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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
North Carolina women Folks .,

Ben: Perley Poore writes: The No.u
Carolina women folks" lead very diffar
ent lives from those in the New Fnrlona
or Middle States. A recent visitor oivss
the following account of a typical honsa,
wife in the old North State, which Is 90
interest: The old lady and her daughters
with their own hands, make nearly ali tbe
clothes the family has. There was a tine
when the old lady spun the thread and
wove the cloth, and she maintains now
that there is no other thread so good 10
darn with as the thread of her own snip.
hing. So she keeps her own spinning
wheel for occasional use and spiritual
comfort, and last year she gathered cot.
ton from the field, which she followed
with her own fingers on its long Journey
from the stalk to the stocking. The
housework and the gardening are the on
~ employments of the women, but thew
seem always to be busy. Once a week
they boil the clothes in a pot suspended
from the tops of three poles, which are
placed in the front yard near the wall.
The monotony of wash-day is often re-
LEVIED by fishing for the bucket with the
pot hooks. Cooking is a very simple
thing, for the frying pan and the pot do
their whole duty. Indeed the frying-pan
is the origin of all their ailments. GER
tainly of the old lady's dyspepsia, of the
children's thin, gristly faces and of the
Oldest boys necessity for grog. Fried
bacon for early breakfast will postpone
the millennium anywhere; add 90 that
sweet fried potatoes, and an active out
door life and a perfect atmosphere must
do their best to keep naturally robust
people from groans.
The fryingpan is a worse enemy of
man in all this country than whisky or
politics. When all the ground is yellow
with mellow apples, and the odor of
peaches and grapes is blown over every
breakfast-table, nobody eats fruit except
between meals, and the very chickens
have the pleasure of life taken because
neither boiler nor oven awaits one of
them, but always the frying pan. In the
evening after supper and before early
bedtime the boys sometimes play on their
tiddles, their feet sometimes accompany
ing the three tunes they know, "The Ar
kansaw Traveller" FISHERS Hornpipeu
and 'The Old North State" while the rest
of the family hold their hands in silence,
and many an evening these fine intelli-
gent adults sit the livelong hours holding
their hands, saying now and then word
as If by accident, and pretending to do
nothing; yet they are happy. The art of
resting has not been so we'll cultivated
anywhere else. True, the old woman does
usually ply her knitting needles, stopping
now and then to smark, while she rubs
snuff, that her old bones feel "streaks" of
rheumatism, but that it is hard to wear out
an old leather string. The girls some
times have cuttings, and there are the
'parties" of country society.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

swan, Cupid and flying fish, ms
boots, tennis racket, grassbonpe. n
umbrella, teakettle and cards suH
sprig and acorns. Among tbs oak
ticularly fayorite designs in par
ers are those of the DIV
pansy, sweet pea, forget-me-no A1 n,i3
rose, harebell, violet, poppy, annie nv u
som mlstletoe, white lilly, feur de- i,s
passion flower and rose. In leaves ba!M'
and autumn leafn are most prefar.ag
A craze for dinner cards is fast devalos
ing. The very latest design was imnoI.
ed this week. 1t is continuation az -
take-of on the present craze for Fgvn4
ian antiquities. The size is 6x4 incbas
and the color is a mixture of ORANGE on1
black, giving the card water-soakaa "r
pearapce. The edges are ragged ana
torn. On each are Egyptian fppras
Another new style of dinner card is bsn5
painted in metallic colors, mounted ~,
which there are flowers of different
shades. Everything must be ragged
edge. A very fayorite style of card fo-
dinner or tea use has on it the r.pressn.
tatlon of strawberry, peach, plum q,
pear, hand-painted on plotting paper ana
applied to the card. There is little ~
no demand for humorous cards in sociatr
just at present.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
LIFEIN A CIRCUS TENT.
The Glitter and Show are on the 0utside-All
Hands Have to Work Hard
New York Mail and EXPRESS

