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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10
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Milwaukee Sentinel.
PROSPECTUS FOR 1884.

The Milwaukee SENTINEL is the BEST larp.
est and most widely circulated wspaper
published in the State
For Wisconsin readers the Senfinc /. the
best newspaper published for the reason hat.
besides containing the general news az the
day as fresh and complete rs any other jont1l-
al, 1t makes q special feature NJ State news.
and the discussion Of matters rra ing 10 the
interests of the State
The year 1884 will be one of unusli activity
and Importance ia political affs rs Besides
The Presidential election, member. az con.
gress, state and county officer. and q legis-
ature will be chosen in This Slate Every
voter who desires to keep informed respecting
the progress of the canvass should read the
sentinel, which, while discussing The issue, of
the canvass from a Republican standpoint in
It's editorial columns, will give the current
political news as full, as full accurate and i'm
partial as possible in its news department.
The Daily Sentinel contains The latest and
most complete financial and commercial news
of the day, with full and accurate market re-
ports.
In the Weekly and Sunday Editions of the
Sentinel, besides the current news, there will
be found large amount OF literary aud mis-.
cellaneous reading stories, sketches, poetry,
anecdotes, etc, etc. The Weekly Sentinel
also makes special feature of agriculture and
dairy matters and such market reports AS are
of importance to farmers
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10
PINE BLUFF, Wis, Dec. 9th.

ONLY nine of the thirty-eight
states are to be punished with legis-
latiye session this year.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

THERE are but two or three editors
in Congress. This is accounted for
from the fact that, as a rule, when
editors quit editing they desire
promotion
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

FRIDAY morning the thermometer
marked 10 degrees below at Carlo,
IS below At Louisville, and it was
also reported below at Nashville
aud Memphis. Away with the term
Sunny South
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

MANY street-car conductor and
driver was frost bitten in Chicago
last Friday while on duty. Some
e, severely that they had to leave
their post or suffer death.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

AsYLUMs throughout the country,
without exception it is said, contain
larger number of patients than
they did a year ago. These are
alarming statistics, surely.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

The fire at the convent Of Notre
Dame, At BelIyille, H., Saturday
nigh was simply horrifying and
awful affair. The number Of lives
lost * about thirty five teachers
and sister superior, the others be
ing pupils Many more were badly
mangled aud injured by jumping
from the windows. 10 witness the
terror-stricken parents frantically
searching for missing children would
melt the heart Of stone. The fire
originated in the basement from the
furnace. Loss of property roughly
estimated at $4,000
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-10

THE surrounding sunsets Of the
past few weeks, which reached
around the world, created supersti.
tious fear in India, aud numbers Of
holy men went about preaching i'm
pending disaster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
NryyoRK DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY, DECEMBER To- 1861

Republican managers were invited TO pay
smaller sum for the withdrawal OF st.
John. and there are some papers In which those
managers arc being censured quito sharply
because they did not make the arrangements
bat they have not denied so far as we Know
that some such proposition was made to them.
Moreover, it has been asserted by Others VINO
profess to have absolute knowledge that money
was paid Ivy the Democratic managers to keep
the st. John canvass going. 1t Is about tine
that vague and unauthorltative statements, i'll
a matter of this nature, should cease. some
persons, evidently, have definite knowledge
about it, one way or tho other, and it would De
we'll for them to speak.
Meanwhile if the statement Is true, IL SHOWS
that the Republican managers were not willing
TO buy victory. There are persons VINO VIII
ccnsurc them for refusing If they refused; HE
TRIBUNE will not. If anybody bribcd st. Joln,
the moral distinction between the brber and
the man bribed is not discoverable. Assuming
that the Democrats paid $4,000 for the Presl-
dency, it was rather less than the Mississippi
River Edirburgn ($S0,000), sail to bo III
Danube GlasgowOr Edinburg bills" Qn$oo0or
81 900 blls), which the samep party failed to get
taken in 1876. This would indicate that the
st. John sort of men come cheaper than the
colored electors of South Carolina did-or rather
didn't-eight years ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
NOTES on INDUSTRY AND TRADE.

