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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

CAPT. EAps, of ietty fame, says: 1t
is idle to spend $l50,000,000 in digging a
canal through the isthmus when by
spending one-third as much along the
line of the present Panama railroad
it will be perfectly easy to take ships
bodily over the isthmus." His plan
would be simply TO dig a ship canal
with locks alongside the railroad. He
believes it to be practicable, and, as
pared with the plan lately recommends
ed at TIE isthmus canal conference, on
the other side, very economical.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
CASUALTIES.

SIDNEY, Ill, was visited by a tornado
on the 18th. In many places the
ground was stripped of fences and every
thing movable, and fine orchards were
torn up like weeds. Three such storms
struck the county last week.
A New YORK dispatch of the 10th
says a destructive wind and rain storm
visited this city this afternoon. Trees
were Frustrated, houses unroofed and
plate glass windows broken. A sail
boat Wa. upset in North river and its
inmates rescued with difficulty. There
was another storm in the evening.
during which the Coney Island steamer
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

SOCIETY | y RUSsIA.-A gloomy PIC
ture of domestic and social lie IN nus
STA is draw by the Moscow Ga:eas,
Our children" it says, are trained
in the spirit of the west. They cnat'ei
in French, German and English, ou'
the P%aternoster is unknown to mem
Family life, what is the condition a
young wife thinks it her duty to pos,
sess, beside her husband, a Irlehu "
her heart she does not desire her nus
band, and her family she REGARDS a.
burden. Children only wait untl tIe!
pass into the higher classes at schoo5 "
regard their parents as worn out anu !"
treat them with derision. A youns
girl of sixteen or seventeen seeks ~.
employment in the world, and is owe
head and ears immersed in science aIJ
philosophy. Subjects that n Wo",e
avoid even mentioning IN the preseT1. -.
of q young are anaiyzeu' ""
cussed and commented upon by he' -
a n that few specialists arr
customed to do. The object OF heI
istence, as designed by the Creator, ba
strange and unfamiliar to her' IN.
seeks only for equality with man, VIZ" We
out, however, enquiring or being
to indicate wherein these rights 0oA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

FIRES.
pieces.

An $1,000 fire occurred at Menasha,
on the 18th, In the stave factory Of A.
Symes & Co; insurance $1,000.
PHILADELPHIA advices of tLe 18th
state that tn. fire al Point Breeze smol-
dered all nigit, but is now under control,
though the nip Hudson is still burning
in the river. The loss by the FIRE is
about 500, 90, of which $4,000 will
fall upon Varder, Frew d CO., and a
like amcuntupon the Atlantic Storage
Company, although the entire loss falls
eventually IN the Standard Oil Com.
pany. The loss by both fires will APP
proximate half a million dollars.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

THE Arctic exploring ship ResoIute,
which is now heing broken up in Eng
land, was sent from this country TO Eng
land after her discovery by American
sailors in northern seas in charge OF
Commander Henry /. Hartstein, who
received the queen and Prince Albert
on board, and was in turn entertained
at the palace, dining with the royal
family. Before her abandonment in the
ice the Resolute received on board Capt,
Mcclure and his company from the
investigator. The list-named vessel
had entered the arctic regions from
Behring's straits, but had become beset
in the ice, and her company had de-
serted her and were travelling over the
ice in the hope Of escape to the east
ward when they met a portion OF Capt.
Austin's crew. Hence Mcclure aud
his companions may be said to be the
only persons who ever went through
the northwest passage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

Two hundred and tifty-seven drink
ing saloons in Richmond, Va, made re-
turn of the drinks sold during the
month of May rs registered by the Moi
fat liquor register. They amounted IN
the aggregate TO 1913 alcoholic drinks
and 21,639 drinks Of malt liquor,
Under the amended law the tax on al
coholic drinks was reduced from two
and one.halt cents on each drink to one
and one-half cents, the tax on malt
liquor being half a cent. \ computa-
ton based on the price charged for
these drinks by the saloon.keepers
shows that, if all drinks were registered
the gross receipts of the sa~loon-keepers
amounted only to s. each per day.
The conclusions reached from this an
alysis Of the sales as reported is that the
registering Of drinks is largely evaded
by the saloon-keepe1s or 10y the bar
tenders whom they employ.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
Why American Men Don't Marry Titles,
Baltimore News

