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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Prepare for the Dress Carnival.

Prepare for the Dress Carnival.
A novel line of toys at Spratler's
THE happy family-the Su'e force.
FRESH oysters at the Bakery. 49ml
ONLY % below zero this morning.
Xmas cards at the Mineral Point
Book Store.
Diaries for 1885 at the Post Of
fee book store. 5lw2
PAY your taxes and ease your
mind of that unpleasantness.
Silk and wool mufiiers in endless
variety-Gundry, Gray & Co.
NornING but FIRST quality rubber
goods at Penhallegon q Sons.
Christmas cards in great variety
at J. J. II. d Co.'S.
A fine line of holiday goods at the
Post Office Book Store. 5lw2
THE checker championship is
claimed by JAS. Ross, of Linden.
Finest line of caps ever seen in
Mineral Point at Gundry, Gray &
Co
JANEsvILLE has the mad dog
nlaone Strange season of the wear
for that nuisance.
NomoE the professional card of
DIR. IL p. Mix in the TRIBUNE direc-
tory this week.
Solid gold lacepins, eardrops,
bracelets, gold thimbles, etc, at
Cook 6 Sullivan's.
Another nice music box to be
given away by the Mineral Point
Book Store.
OYSTERS fresh, delicious oysters,
at Hendra's. Charlie dishes them
up, too, remember.
HOPE our readers will be good
natured over the large ammount of
spacet aiken up by Christmas
crumbs.
DoN'r buy your Christmas goods
until You see the elegant display of
slippers and fine shoes, at J. p. d
Sons.
NESTLE your odd dimes together
and procure a nice present for some
friend. To give provides greater
pleasure than to receive.
DIR. F1ELDHoUsE, who has loeat-
at Mifflin is a graduate of Rush
Medical College, Chicago, and has
practiced for siz years at Peoria, LII.
A large selection Of amusing and
instructiag games az tie p o. Book
Store; just aohat is aoanted 10 keep
the children at home IN the eoe,aings.
51p2
THE Trinity Sunday school fes-
tivities will, as customary, take place
Christmas Eve, and the regular ser
vices and sermon on Christmas day.
silk handkerchiefs, linen hand
kerchiefs, cotton handkerchiefs, in
itial handkerchiefs, motto hand
kerohiefs, and all kinds Of handker-
chiefs at Gundry, Gray & Co.
JAS. REMFREY has bought out w.
II. Blewett's wagon shop, just below
the City Hall square. Mr.. K. has
the reputation of being an excellent
workman, which fully insures him
Of being entitled to full share Of
public patronage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
The Local Field.

Harle! new song rends the sky,
Glory be TO God on high.
Peace on earth, good will to men,
Christ is born in Bethlehem.
Children catch the wondrous sound.
Let it peal the world around,
For, to save the sons of men,
Christ is born in Bethlehem!
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

LADIES and Misses felt mats in the
very latest styles and fancy birds
and wings viii be sod at cost At
the Millinery Store Of
51w4 SUSIE K. MILLER.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Right Hero

you will find the handsomest pres
ents that can be found in ali the
city-watcbes, clocks, jewelry, sill
yerware, etc. These ere choice
goods and will be sold reasonable,
Wm. MAUGER's Jewelry Store.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Beneficial Department

established for the accommodation of those
who are in want in any way. those who have
lost or found valuable property, and for those
who wish to sell or exchange Limit, twenty
five words. First insertion FREE, and for each
insertion thereafter twenty-five cents
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

We will close out our winter stock
at cost including plush and yelvets
for fancy work. Boys felt hats 25e.
j. & NJ. COATES.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

Every body purchasing goods to
the amount of one dollar gets a
chance in the music box at J, j.
Hanscom 81 Co.'S.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

ALTHOUGH in small quantities
sufficient snow has fallen within the
past few days to entice out the sleds
and cutters, and the jiugling of
merry bells is already a common
thing. A little more is required, !,
however, to insure good sleighing,
and It's the general desire that it
will be had ere Christmastide for
the white, beautiful snow," and
Christmas go hand-in-hand, and the
latter without the company of the
former cannot be the same CHEEKY
old Christmas, which all Of US love
SO well.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

