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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06

BRIG GEN. BENET, chief of ord.
nance in the army, has submitted his
annual report. The expenditures Of
the department during the year, in
Guiding those attending the sales of
condemned stores, amounting to
S2,015 255. A report of the operations
at the Rock Island arsenal is submitted
The erection of shops and storehouses
has been conducted economically and
thoroughly, and the estimates for the
prosecution and completion of the
same should receive favorable con-
sheraton. The last appropriation of
$40 200 for general care, etc, is not
deemed adequate to the necessities of
the arsenal During the year 35, 1873
rifles, carbines, and shot-guns have
been manufactured at the National
Arnory. Much has also been done in
manufacturing magazine guns. Gen /
eral Benet says the condition of our
coast defenses is matter Of grave
concern and calls for immediate at
ton, and he hopes before the end of
the ensuing session congress will show
to the country its appreciation Of these
national wants by liberal and herman
ent annual appropriations. The de
parilent was greately embarrassed in
its work of constructing several ex
perimeutal guns for the armament Of
Notifications by the backwardness Of
foreign manufacturers in meeting
their engagements for furnishing steel
forgiugs, and by the inferior quality
of some of the material received and
submitted to test by the department.
After describing these matters in de
tail, the report continues: The diff
culties recounJed ia procuring steel
from abroad, even for experimental
guns, makes manifest, without lengthy
comment the necessity for home pro
duction. 1t is hoped the very pressing
needs Of the department and the diH-
culues under which it now labors in
attempting to secure suitable materials
for gun construction may be relieved
through the prompt ard energetic ac-
zion OF congress at the next session.
The steel makers of this country will
not undertake The production Of steel
on a scale adequate toour wants with
out inducement, being fairly remun-
Grated for their OUTLAWS; and the i'm.
portance for the immediate action on
the part of congress for holding out
such inducements by liberal appro
priations can not be oyer estimated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE roof OF the Union Depot at Pitts
burg, Pa caught fire Saturday after
noon and was damaged s. 600.
THE jail at Edgerton, Wis, was burn
"a Thursday morning, Edward GuRder-
son, prisoner, perishisg IN the flames.
4 DczFN cotton gin houses in tie
Cd uty surrounding Columbus, S. G.,
b. 'e recently been destroyed by iucen-
diary fires. The losses amount go over
100000
AN explosion in a coal mine reir
Juioutown, Pa, Monday afternoon is
reported to have resulted in the killing
or manning of twenty men.
THE Electric Light Company's build
ing ar Grand Rapids, Mich. burned
Monday morning. causing a loss of So
eco fully insured, The city is left ia
darkness.
: THE public school building at Central
City, Neb., was burned at o'clock, and
IS total loss, with no insurance. Il
was large handsome building, valued
at several thousand dollars,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
FOREIGN.

THE wages of the cotton spinners at
Oldham have been reduc d 5 per cent,
owing to the depression in the cotton
trade.
The firm Of Boyi.sorosky & Sons,
Moscow, have decided to Sc tie up their
affairs by admin srator Liabilities,
4,9l6 600 roubles; assets, Z Sj7 600 Ioub-
les.
FRANCE has decided to re nforce the
armies operating against the Chinese to
the extent Of $4,000 men.
THE fund for the relief Of the widow
and family of the late A. NJ sullivan,
though strongly supported, will hardly
reach the requisite $50, coo unless assist
auca is received from America. T. =
OConuor is interesting himself largely
In the work of rsi-ing tho fund, and has
appealed to the Iristmen of London to
contribute to the extent Of their ability.
IN both Ireland and England there is
a feeling of widespread rage and grief
over the action If the Young Ireland
Society of Dublin which Friday vot@d
that Sullivan had proved himself trai-
tor 10 the cause OF Ireland Is was
stated in Dublin Saturday night that
nearly all the decent members Of the
society have already withdrawn thciI
names, and the organiztio Is on the
verge Of disruption on account of the
brutal resolution which those present ~
the msetl S saw tit 10 adopt
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
In the Next Great War.
The Spectator