view lVfh NAL anu Express.
There is an individuality possessed by
the circus man, especially In the case of
the old time Snowman who has journeyed
on wagons and horseback through the
cross roads and green lanes of the re-
mote rural districts. He comes in con-
tact with many sorts of people, in every
condition in life, and his knowledge of
the characteristics of the inhabitants of
the different parts of the country is ex-
tensive. reporter recently called up
on Snowman at his residence in Brook
Ign, and gained much information about
the ups and downs of circ Us tent life.
II have been out every season for
TWENTY-FIVE years" said he, ''and be-
lieve l am able to give as many points
about the business as any man you will
find in Brooklyn. A circus man who fol-
Lows the calling for any length of time
has abundant opportunities for knowing
the country as well as the habits and
customs of the people he finds in it. OF
course. there are lots of people besides
showmen who travel constantly, but the
majority of these merely go from one
large city to another, and their ideas of
the country are such as can be obtained
by looking out of car windows. There is
a show nowadays, except, of course,
the manner of transportation
from one town to another. The
first duty after unloading the cars in the
morning is to get up the stock and dress
ing tents. This is done by the drivers
and grooms. While this work is going
on the cooks and helpers are employed
putting up the mess tents and preparing
the breakfast The next act is to get
ready for the street parade. ALI have to
take part excepting the property and
canvas men, who get up the big tents.
The street parade lasts less than an hour
One object of it is to draw the crowd
away from the grounds so the men have
a better chance TO work. The duties of
workmen who travel with the railroad
shows are less arduous than in former
years. They sleep on the cars and gen
orally get in early enough for breakfast
but their lives are in much greater dan
ger than they formerly were. Last sea-
son six circus men were killed in Michi
gan, where two sections of a train col
lided. Another accident, in Iowa, caused
the death of one man and wounded many
more, and everyone knows the fate of
poor Jumbo in Canada. Scarcely sea
son passes without fatal accidents hap
pening to circus trains throughout the
country.
"The boss hostler has about the most
responsible position in the working force
of a show. He has charge of all the
horses and wagons, as well as the ring
horses and ponies, together with their
trappings. He,is held accountable when
the show gets on the lots late or misses a
train through delay in getting away. The
press agent is always the life of a circus,
large or small. In big show there is
always one or two cars set apart for the
use of the press agent and his assistants.
They are usually shrewd, wide-awake news
paper men, who know how to hustle
can't say who is the best"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Nothing But m Old Maid

Elizabeth of England, one of the most
illustrious of modern soyereigns, a WON
an of extraordinary acuteness, courage
and political sagacity, was nothing but
an old maid" Maria EJgewood, whose
writings prompted Walter Scott TO begin
the Nayerly Novels, was an old maid; so
was Jane Porter; so was Johanna Bailhe;
SO was Mary Russell Milford. Jane Aus
ten, to whom Macaulay awarded a very
high place in the field of fiction Harriet
Martineau, Frances Power Cobbe, Flor
euce Nightingale, Emily Faithful and
Sister Dorm, the angel Of charity onEng
liSh pest-houSes, are some of the single
women who have done double work for
humanity, lived and thought nobly, and
taught others to live and think nobly.
Some of the most eminent women in
America are persons who are married to
nothinS,but some thoroughly good cause;
some public or private beneyolence.
There is Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston,
whose mission is to make the burden of
the working girl light; and that she has
not mistaken her mission Is shown by the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

The manager of the stationery depart
ment of a large Fifth avenue publishing
house said to New York Mail and Ex-
press reporter that just now "the thing"
in writing pape- was that with rough sur
face and Jagged edges. Large envelopes
must be used to be in the fashion, sealed
with sealing wax. On the paper must be
the writer's initials in raised gold or sill
yer and in fac-simile of the writer's hand
writing. Just now, also, the craze among
the ladies is for correspondence and din
ner and tea cards on which are designed
delicate outline of flowers and odd fig
figures. Among these are butterflies,
birds, and telegraph wires, four-leaf clio
yer, a famingo, a bee, ear of corn, wish
bones and cloyer-leaf, peacock's feather,
owls on wishbone, humming bird, tigers
head, pallet, Chinaman and tea chefts,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
Nost's Papers on the Chicago Trial,
From the Freibeit.


