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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

/ CYCLONE did considerable damage at
az B-idgton, n. j., last night.
| Sr. Prrrs's Catholic Church at Mans,
deld, Ohio, was burned. Loss $4,000.
! TuE Palace Furniture Cnmpany's es-
/ tablishment a. Saltwater, MINI, was de-
stroycd by fire Tuesday. Loss, $4,000.
THr A.W. Keeney Paper Compsny, at
Rockford, H., assigned Monday to Levi
Rhoades. The liabilities are 100000 and
the assets $4,000.
OK Wednesday morning a private car
containing Boston tourists, was run into
by freight, and four persons we're kill
ed and three seriously injured.
A LOSS of $4,000 was carsed by the
burning of the stock of the Golden
+ agile dry goods house aud t. z, Croke's
carwet establishment at Denver.
GUSTAV SrENzFL committed suicide at
Milwaukee, tuesday, by shooting himself
with a toy cannon. He placed it on a
box, aud, seating himself in front of Vt,
touched It or.
THr Savannah Cotton Mills, at Savan.
nah, Ca. aud eight tenement houses were
destroyed by fire, Tuesday afternoon,
thNNluk AhsS VI NANofN'0t lhHui ahNt q
sac coo.
1HE country around Blunt, ID. T., has
been devasted by prairie fire, and many
farmers have been rendered homeless.
$ ,veral buildings in the suberbs of Blunt
have been destroyed.
A Loss OF 100000 was caused Wednea-
day night, ~ Boston, Macs, by the burn
ing OF the freight houses of the Boston
aud Lowell division of the Maine road.
Forty loaded freight cars were burned.
A PRIVATE car containing q party of
Boston people returning from tour of
California, was wrecked in "A collision on
the Santa Fe road, near Joliet, Ill,
Wednesday, Four of the passengers
were killed and three badly il jured.
MANsr1F1u, Ohio AT O'Clock Wednes
day morning the safe in the First National
Bank, at Plymouth, this county, was
cracked by experts who secured $500
IN one OF is outer drawers, A burgular
oof chest con tanning 100000 could rot
be opened. The burglars, three in mum
Der, thes stole team from q local mer-
chant and drove 20 shelby, where they
boarded an early morning train for
Cleveland.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18

reached between the United States, Eng
land and Germany, b. the terms CT which
each of the three countries named will
keep but one war ship in Samoan waters,
pending the results of the forthcoming
conference in Berlin.
JAMES ". RoMETs, Consul a Valpa-
raiso, in reporting TO the Department OF
State upon the trade and commerce of
Chill, comments upon the fact that while
the imports INFO Chill in 1883 amounted
to S4s,630. 600, but So 100000 came from
the United States. And that while 10 600
vessels entered and cleared al CHILEAN
ports, the American hIg waved over only
22l of them.
WAsHINGroS.-The department of jus-
tioe is engaged in the investigation OF
the Des Moines river land question, and
on the com pletion of the examination
will prepare an opinion az 70 the practic
ability of attempting to quiet the title
by names of suit, as suggested By the
department Of the interior. Should this
opinion be favorable the suit will be en-
tered at once.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
Crops and Prices.

Prices for all kinds of farm produce,
as well as stock, auctuate from year to
year. Whenever prices are low, there ia
always considerable class that will sell
out or discontinue growing to bring it
back to q paying price, 1ud as soon as
prices begin 10 advance 70 any consider
able extent, they are ready to start III
again and do their part towards lowering
prices. Such a course Is not prof able,
at least TO ths one that is changing and
It is too often the Gaze, that the farmer
who il trying 10 raise the most protita-
BILE crop each year, succeed IN doing ex
sctly the reverse and strikes the market
on the down grace. There are many con
ditions that will often render it necessary
to change crops, and to dispose of one
kind OF stock and keep some others. At
tue same time, "a rule changes should
not be made entirely upon the market
prices, rs To attempt to judge or guess
the market Sufficiently ia advance to
raise crop, or feed and prepare stock
for market Si.l, in e majority of cases,
result in failure.
Ole OF the principal objections to
risking the farm profits upon auy one
single crop, or kind OF stock is the in
creased risk in failure, first, in raising or
growing auythiF & to sell, and second, in
being able 70 secure good prices, or rath
er p-ices that will feturn q fair per cent.
Of profit. There is always some risk Of
this at ali times, and with 81 classes of
products add stock, brit 18th a variety OF
uops raised and fsd to stock, this risk is
reduced very materially, II the same
general line OF farming, however, is car
ried on what We fail 70 eceive with one
We can make up With another, so that the
average will be fair per cent. CT profit
l. is hardly 70 be expected mat any one
particular crop will return the iarses;
percent Of prof. each year.
II IS possible 20 call cut the worst and
select the best, but not so fully bot thai
thtre viii be a considerable variation
each year n tbs respect. A. least, IN e
series Of !esrs the farmer who carries out
q 50 EN- Of farming based mp this plan
sill be able TO show mucn tue best per
cent. OF profit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

