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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
AN OLD CAMPAIGN CANARD.
The Famous six Collins which Des-
GRATED Whig Papers.

The charge relative to the execution
of the six militiamen is the only allie
CATION of Mr.. Bnckner which you are
not prepared to refute from knowl-
edge of the facts or from documentary
evidence. | shall therefore first be-
stow something upon it. AT the close
OF the Greek war the forts in that ma
ton were ordered to be occupied and
garrisoned. For this purpose Col. p.
Plpkin was ordered with a regiment
of drafted militia, for six months, into
the service of the United States
Whilst stationed at Fort Jackson on
the 18th and Goth of September, 1924,
mutiny took place, headed by cap.
tain, and in the presence OF the
colonel forced the guard, seized the
provisions, burned the bake-house
and marched off forcibly, leaving the
colonel destitute of provisions and a
competent garrison in the midst of
the Greek country, and at time, too,
when the agents of Britain were en-
gagged in stirring up the Indians to
hostility agsiast us, and when the
British, with an overwhelming force,
were in preparation for the attack
upon the lower country. This was
reported to me about the time that
appealed to your venerable patriot,
Shelly, and made the requisition upon
Tennessee for aid ia SO solemn crisis
Orders were Immediately given for
the apprehension of the mutineers,
Col PIpkin being ordered to Join me
at the cut off with his regiment, with
Gen. Cotfee's volunteers from Ten
nessee on the march 10 Pensacola,
wnere the British had rendez vous.
The mutlneers becoming alarmed
all, except nine of the ringleaders,
returned, were pardoned, and remain
ed with me during the whole of that
glorious campaign. Seven of these
ringleaders were taken after | had
left that section of the country, and,
when | was at New Orleans, were
tried and condemned to be shot-one
was pardoned, but not as Mr. Buck
ner has falsely pronounced IN his
stump speech, for crimes committed
aftsr their term of service had explr
ed, but for crimes of the deepest dye,
perilous to the country, and at time
when every patriots arm was stretch
ed and when every nerve of the
government was strained to defend
our liberties, when the Hartford con.
vention was giving to the enemy
every encouragement of success,
either by d division or a conquest OF
the states. These facts are on record
and ought to have been known tc
Mr.. Buckner before he undertook the
commission of Islander and tradue
ton The mutiny, the order for the
apprehension of the offenders, then
trial, etc, are, or ought to be, on file
at Washington; or, if not, copy o.
the record can bs furnished from tn,
papers of my adjutant general. Thus
you see, with the exception of my
being commander of the division, Mr.
Buckner had as much to do with
these men as l had.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11

breeze blowing over me. / turned TO
look at the hatch, thinking l had left
it open, but il was closed Then /
looked up TO the further end of the
foreeastle and saw that the sliding
door leading into the chain lockers
was wide open. i shut ii, supposing
one Of my mates had been in there
and forgot to closelt. turned in and
fell asleep very soon.
! must have been sleeping about
an hour and half, when | woke up
with my hair on end. / felt drops of
sweat on nay face. A chilly gfaught
still came from the direction of The
chain lockers. / looked The door
was wide open. AS / put my legs out
of the bunk to go and close it saw an
arm, woman's | will swear, stretch
ed out of the gloom of the chain
locker. 1t seemed to touch the door,
which closed without a squeak. My
hair stood up on my head like bristles.
] rubbed my eyes and jumped ost of
the bunk. | took down the swinging
lamp and trimmed it, then l examined
the locker door. 1t was fastened, the
bolt was shot into the socket.
Il lit my pipe and sat on a chest
thinking about the matter. / decided
that had been having a dream, SO |
turned ia again and soon dozed off.
i souldn't sleep sound 1t seemed
to me that | could hear womans
screams; then l heard laughter and
sobs alternately then an awful shrek
aroused me. Everything was quite in
the forecastle and ships bell struck
midnight. / dozed Off again. Then
the first thing knew | felt myself
gasping in my sleep. / woke up and
put out my hands. | couldn't speak.
Somebody had both their hands on my
throat and | knew / was caoaking. l
felt the fingers, but | couldn't touch
anybody / was paralyzed l felt l
was suffocating, when | managed TO
sing out FOR help and the fellows
jumped out of their hunks and drag
ed me on deck.
II couldn't help laughing at the
fright Of the man. said the captain,
land was juit going to open on EN-
1 for raising such a nauss because man
had the nightmare, when the cockney
sang out, Look at the Firms
4 throatp
THE mans shirt bosom was opened
and there were five PARRISH spots on
each side of the neck.
ut made me feel queer / confess
"Not one of them would go into the
forecastle that night. They sat up in
the galley until daylight. and when
/ turned out 7 o'clock every mothers
son 'em had their chests upon the
dock.
II tried to ship another crew on
Friday, but these fellows gave it out
in the boarding houses that the brig
was haunted. and ] couldn't get 8
man. | sent to New York for a crew
yesterday, and as soon as they pu'
their feet on deck out to sea | go
ghost or no ghost
But what rs your opinion, Cap
tain3"
81 give it up" said the old mariner
as he lit fresh cigar "Strang'
things happen aboard ship some
times
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
Rlnck MaInut Culture.

