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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07
SEC. BAYARD'S REPORT
Relating to the Samoan Affairs has
Been Transmitted to Congress.
Message OF The President Accompany
ing the Same.

WAsmNGToS, Feb. 1.-Th4 president
today sent the following message 70 con-
gress:
"As supplementary TO my previous
message on the subject, l have now the
hOnor TO transmit a re port from the sec
rotary of state, relating to the affairs in
Samoa. (Signed) GROVER CLEVELAND"
Secretary Bayard to the president;
AS the question OF Germany's action
and American rights in Samoa is under
consideration by congress, l beg leave
TO transmit herewith, with view of
their being laid before con
gress, copies of the cores ondenoe
touching the affairs in Samoa
which has taken place since 4nuary Both,
the date of your last message TO congress
on that subject. This consists of the
telegram to this department from Black
lock, vice consul oi the United States, at
A pia, dated January 31st and paraphrased
my telegraphic instruction Of the same
date 10 our minister al Berlin, of which
copy was also sent to charge d affairs
at London, aud my note of the same date
to Count Won Arco Valley. Today l was
waited upon by the German minister at
this capitol, who read me a note
from MS kONrNAAlEub WHICH
transcribed from his diotatiOn and now
enclose a copy of It's text The enclosed
telegram from Blackjack reads;
Auckland, Jan. 81: The German con
sui declares Germany at war with and Sa
moa under the martial law"
paraphrase of the note to Minister
Pcndloton is as follows;
Secretary Baysrd instruets the minis
ter of the United States at Berlin TO in
form the German government that Rd-
vices from Apia state that the German
consul had declared Germany to be at
war with Matlafa and Samoa TO
be under martial law. Sec
rotary Bayard informs Minister
Pendleton that the German minister at
this capitol, under instructions from
Prince Bismarck, had already acquainted
this government of the declaration Of
war by Germany against Mataafa, and
had accompanied the notifications with
the statement that Germany would, of
course, abide by the agreements with
America and England, touching Samoa,
and preserve under all circumstances the
rights this government established by
the treaty But il view Of tne scyices
from Apia, Secretary Bayard ins.r1cts
Pendleton to say that this government
assumed that the German officials in
Samoa would be instructed care
fully to refrain from Interference
with the American citizens Rud their
property there; hence no declaration of
martial law could extend German juris-
diclion so rs to include the control Of
Americans in Samoa. Such pretenses
would not be recognized or conceded by
the government"
The remainder of the correspondence,
as transmitted by the president, reads as
fellows.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07
The National Capital

Washington. Delegate Clifford, of Da-
kota has introduced bin providing for
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07

Tur Jewish Messenger rebukes q rabbi
for speaking Of Christ as IAN amieble
young enthus.as. Of mojo-ate education
"WhiIe themes of this character 10 says,
"ars out of place in the synagogue, no
pa,.eh preacher has a rightto refer con
emptuously to Christa1ity's founder.
We resent prejudice ogoins' Judaismi let
IA be careful lest we show the same spirit
of prejudice toward other Religions
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07

MwANoA, Of Uganda, Africa, has been
criticised very severely for attempting 70
get rid Of his cabinet by abandoning
them to starvation on desert island.
There does seem to be some harshness in
sueh a method of getting relief from OBJ
ieotionablo surroundings, yet there must
be times, We fancy, when the president
elect feels tempted to try the Uganda sys.
tenn with those who aspire to be IN his
cabinet.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07

SENATOR SHERMAN will eudeavJr 10 have
inserted in the diplomatic appropriation
bill a clause providing for the payment
Of an indemnity Of $4,000 for the killing
OF seyera. Japanese iects IN 1857 On
the fourth of March of that year the
officers and crew of the United States
steamer Omaha were engaged in throw
ing aells for target practice and several
citizens were killed by the explosion Of
some Of the shells. In shermau's amen.
ment it is proposed the $4,000 be sent
TO the Japanese government 70 be dis
tributed among the families Of the
Japauese ki,ltd.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-07

CouNr Dg Lrssrrs says that if a now
canal company is formed and no interest
charges of the old company are 10 be met
the work across the isthmus of Panama
an be completed for $0o,o0o,o0o. The
radical defect in the scheme as first
presented was that the appeal for sub
soriptons tothe company was unoccom
panied by an engineers survey and plan
Of construction. II seems almost beyond
belief that the people Of France will
continue TO pour motley into that ditch
without the precautions which capitalists
usually take before making investments
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
Reedsyille News.

