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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

return. Hs viii probably be sent as min
lister 10 Turkey. N'
Mrs L1NcoLN has not yet decided on
summer plans Her health is slowly i'm
proving, but she ia not able 10 ace friends
"a generally as she Gesires.
AS the presidents cottage at the Sol
diers' Home is all ready for him and some
Of his servant are tow there, il 8 infer
red that he expects 20 remove there soon.
THE president accepted another fifty
m lie sec ion Of tho Northern Pacific rail-
road ia Montana, This section recently
completed extends from the 550,h to The
6)0th M lie Of the road west oG the Mis-
souri, river.
TEE ya.ue 0: exports Of petroleum and
petroleum produces for March was SO 1923
1876; far the nine months ended March
81, 1888, Sl2 623, S73; for the CORRESPOND
ing period Of the same year. S3S 207 257.
TuE department Of state has advioes
from United States consuls in Ireland
that no exceptional distress exists in that
country. although in many agricultural
districts the peasantry are in a state cf
abiect poverty, which has come to be re-
gerded a. their normal condition. The
consuls report tha, they have no knowl-
edge Of plans Tor the deportation Of pau
pers to the United States.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
Oil Heal.

Within comparatively a few years
the consumption of oil meal in this
country has rapidly extended until at
the present time there is scarcely an
agricultural or stock-raising district in
the older portions of the United States
in which the article has not found
market. The value of cotton seed oil
meal as a fertilizer is too well known
to require special mention by us. Its
importance in this field has been long
recognized by southern planters, and
for many years they consumed nearly
the total yearly product in enriching
their lands. The eastern states have
more recently taken up oil meal, both
for stock feeding and fertiizing pur-
poses, and the farmers there are now
among the largest consumers in this
country. Since corn and other stock
food have reached such a high cost
some Of the western cattle and hog
raisers have turned to oil meal, and
have substituted it to a great extent for
corn, especially in the fatteniug OF hogs
for the market. 1t has been found that
oil meal Is particularly adapted for this
purpose, containing all the essential
elements of corr, its fat-producing
qualities being equal if not superior to
the latter, while it is far cheaper and
more easily handled. The chances for
an extensive growth of consumption
in this direction are very encouraging,
while for fertilizing it is one of the
cheapest and most valuable composts
in the market. Recently consumers
have become somewhat fastidlous re-
garding the quality and appearance of
the meal, but the objections are being
overcome by manufacturers, who are
paying more attention to the produc-
ton of the article, and there is mark
ed i'm provement already noticeable
Texas Farmer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

sealed brood from hives strong enough
to spare it. Unsealed brood is likely to
chill, if given TO weak colony, and be
lost. AS the colony grows stronger,
more brood may be given it. Poor
queens should be superseded as soon
as possible by those that are redundant
in eggs. Wien hives are united, the
most prolific queen should always be
retained. Queens of the best quality
are 20 easily and cheaply secured, that
it never pays to tolerate q poor one.
Colonies may be easily, quickly, and
safely united. Move the Two hives q
little day by day-three or four feet
aulil they are side by side. II moved
too far at first, the bees will 90 back
to their ole stand, and, not fading the
cid home, viii be lost, or attempt to
enter some strange hive and be killed.
When the hives are close, side by side,
smoke the bees Thoroughly in both
hives, that they may fill them
selves with honey. Bees, ike
men, are better natured when
the stomach is well filled, and usually
meet kind reception from their mate
when they came laden with honey.
Destroy the poorest queen, and separate
the combs containing brood in the hive
where she has previously reigned, and
ill in with the brood combs Containing
brood, bees, queen, and all, from the
other hive. Thus the frames from the
TWO hives will alternate IN their new
position. Confne the combs with the
divi.ion-board, cover all warmly, and
add frames of comb or foundation"
rs reeded by the growing colony.
The same journal remarks as follows
on the use OF comb foundation:
No discovery, if we except the Llnga-
troth hive and the Extractor, has done
so much to advance agriculture as that
of comb foundation. No one should
think of doing without foundation in
the brood chamber. We advise the
use of wire frames. Then the cells
will not be enlarged by sagging, the
foundation viii not fall from the frames,
it will not warp and bend, and the
frames Of comb will be secure and safe
to ship. Good foundation must have
very thin bases to the cells. and high
walls, the wax of which shall not be
much compressed. Such foundation
is made by the roller machines. Foun-
dation is also very valuable for sections,
for which we would use seven feet to
the pound, and only worker size. If
one has less than one hundred colonies
of bees, it will hardly pay him to pur-
chase a mill unless he desires to man
uiacture foundation to sell.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
Criminal.

