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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
but the senate adjourned without COM

but the senate adjourned without CON-
ing to n vote.
TUESDAY, June charlottesville.
Atkins reported back the leeisla-
tive appropriation bill and senate
amendment thereto with a report
recommending concurrence in some
and Inconvenience in others. The
report was agreed to. The house then
took up unfinished business, the sen.
ate bill in relation to %juries. Herbert,
who has charge or the bill, tried to get
the republican side of the house to
agree upon a plan disposing of the bill
but was met by objection. Thereupon
Herbert moved the previous question
on the passage of the bill and the re-
publicans resorted to their f~avorite
strategy of declining to vote and 50 leav-
ing the house technically without a
quorum. After various roll calls fur
Their proceedings under call of the house
were dispensed with. A confer
enc committee consisting Of Atkins.
Blount and Baker was appoint
ed on the legislative appropriation bill.
The attempt to have action taken on
the bill in relation to juries was made
and again resisted, and after about two
hours spent in the struggle it was
abandoned by some democrats and the
house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, June 1Sth-Senot.-The
Mississippi river improvement commits
sion bill was taken up. The bill passed
with tie senate amendments providing
that the commission shall consist of sew
en- members-three from the engineer
corps of the army, n from the coast
and geodetic survey, and three from
civil life, two of whom shall be civil en-
gineers. Messrs. Chandler, Morrill,,
Platt and salisbury were the only sen
ators voting may" The army appro-
priation bill was then taken up, but the
senate adjourned without coming to a
vote.
WEDNESDAY, June 1S-House.-The
morning hour was consumed in voting
upon dilatory motions, and the bill re-
lating to political assessments went over
without action. Mr.. Mcmahon, from
the appropriation committee, reported
back the judiciary expenses bill, with
the senate amendments, and on his mo-
ton amendments No. 2 and No. 3 (ver-
ball were concurred in, amendment No.
l excepting from provisions OF the bill
section 1882 Of the revised statutes)
was non-concurred in. Mr.. Stephens,
chairman of the coinage committee, re-
ported a bill for the exchange of trade
dollars for legal tender dollars, and the
debate thereon vas limited to two hours.
Pending consideration of that bill, Mr..
Atkins submitted a conference report
on the legislative appropriation bill.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
Ingenious Swindle.

A young gentleman recently drove
up to the establishment ola well-known
matchmaker, and purchased a gold
hunter for forty-eight pounds. Unfor-
tunately be hal left a fifty pound note
on his desk at home. Would Mr.. So
and-so kindly send q MAJ with him to
his busineSs-house- naming an emf
nent firm Of iron-mongers? The mar
might keep the change for himself.
Mr.. So-and-so hummed and hawed,
and found means to communicate with
the cabman, who, however told him
that he had taken up his fare at the
ironmonger's establishment III question,
and that the gent" was going down to
Pytchiy. Thereupon the man Was sent.
Arriving at the establishment the young
gentleman ushered the watchmaker'-
man into the shop, and told the clerk
to give HIM that fifty FOUNDER" So
saying, he jumped into the cab and
drove off.
The clerk, who had politely bowed
and gone off to fetch the cash, then re-
turned with a brown PAPER parcel,
which he suavely handed the man.
"What's thie?" asked the astonished
messenger. This isn't fifty pounds"
Excuse me-" vas the reply, sit is.
It's the fifty pound dumb.bell the gen
tieman bought about an hour ago"
The Matchmaker still cherishes that
~dumb-bell.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

lamp OF Aladdin, but was built up like
coral reef, particle by particle. And
this complete masiary of detail was Sc.
cured only by the most p%rotracted coz
centra'ion OF effort. BY resolutely
claiming his thought to his theme,
completely surrendering himself 10 it,
guidance, the memorable laws of sug-
gestion irresistibly led him back
through the past's faded and forgotten
scenes in the humble lives of the sleep.
ing cottagers of every picture at last
brlghtenod and breathed before his
mental v,son with all the sharply.out-
lined vividness of real lle.-7he Penn
Monthly.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
A Kansas WOman's Farm.
Lawrence Kan } journal, June s..

