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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

A TRAGIcAL RECOLLECTION. The
death of Hon. Charles G. Il Arndt,
Of Fond du Lac, at the hands of
Hon. James II. Vineyard, of Grant
county, which stands to-day as the
only tragedy that ever took place in
the Wisconsin state capitol, has been
forgotten by all but a few of the
older men of the state. 1t happened
in the council chamber of The terri
torial capitol in this city, on Febru-
airy II, ls42, forty-four years ago
yesterday, and grew out Of a debate
in regard TO a nomination made by
the governor. The principals in the
tragedy took opposite sides in the
controversy and after adjournment
came to blows These were follow
ed by the shooting of Arndt. His
death occurred few moments after
ward. Vineyard was indicted by
the grand jury Of Dane county for
manslaughter, a change Of venue
taken to Green county for the trial,
and in October, lS43, he was acquit-
ted on the ground that he killed
Arndt in seIf-defense. He was at
large meantime under $4,000 bail.
Arndt was newspaper editor at one
time. Vineyard was a miner and is
the man who, by contract, conveyed
the three-ton boulder Of solid cop
per, which was found in northern
Wisconsin, to Washington, where
it is now stored at the Smithsonian
institution Madis0n Journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

LANcAsTER's finances are in a
bleeding condition, all on account of
sidewalk accident. The Teller
concludes in this way:
"Prepare to pucker." We've got
to do that whistling. The tune is
the one Mrs. McLimans hurt her leg
on. The law allows it and the court
awards it. The last dog is dead
We have to pay $4,000 and interest
from March, 1884, when the verdict
of the jury was rendered. The
only way that it can be lodged now
is to do as Watertown did with her
railroad bonds-never have any city
officers. If we don't do that let US
pay the mail in the easiest way pos
sible. Let us economize. Let us do
without sidewalks for the next two
or three years. If necessary, pull up
those we have and haul them to the
country to make bridges of and have
good approaches to the city. Let
us pay out Of the city's ready income,
without special taxation if we can.
Choose a council the coming spring
that can be relied upon for unques-
tionable economy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

PrideauX, and his wife were in Lam
caster on last Friday on an errand to
redeem one cf Uncle Sans green
backs. In December a son of Mr..
PrIdeauX left with him $l35. 1t
consisted of q 500 bill, a $40 gold
piece and three S. bills, also few
cents in change, and the whole was
done up in a piece of newspaper.
Mrs Prideaux was away at the time.
She afterwards came in, and wanting
to make fire in room mp stairs,
she took an armful of wood and in
her hands some waste paper to start
the fire. On lighting the fire she
forgot the money and the waste pa
per in which it was wrapped went
with the rest and the match was APP
piled to it. The paper money was
all burned up except little piece of
the 500 bill which was protected
by pressure Of the $40 gold piece
The part of the bill recovered has a
sufiiciency of the vignette to be rec,
ognizable and it has the number of
the bill. Mr.. Prideaux went to the
bank of G. w. Ryland S Go. with
the matilated fragrant and Mr.. Mey-
er made out for him the proofs of
loss and the probability is he will
recover the 800. If he does he can
be congratulated on so small loss
as $l5 on such catastrophy. Teller.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

MoNEY to loan on real estate Sc
curity at Hutchison's Bank. #
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

~" Good family -four for s1.40
per 100 lbs. ID. JAcKo.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

The editor of the Darlington Re
publican has received so many oblt-
uary poems lately that he thinks of
running them through sausage
mill to cut them in small pieces and
then sell them to the farmers next
summer to sprinkle over potato vines
to kill bugs. In his last issue he
gives the following;
w. B.-Dear Sir: Yours of Feb
ruary 5th, containing twenty-three
verses on the death of "Little
Nellie" duly arrived. The same is
declined with thanks. Your poem( p
contains on an average fourteen mis-
spelled words to the verse. You
don't know any more about poetry
than horse does about arithmetic,
You are as inconsistent in your
writing as free trader. Some of
the lines In your verses(D contain
nineteen words and Others four.
We should expect "Nellie" to rise
from her grave and haunt us if we
publish it and if she had not been
dead since 1874 she would give you
piece Of her mind for attempting
to write such a production.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

