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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
SUPPLEMENT-.
The President Message
wAsnrNaroy. D. @. Dec. J. 1881.

To the Congress Of the United states
Since the close of your last session the amer
can people in the exercise OF their highrst Iisnt
Of suffrage. have chosen thcll cHicI magistrate
for the four vn1rS t4.sufug. When u Is remem-
bcred that at no period in the country history
has the long political contest, which custOmarily
precedes the day Of the national election, been
waged with greater fctyor and iuteHslty, "
is a subject or Congratulauon thht httef
the controversy AZ the polls was oyeI,
and while the slight preponderance by whlch
the issue had been determined was as
vet uuaseertained the public peace suffered no
disturbance, but the people everywhere patiently
and quietly awaited the result Nothing could
more strillingly illustrate the temper OF the
American citizen; his love OF order, ana ms 10y
atty TO the law; nothing could more signally
demonstrate the strength ana WISDOM OF our
political institutions. Eight years have elapsed
since a controversy concerning the result or tue
national election sharply called the attention OF
congress to the necessity Of providing more pre-
else and definite regulations for counting the
electoral vote.
It is OF the greatest Importance that this ques-
ton be solved before conflicting" claims 10 the
presidency shall again distract the country, and
am persuaded that by the people al large any OF
the measures Of relief thus far proposed would
be preferred 20 continued inaction.
ouR RELATIONS WITH ALL FOREIGN POWERS
continue 70 be amicabe With Belgium a con
vention has been signed whereby the scope OF tie
present treaties have been so enlarged as 70 secure
10 citizens OF either country within the Jurisdlc-
ton Of the other. equal rights and privileges
in the acquisition and alienation OF property
trade mark treaty has also been concluded. The
war between Chill aud Peru Is at an end. For the
arbitration Of the claims Oft American citizens
who during its continuance suffered through the
acts OF the Chilian authorities, convention Will
soon be negotiated.
The state Of hostility between France aud
China continues 10 be an embarrassing Feature OF
our eastern relations. Ike Chinese government
has promptly adjusted and paid the claims OF
American citizens, whose property was destroyed
in the recent riots at Canton. I renew the recon-
mendation Of my last annual message, that the
Canton indemnify fund be returned TO China
The true Interpretation Of the recent treaty with
that country permitting restriction OF Chinese
immigration IS likely TO again be the subject Of
your deliberations ltmay be seriously question
ed whether the statute passed at the last session.
does not violate the treaty rights OF certain
Chinese who left this country with return certiii-
Gates valid under the old law, and now seem TO
he debarred from landing, from lack Of certiti-
Gates required by the new.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

Minnie Hauk had forty-six boxes
when she arrived in England from this
country. and Il took the custom-house
officers day and half 10 examine
them. Among the contents were sew
eral dozen little stuffed alligators,
which she iook over rs presents to her
friends. and il was only after rigid in
vestigation. which showed that they
were stuffed with wool and not with
dynamite. that they were allowed to
pass.
q Mexican priest claims to have DIS
covered key TO the Aztec writings.
He will publish book about it
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
M sILvER DoLLAR

concur with the secretary of the treasury in
rec mmending the immediate suspension Of coin
age Of silver dollars and of the issuance of silver
ce thcates, and this is a matter To which in for
mer communications / have more than once in
voked the attention of the national legislature
II appears that annually, for the past six years
there have been co nei in compliance with the
rcqu rements OF the act of Fen % 1873 more
than twenty seven million liver dollars and the
number now coined is reported 10y the Sc cretary
to be nearly one hundred aud eighty five million,
whereof but little mere than forty million, r less
than twenty-five per cent. are in actual cirCula-
ton, The mere existence ot this ct seem, to
me TO furnish of itself 60 gent argument tor the
REPEAL of the statute, whe has made such
fact possible. but there G,r other and graver
consideration that tend VA the same dir ction
The secretary avoWs his conviction that Unless
this coinage and the issuance az silver certificates
ne suspended. silver is likely at no distant day to
become our sole metallic standard.
The commercial disturbance and the impair
ment OF the national credit thar would thus be
occasiuned can scarce II be over estimated |
hope that the secretary's suggestion re pecting
the withdrawal from circulation of tie one dollar
aud uwodollar notes will receive your approval.
IL Is likely that considerable portion OF the sill
yer now incumberiug the vaults in the treasury
might thus ind its way into The currency. While
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

