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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

New JERSEY is about to try the bl'
ennial system, and a constitutional
commission has agreed to Recommend
his reform, among other things, fixing
also the term of office of senators at
our years, and that of members of the
assembly at two. Senators are new
chosen for three years and representa-
tives for one. The governors term OF
three years it is proposed to extend to
four. If New Jersey adopts the bien-
NAL system, Massachusetts,, Rhode Isl
and, Connecticut, New York, and
South Carolina will alone continue to
hold annual sessions.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

GERMANY, besides being one of the
chief military powers of the world, is
gradually becoming great as naval
power. The official naval list for Ger
many for the year 1882 has been pub
lished, and ii appears that the entire
fleet now comprises 7 armored irigates,
5 armored corvettes, II unarmored
spar-deck corvettes, . gun-boats OF The
first class, ! armored battery, Is ar
mored gun-boats, . still in process OF
construction, torpedo boats, 4 mine
layers, gun-boats of the second class,
S dispatch vessels, a transport, IL train
ing and school ships, II vessels for har-
Dor service, and pilot boats. There
are at present German men-of-war on
the Eastern Asiahc station, 3 on the
Australian, 2 ON the eastern American,
and on the Mediterranean.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

duction of girl in Havana, but secured.
a release on habeas corpus His father
put him on board steamship for Central
America, just before the proper extradi-
tion papers arrived from Washington.
The customs officer at Port Eads, under
Geographic instructions from the federal
authorities, took the offender from the
steamship lust as she was about to ente.
neutral waters, and he will be examined
at once.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05
MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN.

TIE consumption of tobacco in
France last year amounted to about
$50 for each person of the whole
population, or over $50, 100000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

GUIrEAU was placed in the prisoners
dock the other day. Judge Cox alleges
the reason why so much latitude has
heretofore been given him was to en-
able the experts to have the amplest
opportunity to observe him and Judge
whether he is insane or not.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

THE report of the Chinese custom
house shows the foreign trade of nine
teen ports of the empire to be open to
the trade of foreign countries. The
whole amount of last years trade sums
up to 1921 ,3ol $50 of imports and Sl12,-
971,765 of exports. OF this trade Great
Britain has SLY ,77S.5l0, and the
United States only $14,991 1872.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

SMALL Pox of the most vlrulent type
has broken out in various parts of Da-
Kota. Thirty-seven cases are reported
at Wahpeton, small village near Bis
marck. In many instances the victims
die within twenty-four hours after being
attacked by the disease.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

THE mail contracts for almost the
whole Pacific section, which includes
the greater part of the important star
ryate service, expire next June, and
are now being readvertised. With the
experience that the country has had,
measures will doubtless be taken to
prevent a recurrence Of the swindles of
the mast
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

CENSUS figures show that ILLINOIS Is
fast increasing in population, and with.
a probability that it will soon rank
third in that respect in the list OF states.
Ohio is now the third state, New YORK
and Pennsylvania being first and sec
nnd respectively.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

The members from Pennsylvania
have succeeded in introducing the
greatest number OF bills thus Tar IN the
present congress. Up to the recess
they had got in 1S4.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

Gen. kinsman, a nephew of Gen. B.
F. Butler, will, according to the Nation
al Republican, be appointed Governor of
Arizona, to succeed Gen. Fremont.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

New South Wales has 5000 900
sheep, and a population Of 10000, &C
cording to the census Just taken. Fat
cattle We're selling low there at date Of
last adyices.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

Horace B. Dick, ESD, associate edi-
tor of the Delapdre Co. Repubkcoa,
Chester, Pa, was cured by St Jacobs
Oil OF very severe injuries resulting
f.om fall. His arm appeared to be
paralyzed, but the Oil cured hin1.-
Ph Rrieiphia Ledgsr.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

