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New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08
The Dakota Legislature Called.

The following proclamation was issued
at Huron on the 3Oth.
Whereas, Dakota has been denied ad-
mittance into the union OF the states and
her duly accredited representatives have
heen refused recognition in the national
congress in defiance OF positive law and es-
tablished precedent as well as common
justice and reason; and whereas, the grow
ing interests OF the commonwealth de-
mand that measures be devised and ac.
ton taken to secure to her people the bene-
fits Of self-government; and Whereas the
constitutional convention OF the state has
requested that a call be issued for Especial
session OF the legislature; now, therefore,
we, Arthur G. Mellette, governor; A. p.
Frank, lieutenant governor, and Thomas
V. Eddy, speaker of the house of represen-
tatives, do hereby convene special ses
sion OF the legislature OF the state Of Da-
kota, and the members of the senate and
house OF representatives will assemble in
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

Some Of the English AGRICULTURAL and
industrial journals predict, we are on
the declining slope OF prices for agri-
cultural produce The cheap wheat
of India, brought by cheap steam
freight by the cheap route Of the suez
Canal, is held by thesejournals ofore-
shadow still lower prices of this ce-
real. The meats of South America
produced at the least cost and
shipped in a frozen condition in refriger-
ator chambers in steamships, threat
en- still lower prices for cattle. The
low prices OF food will result in low
prices OF manufactured goods, and so
a universal era OF low prices will be the
result. This would not be an un-
mixed evil to the farmer who spends
most OF his income in wages OF hired
men, store goods, and improved ma
chinery, but it will necessitate econ
omy, and it will not do to run greatly
into debt. Paying mortgages and
borrowed money withlow-priced prod
uce is uphill work, as some havefound
out to their sorrow during the present
year.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

The report OF the secretary of the
Montreal board of trade shows that
American goods are steadily crowding
out the British and other manufact-
ures from the Dominion. In 1880 the
value OF British goods imported was
$34,461, ,224, and of American $27,-
346,948. In 1883 the imports from
Great Britain by $4,ooo,ooo, and in
1885 the British were left still further
behind in the race, the figures being
$57, ISL, ,201 from the United States,
and $51, ,4O6, OF from the other side.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

twelve to eighteen inches thick, and varying
from two to Elk feet in length. At the base
of the tower the walls are five feet thick.
The tower stands in court formed by a
wall pierced with narrow, elongated win
dows. or ''slots." This wall is twenty-three
feet high, and is similarly treated as the
tower. having cornice aud battlement At
each angle formed by the walls of this
square or enclosure there are circular and
square turrets Of different designs, corniced
and battlemented and surmounted by
q fagpole designed to carry the
national col0rs of England, France,
Germany and Sweden. From the four sides
of the square spring the arms of the cross.
The entrance at each of the terminals of
these arms is a double arch six feet wide,
aanked by square base, tapering into a
circular turret forty-seven feet high and
seven feet in diameter. At the rear of the
main building, and toward the north, is an
entrance composed of a large single arch
eight feet in diameter. The foot of the cross,
extending in front of the building and to-
ward the west, is also continuation of the
main wall, and swells into circle of noble
proportions, ninety-hve feet in diameter.
The wall, and the whole building, in fact
stone buttresses. These add to the stability
and cut up the ssky line" as they rise, and
terminate above the wall in rough chunks of
ice that effectively relieve the otherwise
monotonous straight lines of the battlements
The entrance proper is an archway sixteen
feet wide and fifteen feet high This arch
way is an exceedingly thick wall (nine feeH,
but that projects only slightly beyond the
face of the circular wall The arch is COM
posed of several courses of ice alternately
projecting and receding. The wall at either
side of the arch tapers off into graceful
buttresses, and is surmounted by a pedestal
upon which is a colossal statue of King Bo-
reals seated, and supported on either hand
by polar bear rampant holding colored
electric light. There are also two bears
couchant on pedestals at each side of the
entrance on the ground All of these fig
ures are carved in solid ice. King Borealis,
if standing, would be about twenty feet tall.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08
Wonderful Bridges on the Cana
dian Pacific.