At the meeting of the Indiana State
Boara of Agriculture, Mr.. w. II.
Raglan read "a paper on black walnut,
in which he gave the following duec
tons for planting aud cultivatlng.
Prepare yonr ground by breaking and
narrowing in the fall. Furrow 1t OFT
each way as you would for corn, ex-
cept that the rows should be about
seven feet apart. Take the nuts fresh
from the trees; it is not necessary that
they should be hulled; placing two
nuts in each crossing. This in to in
sure getting good stand. The nuts
should be covered very shallow, just
enough earth to hide them. In the
spring the land should be furrowed
off midway between the rows of nuts,
and the spaces planted with corn or
potatoes. Cultivate as you would a
corn crop by cross blowing, being
careful to give the young trees fair
chance and good clean culture. The
second spriag thin out your plants to
one tree TO the hill. If there are spaces
entirely missing, they may be filled
by trausplanting from the hills con
tanning duplicates.
The second. and perhaps the third
year, it will pay 10 cultivate corn be
tween the Sows, after which, the
trees should be regularly cultivated
until they fully occupy the ground
so as TO keep down by their shade all
weeds and grass The peci-d at which
cultivation may be discontinued. can
not be defnately stated, as much will
depend on the character of the seasons
and quality of the soil OF course z
feet each way will be too close for per-
manent trees, but, as they Will protect
each other when small, and make
much better growth, it is preferable to
have them closely planted. When
they begin to grow, the alternative
trees in each row may be removed.
The trees thus removed will be of suf-
fieient size to be useful in various
ways on the farm. A second thin
ming will, in few years, be neces-
sary, taking the alternative trees the
other way. Your permanent trees
will row stand IA feet apart each way,
a sufficient distance for number of
years, though not for large trees, but
the thinning will always pay large
per cent. on the value of the ground
occupied.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
How sealskin Is Prepared.
San Francisco Chronicle.

Few of those wearing a sealskiu
sack have any knowledge of the pro
cess by which the skins are prepared
for use. Seen when first taken from
the animal they little resemble the
warm, glossy skins worn upon our
streets, for until dyed and cured they
are of light brown hue. coarse and
full of sand. Before becoming valu
able they are shaved down on the
flesh side until not thicker than paper,
the long hairs are pulled out and the
fur dyed. The cost Of the arti sle is
dae to the labor expended upon it.
The raw skins are sold in London,
where the finishing is done, and then
shipped back to A america, where they
are sold with a heavy duty added
The killing season in Alaska begins
about the ~ of June, and the one
hundred thousand skins are usually
ready for shipment a month later
The work of slaughtering the animal
is done by natives who live upon the
st. Paul and ST. George Islands. and
the process is an interesting one.
When skins are wanted, the natives
go to the rockeries, STATEN themselves
along the shore between the seals and
the water, and, at given signal,
spring TO their feet and make as much
noise as possible. The frightened
victims, timId as deer, then stampede
up the beach, and are driven like
sheep a few miles inland, until their
captors attack them with hickory
clubs. Being knocked senseless, they
are stabbed with long, sharp knives
and the skins are quickly stripped
from the bodies. The work is divided
among the men some knocking the
seals down, others stabbing them, and
still others taking off the skins The
native Indians number about three
hundred, and under the terms of the
lease are provided gratis by the com
pany with warm houses, sixty tons of
coal, a doctor and schoolmaster, sal
mon and other necessities ana com
forts. For their labor the men att
paid some $40, 900 altogether each sea
son, a sum more than sufficient to
meet the limited needs of life in g
region of almost perpetual fogs anc
| utter isolation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
Sensational Stories.
Atlanta Constitution.