A WASHINGTON dispatch gives the
following relating to the pay OF the at
tendants on President Garfield during
his last illness. "To DR.. Agnew, $50. :
600. He charges $1,000 for the first
operation. DR.. Hamiton's bill is $685.
goo. Dr. Bliss is content with $4,000,
or about 500 day. DR., Reyburn
would probably take less, say s., 600 or
5000. The arply officers will be paid
by brevet rank, and probably increased
pay. One question which remains to
be settled touches the status of Drs.
Boynton and Edison. Both are physi-
clans, and both took the duties of
nurses. Their services were of great
value, as the presidents life was much
prolonged by careful nursing"
|
THE trigate Constitution. nov at the
Brooklyn navy yard, has recently been
put out of commission, having been
pronounced no longer seaworthy. An
order by the navy department, issued
nearly fifty years ago TO break her up,
inspired one of the best-known poems
of the then young DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, beginning cay, tear her tat
tered ensign down" The lyric had the
effect of leading to the recall of the
order. The frigate was completed in
1894, and has a memorable history.
In 1904, under Preble, she took part in
the attack upon Tripoli. In August
1912, under command of Capt. Hull
she won the famous victory over the
British war frigate, the Euerriere
Under Capt. Stewart, in 1915, she cap
tured the British war ships, the Cyane
and the Levant. She was known rs
"Old Ironsides."
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

Mr.. Speer, Mr. Frost and Mr.. Eel
mont, the youngest members of the
house of representatives, GIe some
times called by their associates the
"kintergalta members
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

MOTHERS DON'T kNow.--lIow many children
are punished for being uncouth wiiul and indli-
terent to instructions or rewards. simply because
they are out of health An intelligent lady said
Of a child of this kind: Mothers should know
that if they could give the little ones moderate
doses Of Hop Bitters for two or three weeks the
children would be all n parent could desire
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05

The most unhappy
man in the world is he
that is not patient in adj
versities. For men are not
killed with the universities
they have, but with the impa-
thence which they suffer
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

II boots squeak, there is no time when
they do it with such persistency and yigor
as on Sunday, when the owner is passing
up the church aisle to his pew. And
the more carefully he goes and on tiptoe,
the noisier they are. The New York
Herald has entered into campaign
against squeaky boots, and the result is
number Of communications suggesting
various remedies some who has tried
it" and Sympathy agree that the best
plan is to have o shoemaker put some
powdered soap-stone between the outer
and inner soles. However, this should
be done before the boots are made, and
the suggestion is worthless in the case of
boots which have already been ordered,
paid for, and entered upon their career
Of squeakiness. Envy" hits the case
Of existing boots and shoes, with his
suggestion "to bore small holes, one
inch apart and one-sixteenth Of an inch
in depth, In the centre of the sole OF
each shoe. Then fill each hole with q
drop or two of sweet oil and let it soak
well into the shoe before using. III the
shoe still squeaks repeat the remedy: q
squeaky shoe always succumbs to the
second dose OF sweet oil. !" "B g. O"
gives the philosophy of the squeak, and
writes: "Squeaky shoes are caused by
the vacuum between the insole and the
outsole Treading on the sole of a shoe
forces the air out of the vacuum, which
produces the sound we call squeak.
The proof Of this is that so-called
turned shoe, having no insole, forms
no vacuum, therefore does not squeak.
A piece of muslin or other similar
material, guinmed on both sides, which
will adhere to the inner and outer sole,
thus filling the vacuum, will of necessity
prevent squeaking. This applies to shoes
in process of making Now, as to those
which are already made-three or four
pegs or brads driven in the outsole, be-
tween the shank and the toe, viii close
the vacuum and prevent the squeak. "
This latter suggestion appears 20 have q
spice of mischief in it. Unless great
care was exercised in inserting the pegs,
the wearer would soon begin to wish
that he had the squeak back again.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
Confederate Bond Tert.