BLooDED HoRsEs.-H. L. Dous-
man, the Prairie dn Chen horse
breeder has recently received two
carloads of Kentucky blooded stock,
embracing four brood mares, two
two-year olds, four yearlings, and
five weanlings, worth in the aggre-
gate about $4,000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

Overcoats, blankets, shawls and
all winter goods will be sold ut
prices that cannot be beaten.
Gundry, Gray & Co.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

CHEEKY.-The constant manner
in which the people residing in the
vicinity of the TRIBUNE office drain
our cistern, without permission, is
cheeky, to say the least. In view of
the fact that we need soft water for
our engine, and much OF it, we are
called upon to ask those in the hab-
it of coming, especially those hav-
ing cislerns of their own, to call less
frequently. The idea of saving
your own by draining your neigh
boris is an exhibition of selfishness
we regret thus referring. to.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18
Republicans, Attention.

A meeting of the Republicans of
this city and neighborhood will be
held at the Blaine & Logan club
room on Saturday evening next, for
the purpose of organizing perma-
nent club, and to consider such
other business as may be brought be-
fore the meeting.
Per order of the Executive Com
mittee of BLAINE & LOGAN CLUB.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

WE learned this week of the death
of Mr.. John Perkins youngest
child, whose funeral took place on
Sunday last. About year and a
half ago Mr.. Perkins moved his
family from this place to Dodge
vile, and since that time has lost by
death his wife and two children.
The TRIBUNE, among his many
friends in Mineral Point,
with the gentleman in his great be-
reavment.
LArER.-Since the above was put
into type news have come that Mr..
Perkins oldest boy has died and the
other two children are very i'll with
diphtheria
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

A LARGER nuynber of citizens have
swept the walks in front of their
residences during the last two falls
of snow than ever before. 1t is a
marked Improvement in taste and
comfort, We regret, however, to
see that in some homes the wife has
more public spirit than the husband
and that he has the "cheek" to sit by
the fire while his wife, sweeps the
walks for his and their neighbors'
comfort. We would suggest to
those who join street crossings or
vacant lots that the labor be divided
between the parties living on each
side. We can thus have clean
walks and no one can tell what ac-
cidents may be spared
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

LAST week we stated that the
poultry fanciers Of DodgevilIe
thought some of getting up a show
this winter, since when formal an
nouncement has been received that
meeting has been held and officers
chosen, and that show will be held
some time in JaDaary-the date to
be in accordance with when a COM
petent Judge can come.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-18

Ar teachers meeting of the p.
NJ. Sunday school last Sabbath,
steps were taken and committees APP
pointed to prepare for the annual
Christmas tree. In addition to the
usual distribution of gifts, a liberal
treat is to be given to every member
of the school No charge for adj
mission, but collection will be TAX
en- up for the benefit of the school.
There will no doubt be full house.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
WINTERS DANGERS.

HUGH TALLY, of Dubuque, was killed by
running against a post while coasting.
Mrs. TOWNSEND OF Steuben, n. Y, aged
eghty-three years. was killed by fall on
the ice.
A THREE MONTHS OLD child was frozen to
death while lying in bel with its mother at
La Langue, Canada.
GEORGE FRANK, of Otterville, Canada
went to the woods with sled for fuel. He
was frozen in the snow by the side of the
sled.
AFTER thirty-six hours of exposure to sleet
and snow, w. Irving Landel a railway
brakeman, died of exhaustion, at Lexington,
Kentucky.
IN a deserted barn near Numedia, Penn,
two men were found frozen to death. They
were thinly clad and were locked in one
another's arms.
CHARLES SHEPARD lost n valuable horse
and narrowly escaped with his own life in
attempting to cross the Hudson river on the
ice at Lansingburg.
A SLED containing three boys and girl
Mahanoy Plain, Penn, ran into team.
Charles Gaylor's skull was fractured and the
other coasters were severely injured.
A YOUNG widow recently saved the twelve
year-old son of the Rev. j. Iisdall, OF Plain
view, MINI, from drowning. She saw the
boy fall into an air hole while skating, and
hurried to the rescue with ladder and a
garden rake. She slipped the ladder into the
hole, and, going into the water, felt around
with the rake, until she brought him up. lie
was unconscious, but recovered.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Washington.