The Canadian Pacific Railway can
boast of some OF the most wonderful
bridges in the world. The following
description is taken from the London
Times: s;The torrent known as Mount
ain Creek is crossed on a trestle
bridge 176 feet high and 600 feet long,
and the railway crrving around gives
a good view ofthis great structure aft
er it is passed. The tallest OF these,
and the one that's believed to be the
highest timber railway bridge in the
world is the one over the canon of the
Stoney Creek, 200 feet high and 40
feet long truss bridge supported up
on great timber towers built up from
the valley far below. This startling
structure is thrown over a catar -
that falls down into a deep gorge = Ht :ns
then rushes out to the river. We lNry =
for the locomotive to take water, al Sa
the passengers, who have held their
breath while crossing, amuse them
selves by rolling stones down into
the valley beneath" The seem
cry along the line is remarkable
throughout, more especially so as
the Pacific slope is approache y.
The line after entering the Rookie
passes through 600 miles of noun
ain work, and is probably the lon '
est piece OF difficult railway conctruc-
tion in the world. To build such a 8
substantial roadway through such a.
forbidding and sparsely-inhabited re-
gions shows the wonderful pluck OF its
proprietors. No obstacle has deferred
them. Vancouver, or the Terminal
City," as it proudly calls itself, is the
youngest town in Canada, and 2,9O9
miles west of Montreal. 1t did not
exist until within year, and after it
had been started with great vigor a,
terrible fire in June last burned it all
down, and it had to be estarted afresh.
The population is 1,5OO and is rapid
ly increasing. In order to make room
for the town magnificent pine and /
cedar trees, rivalling the big trees of :
California, some of them 500 years
old and eleven feet in diameter, have s.
been destroyed. One was left stand il
ing in the town as specimen. 1t was
saved through the intercession Of the
Princess Louise and is named after
her. The ground must be valuable,
as e1OO to e15O are paid merely to
clear 1T OF its gigantic encumbrances.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

The fact that receipts of wheat at
Chicago this season have declined, and
that what it has lost in this direction
has been gained largely by Minneap-
oils and Duluth, has stirred up news
papers as we'll as members of the grain
trade in the northwest. 1t is noted,
too, that the chief grain inspectors at
Chicago and a committee from the
Chicago Board of Trade have been ex-
aiming the methods OF handling grain
at the northwestern cities named, pre-
sumably with the intention OF i'm
proving their own when they get home
again.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

The Supreme Court OF Massachu-
setts has just rendered a decision de-
claring the old Sunday law to be in
force, and that all work on that day
except for charity or necessity is un-
lawful. The effect OF the decision
would besto close on Sunday,in Massa-
chusetts all barber and bake shops,
drug stores, stables, restaurants, rail
road Offices and every place where
business is done for money and recon-.
pense, but for the fact that some o1
these things are regarded by late de.
cisions as coming under the head oi
charity or necessity" and therefore
not unlawful even under the old act.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

St. Paul and Montreal are
rivals this year in the way
OF ice palaces. Last year Montreal
did not have it's usual winter festivi-
ties, including the "palace," owing to
the prevalence of the smallpox, but
proposes this year to do it's best. St.
Paul will not consent to be eclipsed in
any particular by Montreal and is
putting forth its best efforts for su-
premacy.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

James Stephens, once notorious as
a Fenian chieftain, and who for some
years has found an asylum in conti-
mental Europe, where he lives by his
pen, writes from Brussels that nihil-
ism, if not dead, is speechless, and
tmay kick the bucket at any mo.
ment." The avenging nemesis has be-
come the placid apostle OF social re-
form, and the most blood thirsty nj
hilists now gently murmur the delu-
sive theories of German socialists.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

When Dakota shall come into the
Union, says the Cincinnati Times, 1t
is hoped in behalf Of the nomenclature
of the states that there will be no pre-
fix of the ''northern" or Southern"
permitted. There are already too
many of these cumbersome ante
syllable specifers. They are altogeth-
er without without excuse in a country
rich in significant and euphonious
Indian names.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