The weekly papers in the course Of
year publish an immensenumber Of
short stories and serials, and an mex
perienced person would imagine that
there would be some demand for that
sort of literary work. This is a pnis
take. An unknown writer will nine
times out Of Ten meet with a rebuff
from the editor Of the story papers,
ana will be informed that the supply
on hand will last for years. The
writers Of sensational stories are
manly journalists, who paid out their
incomes in this way. They write with
the utmost rapidity, composing the
lines and the plot as they go. The
price paid for a romance Of 80, 600 to
10000 words is about 800, and a
writer of fair ability Will finish a
story I'M about ten days. The men
who do this work are rot at all seHti-
mental, and they laugh heartily at
their heroes and herolnes. Stories
running through eight or a dozen
numbers Of paper bring from 800
TO $3.50 apiece, aud are generally writ
ten by.women. Other serial stories
bring from $500 to 81 900.
The writers whose names figure
most prominently before the public
are paid regular salaries, some of them
receiving as much as sl2, 900 year.
Stories OF one and two columns are
paid for at the rate Of IS to $40 each,
but there is generally full supply on
hand. While this class Of literature
is laughed at, only writer's, Of good
judgment and ability can produce it
successfully and profitably. 1t re-
qDires some information, considerable
knowledge Of human nature, fertile
invention, and the gift of habit OF
rapid composition. The ambitious
young person who thinks that he can
dash off a short story of surprising
excellence should sail in and see what
the harvest will be.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11


The natives who prefer their own
remedies to those of the physicians
uses all sorts of hurtfal and silly
things, among them being liberal
doses of hot mutton tallow, hog
grease in burnt brandy, lsa1anum,
Godfreys cordial. Bateman's drops,
and various patent medicines CON
tanning opium in some form. All
these are pronounced infsmmatory,
and death generally follows their use.
Then herb teas never do any good,
while it is not certain that they do
no harm,
AS TO THE DISEASE BEING CONTAGIOUS
| find a great diversity of opinion,
but have arrived at the conclusion
that 1t is so only when the discharges
from the bowels and urinary organs is
allowed to stand and fill the room
with its baleful odors, and when the
people are careless about cleanliness
ana ventilation. Ia this conclusion
every physician with whom | have
talked supports me, and it is doubt
less correct.
| have now been at the county seats
of three counties in which the infec-
ton has foothold-Knox, Bell and
HarlGn-and in these, which are but
on the outskirts of the districts in
which it has been most fatal, sum
up total of over 400 deaths since the
latter part of August from hux alone.
and fully the same number from other
ills. mostly resulting FROM the use of
impure or mineral poisoned water. IL
l include the deaths reported to me by
Rev. Mr. Childers in Bath, Manifee,
Wolf, ETC., it would no doubt
run the list up to between
l, 200 and 1900, and nearer the latter
figure than the former In a day or
two more | will be in Letcher county
and Wise county, Va, and, after my
trip through them, will no doubt he
able to pretty closely estimate the
number of victims in the entire terri.
tory which the scourge covers. From
reports from Letcher received here il
is evident that the cases of sickness
have run up into 800 or 400, anG the
deaths have been ABOUT Eve oat OF
ten
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
For Secretary of War


