Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

O'Clock in the morning to go cunning
from the house-tops for their neigh
bors by moonlight. Yet that Is
what the Catholics aad Orangemen
of Belfast did Sunday. The firing
| lasted two hours and resulted In
several fatalities. The Belfast sharp
shooters have entirely too much re-
| ligion-of certain kind.
REV. TALMAGE holds that the
world is getting better. This will
surprise and may be discourage some
of those good people who are trying
to reform things. But it is safe to
say that the world is better than it
used to be, and that it is still bad
enough to give all the honest reform
ers all the honest work they can
possibly do for many years to come.
ALL reports about Mexican affairs
that come from the border just at
present should be taken with many
grains of allowance. There is an
organized effort on the part of the
border ruffans TO provoke war.
They long for the opportunity to
loot the Mexican states, and for the
chances of money-making in CON
tracts, sutlerships, ETC., which war
would offer.
The official notice Of the general
fall election, to take place Noyem-
Der I'd, in Wisconsin, has been pub
liShed. In addition to enumerating
the various offices TO be filed, the
notices state that the act passed by
the Legislature last winter, relating
To the exercise of the right of suf-
frage of women upon school matter,
Will be submitted to a popular vote
of the people.
MILWAUKEE Iolegraph' One thing
is true: If the Chicago anarchists
whose trial has been going on the
past six weeks or more, are not
found guilty and sentenced to be
hanged, the men on the jury VINO
oppose finding them guilty Of muir
der, should be held until the next
anarchist outbreak aud then be
placed right where the bombs that
the lawless, lnurderous fiends throw
out for the destruction of life.
Isn't it about time To withdraw
from circulation the story of the
man feeding his boy through the
cyclinder of threshiug machine?
1t started on It's rounds from Ne
braska and mas turned up IN several
places since, It's latest appearance
being near Georgetown, Ill. 1t
never reaches any more advanced
stage of credibility than mere ru.
NOR and is evidently the mental
offspring of some gifted Ananias.
TnE qualities in Gabriel Bouck
which lead some of the Democratic
managers To fancy he would, as a
candidate for governor, catch the
votes of the Schilling party, are
thus set forth by the Lacrosse Re
Plbiicaa:
As he few of after Greenbacll;sm few
gerous Anarchist and riot vote of the larger
cities. He made remark in Oshkosh not long
since which will not go far towards reassuring
the law and order element of his party He
was speaking OF Gov Rusk's action during the
May riots in Milwaukee, and strongly condemn
ing him for his course, With an oath both loud
and deep, he said, "Old Jerry RuslI is liable TO
be tried for murder yet" and expressed his
convictions that he Ought TO he.
The above statement is doubtless
from the pen of Mr.. c. NJ. Bright,
of Oshkosh, who, within a few days
past, accepted the position of edi-
torial writer on the Lacrosse paper.
He left Oshkosh about a week ago,
and may be presumed to make the
above statement from personal
knowledge.
THE denomination to Office of
men who have been rejected by the
senate by MIR. Cleveland is regarded
by the St. Louis Post Dispatch
(Dem.) as a very grave error. The
constitution and the laws provide
that certain officers shall be nomi-
mated by the president and appointe d
hy and with the consent of the sem