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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12
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THE greater part of krasnoyarsk, the
second important town in Siberia, was de-
stroyed by fire
TIE French troops have completely
surrounded the kroumir country, and
the Kroumirs have practically surrend-
cred
THE police Of Paris have forbidden a
meeting arranged by Rochefort and others
70 protest against the execution of Hessy
Helfmann.
'THE anti-Jewish riot in Elizabethgrad,
Russia, proves to have been a more seri-
Gus affair than was first reported. Two
hunored persons were injured.
MALATo and Pons, the former an
Italian and the latter a Frenchman, both
fencing masters, fought a duel near Paris
The Italian was slightly wounded.
THE British consul at Tunis has been
vainly endeavoring TO obtain English sig
natures to petition - Queen Victoria,
asking Intervention on behalf of the Bey.
4 MANIFESTO issued by the nihilist ex-
eCutive committee warns the ear that a
reactionary policy will lead TO consequent
ces more disastrous than the recent aSsaS-
sination.
THE sudden anxiety of the sultan Of
Turkey TO punish the assassius of Abdul
Aziz is accounted for hv the fact that he
recently became aware of = conspiracy
against his own life.
EGAN telegraphed from Paris to the
Land League leaders in Dublin that in
view of the arrest of Dillon. the Irish
members of Parliament should be called
on to hold no further terms with the land
bill
The IRISH Times regards the shooting Of
the boy Farrell and the discovery of hid
den rifles as proof that . spirit Of danger
Gus lawlessness Turks in Dublin, apparent.
lv under the management OF some secret
influence.
THE question OF the right OF the govern
ment 10 inspect exports q under consider
alton in the Treasury Department.
TuE total foreign trade Of the United
States is estimated ut about -l,656,0Oo
This computation gives this country the
second place among the commercial ma
tiens. Great Britain standing first.
BlzsRrk, the most northern town Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

HEvEENoID is the name Of a new sub
stitute for vulcanized India rubber now
manufactured in New York. The lat
ter is an imperfect mechanical mixture
of rubber and sulphur; the former is a
perfect chemical combination of rub
Der, camphor, sulphur, and vegetable
germs. Heveenoid can he made hard,
semi-hard, and soft, like rubber The
hard takes natural and beautiful pol
ish, and the soft possesses many attrac-
tive qualities. 1t is claimed, too, that
the substitute can be manufactured at
a cheaper rate than ordinary vulcan
lied rubber.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

SENATOR HoAR opposes the ratitica-
ton of the Chinese immigration treaty
on the ground that it is opposed to the
genius Of our institutions and to the
general doctrine Of the brotherhood
of man Senators Miller and Farley
and the other Pacific coast senators
strongly urge the ratification of the
treaty on the ground tha' it gives the
United States government full control
over the immigration Of the Celestials,
and these views are thought to be held
10y the great majority of the senators,
which insures the ratification Of the
treaty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12
I r1nllIial.

For an insult offered his wife. Antonio
Nuristo, Of Buffalo, fatally shot george
Mavonia.
HAYES WHITE, who murdered the sher-
i'll at Marion, Ark, has been sentences 70
be hanged June 10.
TnREE men and boy have been arrest
ed in Castroyille, Texas, on suspicion OF
being stage robbers. -
MIscnIgvors boys at kingston, \. y.
have driven a Chinese laundryman to in
sanity by continuous tricks.
RoBr. BALLANrYNE, federal soldier at
Fort Clark, Texas, was once convicted OF
the murder OF a comrade,. and awarded sew
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

WHAT is needed is a law that permits
a lawful wife of Mormon to testify
against her husband 1t is difficult to
understand why congress doesn't pass
such law. At every session OF con-
gress polygamy is discussed in some
shape or other but nothing is done to
remedy this growing evil. The proba-
bilihes are that nothing will be Gone
until the people make polygamy an
issue in politics, and force out of public
lie every man who refuses to pledge
himself to do all he can to destroy that
relic of barbarism in Utah, which exists
in defiance of law and the public sentl-
ment Of the nation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

MEMPHIS, Tenn, has the largest
death rate for the last three months of
any city in this United States. being
Il in every 1000 inhabitants Some
northern cities, however whose people
are too busy at other things to pay
much attention to the accu mulat ed
pcstilence of streets, alleys, and sewers,
may rival even Memphis before the
end of dog days. Effects follow causes,
as certainly as two and two make
four.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

Mrs. FARRAGUT, the widow of the adj
miral, is described as full of life and
animation. She is of medium hight,
and has brown hair, plump face, and
tender eyes. She is devoted to the
memory Of her husband, and never
tires of telling Of his noble deeds and
traits Of character.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12

THE Nihilists recently sent delegate
to have friendly chat with the car,
and kindly informed his royal high
ness what he must do to be saved. The
car heard him through and then order
ed his arrest. The fellow is now probably
on his way to the mines Of Siberia.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12
NEWS NOTES.

