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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11
Killing Time.

The guilclesS man who asked this
foolish question cot his answer from n
woman, who. with her husband, two
children and two servants lived in a
house with nine rooms Having kept
statistical account for one year, she
gave the results as follows; Mum Der
of lunches put up, 1875 meals or
dered, $685. desserts made, l72; lamps
filled, 32S; rooms busted, 2,2Jg; times
dressed children, 1856; visits received,
$40; visits paid, l67; books read, sS;
papers read, 553; stories read aloud,
23I; games played 32S; church SER
vices attended, l25; articles mended,
l,l36; articles Of clothing made, 120;
fancy articles made, St. letters writ
ten, 429; hours in music, - -; hours
in Sunday school work, POS; hours in
gardening, 40; sick days, a. amuse-
ments attended, 10 Besides the
above nursed two children through
measles, twice cleaned every nook and
corner of my house, put up seventy
five jars of pickles and preserves, made
seven trips 10 the dentists, dyed Easter
eggs, polished silver and spent seven
days in helping to nurse a sick friend
who was i'll, besides the thousand and
one duties too small to be mentioned.
yet taking time to perform. - Itashpig-
ton Star.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11

as not, I" replied the prisoner. if it does
charge YOU $40 "Thuuderation"
exclaimed the prisoner there was
only $40 in the pockerhnaN and YOU
don't want more than malt of it, do
you?n Detroit Free Press.
Young man" said the Stern parent,
with the accent on the vouns do YOU
intend TO stay here all u,ght holding
my daughters hand looking her in the
face like a sick ca,is" NO. sir"
Nv hat do YOU intend Ca do theu2"
"WeH. had thought waa0 you had
done MS the kindness To- reare | would
put my arm around her "o.-l, and if
she did not oujeCt too forestry 1 might
risk kiss ~ Boston Ga .
She had looked at the clock several
times and he observed hcr g)ances.
"You were looking al tae c'ock,' he
said. yes" she answered with a faint
smile. Then he arose aud Weul over
to the mantel and looked The time
piece for fun half miuuae Il don't
see anything the matter with it," he
said as he returned to h- seat And
he stayed an hour lu"gor " u
Press.
A swarm of flies had bccu feeding
all summer on the blood OF thrifty
COW. The feed was good early In the
season, and The COW uuya q large
amount of milk and gancd Ia flesh az
the same time. But when ,ne grass
dried up ami the WralGcg nls cold the
lies were driven or rh~ the leader
of the swarm. named Bc8imiu. sat
on n rocl, and made >pocch lu which
he said: "Nuw be-, us sec ID lhc COW
will 90 as we'll without MS as She did
with us when wr were sGr.iug her
blood. Manchester iuea.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11

PERSONS who arc subject to at.
tacks of bilious collie can 3lmost
invariably tell, by their feelings,
when To expect an attack. If
Chambcr'ain's Collie Cholera and
DiarrhGa Remedy is taken az soon
AZ tnese symptoms appear, they can
ward off the disease Such persons
should always keep the Remedy at
hand, ready for immediate use when
necocd. Two or three doses of it
at the right time will save them
much suffering For sale by w.
I'll Prideaux.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11
WHffe and aaSshng

"Whfte and Gassling
In the aaO0n's fair Hghf size Locked. "
Nothing remarkable about thatl
She was fair to look upon, as a matter
of course; and the dazzling effect was
produced by her whlterobes-cleansed
and frightened by liberal use of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-03-11
FISH
FISH

Lake trout in brine, $500 per
barrel. In less quantity, six cents
per pound At DAVID JACKo.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
SUNK BY THE ICE.

Tho Steamer Mary Houston Sunk by tho
Ice in the Ohio River at Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 10.-The pala-
tial steamer Mary Houston, tied up at
the foot of Main street, unable longer
to withstand the terrible crush of ice
against her, commenced to sink at 2 p.
m. yesterday. The Houston lay moored
at the company's wharf, several feet
away from it, when an immense ice
foe came down the river and struck
her on the side. The shock was a ter
rife one, and drove the steamer with
force against the wharfboat, sending
it heavily against the bank. For few
minutes it was impossible to tell what
damage had been done, and there were
fears that both the steamer and the
wharfboat had been wrecked. Then
the Houston settled back, and imme-
diately the rush of water into her hold
could be heard. The pumps were
manned and every effort made to keep
her on top Of the water, but the task
was useless. At o'clock last evening
she settled down, gave plunge for
ward and sank to the bottom of the
river. The Houston was one of the
largest and finest steamers in the New
Orleans Cincinnati trade. The loss is
s20. 600: insurance, $4,000.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14

GENERAL PROSPERITY.
Facts Brought Out by President Harri-
sons Recent Message. !.