1t is a somewhat singular fact that We
seldom or never hear of an American
man marrying a titled European lady,
Marriages by foreign a~ristocrats OF
American girls are common, but the re-
verse is a very unusual event. 1t may
be suggested as an explanation thst our
girls are more accessible, that Amer
cans, being democratic, are less hedged
in by social restraints than the nobility
Of the old world, and that alliances are
therefore more easily made with them
by foreigners than with the daughters
Of titled Europeans by Americans, We
do not think this a good explanation
We incline to the belief that the state
of affairs we refer to is due to the TACT
that American girls so far excel Their
foreign sisters that not only are our
men perfectly satisfied with them, bul
actually draw from the European ms'H,
monial market the most valuable ana
eligible scions of royalty, thus carrying
off the prizes from their old-wofA
rivals. At any rate it is gratifying 10
think this is the tru state OF the case
and, in the absence of a better eXpiana'
ton, we will accept it as an answer "
the question.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

A VALUABLE brood-mare has recently
died near Plymouth, England, from
hvdrophobia. 1t had been bitten by a
mad dog about three weeks before. 1t
ran at anything that came within reach,
took up stones in its mouth. and broke
its teeth in crunching them, picked up
sticks and shook them as a terrier
would a rat, and occasionally bit Its
legs and body. After continuing II
this state for some hours, the poor ami
nal died in great agony.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

AN enterprising London photographer
tried to relieve the depression Of the
times by Offering to furnish anxious in
quirers with an accurate likeness OF
their future wives or husbands. One OF
the female recipients Of his prophetic
pictures expressed a willingness to
marry the original, but as he was not
forthcoming she had the photographer
arrested for fraud.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
BLEGRAM

1000 miners at Tamworth have struck
against reduction Of wages.
AT St. Petersburg on the 18th the
Receivers Office in Cherson, South Rus
sia. was undermined and robbed of
100000 rolbles.
An imperial order has been issued,
says a St. Petersburg dispatch of the
10Th, authorizing sentrie5 TO carry load
Ell and half cooked repeating revolvers.
A STErTIN dispatch Of the 10Th states
that while the teamer Orpheus, bound
for Knnigsburg, was lying in this har-
Dor, her boiler burst and many persons
aboard were killed. Ten bodies so far
have been recovered.
Rome advices of the 10Th states that
there has been a violent earthquake
yesterday near Aci, Sicily. Five vii
lagos we're almost wholly destroyed.
Ten persons were killed and several IN
jured. The inhabitants of the district
are fleeing en- masse.
A MADRID dispatch Of the 18th says
the government has ordered the prose
cution Of energetic measures to obtain
satisfaction from San Domingo for the
outrage to the Spanish flag in the arrest
last winter, and subsequent execution,
of two insurgent dominican generals,
who had taken refuge on board a Span
ish vessel at Puerto Plata.
ROME advices Of June 10th says the
waters of the river Pc are still rising.
In the Merandola dlstric: 1900 hec-
tares are submerged and 500 5000 quin-
tails of grain 100000 quintals of forage
and 5000 head of cattle destroyed. In
undations on the AIDA are also threat
ened. There have been destructive
hail-storms in the north of Italy.
ALGIERs advices Of the 18th state
that the column Of troops which left
BOlnia, in the province of Constantine,
yesterday, encountered six hundred in
surgents in a dehle in one Of the Touba
Hills. The insurgents were dlslodged
by the artillery, and the troops occupied
their position. The column continues
its march to Medina.
CAIRO advices under date Of the 10th
state that the president OF the council
has addressed a circular to the consulS
general of the powers announcing that
the khedive's decree Of the 22d of April,
embodying the national financial
scheme, is Cancelled. The questions OF
the rate of interest and guarantees on
the uniunded debt are left to the great
powers.
PETERSBURG advices of the 10th state
that murders, CONGREGATIONS and con-
demnations Of the last few weeks have
aggravated the excitement prevailing in
Russia. In all the more importan,
towns hosts of soldiers are told off for
police duty. The great object now is tc
avert arson. which is threatened every
where. Letters are regularly opened
kilograms are frequently suppressed
foreign books on many subjects are
either prohibited or else so effectually
defaced by the censors as to render
them useless, and passports to foreign
countries are only exceptionally grant.
Cd, and even more rarely prolonged
Russia at this moment is almost com
pletely shut off from Europe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