The foil owing patents have been granted:
C, G. Sch ellenberger, St. Paul, watch; w.
V. Horn and j. Danz, St. Paul, ash pit
frame and door.
The superior OF the Obiate Fathers OF
Montreal has announced that no knights
OF Labor will be permitted to partake oil
the sacrament.
Several barns on the stock farm OF J. w.
Allen, at East sy racuse, N. Z, were burned.
Fifty seven head offancy cattle were burned
to DEATH and large amount OF grain
and hay and number offarming improve
ments were destroyed. The loss is $4O,-
600.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

According to Commissioner Sparks,
OF the general land Office, the land
conditionally granted to corporations
and not earned amounts to 100000
600 acres. A considerable portion of
this congress has already declared
forfeited
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08
The first great snow storm of the
season in the northwest extended as
far south as Shreveport, La.

Advices from San Franciso are that
the standard silver dollars finding
their way into circulation in Califor-
MIA are boarded by the Chinese until
their return to China.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08
week. A dtst1nct increase of speculative ac-
tivity at all points is noticeable.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-The Mail and Express

dicating that the Standard Oil company was ne
gotiating for the purchase Of the Capion oil
fields by loaning large sum Of money to the
Russian Naphtha Company of Nobel Bros,
whose business is to be transferred to the hands
of the American petroleum producers, a promi-
nent official OF the company said there was not
the slightest foundation for the story.
New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

men, it is feared, will not recover. One Of
the dead sailors frozen to the capstan is
thought to have been Sutherland Mckay.
father of the young captain. He was about
sixty years old. and had wife in Toronto
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
Giving Wedding Presents.
Chicago Tribune.

The custom of giving wedding pres
ents. as ii now exists, is a social tax
which though paid by every one. 10
only paid grudglngly and on compul
sion. 1t represents neither affection
nor interest, and is not productive of
the smallest profit to any save the
manufacturers whose wares are sold
for the purpose. History does not
say much about wedding presents, ex-
cept as to the present that the bride
groom and bride give to each other.
The Greeks, we read, always present
ed newly married couple with bas-
ket of acorns mixed with bresd.
They gave household furniture besides,
according to their feelings, admiration
running 10 four post bedstosd, while
respect contented itself with a foot
stool; but the acorns were compulsory
and were to the Greeks what the tea
pot is TO US. Why acorns, we do not
know; but everything those people
did was emblematical. If they cough
ed it was highly emblematical, and
If they stabbed their friends through
the back, or man ran away with his
Wlltg ~ Was SLlA CutOiciiCliCdl, 81
that, no doubt both giver and receiver
perfectly understood one another, and
their acorns found their way to the
pigs and the bread to the chickens,
with benefit all around. Among the
Romans, whom we could no more af-
ford to loose than the Greeks, the rela-
tons and friends of the newly-mar-
ried pair, we are told, we're very great
at parting with nuts at the marriage
festival The nuts in this case were
also obligatory; the present giver
might throw in a toga, or an eletro
plated chariot, or fasces for the back
pocket if he liked, but the nuts he
must disburse. The nuts again were
emblematic of something serious
though historians have not made up
their ninds exactly what. Cracking
nuts is still standing pasttime with
the youth OF certain classes even in
our own day, and the custom probab-
ly has the above weighty sanction.
But beyond the acorns and nuts we
have nothing very definite as 10 what
was expected of friends and relations
in the way of presents.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
Haines civ. Florida.

In another column will be found an
advertisement of Haines City, Florida.
This town is beautifully located mid
way between Tampa and Sanford. on
the line of this railroad and on the most
fertile portion of the state of Florida
1t is beyond the frost region and
especially adopted to the growth OF
oranges and other tropical fruit. Lands
in the vicinity of Haines City are among
the msst productive in the state and
can be purchased at the present time at
reasonable prices. This town is started
upon legitimate basis, by men who
own the property themselves, and who
desire the town aud county surround
ing it to grow up into prosperity about
them. Particulars regarding this sec
ton OF Florida can be obtained of f,
7. Hinson, Haines City, Polk County,
Florida.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

allel belts mile long, and nowhere
more than 500 feet wide. There is
strip of dry territory an eighth of
mile wide between these belts, of
which there are three. The oil lies at
a depth of from 80 to $50 feet. The
sand is IS feet in thickness. The wells
are pumped every hour in the day and
every day in the week, because of the
unusual accumulation of water. A
popularity OF the water is that while
in all the region off tue oil belts the
water is very hard, the water from
the wells is extremely soft and cold.
Three barrels OF water are pumped
with every barrel of oil that is OBJ
tanned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
QUEER OIL WELLS.
The OIL Fields In New York That Are
Curious.