Mr.. Hoadley showed us yesterday
some beads Of wheat, a sample of forty.
five acres now growing on the farm of
Mrs. Mary Macutchen, situated about
five miles from this city. 1t promises
to yield twenty bushels to the acre.
This Mrs. Macutchen is a somewhat re.
markable oma She was left II wild
ow with four children more than ten
years ago. In 1874, when half the peo-
pie were scared out of their wits by the
~grasshoppers, she contracted for an un.
improved farm for 81 800, which she
gave to n Of her boys. She has since
paid for the land from the surplus pro-
ducts Of her own farm of 100 acres.
Last year she bought the Bob Allen
farm Of 100 acres at the price of : $500,
one-fourth of which she has already
paid, and will pay over another fourth
from the crops of this year. She runs
her farm with the aid Of her two sons,
and without much hired help. This is
n good example Of what has been done
in the midst Of what are called hard
times in Kansas, by a widow left with n
family of children and no but
a farm Of 100 acres.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
The Key to Success.

One eff Wellington's chief sources Of
success was his thorough mastery Of de-
tails. While in Spain he gave precise
dire ;tions how the soldiers should pre-
pare their food; in India the miles per
day the bullocks should be driven that
we're provided for the army. The
equipments of his troops were cared
for all their minutlp. The same exact
ness he introduced into his adniinistra-
ton ofcivil affairs. From his earliest
school days, in every transaction, this
trait of t~horoughness appears. Tne con
ndenCe and unfaltering devotion he
thus inspired unquestionably secured
him his many and decisive victories.
No great commander leaves anything
to chance, but seeks to anticipate every
emergency and to provide for it. Gray
spent seven years in perfecting his
"Elegy,' which you can readily read in
seven minutes. Into it he generously
poured the very ripest scholarship, an
intimate acquaintance with the rules OF
rhythm and an exhaustive study Of the
vari ed excellences OF English and Latin
classics. Every syllable was submitted
to closest scrutiny, the cadence Of the
verse was suited 10 the character Of the
thought, every outline was vivid, every
TINT toned. every picture perfect, before
he suffered his poem to pass into print.
This palace Of thought was no single
nights work of sl~ave-genii obeying the
behest Of n holding some magical
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
Mr.. Halstead to Go 70 Turkey.

And, az for Mr.. III ilstead, he is not
to be left out in the cold, for a CORE
spopdent calls attention to the fact that
the Cn,mercin! has hid freqaen. in
formation Of late in xegard to the re-
turn movements Of the Hon. Horace
Maynard, ich gives rise to the
belief that Mr.. Hal.tead may be sent
to the Turkish Capital,-a position in
connection with which his name has
heretofore been prominently men
toned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

A New MILFORD man pulls his teeth
with a 1at-iron. This is simple and eff
~fective, He ties the tooth with a wax
end t the h4t-iron and then filings the
latter. We once knew a mar who did
this with a plowshare. He threw the
plowshare over a barn, but being heavy,
the momentum was too great for his
power of resistance, and he went over
the barn with it, hurting himself severe
ly on the MISUNDERSTANDING Neus.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

A GOD mother vas trying to explain
to a young hopeful, the other day, about
fighting against the devil. After tel ing
the fellow who the devil was, and how
hard be was to successfully resist, he
turned round and said; Mamma, I'd
be scared to the old devil; but il | was to
come across one Of the lutte devils, I'd
knock the s~tuffing out of him."
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Oats in the South.


Oats are admitted to be eqnal
to corn as stock food. Oats
can be raised bushel for bushel
at a far less than corn. Oats
sown in the fall can be grazed
moderately through the winter
without any damage to the crop,
if the stock are kept off in wet
weather. Then why do we raise
SO little oats. Let's economic
in all things. If oats are a
cheaper food than corn, then we
should raise more oats-less
corn. The earlier in the fall the
crop is sown, the probabilities
are that the yield will be larger.
We have been nnceasing in our
efforts to induce farmers to sub
stitute oats to a good degree in
lieu of corn. The red oat is
the best variety for our climate,
as It'll not subject to rust. Ev-
cry farmer should make it
duty to SOW oats-fall oat-red
oats, from one to three bushels
per acre, owing to the land, will
be the proper amount to sow.
Southern Live Stock Journal.
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The Rural Messenger says:
ITO improve your soils, your
fruits, your breeds of cattle, is
very good. But, it generally
happens that when a farmer
fails to improve himself, nothing
improves around him. He rusts.
and his buildings decay; all be-
comes worse, and his profession
suffers in the public estimation.
Anignorant farmeris a disgrace
to his profession just as ignorant
minister, an ignorant lawyer, an
ignorant doctor, or an ignorant.
narrow-minded merchant is to
his. We do not say that the
farmer should know all the
professional men know. Every
man to his trade But he
should know his business as
they know theirs; and in order
to do this, he has much to learn
beyond what fell to him, of
course, by being brought up a
farmer"
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PEACH CULTURE.