SISTER of Stephen A.. Douglas is the
Postmistress at Clifton Springs, n. Y.
She il 73 years of age.
NATHAN f. DIXON was elected United
States Senator by the Rhode Island Leg
isisture, in joint assembly, at Providence.
Hon. ROBERT I. LINCOLN, United
States Minister TO England, announces
that he will leave for his post or duty in
about six weeks.
By the elections held in Rhode Island,
Tuesday, the general assembly is assured
to the republicans, who will elect the
state officers.
The bright star Campus emits more
than 1900 times the light of our sun.
Sirius is az such distance that its light
occupies nearly nine years in reaching us,
and its real brightness il that of sixty
three suns.
Ir ia recalled that President Lincoln
once extended executive olemenoy to a
young Englishman found guilty of piracy
and blockade rdnuing because, IS be ex-
pressed it, - ohm Bnght, OF England, has
asked US to pardon him"
The report OF the State Board of Agri-
culture of Massaohus settles notes the
great growth OF the butter business in the
STATE, and spesks particularly of the de-
velopment of the cooperative system,
tweDty-six such institutions having
made during the year 100000.
Ir is reported from St. Louis, that the
Vanderbits, with August Belmont, Laird
Bros, end a Philadelphia syndicate have
closed a deal for the purchase of the gas
81 . 10. .afN Poi
is supposed TO represent the London
Rothchilds. The deal will amount to
about $4,000.
MosKs LYMAN Of Waverly, n Y, denies
that he is the inventor of the pigsin
clover" puzzle, that he is farmer, that
he has large family, that he has sold the
patent on the puzzle, and that he has
made fortune. The real inventor is
Charles M, Gran dali, the manager OF Mr..
Ly mans toy works.
TaE firm OF Jimimes, Hanstedt d. Co.,
the New York representatives. of General
Hyppolte, has received news 6y the
steamer George w. Clyde, which arrived
from Hayti that a commission appointed
bylGeneral Legitime TO visit Hyppolite TO
bring about settlement had proposed
terms which were satisfactory to Hippo
lite, and that within week the Hsytian
troubles would probably be settled.
The Trenton when wrecked at Samoa
carried down with her some fine modern
rifed guna. These may readily DO placed
on another vessel or used in the fortified
ton OF the new naval station at Pago
Pago if they can be recovered, Conse-
quently some curiosity ia expressed by
naval officers az to whether Admiral Kim
oerly has taken steps to raise the guns
from the shallow harbor.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
Spring Care of Bees.

mlsSdCiu tlts IlON in 4us
The spring is near and sooD the hum
of tne bees will be heard in the land. AS
soon as the weather will permit in April,
or, if possible, late in March, the colonies
should be examined some warm day al
noon, gently, to see if they are ready
for the seasons work. When the mat il
lifted, the bees will boil up and "pour
over" if strong and in good condition.
They are seen and estimated in glance,
and it is not necessary to disturb them
further.
Now they should be fed for no other
reason than to stimula the queen to OK
ert herself that by the middle of May
there may be an army of bees ready for
the field. If they be fed till the brood
chamber be full of honey and brood, the
surplus honey from the fields must 60 to
the upper story, because there is no place
TO put it. The secret-the success of
bee keeping in the strength, the
early strength, of the colonies. The
amount of food given merely to stimu-
late, need not be more than half pint
at regular intervals. The 8 cent feeder
is good enough and may be placed on
the mat. Even in early spring the mat
should not be removed, but keep in place
to retain the heat of the colony. The
mats should remain tin the surplus sec
tions are put on. The warmer the bees
are in April and May the better viii be
their condition all summer.
If you intend to give attention to bee
keeping aud are determined TO get some
thing cut of it, you will, as a matter of
course, produce both comb ana extracted
honey, although comb honey may be the
chief prodVct. II the coming season be
the fret, let the only product be extracted
honey. Give every colony two-story
hive, and fill the second story with one
pound boxes, each with full sheet of
foundation. As fast as the bees fill and
cap, remove end extract the honey, and
place new b xes and foundation il their
places. At the end of the season there
will be on hand number of empty
COMBS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18