An Clean, N. Y, correspondent
writes: There are two oil fields in the
middle petroleum district that are
never heard of in the annals of the
trade, but there is none more curious.
One yields product which is called
the oil of JOY" after 7. O. Joy,
VINO discovered the territory. che
other field is called the Grasskopper
held because of the resemblance OF
The light and primitive walking beams
that pump the oil from the sand to q
lo5 OF huge graSshoppers.
The grasshopper field is between
Pieasantville and Titusville. Before
the Bradford field was discovered
some operators dug a mile or two in
inns peculiar territory for illuminat-
ing oil. The drill struck a bed of
sum clay as blue as indigo, about 20
ieet below the surface. THIS was
drilled through and a showing Of
aeavy oil found. This was soon
abandoned Some years afterward
tne owner Of the property dug well
WIN pick and shovel down through
me bed OF blue clay. In under that
clay was found a rich lubricating oil
sand. The oil taken from the sand
at once commanded So a barrel The
wells are curbed with hemlock planks
and the oil IS pumped by the simplest
aind OF a sucker-rod. AS soon as the
OH was found to be valuable, wells
we're dug in this district in great
a9umo2rs. The deepest one is only so
5 zee II depth. The oil now commands
fI5 barrel at the wells, and is all
-sken by an oil company at Roches-
yer' The yield is about one barrel a
gay per wsll. This oil will not con-
Ieal IN the lowest temperature, and is
: natural lubricator, needing no treat
ment before using.
q Inc OIL Of Joy territory is near the
9rand valley. The oil is found in par
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
Free to Ministers, lawyers, Doctors,
and Teachers

will send two bottles OF WAREER's
' HITE WINE OF TAR SYRUP-beSt rem
edy tn the toorld for coughs, colds, throat
and lung diSeGSes-if you will recon-
mend it TO your friends, and get yeur
dealer to order dozen bottles from his
wholesale druggist. Send name Of your
druggist. Map of Holy Land free with
medicine. Address DIR. G. ID. WARNER,
Chicago, Ill, All druggists.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
sl1s.I5 90 san Francisco and re.

Do you intend to go to Los Angeles or San
Francscol IL 80, avoid the snow and ice incident
to travel via the Northern route and 60 via thc
Mouon Route and New Orleans, stopping or at
Louisville Mammoth Cave, Nashville, Montgom-
cry, Mobile, and the beautiful Gulf coast resorts.
YOU get a trip TO California with trip TO New or
leans thrown In free
The Monon Route will sell rouns-ctiE tickets
February 10th, 18th, i6th, and 18th. good leaving
New Orleans Sunday. February 2lst giving all an
opportunity to visit the Exposition Tickets will
be good to return any tine within six months
from date of sale.
Pullman buffet sleepers and through palace
coaches from Chicago to san Francisco with on-
ly two changes OF cars In Union depots.
For descriptive books, pamphlets etc b., address
VIM. s Baldwin, q. 7. A., 1873 Dearborn street, or
y. o. Mccormick, G.. n, p. A, l22 Randolph
street. Chicago III.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

An aged female resident of Bate
County, California, who cut off a
Germ, has lost the toe as resslt, and
fears are entertained least the whole
foot will have 10 be amputated.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

beyond question, and the statements
they make cannot for a moment be
he doubted. DR.. Henion's experience
shows that Bright's disease OF the kid
neys is one of the most deceptive and
dangerous Of all diseases, that it is ex-
ceedinsly common, but that it can be
cured if taken in time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

JOIN l.. Ransom. claim attorney late Of Wash
ington, d. c., now Of Coldwater, Hich viii
cheerfully assist all his comrades In getting
their Just dues from the Government IL you
have any manner Of claim that needs prompt
attention he will help you Address, with stamp
aa above.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
Remarkable Escnpe.