ABOUT two weeks ago Geo. Gibbs,
of Lancaster, threw several rifle
cartridges that had been lying
around his shop out into the snow.
One day recently three of them ex-
ploded at different times, one ball
going through the glass in the door
of his barber shop. Their explosion
after lying so long in the snow is
most singular.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

MUcH can be said in favor of the
entertainments last Friday and Sat
urday evenings by the High School
Library Association. The rendition
of the pleasing drama, Seth Green
back, was so successful as to elicit
praise from all present. Each one
taking part was before the public for
the first time, which is a feature of
no common occurrence. Individual
mention seems unnecessary, suffice
it to say that all did well. But did
our citizens do as well in the way of
patronage? No, is the reluctant re-
ply. The purpose for which the
pupils intend applying the funds
thus raised is worthy one, and it
is to be regretted that so little inter
est in educational matters as dis
played on this occasion prevails in
our midst. About $50 will be real
lied if personal expense is not fig
ured in, and this sum would be
greatly diminished were the city to
charge for the use of the hall.
AT no far off future the members
of this library association intend
giving another entertainment, and
hope for-and should have--a more
liberal patronage.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

cent, the celebrated platform orator
and Sunday school organizer, Tues
day of this week, given at Platteville.
j. =. Hankins has been expert
encing quite seige of sickness the
past week.
-Wm. Cox, mason, has been in
vestigating Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Gribble, of
Waldwick, are visiting friends at
Belmont.
-Wm. Strauss who has been off
hunting a business location, has de-
eided on Lacrosse, for which place
he intends starting next week. His
business ability and experience are
ample to insure him success where
e'er he goes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

CARD has been received at this
office announcing the marriage OF
Mr.. Robt. II. Lanyon and Miss Min.
nie 5. Snow, Mt Pittsburg, Kansas,
on the 10th inst. The happy couple
is at present partaking of a tour to
the principal eastern cities. The
TRIBUNE extends congratulations.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-18

! -oR sALE-About 30 or 40 tons Of good hay
| w JAS. SPENsLEY.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-14
exercise may be practically valueless, if
the mind is not diverted from what had
previously occupied it.-FortnighHy Re-
3.ip1y
GRADING OF GRAIN,


The Western system of grading grain,
recently adopted here, enables the West
ern buyer who has accumulated as much
wheat in his warehouses as he wishes to
carry, and who knows daily and almost
hourly the market prices in New York, to
telegraph to any broker, and through him
to sell for future delivery the amount and
grade of wheat he may have on hand.
He then ships it so that it may arrive in
time to fulfill his contract. Certainty and
precision are thus given to his business
movements. He is relieved from the COM
pulsory speculation attendant upon con-
signments, of whose sale, price, and deliv-
cry he is perfOrce ignorant. The present
terminal facilities for handling grain are
so complete that they have restored to
New York, probably for all time, the con-
troll of the grain trade on the Atlantic sea-
board. True, Option-dealing and some OBJ
jectionable practices have come in with
the new system, but that is only in har-
mony with the universal fact that every
solid good is abused by unwise and greedy
men. The grain trade proceeds under the
supervision of committee Of five-anin-
spectOs-in-chief, registrar, and commit
tee of three on the delivery of warehoused
grain. The Committee on Grain, of which
at the time of this writing, Mr.. G.. r.
HickOX is chairman, annually establishes
the several grades, supervises the inspect
or-in-chief and his assistants, and fixes the
fees which (below S2O,OOO) constitute the
Grain Inspection Fund, out of which sala-
ries, audited expenses, and claims for
damages are paid. OF the grades of grain
established in 1884, ten were of white, am
ber and red winter wheat, eight of spring,
and one of State wheat. More or less of
brightness, ,sOundness, dryness, plumpness,
and cleanness determines the grade. The
word steamer" pretixed to "grade" de-
notes slight softness or dampness. Corn
has eleven grades, oats eight, rye three,
barley sixteen, pease three. Heated or
understandable grain is not graded at all.
Standard samples of all grades of grain
are kept at the Produce Exchange. The
duties of the chief-inspector and his depu-
ties are to inspect, grade, and ascertain the
weights of all parcels going into store as
graded grain (at the owners risk, and for
which transferable warehouse receipts are
given; also to inspect and ascertain the
weights of all deliveries from warehouse
or from railroad depot. A daily copy of
his record is furnished to the registrar,
and returns in duplicate to warehousemen
and railroad companies of all receipts and
deliveries Of graded grain.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-14
CHAPTER XIV.
THE EAST INDIAMAN.