TIE BARrHoLDI STATUE or LIBERTY ESGIaHrESING
THE WORLD,
the generous gift Of the people OF France is ex-
pected 70 reach New York Ia May next | sug-
gest that congress may take action In relation
10 the spirit which has prompted this Cir, and
in aid OF the timely completion Of the pedestal
on which 1t is 10 be placed,
OUR RELATIONS WITH GERMANY,
a country which contributes 20 ours some OF the
best elements Of citizenship, continue 10 be cor
dial The United States have extraditiou treaties
with several Of the German states but by reason
OF the confederation OF these states under the
imperial rule the application Of such treaties is
not ms uniform and oompreh ensive as the inter
ests OF the two countries require. | propose,
therefore. 10 open negotiations for a convention
Of eXtradtion 10 embrace all the territory OF the
empire. Ii offers me pleasure 20 say that
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04
THE JEANETTE CREW.

The act Of congress approved August 7th. 1882,
authorized the removal to The United States of
the bodies OF Lieut. Commander, G.. w. belong,
and has c. mpauous Of the Jeanette expedition.
The remains were taken II ON their grave in the
Lena Delta / March, 1883, and were retained at
Yakuesk until the following winter, the season
be ny too tar adj anctd to ADMIT OF their imme
date transportation. They arrived at New York
February 20, 1854, where they were received
with suitable honOr.
In pursuance of the joint resolution Of congress,
approved February ID, 1884, naval expedition
was fitted out for
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Of the United States army, and of the party who
had be, engaged under lis command 10 scienti-
6c observations at Lady Franklin Bay. The fleet
consisted OF the steam sealer "Ihetis, purchased
in England the Bear, purchased at 81, Johns,
New Founoland and the Alert" which w1s
generously provided " the British government
Preparations Tor the Exception were promptly
maze by the secretary OF the navy Vita the ac-
uander Geo w. Coffin Was placed in command
of the Alert" and LiruL w II Emery in com
mand of the bear. The Thetis was in
trusted to commander Winfield :. SCH y &c
whom also was assigned the superintendent Of
the entire expedition.
Immediately upon its arrival at U9ernayik the
heet oegan the dangerous Navigation OF Melville
bay and IN spite of every obstacle, reached LIT
Teton Island gu June I'D fortnight earlier than
any vessel had before attained that point. On
the same day it crossed over TO Cape Sabine,
where Lieut.. Greedy and the other survivors Of
his party we're discovered. After taxing on board
the living and the bodies of the dead, the relief
ships sailed for St Johns, where they arrived on
July lith. They were appropriately received at
Portsmouth, n H. on August lst, and a. New
York on August Sth One OF the bodies was
landed az the former place the Others were put
ashore at Government island, and, with the eGcep-
tiun of one which was inferred In the national CEN
etery were forwarded 10 the destinations indicated
~ friends The organization and conduct OF this
relief expedition reflects great credit upon all
who contributed TO its success,
In this, the iast Of the state messages that
shall have the honor TO transmit 70 the congress
Of the United States, cannot too strongly urge
On its attention the duty OF
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-04