IT the next great war should be
waged between the two nations which
were parties to the last, it would find
the French frontier protected by a
granite wall of strong places. bristling
with cannon, and here and there a
gap, as if to tempt an unwary enemy
TO destruction. But no enemies so ac.
cute as the Germans would attempt to
enter the country without first effect
ing a breach in the wall. To this end
the plan of concentration and the plan
o. operation will have to be executed
Simultaneously. The campaign viii
open with great cavalry fights, each
army trying to rid itself of these
dangerous witnesses of it's m 9vementS,
and at the same time TO ascertain
those of its adversarieS. The side that
succeeds in beating back the enemy's
horse will have scored a great advan-
tage. The concentration of tAeir
corps q drmee will be rendered easier,
the secret of their strategy more eff
fectually guarded. This will be the
object of the German commanders;
aud, as we may presume, also of the
French The cavalry combats will
probably be followed by great battle,
offered by the army whose horsemen
have been worsted, either in front Of
its Notifications or in the intervals
between them. This preliminary con
test, though it can hardly fail to be
murderous, is expected to be lndccis-
i've, for if the sssailant be vanquished,
he viii return to tie charge, while if
the defenders should prove the weak.
err, they can withdraw beEiEd their
Notifications Then will begin the tug
OF war. The iron and granite barrier
that shelters the beaten foe viii have
to be forced at all costs. Regular siege
viii be out OF the que ton The delay
would enable the defenders to rally
aud direct the bulk Of their forces on
the threatened pciut The assailants
must be able 10 cover their advance
BY an artillery FIRE superior al once 10
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

CAL1FoRNlA is now sending the Allan
tic coast more wine than is imported
from France. 1t IS estimated that last
years wine crop yielded the growers
$4,000, 900.
EIGHT thousand bushels Of onions
were ma; keted in Davenport, Iowa, on
a receDC day, at from 10 to 10 cents 2
busheI Davenport is one Of the princi-
pal onion markets in this country.
JOSEPH A. SHoBER. paper-maker at
Lancaster, Pa, is lnsolrent, his habit
ties amounting to 100000.
AT Philadelphia, Saturday, Edwin
Middleton obtained a verdict for $50
2j1 against the Bankers and Merchants
Telegraph Company.
Mrs. GRoRGIANA HEUEsTIs, held for
r. quisition at Boston for the larceny
of $40, 900 from a New York woman,
was ordered to be released "Wednesday
by Governor Robinson.
NEAR Long Creek, Oregon, Tuesday,
a party Of whites stole upon a band of
Indians, and shot and killt d two braves.
The feeling against the aboriginces is in
tense among the whites, and an Indian
outbreak is threatened.
EDDIE LARDoN, 10 years old, was
found dead in the suburbs at Keokuk
Wednesday with a bullet-hole in his
neck. How he came Dy his death is a
mystery.
THE Armstrong oil well, near Butler,
Pa, gushes at the rate Of 1870 barrels an
hour and in twenty-four hours put
5000 barrels in tauk-beating all pre-
vious records.
The wholesale hardware firm of Har-
wood Brothers & Co., at Bloomington,
Ill, is financially embarrassed. The
firm is one of the oldest and most extern
sive in Central Illinois Their liabilities
are estimated at 100000; assets, $50 600
to S75, 900.
President ARTHUR, tn .s1ay, appoint
ed Hon. Walter Q. Gresham to succeed
Hon. Thomas Drummond as Judge of
the U,ited States Circuit Court for
Wisconsin, Illinois aud Iadianna, and
has appointed ex-Secretary Hugh Nc
Culloch to succeed Judge Gresham as
Secretary of the Treasury.
SMUGGLING, says a Victoria British
C1lumbia) dispatch, is being carried ON
between there and the United States on
a gigantic scale. A large number OF
citizens of Victoria, it is said, are en-
gagged in this business, many of them
having done nothing else for gears, dur
ing which time they have made them
selves comparatively independent. The
most profitablepart of the trade is found
in smuggling opium, tobacco and fancy
goods into Washington Territory from
Victoria. The duty on opium is $40 per
pound, and the Chinese will readily take
all that can be run in.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
resources