CoMANcHEs have been committing dep.
relations upon stock. growers in Cara
county, Texas.
AN ex-speaker of the New Jersey house
OF representatives. has been arrested at
Elizabeth upon the charge of attempting
10 bride A'sembl lyman Armitage, of New
ark, at the late session of the legislature.
A BRANCH of O'Donavan Rossa's Irish
Revolutionary league was recently
organized in New York, with member
ship of one hundred. Dynamite is the
rock upon which the society is built.
PAYMAsTER WATSON. OF the United
States army. who claimed to have been
robbed of $4,000 on q railway train, near
Fort Worth, Texas, has confessed that he
WAS not robbed; but. there being def
cheney of $500 in his accounts, he ab-
stracted $lS,500 more. the hiding place OF
which he has revealed to his superior off.
cers. His bondsmen will make good the
embezzlement Of 81, 500.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
The Beginnings OF Sickness.

Never tribe with what is called small ailments.
disorder easy Of control at first it neglected for
a few weeks may become mortal di'ease. BE cs-
peeially careful not TO let debility gain upon you
for i. is the door through which all maladies en-
ter the system. Ityou feel languid, inert, and to
use common expression, as il there was no life
lett IN You resort NJ once to Hossettsr's St0m-
ach Buffers That great vegetable tonic viii sup
ply the vitality you SO urgently need. l, is
nerve TODD. BY its tonic action the stomach Is
SO inviserated that digestion becomes regular
easy perfect. while It's mild, csthartic properties
relieve the bowels trem Instructions and It's alter
alive operation benthcially affects all the secret
we organs For the mNeries Of dyspepsia, and
they include almost every unpleasant feeling that
belongs % physical disease and mental wretohe3-
ness, this potent tonic is a certain and speedy
balm
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
GIeanings,

Cathani Bey, q banker, who died
recently in Cairo, left property worth
$25, 100000
Charles G. Francklyn has reached
New York from the West Indies in the
yacht Speranza.
Mr.. Cable, the New Orleans novelist,
is paid by only one Of three British
publishers who are bringing out editions
of his works.
Professor Paul Haupt, of Gottingen,
comes to America to take the professor
ship of Semitic Languages at John Eop-
kins University.
General II. II. Bingham has agreed
to make the principal address at the
meeting of the Society of the Army of
the Potomac In Washington.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston has
placed memorial window in st. PauPs
p. E. Church, Baltimore, in memory
of her sons, James Buchanan and Har-
ny Johnston.
John f. Slater, of Norwich, Conn,
has given $l0.0 900 to the Park church
of that town.
Elk Secretary Evarts says 100000 of
the Bartholdi statue fund have been
raised
Mr. Arthur has agreed to attend the
4th of July celebration at Woodstock,
Conn.
Peter Cooper Is to have statue in
Stuyvesant Square, 10 be known as Coo
per Square, New York.
Ex-Cadet Whitaker, of West Point
notoriety, has become teacher in q
Chan lesion school.
Prof. Crouch, the composer of Kath-
l3en MavJurneen, will have a bent fit at
the Baltimore Academy of Music on
Decoration Day.
Mr.. Bancroft, the historian, VINO is a
student of German affairs, thinks that
Bismarck S greatly mistaken in pur-
suing Sc policy of repression.
President Arthur will, it ia reported,
spens the Fourth of July at woodstock,
Conn, the guest of Mr.. Henry c
Brown.
Dr. Thomas Eyens, the fashionable
American dentist of Paris, mas been
visiting the Prince Of Wales ut Sand
bingham.
Boston papers say that the engage
ment of Miss Harriet Thayer to Mr..
John F. Andrew, son Of the late Cover
nor Andrew, Is announced.
Liautenant Governor Meyer, ofColo-
RADIO, was taken with the small-p ox
recently while visiting his cattle ranch
near Las Vegas, y. Nj. There are no
fears Of a disastrous result.
A bronze statue of General Simon
Bolivar, by La Cova, was cast in a New
York foundry yesterday. A distin-
guished company was present, includ-
ing ex-senator Window.
The Duke of Edinburgh is response
bic for the latest English craze--mule-
riding. He introduced the fashion by
himself riding one of the particularly
fine mules which nc obtained in Egypt.
The Pope has released from her
VOWS the nun in the Hochelaga Con-
vent, Montreal, whose alleged deten-
ticn caused a sensation few weeks
since, and the syoung woman has re-
turned to her family.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
RenOvatlng Old Trees.

