Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-10-07

for cash at the City Mills, Mineral
Point. 4Ow4*
T. II. SEXTON, Proprietor.
THE Dodgeville Sun Office has
been supplied with a fine cylinder
press of the Babcock make. 1t is a
grand piece of machinery, costing
more than any like machine in the
county. Mac, we must congratulate
you, but allow us to express our be-
lief that this fine press could be put
to better use than grinding out Dem
ocratic literature.
WHILE many Prohibitionists are
loud in condemning Gov. Rusk for
granting railroad engineers the use
of the Assembly Chamber on a
Sunday, other Prohibitionists are
going through this part of the state
making political speeches on the
Sabbath What would be said if
the other parties were to do like
wise? go, consistency thou art a
jewel"
lT is too common an occurrance
to regard this as an "off year" in
politics. There's an absurdness in
the idea. With every law abiding
and earnest citizen there is no such
thing. No Republican should
stay at home on election day. This
year are chosen the state officers,
and county officers, congressman
and assemblymen. Surely the i'm
portance thereof is sufficiently great
to demand attention and discretion.
FOLLOWING is list of appoint
ments made at the NJ. +. conference
for this the Platteville district:
b. E. Wheeler Presiding Elder
! Belmont-J, Il. Zeigler.
| Benton-G. A. Joslin.
! Boomington-Cha Harris, supply.
| Darlington-to be supplied.
l- Dodgeville-I. b, Bickford
! FayeCte-J. f. Webster.
Fennim ore Joseph Sims.
| Georgetown. NJ. Phelps.
| Hazel Greene. Cook,
Lancaster-R. Pengilly.
Linden-C. c. Schwartz.
Mineral Pont-A. NJ. Pitcher.
Montfort Steele.
Patch Groye-J. Jefferson.
Platteville-E. L. Clough.
Rewey-to be supplied.
Shullsburg II. Burnip.
State Line VIM. Shepard.
WISCONSIN onion growers may be
interested in the fact that the crop
is short. The New England Home
stead says this is true not only in
New England, but in the onion
fields of New York state and the
West. The prices to farmers are
60 cents to 81 per hushel, but the
demand is moderately active, and
growers are disposed to hold for
higher prices. The crop in Michi-
gan, Iowa, Wisconsin and through
out the West generally is very
short, and instead of Western com
petition the probabilities are that
Eastern onions will be shipped west
before spring. The onion seed crop
is good.
JoHN VI. OLIN lectured in this city
last evening in the interest of the
third party in one sense but virtually
in the interest of the Democratic
party. No explanation seems nee
essary to anyone who interests
himself in political affairs, and
who keeps track of the stride
of real temperance. Since the
launching of the third party
ship democracy has succeeded in
floating more serenely, while tenn
perance has been laboring without
profit to maintain the gain she had |
made on the troubled sea. Olin is
an able talker, and probably means
for the best, but his good Judgment
is questionable. He claims 10 be the |
Judge and jury on this question,
still that does not make him so. BY |
figures he attempted to show that
the consumption of the liquor traffic
in this country has increased of late
three times as fast as the population,
and charges the backward stride of |
the temperance cause to the Repub- |
lican party Is such charge fair?
There are temperance men by the