According to all appearances the ju
dicial scoundrels of Chicago are planning
crim9 such as has never before been
seen i'll any court of Justice in the world
In the opening speech the States Attor-
the beast is called Griunell at
tempted to depict to the jurors the Anar-
chists whom he had selected as victims,
especially Comrades Spies, Fischer, Engel
Lingg, as offenders who were worthy of
death, and to scare the weaklings of
Chicago by the assertion that had il not
been for the Intervention of the police
the whole city would have been overturn-
ed by the Anarchists Since the bold
thrower of the bomb escaped from the
hands of the officers of the law this abom-
Unable Grinnel ragged the more wildly
against those who were arrested purely on
suspicion, and who now sit on the defend
ants benches. Glass hate in its lowest
form, the most brutal rage against the
Anarchists who are the representatives. of
the revolutionary proleXtariat, y.arling
for revenge in its most hateful form,
formed the substance of every sentence
uttered by the scoundrel. one witness
was an informer of the dirtest kind
Walter, the dog is called. Socialist and
member of the Chicago Lehr and Weir
Nerein, a disgrace to the whole prole-
tariat in the eyes of every honest man.
The accused maintain, according TO unan-
imous consent of man and foe, gallant
attitude, They do not sit there like the
poor sinners who are afraid of the gal
lows with which they are threatened, but
like men who are determined to meet the
challenge of the unfriendly world. Natur-
ally this trial is exciting the general in
tereSt, and its effect will be perceived far
beyond America. The more wide awake
laborers, far and near, Sympathize thor
ouEhly with the accused and their ideas,
and even those who are luke warm do not
venture to take a stand against them,
with the exception of the knights of La
Dor, who stand, OF course, ON the. side of
the police. To-day we only express our
highest esteem for the accused. To the
accusers and their perjured witnesses We
say you are marked and will not escape.
reunion of the Turner family. 100 in
number, occurred one day last week at
kinlock Ala
Several Georgia papers are favoring the
scheme of citizen soldiery supported by
the state.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
WHAT DOES IT MATTER.
ELLA WHEELER wHcox

Wealth and glory, place and power
What are they worth to me or you
For the lease OF life runs out ~ an nour
And death stands ready to claim his duc
Sounding no ors or heaps or gold,
THAT are they whcn all is told:
A main or a pleasure smile or tear
Wbat does IL matter which we cia'h
For we step from the cradle into the bier
Anda careless world oes ON the same
Hours OF glsdness or hours or sorrow
what does it matter 10 us tomorrow
rrutb of love, or vow OF friend
Tender care sses or cruel sneers-
what do they matter t9 us in the end
For The brief day dies, aud the long nlsn'
nearS =,
Passionate kisses, or tears OF gall
The grave will open and cover them Az
Homeless vagrar,, or honored guest,
Poor aud humble, or rich ana great
An are rack-d with the world unrest
All must meet with a common fate'
Life from childhood till we are old'
What is all when all istoldf
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
A TRAGIC STORY.
An italian Prima Dona Hears Os the Death of
Her Mother ard the Suicide of Her Brother
and BECOMES Insane

An Itdlldu lfihld DOHl hears OS the Death OF
Her Mother ard the Suicide of Her Brother
and Becomes Insane
The Suns London dispatches say: "A
tragic story is told by the Cologne Ga
zette or the sad experience and cruel fate
of the favorite Italian prima donna, Zaira
Gattini. A short time ago Zaira: her
mother and two brothers went to Bar
celona, where the prima donna was to full
fill an Engagement. While there the
mother became i'll. Physicians were call
ed, but the patient steadily grew worse.
Zaira attended at the bedside of her
mother during the day and regularly APP
peared at the theater each night, leaving
her brother to watch over the sick woman.
One night while Zaira was absent at the
theater, the physicians informed her
brothers that their mother was in a hope
less condition, and could not live but
few hours at the most. The elder of the
brothers, crazed by grief at this announce
ment, seized a pistol and shot himself
dead in the presence of his mother, who
expired almost Immediately eflerward.
The younger brother FASTENED to the
theater to inform his sister. He was ad-
mitted and met her just as she was leav-
ing the stage, burdened with flowers. and
her ears ringing with the applause of the
audience. In a few words he told her
what had happened, when, with scream
that was heard all over the house. she ran
to a window and attempted to throw her
self to the ground. She was restrained
by friends, who, attracted by her cries
rushed toward her and was Immediately
conveyed to her apartment, When her
paroxysm of grief had subsidized, it was
found that the shock bad deprived her of
her reason, permanently, the physicians
feared, and she is now confined in an
asylum
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19
What the Piano Needed.
San Francisco Chrnnirla