THE surprising information is given
by a detective that there is no better
place to look for criminals than in a
reading room. In order to keep post
ed with criminal news the thieves
carefully scan the files of daily news
papers Of the large cities. Once an i'm
portant arrest Of a iewelry thief was
made in this way. A man who spent
several days in reading an account Of
jewelry robbery appeared so inter
ested that he was arrested and found
to be guilty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06

that Of the forts and of the army bv
whom they are supported. In the next
great war the decisive battle will ba
preceded by corlbats of artillery
greater than any the world has vet
seen. After breaking the line the in
vaders will have to encounter the
enemy a second time, if they will ac
cent battle, or invest them ia their
fortified camps, if they should be so
unwise as to take refuge there. Unwise.
because an army ia an intrenche5
camp is lost army, and in this opin-
ion Colonel Hennebert, a French mil
itary writer who discusses the subject
ia his Europe Under Arms, is fully
agreed with Baron Won der Gollz.
In the event of the defenders being a
second time beaten the problem would
be solved; the rest of the campaign
could be conducted under normal con.
ditions, savcthat the guarding of com
munications would require greater
watchfulness and absorb many more
men than previous wars were wont to
do. The German staff do not seem
much concerned with the idea of leav-
ing behind them a line of strong
places. They remember that Ia the
last war the fortified camp of Langres.
with It's 1900 men, did not cause
thera the least embarrassment.
Neither Baron Won der Goltz nor Col.
Hennebert is a great admirer OF the
exaggerated system Of defense ADOPT
ed by French strategists Strong
places are a shelter in time of disaster,
and tend, perhaps, to give confidence
to- generals and impart a sense of Sc
curity to their men; but these advan-
tages are dearly purchased by the sac
rifice OF more manly quail ies-dash,
boldpess and audaclty and by turn
ing all their thoughts toward defen-
sive warfare they exercise q PERM
cious influence over the headq quarter
staff and the cOmmander-in-chi@f.
The great wall OF China did not keep
out the Tartars and not all the fortifi-
cations in the world can stop an array
confident of it's superiority, and cen
Quoted by a general who knows his
business. But they must be willing
to make the sacrifice hardly less Sc
we're than would be inflicted by a dis
astrous defeat.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
The STAMPEDE From Bull Run.

From the 'Reco)lectons of a Pr
vate," in the November Century, we
quote the following; That was the
fault of the officers who allowed the
baggage wagons to come to the front,
instead of being parked at Centreville.
The stampede and confusions began
among them first Why, the men
were so frightened when they began
to fall backin groups scattered through
the fields that / saw them stop fire.
quently to pick blackberries. Fright
ened men don't act in that way At
Cub Run. between the Stone Bridge
AID Centreville, the irresponsible
teamsters, with the baggage wagons,
We're all crowded together near the
bridge, and were in a desperate hurry
TO cross. A Rebel battery began
dropping shell in amongst them, aud
thus demolished some OF the wagons
and blocked the way. The confusion
and hurry and excitement then began.
The drivers on the south side, finding
they couldn't cross with their wagons
now began to cut their traces and
mount their horses and hurry away.
Those who drove baggage-wagOns on
the safe side of Cub Run the began te
desert them and cut the traces and
shout and gallop off. The infantry,
seeing this confusion and not under
standing the cause of it, qu;ckened
their pace. Soon the narrow road
became filled with flying troops,
horses, baggage wagons and casriages.
Then the volunteers began to throw
away their muskets and equipments,
so as to stand an even chance in the
race. Here and there, all along the
route, abandoned wagons had been
overturned and were blocking the
way One white-headed citizen, an
old man, looking very sorrowful,
stood directing the soldiers on their
way to Washington, saying: You'd
better hurry on, or the cavalry will
cut off your retreatr The houses all
along the route were filled with
wounded men, while the ambulances
were filed with officers Fastening 70
Washington Soldiers here and there
marc.ed in groups, and sorrowfully
discussed the situation and its causes.
The expression heard on every side
among them was: Why were not
the resery es brought ap for Centre
vile to help usG Why didn't they
bring up the troops from Fairfax
Court Neutrality-suspicious., it seems to
me, hard to answer, even if they did
come from private soldiers running
away from the field of Ball Run"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
The Director of the Mint Gives SOmI
Valuable Computations of the
Currency.
Annual Report of the Indian
Bureau-The Wards Of the
Nation.
Protecting the Oklahoma Preserve.
Longevity Pay in the Army.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-The decis-
ion of the supreme court to day in the
Morton case will cost the government
a pretty penny. Previous to 1881
there was a law allowing credit to
army officers in computing their long
evity pay for all the time they had
served in the army either as privates
or officers. The law of 1881 gave
them credit for all the time they had
served either in the army or navy. Of
course, the time officers spent at West
Point was not service, as either officers
or privates; but it was service in the
army, as the court of claims held in
the Morton case, and the supreme
court has just affirmed that decision.
The application of the decision may be
illustrated as follows: A first lieuten.
ant of infantry who graduated at West
Point in 1870 is now getting $3.50 a
month. which is the schedule pay of
his rank, with 90 per cent. added be
cause he has served more than ten and
less than fifteen vevrs. Under the de-
cision of the court he is entitled to
have 30 per cent. added to the schedule
pay, making it 1852 so, because he
had served fifteen years in 1881, and
he can collect from the government
this difference of $3.50 a year for three
years back Furthermore, if in 1886
ne IS promoted to be captain he will
get 1919 month to begin with, be-
cause, counting the time he was at
West Point, he will have served
twenty years. Under the ruling that
prevailed he would get 1895 month
till 1890. and then his $2l0. As there
are a good many hundred officers con
cerned, and arrearages from 1881 Can
be collected, the total will be consid-
cradle. The longevity pay of Raval
officers is reckoned on a different
systematic time in each grade and
not the total time in service being
counted. The result is that naval
officers do not get so much pay as
army officers of the corresponding
rank, and the present decision adds to
the advantage of the army officers,
for the naval officers can not count in
the time they spent at Annapolis.
The offset to this is that, as there are
more officers of high grade in the
navy than in the army, promotion is
more rapid, and officers reach a given
grade in the navy earlier than they
reach the corresponding grade in the
army.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06