Facts Brought Out by President Harri-
sons Recent Message. !.
President Harrison did the people a
real service when he gathered into his
recent message those figures which so
foreibly set forth the growth and pros
perity of the country. They came like
the voice of triumph after the wall of
calamity which had been heard all
over the land for months, and which
many had come to believe through its
constant repetition. 1t is not-surpris-
ing that the message was not pleasing
to the democratic prophets of evil. 1t
too conspicuously pilloried them as
falsifiers to seem in good taste to them.
+ They should learn that truth is always
appropriate in public affairs.
The president says that the total
wealth of the. country increased from
SIG, 159, 616, 66S in 1860, to S62, 80, 900, 900
in 1890, or 237 per cent. In seventy
five leading cities there was invested
in manufactures, as appears from the
census of 1880. 81, 232, S39, $40. In 1890
the capital invested in manufacturing
had reached $780, 735, ,Ss4, thus much
more than doubling in the ten years.
During the same period the wages paid
to laborers in these establishments in
creased from S501, 965, 878 to 81, ,221, 170,
454, the number Of hands employed at
the close Of the ten years being 2,251,-
1874, equal to two-thirds of the entire
population of the country at the time
of the formation of the government.
The reader in considering these fig
ures should close his ears to the echoes
of the political campaign long enough
to ask and answer the question If this
almost fabulous growth could have
been secured under any other than the
protective system. There are few who
will seriously answer this question in
the affirmative, and few who will dare
assert that this vast expansion of manu-
factures has not benefited every class
of people in the country. There is a
question of national policy here that
no figuring, no argument drawn from
assumed premises, no distortion OF
facts, no cant about high moral consid-
erations can evade or set aside.
There is another group Of figures in
the presidents message which should
be considered in this connection. The
deposits in savings banks increased
from S14e, 277. .504 in 1860, to 81, 524, s44,
SOC in 1890. In 1891 the amount of de-
pesits in savings banks was 81, 623, ,079,-
749, an increase in one year Of $685.
243. OF this enormous sum it is estl'
mated that 80 per cent was received
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
THE PANAMA SCANDAL.

fmporant Evidence Furnished by Charles
De Lesscps-Important Persons Com
promised-M1itary and Police Precau-
tions to Prevent a Popular Outbreak.
PARIS, Jan. 10.-Charles de, Lesseps
has given to NJ. Franqueyille, exam
lning magistrate, a pocketbool1 in
which he kept notes concerning the re-
lations Of the canal company to many
public men. The notes are in cipher,
but III. de Lesseps has added key with
whieh-a-i have been translated The
consequent evidence is exceptionally
important. 1t shows conclusively the
connection of many senators and depu-
ties with the illegal operations of the
company. Two celebrated writers on
economic and international questions
and two ex-ministers are said to be
among those compromised.
Although Gen. Saussier has taken
all precautions to prevent street DEM
onstrations, and the ranks in the Paris
garrison are kept out, an effort will be
made to avoid anything like a public
display of troops At the reassem bling
of the chamber to-day probably fewer
troops even than usual will be seen in
the streets. The men have received
special orders, moreover, to take ex-
ceptional pains to avoid street or saloon
rows with civilians in order that the
anarchists and socialists may have no
excuse to incite tumult and popular
demonstrations against the military.
Similar instructions have been given to
to the police. Otherwise both police
and military are under no exceptional
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
THE PAPAE SUCCESSION.

Pope Leo. XIII Creates Sensation by
virtually Nominating His Successor to
the Papacy In the Person of Cardinal
serafino VannutelIi-The Prelate sent to
BOLOGNA as Arcbbishop-Leo's Sugges-
tivo Words.
ROME, Jan. 10.-A sensation has been
caused here by the letter of Pope Leo
to the people of Bologna, in which the
pontlff states that in nominating Car
dinal Serafino Vannutelli to be arch
bishop of Bologna he had obeyed the
divine inspiration. The unusual dec
laration on the part of the pope is re-
garded as tantamount to designating
Cardinal Vannutelli as his successor to
the pontificate. The pope is also re-
ported to have remarked: "Vannutelli
goes to Bologna cardinal, and will re
turn a pope" The letter of the pom
TIL also removes the perplexity which
the nomination Of Vannutelli to be
archbishop of Bologna has caused, some
regarding it as an exile from Rome.
Cardinal Vannutelli was born at Gen.
neazo in the Campagna di Roma, No
vember26 1884, and was created cardi-
nal March Il, 1887. He has been ap-
pointed nuncio at Brussels and at
Vienna, and is a brother of the cele-
brated Cardinal Vincenze Vannutelli,
ex-nuncio at Lisbon, who has high
reputation as diplomatist. Cardinal
Serafino Vannutelli has lately held the
post of secretary of momerats and of
the grand chancellory of orders. 1t is
understood that the pope desired him,
some time ago, to accept the post of
secretary of state, which Vannutelli
did not care to take. Cardinal Sera-
fino~ Vannutelli has for some time been
prominently mentioned in connection
with the papal succession, and is sup
ported by an influential ecclesiastical
parties, with whom, it is believed. Pope
Leo is in sympathy. BY sending Van
nutelli to Bologna he is removed from
the intrigues of Rome and his friends
will have free field to labor in behalf
of his candidature.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