AN American writing from Spain
urges the shipment Of l~abor-saving inn
plements there. Spanish farmers plow
with the end of a piece Of wood about
five inches thick, as was done in the
middle ages; sowing and reaping ma
chimes are unknown, and grain is not
threshed. Oxen tread it out, and it is
winnowed by women, who toss it into
the air to scatter the chafi.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

The largest bridge in Europe will be
completed next year. 1t will cross the
Vega in the government of Samara,
Russia, on the Siberian railroad. The
river at the point Of crossing is four
miles wide.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25

TIE rising lady PIANIST Of Iowa, Miss
Neatly Stevens, has left her home and
circle in Council Bluffs, accompanied
by her mother, for a trip to Europe
where she will continue her studies
under Won Bulow, the great German
musician.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
NEWS NOTES.

A GERaAs philosopher says n grain
of wheat could be so multiplied in
twelve years as to supply all the inhabi-
tants of the earth with food during their
lifetime.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-25
4 Venerable Elm Tree.
NV Haven Register,

The two sections of the elm uee III
Gently cut down in the rear OF p1 r;r.
Chapel have been contributed by oupi
tendent Andrrs to the ScientlEc SOU
Prof. Brewer has made a careful eAa Il
nation of then, and decides the age !"
the tree to be 15l years. Accoiu
the rings showing the the years o. Ocbe.
il had a diameter of about fifteen mn One
at the time OF the revolution. ,nose
section will be sent to Harvard ooH
WHEN does the rain become tu4
milliar with a lady ? When II peg
to patter on her bank.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

Tue significance OF the Republican victory
~ Michigan appears When 1t is remembered
thaS the combined votes of the Democrats and
Nationals last fall was 2E, 536 larger than the
tOta! Republican vote. change which wipes
out $4,000 opposition majority and puts
Republican majority in its place in the short
period O. FIVE months is greet enough to make
even a.Democrat think. The causes for it are
plain enough. Ia the first place there are the
cipher revelations and the confessions OF the
coparceners; in the second, there IS the extra
session and the Solid South, with the demand
for a stuffed ballotbox on penalty OF revolu-
ton. The Republican party is itself again 1t
sees great duty before it, and 1t has no
energy to waste on side issues. and no mem
bsrs who are foolish enough TO fight against
resumption after 1t has been secured.-New
York Tribune
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The Rev. Richard Cardley, writing from
Emporis. Kansas, concerning the strange I'M
migration into that State Of southern negroes,
throwsa good deal Of light upon the causes
and possible effects OF this surprising move
ment, and shows also that northern aid for the
immigrants will be worthiv bestowed. He
says:
few davs since | met very intelligent
colored man, who formerly lived IN tins state,
but has since been in almost every southern
State, aud is we'll Informed as to the condition
of things there, as far as his own people are
concerned. He told me he had just como from
Louisiana ard brought with him seventy-hye
Of the immigrants Of whom the papers had
been saying co much.
sis it true" asked him, shat they are de-
luded by promises OF land and money ana
mules p"
"No: they are not deluded. They know
what they are about perfectly. They expect
no TRANSFORMATION, nor money, nor mules. Bnf
there is a reign OF terror in the Gulf states.
and no colored man feels safe who is at all IN
dependent II rs not matter OF bread and
meat with Us; 1t is matter OF life and death"
"But what DO they expect to do, and how
do they expect TO live ?"
" They understand the United States home
stead laws, and they know that any citizen can
take up one hundred and sixty acres or Iand,
and by living on it five years can own H. They
propose to take advantage OF these rights un-
der that law, and secure them homesteads on
the frontier"
learned from him that the movement is
not new, but has been going on at slower
rate for three or four years. There are already
two larger settlements or coloreG people in the
western part OF Kansas. They have taken
homesteads, opened farms aud started vii
lage. They call their village "Nicodemus."
they think 1t time to wake the old gentleman
from has sleep by the "Old Gum Tree In
this village they have stores, and shops, and
markets, and two churches. Many OF the
farms are already quite valuable. One man,
he named, had built good house, employed
number or hands, had large quantity OF stock.
and was worth eight or ten thousand dollars.
Not all do as we'll. but they are making living.
These new corners expect to do the same thing.
They do not intend TO remain in the cities, or
to be chargeabe to charity They expect to
work and make their way. They will take up
homesteads. Some or them have a little money,
and they can buy teams and tools to open
farm. Others nave no money, but they csn
make them dug out and on this rich soil
they can cultivate enough with spade and
hoe to furnish them bread and by degrees
they can advance 10 better things.
In some of the churches there will be col
lection taken up every Sabbath for the fund
in aid OF these fugitives from the land of bond
age and oppression.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