Many high tributes are paid to Lord
Ripon, the retiring Vlceroy, by the
press of India. Sad the Indian Spec
tator recently: India has to part
with her popular Niceroy, the ruler
who, more than almost all his prede-
cessOrs, come nearest 10 our ideal of
what the repre sentative of Her I'm
perial Majesty ought to -. If right
eousness has any value for the practi-
cal politician, Mr. Dadabhai Naoroii's
description of the outgoing Viceroy-
The savior of the people-will hold
good forever. Here we are reminded
of Lord Ripen's first speech 10 India,
in course of which he said to the citi-
zens Of Bombay. Gentlemen, judge
me by my acts There has scarcely
been time enough to form judgment,
and the unexpected has often upset
our calculations during the last two
years. But still the general verdict
will stand for all time in favor OF
'Ripon the just, as our poets have al
ready named him.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06
THE REPORT OF THE MINT.

WASHINGTON, Oct IS The director
of the mint has submitted his annual
report for the fiscal year ended June
30, 1884. The deposits of gold during
the gear amounted TO SAC, 1926 679, of
which over 500 600 600 were domestic
production. The silver purchased for
coinage and deposited for bars
amounted, at coming value, to $50
500, 300 of which over S31 900, 900
were domestic production. The total
value of gold and silver deposited and
purchased, including rcdeposits, was
$S7, 955, 1856, about the same as in the
previous year. The coinage amount
ed to $57, $50, 921, of which $27. 922, S24
was in gold and $2S, 773, $3.50 in silver.
The latter, except about 1878, 600, was
in silver dollars, and 81, liza, 700 in
minor GINS. The coinage of gold
was about $4,000, 600 less than the
previous year Besides the manufae
ture of coin, gold bars of the value of
$23 S75. $50, aud silver bars of the
value of 81, $50 724, a total of $31, 515,-
$40 were prepared at the minis and
ASSAY offices. The number of silver
dollars distributed duriag the year
was over 1900, 000 The total est
mate of silver dollars ia active circu-
lation in October, 1884, was over 140,
900. coo, and increase of 8, 600, 600. The
director estimates the production of
the minis in the United States for the
calendar year at S29, 600, 600 in gold
and not quite $4,000, 600 more silver
than for the previous year. He estl-
mates the amount Of coin in the coun-
try Oct 1, 1884, to have been: Gold,
1857. O00. 600: silver, S257, 600 coo;
total SSl4 OO0. 600. Granting as part
of the metallic circulation the bullion
! in minis and assay Offices belonging
! to the government. which amounted,
] Oct. /. to nearly $50 00G 600 IN gold
and S.. 600 900 in silver, the total coin
and bullion available for coinage at
/ that date in the country would be;
Gold, 500, 600 900; silver, 1862, COO
600; total, $S72, coo 600. The total
specie and paper of all kinds used as
money in tie United States on Oct
II. 1884. the director estimates at
81 500 GOO. 900, being an increase Of
SIS 600 600 Over that in the country
on the same date OF the previous year.
/ Ofthis amount over $500, 600, 900 was
in the treasury, and 81, 304, coo 600 in
banks and general circulation.
Deducting the amount held by
