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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1885-09-18
Mr.. G. NJ. Childs has purchased

Mr.. G. M. Childs has purchased
property at Haines Station above
Conowingo, and proposes putting up
a large ware house there.
Mr.. Louis X. Brown, of this district
who lost limb in the late war and
who has held position in the Treas
ury Department at Washington near.
" every since, having recently lost
his place as chief.clerk has been re-
appointed to clerkship in the same
department at a salary Of 81, 800.
Mr.. Jno. Keilholtz has field of
wheat which shows quite green. Mr..
X. was first to get in his wheat in this
vicinity. He plowed early and per-
pared his ground well, and this is the
way to farm, cultivate ''early and
often" as the politicians say when
they get in their best ticks" at the
polls.
Jas. E. Haines had sow which
had one of her hind legs broken in
the thigh bone by slipping in the pen.
He did nothing in the way of doctor
ing, except to let her severely alone
and in three weeks the animal had so
far recovered as to be able to use the
limb in walking. and has wholly re-
covered.
The Presbyterian Church of Port
Deposit, having been closed for re-
pairs some time, will be opened on
Sunday next, Goth inst. and the ser.
mon preached by Rev. A. W. Hodge,
of Priuc eton Theological Seminary.
DR.. Hodge was pastor of West Not
tingham Presbyterian Church 80
years ago.
In a local notice of Mr.. j. W. Buck.
ley, our enterprising cordwainer
friend across the alley, in last weeks
JOURNAL, we inadvertantly-or the
types did-said Scotch "buttons" in
place of bottoms. Also Alligator elk
iDgs" should have read Alligator for-
inys." Who knows the difference?
Sure we don't.
Edward Balderson of Colora lost a
valuable horse on Saturday night by
death. The animal was insured in
the Farmers Branch of the Peoples
Mutual Live Stock Insurance Co. of
Baltimore, office at Rising Sun, d. G.
Waring, agt. The horse was insured
for 5000, and the owner will receive
$3.50 on the loss.
You can get from w. Buckley
the English Waukenphast made on
the Waukcnphast last; you can get
mems button CATERS with alligator
foxings. box toes and Scotch bottoms;
you can get French Kip or French
Cal: stitched or pegged. We have on
hand few pairs ready made heavy
winter boots for farmers. Call in and
see them. satisfaction guaranteed.
both in quality and fit.
Mr.. c. C. Mcclure our go AHEAD tin
ner is having quite large run of work
through the country, in the matter of
roofing and spouting. He has been fit
ting out Mr. Webster McVeys building
near Sylmar, Bolmar Gathers on the
Waring, Nickle property Joseph
England's James Brickley's near Eb-
eneezer church Abner Mearnes, and
l.. o. Cameron, Zion, and others in the
surrounding country. He has been
kept very busy with ruiz of this kind
of work for some considerable time,
in addition to shop work in town.
Among the many useful novelties
which attracted our attention while
glancing over Mr.. c. NJ. Child's spec
linens, was a wheelbarrow, weighing
only IS bounds, and capable of bear
enn Nl>o ooouok oF
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
WASHINGTON.

CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE is quite serious
ly i'll at his residence in Washington,
and fears are entertained for his re-
covery. He was reported slightly i'm
proving. His ailment is erysipelas.
Col STEVENSON, Of the Bureau OF
Ethnology, who recently spent several
months in the West, brought back the
largest and most diverse collection of
objects illustrating the home life, ia
dustries, and religious customs of the
Pueblo Indians ever before made. They
will be sent tc the New Orleans Elk
position.
REPRESENTATIVE SPRINGER Chairman
of the sub committee appointed To in
vestigate the conduct of marshals
at the Ohio election, left Washington
Saturday for Cincinnati. Van Alstyne
and Stewart and other members of the
committee will meet Springer in that
city. The investigation begins Monday,
and continues two weeks.
THE President will leave Washington
about the 10Th inst, for New Orleans to
visit the exposition, unless the condit-
ion II public affairs at that time shall
make il necessary to change the present
plans. He viii be accompanied by some
of the members of the cabinet and ex-
poets TO return to Washington in about
ten days,
COLONEL BOUDINOT. of the Cherokee
Nation, says that 6 100000 acres of the
land OF that nation are now held under
leases for grazing purposes. Outside
OF that nation about 4 600, 600 acres be-
longing TO the Cheyennes, Arrapahoes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
GREELEY'S BELL-BOY.
HOW the Young Man Kept the Buns
from the Editor's Sanctum.