The death of f. w. NJ. Mackey, the only
Republican Representative from South Caro-
lima, makes the sixth member of the present
Congress that has died. Contrary to usual
custom, the announcement of Mr.. Mackey's
death was not made by n member from mis-
own State, but by Mr.. OHara, of North
Carolina, the only colored member of the
House Mr.. Mackev was born at Charles
ton, :. c., in 1915, and had been editor, law
yer, alderman, sheriff, assistant assessor of
Internal revenue, speaker of the State leSis-
lature and Congressman.
The President has sent to Congress a
message recommending an immediate ap-
preparation for the work of improving Hell
Gate in the East river at New York
REPRESENTATIVES MORRISON, chairman Of
the ways and means committee, has com
pleted tariff bill, but will not introduce it
In the House until other memb srs of the COM
mittee have had an opportunity to consider
it and offer suggestions. As prepared the
bill provides for general horizontal reduc-
ton of twenty per cent, but in no event
is the reduction TO be lower than the tariff
rates in tie Morrill, bill of 1861.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
BURNED TO CINDERS.
A Trains Awful Plunge Through a
Bridge.
Six Persons Lose Their Lives and
Others Injured.

The soulful bound accommodation train on
the Indianapolis and Chicago Air Line met
with terrible accident at Broad Ripple,
seven miles from Indianapolis, Ind. At that
point the railway crosses the White
river on a truss bridge of two spans,
each $50 feet in length. The engineer
had gone to the baggagecar for a
drink of water and the locomotive was
in charge of the fireman. When the
engine had reached the center of the bridge
the fireman felt the structure sinking. He
had his hand on the throttle at the time and
opened it, giving the locomotive all the avail
able steam. The engine sprang forward
with great force, breaking the couplings be-
tween the tender and baggage car. 1t
kept the track, but the baggage and
smoking cars and one passenger coach
dropped through the bridge and were piled
smoking car being partially telescoped by
the baggage car. The wreck was partially
submerged, but the portion above water i'm
mediately took fire from the stoves. The
fireman looked back after he had crossed the
bridge. The cars were on fire and smoke
was obscuring the scene. News of
the wreck reached indianapolis short
ly after it had occurred and a
wrecking train with surgical and other as
sistance was sent to Broad Ripple. When it
reached the wreck the bridge and cars were
yet burning. Those present were SO lacking
in presence of mind as TO be unable to extin-
guish the flames or relieve tue sufferers.
The officials of the road worked vigorously
and Systematically, and in short time ths
flames were extinguished.
Then a search for bodies was begun. Six
persons had either been killed outright or
burned to death, their bodies being charred
almost beyond recognition and horribly mu-
tilated. The only means of Identification
was by incombustible trinkets known to be
the property of the dead The dead COM
prised the engineer, baggage master, bridge
foreman, express messenger, a brakeman
and passenger. Eight passengers were in
jured, two or three with fatal effect.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
LATER NEWS.

