense through the mails, with an
explanatory note affixed that, while Repub-
lican Senate offered this means of financial
relief, q Democratic House refused to accept
it. OF course among the more intelligent
Greenback constituencies this will not have
weight, but the object is to scatter this in
situation, unjustly conceived, broadcast,
with the hope that the tares may fall onto
ground where they will yield fruit. Sher-
man fails to add in this new political circu-
lar that, had the House passed the bill as
it came from the Senate, further contraction
of the currency would have gone on to the
extent of the purchase of four percent.
bonds with greenbacks; and moreover to
state that, had the bill been concurred in,
he had made an arrangement with o num-
Der of national banks to take the loan, aud
thus almost at one fell swoop have contract
ed the currency many millions of dollars.
The wisdom of General Ewing and other
| greenback leaders of the House in refusing
to have this trick of Sherman's forced down
their threats by passing the Senate bill now
| stands out -eminently.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
A Mysterious Paragraph.

tM4uuSdpoAAS 1IlOuut.I
Meeker county sends six delegates to the
convention in favor of W.. D. Washburn
Thereby hangs melancholy tale, which the
prominent newspaper manager who read
telegram to the Ramsey county delegation
on Friday evening, to the effect that Meeker
county had gone for Stewart, can alone un-
fold. But we will not betray the secrets of
that unhappy caucus, which was alternately
enthused and depressed by the character of
the dispatches read to it. If those dispatches
had indicated majority for the Ramsey
county candidate, would there have been any
conversation on the subject of "bolt?" or
would DIR. Stewart have indicated any desire
not to be represented in the convention-a
desire which we learn by grapevine tele-
graph he reconsidered when the Meeker
county telegram was read?
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
DUNNELL's MACHINE.

Ho,c He Runs the MacItsne, "PaUs the Er-
1,enses," and Gets Delegates.
Letter to the Former Postmaster at Austin.
OwAroNNA, April 20, 1875.
FRIEND ME1as-Harwood says he must
hace that seoenty dollars and fifty cents
tAis aoeek, etc. Now from what has been
said he must be paid and SO end the row. /
will return the fifty dollars, if yeu say go, or
one-half of the seventy dollars and fifty
cents, and you make up the balance and take
receipt from him. am sorry to have you
pay more, but you will be let alone from
this. have paid three hundred and fifty
dollars campaign debts since I got home,
and have two hundred and eighty dollars to
pay out of my own pocket. The fight near
~ ruined me. Let me hear from you by re-
turn mail. Yours, M. b. DuNNELL.
OwAroNNA, May 1, 1876 Mr.. Meigs: In
closed is p. o. order for thirty-fve dollars
and twenty five cents, One-haf of the amount.
do not think should pay more of this.
There are still four hundred dollars of debts
to be paid, and for the Office you hold you
have not paid one tenth what l have.
mean paid ten times what you name, and
your Office has more money in it than mine.
There are two overdue campaign notes now
at the bank here. do not see how can
return the thirty-fve dollars and twenty five
cents, but the demand was made to settle up
with him and he must have it, no matter
about the nature of the claim. The promise
| was made in your interest, for your benefit
that you could get the Office in an honorable
| way and without a row. Yours, M. a. D.
FRIEND ME1os.-I am not satisfied will
current of affairs in your county. Can no
| You organize for the towns? l will see tina
the expenses are met. Gan my outside mel
do you any good2 Don't let Page intimi
date you. Yours, DuNNE1I-
DEAR 6m-Yours received. You go pre-
pared to Grand Meadow to meet just expec
tations and promises as to the expenses Q
delegates. Keep the ball in motion. Your
DuNNr11.
4 Don't fail to offer to meet expenses of q
ing to county convention when necessar
and viii pay back. Yours truly,
DUNNHLI.