Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-15

49, caapge in the mode OF c0mpensat
no postmasters Of the 4th class, allow
n9 commission on stamps cancelled or
& tiers instead of on stamps sold.
TpE mint bureau on Jan. 3rd, turned
INTO the treasury $3.50 profits accruing
~ the government from the coinage OF
stondard dollars for the past three
waeks, after buying silver for coinage,
,ovinc for transportation, and allowing
for washing in the process of coinage.
since the commencement of the coin
a a,, Of standard dollars the government
has urofited. between the legal tender
Line and real value of bullion which
!, contains, to the amount OF about
$4,000.
4 CURIOUS report has been received at
Washington from Europe that leading
Jews are perfecting plan for the pur-
chase of Palestine. Indeed, it is said
that the project is completed,
and that Messrs. Rothschild,
Wontetiora, and other prom
;nent fnanciers and patriots have hopes
If success in their undertaking from
every point of view. The secretary,
VINO is Christian in faith, says every
evidence of support 20 the project is
manifested by the Jews of the entire
world vet a wise reserve as to details of
MANS Is demanded.
A DECISION was rendered Jan. 9Th
by the United States supreme court, in
the case of Geo. Reynolds, vs.. United
states. brought here by appeal from
the supreme court of Utah. The case
J involves the whole question of polyga-
my in the territories and the con-
stitutionality of laws passed by
n congress for its suppression. Reynolds
Sgas indicted by the grand jury Tor con-
Z Sacting bigamous marriage. He
"a ,s tried in the third judicial circuit
q urt of Utah, and found guilty. He
@Sppealed to the supreme court of the
territory and finally to this court, which
row atllrms the judgment of the lower
tribunal and decide d that congress had
power to pass laws prohibiting poly
gamous marriages in Utah and that
such laws are constitutional.
The bill introduced recently by Rep
resentative Cox, of New York, relative
, " VIC lahiiiS VI iiioliitl CcHouo, PIo
ydes for taking a census of
the population, wealth and in
dustry of the United States on
the first OF June, 1880, the superin-
tendent of census to be appointed by
the president and confirmed by the
senate. The clerical force is to be APP
pointed by the secretary of the in
terror, and one or more supervisors for
each state and territory, not exceeding
80 in all are to be nominated by the
governors of the several states. Schedu-
les of inquiries at the tenth census are
the same as these contained in the act
for taking the census of 1850, with some
addition provisions. S3.000,00O is fixed
as the maximum cost of census. The
JjUprCvides that any state or territory
which at intermediate five years may
OF shall take census and report to the
secretary of the interior, the govern
mentin such case is to pay half the cost.
The acknowledgement is receiving
many letters from prominent business
men IN large eastern cities, complain
Ing Of the hardship to which they are
subjected by the recent ruling of the
postothce department, excluding
matter printed by papyrogra PHI
&c process, electric pen and
tyne writer from the mails except
Oh payment of the first class or letter
rate of postage. Some firms say that
TINS order will increase their postage
bills 81 900 year. The ruling referred
to went into effect on the LIST inst.
Heretofore the product of the papyro-
sTapnc press and electric pen have
Under an old ruling of the post
master-general been carried as third
class or printed matter. Last summer
the owners OF certain patents for type
writer's made application through coun-
sci to the departmental have the matter
printed IN type-writers admitted 10 the
mails as third class matter. II the
arguments 1t was made apparent that
lthe application could not, under the
law, be granted, and that the practice of
carrying both the photographic and
eectuc pen products was also illegal