1t was over at one of the picnic parks.
The leader of the band arrived, and went
to survey the place and the music. He
came with two or three of his musicians
to the piano. They got their instruments
out, and were tuning them when the pro
prietor came along. Just as he came up
to them the leader was sounding the note
on the piano.
TOO, low, he said to the corneti too
low
whats tbaty" said the proprietor,
sharply.
The piano-t too low; that's all p
Here Jake yelled the proprietor TO
carpenter across the place, Here;
him how high you want it. That's what
he's paid for. He'll raise three feet II
YOU need it. I don't want no slouchln OF
this music"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
THE SUNDAY JOURNAL

Has become the favorite issue of the week. The ed
ton printed on that day is specially prepared and ID
steadily increasing in circulation from week to week.
1t is sought after with avdity by both readers and
shrewd enterprising advertisers. The literary char
acter of the Sunday journal is high that OF
paper in the United States Besides the best writer's
in this country and in Europe whose works have APP
peared and will continue to appear in its columns,
THE JOURNAL has introduced to the public many
writer's whose poems and sketches have fixed
and standard literary character and authority. While
drawing upon the best authors of the world for orig
inal matter for its columns. THE JOURNAL has been
and will continue to be specially the medium through
which local writers Of the best class may find APP
preciative audience THE SUNDAY JOURNAL reaches
all points possible TO be reached by railway early o.
the day of it's publication.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30

continent in the United States had not been
thought OF. Since then. however, two competing
sysfems, the Northern and the Southern have
oeen established. These three grand highways
from seaboard to seaboard, traverse the finest.
ricnest most beautiful and fertile States in the
Union. The grandest scenery of a hemisphere
Is to be viewed from their palace coaches. The
granaries of the world are passed on their trans
continental trips. With the building of new
transcontinental lines comes the necessity of
building numerous branches. 1--WE are toidn saws
the FINANCIAL Record, ''that thousands of miles
OF new railroads, to cost upwards of $50, OOO. 600,
are now projected, and the construction Of most
OF them already begun. The only thing about
mat simple fact that will strike the man who
is a bull on manipulation and bear on
the situation is that it means so
many more bonds to the mile on which interest
VIII have to be paid. He forgets altogether that
the construction will give employment TO untold
numbers of men who are now idle and thus re-
suit IN general welfare. He forgets, too, that
the transportation of the necessary material will
swell railroad earnings and add just so much
even though it be only in the book keeping-to
their divldend-paying power He neglects to
notice, perhaps, what is largely due TO this pros
pectlve railroad-building-tha for the first time
In I'VE years the iron manufacturers have signed
the scale OF their workers without fight a
thing without precedent and that the Industrial
prospect looks brighter than at any time in five
years."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

The WEEKLY JOURNAL has been enlarged to TWELVE
pages making it the largest weekly paper circulating
in this territory. The weekly edition is a complete
compendium of tho news of the week, with special
features of late and market reports and
department of industrial and agricultural intslli
gence carefully prepared by editor of long expe-
rience and is printed and mailed the morning of the
day ON which it is dated. In these respects The
WEEKLY JOURNAL is superior to any mere agricult
ural paper for the field it Is infnteiy mors
extensive than that which can be occupied by the
special press. The sermon of DR.. Talmags will ap
pear in THE WEEKLY JOURNAL each week. SDecia
attention Is called TO the value of THE WEEKLY
JOURNAL from political point of view All the po.
tical news and editorials current political ques
TONS giving full discussion Of all important Issues
to the people, win be found in tho columns of The
WEEKLY JOURNAL The subscription price of TIM
WEEKLY JOURNAL is only ONE DOLLAR A YEAR,
postage prepaid. Special terms made to cluoss
and fine list Of premiums is offered to accompany
subscriptions to the weekly edition. Sample copie&
will be furnished on application For any informas
ton regarding THE JOURNAL address
JNO O. NEW q SON. Publishers
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
AN EMBARRASSED FIRM.
The indianapolis Machine and Steel-PUlley
Works Placed in the Hands of a Receiver.

