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and fro.
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drel could have done such j
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The latest fashion for ladies' is to
wear u white silk stocking on one
anda colorcd stocking on the other.
The fashion was first introduced in
Milwaukee about three weeks ago,
but few adopted it until last week,
Now they are worn in variegated
colors almost exclusively. But II
person gets Il good deal Of sand in
his eyes trying to be Il fashion re-
porter.
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HOLDING OF COURTS.
s C\yc\>lt Courts.

itN"hS. sNth VI SptN"f ''S'
Gilmcr, llth OF March and Goth Sept.
Upshur, 2jth Of May and 9th Dec.
Preston, odd Of March and 81 October
Randolph, 1lth of May and 23dNOy
Tucker, 10th of April and Oct. 81.
Barbour, April 20 and November I'd.
Webster, 10th Of June and 9th Sept.
Braxtou, 18th March and 18th August
Harrison, 30th May and SOth October
Calhoun, 10Th of May and 10th Of Oct.
CosNtH Co,>vts.
Lcwis.-First Monday in February.
April, June, August, October and
Deccmber-thc June and October
terms for fiscal and police business
only.
Gilmor. Second Monday in February
April. June, August, October and
December
upshur Second MONDAY in February
April, June. August, October and
j eCeuluer' Fsths EsFi.aE
Brax,on, First tuesday in January
March, May, July, September and
November.
Wcbs,cr.-. Fourth Tuesday IN febriia'
ry. April, June, August, October
and Dcrnmbcr
=, IS, NIL, 3: r.l..
al''ouii' -fo"r'h 'i"1""h vi :, 'o' va
rs, March, june, August. Septem-
ber and November.
TOWN oEe,ceps
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N"B"F-V. "a. 'ashNon'
Rcc0n'cr-i. u. Wood.
.iIlcrp,rn-1I llHrl-.Jolu Shea
81 IIyrl-Wm McI,ridc.
49,, ~, -, u-,:,.
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4M Ward Oseph a. Watson.
,ccr1ranf.-.J. S, Wilkinson.
oOnTyirrYo
@ub@a@@ @MH'
a. r. 4 a. M.--Sta,ed commnn't liItns
Of Weston Lodge No 10, A. r. and a: W.,
will be held on the First ind Third Non-
days OfVverr month. ..A m
- v. e. BENNETT, VI. u.
J. J.rErErsoy, Sec m
JANE LEW Stated communications OF
Jackson Lodge no. 81, a. F.Hnd a. NJ I,
will be held in their Hall, in Jane Lew, on
the second Saturday in cnrh month.
ISAAC JACKSON, ". w.
". D. CArrya, Sec
st. Joseph G. T. \. i. Sociciy.-StH'ed
meetings arc held on the first Sabbath incv-
cry month. FATHER TRACY, Prest.
L. j. SlNrsoS, Secretary.
CHURCHES
VI r Church Rev. s. l., Joucs Pas.
,or preArhinr every Sabbath. PRAYER
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Local. Directoy.
COUNTY OFFICERS

CUUNI VI FiCERS
Judge Circuit Court. BRANN0N.
Clerk ". G. HARRISON.
prcs't County Court. PETERSON.
Clerk J. WOOFTER
Prosecuting Au'y-A. EDMISTON
Sheriff j. G. VANDERVORT
Sup't. Free Schools G. ". CIR OOK
County Surveyor D. T. PETERSON.
Assessor 1St District JOHN kEE
" ID /" GEO, FISHER.
5ea9a50oSa
Court House District.
G. W. Turner and p. Dargan.
Fsceman's Greek. District.
Wm. Hall and ". v. Wood
fuckers Greek District.
NJ. McWnortcr and D. X. Swisher.
Collins Settlement District.
S.B. Smith and w. X. Wilson.
Skin Creek District.
WV. Chidcstcr and " G. McWhortcr
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
CRIME.
slavery.

