Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-02-09

Miss Sadie Sims, of Dodgeville is
spending this week among friends
here.
1T has been stated that lady ton
sor is employed in the barber shop
Al. Wonzor, of Platteville.
The new school building at Dod-
gevillo will be ready for the purpose
for which it was built next Monday.
Orville Strong, Esq. whom every
one --or nearly so,--in this place
knows and estecms, was in from
Dodgcville Monday on business
Potatoes are not first class prop
erty this winter, many who secured
a winter supply are beginning to find
it difficult to pick out wholesome
meal.
Miflin has been afflicted with
sickness to an alarming extent of
late--.diphtheria being the weapon
used by the angle of death, which
fell on old and young alike.
&c. Andrews, of Des Moines,
Iowa, and son-in-law of John Gray,
Esq. arrived on Mondays train for
twoweek's stay among old friends
and aequaintances in Mineral Point.
FNeport Beelletia, Freeport for
several years entertained good hop
es that there would be a road built
between there and Dodgeville. A
portion of the road was graded and
the men who performed the work
never received a dollar for their la
Dor.
THE Hon Geo. G.. Hazelton, has
introduced bill in congress that
considerable interest attaches to.
la isshe proposes to pension, for
injui les actually incurred in the
linef y duty, persons serving in the
life Swing, railway-mail, and in-
.ernal revenue services of the Unit
ed States
Tne Good Tcmplars lodge insti-
tuted at Mitilin last summer by j.
b. Teasdale, is prospering very well
considering the many obstacles it
has to encounter. 1t elected w. r..
Davis and J. II. Clayton as dele
gates to the District Convention
held at Mineral Point, this week.
Miffiin does not grant license, hence
there is no open saloon and the
drinking is done in the woods in
summer, and shops, stable, etc, in
winter.
IF yon don't advertise, don't read
this, which is void of poetry, but
loaded with truth: Ask some men
to advertise, they answer they do
not believe in advertising-a paper
is never read. Let the man be
caught kissing his neighbours wife,
OF trying to hold up the side Of a
building, some dark night, and his
tune changes instantly, and if the
printing Office is in the garret of a
seventeen story building he will
climb to the top to beg the editor to
be quiet t~don't publish it in the paper,
and next time you see me down town
we'll have the cigars.
WEIrING paper and cnycloyes loc
per box at Mineral Pt. Book Store.
lMonroe Sun: Editors are gener.
ally supposed to possess great deal
of knowledge, and we suppose some
of them do. But it is a mistake to
suppose that an editor knows every
thing There are many things an
editor doesn't know. He doesn't
know how an honest man can grow
rich in an office to which little or no
pay is attached. He doesn't know
how an intelligent woman admire or
wear spoke" bonnet. He doesn't
know how muley COW can be dis
honest when it is impossible for her
to hook anything. He doesn't know
how man can be political demagog-
ne and Christian. He doesn't know
why a petty thief should be punish
ed with Imprisonment, when the
man who steals a million dollars
simply goes abroad for his health.
He doesn't know why it is that:
The Judge condemns the man or woman