REEDsvILLE, Aug. BE. S. Brown
went to Independence last Sabbath
He was accompanied by his sister
who will 60 from there to Grafton tc
attend the Institute.
Mrs. Harris Mallonee, of Grafton
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Born
near here.
Miss Ella Loar has returned tc
her home in Grafton.
o. r. c.. linn was calling on his
best friend near Morgantown last
Sunday.
H. J. linn killed large rattle
snake last week that had nine rat
ties and a bntton. Another was
killed by Joseph Menear that had
thirteen rattles and button.
The toot of the threshing machine
is heard in the land.
Won't some one shake the Black
Bottle and pass it around this way.
Mr.. Joseph Reed, B. & o. bridge
carpenter was at his home q few
days last week.
A. G. Menear of Irondale, spent
Sunday with friends here.
Rev. Cohen preached an able SER
mon last Sabbath.
Preparations are being made fol
the Baptist Association which will
take place here the first week in
September. All are cordially invi-
ted to attend and share the hospi-
tality of the Reedsville people.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
Wise Notes.

WISE, Aug. 15.-Some of the farm
ers are done harvesting.
Messrs. Bell & Shriver shipped q
large lot of stock to Baltimore yes
terday.
The hum of the threshing machine
is heard in this section.
S. H. Shriver has been indisposed
for several days.
There is great amount of sick
ness hereabouts.
Mr.. John D. Russell has become
partner in the merchandising bus
mess with M. j. Lantz
Well, Republicans, how do you
like the prices for your cattle, sheer
and hogs? Also butter and eggsi
How do you like to pay such enor.
nous prices for sugar, &c.2 Dc
such prices bring to you memories
of Harrison and "protection?''
Mr.. j. w. Wiley has erected a
large barn near town.
Rev. j. B. Cross delivered very
interesting sermon last night to a
large audience in the Baptist church
in town.
Boughner Wright and family, OF
Deep Valley, was visiting in town a
few days ago.
Mr.. L. L. Thomas is progressing
nicely with his school.
VIM. Beatty, of Warrington, was
in town yesterday.
George Degarmo, of Wadestown,
was circulating in our midst few
days ago.
VIM. darlington has started a
grocery store in Wise.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
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DELAYED Gladesville Letter.

GLADEsvILLE, Aug. l3.-Farmers
have improved the late fine days and
pushed their harvesting.
Irondale is very dull at present
but a boom is expected soon.
Gainesville, since the removal Of
Zinn's saw mill, has been for the
most part quiet, but was disgrace.
fully lively last Saturday, made SC
by parties who were disgracefully
drunk. People who attended church
services in the afternoon were shock
ed and insulted.
James V. jackson is at this time
very sick. 1t is feared he may not
recover.
Diphtheria still turks in this sec.
ton. A child of James N. Sapp, it
is thought, will not recover; his wife
and another child are sick with the
same disease.
Frank Sapp has had very sick
boy, but he is better.
Rev. d. W. Rogers is able to be
out again. He attended church here
few days ago but was unable to
take any part in the services.
John Coleman is nursing very
painful catarrh on his hand.
Farmers say, the oats are not as
well filed as they ought to be, and
it is rather cool for corn. Grass is
very good.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
EastOn Items.