An hour before sunset an East lndiaman,
of the build and Leauty familiar to students
Of sea pieces painted seventy years ago, was
some leagues to the southwark Of the Start,
under pressure of full and towering canvas.
She was one of five vessels, and carried the
commodores pennant; for here was little
squadron Of peaceful merchantmen under
taking a long and perilous voyage, with
nothing better TO protect them against an
uprlsh of enemy's ships than their own
carronades and the stout hearts that filled
tho forecastle.
The four ships, which had no need to
check their weather braces to lot the COM
nu,dore hold the van, we're scattered to right
and left upon tho dark surface of the water,
yet not so far but that half hours sailing
would enable them all to close. Such
majestical object as the foremost vessel
looked, frothing the blue at her bow, and
sweeping her stately spaces of white against
the heavens, no pen could express.
At this moment some sailors, furling the
awning long the tall poop, left to the naked
ness Of the sky numerous company OF
passengers, and charming picture of white
deck. brilliant with coloring Of female ap-
parel, the gold and white of uniforms, the
sheen of brass catching the ruby glitter of
sunlight. the flash of glazed skylights, the
trim coils of salt-white rope.
Conspicuous among the passengers was a
black man, clothed with a mighty turban, in
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE DEACON'S CHARITY

"Mr. Strangfeld went straight to his house
and stool moment under the shelter of the
leaves to wipe his forehead before entering
Els wife, hearing his step, came out of the
parlor and looked at him in silence, toe
frightened to offer him any kind of saluta
ton.
as dinner ready, Jane'' h, asked, thrash
ing the dust from his shoes with a red
ociet-handkerchief and assuming an off:
hand tone of voice which was lie in bis
wife's ear.
More than ready, Michael. The bit OF
beef is baked to chip by this time. doubt
but if we eat it quickly, it may still be worth
asking a blessing over. AS to Jenny, now
thourt in, I'll not wait for her."
"Where is she!" inquired Mr.. Strangfield,
looking at his wife with a frown.
"Why, she went out soon after you left
the house, and Polly says she walked up the
High street. She's gone to get the news
about her husband, dare say. Dear! dear
to hear lie talk of it in this easy way But
that must be because / have cried my heart
dry"
Mr. Strangfie!d walked into the parlor
where the table was prepared for dinner, lie
held his face toward the window for while
and then. turning round to his wife, who
gazed at him from the doorway, not daring
to ask questions, but too eager to hear the
result OF his quest after Cuthbert to divert
him by calling to the servant, he said:
"Why do you speak of her husband! Do
you know that she is married."
"Do l know! 1t was she who said So
Oh. Michael, why do YOU look at ME SO
wildly"
"You do not ask me where have been,"
he exclaimed, with grim, fleeting smile
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Mistellaueuns &eadimg.
LOUISIANA SUGAR PLANTATIONS.

