Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-09-04

lure with. Then he was leader IN tne
great st. Louis strike, which brought sor-
row, want and suffering into the home OF
ncany a working man. Now the honor
able but inglorious occupation of peanut
selling engages his time and thoughts.
Then he led men to starvati0n-now he
seeks, with filling but innocuous peanuts,
to stay their stomachs.
THE cyclone at Wilkesbarre appears to
have been quite as destructive as those
which have at times desolated the west,
and equal in fury to that which recently
rendered portion of Lynn, Mass, heap
of ruins. The wide area over which these
violent atmospheric disturbances manifest
themselves, extending from the eastern
slope OF the Rocky Mountains to the coast
of New England, shows that the American
cyclone is neither a respecter OF persons
nor locality, and that no place or individ-
nal is safe from its dread visitation.
BELLAMIrEs will learn with great pleas
ure that Philadelphia has at last succeeded
in furnishing her citizens gas at moderate
prices and yet at profit. The aggregate
receipts were $3,658,00O, and out Of this
over 81, 900, 900 remains on hand although
the city has had her own gas free, and has
expended 1890, 900 in new plant. In this
statement, however, no allowance is made
for interest on the money paid for the ex-
isting plant, which would materially cut
down the apparent profit. The fact seems
to be that Philadel phia, for the present at
least, has shaken off the gas ring, and is
thus in a position TO prove what everybody
believes-that Illuminating gas can be
made and distributed to consumers at a
generous profit at prices far below those
usually charged in our cities.
The potatoes are all gone in the blight
ed districts in Ireland, and the pigs are
dying from eating the diseased tubers.
Along the coast, between Kinsale and
Skibbereen, over half the people will be
without food before the autumn has fairly
begun. Already the fever has shown it.
self, and there are indications of an out
break like that which accompanied the
famine of 1847. The IRISH newspapers are
full of alarming reports, and the parish
priests are already begging for relief for
their people, These are the reports 10y way
of London. If one-half they foretell be
true, it is high time Mr.. Balfour were
thinking of some way of relieving Ire
land more effective and immediate than
his land bill.
If visiting proved friendship, the peace
of Euoope would certainly be assured, and
the idea of Germany ever going to war
again would be entirely inadmissible 1t
only remains for the imperial Teutonic to
leave cards at Madrid, Lisbon and
Constantinoplc to complete his circuit of
European calls. After he has settled
down at home again, he will receive his
royal brethren and cousins in succession
until the war cloud bursts. Disarmament,
the only real guarantee of peace, does not
seem to suggest itself to any one. While
the soyeigns embrace each other, the op-
plance for the mutual slaughter of their
respective subjects are being increased
with almost superhuman activity.
The whole temper and proceedings of
the Mississippi constitutional convention
are thus far very fair toward both races
The committee on Judiciary have reported
that whatever qualifications for suffrage
are adopted they must be impartially APP
phcabe to everybody. The drift of opin-
ion seems to bet discriminate in favor of
intelligence and responsibility rather than
color. The delegates seem to have been
chosen for their fitness rather than their
politics, and there are several instances
where both parties and both races united
in the choice of a representative in
the convention. IT was therefore to be ex
pected that the attempt to unseat the ne
gro republican, Montgomery, on technica
grounds, would fail. Montgomery is coal
black, and was slave of Jefferson Davis
he is educated, and defended his rights t
his seat with ability, His defense wa
seconded by one of the most prominen
lawyers and democrats in the state, Th'
vote of the convention was almost 4 to
in favor of the negro. Montgomery is il
favor of long residence in the state, {
poll-tax and the Australian ballot system
as conditions of suffrage.
THERE is a certain grim justice in hay
ing the first case of Asiatic cholera, re
ported this year in London, emanate from
Indie, the home of the dread disease
rather than from afflicted Spain or any o
the ports of the Mediterranean sea. TIL
English in India have never grappled a
they ought with the sanitary condition
which breed these terrible epidemics tina