Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-05-07

member of the English Colony, 10
Gated somewhere in Minnesota, was
here last week and purchased Ross
running horse, Adonis, for hurdle
purposes.
THE disturbance of the peace
which attracted the attention of
more than hundred Sunday even
ing-all through too free an indulg-
ence in the contents of the Glowing
bowl"-plainly told how miserably
our Sunday laws are kept.
THANKS to John J. Healy for a
copy of the Ipswich, (Dakota) Iri5-
,ne, which gives in booming and
elaborate manner the merits of that
thriving place and its surroundings.
If the town is as good as the paper
then she's good enough.
THERE will be a Sunday School
convention held in the NJ. +. church
in this city, commencing Tuesday
evening, May 26. Programme will
be published in due time. 1t is
earnestly hoped that all schools of
all denominations will send dele
gates or attend.
ToDAcco seems to be the principal
topic for the farmers in the neigh
borhood of Eden. Many are going
in raising the weed. 1t seems to be
a paying crop after man becomes
experienced. Our climate and land
is adapted to it, and why not go in
to it extensively.
THE p. NJ. Sunday School will
give an entertainment at the Good
Templars Hall, on Sunday evening.
Some good recitations will be given.
interspersed with music by the choir.
No charge will be made but a col
lection will be taken up. Let every
body 60 and thus spend a pleas
ant and profitable evening.
FASHION is demanding a change
in horses. A writer says that at the
east the style is rapidly changing
from the spider-legged, narrow
chested, long-backed horse to the
cobby-built coach animal, and peo-
pie are beginning to drive carriages
and use heavy-mounted harness in.
stead of (as formerly buggies, with
light trotting rigs.
THERE is decided change in the
style of canes this season. The
very swell cane is thicker than ever
fully twice as thick as the cane in
vogue a year or two ago, and the
tendency is toward dark woods.
Malacca is quite the rage, and more
canes are sold made of that wood
than any other. A later thing, how
ever, is to have canes of the natural
wood, without the bark stripped off.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN has eight flow,
ing wells that throw water sixty feet
above the ground. Two wells over
l, 900 feet deep run large Touring
mill, another supplies the water
works and fire hydrants for the city.
Stock yards, stock-farms and foun-
tains are supplied by others. One
2,O0o-foot well, l0-inch diameter,
throws more water daily than any
we'll in Europe. Courier
The following is taken from the
New York Darn, April 9th:
A bright lad, claiming to be Chas.
Hunter, aged l3, of Mineral Point,
Wis, came TO police headquarters
Yesterday morning, saying he had
no home. The boy told pitiful
story. He said his father died two
weeks ago and his mother one week
later, and that he has an uncle nam
ed George Wilson living on Waver-
ly street somewhere in New York
State. He was on his way to Ro-
chester to get work and stopped in
New York to buy pair of trowsers.
Meeting a messenger boy on the
street he made known his desire.
The messenger boy invited Hunter
to accompany him to q saloon on
Greenwich street, where dollar
was spent. The result was that
Charley became intoxicated and lay
down in an ice wagon to sleep.
While in this condition, he says,
several boys took from his pocket
$40 which his mother gave him be-
fore her death. He SAYS he never