pptcFs OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND,-lt has often
been remarked of English wheat quotations lately
that "the prices are the lowest for century" Inc
average for the whole year 1884 Is the lowest Tor
century. But that Il not all. The low-water marx
of history. in the British grain trade. was lOi
wears ago. In that year an average never
since approached until this year, only 80
shillngs per quarter for British wheat,
,~as REGARDED But IL is now evident that the year
1854 will record lower average than that of the
hitherto unparalleled year. 1890. During the first
hall of this year. the average was nearly 2shllings
above that low-water mark the first quarter OF
tss4 rave an average of 3Is Dd. and the second
oua,tar lTs. Oh making 3Ta. Tiod for the half
,e.r The average IN July was only 3Ts. I'm spite
,r n rally to 9sa. ~, about the middle OF August
tho average Tor that month dropped to W's' 'lu"
and September followed WITH ue'nhe
!, nns, ptd IN Optahrt tho decline continued
IA MA ID, aud tho AVERAGE lot the mouth
was only about one penny higher or N"'emheh
th,ra weeks have been officially tepoited w Jour
malls renewed hy mail, allowing u Mtlhof dpehhn W
MS. Id November -, Sluce that 'ihe' judging
from telppraphed prioeH. the adNaare haa noon
about IL. 2ipd, per quarter lhus tho "No'"se P''o
for forty-nne weeks of tho year appears 10 DO "ny
aOs Id with three weeks remaining III WHICH, win
,,r.sent nriees holding. the average for the year
I'll Iva ,educod 70 about 35s lOd. This seQuivR-
lent TO only ~ 90 for eight bushels OF ~ o,a po,
bushel. Tho price November - the ia'os' u"'o VI
which there are official averages ny ha''' was
equivalent to only 81 10 Tor eight bushels, or 10 q
cents per bushel. On Friday. however, ana lor
some DAYS last week, the Liverpool quotation iof
| American No. red winter was about W cohts per
bushel-still eleven cents below tho BrlIlsh low
water mark made l0l years ago.
CoppER.-Tho Lake companies early this month
| began to sell copper to consumers at IL CENTS
pound 1t is said that their reason Is that othei
brands have been offered at lower hgures ana tha'
they have deliberately entered upon pohoy de'
signed to close out those producers whose cost oi
production is greatest. long statement IN regard
TO the cost of mining in tho Calumet ana heo'a
arrives at tho conclusion that If 1t should reacn
tho average of other mines in the same neghDor'
hood in economy of working. it would produce cop
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15

while the increase since 1873 has been DO pc'
cent In six years or about per cent yc"'y'
This inorease. moreover, continues IN rlpiu r"''o
nm IN the close of the last fiscal year, notwith-
standng any depression OF Industry ~ '''''
therefore be expected that the revenue ~
fermentod liquors. if the tax DO un",s'"''u'
will largely increase. Moreover, " - !" -
served that the tax now pail Is less 'ha'i nan
cent for each glass of beer Inc c"s'o'''",'
retail price would not be reduced from ~ ~
cents. if the tax should be repealed so ''"' r"o
consumers would gain absolutely nothing INC
only GAMERS would be the brewers OF inc
dealers. to whom the repeal OF the tax wou'"
make n present of about $4,000 oo yearly
Tho nrorosition to abolish the taxes on peer
o,a toh,cco Is Tn be constrasted with the posi-
lilo ohoIition or reduction of the duty on sugar.
Tho imports paying duty during the last hsch'
wear. including molasses, amounted III Vai"c ~
sol 371,S47 80, and the duty received was
Sls.9I4.O32 Of. This is about as mich as .i'o
nrescut revenue from tobacco ana lciihel'o"
liouors. But sugar is not luxury IL IL
rccossorv of life The tax of TlS,oll,o3Z ~
falls unop almost every family in the country,
roor mr. rich. and averages more than ~ ~
yearly for each family 1t is not possible LOT
those who choose To entirely escape the payment
of this tax; but those who do not wish tobacco
or beer can escape that tax altogether TO the
father of family, the sugar duty Is practlc"'iy
a fax which he cannot avoid the tobacco anu
beer taxes he can pay or not as he plcas's' one
necessarily enhances the cost of living ana Oh
all production; the other does not Cheaper
| sugar would not encourage any wee OF oAccS" ;
cheaper tobacco and becr-if cheaper To con,
sumers-ccrtainly would. Finally, the removal
Of the sugar duty would benefit the wno'o
people, and especially tno working classes lno
removal of tho Tux on beer would benoht on'y
thc brewers and dealers. To n great cxtoh' '"o
removal of fine tax OH tobacco would haVo u
.j,niI,r elloct tho manufacturers and dealers
would gain rather than the consumers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
SOTTIIERN PLUR1LiTIES.