Ben Van Houten, Greeley's old bell
boy, is driving milk wagon in New
Jersey, says The Journalist. He
was six feet high when IN The
Tribune's service, and ne had eyes
like goggles and hand like the hand
of Providence
Bub, . said Horace to him. as he
entered mis- sanctum one night, 81
want to write for an hour or two. and
| don't wont to be bothered. Keep
all the buns out of my ROOM"
Yes, Mr. Greeley, - Ben replied in
a hoarse voice, for he had a voice like
bull of Bashan.
Within half an hour Ben Bruce,
Dennis Mclaughlin, and several other
political gadflles tried to buzz their
way to the old mans room, but were
summarily squelched by him Final
ly, Senator Henry Wilson, of Massa-
chusetts, entered He had been on a
campaign tour in Indiana, and he
wore the dlrtiest buster and SLOUGH
hat that had been seen in New York
since the departure of the Pendleton
escort in 1868. The senator dropped
his carpet bag and advanced toward
the open door of Mr.. Greeleys sane
tum, when he was confronted by Ben.
Where are you going9n blurted
the watch dog.
I'm going to see Mr.. Greeley, the
senator replied.
mot much you hain't, roared Ben,
elevating his voice so as to make him
sell solid with Horace. "Git right
ou5 o here or I'll help you out"
Gen. Wilson was dunbfounded.
His face, usually red, was made redder
by Ben's manner.
won't you be so kind as to take
my name in to Mr.. Greeley" he
asked.
Ben looked hard at him, and asked
his name.
Wilson, was the reply.
well, " said Ben, I'll go in and
see If he wants to see YOU"
He returned in forty seconds, more
aggressive than ever.
"It's Just as told you, he roared,
He won t sec you; now, d-n you,
get out o. here. y
Wilson turned to Amos Cummings,
night editor, who lay back in his
chair, bursting with suppressed emo,
ton.
whats the matter, general9" he
asked.
Senator Wilson explained, while
Ben looked on in establishment
There must be some mistake, the
night editor remarked, land I'll take
you in and introduce you to Mr..
Greeley"
They entered the great editors
sanctum together. Horace sat at his
high desk his eyes close to the manu-
script, scratching away like a hen on
fresh sand heap
Mr.. Greeley, said Amos, there's
Senator Wilson, you refused to see
him just now.
There was moment Of lence.
Horace scratched away without look
ing up.
"Well, he piped, in shrill voice,
without removing his pen, the boy
said that a id old bum named W IL
son wanted to see me, and | thought
it was Billy Wilson.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15


THE high spirited Princess Alice of
Hess, seems to have yielded, after all,
10 the persuasive influences Of her
brother-in-law, the Czai of Russia.
She who few weeks ago was boldly
declaring that she would "never wear
the willow for any man while he was
alive, rs said to have been ''reconcIl-
ed to her reprobate husband, Grand
Duke Sergius. 1t is the sort of recon
ciliation that brings only misery. One
can but wonder why the girls grand
mother, Queen Victoria, who has
been so relentless IN the punishment
of unchastity, or the mere suspicion
of unchastity, among her own people,
should have remained silent when the
happiness of her bestowed daughter
child is being wrecked.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

THE city of Belin, the capital Of
Germany, has over 100000 inhabi-
tants. Tne figures given by the stats
teal bureau Of the town is 1,122, 800.
Contsary to the rule which prevails
in almost every European nation
taking the population Of town and
country in the average-there is in
the German capital a majority of
males, namely, 565,755, as against
$50, sos females. This is different
from London, Paris and other great
cities. III 1925, Berlin had 220, 277 in
habitants; in 1858, 4sS, 5Ss. Within
the last twenty-five years its popula-
ton has been more than doubled.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
Found Ne Poison.