Among the various specifics for rem.
Oyating old trees is that of peelipg the
lark from root to branch in midsnm.
mer, a practice which has no founda.
ton 10 tree physiology, but, as with
ringing or girdling, it causes an undue
growth Of the present years TOP and
great crop of fruit buds. to be followed
with increased fruitage next year and
dwarted condition thereafter. An
other practice is that OF scrapino
which writer in the New York Trib'
une thus comments most sensiblv,
at is the season for annual recon-
mendations to scrspe and wash the
trunks OF fruit trees. The washing NAV
be all very well, but il best done early
in June, when some of the iriurions
insects have patched out and when
parent insects are looking where to de-
post their eggs. But as to the scran-
ing, say don't 20 it. As well might
one recommend the scratching off Of
TIE scabs from child's sores. The
trunks of trees need, in our climate.
all the shade froln the burning sum-
mer sun that can be gwen, and a con-
slant upward flow of sap TO keep the
whole structure cool and free Secure
this by ample food and good tillage; or.
best of all, where practicable, by lib,
eral, widespread mulch like that which
nature supplies in her unf4iling Gull
ture, and there will not be seen any
occasion for scrapiBg, for the stems,
continually swelling out with growth,
ADD moist with abundant sap, will
show none o. the wrinkles of old age
or of the rays of poverty"
The Farmer and Ffuit-Grower SAYS:
The season thus far has been most
propitious to both fruits and vegetables.
No injury to either has occurred but
what will in reality benefit the coming
crops. Taere has not been a
better prospect for many years than
tnat which now is presented to our
fruit growers, shippers, and truckers.
Chicago dealers should prepare for I'm
usual quantities of all kinds OF produce.
or they will surely be overstocked.
There will be 3 loud call for refrigerator
cars for shipping to distant points. The
preparations for tomatoes arc on an
enormous scale. Melons and cucum-
bers will be in large supply. The peach
trees are good for above an average
amount Jf this fruits. The plum trees
are ''plum full' Of incipient fruit. The
cherry and apple trees are not behind
the others IN promise. OF berries,
grapes, &C., there will be larger crops
than ever before known. Such is the
outlook at present, and but little fear
for The future is expressed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
Thick or Thin Needing.

There seems to be q wide divergence
OF opinion regarding the amount of
wheat necessary TO SOW TO the acre.
Some good farmers still adhere TO the
old practice of bushel and a half.
while others equally good say that one
bushel is a great plenty. We are of
the opinion that the latter class have
the better of the argument. A bushel
and half or bushel and a peck of
seed will not produce so plump a berry
as when the roots have plenty of room
to spread, which they do in thin seed
ing, Ii has been proven conclusively
that II does not psy to crowd corn or
garden vegetables, and that four stalks
OF the former in hill are better than
eight, and that they will bring q finer
and larger crop. Even on a crop that
will yield so abundautly and with 80
little care as field beans, experience
has proven that thick planting brings a
smaller return than thin in quantity
Rs we'll as quality. Cabbages, beels,
all varieties of melons, etc, grow bet
ter, produce more largely and yield
finer crops where ample space is al
lowed the roots to run. If this be true
in one case, why not in the other? II
cabbage needs room to develope into
big head, why should not the wheat
plant, which sends ont its little fibrous
rootlets for several inches in every d.
rection, seeking for nourishment and
moisture? A bushel of seed to the
acre makes q large, plump, handsome
kernel, and produces in the aggregate
more bushels to the acre than viii
more seed-tni5 is the result of q sore
what extended observation. II any OF
our readers Eave opinions to the con-
trary, We should ike to hear from
them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