Rochester GOst Express,
What news concerning the Cabi-
net this morningW said Appius
Claudius to Decius Brutus, who kept
an Italian peanut stand at the foot of
Ayentine Hill, meanwhile emptying
a half pint Of fresh roasted into fold
of his toga.
Nothing said Decius, handing
him change for a denarius, except
that deputation from he province
of New Jersey called upon His
Imperial Highness yesterday and
ssked him to appoint Fabius Maximus
Cunc.ator Secretary Of war"
"CuoctatorH' said Appius, with
lifted eyebrows. What, he Of the
Eeniusular campalgnl'
'"rhe same"
"Why, when he was at the head of
the army the Imperial party pro
nounced the war failure"
True. most noble Apprus,n re
turned Decius, giving the crank Of
the rooster a whirl TO keep the pea.
nuts from scorching, but the Jersey
men say that in time of peace he's
just daisy"
Resolving this singular rumor in
his mind, Appius Claudius slowly
assembled the hill, scattering peanut
shucks about him as he proceeded.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
A HAUNTED BRIG.
A Singular Phenomenon on Board a
Vessel in Philadelphia HarbOr.
Philadelphla Press.

The brig Frances, a West India
Prime street wharf recently waiting
for the arrival of crew to enable her
to put to sea. Capt HAL I'll. Thomas,
tho commander, a bluff hearty old
sailor, who has, in his tlrAe, navigated
nearly every ocean Of the globe, sat
under the bit of awning stretched
across the quarterback of the brig
and told of the predicament which
has kept his vessel here for several
days. The Frances flushed taking
her cargo on board on Thursday last
She is $50 tons register and laden with
hoops, slaves and heading, consigned
to a sugar exporting house at Matan-
zas, Cuba.
Capt. Thomas said: ITO begin,
none OF my old crew staid by the yes
sci when we arrived here, so / shipped
new lot, five seamen, and sent
them on board last Thursday after
noon.
"It never has been my plan to put
crew on board until / was ready to
tow out to sea, but there was a new
spanker to bend. lot of forerigglng
to set up and SO | listened to the ad
vice of the mate and told the shipping
master to bring the crew down. That's
where | made my ms,ake-to put
crew on board alongside Of dock.
well. they turned to and cleared
things up pretty fair that afternoon.
| got my new spanker bent and some
of the rigging tautened up, and as the
men worked pretty well knocked 'ens
off early, so as to givc 'em chance to
clean the forecastle a bit and STOW
away their chests.
liked the appearance of the men.
There was a big Russian Finn, two
Danes, and two Liverpool cockneys.
told the steward to feed 'em up pref
ty we'll until we dropped down the
liver.
About 8 o'clock Thursday night |
locked in the fo'castle to call ore Of
'em to take in the slack of a dock
line. They were smoking and spin
ming yarns, and turned in soon after
thinking that had got good, quiet
set of men.
1T must have been about 2 O'Clock
in the morning when was aroused
by noise and the scufiling of feet on
deck. ran out and found the men
throwing water on the big Russian
Finn. He leaned against the fore
castle house, pale as a ghost went
up and locke at him. The man was
trembling like leaf.
What's all this7 says l.
That ere fo'castle is 'aunted, says
one of the Englishmen.
by this time the RussIan-FiHn
was able To talk. He rested on the
hatch combing and says:
Il sat up talking With nv mates
here until after o'clock. Then, as
they all turned in, filed my pipe and
took turn on deck to get my smoke
out. | expect | was on deck nearly
an hour, for when / went ia the fore
castle, every thing was quiet. ! had
taken off my duds and was just going
to turn in my buHk when felt cold
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
Warm Stables VS.. Blankets

The health of a horse. like that of a
man, depends very much upon a nat
ural system of life. Artificial systems
require double the care, and however
sleek the horse may look under a
heavy coating of blankets and an oc-
casional medical dope, his capaci-
ty for endurance is much less than
that of horse which, however rough
he may look, has nerves and endur-
ance built only upon regular, natural
food and exposure TO the varied
changes of the atmosphere.
1t may be all very well for the fancy
to clip the hair all eff from the horse,
and then cover him with clothing In
order to have his coat look fine and
smooth, but it will not do for the
morse of all work. Nature has pro
vided covering, and where use is de-
signed, the horse needs only that with
good grooming and a warm stable, or,
if a blanket is ever used, let it be done
when tIe horse is left standing out Of
doors in harness.
Make the stables as warm as a dirt
floor or battened boarding will per-
init; give pleAty of bedding, and
with abundance Of food the horse is
better able to stand labor and expos
ure than If kept on a board floor
where cold air circulates underneath
and covered with blankets. Our ex-
perience is in favor of dirt floors
without blankets. Dirt floors well
Uttered are no more trouble to keep
neat and clean than board Aoers,
and no stable with dirt floor and
decently boarded up will ever be cold
enough to cause a horse to shiyer.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
The Larder of aa Ocean Steamship.
New York Truth.