WHISKY was marked up another five
cents, to $1.35 per gallon, at Chicago on
the 9th.
]. w. EVANS and Col Free, two white
farmers living near Star City, Ark, fell
out on the 9th about rents. Hot words
ensued, when Evans drew revolver and
shot Free three times, from the effects
of which he died.
BURGLARS entered the county clerks
office at Fairfax Courthouse. Va, on
the 9th, and blew open the safe, leaving
its contents of records, strewn all over
the ufloor and partially burned. The
Will of George Washington was de-
posted in the safe.
Mr.. WATSON, of Georgia, introduced
in the House, on the 9th, a bill to create
the office Of national inspector of cotton
and grain, to provide for the issuance of
certificates of deposit, and for the
issuance of postoffice money orders
thereon.
THE large boot and shoe firm OF
Dewey, Rogers & Co., of Toledo, Ohio,
went into the hands of a receiver on
the 9th, and the failure has caused q
tremendous sensation in business and
banking circles there. The liabilities
are S40O, 900, and the assets about $780,
600.
MISS VIRGINIA FAIR, of San Francisco,
is to marry Prince Poniatowski, grand
son of the late king of Poland. She is
heiress to Sc, 6,50O,0 ,0O0. She met her
fancee at New York, and is said to be
otherwise a sensible girl and quite
accomplished.
THREE persons were killed and two
badly injured in a natural gas explosion
at Pittsburg, Pa, on the 7th.
President has extended the class
ified civil service so as to include all
free delivery postofices, of which there
are understood to be COL.
NEARLY all the towns and cities CT
Northern Mexico, except Monterey and
Durango. are affected with an epidemic
Of typhus fever, and the rate OF NOR
tality from the disease is alarming.
PHILADELPHIA has just appropriated
81, 200, 900 to complete its city hall, which
was begun 20 years ago, and has already
cost SIG, 600, 600.
THERE is to- be introduced IN the
American Congress a proposal Tor tne
abolition of all present legations exceps
that at Washington, but one legation
for ali Europe and but one for all SOUTH
America
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
PERSONAL AND PoLrrICAL.

The Tammany organization will be
accorded the rightof the line of the civic
portion of the presidential inaugural
parade, in Washington, on the 4th of
March. 1t is expected that at least
LOCO Tammanyites will march in the
procession. :
C. III. North, who but three years ago
was millionaire pork packer in Somer-
vile, Mass, and one of the strongest
bidders for the eastern trade against
Armour and others, of Chicago, was
confined in the East Cambridge house
of correction for two days, recently, for
a debt of s703.
LIEUT.. ROBERT E. PEARY is engaged
in preparations for his expedition to the
arctic regions in the spring.
Hon. JAMES. G. BLAINE suffered an
other relapse on the Sth, and while
hope still remained that his life might
be spared yetA little longer, the GER
tainty that it was a mere matter OF
hours or. at furthest, a few days, be-
came more than ever impressed upon
the minds of the family.
On the 9th Gov. John p. Buchanan
sent his last message to the Tennessee
legislature.
On the 9th Mr. Gladstone left Biar-
ritz France, for London. A crowd of
visitors and residents accompanied
him to the railroad station and cheered
him as the train moved off. The aged
statesman looked exceptionally well.
On the evening of the 9th Miss
Frances E. Willard was received pub
licly at Exeter hall, London. The
building was crowded, and Miss Will
lard's speech was cheered and applaud
ed enthusiastically. Lady Somerset
presided.
On the 9th, owing to the severity OF
the weather. the president abandoned
his proposed hunting trip.
Hon H. CLAY EVANS, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, has accepted the position of first
assistant postmaster-general, rendered
to him by President Harrison.
THE various state electoral delegates
met at noon on the 9th and cast their
ballots for president and vice-president,
each state choosing amessenger to bear
the result to the president of the
United States senate.
THE firm of Dewey, Rogers & Co., of
Toledo, O.. boots and shoes, has gone
into the hands of a receiver. The
failure caused a tremendous sensation
in business and banking circles in that
city. Liabilities, s400, 900; assets, about
S950 0oO
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