Tbc World considers il ingenious to reason vs.
follows: Democratic majOritics ~ the SCUM
arc less than they were four years ago. lhcre-
coro thc vote nj the South must be more Tree
and fair. and the exclusion of coorcd voters
less outrageous. than in the election OF Gar
field. The only trouble about this theory Is
thot !, has no basis Of fact The decrease in
Democratic majoliiics at the South Is Only
in States where, rs all admit, the vote i COM
paratively fair and free. or where large
Democratic minority rcyolted against 'hc
Motley or the conduct of that party. ms WIS
fine case in West Virginia, where the Demo-
cratic plurality was cut down from 1l.oOO to
+ 600 in Virginia, where Mahones revolt cut
down the Democratic plurality from ll,OOO
10 G.OOO in measure, in Tennessee, Whcrc
resistance to the Democratic policy OF
free trade and population cut down the Demo
cratic plurality from 10000 20 5000; III MIS-
souri,, where similar causes cut down inc
Democratic plurality from $4,000 to 3l,0OO,
and in Louisiana, where 20 large number oil
Democrats resisted the ircc-tradc policy that,
instead of 27,OO0 four years ago. the ring
was able with all its rascality to count only
10000.
As for the other States, the certainty thai
the Democrats could count up any majority
that they pleased made them indifferent as to
the exact size of it, and they reasoned quite
Justly that 33, 900 in Alabama this year was III
all respects quite as satisfactory as 31,ooO foul
years ago. and SO on in other States. In Texas
however, being suddenly put TO their trumps
in order to get up an unexpectedly large
plurality to balance votes at the North, they
contriyed to reckon up $4,000 in place OF
% 900 four years ago. The only thing certain
about the Southern elections is that, II they
had known it was needed, the same plurality
Of 1874. 900 would have been ground out il
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia OF
South Carolina.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
PERSONAL.

MIRA Frances Iiodgson Burnett II visiting IN Bolton.
Miss Louisa W. Acott. win her lltilo niece iayinffot
Tho winter IN Boston IN tho house next door 90 Edwin
Booths. on 'hcstnutst
Scxt month M W. ". Corcoran. OF Warrington will
present fine gold medal bearing portrait " himself TO
the student who has during this year nm 10 most i'm.
poyencn In drawing from the casts IN the Corcorln Art
Gallery
Mrs. Hendricks Il Is sad docs not intend TO take par
tlcularly prominent part in Washington society during
the Incoming Administration
Mr.. Hcaeys portrait OF Longfollow-onc of the only
three paintings OF the poet In eXisoncchas been hung
IN the art gallery OF the B0tolph Club, Boston,
The statue OF Garfield mt the foot OF Capitol fl Wash
ngton will directly face tho Hail OF the House or Repre-
scntativcs
Reuben Il. Springer" says The Commercial Gd.,fs OF
Cincinnati was for many years an equestrian on our
streets Many OF our readers will remember him a. no
appeared, mounted his beautiful white horse taking
his daily exercise. The horse bore hin faithfully aad
proudly and he had q good scat In tho saddle AMI
splendd carriage as horscman 10 has boon frequently
remarked that Mr. Springer looeod much like William H.
Seward, and also like samuel D. Ildc. Few years asb
Mr. Springer forced % abandon this exercise 10
was never horseback aftor his severe Siege or
two yenrs since when day day his life seemed 10
hang I'm the balance lie occasionally drove out IN u
coupe but oftencr walked aon tho streets when able
20 about
The Earl OF Carnarvon late Colonial Secretary of Great
Britain recently sent 20 william l.. stone tiny gold
Upper that was worn by his ancestrcss, Lady Harriet
Ackland while she was with Burgoyno's army during
the Anne ican Revolution The note accompanying tho
Gift referring to Mr. stones memoir of Lady Auckland,
said; "Its matter of uncommon pleasure 10 me 10
see my family history thus preserved and valued on ho
other side of the Atlantic Ii renews feeling that very
often comes that the identity ana synpthles
OF race remain wholly untouched by hundred yeirs T
separatOnpcrhaps all the stronger Tor tue hpi.
differences Last year when was In America, l OILY
felt that in another and distant part OF England
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
VHERE TO TAKE OFF BURDENS.

