Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-08-02

The Janesville Gazette reports
that the new crop of Wisconsin to-
bacco is coming up handsomely.
There has been favorable weather
from the first, so favorable in fact,
that the growers have hard work to
keep down the weeds. So great is
the demand for field hands, that the
price of labor is beginning to
advance.
IT appears that 5000 carloads of
rock, to be taken to Chicago from
Devils Lake, is to be used in the
manufacture of Bessemer steel.
Heretofore this quartzite has been
procured at Lake Superior. 1t is
valuable in the process of steel
making on account of the silica it
contains. The best English stone
contains 80 per cent. of silica, the
Devils Lake product 90 per cent;
thus the latter article heads the list.
Mr.. DAVID b. JONES answered
in the last Democrat the questions
put by the TRIBUNE two weeks ago
in a way that will probably prove
satisfactory to all who are on the
same side of the tariff question as
he, but while his tabled style reads
very nicely and amuses the reader,
it has not the convincing power of
facts. Next weeks TRIBUNE will
touch upon the answers. Possibly,
the tariff chicken can lay golden
eggs as well as the free trade goose.
VETERINARY surgeons say that
the dehorning saw is doing much
harm among Rock county's cattle.
Many who have attempted to de
horn their own cattle have done the
work in so bungling way that evil
results have followed. One large
herd which was dehorned about
March lst is suffering terribly. The
flesh around the horn has become
diseased and this unsound condition
extends back into the cavities of
the head
The carousing and fighting in
dulged in by several parties on
Commerce street last Saturday eve
ming resulted in the arrest Of seven.
Complaint was made by policeman
HeaIy to Mayor La Male, who fined
five 50 each and costs, and two SO
each and costs, the last two's fine
being heavier because of their
melee having taken place after 7
p. m. and according to ordinance.
There are those who expect the
mayor to act when it is beyond bis
power. Make your complaints in
proper form and he will always be
found ready to act acco riding to law.
DIED, at his residence in Alta,
Iowa, Wednesday, June q, 1888, of
dropsy, Henry Mitchell; aged so
years, month and is days. De
ceased left his native country,
England, forty years age and lived
successfully in Canada, Chicago,
ILL.,, Milwaukee and Mineral Point,
Wis, till six years ago, when he
moved to Iowa, taking up his resi-
dence near Alta. He leaves three
sons and three daughters, John
Mitchell, of Idaho, Edward Mitchell
of O'Neill, Neb., Mrs. Spang, of
Wisconsin, and Henry Mitchell,
Mrs. T. Grange and Mrs. f. w.
Kislingbury, Of Alta, Ia. These,
with their mother, mourn the loss
Of a loving husband and father
THE assertions of our neighbor,
the Democrat, are often misleading
and deceptive like the politics Of the
party that sheet represents, In its
last issue it asserted that the editor
Of the TRIBUNE declined to publish
David B. Jones letter, or answers
to questions put by the TRIBUNE.
This is a willful dash Of misrepre-
sentation. Mr.. Jones did not ask
us to publish the article, and if that
was his earnest wish what was there
to prevent him any more than to
ask the Daaocratr But, when
more than enough type had been