AT meeting of cotton operatives, repre-
senting fifty one mills, in Fall River, Mass.
it was resolved to strike in ten of the mills
against proposed reduction in wages Eight
thousand persons were thus thrown out OF
employment 1t was decided to pay single
men of the strikers "a per week, married
men $3.50, and twenty-five cents for each
child while the strike continues, and also to
ask for assistance from the cotton operatives
throughout New England
WHILE members of various Masonic
lodges were assembled in q hall at Guilrord,
N. Y, preparing to attend a funeral the
floor of the hall suddenly gave way, precipi-
tating seventy men TO the floor below. A
number of men were severely injured.
Mrs. CATHERINE DIX, widow of Governor
Dix, died in New York a few days since
The Queen of Tahiti, the largest of the
Society islands, has been travelling across the
continent, and recently arrived in New
| York.
The two stages running between Whites
I boro and Gainesville, Texas, were robbed a
few days since by three road agents.
! The steamer Natchez burst her boiler near
Baton Rouge, La, and was run ashore by
the pilot. A colored boy was instantly
killed and one passenger terribly scalded.
SANDY" ROBINSON, a negro imprisoned at
! Crockett, Texas, for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Iathrop, was taken out of Jail by
masked men and hanged.
DURING January the various United States
mints coined $3.50 gold pieces, worth ST.
G61, 2i5; 2,350,G0 standard silver dollars; L.
O50,0OO dimes, worth 100000, and 2, s73, 800
minor pieces, worth Sl04, rs, making total
of 6,35G,9SO pieces, worth s4,2!1, 023.
Mr.. BURCHARD, the director of the United
/ States mint told a Subcommittee of the
House committee on weights and measures,
that he thought between five and seven mil
lion trade dollars were out, and he believed
in the hands of traders The sub committee
has been considering the subject of the with
drawal of the trade dollar from circulation by
congressional enactment.
PLACARDs have been posted throughout
Paris melting the disatfected policemen and
starving workmen to arms.
A CoRUNNA SPAIN dispatch says that
Spanish vessel was capsized during heavy
gale, and her crew of nineteen persons were
drowned
THE remains of Commander De Long and
his companions of the lost steamer Jean
nette were received, upon their arrival i'll
Berlin from the long journey through Rus
sia, by United States Minister Sargent. The
collins which filled the floor of one car,
were hidden by beautiful wreatbs and
flowers presented by various corporations en-
route.
Ell MAHDI's insurgents are reported to be
falling back from Khartoum. The False
Prophets forces have made an unsuccessful
attack upon the fortified camp of the
Egyptians
AT a Nationalist meeting in Ballymote
Ireland, fight occurred between the Ma
tionalists and body of Orangemen. Three
Nationalists and two Orangemeu were
wounded
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE

ARTHUR President is fifty four years
old, weighs two hundred and thirty pounds,
and is six feet tall.
MURPHY.-Francis Murphy, the great tenn
perance worker, has just been paying his
first visit to Boston
ox.-Representative S. S. Cox is to be
paid $4,000 by Norwich Conn publishing
house for his "reminiscences.
OFFUT- Charles s. Offut, the new speaker
of the Kentucky house of representatives, is
only twenty-seven years of age
JACKsoN-Dr. Lois o, jackson fills the
position of resident physician in a hospital
for children in Philadelphia. She is pretty
blonde, twenty-three years of age, and is
giving entire satisfaction in her position.
RHoDEs.-Lieutenan Rhodes, the hero O.
the Gay Head disaster, has been in the rev
enue marine service for eleven years. His
age is thirty three, he is native of Con-
necticut and has the record of a first-class
man.
ARMoUR.-P. d. Armour leading man in
the Chicago pig packing business, is certain
that France and Germany ought to be pun
ished without an instant 5 delay for excluding
American pork, and rejoices that French
men are easily frightened"
MASON. -Colonel Macomb Mason, a native
of Virginia, and graduate of the United
States Naval academy, who went with his
been in the Egyptian service, is the "Mr.
Mason" whom Baker Pasha has appointed
military governor of Massowah.
SHAw.--Mrs Quincy Shaw of Boston,
spends $4,000 annually out of her private
income in support of thirty kindergartens
and twenty nurseries which sha has estab-
lished in those parts of the city where the
toughest and most squalid features reign.
In addition to this she spends 500, 900 year
in other charities
SMITH.-The steamer of Leigh Smith the
arctic explorer, was crushed in the ice, and
he was forced to live in snow house on seal
and walrus till rescued, but went again i'm
mediately ON Dutch steamer, that was
sunk. He is now trying t. make arrange
ments to go again. He has spent his entire
fortune in exploration ventures.
CAPRoN.-The emperor of Japan has con
! ferred upon General Horace Capron, Of
I Washington, the second order of the Risi ne
Sun, mark Of appreciation for the valuable
services rendered by the latter to Japan,
! especially in the development of the resour-
| ces of the island of Yesso, the most north
ernly of the japanese group This is the
first time the order has been conferred upoI
a foreigner.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
THE AMERICAN HOG.
A Communication 10 Congress from
the Secretary of state.

