Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-06-06

calculated to exhibition at TINS talr.
Cooks WANTED First and sec
ond cook wanted at the European
Hotel, Janesville, Wis. Good wa
ees to competent help-$5 and SO
per week
ThE Wisconsin University will
graduate a class of l+0 at its next
commencement. This is a good
record, rarely surpassed by any of
the colleges Of the east.
The notice to stockowners, from
the Mayor, on stock running at
large within the city, is that stock
must be kept up at night, not all
the time as many understand.
MINING operations were com
menced last Monday by the parties
of this city who leased lands north
Of Dodgeville, of which the TRIB,
UNE made mention last week.
AMONG other visitors here last
Sunday we noticed Messrs. Frank
Butler and Il. Uren and Miss Jennie
Butler, all Of Platteville, and Miss
Lilly Eastman, Of Cuba City.
THE Alfred Jenkin store building
is being nicely fitted up for J. NJ.
Dale, who intends running first
class restaurant with a fine fruit and
candy department in connection.
A MAN was ARE ,ted in Brodhead
recently at the instance Of the
Humane Society's agent there, for
cruelty whipping a horse, and he
had to pay a snug fine for the
oifense
THE Monroe Gazette says lots of
horses in that section Of the country
are suffering and dying of distem-
per. There are some fifteen or
twenty now down with the disease
in that city.
Persons who have been in the
habit Of disturbing flowers, etc,
ON graves in the several cemeteries
of this city, will get the full benefit
Of the law if caught. Take this as
an authoritive warning.
MR. JoHN JoNEs, IA well-to do
farmer and citizen of Pccatouica,
will move to Mineral Point this
week, where he intends to make his
future home. lie is the father of
our highly esteemed citizen, w. A.
Jones.
The year 1889 promises to be a
memorable epoch. The early hot
weather, followed by severe frosts
upon the last day Of May and the
floods and disasters to life and prop
erty, make up an extraordinary
record.
TINS is worth trying: Take half a
teaspoonful Of black pepper in pow
der, one teaspoonful of brown sugar
and one teaspoonful Of cream. Mix
them well together and place them
in a room on a plate where flies are
troublesome and they will soon dis
appear
THE congregation of St. Gabne's
/ Catholic church in Prairie du
/ Chien, includes 407 families, and
numbers nearly 1900 members. The
1 last report showed the remarkable
/ (for these modern days. record an
average of over seven members in
the families Of this congregation.
The large church edifce Of this
parish has been built over so years.
THE wisdom of life insurance
accumulations is likely to receive a
striking exemplitication in the ter
rife losses in the Pennsylvania
floods. If, as now seems woefully
probable, thousands of human be
ings perished, it is certain that the
life insurance companies will be
called upon to face greater aggre-
gate payments than they have ever
before been required to meet at any
one time.
THE law relating 70 the destruc-
ton Of noxious weeds, as amended
by the las, Legislature, now provides
for the destruction Of sand-burs, and
that an owner Of property shall des.
troy ali those as far as the center OF