EAsToN, Aug. 13.-Married, ON the
llth inst, at the residence of VIM
Houston, by Rev. f. g. W. Ford
Henry Mollisee, Jr., and Miss
Reynolds, ali of this county.
Bruce Vandervort, of jamestown,
Ohio, and his mother, Mrs. N. C.
Vandervort, were visiting in this
section few days ago.
Charlie Anderson and family, OF
Westmoreland county, are visiting
Mrs. AS father, VIM. Houston.
George Parfitt, of Greensboro, was
visiting his father on Sunday.
Clara Reed has gone to visit her
sister, Mrs. Jas. Brand, in Taylor
county.
Mary Shay is very much indis-
posed at this time
George johnson has team haul
ing timber from the Pixler farm.
The brothers of Willard Miller
had his remains removed from Mt
Union cemetery to Smithfield, his
former home.
Mrs. Mary Shively, of Morgan
town, was visiting her uncle, Eugene
Stumm, last Sunday.
Mrs. Harriet Kincaid was visiting
her brother, Rev. j. M. Conway, last
week.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
A Word for the Capitalist.

The mind of man is the prime
factor in all material production
without it the mere labor of the
hand would be incapable of provi-
ding for an increasing population.
Setting aside all distinction of class
es, and reasoning only on qualities
of mind which are necessary to the
accumulation of capital, it becomes
apparent, l, that the saving of cap
ital at the beginning however little
il may be, is due to prudence, self
denial, economy and sagacity; 2,
that the productive use of capital,
after it has been saved, calls for in
telligence, skill, and mental capaci-
ty; 3, that the larger the capital
the greater is the mental capacity
required for its application to pro
ductive purposes; 4, that unless CAPT
tai is directed to productive pur-
poses, whether invested in land,
mills, railroads, or works of any
kind, it yields neither rent, nor inter
est, profits, nor earning; when pro-
ductive it increases production more
than it secures as income; 5, that
unless labor did in fact secure
better subsistence in the service of
capital, the workmen would refuse to
work for the capitalists.-Edpord
A tkinson in the august Forum.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
VOLUME XIV.
Wasteful Economy.

About three quarters of a million
of dollars may be expended this sea
season in improving the Ohio river
while $50, 900 will be spent on the
Monongahela, similar sum on thu
Allegheny, and 100000 will b,
put into the Herr,s Island dam.
Our system of improving water
ways is open to the criticism of be
ing pennywise and pound-foolish
A small sum is expended each veal
without the accomplishment of any
material good, and in the long run
the great bulk of the money so spent
lie AMPLY wasted.
What Congress ought to do is to
appropriate in lump a sum sufli-
cient to put our navigable streams
in the best possible condition, and
thereafter it would require but light
expenditures to keep them so.
1t is easily capable of demonstra-
ton that our government has squan-
dered more than enough on trout
streams and mountain brooks and
creeks to put our entire system of
waterways in a permanently good
condition, and is likely to go on
throwing good money after bad SO
long as the present system of log
rolling for appropriations is allowed
to exist. Do away with it and we
will soon have one of the finest and
best systems of water navigation the
world ever saw.-Chronical I'ele-
gragh.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24

The papers and records in one of
the biggest and most complicated
land cases that ever came mp in the
u. S. Circuit Court for the district
of West Virginia, are being prepared.
The title of the case is +. w. Clark
VS.. Charles Reeder in equity. and
Charles Rceder VS.. +. W. Clark, in
equity, upon cross bill, from Boone
county The land in dispute con
sists of more than $4,000 acres lying
in Boone, Logan, Wyoming and Raj
eigh counties very valuable on
account of its immense forests of
timber and veins Of coal and iron.
General G. c. Watts is the agent and
attorney for Reeder and II. NJ Bell
is the agent and Judge j. M. Fergu
son the attorney for Clark. The
record runs back nearly 100 years,
involving a grant of land made to
Edward Dillon by the Government
of Virginia in 1896. The value of
the land is now from three to five
dollars per acre. Meyer Newberger
is preparing the record for the prin-
ter on his type writer, and is making
a neat job Of it. 1t will comprise
over 400 pages of printed matter. A
number of maps, diagrams and pro-
files are being prepared in Parkers-
burg to accompany the record, and
on the whole it is big job, the pre-
liminary expenses of which in getting
the case in proper shape to go before
the Court will be considerable.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
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A Plucky Farmer.