For some time past there has come up from
the Gulf States, rumors that the Freedmen
were preparing to leave the House OF Bondage,
and take up their abode in some Promised
Land where they could enjoy political freedom,
sDd immunity frem the injustice and bulldo2ing
OF ku Klux and Bushwhackers.
Il seems that the exodus has fairly set in,
and that the colored man is leaving the land OF
has nativity by thousands. Kansas aud Ne
braska Il seems. arc to receive them as citizens
and producers.
Fox long time discussion has been gong
on by the eolored people OF the south, as to
tho expedency and sdvisablity of emigrating
to some Land OF Promise where they might be
secure from tho out-ages and IMPRESSIONS in
hiced on them by their former masters. They
seem to have decided to so, and are going by
multitudes.
Tho great extent Of the exodus has thor
ougky alarmed the white owners of the soil.
They know not how or whence their place is to
be filed They fear that their farms and
plantations Will have to lie idle and unproduc
dive for want OF the labor to work them. The
climate, the political and social ostracsm af-
fords no encouragement TO northern laborers
20 ilI the vacuum. The malariAl and pestilea-
tial nature OF the climate is a constant menace
to northern whits men and but few will be in
duced TO settle there.
The expressions Of tire Southern Lords, like
those OF the Rulers OF Egypt, in tue case OF
the Jevs. have forced the tilers Of the land to
nee from their oppreosors and seek some
Canaan where they may pursue their vocatlons,
and enjoy the proceeds thereof, without
melGce or stripes.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

Later returns from the State show no ma
terial change IN the vote OF Monday from that
reported yesterday. The republicans have
everywhere made large gains relatively as
compared with their vote last fall. and if the
tule heretofore obtaining holds good, that the
last figures always increase their majority,
they have carried the State by at least five
thousand. Republican authorities claim it by
five to ten thousand, and the democrats con-
cede It by two thousand. II is fair to conclude
that OF the three parties the greenbacbers
poiled the greatest percentage OF their full
vote, as they had everythug to gain by big
showing: and that the republicans we're as
apathetic as they usually are in spring cleo
tons. Their apathy in this city was signally
shown, where, in spite OF the peculiar interest
OF tae canvass, they polled only two thirds
vote. The same apathy must have prevailed
al through the State, 30 that the small major
ity polied on Monday really means reserve
majority Of something like twenty to twenty
five thousand which can be brought out oply
by tho interest OF presidential election.
There ID no doubt whatever how Michigan will
go IN i8S0.-Evening News, April 10.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18
MORTGAGE SALE.