DR.. Samuel X. Cox, d. D., Practi-
cal Analy Chemist, Washington,
d. c., who made thorough and care
full analysis, reports that there is
neither morphia, opium, emetics nor
poisons in the Red Star Cough Care /;
that it must prove a boon to those
whose systems shrink from the use of
such compounds, and G ecially to
mothers, who Justly dres i the evil,
and, at times, fatal effects of these
dangerous drugs. He further states
it is not only free from all opiates,
poisons and emetics "a thing which
not one cough preparation in ten can
b9asD butt is altogether an original
and most happy combination of the
best remedial agents, and it is as
harmless as il is effective.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
CABLECRAMS S.

TwENTY-THREE of the younger priests
and students of the Moscow Theology
cal Seminary were logged by order of
the Archbishop of the diocese for exhib-
iting symptoms of rebellion.
THE British government denies the re-
port that the orders received at Port 3
mouth and Plymouth to prepare the
ironclads Minotaur, Neptune, Sultan,
Northumberland, Achilles and Agin-
court for immediate service, were issued
because of warlike intentions on the
part of Great Britain.
Col. MAJEsDIE, the British Inspector
of explosives, has come to the con-
clusioa that the agent used in the recent
explosion on the underground railway
of London was percussion bomb sim
liar TO that used in the murder of Gar
Alexander H., and that it was thrown
from the train. 1t is supposed that the
explosive substance was co ntained in a
ball of glass or earthware.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
Wicked College Boys.
Philadelphia Press.

college boys are no respectors of
persons, said gentleman who lives
at Princeton yesterday. when
President Arthur took his son Allen
to Princeton the Chief Magistrate was
called on by the boys for a speech.
He responded, and in conclusion re-
marked with great deal of feeling
that he was about to confine to their
care what was to him the dearest
thing on earth. The words were
scarcely out of his mouth when one of
the youths rose and sung out in stem
toriat tones: "Three cheers for the
thing.'n
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

A SERIES of astronomical observa-
tons will soon begin at the Naval
Observatory to determine, with tine
almost nicely, the latitude Of the spot
where the instrument is located Two
years will be required for the work.
Similar series OF observations will be
made by the Portuguese astronomers
at Lisbon, and ultimately at national
observatories in several other parts of
the world. The purpose of these un-
dertakings is to secure a standard by
which comparison may be made ten,
twenty and fifty years hence, to de-
termine if in the mean time geograph-
zeal changes, which are supposed to
be taking place IN the center OF the
globe, have altered the position of its
center of gravity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
What is a Pound Sterling,
W. Mattieu Williams, in the Gentleman's Maya
zine

w Mattieu Williams in the Gentleman's Maya
zine
This question was asked of Sir Rob
ert Peel in the house of commons.
and he answered by pitching a sover-
elgn to the querist. No better answer
is possible. Some years ago while
teaching political economy at Univer-
sity college school, | presented to my
pupils curious problem, as follows
Our currency is all based on the SOW
ereign, and the sovereign, as defined
by act of parliament, is the IL, S69 OF
Gao troy, or otherwise stated. any
body taking igots of standard GOLD to
the mint may have them coined with
out charge into soverelgnS at the rate
of /, 1863 for every $40 troy, these ]. 800
weighing $40, the same as the igot
gold. This being the case, what is
the troy weight of each sovereign2 /
offer the same problem to my readers.
Those who attempt to work it cut will
find that they have to face problem
something like squaring the circle l
have gone as far as thirteen points Of
decimais, showing the weights of q
sovereign 10 pt 10. y 4tf ooO0O9Of
grains. How much further one might
90 without arriving at the actual
weight l cannot say. The simplest
attainable fraction is 1913 171-623
grains. Nothing could be clumsier
than this. 1t has caused volumes to
be written by currency paradoxers
who have denounced the abomination
of fixing the price Of gold Why, say
they, should we have free trade in
goldq Why should the government
arbitrarily fix its price at E3 lis. 101d.
per ounce instead Of allowing supply
and demand to fix the price of this
commodity as al other thlngsl Had
the weight of the sovereign been a
simple fraction of an ounce, say one
quarter of an ounce, this question
would have answered itself at once by
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