Tn New rseY Agricultural o.,
/ Experimer : ation has issu 4 h,
Win ali account OF tne Insects .nicb
ON the cabbage, prepared by Georps n
| Halst--a plainly written account -, -
careful experiments performed for :. s
stroyIng thRse dApredators. The in,.s,
/ figured aud described are the white -
bsge butterfly and IFS larva and the 80
oeze piusia, besides cut worms, cabbsss
aphis and cabbage root fly. The VIII
utterly Is commonl! reen Ia the dss
| time lowering abonu cabbage, la no 4,
eggs mostly on the underside of ~
leaves, and hstchirg in from five 70 eirb.
| days into the green caterpillar. TEa
! .lusla Is darker Ia color, and aging j.
the night is rarely seen. The larya has
something of the character of measn,
ing form. 1t is larger and longer tb,r
the butterfly larva, and is less hairy. Son
years they are scarce, in others that az
more numerous aud destructive than m
others. The eggs are mostly laid Or Tho
upper surface of the leaves, where No
water will reach and destroy them.
OF the many remedies tried fcI inc ia.
struction of these caterpillars the thu
which stand at the head for efficiency a,s
hot water, pyrethum, and kerosene empl.
sion. Other remedies are of little nss
When the temperature of the water ia
above 160 degrees the plants are scalded
and below l40 degrees the insects are moi
killed. Between these two points tina
remedy is efficient.
Pyrethum is safe and perfectly effect
i've, T fresh, when mixed with from six 10
twelve parts of plaster, or fifteen to
twenty of air slsked lime. Or pyrethum
powder, a tables poonfnl to six or eight
quarts of water, answers well, and also
destroys plant lice when sprinkled on the
plants.
Kerosene emulsion (made as recon-
msnded in the Country Gentleman on
former occasions) diluted with twelve
parts Of water, is thoroughly effective
: udor also acts as a rep.l ant, by pre-
venting the hutterays from laying their
eggs on plants SO treated.
No good remedy has been found for
plant lice, but pyrethum pJSder applied
with hand bellows, has been found most
eficacious. The cabbage-rOot fly may be
killed with weaker solution of kerosene
emulsion, or one part TO fifteen of water,
'hs roofs ct planting being dipped in it.,
and twice afterward enough poured
around the plant 70 wet the soil an inch.
The roots being more tender than the
leaves, weaker folutiOn must be used
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
THEDOING OF WOMEN.

There are twenty eight industrial schools
in this country which are attended large
~ By women. To some of these ins5itu.
tlons women only are admitted.
The untriug zeal of the women of New
Orleans is making that city foremost in
the list of art centers. With gil their
other enterprises these ladies have found
time TO successfully boom a project Tor
museum OF art 20 be erected there,
In recent lecture on the advance of
women, Mrs. Antoinette Blackwell called
attention 30 the .ct that while forty
years ago, none tn q few women thought
of having any non-domestic work, now
5000 900 women are classified in such
work" There are $4,000 accountants,
clerks and saleswomen, 275 clergy men, and
rs lawyers IN this number.
"Ouida" does not believe in women's
clubs. Everything which tends to take
women out of their own homes is Djur-
ious to the world at large" she says
"Club life will do this more and more,
and will substitute the hard glare of con
tinual publicity, fo- that subdued light of
home IA which women are at their best
and hsppiest," "Ouida" is by no means
alone in this view, but just now the trend
OF opinion steuls 10 Dc OVERWHELMING
opposed to her,
A late fad is boarding school where
young women are given instructions in
entering and getting ont of carriage.
"a vehicle with the proper pedal arrange
ments for this sort of excerise which de
termises a lsdy's breeding and claim TO
social position, il kept in the back yard
of the educational establishment, and the
carriage classes are put through the most
arduous training Another accomplish.
ment peculiar to this institution Is the
acquisition of the art of eating oranges,
grapes, and other juicy viands.
Following on the heels of the mental
oulturen and dress form movements,
there comes another the physical train
ing fad. The Effort to bring forth physi-
cal as well as mental perfection mas led
even the Boston g,rl 70 put away her efter-
Moons in the arduuus confines of the gym
nasium. ProPrietors Of gymnasie are
setting apart days for exclusive attend
snce of women, and in Philadelphia
and New York there are gymnastio acad
emies which are never protaned by
masculine presence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
CASTLE IN THE AIR.
Sale of the Beautiful Country Home Of the
Late Mr.. Beecher.