As considerable interest has been
aroused in regard to Confederate bonds,
and as Che majority of people are un-
ACQUAINTED with their terms, tho follow
ing wording of 81 900 bond lis given as
q matter of information:
aNo. 7,408. First Series.
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,
"Loan Authorized by Section Of February
II, 1854. Act of Oongress.
ssOn the first day Ct July, 1854, the Con-
federate States OF America viii pay to the
bearer Of this bond, at the seatof Government,
or at such place OF deposit as may be appointed
by the Secretary Of the Treasury, the sum Of
one Thousand dollars, with interest thereon at
the rate OF six per cent. per annum, payable
semj-annually on the first days of January and
July in each year.
1.-THE Confederate States have, by an act ap-
proved February 1, 1864, enacted that the
principal and interest whereof shall be free
from taxation, and for the payment Of the in
terest thereon the entire net receipts Of any
export duty hereafter laid en- the value of all
cotton, tobacco, aud naval stores, which sball
be exported from the Confederate States,
and tbs net proceeds of the import duties now
laid on 80 much thereof as may be necessary tor
pay annually the interest, are hereby specially
pledged, provided that the duties now laid upon
imports, and hereby pledged, shall hereafter
be paid in specie or in sterling exchange, or in
the coupons of said bonds.
SIN witness whereof the register Of the
treasury, in pursuance of the said act Of Con-
gress, hath hereunto set his hand and affixed
the seal Of the treasury, at Richmond, this LIST
tiay Of March, 1864. E. APPERsoK,
"For register Of the treasury"
Entered, r. B. S. Recorded, j. j. W"
On the left of the bond at a right
angle with the body of the bond are the
words, "One thousand dollars, and on
the right, "Six per cent. per annum."
Attached to the bond are sixty coupons,
payable every six months, from January
!, 1866, to July /, 1894. The coupons
are as follows: "Loan under act of
February IL, 1864 The Confederate
States Of America will pay to bearer
thirty dollars for six months interest,
due January J., 1866, on bond 7, 403, for
81, 900. Ro. Tyler, Register" except
the dates, which, Of course, are all diff
ierent, beginning ct January l, 1866, and
anding with July 1. 1894.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

Two friends wCle discussing the mer-
it's of their acquaintance. Said one
of the gentlemen "Talk about mean
men; now there's old Strassberger.
He's the hardest, driest, meanest old
Shylock that ever lived. That man i
why I" And there he stopped as if
words couldn't do justice tc the subject.
"You're mistaken" said his friend.
" He's not SO bad even the devil isn't
SO black as he is painted. Now III bet
you $40 can borrow $50 Of him before
night"
"Done r and the money was put up.
On posted the sanguine book-maker TO
his intended victim.
Srassberger, my boy, howare your"
and he slapped him on the back of q
faded ready-made coat with capital as
sumption Of good fellowship.
"Vell, was all right. Vot's de
madden NIT you?"
!" Look here, old fellow, ] made lit
tie bet about you just now, Ina, ha It's
q capital joke"
"Um p said Strassberger. "Vell P"
Eyes, bet $40 with SInithy that
could borrow $50 of you to-day"
I" Feefty tollar !"
Yes, that was the amount"
Und you bet ten ~
"Thatis what put up"
"Vell, now look here, my friend" (in
low Whisper "you go straight away
and hedge"
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
Painting Tin Roofs.

The best paint for tin or iron is COM
posed of pure hnseed oil and earthly
ochres, red or yellow. The coarser
GRADUATED powders are best as pig
ment, as they offer less air holes and
give frmer hold for the oil ON the
grits and thus bend them to the metal.
The oil in this manner gets close to the
metal and offers resistance to the air in
removing the atoms from it's cohesion.
Beware OF all metallic oxides OF mineral
paints, especially on lofty towers or in
accessible coverings of metal. Roofing
tin should, when laid, be kept clean
from windfails OF dust, and painted
once i'd every two or three years, by the
day-neyer by contract. Metals applied
in the angles of roofs, as hashings,
where shingles are laid behind parapet
walls, should be well painted on both
sides, and the exposed crevices between
the laps puttied and painted, and thus
cut off leaks in corners (which no teller
can find out" Woodwork should never
be allowed TO close down on the metal,
but instead, q space of one or two inches
should always be left, 30 that paint can
be easily applied to all dasliings on all
sides, and where tho dust can be easily
swept out Many Troublesome leaks
occur from the base of balustrades shut
ting down SO close that dirt is complete
ly imprisoned, and, consequently, in
time decomposition sets in and the
metal coverings are ruined. Bay win
dows, with balconies, or with other
ornaments. il put on with an idea Of
permanency, should leave ample room
for the painters' brushes 10 reach every
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