Default having been made in the conditions
OF certain mortgage, whereby the power
therein contained to sell has become operative.
executed by Philip Strong, of Pine Grove,
Michigan to John Beddo, OF Bloomingdale
Michigan, bearing date the sixth day of April
in the year one thousand eight hundred aud
seventy-slx, and recorded in the office OF the
Register or Deeds FOR the County OF Van
Buren, in said State OF Michigan. on the tenth
day OF April, eighteen hundred and seventy
Blk, in Liber 16 OF mortgages, on page ten
which said mortgage was duly assigned on the
twentieth DAY OF January, eighteen hundred
and seventy nine, by the said John Beddo. to
Jason A. Sheldon, which said assignment was
duly recorded on the twenty day OF March,
eighteen hundred and seventy nine, IN said
Registers Office, in Liber eighteen OF mort
cages on page five hundred and thirty eight.
upon which said mortgage there is claimed TO
be due and unpaid, at the date OF this notice,
the sum OF two hundred dollars for principal
and sixty cents for interest from the sixth day
OF April, eighteen hundred and seventy nine,
and the further sum OF fifty-four dollars for
the interest that became due on said mortgage
on the first day OF November, eighteen hun
dred and seventy eight and no suit or pro-
ceedngs at law having been institu ted to re-
hereby gwen, that on Saturday, the twelfth
day OF July, eighteen hundred and seventy
nine, at ten o'clock I'D the forenoon. shall sell
at public auction, to the highest bidder, at the
front door OF the Van Buren, County Circuit
Court House, in the village OF Paw Paw, the
premises described in said mortgage, or 30
much thereof as shal be necessary to satisfy
the said amounts due on sad mortgage for
the principal and interest," and legal costs. to-
gether with the attorney fee of thirty dollars
covenanted for therein: that is to say the fol-
lowing piece or parcel Of land situated in Van
Buren, County, 10 tho State of Michigan, VIZ
Tho south half or the northwest fractional
quarter, OF section number thirty one in town
ship number Que south. OF range number thir-
teen west, containing ftty-six acres more or
less. 1256t13t11G
Dated. Paw Paw. April 18th. 1879.
JASON A. SHELDON.
Assignee Of Mortgagee
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The biggest boom OF all the booms, and the
one which is booming the loudest, widest.
farihsst, and with the most steadily increasing
roar, is the rising tide OF Republicansm all
over the north, the east. the west and even in
the south, as shown by the elections this
spring, the Kentucky convention, and every
other political sign. The Republican tidal wave
OF 1880 is already beginning to sweep over the
land and the political thunder which rolls up
from oyery direction is its booming. Post and
Tribune
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The following truths are taken from the
Three Rivers Tribune: Country is more
than party. Principle Is higher than policy.
Coin valueis better than delusve promises to
pay. Experience IL safer guide than wild
theory Conservatism in legislation Is moro
patriotic than revolution
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The Cincinnati Gazette, democratic journal
IN speaking of the late election IN that STATE,
put 1t this way, "A Republican Mule WAC
backed up on the Chic river and turned loose
~hereupon he liahsd his way through Demo
cratic Greenback Coalition clear through to
Lake Erie
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The rumor that the wheat crops OF Kansas
had been killed FOR want OF rain, is pronounced
by the farmers OF that State, to be antrue.
The grasshoppers will be delighted by this
intelligence
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

II is to be hoped that the splendid Repub-
can victory in Ohio last weeF, Will have the
good effect on the southern rebels in congress,
to cause them to cease trying to bulldoze the
President, OF stop the supplies OF the govern
menl.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The Lancaster Examiner thinks that sammy
Tidens hold on the Democracy has about the
same effect as the gripo green apple on the
in5udiclous boy.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The result in OHIO yesterday is not one cal
culated to assure the casual looker-on IN
Vienna that the sanitary condition OF Den
mark is altogether what it should be.-Atlanta
Constitution (Dem.)
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18

The folio wing is the Onacial Canvass OF the
votes cast in this county for Justice Of the
Supreme Court. Hon. James v, Campbell has
ass majority over John b. shlpEap coalition
can iidate:
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-04-18
en- iidate

The following is the ofiicialvote for Regents
OF the University. Republicans have 42l and
42i majority over the coalition candidates,
Sanford and Whiting: