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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16
The Local Field.

Nls. Lillian JAcKA is visiting at
Darlington.
n. sculLLEN is having his hotel
building repainted.
DglLER's magnificent residence
got. 4 fresh coat Of paint.
TIM milk shake dealers are al
really enjoying a fair trade.
MEMORIAL SERVICES will be held
in the +. N. church this year.
GRANGE & HosKEN pay cash for
YEA. calves and ship every Tuesday.
WAru weather and rains have
made vegetation start up finely.
Have you los- a two-year.old
steer VIM. Berry adyertises one
as taken up.
Mus. j. +, LAMALLE and daughter
Annie are Of on a trip to Milwaukee
and Chicago.
A PATENT on q carpet stretcher
has been granted A. w. Muhlhauser,
ot P.ateyiIIe.
TuG o1ce that seeks the man
these times mas a good chance to
gstlo,t in the crowd.
u4NY in this city have been
afflicted with the mumps this spring.
Oh d, well as young.
Il ATnELY new walk has been laid
dis week on the east side Of the
Trinity church grounds.
oyE Of the best evening enter
aiumcuts offered to our people is
that by Buchanan this week.
Is MINERAL PoINr to have a base
Bal. nine this year? What's the
matter with the dormant talent.
How MANY taxpayers Of this city
are opposed to having a new opera
house. Not many, us thought.
Two LOADS Of Salvation Army
to.a> went to Linden last Friday
81 ra sonlfota3 Z. .,,natin,s fbarp
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16

Mr. Norris to practice band music,
and they threw the burning hay to
one side and prevented the spread
of the flames There was a large
stack near by, as we'll as buildings,
and had it not been for tie timely
discovery Of the fire, tbs result
would have been disastrous. Br0d-
beaa Independent,
GALENA has base ball nine
called kelly's Pets, who 90. about
the country playing match games on
Sundays, they having been adver-
tlsed to play in Now Dj4giugs last
sunday. a decent regard for the
feelings of the many respectable
people who heed the Divine iuiunc.
ton to remember The Sabbath day
tc keep il holy, ought TO deter even
"a base bali uiuo from playing public
games upon that day. Ii they even
would couhne themselves to the
scciu>ion of their oWn CITY they
would be entitled to some credit
Sbn5}s5trg HioL and Gp3.
SuBsCRruoN papers are being
circulated TO ascertain how much
money can be got To defray expenses
of a reunion here in June. Saloon
men and hotel people have sub
seubcd upward Of three hundred
dollars while our business men are
coming TO the front handsomely and
the outlook now for huge reunion
is certainly good. When Bosrohel
once puts her hand To the plow She
never turns backward AMI we think
we are safe Ia whispering to the
veterans of southwestern Wisconsin.
"Now brighten up your aui(orms,
put har on on your hair, and pre-
pare 10 move TO the front to take
part in one Of tho greatest bAttles of
fun since the wal" D'ak
on Sunday afternoon there was a
shooting a0ray which wiu probably
terminate fatally ia the town Of
Menominee. Max Vogt, Of Fair.
play, a young man OF Il years,
came down to Meuomiueu 10 look
after farm owned by hts father,
and in the care of a tenant. While
thtie he found Peter Evans, who
rents the Welter farm adjoining,
driving cattle over his fathers land
and ordered him of The promises.
Hot words led to blows when Peter
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16

hhN "s5N "a thltC NNti g HNU Ten Win
out ever having previously been en-
tangled by Cupid's wiles. Mrs.
Lehrman sues for $4,000, and
alleges that Cunningham, the de-
fendant, has been making love to
her and finally obtained promise
of marriage from her, while paving
frequent trips of late to the cemetery
near her house, whore he has a mon
ument in process of erection, which
is to be in memory Of himself when
dead, The best of counsel has been
retained on both sides.
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aud manners. 1t is certain that no
company ever more completely salts.
hed lhe people OF Mineral Point
The plays are new here and each
one q the party Is master OF the
part he or she takes The lnstru-
mental ana vocal solos ln'erspersed
between the acts OF the play each
hlght are wen worth the price OF
admission but lew singers can
eliell greater admiration than Miss
la hue, VINO is the fortunate
possessor OF q rleh, wen cultivated
voice. The Buohanans on the yio-
I'm ana cornet are second TO but few.
This company deserves full houses.
Turn out everybody. The prices
OF admission are remarkably reason
able-f0, 20 and 80 cents.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16
Attention, o. a. r.

All members of Geo. II Legata
Post, ~. I2J, g. A. r., are re
questel to DE- present at the ne&I
meeting to De held ou Friday even
ing, May lltb, TO make arrangement.
for b proper observance Of Memorial
Day. Tire Post viii attend divine
service at the j.. nj. church on Sun
day morning, May goth, and Al
comrades are requested to BE- present
on that occasion.
Il. u. PEmEAUI, q. q. Cox,
Adjt Com.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16
DRFSsMAKTNG.

Ladies, please remember that Mrs.
Keeler is still working at her trade
at her residence ON Fountain street.
II you want good tit and reliable
work give me a call
20ml MRs. GEO. kEELEH.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16
COUNTY SEAT.

COOA ~ SEA ~
From the Chronicle.
5. NJ. Dayey, Jr., has purchased
the stock and fixtures of J. NJ. Dale's
restaurant in this city, and will con
tiuue the business.
The two sons of w. d. Johns and
VIM. Pengilly, living three miles
north of this city, were fishing last
week and killed n spotted pilot snake
which measured feet 1 inches In
length.
Mrs. L. Marks, Of this city, while
ON visit with friends in Chicago
last week, became afflicted with an
attack of eysipelas and was obliged
to return home.
lightning moved in its mysterious
ways on Wednesday night by strik.
ing the warehouse of Ihos. Cutler,
just within the city limits, and
breaking out some windows and
SCATTERING a chimney DR. w. j.
Pearee also had two cattle killed
lonoing to NJ Cnrlar u.s. ;,i,r.l
From tho sun:
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Miss Fmma ~ 1j;ner,i p,in, nv 80,
Monday an3 ! nart.o .of Taesiay in
this city.
fpt..a L.,. 49,. l. 49,. . /
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Z" Wv 80 ~ o'''''u"' a''''o ''g a,, seS-
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80 M i 0''i'''' '9' ''e 'oaeaoloaesS
- wy Pe't'' ~ low" county
lhe people OF Iowa county, who
nave groahed under the burden of
Ihe UNJUST taxation arising out OF the
IOWA county railroad bonds, which
nave hung lke pau over the tax
payers Oh TINS county Tor twenty
years, VIII be glad to learn that all
OIL the original bonds are redeemed
ana that we can now breath ireer.
In reference 70 future burdens IN tins
direction we believe that Iowa
county's lesson has been so dearly
oough5 that repetition OF toe
lraud VIII never be enacted. The
Dohds were considered an outrage
from thelr conception, by a large
majority OF the people. Ana they
at last they were forced upon the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16

appropriate manner, but the citizens
generally should arrange for a suit
able observance Of Memorial Day.
II this city are three or four
diIigent collectors of specimens
from the bowels of mother earth,
and each has already fine display.
If any Of our young men had
desire to try circus life we should
presume that it was thoroughly
knocked out Of them the past week.
THE camping fishers who left
here Monday have had chilly and
wet time. They are entitled to all
the pleasure they can get out of
the trip.
In is said that Chicago capitalists
have secured the mining leases Of
lands near Warren and propose
spending the money necessary in
draining them.
The sporting purses of the fair,
to be held in this city this year, as
published last week, are being
highly eompIimented by those who
are most Interested
MARRIED, at Darlington, Wis,
May Sd, 1889, at the Congregational
parsonage, by Rev. A. A. Hurd,
Albert L. Johnson and Lille May
Strickland, both of Calamine, Wis.
THE fixing of the road leading
from Oates place to alderman
Jacka's, on the northern edge Of the
city, is the proper thing to do, and
there's no one so unreasonable as to
object.
THESE hot days in May should be
full warning to the board Of health
Of the danger of filthy streets and
alleys. The best efforts should be
put forth to clean the city at the
earliest day.
TIE w. G. Z. U. ladies are ar
ranging for an ice-cream and straw
berry festival to be held Friday and
Saturday Of this week at the rooms
lately occupied by Mrs. Susie James,
the milliner
FROM indications there will be no
celebration in Mineral Point on the
approaching Fourth. But if there
is slumbering desire, it is high
time it was aroused, and the bah
started in motion.
On the oath inst. the Salvation
Army here will hold a grand jubilee
meeting, when Major Watmore, of
Chicago, win be here. He viii also
swear in for life a large number Of
the Army's converts.
The Western Annual Conference
Of the p. NJ. church will convene at
Streator ILL.,, on Friday, May 23d.
Messrs. p. Allen, Jr, and T. p.
Rogers will represent the society of
this city as its lay delegates.
THE phenomenally warm weather
Of the first half Of last week had a
very stimulating effect upon the
retail distribution of summer goods.
Dry goods and other kinds Of wear
ing apparel sold with great freedom.
T. E. MARrIx and wife arrived
Monday last from California on a
visit, after an absence of seventeen
years. Mr.. Martin is among the
pioneers Of Wisconsin, having emf
grated to Mineral Point in May, 1886.
PossInLY the band concert will
not be given this spring owing to
the great number of entertainments
in Mineral Point this season.
Should it take place, however, it
will be on the evening Of Memorial
Day.
WM. TREwEEK's new residence,
on the site Of the one burned las,
winter, is being constructed in
remarkably substantial and con
yeuiout manner. HeinteDds heating
by furnace. When completed he
Will have q home to be proud Of,
and why nos no man il more in
dusuiou. and preserving.
Tuu apprehension that the dry
weather with which spring opened
should continue, to the ret3rding of.
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16

pc more ausplcious opening up of
the annual era of production. There
is growing cheerfulness in all the
/ phazes Of farm life.
TUE bell ringers which appeared
in this city last Thursday drew only
a moderate attendance. Viewing
the performance from Juvenile
standpoint it was good. Most of
the entertainment was provided by
little boys and girls, and they did
exceedingly well. The lady whistler
proved an expert and wonder Her
accomplishments were duly appreci-
ated, as the vigorous applause
testified.
The Trustees Of the Primitive
Methodistconference Superannuated
Preachers Fund held its annual
meeting at the yestry, in this city,
on Tuesday morning. Above fund
is in an excellent condition. The
above fund is in an excellent condi-
ton. The principal has reached the
snug sum Of $9,s5o. The claims
upon it, for the past year, have been
over 500 less than the income. Mr..
7. Allen, ST., has been the treasurer
for series of years
on is a singular fact" said a lady
the other day, "that hens egg
which is laid on Good Friday will
never spoil like any other, but may
be kept for years, and when opened
will be found to contain only a
small, yellowish,brown lump, re-
sembling beeswax. Oh, | know
what am talking about, for / have
tried it many times and told ever
so many of my friends about it, and
they have all tried ii, and | have
never known a single instance when
it failed"
ATa village school not many miles
from Canterbury, precocious boy
being asked to parse the sentence,
"Mary, milk the cow" went on ac-
culately till be came to the last
word, when he said: "Cow is a
pronouu, feminine gender, third
person singular, and stands for
Mary" Islands for Mary?" asked
the master in astonishment. eyes,
sir" responded the urchin with
grin, "for if the COW didn't stand
for Mary, how could Mary milk
the cow"
TINS is to certify that have just
received from J. b. Reynolds, agent
Of the Continental Insurance Com
pany, of New York, the sum of
fifteen hundred dollars il full Of
loss by fire Of my house which
burned Feb. 22d, 1889. can say |
am highly pleased with the treat
ment have received by this com
pany. Less than week after the
fire the loss was adjusted and the
claim allowed in full without
bubble. | can most heartily rec
commend this company to parties
wishing protection against loss by
fire. WM. TREwRgk.
April 3Oth, 1899.
TIE Racine Journal says that DR..
Charles Egan is in receipt Of a let
ter from Rev. Father Traut, formerly
pastor Of st. Phillips church at
Highland, who is now on visit to
the Holy Land. The letter is dated
at Rome, and stated that the who.
party Of Pilgrims were in excellent
health, except Bishop Vigger, Of
New Jersey, who was taken sick at
Rome, and obliged to start home.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16

FARMERS will please remember
that feed grinding is done on Fri
days and Saturdays at the mill near
the depot
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-16
)INT, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, MAY Is. 1889

with the moisture needed to prompt
termination. There could hardly
be a more auspicious opening up of
the annual era of production. There
is growing cheerfulness in all the
phazes Of farm life.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-05-29

Notice is hereby given by the under
signed d,Administratrix of the Estate of Gil
aeomo Raffetto, Deceased, to the creditors
of and all persons having claims against,
the said Deceased, to exhibit them, with
the necessary vouchers, within ten
months after the f rst publication of this
notice, 10 the said Administrators at the
Romo Hotel. corner of Carson Street and
2nd Avenue, in Carson City, Ormsby
County, Nevada.
Dated, May 9th 1889.
COLUMBIA RAPFETTO,
Administrative of the Estate of Giacomo
Raffetto, Deceased.
T. D. Edwards,
Attorney for Estate
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-14
As Old as the World.
IN, o. Picayunc.l


Race anttpathy Is no new thing. 1t
Is as old as the world. 1t has existed
in every age and is by no means con-
fined TO the human race. Is Is one Of
the strongest Instincts OF animal exis-
tepce and Is the cause Of a perpetual
warfare that began In the earliest times
and must 60 on to the end, iliustrat>
Ing the pitiIess and inexorable law OF
the survival of the tlttest or strongest.
The following from the Now York
Commercial Advertiser, while II treats
a most important subject In manner
suggestive. 1t says:
"The collisions between the whites
and blacks in Mississippi bring into
strong relief characteristic OF man.
kind that lacked explanation and ra-
tionale until the appearance Of the
"Origin OF Species." From that epoch
making work we learn that race pre-
judics Is not confined to man. Das-
perate struggles between different spe-
cIes OF the same family Of animals are
raging now and have ever ragged.
Every acre OF Territory Is fought for,
and wide regions are totally dcpopu-
lated of fauua OF one variety by an
other species differing, perhaps, only
In color. The red squirrel looks upon
the presence Of the black as an imper.
Thence, aud the black is made uncorn.
Portable by the neighborhood Of the
gray. Even plants have autipathict
that a philosopher would blush to OWE
and have their Wa,erloos, in wEicl
sap fsws like water. AT any rate
there is many an Alsace aud Lorraine
10 the vegetable world toward which
we half fancy that the vanished ant
expelled look back with longing eyes
amid much rafting of stems ant
brandishlng OF thorns.
But 1t nigh, be thought that, thougl
white clover will not consent to dwell
in peace with red, and the red fox dc
clines to accede to any modGs vivend
J.. with the gray--it might be though
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-14
The New Orleans, Natchez and Fort Scott
Railroad.
CTimes-Democrat.l

[TimeS-Democrat.
Gsneral John HI. Rice, president of
the New Orleans, Natchez and Fort
Scott Railroad, arrived In the city
Sunday night and put up at the st.
Charles. A reporter called upon him
yesterday aud inquired Ii there were
any new developments in the New
road. The General said:
ave have let contract with the
Natchez Contracting Company, Miss
souri, company, connected with which
Hammet, Davidson & Co. of Kansas
City, Charles Hyde 4 Son Of NewYork
and others. C.:M. Hammett of kansas
City is president. They are to build
the road, doing the grading, bridging,
trestling, furnishing ties, and tracklsy-
ing from the depot at Natchez over
the bluffs to Rsyville, seventy>four
miles distant, on the VicksburR,
Shreveport and Pacific Road. The
completion of this contract will put the
road In condition to receive the rolling
stock. l am the president of the COM
pany as we'll as the originator and
protector OF the enterprise. Mr.. Waller
Chenault is the vice president, and
Captain James w. Lambert, editor Of
the Na,chez Democrat, is secretary.
"The line as projected runs from vi
dalia, La., opposite Nstchez, TO Winns-
boro, RsyviIIe and Bastrop, La, on a
most direct route, through Hot Springs,
Ark, and the nearest possible direct
line to kansas City. 1t was intended,
10 its original conception by me, TO be
q through trunk line from New Or.
leans to Kansas City by the shortest
route which q railroad could run, and,
barring unforeseen and insurmountable
obstacles, it will be so built.
.Contracts were let last week to st
Louis syndicate Of coutractors-Mr
Bethune, Hammet Il Morrison, Crarey
Brcs. and others, we'll known and
strong financially. They with theii
outfits are now en- route 10 Natchc.
aud will commence work this week OF
the east side of the river as well as IN,
Louisiana side. Mayor Benbrook O
Natchez is now en- route 10 New Yorl
to deposit with the Farmers Loan ant
Trust Company the $3.50, 900 per cen
thirty years bonds, in accordance wit
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-14
he city's contract as voted by the peo-

PIE.
ssThe parishes Of Concordia, Cata-
h0ula, Frankltu, Richland aud More
house, through which this road will
pass, are the richest 10 the State. About
40 per cent of The land is under cultl-
walton and the remainder forests Of as
valuable timber "a can be found In the
south. The llne enters Arkansas lit
tie north OF Bastrop and runs to Texar.
kama, Texas points and north to Fsrt
Smith via Little Rock, thence to ST.
Louis and Kansas City via Hoxie. Al
the Arkansas rivsr the line crosses the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad,
forming through line to Fort Smith
and to Indian territory potnts."
Speaking OF the line and its c0nnec-
tlons General Rice said that connection
would be made at Natchex with the
Louisvllle, New Orleans and Texas
Railroad TO Jackson, Miss, connecting
there with the Illinois Central aud to
New Orleans. At Rayville, "a miles
from Naichex, the line Of the .Vicks-
burg, Shreveport aud Pacific is crossed.
About 60 miles In Arkansas the trip
branch of the Arkansas Valley RAilrl
road Ia csOssed; IS miles further on
connection IL made with the s.. Louis,
Arkansas aud Texas Railroad, giving
direct route to Pine Bluf, Little
Rock, Memphis and ST. Louis; 90
miles further on the limo OF the Iron,
Mountain Is intersected, opening up
connections with the Cleveland, Dali
las, Bradley, Ashley and Hot Springs
counties.
General Rice will return to Natchez
today. He was born aud spent his
boyhood in Greenville, Tenn, aud AZ
tsrwards prac.iced law In Georgia. In
1866 he took Horace Gleeiy's advice
aud nweut west" to Kansas.
This road and Its connections, he
says, will form line 175 miles shorter
than any now exlsting route between
Kansas City and New Orleans.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-09-14
that men would be wiser. Are we not
all brothers?

that men would be wiser. Arc We not
all brothers,
The truth lies in the other direction.
The anlmostty OF animsls arises only
upon contact, the anttpathies OF man
time can hardly blunt or distance SOL
ten. The Celt hates the Saxon, though
great ocean. rolls batween England
and Ameeice; though more than two
centuries lie betwoen 0ut. day and the
battle Of the Boyno. 6lay, MAgyar,
Teuton, by their undying auimoelties.
keep alive the uudyiuR Eaetern ques>
tl0n-a question thst blood and iron
alone can solve: German and 0aul
dwell eide BY side in the pf0vlnees
Wrested from France by BisMark; but
which OF the two Il TO be master there
le Z qleetlon that Will yet choke the
Rhine with corpees. The Indian 10
man and . brother; yet the sentlment
has besn boldly uttered and heard
With the applause due to Wit, that
dad Indians alone arc good; and just
the other day there rose amid the Tut
terlng Of fiaes and the blare OF trum-
pets-there rose Ia philanthroplc New
who would have been handed down to
SVoS0OA SASSS2tsOA 0W0 Oa0 RkVWSu0
been exhibited against the white race
instead OF the red man.
To ue, accustomed TO see men OF
every nationality pouring into eur
broad borders, the race animositles OF
Europe seem. hardly intelligible. But
ne know that they exlst q fundamen-
tai and ineIadicable facts that no
staiesman can ignore or for . moment
forget without peril. That there are
troubles at the South, therefore, no
thoughtSul man will find surprising,
when the two races, unlike those OF
Europe, diner BY the total width OF
tho sky. No nation In the tide OF time
ever had 80 momeutous problem on iis
hand-A problem go fraught with se-
riouS possibilities that to make light OF
It IL the mark neither OF a wise head
nor patriotic heart"