A DISPATCH from Kilbourn City, Wis,
Of the ID inst. the capture
of the villain who outraged the person
of a 7-year old daughter of Mr., Tuge
last week.
AN Atlanta, Ga, dispatch of the 4th
gives an account of the death of man
named Bryant who confessed to having
murdered a man named Cotton two
years before. A search was made for
the body of Cotton under Bryant's dis
tillerv and it was found.
A ST. LOUIS dispatch of June LIST SAYS
at about s o'clock tonight Policeman
Charles Printz attempted to arrest a
notorious character named Charles
Saunders, who was disturbing the peace
near the corner Of Carondelet avenue
and Marion street. Saunders resisted,
and in the tussle which ensued shot
Printz through the breast, killing him
almost instantly.
A Boston telegram of the ID gives an
account of a quarrel between Mike and
Minnie Burris. During the melee Min
ME took their five weeks old male
child and deliberately hurled it from
the window Of their tenement, which is
in the third story of o tenement house.
The child struck on a projecting roof,
bounded off and landed in a yard. Both
were arrested; the husband as an access
sorry, IN that he made no effort to pre-
vent the crime. The child will die. The
inhuman parents are both IN the Tombs,
where they are raving with delirium
tremens.
A Wheeling, Va, dispatch Of the End
states that seven of the gang of Red
Men who have been deiying law and
order in Wetzel county, were arrested.
Mr.. John Husenbaugh, who was driven
from his home last week and ordered
to leave the state within thirty days or
be hung, after some difficulty persuaded
Justice Morris, of Burton, to take his
information and issue warrants for the
gang that attacked the house. The
warrants were made out and placed in
the hands of Constable Live Petit, who
deputized a number Of citizens to assist
him, and after securing the country for
some time finally bagged sever of the
gang. Their trial will be commenced
tomorrow, and as fifty witnesses have
been summoned it will probably last for
some days.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
GENERAL NOTES.

THE New Hampshire legislature or
ganized on the 4th inst, by the election
OF Challenger, republican speaker.
Advices from lake ports of the 2nd
inst. give numerous accounts of wrecks
of vessels on Lake Michigan during the
storms of Saturday and Sunday.
That strange little fish that only puts
in an appearance during about ten days
in a year began to run at Geneva Lake
Wis, June 3rd. A great many were
caught but the sport socn ended.
THERE seems to be serious trouble
between the iron manufacturers and
employees at Pittsburg. Advlces of the
4th state hat no terms can be agreed
upon, and it is expected that the starv-
ing out process will continue.
A New YORK dispatch of the End
states that the whole story Of the Man
haitian bank robbery which occurred
last October has come out through the
confession of one of the parties. The
robbery was planned three years ago
and failed twice through the arrest and
conviction of some of the gang for
other crimes before the day set to rob
the bank.
THE judicial election in Cook county,
H., on the I'd inst, resulted as follows;
observation-disclosures, 30,321; McAllister,
%, 916; Moran. 25,6l7; Bdrnum, 25,21S;
Tulley, 23,017. Reuublicans-Booth,
10 $40; Buell., 1863, Essential, 1S:46S;
Williams, 1929; Feed, 10 042. The
average democratic majority is S,223.
For supreme courC judge, the majority
of Dickey, democrat, over Dent, repub-
licau, is 1854. In the 18th judicial cir
cult, the republicans elected all their
judges.
New YORK advices of the 9th inst,
state that Captain Lee of the schooner
Cecile, from Cape Hayti, reports that
when his vessel was in the channels oil
the island of Great Inagua, one of the
Bahamas. on Iay "a, a boat from the
shore came alongside and said the cap
tain and all the crew of the schooner
Hattie Howes, If Providence, lying OH
the island, were sick with yellow
fever, and one man had died. This
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
New PreSeryatIve Agent.