Secondly.--The establishment of the consular
service OF the United States on a salared footing
permitting the REIMBURSEMENT Of consular fees
not only as respects vessels under the national
flag, but also as respects vessels of the treaty OF
nations carrying goods, entitled 70 the benefit Of
the treaties.
Thirdiy-Tbe enactment of measures TO favor
the construction and maintenance Of a steam
carrying marine under the flag Of the United
States.
Fourthly-The establishment Of a uniform
currency basis for the countries Of America so
that the coined products OF our misses may cir
culate en- equal terms throughout the whole sys
teln OF the commonwealth. This would require
a monetary union OF America, whereby the out
put If the bullion producing countries and the
circulation of those which yield uelther gold nor
silver. could be adjusted in conformity with the
p pulation, wealth and commercial needs of
each.
As many of the countries furnish no bullion to
the common, stock the surplus OF reduction Of our
mines and minis might thus be utilized and
step taken toward the general reconciliation OF
silver To the accomplishment of these ends SO
far as they can be attain ed by separate treaties
the negotiations already concludes and ROW ia
progress have been directed, and the favor with
which this enlarged policy has thus far been re-
ceived warrants the belief that its operations wall
ere long embrace all. or nearly all, the countries
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quarter of mile from the we'll We walked
down there There the usual cellar that a
few cans of the stuff always digs when it goes
off, and the usual lot of timber felled Three
hundred feet off to the right of the road, in the
woods We found a wagon tire. We found the
tail OF one horse, and portions of the body of
another. In another part of the woods a man s
Knee was picked mp, and although we searched
over an area that it would have been impossible
for any of the wreck to have been thrown. that
was all we found, except Hanks greasy oil cap
lying by the side of stump and his watch hang
ing on the limb of a tree.
'As thoroughly as that does nitro-glyeerine do
its work. All who have had anything to do
with it in the oil regions have had illustration
after illustration Of its annihilatiVe power The
iron frames of wagons, and even nitro glycerine
safes, have been removed from human vision by
an explosion as efectually as if they had never
been formed. Look at that poor reckless devil
George Doran, who disappeared at Red Rock a
few years ago He was walking along with two
or three cans of glycerine slung over his shoulder
in a bag. TO rest himself he shifted the bag to
the other shoulder. In doing so he Jared the
cans together and disappeared, with goodly
portion of Red Rock. That man weighed all OF
POO pounds. All that the most thorough search
ever recovered of that POO pounds of flesh and
bone was a part Of one foOt-less than one
pound
''Some Swans have attempted to explain the
mystery of this Characteristic of nitro glycerine
by the theory Of instantaneous Importation of
could the great masses of bone in the human
body be vaporized in the twinkling of an eyet
Could iron be reduced to vapor in an instant!
1t doesn't seem so to me.
Others offer the theory of atomzation of mat
ter. This theory was disproveo by another most
melancholy occurrence in Allegany county, n
Y. two or three years ago. This case was not
characterized by such utter humiliation as others
Charles Berridge, well-known oil man, was
blown up by nitro glyeerine. The ground
around was covered with SDOtleSS. new-fallen
snow. On either side was a high and abrupt hill
only few rods apart. Berridge was a very
large man, of perhaps $50 pounds weight The
remains of the poor man were searched for care
fully and long, for he was a good man and a
popular one. The coffin in which they were
borne to the grave, contents and all, weighed but
fifteen pounds Now for the atomization theory.
The greatest force of nitro glyeerine explosion
is always upward. If the matter had been re
duced to atoms, however infnitesimal, in falling
back upon that spotless snow some trace of them
must have been seen upon it. But it remained
as spotless as before
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THE ENGLISH GIRL.
Healthy and Muscular but Not Altogether
Lovely.
London Letter.