At a late meeting of the
Washtcnaw County mich. J
Pathological Society, the secre-
tary. in a paper on the cultiva-
ton of fruit trees, held the fol-
lowing in relation to the peach;
The fruit requires two differ
ent systems Of culture. That
is, the bearing trees must be diff
ferently treated from those that
are too young for bearing. 1t
is the nature ofthe young peach
tree to keep on growing late in
to the fall. This must not be
permitted. 1t can be prevent
ed by stopping to stir the soil
at midsummer. The rest of
the season is required to harden
up the young wood for winter.
To properly control the growth
skill and experience are requir-
ed.
In the month Of August cul-
tivating for the young peach
tree should stop. Should the
ground be very rich and the
trees show determination to
keep on growing. the leading
branches may be pinched in.
After pinching, new growth
will often start; but, then, we
must pinch again. Ripening up
thoroughly the new growth of
the young tree should be the
aim of the peach grower.
Where the soh is poor, less care
is required in ripening the new
wood.
The bearing peach tree can
not be cultivated too often.
The soil must at all times be
kept loose. Cultivation can be
kept up till the fruit is ripe.
The new growth OF wood in a
bearing tree ceases to grow ear
ly in the season, and there is
danger of stimulating a late
growth, for the fruit consumes
all the extra sap caused by cul-
tivation. Stirring the soil should
be thoroughly kept up, SO that
any time between the setting of
the fruit and its being picked
you can run your hand right in
to the soil and fill it with loose
earth.
But in order to grow large
peaches, and all of a large, uni
form size, the tree must have
either its bearing branches shor-
tened in or the fruit must> be
thinned out. Shortening in is
probably the least expensive
operation of the two.
As long as you ship more
than one-tenth of the second or
medium-sized peaches, you are
not master of your occupation.
l have grown the Early Craw-.
ford so as to run from to three
and a half inches in diameter,
and after all was picked
there was no more than one
twentieth below the size.
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PEOANs.

The pecan nut is one of the
natural or native crops of west
Texas. The magnificent pecan
tree grows along the banks of
all our western streams and is
even found upon the highlands.
1t is one of the finest of forest
trees, and a most valuable one.
So far, no effort has been made
to cultivate the pecan, the sup
ply of nuts being gathered al
most gratuitously from the for
estst The trees bear when
about eight years old and are
very prolific.
Valley lands with fine pecan
forests can be purchased at a
nominal figure, it being the case
that their value are not at all
estimated. Every year has in
creased the value ofthe nut and
more attention is paid by land
owners to secure the crop or
rent the privilege of gathering
it. Pecans are worth in this
market from SI.5o to $500 per
bushel. The fresh pecan is the
finest nut in the world without
doubt, and its value will increase
as the supply is limited to a
comparatively small area. of
country. In west Texas it at
tains perfection. Forests of
pecans could be planted on
land to-day selling for 81 per
acre and in 10 years these lands
would be worth SIoo per acre.
Is this not an item for enterpris-
ing tree culturists.
The demand for the first nuts
of the season causes a whole
sale threshing of the trees be-
fore the fruit is actually ripe,
which is injurious to the trees
but the premium offered is
temptation enough to even
cause the vandals to cut down
these noble forest monarchs.
The first nuts command a
high price in distant markets,
The day is coming when more
care and system will be be-
slowed upon this the finest nat
ural product of west Texas
Texas SIN.
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HOME AND FARM
SHEEP NOTES.

Sheep should not be wintered
with other stock.
Nothingis of more impor-
lance than to have sheep to eat
up everything clean.
After the corn is laid by the
sheep may have a weeks run
there with great advantage.
Moving the grass off every
year impoverishes the soil, while
the grazing of the sheep will
enrichit
Medium woods, as usual, are
in greatest demand, although
the fine fleeces are now meeting
with better inquiry.
A fat sheep will go a long
way at the farmers table and
make twice as many meals as
its cash value invested in beef.
Fall woods are arriving at the
San Francisco market slowly,
and the early arrivals have not
proved to be in good condition.
Texas woods have sustained
a good demand. and most of
the lighter parcels, when not
held above the market, have
been sold.
Sheep can be taught to eat
almost anything by Withholding
from them salt for a time, and
then rubbing the root with just
sufficient to compel them to eat
the root in order to get the
salt.
In Philadelphia Messrs. JUS
tice, Bateman & Co., say wool
is firm and buoyant, with a
slight upward tendency. The
available stock on the market
is light, owing to the withdraw
al from sale of large amounts
which are being held for better
prices in the future.
The most profit from a sheep
is to. raise a lamb that will sell
for more than the mother is
worth. This can easily be done
by caring well for the earliest
lambs. A lamb ninety days
old and well fattened, will often
sell for $40 in the cities. and
half that in the country villages.
A half breed Cotswold lamb,
fed with a little mixed oatmeal
and bran, and sucked by ma
tive eve, will make an excellent
market lamb.-[ Grange Bui2fhu
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SMALL FRUITs.-We have
urged upon our farmers the
plan of setting out all the varie-
ties of small fruits, and as this
is the most favorable time for
SO doing we again beg leave -
impress t upon one and all who
own even an acre of soil, to de-
vote at least the fence corners
to this delightful addition to a
family's happiness, comfort and
health. Nor is this all, for while
the farmer sleeps the fruit grows,
and nothing is more profitable
than the fruits, provided good
selections are made. Care
should be taken to make good
selections, however, as trifling
fruit does not pay. Garry good,
large, nice and clean fruit to
market, and it will always sell
at remnnerative prices. The
time is now at hand to set out
vines and trees. set them out
now they viii take root at once.
SO as to bid defiance to the eff
tects of frost and snow.-Ex- |
change.
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II is YET within the memory
of living Patrons how railroad
monopolists claimed to be high
er than the law. Before the Or
der of Patrons of Husbandry
had the breath of life breathed
into its nostrils the legal pro-
fession was loud-mouthed in de
claring that chartered rights,
sanctioned by legislative auth
ority, could not be regulated or
controlled by subsequent legis-
lative enactments. But with the
organization of the grange these
"hobbies" have been exploded
and these selt-subsidized leech-
es have lost their grip, and the
will of the people to-day is SUI
preme. The disastrous results
of the credit system have been
unerringly pointed out and are
now we'll understood, thanks to
the educating feature of the
grange and the unfaltering sue
cess of cooperation. While
meetings should be held for the
legitimate transaction Of bust
ness, as founded upon the ritual
formality and declaration ofpur-
poses, intellectual entertain
ments should be open and free
to all visitors, thus showing in
nnembarrassed freedom the
gem in the grange
Friend.
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LITTLE BANNERS.

: Be not simply good; be good for some
thing.
-Casualthoughts are sometimes ofgreat
valre.
= An honest reputation is within The
reach of every one
We cannot do evil to others without
doing it to ourselves
= Every person should, be bland, cour-
teous and afable 10 all.
= Paintings are terrible, because they
are the foreshadowings of death.
= How can we expect harvest of
thought who have not had seed time of
character.
: Fortune does not change men; it only
unmasks them and shows their true
character.
: BY taking revenge man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing it over he is
superior.
- A warm, kind word is wonderful
Inspiration or comforting balm to sensi-
live heart.
When you have occasion to utter
rebuke let your words be soIt and your ar
guments be hard.
: The first step to self-knowledge is
self-trust. Nor can we attain to any know
ledge except by a like process.
= Hold on to your good name at all
times, for il is of more value to you than
gold, high places, or fashionable attire.
No one ought to remind another of
misfortune of which the sufferer does not
complain, and which there arc no means
proposed of alleviahng.
= 1t is now that the dentist smiles from
ear to ear and looks like an aurora borealis
on stills as he observes the festive young
lady cracking hickory nuts with her front
teeth.
= "Tom, 'said girl to her sweetheart,
you have been paying your distresses to me
long enough, 1t is time you made known
your contentious, so as not to keep me in
expense any longer"
= These are moments when by some
strange Impulse we conuodict our past
selves-iatal moments when fit of pas
SION, like a lava stream, lays low the
work OF half our lives.
= As he set on the steps on Sunday
evening he claimed the rightto a kiss for
every shooting star. She at first oemured
as became modest maiden, but finally
yielded. Sic was even SO accommodating
as to call his attention TO flying meteors
that were about to escape his observation,
and then got to calling him on lightning
bugs. and at last got him down to steady
work on the light of lantern that a man
was swinging about depot in the distance
where trains were switching.
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MILLINERY..
MRS. j. T. NORTON