A farmer in Buena Vista county.
Ia, is plucky. He shipped 300
steers to Chicago and held them
there two days, but could not gel
what he considered fair price, so
he shipped them back home and be-
gan buying more cattle. When he
had 700 he shipped them to New
York and chartered a steamer for
So, 200 and took them to England.
He realized a handsom profit on the
vnnturp
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
THE CURSE OF HIGHTAXES.
1t Falls ON the LabOrer In the End.
Kanawha Gazette.


You tax the property owner in
town and he raises his rent To make
up the rise in the rent the grocer and
merchant raises the price of whatever
he sells.
You tax the farmer, and he reduces
the pay of his hands. You tax the
mine owner, the manufacturer, &c,
and he reduces the price of Tabor. You
tax the banker, and he raises the
rates of discount. You tax the money
lender, and he raises the interest
So it all comes back on the laborel
in the end. 1t may do for the little
two-penny politicians who have OF
expect to got offices to cry out, tax
property, tax Everything. They hope
a part of the taxes, and they get the
most of them. There is not State
attorney, clerk, a sheriff or consta-
BILE or any other little officer in the
State who is not making three times
as much out of his office as he ever
made before. Who pays it? The
laborer of the country pays it. The
salaries, pay and charges of these
officials might be reduced fully one
third, ami the offices would be filled
with just as good men as now. Some
body, or some portion of the people
of town or city want an improve
ment. They go to work and log-rool
with somebody else. They all cry
out, raise the taxes. Thep are rails
ed, and the improvement is made
twenty years before it is needed
Somebody wants a fine Court House
They raise cry, issue bonds. We'll
they tried that here. We, the people
smothered that cry.
1t is dangerous thing to put in
yower men who way but little taxer
or dishonest men, whe run their off
ces for selfish purposes.
That is EXACTLY what we are doing
amp we are poying for it.
You raise money for the education
of the children, but there fathers are
SO heavily taxed that they cannot
clothe them decently, and they dom
go to school.
Agaio the towns are full of tramps
and idlers, who eat up the substance
of families, and make their victims
so poor that thep cannot employ
labor. Every tramp and idler is ,
robber Of the laborer- We need +,
work house. Give the laboring mar
a chance. Protect the honest ant
industrious from tramps and oilers
Less pay for officials and more fol-
the working people. Low taxes ant
high pay for labor. Work houses fol-
idlers, and protection for the indus
trious. This is what we want.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
LEFT TO DIE ALONE.
A Country Minister'S Death Bed-De.
serted by the Last Deacon.
By Fillmore in the Critic.

BY Fillmore in the Critic.
The parson of a country church
was lying in his bed; three months
arrears of salary was pillowing his
head; his couch was strewn with
tradesmen's bills that pricked his
sides like thorns, and nearly all life's
common ills were goading him with
horns. The deacon sat beside him
as the moments licked away, and
bent his head to cath the words his
pastor had to say.
"If | never shall arise from this
hard bed on which l lie, If my vel
fare is accomplished and it's time
for me to die, take message to the
sexton before pass away; tell him
fires are for December aud open
doors for May. Tell him, when he
lays the notices upon the pulpits
height, to shove them meath the
cushion, far out of reach and sight.
And when he hears the preachers.
voice in whispers soft expire, that is
the time to slam the door and rattle
at the fire. And tell tie other dea-
cons, too, all through the busy week,
to hang their boots up in the sun to
hatch Sunday squeak. With steel
shod canes to prod the man who
comes to sleep and snore; and use
the boys who laugh in church, to
mop the vestry floor. There's an
other. too, the woman who talks the
sermon through, tell her will not
mind her buzz-my hearing hours
are few. Tell her to hang her mouth
up some Sunday for n minute. and
listen to "a text, at least without
a whisper in it. And tell the Board
of Trustees not to weep with bitter
tears, for ! can't be any deader now
than they have been for years. And
tell half my congregation I'm glad
salvation's free, for that's the only
chance for them-between the desk
and me. And farewell to the choir
how the name my memory racks!
If they could get up their voices as
they do get up their backs--wby the
stars would hear their music and the
welkin would rejoice, while the hap
pv congregation could not hear
single voice. But tell them forgive
them, and oh. tell them that ] said
! wanted them to sing for me-when
YOU'RE sure that | am dead"
His voice was faint and hoarser,
but it gave a laughing break, a kind
Of a gurgling chuckle, like u minis
ter might make. And the deacon
he rose slowly, and sternly he look
ed down upon the parsons twinkling
eye with II portentous frown; and
he stillly said Good morning" as
he went off in his ire, for the deacon
was the leader of that amiable choir.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24

