Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-08-22

TfERE is quite craze for inject
ing mutton into arms and legs, but
the bulk of the people of sense will
go on taking in mutton and lamb
chops in the old way. 1t is good
enough, when the lamb is fat.
The citizens of Prairie du Chen
held a special election Aug. 18th,
and by an almost unanimous vote
authorized the city council to issue
5 per cent. 20 year bonds to aid
manufacturing industries in the city.
ABOUT fifty members of the G. A.
r. Post, and about twenty-five Sons
of Veterans, of this city, will at
tend the grand encampment at Mil
waukee next week. All are calcu-
lating on one Of the grandest times
in their life's experience.
MICHAEL CASSIDY, the blacksmith
at Calamine, has invented an i'm
proyement in vehicle shafts, whereby
one horse in shafts can travel in the
beaten path on country roads and
the vehicle wheels at the same time
run in the regular ruts. This inven-
tion makes it as easy to drive one
horse as two on country roads.
THREsHING in this section is well
under way, and the reports indicate
a good yield of wheat and an extra
turn out Of oats, the average of the
latter being about fifty bushels per
acre. Corn, in some fields adjoin-
ing where wheat was grown, is being
molested by bugs, and the yield of
this cereal is not likely to be i'm
mense, yet fair.
MAGNIFICENT fruits and vegeta-
bles of all description sill this mar
ket. AT the stores we see great
display of pears, plums, peaches and
berries, besides apples and foreign
fruits. Melons, tomatoes, cabbage,
beets, squash, carrots, onions and
potatoes, galore, This market was
never before supplied more bounti-
fully, nor so cheap.
BY peeping into the barns of the
many stock raisers in this vicinity
big or little, no matter-one is
almost sure to see one or more head
of horses and cattle stalled for the
purpose Of fitting them for exhibit
ton at the great fair to be held in
this city. 1t is the liberal premiums
that have been drawing, until an
enterprising rivalry is aroused to
wonderful degree.
EVERY citizen of Mineral Point
should prepare something for exhi-
bition at the fair in this city the
first week in September. The sue
cess of this association depends
mainly upon the citizens and the
surrounding community of farmers.
Their interest and enterprise in that
direction in the past are highly
commendable, but what the tribune
wants to see is an increase or spread
of the same spirit, if possible.
A NEWSPAPER in Ohio recently
brought suit against forty-three men
who would not pay for the subscrip-
ton and obtained Judgment in each
case for the amount of each claim.
OF these, twenty-eight made affidavit
that they owned no more than the
law allowed, thas preventing attach
ment; then under the decision Of the
Supreme Court they We're arrested for
petit larceny and bound over in the
sum Of 5000 each. An but six gave
bond and six went to jail. The new
postal law makes it larceny to take
a paper and refuse to pay for it.
WE have just received the Sep
tember number of Godey's Lady's
Book, and our unqualified verdict is
that it is a boss numb er. The fash
ions are good, the literature first
class, and the numerous Illustrations,
not only designs, but really beautiful
pictures. The publishers should
meet with every success, their efforts
to please the popular taste certainly
deserves it. No lady should be
without this favorite monthly