The editor Of socialist paper in Lon
don, Herr Most by name, has been in
dicted and Is to be tried Immediately
for publishing a congratulatory article
on the assassination of the late car.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

A Detroit physician has published treat ise in which he says that death from delir- ium tremens is not painful but very pleasant. Before long we shall hear that pleurisy, gout and hydrophobia give exquisite joy.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14
Where Do the Pins Go?
Fourteen Factories Manufacture 2 7,O0t
 900, ,OOO Pins Per Year.

Fourteen Factories Manufacture 7,OO0,-
 OOO, 1000 Pins Per Year.
 The pins ured in the United States are made by fourteen factories, somewhat scatter ed as to locality but chiefly in New England Their annual production for several years past has been about 1000. DOC, GOO pins This number has not varied much for some years, the demand being about the same. A few of these I, ,000, 900, 900 are swallowed by children a number are bent up in school and placed in vacant and inviting chairs, and some mil lions get into the cracks of foors and the rest for the most part are scattered along the byways and highways where they have been dropped from dresses and been left to work their way into the earth. Two years ago the competition among the nine principal com panies then existing for the manufacture of toilet pins led to such cutting of prices that the business became unproftable, and the market was flooded with goods. Dealers who were shrewd laid in stock, and families even bought in wholesale quantities for future needs. year ago combination was formed of three wire companies and now all of the pins made by them are shipped to New York, and handled by the head agency in that city. From their common warehouse they are sent to every part of the country in quantities varying according to the female population. The importation of English pins is small, and the exportation of pins from the United States is confined to Cuba, South America and parts Of Canada, where, however, put few pins are sent. England supplies almost the whole world outside of the United States, although it is claimed that American pins are not inferior in quality. Quality, however, is matter which but slightly concerns the retail buyer. To him paper of pins is paper of pins, so long as they don't have heads on both ends. The raw material-the brass and iron wire from which all American pins are made-is from the wire mills of this country. and much of the machinery for their manufacture is of American invention and patent
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

The Boston Herald does not think the ap- pointment of Frederick Douglass as minister to Brazil would give offence to the Brazilians, but, it very properly adds, 'sthere is some thing to be considered beside making g place. for the district marshal If there is one South American country with which our commerce is out of joint, that country is the empire of Dom Pedro. Owing to our enor- nous annual coffee purchase of the Brazilians, and their comparatively trifing purchase of our goods in return. there is a heavy annual balance of trade against us which we should endeayor to find some means to remedy. We have never heard that MT. Douglass has any special qualifications for negotiating com mercial treaty. We cheerfu1ly acknowledge, however, that he is as well fitted for the Brazilian mission as the present incumbent, or any of the place-seeking politicians who may be named for it. At present date, we want neither politicians nor poets at the South American capitals. Business men are needed, and business men only"
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

Harpe7's Magazine for April offers its read CTS an unusual feast. The number opens with a descriptive article, by w. H. Rideing, on .The Green Mount aims in Sugar Time, with character istic illustrations by McCutch. con- Arthur Gilman, the architect, contrib utes beautiful and instructive illustrated article on Salisbury Cathedral. ''Indian Education at Hampton and Carlisle" is the subject of very interesting paper by Helen W. Ludlow, one of the Hampton teachers, with fifteen illustrations. "Italian Life in New York;" by Charlotte Adams, furnishes Mr Rogers with 8 number of picturesque subjects for his pencil. Alexander F. Oakey's paper on stArt Embroidery" is full of valua- ble suggestions on subject of general in terest, and is illustrated with some excellent designs. Ernest Ingersol1 contributes an ar ticle on Milwaukee, illustrated with seven-
 teen beautiful engravings. s. H. M. Byers,
 United States Consul at Zurich, in My
 Farm in Switzerland' Cllustrated), conveys
 some very useful hints to our farmers as to
 the economy of agriculture. The two serial
 novels are continued and there are two good
 short stories. Another side of life insurance,
 contrasting with that given in an article on
 the subject in the January Harper, is present
 ed by the Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, jr Poult-
 