Sale Of the Beautiful Country Home Of the
Late Mr.. Beeeher
Boscobel, the beautiful country retreat
of the late Henry Ward Becher at Peeks-
kill, has been disposed of by private sale
through Phillips d. Wells, real estate deal
ers and brokers, to G. II. Butler Of this
city, tor $40 900. Tbs property covers
thirty-six acres of ground, on which is a
beautiful, large three-story mansion of
Go hio architecture, built only few Yeas
before Mr.. Betohei's death. IL stands in
the midst o. one of the most charming
spots on the Hudson river, commanding
view OF the surrounding country for
nearly twenty-five miles.
Talrty years ago, when Mr. Beeoher
first bought groand, it W. patch of
plain meadow land, with an ordinary
liltie cottage as a residence. This he in.
habited daring the summer for many
years and he became 50 attached 20 the
little domicile that when the larger and
more imposing residence was built he
deemed 1t a duty 70 preserve the cottage
as an old landmark. The new house is
msynifioently proportional and is fitted
with all the latest modern conyenienoes.
Speaking of it to visitor not long be-
fore his death, Mr.. Beecher said: 81 love
this house. 1t is very pretty, but do you
know how built it? l wanted 1t. / had
set my heart on it, but was poor. So /
went aud leotured until / earned the mon
ey. You have heard of castles in the air.
Here you find one, regular castle of
wind. That's how | got it,"
The grounds which surround the house
are laid out with exquisite taste, every re-
gard being paid to he effeot of blending
coloTs aud variations of tint. rne notan-
ical collection is unsurpassed is this cou1-
try WITH the exception of that Of the
Smithsonian institution in Washington.
There are specimens of the rarest plants
aud shrubs gathered from nearly every
country in the world. The number of
trees on the grounds have been comput-
ed al 6,069, besides over 1000 fruit bear
ing plauts and vines
The house has been inhabited only
during brief portion of the tine since
Mr.. Bescher's death and il is now mach
in need Of renovation. Mr.. Batter, its
new owner, mas workmen preparing j. for
occupancy and making some new alter
atoms. He intends, however, as much
as possible to preserve the house and
grounds IN the style in which Nj. Beecher
kept them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
Farm and Home.
.Goop.BYE-eop BLESS You.n
EUGENE FIELD, N CHICAGO NEWS.

like the Anglo saxon speech
With 4 direct revealings
Il taxes . hold and seems TO reach
Way down into your feelings;
That some folk deem 10 rude know,
And therefore they abuse il;
But Ia never md il so--
Before ali else J ch rose IT,
don't object that men should air
The Gallo they have paid for
With 'au reU0ir, " "adiell, ma ehere"
For that's what French was made for,
But when a croDy take1 your hand
AT parting 10 add e5s you
He drops all foreign lingo and
He says: "Good-b ye-God bless your
This seems to be a sacred phrase
With reverence impas stoned
4 thing come Down from righteous days,
Quaiatly but notify fashioned
It SeL bee ,mes an honest face
4 voice chat : round ana cneertuli
Ii stays he sturdy IN his pibce
And sOCthes the weaN and fearful.
Into the porehes Of the ears
II steals with subtle JUNCTION
Aud in your heart of hearts appears
To work its gracious junction;
And all day long with pleasing song
II fingers TO Caress YOU
I'm sure no human heart goes wrong
That's told Good ye-God bless your
Il,ve the words-perhaps because,
NheB | was leaving mother,
Standing az last in sole M pause
We locked at one another
And II saw in mothers eyes
The love she cOul! not tell me-
A love eternal as tae SIX Is,
Whatever fate befell me;
She put her arms about my neck
And soothed the pain of leaving,
And. though her heart were Ike 10 break,
She spoke no wor Of grieviug,
She let no tear Oedim her eye,
For fear that might distress me.
But, kissing me, She said good bye
And asked our God TO bless me.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
ALife Made Miserable