national banks leaves about ST, 094,
600. 600 in the hands of the general
public and banks other than national
The production OF precious metals IN
twenty one countries appears 10 have
been. for the calendar year 1888 about
S94 600, 900 of gold and STA QUO 600 of
silver being S.. 600, 900 less in gold and
a ike amount greater ia silver taan
for the previous year, resulting from
diminished production ia gold in Rus
STA aud the United States, aud I'M
creased the production Of silver ia
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-11-06

! THE stables of Ex-Governor TiIden. at
Greystone, N. Y, We're burned Sunday
night, with sleiphs, hay, grain, etc, the
loss being $4,000. Mir. Tilden's valet
and his family, narrowly escaped.
A COACH containing several Italian
| immigrants, attac he'd TO freight train
on the Wabash Road, was wrecked and
hurled down an embankment, early
Monday morning, near Tay louisville.
| H., by butting collision. Fourteen of
the Italians were wounded, some danger
ousiy.
A. L. N. A. AID Chicago train was
wrecked near Putnamville, Ind, early
Saturday morning, three employees be-
ing iDjur and all Of the cars consumed
| by fire. Passengers in the .leeper escap-
ed with merely the clothing they wore.
The total loss will aggregate $4,000
THE flames in Fayette City, Pa, were
| gotten under control after McKay's
drug store and dwelling, Eritz's hard
ware and dwelling, Lauterbauch's store
and dwelling, Mullins dry. good store.
marble shop, and the Odd Fellows Hall
had been destroyed. The less aggre-
gates $50 900, on which there is an m
surance of $13,5 800.
AT Reading, Pc, Wednesday, a loo o.
motive and two cars jumped the track
and fell through a trestle, the engine
tumbled upon the Reading Iron WORKS
boiler house, and demolished it. Two
persons were hurt, and travel was de-
layed,
HURRICANES, Sept 30 and Oct. 7, on
the coast of the Lower California, were
Estado de Sonora was lost, and the
fifty-seven pers ons on board persisted
The schooner Doralt was also wrecked,
and nine sloops and coasters W Int to
the bottom, but the number of lives lost
is not exactly known.
THE steamship Maasdan, of the Meth
erlands Steam Navigation Company, en-
route from Rotterdam for New York,
was burned at sea last week. She had
n board $50 passengers and crew of
fifty men, whose fate is not yet known
AN hotel, block of brick stores. and
several dwellings at Arnprior, Ont,
were burned Monday, the loss reaching
$50, coo. Fire in Candy, Jones e. Co S
establishment at New York Monday
morning damaged the building and
stock $40, 900.
THE house of j. b. Hutchins, at Mon
treal, was shattered by a gas Explosion
Saturday morning, beds, furniture, etc,
being dashed in al directions, and the
gable wall blown out. The windows 0,
adjacent structures were dem olished
and three persons were badly burned
THE propeller Scotia, on the rocks at
Kewenaw Point. is breaking up, and
will be a total wreck. She is valued at
$4,000 and insured for $50, 600 The
schooner Negaunee, ore laden, is ashore
on Point Irequois, but may be released
with but little damage. The H p,
Baldwin, with coal, for Milwaukee,
turned up at Port Huron leaking, and
will discharge her cargo and go into dry
dock.