 Go Vest" describes the Close colony in
 Iowa, and shows what results are possible for
 farming and stock raising in that section. A lighter paper, of humorous character, enti- tied 'Darwinian Diversions" is contributed by F. H. Underwood There are poems by J. T. Trowbridge Walt Whitman, Paul H. Hayne and William Gibson, and the editorial departments are, as usual, interesting.
 The leading feature of AppEeton's Journal for April is the first part of story of old Greek life, by Professor Georg Ebers. The title of this story is "A Question: A Greek Idyl." This is followed by an article on Mysteries and Miracle-Plays," by Mrs. Hooper. There is long review, with many striking extracts, of Oliphant's '.Land of Gilead;' the account of the "dervish mira cles," which is given in full in the Journal, being fairly startling. MT. Robert B. Roosevelt has an eminently amusing paper on the pro- found question, 'sWhy Does the Crab go Sideways?' We have the second of Helena Faucit Martins papers on Some of Shake speare's Female Characters, Portia being now treated a curious essay on ancient 'Greek Dinners'; a review, with abundant anecdotl- cal selections, of Palmer's recent biography of s'Caliph Haroun Alraschid''; a rich group of selections from Ruskin's just published ssArrows of the Chace,'' under the title of ''Ruskiniana"; and capital essay from the Country Parson called '.Concerning Cheer fitness of the Old" There is stirring nov elette, given complete entitled "A Culture Ghost or, Winthrop's Adventure" The ed itor, in his department, ventures to question the claims of Carlyle to be considered a great thinker; and having last month at tempted to demolish the notion of woman's munitions, he in this number disputes the common idea that tact is special feminine quality.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14
BOB UP SERENELY.

P. T. Barnum has recovered nearly all the flesh he lost. It pays to advertise. e.-Da,abarg Neacs. -..
 A physician of Galena told Grant he could cure him of his fondness for tobacco. Grant carefully avoids that physician.-Boston Post.
 ssDo you drink ?" said temperance reform CT to beggar who had implored aims of him, ''Yes, thank you," returned the candid pauper; where shall we go?"
 "Don't you think, said husband mildly rebuking his wife, ''that women are possess ed by the devil ?" '.Yes," was the quick re- ply, "as soon as they are married"
 The extent to which adulteration in food is practiced nowadays is very alarming. One of our citizens bought a pie recently, whose two crusts were so close together as to chafe each other-Dan6,Iry Neaos.
 A little fellow came to school brimfull of talk about brand-new baby in his block. '.How old is it ?" asked somebody. "I don't know how old it is, he answered naively !; ''they only found it last night"
 A boy who found $2, 900 check returned it to it's owner and received five cents as re- ward. We are glad to see that virtue is in sympathy with the general business boom it may now be fairly quoted at five cents.- Pasck.
 A debating society has tackled the ques- tion: 'sIs it worse to think you've reached the top, when there is one stair more, than to think there is one stair more when you've reached the top and bring your foot down so hard that it tingles for four hours !"-Boston Post.
 Since eggs have become legal tender for all debts, public and private, when man is seen on the streets putting on many scallops, wear ing costly apparel, diamonds, and driving a prancing steed, and the question is asked, ''Who is he?" the reply is, "Oh. he owns a her. n.n-PecE's Sun.
 There are mean men in this world. The landlady of young man at the South End House looked through the keyhole 'of his door over four hundred times without ever seeing him drinking or doing anything he ought not to do. He is a terribly aggravating person to board d-Boston Globe.
 tsDid you ever serve in the war, uncle ?" s.sNo. sab was cowardly niggah. I was 8 Kentucky niggah. And what did want to list for?" "Were not the white men fighting
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

We join the Providence Journal and the Hartford Couraaat in demanding rubber boots and shoes that will not wear out in a week or less. It is too much trouble to keep buying new ones, to say nothing of the expense.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

The scheme to reclaim the Everglades of Florida. is now fully formed. The under taking is in the hands of Philadelphia com pany. to be known as the Atlantic and East Cost Canal and Okeechobee Land Company.
 The company will dig canal ten mikes long.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

The telephone is rapidly extending it's do- main. A company has been formed in London to provide telephonic communica- ton in India, Ceylon, the Straits settlements, Java, China, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Malta, the Hawaiian islands and elsewhere. An agent of the company in India writes that he is already promised g sufficient number of subscribers to establish exchanges in several large cities, and that no difficulty will be found in raising the funds required for es- tablishing local companies. The natives of India use the telegraph little on account of the difficulty of translating from their own tongues into the telegraphic code and re- translating the same. This difficulty will not hinder operations with the telephone. A concession from the Khedive to establish ex- changes in Egypt has been already obtained, and it may not be long before-we can tele- phone from New Haven to the top of the pyramids.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