no longer possible, and the Standard
Oil Company, grown great enough
for that purpose, constructed or ac-
quired its own pipe lines to tidewa-
ter, and the railroad companies lost
the business of oil transportation,
except the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, with which the Standard
made contract guaranteeing it a
modest per cent. of this carrying
business, in order to keep UP freight
rates, thus again securing itself by
its cheaper pipe transportation a
great advantage over its rivals; for
as the railroad company was to re
ceive but fixed per cent. of the
carrying trade, any reduction in its
rates would operate as reduction
in its revenues
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
A Business Girl.

Miss Jennie Slack, aged I6 years,
residing in the bluegrass region Of
Iowa near Villisca, has this season
planted and cultivated 30 acres of
corn, besides milking six cows night
and morning and helping in other
work about the farm and household.
The corn is in fine condition, and the
young lady who raised it has done
so for her invalid father, who was
unable to pay hired man or do it
himself
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-24
A similar state of affairs will proba-

A similar state of affairs will proDa-
bly, be found to exist in most of the
other States of the Union, especially
along the Atlantic seaboard, which
is unable to cope with the ruinous
competition of the virgin soils of the
West, producing enormous crops
without the aid of fertilizers, and
yielding the cultivator a considera-
bile margin of profit even at very low
prices. Intelligent farmers, realiz-
ing that the combinations against
the binder Irvine and jute monopo
lies contained the germ of the only
practicable scheme for Kidding them
selves of the evils against which they
have been struggling, sought to ex-
tend the principle of combination,
with the view of providing general
scheme Of self protection against
monopolies, trusts and middlemen,
who often absorb the profits, and
also of utilizing the monopolistic
principle in modified form, in the
hope of securing better prices for
their products. The movement first
took shape in Indiana five or six
months ago, and has spread with
great rapidity. An organization
known as "The Farmers Alliance"
has been created, with large mem
bership already in many States.
There is national body, made up
of delegates from the various States.
whose organizations are composed
of delegates from the county ALI
ances. The latter, in turn, are made
up of representatives from the vari-
Gus local alliances. formed in particu-
lar localities or neighborhoods. The
ruling idea in the alliance seems to
be direct communication between
producer and consumer. The ALI
ance' through its agents, makes pur-
chases for the individual farmer at
a stipulated profit for the storekeep-
er or middleman of about 10 per
cent. In the West the system has
been extended to milling, blacksmith
ing and harness mending A scheme
has also been formulated for advanc-
ing money to the farmer on his crops,
with the understanding that the lat
ter shall be held until remunerative
prices can be ATTAINED. The gener-
al scope of the alliance seems to be
much the same as that of the
Granger organizations, and it is to
be feared that it will fall into the
same mistake as that which has so
greatly impaired the success of the
Grange, especially in the West--the
mistake of attempting too much. If
the alliance, on the other hand, ad-
heres to cautious, conservative
policy, it may be able to accomplish
important results for the farmer.
The great object to which it should
address itself is the revision of the
tariff laws, which alone make it pos
sible for monopolies to flourish in
this country. AS long as the farmer
continues to pay bonus to the
manufacturer for every article he
wears and uses he need expect no
appreciate relief from his burdens.
Baltimore Sun.