During some experiments IN separat
ing sugar from molasses a double salt
OF borate of potassium and soilum was
found that proved to have valuable an
tiseptic properties. This salt IS now
manufactured on a commercial scaIe,
and costs about 10 cents a kilogram. ~
is obtained by d~issolving in water equat'
quantities of chloride of potassium, ht
trate of sodium and boric acid, %tllterins
and evaporating to dryness. Inc Sal;
is said to be quite deliquescent anu
must be kept in tight bottles: II
quick in action, retains its qualities lot
a long time and has no injurious en7ot
on the taste, smell, or healthfulness u
the substances to which 1t Is appheu'
1t has already found a use in maklns
sausages, in preserving meats, IN Mun
ing and in butter-making. a. SINAI
quantity of the salt added to mix WI
preserve it in good condition for a weeai
1t is also used in preserving beers amy
wines, and is being made the
of experiment in several other dle'
tons.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
CABLEGRAMS

THE authorities at kietf, Russia. dis
covered and frustrated on the ID inst.
an attempt to blow upthe military court
with gunpowder.
A MADRID dispatch of the 4th inst,
states that the government will soon
submit a proposition to the cortes for
the abolition of slavery.
A SIMLA dispatch of June 4th states
that the famine in Cashmere is very Sc
rious, and that great distress prevails
throughout the country.
A LONDON telegram of June 4th an
nouuces the death of Baron Lionel
Nathan De Rothschild the chief part
ner Of the great banking firm Of that
name.
ADvICEs from Messina of June 9TH
state that the eruption OF Elna contin-
ues increasingly, but the flow of lava in
the direction OF the Alcantara river has
~slackened. The new craters form a
vast abyss in the side of the mountain.
AN Antwerp telegram OF the 2nd says
Bismarck's note inviting the cities OF
Hamburg and Bremen to surrender
their privileges as free ports and to as
sociate themselves with the Imperial
fiscal system is couched in such terms
as to leave no choice between submis-
sion and the certainty of compulsion.
A BERLIN telegram of the 9Th inst,
says it is believed the railway question
will be brought before the reichstag at
this session, and that the basis of the
government proposal will be the intro.
duction of uniform rates for all railway
lines in the empire, whether state or
proprietary.
A CorENHAGEN dispatch of June 9Th
says the king of Denmark is confined to
his bed by serious illness, and appre-
tensions are entertained of a fatal ter
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
he secretary Of the treas.

that the secretary Of the treas
ury has given notice that on
and after the 9th inst, the ten dollar
refunding certificates will be received
at that department for conversion into
4 per cent. bonds. Returning certif-
Gates forwarded for conversion and
four per cent. bonds issued therefor,
must be transmitted without risk or
expense to the government. Packages
should be marked ,efunding certificates
and addressed to the treasurer of the
United States; and applications should
specify the denominations Of the bonds
desired, also whether coupon or reg
istered, and for the latter the full name
and p~ostoftice address should be given.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
FIRES.

The cotton batting works of G. & P.
Mccarthy at Troy, N. Y, burned on the
night Of June Sd. Loss $25,
THE works Of the Woburn Chemical
Co., near Boston were burned on the
night of June Sd. Loss 500, 600; in
surance $4,000.
THE business portion Of Weldon, De-
Witt county, Ill.,, was burned on the
morning of June 4th; loss $4,000, part
ly insured.
A FIRE at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 4th,
destroyed the variety establishment OF
5. Barnum & Sons; loss $25O,000; in
surance 100000.
A SPECIAL of June Cd, from Milwau-
kee, reports great damage done by for
est fires along the lake shore. Twenty
buildings were burned neal Hornspier,
and also a number near Ahnapee.
Many families are rendered homeless
and destitute. About three miles of
telegraph poles we're destroyed, cutting
off communication with Sturgeon Bay,
where it is supposed considerable dam
age has been done.
AN Easton, Pa, telegram of the 9th
inst. says at eight o'clock last
evening Pardee Hall, one of the
college buildings, was discovered on
fire. Owing to a scarcity of water the
efforts of citizens and firemen were I'M
availing, and at midnight the building
was completely Quilted. 1t was erected
a few years ago at a cost $225.0O0 do
noted by A. Pardee, and the fixtures
cost $4,000 more. Loss almost total.
The fire is supposed to have originated
in the laboratory of the chemical de-
partment from spontaneous combus-
ton. During the progress of the fire a
mar fell from the third story and was
fatally injured. Insurance on building
$4,000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11