The sugar planter requires for his cane
plantation warm, moist climate, with
intervals of hot, dry weather, with little
danger from frost; soil not too rich, con-
tanning lime and magnesia, and of good
drainage; and the benefit of sea-breezes,
salt in the air being better for him than
salt in the soil. The sugar plantations of
Louisiana find these conditions in the al
luval soil of the lower Mississippi Valley.
In laying out an estate, drainage must be
carefully provided for, and in some coun-
| tries irrigation is much used. From one to
four cuttings are set out together in holes
about two feet apart. AS the canes grow
thew must be we'll weeded and "thrash-
ed," i. e., all dry, dead leaves removed.
They begin to grow in Louisiana in Feb
ruary, and arc harvested from October to
January. After the first cutting of the
new plants the stole or stool left sends up
another growth of cane, called "ratoons,"
which with each cutting grow smaller in
size and closer in joints, and are said to
yield sweeter juice and finer sugar. The
one planting will last many years, but
Louisiana sugar-growers reckon only on
three years. product, planting a third OF
the sugar ground anew each year. Rats,
white ants, lice, "borers," and some MN,
ute animals producing trust" and must"
fight against the growing plant, as also
do wind and frost. When cutting time
comes, the cane is cut with hatchet close
to the stole, the top is chopped off, and
the leaves stripped the canes are then
bundled up and carried to the mill, often,
on the large plantations, on narrow dom
key railways, or placed in WindroWs, on
the field, so that the juice may not fer
ment until they can be handled.
Louisiana plantations, when the crop is
in full vigor, are indeed lovely sight,
with their broad expanse of leafy cane.
Some of them are Of great extent, the
Magnolia Plantation, now owned by ex-
Governor Yarmouth, which claims to be
one of the banner plantations OF the State,
having 492 acres in cane last year. In
1881 over 173,400 acres of cane were
harvested in the State, the total crop of
12S, 900 tons of sugar, being one of the best
made in the State; but in 1SS4-5 floods
spoiled so much of the crop that only 49,
$50 aces were harvested, producing. "a OoO
tons of sugar. The crop of 1856 is esti-
mated at 900 tons. About 1000 freed
men are kept busy in the sugar fields and
mills. The plantations are expected to
yield from twenty to twenty-five tons OF
cane per acre, though the average OF the
State in the short crop of 1SS4.5 was but
seventeen tons. A good crop should pro-
duce 3 3,OOO, 900 tons of cane, and be worth
to the State from Sl2,5O0,0OO up. 10 this
Texas and the five other States which
dabble in cane growing add little over ten
| Dor cent
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The doctor felt for pulses.

"Dead and gone!" was the laconic verdict
of this juryman of Judge Death, letting fall
the arm and head of the nearest of the three,
a bushy-whiskered Jack, in life named
Thompson "See, captain, he has been in
action Look at the throat here; do you OBJ
serve the small swelling! l should find q
bullet there by probing for it"
He turned to the man in the officers uni
form, in life named Transom.
Dead and gone, too, captain. Here's
cursed foreigners work, depend on it. see
no wound. All! these fingers have been
wanting long time, poor fellow! Stay,
here is confusion behind the ear-no cut
lass nor musket stock produced that"
He ratified on, putting out his hand as he
talked and laying hold of the wrist of the
third man.
Instantly, and in changed voice, he
called for brandy, and bade any man pull of
kts coat and roll it up for pillow; and, with
keen promptitude, was busy over buttons
and chatting, md such working as skill die
tated
A spoonful OF brandy swallowed Tor
twice us much ran on to the deck over the
pale edges of the handsomest mouth man
ever had) produced a sigh and quiver o.
the limbs; and in hurry, to the order of tn
doctor, was the body lifted and carried away
to cabin.
All night long watch and watch was kept
in his cabin, by order Of the doctor, the
steward and his mate taking turn and turn
about, and with lemonade moistening his
lips, and with spoonfuls of beef tea feeding
him. The rest and the food and the care
were like a strong hand laid upon the shoul-
der of a man who walks toward preciplce,
Slowing him round and starting him back
again to safety; for in the morning, when he
awoke, he could speak, and his first question
concerned his whereabouts.
"I'll go and tell the doctor you're awake,
SIR" says the red-headed stewards mate
whose spell it was in the cabin.
The doctor was with Captain Turbulent,
arranging the funeral of Lieutenant Transom
and the man. -of-war's man.
"Dr. Cotton, sir, if they've come by their
death by Frenchman, we'll bury 'em to a
volley, sir" the captain was saying. Sir,
we'll make state ceremony OF it, for the
glory of the cause and the satisfaction OF our
conscience', sir.
Here broke in the stewards mate.
Captain, you had better come along with
me-" says DR.. Cotton. HE may have voice
enough to give us his story, sir"
fro BE CoNTINUED.]
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CHAPTER XII.
MR. sTRANGF1ELD's CONSTRUCTION.