London Letter.
At fourteen the English girl, fed on UNDERGONE
meat and bread and butter has the rawness Of
the one and the heaviness of the other She is
a curious mixture of sky frankness and awkard
Independence. She is purposeless, having few
tastes and no intellectual distractions. She is
sufficiently well drilled to repress alike hopes,
desires, and Impotence: no one knows or cares
to ascertain of what metal she is made; she ac-
cepts her lot with o semi bovine plaeidity. in
calm expectation Of the appointed hour when she
will finally the green baize door to enter it
again no more. Her mother is as little acquaint-
ed with her daughter as if they lived in separate
hemispheres, and is content with the reports
that come to her at stated intervals from the
areopagues of the sehoolroom.
But one day the chrysalis unfolds and the
English girl comes out This mysterious devel-
opment occurs suddenly, and with it is accom-
plished the third great Transformation Of her
life The metamorphosis is complete, She
throws off the thralldom of obedience, breakfasts
in bed, dimes late, casts away the disfgurng gar
Inents. wears Fonelou shoes and mouSquetare,
gloves, .ishtens her waist in an eighteeninch
Norwegian belt adopts style, makes her own
friends and accepts her own invitations, subject.
however, to the nominal veto Of her parents and
provided always that she moves in her own
set" She goes i'm for pursuit-aWn
tennis generally, but sometimes ritual
ism, cookery schools, high art or
hero worship She assimilates and enriches the
vocabulary of slang her frankness becomes ehaff.
her freedom an assumption OF almost IhaSculue
fastness She rides in the Row with correct
groom no longer at the bride REIN hut discreetly
far in the rear, and stops at the park railings 10
banter the "detrimentas" sucking their canes in
vacuous and hopeless admiration, She recruits
male guests for her mothers ''at homes and
fits in and out of the company in quest of her
own pleasure, mindless Of those graceful hospi-
talites which become the daughter of the house.
She is not yet promoted to the ceremo NAL dinner
parties, but, in virtue of her being out she is
asked to all other gatherings, and her
name is printed on the parental cards. Talk
with her and You will find few traces
of that education 50 scrupuously carried on in
uninterrupted privacy. The foreign govern,sses
have not given fluency to the British Tongues her
reading is limited OF forgotten, for She knows
little of her own literature, less Of any other;
Reybaud, Sandeau, Theuriet are strangers to
her; Alexandra Dumas and G. Sand she has
heard of, though. like Walter Scott they are
dreadfully Slow but she reads Zola in railway
carriages, and laughs moderately when Judic
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Schools in the Wess.

So many people write me. asking about schools
and tie ike in the far West that | want TO say
here and once for all that the schools there are
about as good they are here. And that is
saying they are good enough for the best. l am
pcrpetually provoked by these inquiries and sug
gestions that the far West is wild country
with wild people. Some say here that the people
of Oregon, and California also, and other like
lands out there. are much better read and better
bred. too, than the people of New York Take
the statistics of crime Seven murders in New
York to one in Dragon! Prison records show
about the same fearful balance. As for schools.
briefly the University of Oregon is the peer of
anything of the kind here. An, wonderful and
well informed p Atlantic States, Don't YOU
know that we have the same books out there. the
same papers. everything! And the only difference
is We read them: you don't We have no lighted
cities to walk in at night, no theaters to 90 10:
and so we read and read and read. And tlIus it
is that the Oregouian or the Californian is. in It
general way, far better informed than the New
York man. doubt if you Will find any average
Western man who is not well up in Putarch.
Plato and Nenophen. Yet during all my years
in New York l never once heard Of these. How
ever, l must admit that l found a man and his
wife reading PlUtarch here in Washington the
other evening. I must add that thcy are from
the West
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New York Mail and Express.

I
The elder Weller's warning to Samivel to be-
ware of the vidders' would seem particularly
pertinent to all England just now. The latest
census shows that at the close of the year 1881
there were in England and Wales more than
one million widows, with Scotland and ireland
to hear from. The same returns exhibit not
one-half that number of widowers, so that a So
luton of difficulties does not readily present it
self. And what makes the situation still more
appalling is the statistical statement that nearly
sixty thousand of these widows are under thirty
five years of age. Marrying men, even widow
ers, will want to know how these million widows
managed to dispose of their husbands More
particular inquiry throughout the kingdom for
the late census seems TO have come to a stand
still but it was 'estimated' that the number of
widows in Scotland and ireland was three times
that of the widowers
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REPORT oil arthur MccthE.
The speaking in this meeting was almost phe-
nomenally bad in manner. As to its matter
You have had an opportunity ere this to judge
for yourself. Henry Ward Beecher was the
only master of oIatory. His power i'll entertain
ing an audience is wonderful indeed.
Henry isn't doing very well tonight re-
marked Mrs. Beecher who was in a group Of
women on the platform.
Still. he was arousing his hearers, and making
them do a very large amount of noise.
He never prepares himself for Il speech, the
critical wife continued in reply to questions II
don't mean TO say that he sets out to speak on
subjects with which he isn't familiar. or that he
doesn't make up his mind in general way as to
what he is going TO say; but lie never fixes on
any forms of eXpression-all that is left to the
inspiration of the moment. l have often known
him to be led by some triiine interruption in the
midst Of an address into a side issue that com
pletely took the place Of what he would other
wise have said-itltering the whole character Of
the speech. I often tell him that he would do
better if he laid out his work more in advance
and trusted less to luck, but he replies that he
is too old to learn new methods Do | enioy
hearing him speak2 What a question! rs il
I'd say so in case ! didn't. But | assure YOU
conscientously do | am a firm believer IT,
that husband of mine.
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TERRIBLE NITRo-GLYCERINE.
Its Power of AnniIIilation Proved by Many
Dreadful Instances.