1 from Lake Okechobee to the head waters ot
 the Caloosahatchie river. This riter flows l into the Gulf of Mexico, and it's mouth is, | according to the surveys made by Colonel
 Meigs, of the Typographical Engineers, United States Coast Survey and General Gil
 more, twenty-three and half feet lower
 than Lake Okeechobee. The work of the en- gineers is simply to drain the lake sufficient ly to prevent its overflow. It is this over
 flow which causes the Everglades to be sub
 merged with water. the lake having no natu- | ral outlet. The Everglades are surrounded 1 by limestone ridge, which acts as dam to
 the water, and after the overflow of the lake
 it can only disappear by evaporation, which,
 of course, is slow process. The ground is consequently almost continually under water.
 If the canal above mentioned does not sufi-
 ciently drain Lake Okechobee to pre- vent it's overflow another canal to the eastward will be cut to the St. Lucie river, twelve miles long, which will carry the water into the Atlantic ocean. The mouth of the St. Lucie river is twenty five feet lower than the basin of Lake Okee- chobee.
 A bulletin just issued by the Census Bureau contains some interesting facts con- cernfng the foreign element in our popula- tion It is shown that in no State does the foreign element equal the native, although in many it bears very large proportion. With three exceptions only, namely, the States of Florida, Louisiana and Texas, the Southern States are practically without any foreign element In those States where the foreign element is large, the general causes are ap- parent. In the northeastern States the moving cause is manufactures of various kinds. The immigrants are mainly Irish, German and French Canadians, with some Welsh In the Northwest, agri- culture is the principal moving force, and Germans and Scandinavians are the principal nationalities drawn from while in the ex- treme western States and Territories most of the immigration is due to mining, although agriculture and cattle raising play very i'm portant part. The bulletin also shows that in thirty one States and Territories in the past ten years natural increase has gained upon immigration while in but twelve is the reverse the case. In the United States as a whole, there is a relative decrease of the for eign element to the extent of 1,516 to the 100, 900 of native population, showing that in the whole country, as well as in majority of the States, native increase has gained upon foreign immigration. The increase of the foreign element has been in New England' where the growth has been in the direction of manufactures in Dakota and Oregon,
 sA-l 411,l, and in Colorado and New Mexico, where an extraordinary development of the mining in- dustry has taken place since 1871.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

A bill directing that men found guilty of beating their wives or other women be pun 1 ished by hogging has been favorably report ed to the Pennsylvania Legislature. If it
 passes. the beating of women will not give much trouble to the Pennsylvania courts.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14
Price Four Cents.

for you ?" sS'pose dey was. Dat was no sign we should fight. Massa, did you ever see two dogs fghtin' over bone?" seWeIl, what has that to do with your fighting ?" "A heap, massa- Did you eber see de bone fight ?'-C CzeUeLnnd Le0der.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

Paul Hamilton Hayne, the Southern poet, lives, in rough cet of pine boards on the Georgia railroad, about twenty miles from Augusta, where, completely isolated from the social and artistic world, he devotes his life to conscientious literary works.
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Mardi Gras festival at New Orleans is g source of much profit to the hotel keepers, merchants, etc., of the city. It is estimated that the visitors to the last one left $2, 50O,- GOO behind them
Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-14

The answer to the various petitioners for charters for elevated railroads in Boston was decisive one. Ten of the eleven members of the street railway committee joined in a report giving very clear and satisfactory req
 sons why such roads are not needed in Bos- ton at present.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-11-10
Neatness i'm Women.

a woman may be handsome or re-
markably attractive in various ways +:
but if she is not personally neat, she
cannot hope to win admiration. Fine
clothes will not conceal the slattern. A
young woman with her hair always in
disorder, and her clothes hanging about
her as If suspended from a prop, is
always repulsive. Slattern is written
on her person from the crown of her
head to the sole Of her feet, and if she
wins husband, he will turn out, in
all probability, either an idle fool or a
drunken ruilin. The bringing up of
daughters to be able to work, talk and
act like honest, sensible young women,
is the special task of all mothers, and i'm
the industrial ranks there is imposed
also the prime obligation of learning to
respect household work for its own
sake, and the comfort and happiness it
will bring in the future. House work
is drudgery, but it must be done by
somebody, and had better be well than
i'll done.
Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-11-10

second warming" said the teacher, and
the revolver fell.
1t took two hours to organize the
classes, but when done they were all
organized.
Then came recess. The teacher
went out, too, for the room was
crowded and hot. A hawk was cir
cling over head, high in the air. The
teacher drew his revolver, and the next
second the hawk came tumbling down
among the wondering scholars.
From that day on Harry kept school
for two years in Cranburry Gulch, his
salary doubled after the first quarter,
and his pupils learning to love as well
as respect him, and the revolvers were
out of sight within a month.
They had found a man at last who
could keep school. This is fact.