Mn. BLISS TUNED his oratorical bat
teries upon Stephen w. Dorsey's par.
ticular branch of the Star route con-
spiracy yesterday with skill and vigor
that was particularly annoying 10 the
fro2en-facl statesman and his counsel.
He showed that ten out of the twelve
routes which fell Ito Dorsey's share were
expedited in less than three months
after they came into his possession,
and, but for the installation of James
MaoVeagh into the post office and law
departments, there was no telling where
the thing would have ended. Unless
the defendants are very sure of Il jury
man or two or are in a terrib' demon.
allied condition ameng themselves.
they vii. probably be stung into making
n reply to Bliss terrible arrangement d
their practices.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
AYANKEE GIRLS PLUCK.
she Horsewhipped Iembe- of the
Legion of Honor in Paris.

Lucy Hooper in her letter in the
Philadelphia Ledger says: ! recently
heard OF an action on the part of 8
young American girl toward g French
woman insulter which has Tilled my
soul with admiration and delight. The
young lady in question, who Is re-
fined modest, and high bred young girl,
is staying with some member OF her
family 81 one Of the prominent hotels
on the Avenue de iOpera. AS her
dress and manners are alike unOb.
trusiye, she never hesitated to 90
out alone whenever business or inclina-
ton impt led her to do 30. One would
fancy that on that wide brilliant ave
nue., in broad daylight, quiet, modest
young lady, IL the city deemed the
center Of the worlds civilization would
be perfectly safe from annoyance CT
molestatiou of any kind; such was not
the case.
For few weeks past, whenever she
ventured out alone she was followed
and accosted by stylishly-dressed in
divldual about 43 years old, wearing
the red ribbon Of the Legion of Honor
in his button. hole. This parsonage
would not only follow her, but would
address her in language ofthe fulsome,
complimentary style, would thrust his
face under her bonnet, would go 81 few
steps in front of her and would then
look back and leer at her, and in fact
he conducted himself in the manner
that a well bred Partisan gen leman
usually considers proper to assume
when he meets al unprotected girl.
This went on for some time to the in
finite annoy ance of the young lady.
Her tormenter never made his ap-
pearance when her brother was with
her, on when there was policeman
III hailing distance-on these occasions
he Kept discreetly out of the way.
Finally, the other day the affair
came to climax. The young lady
was returning to her hotel about 3
O'Clock in the afternoon, when her
persecutor made his appearance and
began tormelting her as usual. The
hunted girl worried, wearied, and ex-
asperated, was at last wrought up to
the highest pitch of Indignation and
nervous excitement. CHANGING to pass
a cab stand, by q sudden impulse she
snatched one'of the drivers whips from
lis socket, and turning on her tormen-
ter she cut him sharply across the face
with the lash. Being taken bp sur
prise, he started back and let fall his
hat. AS he stopped to pick it up she
followed up her advantage, raining
blow after blow on his head and shout
ders, so stunning and bewildering Kim
that he was some time in discovering
his lost head-gear, every moment OF
which she employed to the best advan-
tage. AT last, catching his rescued
hat, he fled from the scene as fast as
his legs could carry him, followed by
the laughter and jeers of the whole
line of cabmen, VINO heartily sympa.
thized with the brave young heroine
of the scene. And 30 one OF the
weman insulters OF Paris has at last met
with ais deserts, and at the hand of an
American girl! felt inclined TO cry
with the Jolly old cAbman, when he re-
caived back his useful whip, "Bravo,
That was well donep
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

TN president is evidently waiting
for the returns from the back counties
before appointing successor to Com
missioner Raum. About fifty ex. con-
grcssmen presented their claims within
the first two days after the resignation
took place, and new applicants are dig
ging themselves up every day since
that time. The two Illinois senators
are reported to be at Washington urg-
ing the claims of Mr.. Matthews, a
favorite son Of that state, who seems to
have been duNnown to fame hitherto.
If the president waits patiently few
days longer he may hear of somebody
who hasn't asked for the office. If lac
does he should appoint him at once
lie is the kind of y man wanted to I'll
the place man who can get living
eFithout sn office.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
Accidents.