MR. sTRANGFIELD's CONSTRUCTION
Mrs. Strangfeld started and fell back
with inimitable wildness of amazement Her
face was puffed out with the force of her
surprise, and she drew no breath until a feel
ing of suffocation made her cry out.
His wife-his ,cife, Jenny, do you say?"
she exclaimed, in a tone almost as deep as
mans, searching meanwhile her daughters
countenance for any hint to make her doubt
the truth of what she heard
The girl fell upon her knees, with her hands
clasped above her head.
ave were married when went to Syden.
ham," she said, in voice that had lost nearly
all its sweetness. my fear of father kept
ME silent But Cuthbert should have come
last night to claim rle before thee and him,
and-Oh! my heart-where is he now, and
why has he left me!'
With which, and with her fearless face in
her hands, she fell to moaning-in her
humble, needless posture of woe, piteous
sight. Then must her mother begin to
weep
20, Jenny, what has thou been and done?
O, my child, what shameful courting has
made you stoop to this decitl Alas! What
strange, wild thing to do" And with
streaming eyes she poured forth her interjec-
tions.
Now, it befell that the servant, Polly, hav-
ing cast herself down upon a kitchen chair
to indulge in one Of those aggravating fits of
whimpering, which seized her after every
collision with her mistress, overheard some
of Mrs. Strangfeld's startling CALCULATIONS
to which she listened, with her mouth gradu-
ally opening, and her head slowly lifting out
of the greatness Of her arm sleeve; and being
a blockhead as well as a slut flor dirt and ig-
norance love each others company, and
eager to show how forgiving she was, and
how smart was the watch she kept over the
interests of the family, the draggletail sped
softly out Of the kitchen into The shipwrights
yard, and, deaf to various personal remarks
on her figure called slyly to her by the work
men, ran up to Mr.. Strangfeld, and cried
out:
Master, if you want a to do ye shall see it
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HOW TO TELL COUNTERFEITS.

The United States Treasury Department
has, of late years, adopted for bonds and
currency, peculiar paper described below,
and which is deemed a stronger protection
against c0unterfeits than that used by the
Bank of England, which has recently been
dangerously counterfeited in ESQ, fl00and
$500 notes.
AS the first issue of greenbacks, which
were not printed on fiber paper, were most
dangerously counterfeited, but have al
most wholly disappeared from circulation,
therefore, receive them with great caution,
or refuse them if in doubt about their gen.
uineneSS.
All other genuine greenbacks, gold and
silver certificates and later issues of nation
al bank notes are printed on the govern
ment fiber paper the first kind with the
fiber distributed in short pieces, localized
with a blue tint, detected by picking 1t
with a pen; the other with fiber in two
parallel threads, red and blue silk, running
lengthwise through the note, seen by hold
ing the note up to the light. The public
are cautioned not to draw these threads
out of the paper.
If in doubt about the genuineness ofany
bank note in the report refuse it unless
printed on government fiber paper. All
national bank notes not IN tnlS repOrI are
genuine, whether printed on government
paper or not.
The counterfeit $40 and 500 silver GER
tiicates are not on government paper.
Some of the counterfeit IS, $40 and S2C
greenbacks (series of 1879 and $50 and
$500 (seres of 1869 are on imitation dis
tributed fiber paper. Very dangerous
These are all the counterfeits on the new
greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all tWenties, fifties and one
hundreds, on the banks in this report, un'
less printed on the government paper.
All genuine bank notes, having brown
back and seal, have both kinds OF the fiber
paper combined while the counterfeit $40
on the Third National Bank, of CINCINNATI,
O., and the Photographic counterfeit S3. on
the First National Bank, of Milwaukee,
Wis, have no fiber. These two are the
only counterfeits on the brownbacks.
Better refuse all pieced notes: All Uni,
ted States currency having a brown sea!
has the parallel threads or cable. All
United States currency printed since 1868
is on government fiber paper.
There are in circulation great many
very dangerous counterfeit $40 greenbacks,
dated 1915. All the genuine of that date
are on distributed fiber paper.