In answer to recent resolutions of the
House, Secretary Frelinghuysen has sent to
the President, to be transmitted to the House,
a long communication relating in detail the
history of the restrictions and prohibitions
of the importation of American pork
by various foreign governments, of
the correspondence between the
United States and such govern
ments ON the subject, and of the investiga-
ton made by our government in order to
determine whether the alleged danger to
public health from American exported meats
really existed The result of this investiga-
ton was to show that the prejudicial judg-
ment abroad against the swine export of this
country was ex parte and unfounded.
The etretary advises the President to rec
ommend that no legislative action be taken
by Congress until the report of the commits
sion appointed by the President to investi-
gate the condition of American pork and
swine has been presented. This report will
soon be ready.
The secretary adds: "Should it appear that
the meat products of this country are as we
believe them to be, not deleterious, but pro
motive of health, it is believed that those
friendly nations which have put forth de-
crees inhibiting the importation of our meats
would annul those DEGREES"
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middle statea

A FREETHINKERs association was formed
at a convention in Boston.
PETMECKY, the murderer of Mrs. Froitz
helm in Auburn, N. Y, has been sentenced
to be hanged on Friday, March 81.
THE total Hudson river ice crop this winter
is estimated at 4,000,000 tons or 900 600
more than last winter.
GOVERNOR BoURN in his annual message
to the Rhode Island legislature commends q
proposed scheme for industrial education.
TWENTY SEVEN men at Greensburg, Penn.
have formed a secret, oath bound brother
hood, and decided not to buy French goods
and to boycott all dealers selling them until
the embargo on pork is removed.
ABOUT 600 New England farmers interested
in the milk trade met in Boston and formed
protective association.
AFTER lasting seven months the strike of
window glass workers at Pittsburg, Penn,
has come to an end by an agreement between
employers and employees which is largely
favorable to the latter About $500 men
engaged in the strike resume work.
FOUR men were frightfully injured by the
explosion of a can of giant powder at a lime
quarry in Sipesviile, Penn.
ANOTHER Gloucester (Mass.) fishing
schooner-the Waldo Irving, with a crew of
fourteen men on board-has been given up
for lost.
A RESOLUTION of thanks to Lieutenant
Rhodes of the United States revenue ma
rine service, for his gallant conduct at tn Q
wreck of the City of Columbus, was passe
by the Connecticut legislature.
A sCAFFoLDING collapsed suddenly near
Pottsville Penn, throwing eight carpenters
to the ground, distance of thirty feet. One
man was instantly killed. another fatally
! hurt, and the rest more or less dangerously
injured.
DIR. ELISHA HARRIS, honorary secretary
of the New York State board of health, dis
tinguished for his sanitary services during
the war and for his many valuable contri-
buttons TO medical science, died the other
day in Albany, aged sixty years.
EDWARD N. RowELL was acquitted at Ba-
tavia, n Y, of the charge of numbering
johnson l.. Lynch whom he found at his
house with his wife three months ago, and
shot dead The jury acquitted him on the
ground that the shooting of Lynch had been
done in self-defense The verdict was re-
eiveG with great cheers, the building of
bonfires and the exploding of fireworks by
the excited citizens. Rowels former part
rer, Palmer, against whom much feeling had
been engendered by his testimony on the
witness stand, was hanged in efligy.
A JURY returned a verdict of S2s,927
against the Boston and Albany Railroad
company in favor of James B. David of Bos
| ton, as damages for PERSONAL injuries sus-
tanned at Springfield, owing to the neglect of
| train men,
JUDGE HARRY E. PACKER, president of
| the Lehigh Railroad company, died a few
| days since at his home in Mauch Chunk,
Penn, in his thirty third year. He was the
youngest and the last surviving son of the
! late Judge Asa Packer, the famous protector
and builder of the Lehigh Valley railroad.