John Kuhn, Of Lafayette Ind, had a very mar
row escape from death. This is his own story
zone year ago was in the last stages Of Con-
sumption. Our best physicians gave my case up.
finally got so lew that our doctor said / could
not live twenty four hours Ny friends then pur-
chased q bottle OF DR.. WM. HALLS BALsAM FOR
THE LuNcs, which benefited me. ! continued
until / took niue bottles. l am now in perfect
health having used no ,ther medicine"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

No APPETITE, low SPIRITS HEADACHE, hatu
lency, sleeplessness languor, constipation-are
these, or any of them, among your ailmentsg III
So, try DR. WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs and tell
vour sick friends it's effect; this is tho only adj
v7rtisanent the medicine requires II has spread
from house to house, from village 70 village all
over the land in this way.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

1t is said OF a particular dame that
she cut the fur on the edges of her
sealskin sacque so that people would
not mistake the genuine fur for plain
plush.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

Thomas Kay urges that bottles con
tanning citrate of silver be slowed
away IN life boats. Seven ounces of
the citrate will turn enough sea water
into drinking water to supply a man
a week.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

The class of cadets that will leave
West Point at the next commence
ment is the largest IN number and
highest in efficiency ever graduated
there. There are 76 in the class.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

Hope on, hope ever" How many delicate
ladies' there are who, while they attend to their
daily duties. do so with aching heads, q sense Of
fullness, pain in the back and depressed spirits
who are only keeping about as the phrase is.
Some day they "go into a decline" and leave
their children motherless- To such We would
say, "Cheer up" Timely use Of DR., Pierce's
"Favorite Prescription" corrects all female ir
regularities, weaknesses, and kindred affections
easily pleasantly and quickly,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

The Dutch government has institut-
ed Christmas Geographic messages at
a reduced rate, containing merely the
name and address of senders and re
ceivers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
Salary of British Officials.

la connection with the change just
announced in the British cabinet it is
of interest 10 know the salaries paid TO
the various officials. Gladstone as
first lord of the treasury receives $25, =
600 a year, and the following sums
per annum are paid to the officers
men Toned: Home secretary, $25, 900;
president of the board of trade, SIC, 900;
lord high chancellor, $4,000; lora
president of the council, $40, 600; secre-
tary for war, $25, 600; president of the
local government board, 500 for
eign secretary, $25, 600; secretary for
India, $25, 600; secretary for colonies,
$25, 900; first lord of the admiralty,
$4,000; chief secretary for Ireland,
$22, 1875; lord lieutenant OF Ireland,
500, 600.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

The only remedy that cures gals, cuts and
wounds on horses and CATTLE and always grows
the hair in its original color, ID Veterinary
or by mail. Cole & Co., Black River Falls. Wis.
The prettiest school house in Autel-
ope Valley, CAL, is built OF cobble
stones.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

Lowell, Mass, is to have a semi
centennial, and James Russell Lowell
is to be the orator of the occasion.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
A Tall Nan.

Say are the tallest people the laziestf They
acS always longer ia bed than others, and II they
neglsct their coughs or colds they will be there
sill logger. Use Taylor's Cherokee Remedy Of
Sweet Gum and Mullen.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

SASKATCHEWAN FIFE WHEAT. In car lots. Gen
nine. Send for samples and price list. w. j.
Abernothy, sole originator, Minneapolis, Mimi
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

THE best Ankle Boot and Collar Pads are made
Of zinc and leather. Tn them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

The rearming of the Austro-H Hun
garian regiments with repeating rifles
viii cost $22 600, 900.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11

Please send me by express SIX bottles OF
Athophoros. The bottle got did me more good
than all the other remedies for rheumatism that
| hsve ever tried, is the message OF encourage
ment G. Burt sends from Ransom Mich.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-02-11
NEW MUSIC BOOKS.
TEMPERANCE SONG HERALD. }. & N I,.v

For Temperance Lodges and Meetings A choice
Collection OF New Temperance Songs and Glcrs, with
some Old FaVorites and few housing War Songs
with Temperance Words Anybody can 'loln IN the
chorus" Price 80 cts, or Is 60 per dozen.