the orange crop-much worse than W
gave some lineage. About two month
back the fruit began splitting, and after
the rains commenced it became serious
those oranges could not be shipped.
Within the past two or three weeks the
fruit is dropping off the trees before tits
ripe in alarming numbers Net fifty
per cent. of the fruit will come to full
efecti on; consequently vast amount
Of immatured fruit is being pushed into
Northern markets, ana yet bring good
prices The small amount of real good
fruit left on the trees will give such re-
turns that the orage growers never saw
before.
Mr.. G. MeEiroy, of Banks county
Ga, relates the following occuranc
which happened on his plantation, near
Harmony Grove, few days ago: While
his three little boys were standing in the
yard large hawk swooped down and
flew away with chicken in his talons.
The boys thinking that his majesty might
drop the chicken, followed him some dis
lance. when. to their delight, they saw
him drop his prey. AS soon as this hap
pened the hawk commenced circling
around where the boys and chicken were
congregated, aud finally lighted on the
eldest boy, who was ten years old, and
fastened one! talon in the boys chin.
The second son went to the rescue, when
the hawk caught him in the arm with the
other talon, thus holding both the boys
at his mercy. The third and youngest,
seeing the perilous situation of his broth
ers, drew his knife, went ito work and
succeeded in cutting the hawk from, his
brothers and killing him. both legs were
cut to the bone, just above the claw, be-
fore the boys were released from their
dangerous position. After his lordship
was dispatched he was found TO be a 1
large bird, and measured twenty fou
inches from stem to stern.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
Q The Man With the Iron Mask. {.

n . az 4. n
Inc aqen',sy o. ne iron Masa, OF
! Inc MAN WIN me iron MASK, mas
never neeh sa,asla a espap'islle :s,
about inc Year 1919 ne was carried WIN w
the nsnloss secrecy % w I ~ q rig
neroi, ana wore during pne Journey .
piack mask, when was hot q IRON put
OF black velvet. sifenetnened WILL wnaie .,
Done, ana secured pehina W'ln steel
springs, on 10y means OF a iock' as some
say Inc orders were tla 4 ne FL
veaied hlmsen ne was 70 oe kliiea. re
was conveyed ~ 1900 g bue lsie q s7aa \,
Marguerite, ana curing me passage the
strlctest watch was kept, tnat nc mlgh'
mol allow nimseu 20 pe 1a eeo
Inc snknow4 prisoner was u 1899 Trans s
ierfea 70 lne i,asl,ie, Ana was ~ oeiore
hidden penind tne MAST IN tnat
prison me capnye remained unni ias
eeasn: IN i!oo IN November ~, tne
gay aiter nls deatn, ne was Duriea ~
the cemetery o. ~. Pa1u' unaer the
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
such . Getting On stairs.

n,..r. = a man IN tbe Seventh Ward
hat i probably the neanest man in this
sllae u "a -otl,er NAV > Joke on
- s...;,. 49,, - nav : note His peo-
~ a. ,'-,,,,,a,, el,Its are ss afraid as
Ia -. '. ~ g. - .na ,Vbsn there was
u us'@u. ., ~ 4a1t aho,t +ov ,,istols killing
L,I Llu r. xro,.,;aJ tbeir lives ont
n n..sr. - FOR sear fbe Tttle fiye-year-old
,SS,,IS ,,at boi5 AZ ona az them and blow
a J lot ~ n. fbnmbs of. The family was
go for . week ar Two. leaving this
&c., MOI, and fhe little how at home.
a- .s,s'' fra- .r, III ra,,o,ts tbe man and the
49, bad ! healthy cid time. This mean
80 80 - = = .,raat s,,o,tsrnan and he has 4
n ,.a n I;t+le rsyalJer that he can Kin rat
,;th fa ,, +;,nes an, az Eve. while the
fan,;l -, was away he cot 3 lot of blank
aart,-;a5as for tba revolver and he and
the yos1ng bopefnl used 10 20 down in
tbe base,9ent and fire blank cartridges
"A tha fnrnace door The little fellow
COT -, AZ he could shoot blank cartridges
RIA ! hero and he promised not to tell
anybody t6st nana had been teaching
him to shoot though he was as proud Of
his nrof;c;anev as could be. The family
col hack ana one evening there were
f,vo or three ladies in to spend the even
inc
Tha Marty missed the mean man and
fine little hoy. The mean man loaded
IRE revolver with blank cartridges and
told tba little fellow they would have
so,na fr,n He fixed the little fellow m
like an Indian and told him to take the
revolver and 20 n t,he sittinp-room and
yell Swbooo 3 and Are fine Whole seven
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