mination OF his disease. In case his
majesty's present illness should have a
fatal result, his only son, Prince Fred
erick, now So years of age. will succeed
to the throne. The prince is married,
having espoused on July %, 1863,
Louise, princess royal of Sweden.
SAYS a Rome dispatch of June Cd:
Mount Etna is ejecting enormous vol
umes of ashes. The destruction of
property is immense. The Commune
of Majo has been o~bliterated, and Ca
sello Is threatened. Many large and
valuable estates have been destroyed.
The foul main craters continue to pour
forth streams of lava, while many of
the smaller mes have become inactive.
The stream'o OF lava which has inter-
rupted the road at Passa Pescaro is half
a mile wide and 100 feet deep.
A MADRID dispatch of the I'd says
King Aiphonso opened the Cortes to-
day. In his speech he declared the
ministry will continue the practice of
liberal principles. Relations with for
elgn powers are satisfactory. The budg-
ct will contain no new changes. The
government will submit measures to
alleviate the effects of the ten years war
in Cuba; and with the Cortes will en-
deavor to assimilate the position of the
colony to that Of a province of Spain,
and hasten the complete abolition of
slavery.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
VERY LATEST NEWS.
Selected From Every Source and
Boiled Down.
WASHINGTON.

lHE jJCf tdst vi liz puDiiS utol III
May was $62,25O.
THE house passed on the 3rd inst. the
bill to appropriate $50 600 for the Au-
s~tralian exposition in lo79-oO.
THE senate finance committee on the
Sd postponed the consideration of the
Warner silver bill until Friday.
A DISPATCH of the 4th states that the
secretary of war will order a military
escort to attend the funeral of the late
Gen. and ex-senator James Shields.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of June Cd
says the president has accepted the res
ignation of Judge Dillon, of the eighth
judicial district, to take effect the first
of next September.
THE Washington City g~reenbackers
at a meeting on June End, decided to
make a vigorous effort to carry the
congressional district of the late Rush
Clark Of Iowa.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the Ord
million dollars available for the pay
ment of arrears Of pensions during the
month of June.
GEO. w. MCCRARY, secretary of war,
was nominated by the president, on the
3rd inst, United States circuit judge
for the eighth circuit, in place of Judge
John f. Dillon, resigned. The change
will take place Sept. 1st.
ADvICEs Of the 9th inst, from Was b.
ington leave little doubt that congress
will adjourn with the Warner silver bill
still in the hands of the financial COM
mittee of the senate, Sen. Jones the
strongest advocate Of the bill says it
will not come up in the senate at this
session.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 4th says
Nathaniel Niles, of New Jersey, Geo.
b. Smith, of Ia, Dan'l Chadwick, of
Conn, Ralph B. Buckland, of Ohio, and
Charles G. Housed, of Nebraska, have
been appointed a board of government
directors for the Union Pacific railroad.
Niles is the only new member.
ADvICEs from Washington of the I'd
inst. state that the majority in congress
will pass both the army and legislative
bills, with restrictions as to the use of
the funds, in order to prevent the en-
piOyIHeHt ol supeIVlsors, ueputV lHdr-
shals or soldiers at elections.
A TELEGRAM of June 3rd from Wash
ington says in executive session, this
afternoon all the pending nominations,
some 800 in number, being appoint
ments and promotions in the army,
were confirmed en- massc, The nomi-
nation of Sec'y McCrary al Judge DID
Ions successor was referred III the
usual course. The nomination Of K
Stockett Mathews to be U. S. district
Judge of Maryland was reported add
visedly by the judiciary committee.
The following were also confirmed: Will
son King, of Pennsy ~lvania, consul at
Birmingham.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of June 4
gives the coinage at the several u. 5.
minis during May as follows:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
She Didn't Mean 1t.
Courier journal.

