Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-12-28

the adjoining mounds, is doing the
mischief
TnE Zinc Works, since the re-
pairs on the oxide fan with the hol-
low shaft and iron box covering this
fan, seem to be jogging along very
nicely. Oxide is now being barreled
ready for the market.
No Christmas season in the his
tory of Mineral Point pleased the
merchants so much as this People
seemed loaded with "filthy Iucre."
and were generally extrayagant, 50
to speak, in their purchases.
HAD the weather permitted the
coruet baud would have given our
citizens some music on Christma3.
Tue "boys promise that they will
play on High street next Saturday
evening, if the weather will allow.
Masonic INsrALLATIoN.-Mineral
Point lodge, No /, and Iowa Chap
ter, No s, will install officers to-
morrow evening, the ceremonies
beginning at : o'clock, sharp. The
TRIBUNE is favored with an invita-
ton.
DIR FIsHBLATr, of the Medical and
Surgical Institute of Iowa, will not
visit this city on the 27th of Janu-
airy as first advertised, but will be
here on the 2Oth of February. Those
who intend calling on the doctor
must govern themselves accordingly.
CANCER "A post mortem eXami-
nation developed that the late Geo.
Priestley, father of oal good mayor,
died from he effects of cancer,
which had involved not only the
stomach, but tue transverse colon,
spleen, kidneys and other viscera.
He had been afflicted with it about
two years.
That gun is soldl Secondhand
guns must be in great demand, judy
/ ing from the number of persons who
have visited this Office with a view
Of ouying, and the letters from Bel
mont, Dodgeville, and ReWey, max
ing inquiry regarding condition,
size Of bore, weight, etc. 1t does
pay to advertise.
MAYOR PRIEsrLY did a good
thing last week in PROHIBITING coast
ing on some of this city's thorough
fares. Another good move would
be to put a stop to the throwing of
snow-bals, Spirited horses are
nearly unmanageable when passing
through lot Of snow balls, and a
lone lad from the country don't en-
JOY being peltcd with snow by
eight or ten town boys. 1t was a
great nuisance last Tuesday.
SOME of the young men who
doubted that the oxide fan shaft was
hollow from end to end, while il
was at Lanyon's machine shop, had
the fact demonstrated to them by
having pulverized charcoal blown
into their eyes by practical iokers
at the opposite end of the shaft. 1t
can now be seen at the Zinc Works,
where a continuous stream of water
is forced through it; this to keep il
cool
Mr. j. NJ. DALE, the popular ok
Of Circuit Court, whose term Of Of
fee expires with this year, will at
once commence canVassing the
county for subscriptions to Hills
Manual. As an instructor in social
and business affairs this book has nc
equal in the market 1t is complete
to the letter in telling how to ID
business, and how to be social, and
should be in every household When
! you see johnny, secure a copy
IL another part Of this paper we
publish tue prospectus Of the Nil.
waukee RepuJlieaa-Seatiaek Il il
readily conceded by all newspaper
readers in this State that the Repu5
1 Hcua-Seatiael, under its present man
agement is the best paper in Wis
consin, and the best she ever had.