Ey dyspepsia is scarcely worth the living. 4
capsicious appetite. heartburn, puz1ling nervous
symptoms, increased action ot the heart after
eating, sinking ia the Abdomen between meals,
ard HatuIence after are among the successive
tudicu of TINS harTassluE complaint lN'
tuugs ouly are uee5tul Tor its removal a resort
fu Ho>tutler'S stomach htteCs, AMI pc. s.Situet
ina as use THESE remedial measures being
adopted. cure Is certain Taken immediately
before Or after meals. this Grgat stouiaehlt ffu-
notes secretion ii the gastric juice, The nature,
solvent az the food The neJ vou~ ald h IONS
SIMMONS consequent utuu chruuic indigestion
o s4p pear. as N Complalat s aIuaiA Nieids 70
the corrective aud lHvIEuraHH- influence ui khe
BIteJs Appetite pvturUS ; sep bee mes il z &
refre. hing and as a SEQ e &C. the 30 y K Elm
entity nouri~hrd muscular power Iucfgase-, ~ 4
tba mind gr VS. Ssngulne. Use the bIttsrs ter
Cui4Ls aud fever, aud rheumatism
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
AGRICULTURAL lTkMs

Crops would suffer less from many a
uox ous insect &c animal and lis progeny
we're 70 Il Z for the .heltef OF the hedge Or
OF tie rubbish IN ne ftnre.row.
The American Agricultural remarks:
Rotation of crops is taught by nature.
Anyone may see how nature practices
this rotation, in the sprin ging MP of pines
and other soft wood on lands from which
hard woods have been removed, aud the
growths of hard wood upon cleared pine
lands.
1t does not pay 10 delay manuring the
garden until nearly the time for blowing.
The better way is 20 manure in Fall and
allow the rains and melting SHOWS to wash
the soluble parts inyo the soil. If Fall
plowed,it will be still better, rs the sur
face will be ready for planting by merely
cultivating the manure under to the depth
of three inches.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
FOREIGN.

Victoria, Australia Rains which
have been OF grert benefit to the crops
have fallen throughout the Province of
Victoria.
PARis,-The Opportunist and Radical
journals declare that Boulangism ended
with the flight OF General Boulanger, but
that the prosecution of the General must
continue.
THE latest news to reach London from
Explorer Stanley is TO the effect that he
was seen in February marching through
the wids with Emin Pasha in the direo-
ton Ct Zarz bar. He was at the head of
900 men, and Enin Pasha and ne are
said TO be bringing 5000 ivory tusks with
them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-04-18
CRIME.

Ar Winamac, Iud., six men we're sen
fenced to year each in the peIitentisry
for robbing freight cars.
BURGLARS at Egin, III, on Monday
night broke into Grace Methodist Epis-
copal church aud stole over 100 yards of
carpet.
FIRE BUGS at Columbus, Ind, on Mon
day night, destroyed seven barns and
stables, cIusing a loss of several thous
and dollars.
BURGLARS entered the First National
Bank at Plymouth, Ind, early Wednesday
morning, and secured 81 500 from the
safe. An inner apartment containing
100000 resisted their efforts to open it.
The Jury before which was being tried
the case Of the woman Beeohler or King,
who shot young King in an Omaha hotel
some months ago, returned a verdict OF
not guilty Wednesday morning.
VIM. KTNrELLA, capitalist, ives as
saulted and robbed of 5000 at Saut S5e.
Marie, Mich, by gang of Canadian
toTghs, consisting of Il. O'Neill, j, Ne
vile, j. Doyle and W, Drisooll, OF Ottawa.
They have ali been arrested.
AT FordYce, Ark, Friday, the sheriff Of
Titus county, Texas, arrested Frank
Shnle, young man, on a charge of hav-
ing in December last murdered j. w.
King, his wife, and six children, and then
burned their dwelling.
BURGLARS entered the house of John
Reilly, at Wilkesbarre, Pa several months
ago and stole 81 600. Tuesday Father
O'Hern, who had been given 500 of the
stolen cash by the repentant thief, whom
he says was q prominent man of the city
returned the money to the owner.
AN attempt was made to wreck the lin
tied vestibule train on the Pennsy vanis
Railroad, at Louisville, Ohio, Tuesday
night. Irons bad been driven into a
switch which was only about sixty feet
from bridge. The train was heavily
loaded with passengers, and if the
distractions had not been discovered
would probably have been thrown off the
bridge.
THREE masked men entered the house
of Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer
living near Centrevllle, Pa, Monday
night, and demanded his gold. On being
told that he had none, they took Patter-
son TO the barn and threatened to hang
him. The finally took him bach to the
house ard tortured him by holding his
feet aud face TO the stove. After secur-
ing S43 and gold watch they left.