Some alleged practical Joker among the half
dozen manufacturers who drifted into the city,
day before yesterday gave out to the newspapers
that the meeting was for the purpose of estab-
fishing manufacturers brokerage or exchange
at Kansas City, Mo- It was for no such purpose,
but was merely meeting of the creditors of the
Indianapolis Machine and Steel-pully Company
The meeting was held at the Bates House yester-
day, the following interested firms being repre-
scented: Akron Iron Company, Akron, o.;
Malleable Iron Works, Dayton. O.; Falls Rivet
Company; Springfield (Ill) Iron Company;
George Kinsey g. Co., Cincinnati Leonard
Moore, OF Dayton, was appointed re-
ceiver by Judge Woods, during the afternoon
upon the petition filed last week of the Maleable
Iron Works Company, of Dayton During the
morning, 0. r. Olsen. one of the partners in the
embarrassed firm, filed petition. representing
that it was iusolvent, or in danger Of insolvency.
He stated that the liabilities amounted to $54,-
700 of which ST. 800 is due in bank and $25, 900
for merchandise. The assets are estimated at
$40, 000 Receiver Moore filed his bond yester-
day afternoon with the clerk of the federal
court 1t is for $40, 900, and the sureties are j.
A Long, j. w. Stoddard. Robert G. Schenck,
jr. Erskine r, Babcock, and Thomas H. Car
ruthers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
Desperate Attempt at Suicide.

James Holman, resident Of Brghtwood. and
for nineteen years an employe of the Decline
shops, attempted suicide yesterday afternoon at
the Illinois-street bridge over Fall creek, by
jumping into the water. The water was so shall
low that he could not succeed in drowning him
self and he then cut himself in the neck, the
wound not being a serious one. A farmer
saw him and stopped the proceedings Holman
was taken to the station house by Flanner s.
Hommown and his wound dressed. He refused
to talk, but the recent death of his son and the
loss of his situation at Brightwood are supposed
to have created melancholy which led him to
try to end his life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-30
miscellaneous Notes.

The Daily Financial Record says that within
three years the Atchison company will not only
have road of it's own into Chicago, but it will
probably also control the Texas 81 Pacific rail
way.
1t is doubtless true that the Lake Shore Rail-
road Company is contemplating a transfer OF the
bankrupt Nickel plate line to the Delaware,
Lackawanna 81 Western Railroad Company
for through route, the Lake Shore, by some
means retaining the local business.
The Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners
who have been investigating collision between
a passenger train and freight train, find that
the engineer and conductor of the freight train
had worked from 10 A. NJ. on Friday until Sat-
urday evening when the collision occurred.
The lease of the operating company of the
Chesapeake & Ohio takes effect July. l. lnfor-
nation as to its details refused, but d.
rector Of the company has no hesitation IN ex-
nfaining that all the earnings of the road were
to 90 to the present officers of the company. and
that there would be no change whatever IN the
operating department..
Judge Allison sustains the president OF the
Wsstmoreland Coal Company IN his refusal to
disclose the rate of freight paid to the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company for carrying coal from
the mines to the gas works in Philadelphia In
the equity suit of the city against Inc gas erus-
tees because no proof is offered TO connect the
trustees with the transaction between Ine coai
company and the railroad company and the
president of the coal company swears tnae tne
freight charges were a matter IN winch the pur-
ebasers of the coal had no interest
Work upon the Minneapolis & Pacific railway
10 beine prosecuted vigorously at all available
points northwest of Mnneapolls anu .n GINS ilno
wood~a distance of 100 miles-by the lss or
middle of November The company was hrst
n nraanized in 1884. after the Manitoba com
nany had concluded TO build cutoff from 81
Cloud to Hinckley,, It being feared ' ,ha
the
, vnas from the Manitoba lines to Lake Su-
nerior. instead Of bringing it to minneapolis 70
he milea' The Minneapolis Pacific was In,
augurated purely in sefdefenss or, as uensra,
:" ~ Inc had been finally decided upon:
Ws,,her the Northern Pacific, Rock Island nor
any other railway corporation is behind TINS Gu
terprise.