Has received large and elegant assort-
ment of Fall and Winter Millinery, Pattern
Bonnets and Hats, all the Novelties in
trimming. The notion department is quite
extensive, TO which full line of Zephyrs
has been added. A competent Milliner
has charge of the trimming of hats, SO that
orders can be filed promptly.
In calling the attention of her numerous
patrons to the new stock, she takes this OPP
portunity oftendering her grateful acknowl-
Judgements for the very liberal patronage
with which she has been favored in the
past, and earnestly solicits its continuance
in the future. oct4dSSw3m
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Be Concluded to Pass that Trump.

Sherman Register.l
Mr.. Dusenberry, on Crockett
street, had card party at his
house the other evening, and
Mr.. Dusenberry was himself
taking a hand at an old fashion
ed game of euchre. Attracted
by the brilliant light in the par
lor, one of those itinerant, sau-
cy, seedy individuals who bear
the distinguishable soubriquet
of tramp" waltzed gaily up the
short fight of steps leading to
the mansion and gave the door
knocker four or five rapid and
loud thumps. A servant girl
answered the summons:
"Can you inform me who
lives here, Miss?"
"Mr. Dusenberry."
"Ah. yes; thought SO. Tell
Mr.. Dusenberry would like
to see him"
"He does not wish to be dis
turbed."
"But l must see him."
The girl went and told her
employer that a man. was at the
front door who was determined
to see him. Mr.. Dusenberry
went out.
as this Mr.. Dusenberry?"
eyes, sir; this is Mr.. Dusen-
berry,"
Having a nice party here, I
perceive?"
eyes, having a nice party
here, perceived
Playing cards, 1 under
stand?"
Eyes, we we are playing
cards! What's that to your"
"Oh, nothing" said the tramp
II thought I'd just step in as |
passing and see what was
trumps!"
81 think it's clubs" answered
Mr.. Dusenberry, as he reached
around for a bois d arc stick
that stood in the corner; but the
fellow passed through the gate
before Dusenberry could lay his
hand on it, the tramp sang out:
81 pass, Mister.
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There is a young lady in
Wellsboro, Tioga County, Pa,
whose hair reached to within
SIX inches of the floor; and
when cut off, on account OF the
l1dy's illness, is said to have
weight four pounds.
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The New Orleans Picayune
estimates that the recent adj
vance in the price of cotton and
sugar will add S35,ooo,ooo to
revenues of the county tributa-
ry to that city, over last year.
Quite a pretty little boom for
the old Crescent City.
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sh,tgreare,s Lineg to ANN hathaway.


The Shakespeare ter-cenienary was con-
by a reading club in Leicester,
and among other things from and of shaks-
peare these lines were produced. The lady
Afterwards became his wile):
Would ye be taught, ye feathered thong,
In loves S" eet notes TO grace your song,
10 charm the heart in thrilling lay,
Listen to Ann Hathaway.
She hath way to sing so clear,
Phnbus might listen, stoop and hear:
To melt the sad, make blithe the gay,
And nature charm, Ann hath way,
She hath n way,
Ann Hathaway.
When Enyy's tongue and RancOr's tooth
Do soil and bite fair worth and truth,
And merit to distress betray.
To sootie the soul Ann hath way,
She hath a way TO chase despair;
To heal all grief, TO cure all care,
Turn f0ulest night to iairesi day,
Thou knowest fond heart, Ann hatI
She hath way, 40 y
Ann Hathaway.
The diamond, topaz,
The emerald maid, tx
Talk of my gem Ap<
She hath way W
Their various lusz
The jewel she, 2
So sweet to loo
She ha4 oh
Ann haihaS1. Nroi- sc
But to my fancy were it given
To rate her charms, I'dcall it heavens;
For though mortal made of clay,
Angels might love Ann Hathaway.
lie hath a way to control,
: To rapture the imprisoned soul,
And love and truth so to display,
That to be heaven, Ann hath a way.
She hath a way,
Ann Hathaway.
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On capital of 100000 the
cotton mills OF Augusta, Geor-
gia, pay a dividend of % per
cent.