THIS country is an exceptionally
heavy purchaser Of precious stones.
During the last fiscal year over S., p
600, 600 worth of diamonds and
precious stones have been imported,
to say nothing Of the considerable
quantities struggled which escape the
record These figures probably in
clude small quantities of American
stones, as these are sometimes cut in
Europe and thus lose their indemnity.
The imports vary greatly in different
periods, and are largely determined
by changes in the general prosperity
or by speculative profits. The new
tariff law fixes the duty on precious
stones of all kinds at 10 per cent.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
Evidently an American.

The London police have come to
the conclusion that the last dynamite
explosion in that city was of American
origin, because a man carrying bum
die wrapped in cloth evidently Of
American manufacture, was seen to
enter the tunnel short time before
the explosion occurred. the failure
of the Scotland Yard officials TO nd
vance this idea Immediately after the
explosion can hardly be accounted
for. Any man with half an eye can
tell where cloth is manufactured by
looking at it across the street, and the
fact that an individual bearing a bun
die done up in American cloth enter
ed the the tunnel before the explosion
ought to satisfy everybody that he
was the guilty party. This important
point having been settled nothing now
remains 20 be done but to catch the
mana task which the success of
British detectives in other cases leads
us to believe will be speedily perform
ed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
LOBBY LADIES.
The Persons who Make the Lives OF
.Congressmenyery Unhappy.
washington Letter to the Clevelan.i Leadt

Washington Letter to the Clevelsn,i Leader.
The ladies af the lobby are the
greatest bores TO the average Con.
gresham BIZ this do not mean the
lady lobbyists. There are few purely
business lobbyists among the ladies of
the Capital, and the character
abounds more in fiction than in
reality. But theer are scores of women
with claims, women office seekers and
adventuresses of different kinds, who
come to the Capitol; and the rooms
reserved for their reception are always
full while Congress is in session. The
ladies' reception room of the House is
opposite the north door. 1t is long
room with great white marble Corin-
THAN columns running through its
center, and with a number of red
cushioned leather chairs and sofas
around its walls. When | entered it
to day found it filled with about forty
ladies, some sitting and waiting, and
others engaged in talking to Congress-
men. Some of them were dressed in
the finest OF garments, cut after the
latest styles, and there were number
of sealskin cloakes and not few dia-
monds. Mourning, however, pre-
dominated, and | should Judge there
were more soldiers widows after pen
sions than society women who had
come to gossip. | noticed many fresh
young girls; on speaking to the polite
Confederate Colonel who has charge
of the room, he told me that these, in
nine cases cut of ten, We're young
women who wanted places in the de-
partments, and had come to solicit
their Congressman's influence. Said
ne: You have no idea how many
Office seekers come here, There are
women from all over the country.
Many of them are deserving, and not
withstanding what has been said
about it, | have yet TO find the first
questionable character in this room.
If they are bad, they do not show it.
We have from 100 to 200 ladies in
here every day to see Congressman.
They must all apply to me, and /
send in their cards by page. Some
times the members receive them, and
sometimes not.
MANY of the claimants are
meritorious ones, and some of them
are very needy. They tell me their
pitiful stories, and once in a while we
have scene here. | have seen many
acts of Congressional kindness in
this room. Last year tn ere was
poor old woman whoYused to come
here and send in her card about once
week The members generally came
out 10 see her and she would tell her
story. The few she called out always
gave to her, and l have seen two, five
and seven $40 bills 90 out of their
pockets into hers Congressman are
generally liberal and kind-hearted,
and they give freely"
As I leave this room / stop a mo-
ment and speak to a doorkeeper /
know. He tells me that ladies some
times try to go into the House while
it is in session, and that during the
last term one came to his door with
blood in her eye and a cowhide whip
under her sealskin cloak. She started
to go inside, but was gently pulled
pack. She said a Congressman had
i'll used her, and she was bound to go
IN and horsewhip him in the presence
of the House. The threat of police
man restrained her.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