AN earthquake shock was experienced
at Helens, Montana, shortly before noon
w Wednesday.
THE door OF farm house near New
Philadelphia, Ohio, in which q large com
pauy WAS gathered, gave way on Sstur-
day, precipitating all into a deep cellar.
Several persons were injured, at least one
of them fatally.
4 SERIOUS collision occurred recently
between two engines on the Third avenue
elevated railway, in New York, between
Sixty-ninth and Seventeen streets. One Of
the 6rcmeu was fatally injured, but none
of the passenger were seriously hurt. One
OF he boilers was crushed in. the hot
water scalding horses and foot passengers
on the street below,
THE military aud municipal authori-
ties ut Halifax are on the alert to prevent
the conslmmation of the Fenisn plot
communicated by Sir John Mcdonald 10
the lieutenant governor Of Nova Scotia.
The conspiracy is alleged 10 have been
Matched a. secret meeting Il land
leasuers in Philadelphia last week, to
which a government detective obtained
admission.
NORTHERN Illinois and southern Wis
.consin suffered severely by the storm of
Wednesday evening. In the town Of Hamil-
ton, Lee county, "a nupber of farm-boUses
and out-buldings were blown down, in one
family man was killed and four others
were badly injured Ia d number q In
stances elsewhere, farmers sustained in
jury TO property or person. In the town 81
Rock, nesr Janesville, Wisconsin, con
siderable damage was done 10 farm prop.
erty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

IN may be expected that there viii
be a great deal of wild and foolish talk
indulgad on the subject of delivering
up the irisnmen in this country who
have been indicted for alleged oflenses
in Ireland. Such talk can avail moth
ing. The duty of the United States
government is made plain by the trea-
tiea and the laws, and it should not,
and presumably will not, be influenced
10y anything else.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

THAT was a good specimen Of Jersey
justice that might be proGtably copied
out west, which discovered burglar
on Saturday and had him safe at work
in the ponitentisry the next Thursday
on term of eight-years service. That
is what might be called railroading Il
criminal to prison, and the example is
a good one. In the above case there
were no delays, no straw bail, no change
of venue, no appeal-nothing but swift,
memorable justice.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
The Great Oil CONFEDERATION.

SEARCH FOR THE BODIES OF THE DEAD.
JERSEY CITY, n. 1.-The search for
the bodies of u fireman and boy killed
by the explosion Of y tank of oil on fire
which vest, rday destroyed the Nation
al storage compsny's works at Covau
Point Thus far a small quantity of
charred human bones nave been
found in two different places under
pieces of iron, which was probably all
that was lief. Of the two victims The
bones were put into a key. The water
vas dragged without success.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17
Work in the Apiary for Nay.

The American Agriculturist gives
the following in the May number just
received
May is busy month in the apiary.
If in good condition, the brood ought
now 10 be abundant, and the growing
hives will show that rapid prepar a
tons is under way for the coming har-
vest of white clover and raspberry
honey. II any colony is weak, il
should either be united with another
colony, or build up by adding combs of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

DYNAMITE looks very. much like
moist brown sugar. Nitro-glycerine,
which is formed by the action of nitric
acid upon glycerine at a low tempera-
ture, is the active agent in dynamite,
but it " mixed with some absorbent
substance to make it safer to handle
than the liquid nitro-glycerine. The
absorbent material used Is silicious
earth, fine white powder composed
of the remains of lnfusoris. and re-
sembling powdered chalk. This takes
up two or three times its weight of
nitro-glycerine without becoming pasty,
and the ingredients are easily mixed,
leaden vessels and wooden spoons being
used 10 avoid dangerous friction. If
fire is applied to this mass it burns
with strong fame, but will not ex-
plode, but when ignited by detonat-
ing fuse, or even by sudden blow, its
explosive force is tremendous, being
six times that of gunpowder.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

j. all the lawyers IN the star route
trial on both sides shall speak in their
closing arguments as ridiculously long
rs Ker and Bliss have spoken, it will
be sometime towards midsummer
when the case shall so to the jury,
Several of these lawyers are yet to
speak. 1t is mere matter of killing
time in order to prolong services for
very big pay. The jury they are boo
ing with their absurd verbosity is just
rs ready to agree or disagree on YER
dict now rs it ever will be, and every
lawyer in the case knows it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-17

IT is estimated at the postoilice de-
partment that under the recent change
In computing the commissions of the
fourth class postmasters an expendi-
fure of 100000 more than would have
been required under the old law will
he necessary to settle the accounts Of
the fourth class Offices up to October
I, when the cent postage law goes
into operation.