THE report of the United States Bail.
road Commissioner says that indications
are that in short time there viii be five
separate routes to the Pacific coast,
where less than year ago there was but
one. The tendency is still toward in
creased railroad development, principally
in the South and Southwest. 1t is be-
lieved that operations in railroad con-
struction this year will exceed those of
any preceding year. The general con-
struction Of the Pacific railroads is criti-
cised as not up to the standard. Congress
is asked to establish uniform system OF
railroad signals.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

AN EXCHANGE whose editor seems to
have had some experience, says: A
doctor will sit down and write prescrip-
ton time, five minutes; paper and ink.
one-fourth Of cent; and the patien.
pays 81, So, SIS, $40, as the case may be.
A lawyer writes ten or twelve lines Of
advice, and gets from $40 to $40 from his
client. An editor writes O half-colulnn
puff for man, pays man from fifty
cents to Fl for putting it in type, prints
it on several dollars worth of paper,
sends it to several Thousand people, and
then surprises the pulled man if he
makes any charge.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

HnrazszHrArrvs McMILnAx has intro
dncad = bill for the assessment and col
le1tinn * > three per oentum tar from
endh psEson or corporation doing bust
49, 10 the United States or Territories
on ~ not incomes above $1,000.
I4kpx LAND IGAauEBs IN ireland arc
u b ARRESTED, and for their reception. 4
special jail Is being provided. This
menas that, according 70 all Expectations.
lhess wii ba, for some time TO come,
iadiss n ~ u Ireland for political
0kanssa
Guy1sA1 Ciueinnati brewers, disgusted
Nh W. Wy The weather has been act-
~. axe putting IN ice macllincs, and
M have ioe Bhethar old Boreas willis il
eFnot Hypothetically speaking. il does
5ook - Il So&en and science were going
hand ID hsnd
1!aE anemory 81 Guiteau will be per
petuatea BY plaster easia the product Of
NE scu1ytor CLARK Mills, bat who II il
thst II anxious TO adorn their 1aautel-
piecae with co4des a il would be hard b
~. E'seryoue hes had etosf enough
n him slres6y,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

SENATOR CALL. of Florida, SenatSs
Jones, Of Louisiana, and other Congress
men, have bought the old Whitehall
gold mine. near the Wilderness battle
field, in Spottsylvanis County, Virginia.
Gold was first found there in 1909. The
mine was worked by Commodore Stock
ton from 1S4s until Just before the war
II has since been owned by Gilbert r.
Fox, Of Pennsylvania. Nearly 81, 000,-
900 worth of gold has been taken from
the mine.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21
Ir IS vol known that the very e

IT rs well known that the very faeblest
electric currents produce audible sounds
in the telephone, which Is more sensitive
10 weak currents than the most delicate
galyanometer. NJ. Pelat lately declared
that the heat necessary 10 warm Il
.kllogFanme ttwo and 9 quarter pounds
of water, one degree, il Converted prop
erly into the energy Of electric currents,
would suffice III produce iu d telephone
an audible sound for ten thousand years
continuously
On yes, said MRS. Brown. "A she
surveyed With evident 1lcasnre the little
liarlor sidejseatsl, covered will old china
and decorated si1b higiiiy -coleged tiles J;
Mr. B. remarked last nlght that was
becoming quite ~ afheisf, and tile old
lasy connlenanlp fairly heaEned with
delight ~ her e5ag Rsbted On A ae cont
japanese tea-pof. AeleQrt CiaH.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1882-01-21

VIZ BELIEVE there is a general demand
for fractional currency for convenience
in mailing purposes. Silver is out of the
question for this purpose, and postage
stamps are nuisance to business houses
receiving small orders by mail 1t is Of
little importance what shape this small
currency is in, just olong as it win serve
the purpose In question. Congress
Ought to make some provision at once.