In Bolton, England, there is club
of men composed entirely habtual
wife heaters. The object of the club
is mutual assistance and protection.
When member beats his wife and a
benighted magistrate fines him, the
fine is paid out of the club funds, and
the gentleman goes home and gives
his wife another beating just for luck.
The noble Briton must have his fun.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

considerable part of the report is direct
ed to the object OF pooling, which
Nimmo regards as an expedient to
which the railroad companies had re-
course, not willib ely but over the ne
cessity il ordcr to protect themselves
against the ruinoUs effects of war of
rates, and also to protect themselves
against popular indignation caused by
the evils of secret rates to individual
shippers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

GUsTA STEINKE, servant girl, was
fatally burned at the residence of E. E.
Benedict. in Ministee, Mich. A plumb-
err had been working in the basement
Saturday, and lefS gasoline can on the
back of the stove in the laundry, which
is used only on wash days. Gusta rose
early Monday morning, built fire, and
began washing, not noticing the can,
which soon exploded Before the flames
could be extinguished she was fatally
burned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

The lady of the house was a hand.
some woman of a mature order of
beauty, and when she had completed
her toilet she gazed fondly at herself
in the glass, and remarked to her new
maid
You'd give a good deal to be as
good looking as l am, wouldn't you,
now?"
"Yes'm; almost as much as you
would give to be as young as l am"
1t is not believed that this epigram-
matte young woman will be chosen
again at the expiration of her present
term.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

ONLY ten states in the Union pay
more than. the cost of their mail ser
vice. They are: New Hampshire,
$18, 1858; Massachusetts,, S916,7o6;
Rhode Island, $124 6sS; Connecticut,
s135, 463; New York, 81, 3l6, $50; New
Jersey, $143, 517; Pennsylvania, $50,
SIT; Delaware, IS, 162; Michigan,
s39, 416, and Illinois, $347, 400.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

showing that because four sovereigns
weigh. one ounce the value of gold
measured by sovereigns q. g. its price,
must be "a so long as the weight of
the coin remains unchanged, and no
charge is made Tor stamping it. It is
the present complex fraction that has
secured this simple subject.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
CRIME.

PETER FRELIcH stabbed Gus Mundbrood
to death at Cedar Rapids Wednesday
morning, and while pursuing the muir
derer Police Captain Mcdonald was run
over by train and killed. Both Frellch
and Mundbrood resided and have rela-
tives in Chicago.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

CoLUMBUs, o., Jan. 9.-The state
miners association election John Nc
Bride president. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing Gov. Hoadly's
policy relating to the Hooking valley,
in refusing to call out the troops.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

were passed. An evening session was
held for the consideration of the pen
sion bills
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

GENERAL HANCOCK lost his only
daughter in 1873 and Mrs. Hancock
has worn mourning ever since for one
deceased relative after another until
now she wears it for her only son.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15
The Revolution

In medical practice. which has taken place with
in the past thirty years. has been very MAI Aeu'
When HOstetters st mach Btters hrst iA'tde
their appearance, yiolent purgauon, the lSucet
ana narcotics were measures resorteu 70 VIII w
tie regard TO the idiosyncrasiSs OF theslcks NuN
niinitel, more satisfactory results are accom-
plished with the Btters The constipated are no
longer dosed and drenched, the fever strickeh ore
not weak, ned by bleeding, and sedatiFes nave
taken the places Of opiates Dyspepsia hSlso -,
ness insomnia irregularity OF the bowels
rheumatism aud chill and fever, are successt ui4
treated with this popular ionic and resn,slor As
q medicntei stimulant il is professionally s,,.u
mendpd and Is preferable as means OF renew
ing exhausted energy, to the average eoulcs'
These statements rest upon ample evidence
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-01-15

Winter raspoerrles equal 10 thoSe
ripened in the summer season, are sci
ing in Los Angeles, Cal, at 80 cents >
pound.