The people of this country, IL appears from
| the Internal Revenue report. are consuming a
steadily increasing quantity OF liquor and
| tobacco notwithstanding the hard times. This
fact should be kept in mind. when propositions
| to repeal the whole or a part of these taxes are
under consideration, that they yield an increas-
ing revenue because the people voluntarily con-
sume certain articles in bad or good times. The
revenue from internal taxes last year was
1921 $50, O39 SO, of which $40, 905,3S5 20
WAS derived from distilled spirits and the deal
| ers therein, but only $71 ,655,211 33 from the
tax on spirits proper. If all internal taxes ex-
cept the tax on distilled spirits should be re-
moved. the loss of revenue would be about
$50, 600, 900; if the taxes on dealers in spirits
rectifers and manufacturers of stills should be
retained. the loss of revenue would be about
9i4,GSi, 700. II ia not quite clear, from the
language of President Arthdr's message. which
he intends to recommend, but probably the
latter
Daring the last fiscal year, the consumption
of whiskcy was 7s,3i2,i7l gallone, or about
i27 gallons per capita The ratio was nearly
the same IN issi was only .ol gallons Outing
the hard tmcp of 1873 but was | ~ GALLONS
rer capita in iS5J. This tax. therefore. might
loo expected 10 yield revenue varying from
@a7 900. 600 90 10000, 900. according to the
condition Of industry,
Tho manufactured tobacco consumed last
year amounted 10 asi, Sli,ubf pounda of ~
rounds for each inhahlant In 1851 tho ratio
was ~ pounds per edpltdi IN 1879, only 20
pounds and In ls73, 2,s pounds, The ex-
tremo variation here Is only about one-slXth
and tendency To Increase appears, In spite al
any depression of industry thus far. This
tendency is more marked In the consumption of
cigars and cigarettes. Last year 3,155, 6l0,Ol7
cigars were consumed, or about 90 for each
inhabtint, against 80 Ia 1851 and 40 in 1873.
Last year 00S,O9O,723 cigarettes were con-
sumed, or about 3 for each person, against
IL in 1881 and only about 3 per capita in 1878
This branch of revenue, therefore, if let alone
may be expected to increase.
The consumption of fermented liquors last
wear was 1898, 6l9 barrels, or at 81 gallons
to the barrel, 5sS, 1857. 1s9 gallons-about 1Ol4
gallons for every inhabitant. In 1881 the ratio
was S.22 gallons per capita in 1873 only 6.36
gallons, ard in 1878 6.S4 gallons per capita. 1t
will be observed that the decrease from n
period of great prosperity to the period of most
serious prostratol in 1878 was less than half
gallon for each person. or about one-fourteenth,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15
TIE NORTH FOODS.