New York Sun.
quently follow the handling of nitro-glyeerine in
the oil regions" said Myron K. Paige, formerly
an oil operator in Pennsylvania. there is one
feature the mysterious nature of which is
startling. 1t has puzzled scientific observation
and study, and do not believe to-day that any
satisfactory explanation can be given of it. This
singular feature is the almost complete annihia-
ton of matter, especially of the human body,
which, in a majority of cases, results from q
fatal explosion of this deadly compound. have
noticed it in many instances, and the fact was
again called to my mind by the article |
read in the Sun the other day about the finding
of a human hand by fisherman in an isolated
portion of the oil regions and the absence of all
trace of any other remains That story, by the
way, was doubtless startling one to many who
read it, but to any one who ever lived in the oil
country it was simplythe telling of the old trag-
edy in a new form.
Il had teamster once in my employ-poor
Hank France. Like all men of his kind in the
oil country, there was nothing either above, be
low or on the earth that he feared He was in
the habit Of carting nitro-glyeerine to any well
where wanted to use it, and he and his com
panion, Warren Jack, actually got so reckless in
handling the stuff that other help l had would
not stay at work when they knew Hank was
coming in with glycerine, but went to safe dis
lance until he had deposited the explosive they
required and had gone away.
Hank and Warren actually used to unload
the stuff the same as they would lot of bricks,
Hank standing in the wagon and throwing a can
TO warren some feet away, and Warren catching
it and placing it on the ground in time to catch
the next one that Hank tossed him. AS it takes
man with good set Of nerves to even ride in
a wagon when he knows there is nitro glycerine
under the seat, this manner of handling com
pound that the slightest jar frequently explodes,
will give you an idea of the sort of nerves those
Two men had. Each one knew that if Warren
happened to miss catching can there wouldn't
be enough left of them to cover the bottom of
a snuff box, but they had the daring to take the
chances
mo one ever knew what caused it, and no one
would ever have known who it was that was
wiped out, except from the fact that they knew
who it was that would be coming that way with
nitro glycerine Just about that time, and from
one or two things we found; but when we heard
the explosion that day we said That's Hanks
last trip The gycerine' had exploded about a
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a Tempernnee Editorin1.

From "Reminiscences OF Il Bohemian.
"Previous to this. on myreturn from Europe,
had been connected with literary and miScel
laneous weekly paper called the Leader. pub
lished by man named Webster. Then formed
the acquaintance of William North the author
of the Slave of the Lamp a very clever book
and who eventually committed suicide in Bond
street. He never drank OF smoked, though he
wanted to do both. 1t made him so sick that he
could not. He came in one day to Webster. the
proprietor of the paper, and said. Webster,
want to borrow So He had AZ
tanned frst-class literary reputation at
that time. Well Webster said, i should
like to lend you SO, but the best way
for you to get that sum is TO earn it. Now, if
you will sit down and write me 81 good article
will give you ten dollars for it. How long must
it BET North inquired. Well. said Webster
the shorter the better At that time the great
subject before the public was the Maine law. In
this paper every man signed his name h. what
he wrote. North said. i will write YOU an article
on the Maine law After five minutes thought
he produced the following:
- i would rather see the whole world drunk
from choice, than one man sober from compul-
SION
1T was columns of argument in a nutshell
Webster gave him his SO and North went on
his way rejoicing"