Transatlantic passenger steamers
ship about ID, 600 pound Of fresh
meat for each trip, 20 tons Of ice, /,
400 pounds of butter. and 8, 900 cigars.
On a vessel of 5000 tons, 1000 nap
kins are used every trip, 1000 sheets
and 5000 fowls. Different colors are
USED on the upholstery and furniture
every day, because Of the relief a
change Of scene affords to persons
who become sea-sick, and also owing
to thu additional freshness of the at
mosphere of the cabins thus obtained.
The steamer is newly painted on the
outside from stem to stern every voy-
age, and to do this work, with the re-
pairing aud cleaning of upholstery,
frsm 200 to 400 men are employed.
The washing is all done at the end of
each voyage. In the first cabin of a
first-class steamer there is $4,000
worth OF silverware.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
banning the Mississippi.
Milwaukee Sentinel.

ERA bill for damming the Mississippi
at Brainerd. MINI, was on its second
reading in the House of Representa-
tlves when Congress adjourned, and
will be pushed vigorously as soon as
possible after it reassem bles. 1t is
proposed to make 20 foot dam with
a sluice and a lock. The object is TO
make a storage pond capable Of holding
100. OOO. 600 feet of logs, so that manu-
facturers will not be obliged to saw
faster than the market will warrant.
The next legislature will be urged TO
legaHze a boom from Brainerd TO Pc
kegama Fails, some $50 miles, and If
a project to make boom from Monti-
cello. 40 miles below Brainerd, no TO
the latter place is carried out, there
would then be a continuous boom
from Minneapol is to Pokegama Falls,
as there is now one from Minneapolis
up to Monticello. This, ii is thought,
would do away with many of the
worst troubles experienced by the
log-drivers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
The Hens Egg.
Hn az Other saLurday.

Not long since New Hampshire
Committeeman was examining an
infant school class. Can any little
girl or boy give the definition of the
word 'averagep hea sked. For some
time no one replied, but finally a
little girl hesitatingly replied 1T is
a thing hen lays an egg on, sir. "
mo, that's not right Yes, sir,
my book says so, and she trotted up
to her questioner and pointed to this
sentence in her reading book "a
hen lays aa egg every day on an
average.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11

Last spring, a body OF Minnesota
farmers organized an exchange at
Mankato. and since then have sold
through It 800, 600 worth of butter at
better average prices per pound than
could have been realized in New York.
They now regard it as only matter
of a few seasons when eastern buyers
will be compelled to come to them,
instead, as heretofore, of western men
going east and paying both freight
and passenger fare.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11

Among some Southern negroes
there is a tradition that if one carries
with him at night the backbone of a
cat he is qui te Invisible to every one
else. For this reason there is an &C
tive market for cat backhones in the
vicinity of the chicken thieves head
quarters.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11
what the Cholera Cost Europe.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated News.

1t would be a nice problem for the
statisticians presently 30 determine
what the latest visitation of the chol-
era in Europe has cost. A week or
two ago ii was calculated that the
quarantine had already resulted in a
loss of IS, 900, 600 to the Italian reve-
nue.. and now the Spaniards have be-
gun counting their bill Of cost The
falling off IN customs since quaran-
tine was established had amounted by
the end of August to close upon
81, $50, 600, while the value of the ex-
ports and imports during the same pc
Rod had shown a decrease Of IS, 375,
600. No wonder that the corporations
of Madrid and Barcelona have petit
toned the government TO take these
facts into consideration. The minister
of finance, finding that the equilibri
um of his budget was being seriously
disturbed, has persuaded his col
leagues that it is time to have done
with the quarantine craze, and with
the beginning of the present month
the regulations have accordingly been
relaxed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-11

a Philadelphia school girl begged
with tears in her eyes that she be al
lowed to change her name. She said
the scholars plagued the life nearly
out OF her. Her name was Burchard.