That the swelling tide of population has
flowed all around the Adirondack region, lcav-
ing it comparatively uninhabited. is sufficient
proof that it can never be the home of prosper
Gus agriculture, and the observation of a careful
correspondent in another column confirms this
view. 1t was inevitable and proper that large
areas of the inhosptablc forest that stretched
from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, when
the Continent was fret occupied by Europeans,
should be cleared to make room for the plough.
But there is no excuse for sweeping away the
North Woods and burning ont the hopo of
forests in the future, for no other crop vill
flourish there. There Is little to compensate
for the desolation of the foothills already
wroue hit in the southeastern portion of that
region. and there is absolutely no advantage,
but on the contrary, the threat of danger which
cannot be oyerstated from the dcnudation of
the higher end sleeper slopes Of the Adirondack
range which seems inevitable unless sOmo re-
straining influences are set TO work Mt once.
Fire is the enemy to he dreaded most of all.
Laundering operations to a certain extent en-
courage attacks from this quarter, by leaving
dry tops and limbs scattered through the woods
which will easily fash into an uncomfortable
conhagration. But where bark and lumber can
be stripped or cut at profit, private owners of
forest property will reap disadvantage, IA they
have a right to reap it. II the State is not pre-
pared to buy this property of it's rightIul
owners II must be expected that these owners
will sell the products of their property to- the
beat possible advantage. There IA nothing to
hp gained by indisciiminatc dununratinn uf the
lunhorman az h, an, other unjust accusation.
There il much to hr hoped ior from thorough
rnliphirnmrns at the people of the state IA to
tho value at the woodA, lleticr lava tor tho
adequate protection at loteal property aud the
oondisn puuiAhmont at urapauaolu ate dc.
mandod. HIT the need oi public opinion Ia
the wooda as we'll ~ outside at them Ia enforce
these laws IL alil more urgent, There Is no
conflict of interest IN this matter, There Ia no
gain Ia be- roaped by any man, woman or child
from a burned forest. but loss absolute aud
irreparable to all. In this decade of the Nine
tecnth Century il ought to be- assumed that
the citizens of the Empire State have advanced
beyond the pioneer stage OF civilization.
If the desolation of the North Woods is not
arrested. if intelligent effort is not made to re-
forest the area already stripped bare and made
worse than worthless, 1t will simply mean
that the people of Ncw-York are unworthy to
possess what they have inherited.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-12-15

per at total cost Of less than cents pound
but the reduction to IL cents is likely to dmuish
the production materially, making it Improbable
for good many Of the companies to take ont ore AZ
ALL II Is said that the Calumet and Hecla and two
others have enlarged their plants and cxpeet n
produce altogether from 10000. 900 to $4,000 ono
pounds moro next year than In 1894 II is expected
that tho Calumet and Hecla alone will, early in tia
year. be crushing at the rate of $500 tons OF rocl
a day, equivalent to 100000 pounds of copper
yearly. The effect Of the Spanish treaty. IL il
should be ratified, is beginning to be considered.
NATURAL GAs.-The Westinghouse Company /.
supplying gas for domcst use in Pittsburg at Is
cents per thousand cubic feet IL is said that with
proper appliances Tor consumption this Is az eco.
nomical for fuel as bItnminOus coal. and that tina
rate will probably be reduced by competition 10 IN
cents. Large pipes are being put down, which arc
expected to bc completed before the first of Jan
nary. and many establishments on ito ALLEGHENY
River and in Pittsburg are calculating to use tbis
fuel at the earliest opportunity.
PAPER FRoM THE YCccA PLAyT.-When ths
savages on this continent FIRST mads
cloth and cordago out OF the leave,
Of the yucca plant. they little thought
that they were preparing to provide paper for
great London Journal. 1t Is now stated, however.
that The LOndOn telegraph has leased large tracts Of
land In the Mojaye Desert for the purpose OF utiliz
ing tho yucca plant, which grows abundantly there
The leaves are TO be ground INTO pulp on the
Colorado River, thenco shipped by rail 10 New
Orleans and thence by sea to Liverpool, and to 10
manufactured into paper for the use of The kle.
graph. This so-callod do 'ert," In which the Mo.
jaye River IL lost, Is desert only in name. though
In parts the heat Is 80 intense that tho vegetation
Is scanty. II lies mainly In San Bernarimo
County. California. Tho plant. which has been
long known for its striking appearance, hos largo
sword-shnped evergreen leaves which end In sharp
black spikes aud tho ibros OF tlose leaves tho Ia
llans have long nsod In the manufacture OF eordago
aud coarse cloth.