Ii was in the third race yesteruas
King Faro had won the first heat anr
Ella Rowett the second. "Ohl knon
King Faro will win the third" eSoiaI r..
ed a demure, diminutive damsel' aFo ~
ed for an instant into enthusiasm .! Ts
excitement of the occasion. l3eleufd
on a young man by her side chal!e Ind
her with, "Will you bet me your ~
against against box Dee Of
Yea, for | know there is 40 aas one,
n amy When when King Faro came under ri ne
s'51as t0St the eat aforssaid demasss' o d.
nom, that 0n mesn old Fa5ols J. But u. 5 5si
next instant she was blushing a a I'D
as some of the jockeys Jaesea' bur.
applaudlng King Faro ike a nus
ricane.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11

THERE is every probability that a new
university, named after Queen Victoria,
will be recognized and chartered in the
north of England. Manchester will be
the headquarters, and of the affiliated
colleges, which will discharge the teach
ing function, while the university con-
fines itself to examination, Ovens col
lege, Manchester, will be the first.
Leeds and other colleges will speedily
join, and the Lancashire and Yorkshire,
long preeminent in industry, will strive
for cultivation in science and the liberal
arts. The scheme, says an Irish o r
respondent, is likely to raise the tone of
society in the north of England, and as
setting an example which may be fol-
lowed in Ireland.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11

The eruptions of Mount Etna, though
less frequent than those Of Nesuvius, are
far more violent. It's great size-the
heighth Of the one being nearly eleven
thousand feet, and its circumference
eighty.seven miles-renders the over
flow of its lava a very formidable affair.
During one of the earlier eruptions, the
lava, when checked by the walls of Ca
tania, fifty feet in height, accumulated
till it actually overlooked them and de-
vastated the entire town. On this occa-
sion Il peasant, cut off by a stream of
lava that encircled the rock on which
he stood. escaped by leaping upon n
boulder thath had fallen into the burning
stream and thence s%pringing on to the
other bank, with no other injury than
the loss Of the whole skin OF his face
by the intense heat. The earliest re-
corded eruption Of Etna is one men,
toned by Diod6rus Siculus, as coeval
with the Trojan war. The next are
three eruptions referred to by Thucyd-
ides, 425 and 475 B. c., and one at an
earlier time not specified. These, added
to the later recorded eruptions to the
present time, make seventy in all. The
most important are those of 1169, 1869,
1866, 1857, 1892, 1852 and 1865.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11

THERE is a curious district in Arizona
called the Thousand Wells. 1t is on the
western slope of Echo cliff, remarkable
for the reverberation of sound. The
counter rock is impervious sandstone,
extensively striated with deep grooves
made by winter rains. Where the
sand rock is friable large basins have
been worn These are SO many reser-
voirs which are filled in the rain-time,
and which supply the country. with its
cattle and people, through the long dry
season of that climate. The great high
way of travel passes through the midst
of the Thousand wells. There are no
other water sources, and without these
natural wells no life could exist. On the
eastern slope of the range the country
presents a striking contrast. Innumer-
able springs flow perennial. Verdure is
rich, trees evergreen, fields cultivated
and wigwams alive with people.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11
CASUALTIES.

AT q circus performance IN Detroit,
on the 9th inst, Louise Boshell fell
from a SLACK wire sustaining dangerous
injuries.
Mrs. CHAs. t1ENNING, Of Carlinville,
ILL.,, on the 9th inst, attempted to put
out a lamp by blowing down the chin
ney; the lamp exploded burning her SO
that she cannot recover.
A SPECIAL telegram of June ID a y
of the terrific force of the tornado at
Irving. Kan: The bodies Of the dead
we're found nearly nude. Mrs. Sheldon,
perfectly nude and frightlully mangled,
was carried into the depot, ex-
claiming; ooh, | can't die this way"
She breathed her last shortly afterward.
The body of Mrs. keeney was absolute
ly driven into the earth, and all the dead
were rolled and tumbled about in the
black, sickly mud SC that it was inn
possible to wash them clean.
A SPECIAL telegram of June 3rd thus
describes the first appearance OF the
tornado: The cloud seemed as if built
up of successive layers Of ashy smoke.
1t came on with a roar that could be
compared to nothing except that of an
immense mass of towering flame. IN
the brief moments of its passage it
brought with it a darkness like that of
late twilight. In its circle it was resist
less. A farmer vas coming toward the
the mill; his wagon vas torn to pieces,
but the horses were unframed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-11

NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the
purchase by the British of Delagoa
Bry and the adjacent territory in South
Africa, from the Portuguese. This pur-
chase will give England the command
of a vast region, and will eurround Zu-
lu land on every side with British ter
ritory.