A DISPATCH from Petchitza, Russia,
on the Dnieper, of the 4th stated that
fifteen men were killed by mine eX-
plosion there. Four men severely IN
iured were brought up shortly after
the explosion.
THE transatlantic oil steamer Bear
Creek. lost in mid-ocean, was owned by
the Bear Creek Oil Co., of Pittsburgh,
Pa. She was a new 3,500-ton single
screw iron steamer. The crew were
rescued and returned to Queenstown
She cost 5000, 900 and had $4,000 barrels
OF oil aboard.
THE Leeds Improvement & Land 20.
the Leeds Annex Co., and the Amerl-
can Security & Trust Co., with an ag-
prerate capital of $4,000, 900, and with
headquarters at Sioux City, Ia, have
failed. owing to an enormous steal py
James /. Brooks, a trusted financial
ogcnt of the concerns
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
DRIFT OF OPINION.

Z. Ls
The democratic party is in the
predicainent of man who signed the
temperance pledge in order to get Ii
cense to run saloon.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
T. The republican party win lay
down the bur,densof national response
bility on March next. then calmly sit
down and watch the laundering of the
democracy Toledo Blade. -
EYThe democrats are at perfectIib-
erty to investigate. the financial con-
dition Of the government. They will
find that not dollar has been stolen
under the present administration, and
that every public creditor has been
promptly and fully paid.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat. +
Ia The democratic gerrymander OF
Indiana is the latest-to be overthrown
by the courts. The Hoosier state is now
with Wisconsin and Michigan, in both
of which the courts have compelled a
--apportionment on fair basis.
New. York, alone, is in the hands Of the
gerrymanderers. IN. Y. Mail and Ex-
press.
! EHThe democratic steering commit
! tee of congress, will not steer up
| against the rock of the Mckinley law
until they feel that they are compelled
TO. They are good deal more skittish
than they were on the stump two or
three months ago. They begin to see
what genuine statesmanlike act the
law is Chicago Inter Ocean.
| EB- Some Of the democratic leaders
are making great deal of noise about
the alleged deficit in the treasury. Yet
the same gentlemen insist that the
honse ..'pop-gun'' tariff, biHs,' now be-
fore the senate, must be at once enacted
into laws, in face of the fact that to do
SO would increase the deficit, by some
forty million dollars, that being the
amount Of revenue derived from the
acts which these. bills propose to re-
| peal Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Judge Gresham declaration that
democracy does not mean free trade is
/ rather -ifnpertinent, considering the
fact that. the judges democracy. doesn't
date back farther than the 10th of
tJune LAST Col Watterson, who is a
1
| a standard authority on things demo-
cratic, holds the contrary opinion and
is not afraid to express it in cold print
and plain English. The colonel should
read the new convert gentle lecture.
Minneapolis Tribune. ...a...
cB- There is a great deal of chatter
among democratic papers of an alleged
republican plot to steal the senate.
The democrats are dreadfully afraid
that the fruits Of victory Will be filched
from them. As a matter Of fact, the
Republicans don't want the senate;
i they know that it will be better for
them if the democracy has full swing;
but they do want all that is rightfuliy
!. theirs, and they intend to have it, il
possible. The democratic party has
fallen into the reprehensible habit Of
4 claiming the earth, and Of crying
"Stop thiefI" if republican presumes
| TO breathe. Albany journal.
Huntsville gazette., 1893-01-14
AN {. -Or CORRECTED.
Sonac OF the Things That Helped to De-
feat the Republicans.

feat the Republicans.
1t is not surprising that Benjamin
Harrison, the republican party and the
republican policy tariff were de-
feated, last month, when one observes
the mass of misinformation regarding
the actual results of the Mckinley
law, which has been presented to the
people through the columns of the
democratic press. Even in high quar-
ters, where .partisanship should be
avoided, the sentiment of blind and un-
reasoning opposition to the existing
tariff is allowed to'find expression and
responsible men.
The Wall Street Stockholder, one
of the two leading dailies of that great
financial center, which is published for
the instruction and guidance of in
vestors and spectators, and should for
this reason, if no other, exhibit con-
servatism and endeavor at least to ap-
proximate the truth, is guilty of this
glaring inaccuracy.
-Four years ago, the surplus in the United
States treasury was so large that one. OF the
main political issues of that time was as to how
it could be reduced. Now after four years,
during which the tariff was largely increased a
deficiency confronts the treasury officials"
''The tariff was largely increased"
"a deficiency confrontsr'
Secretary of the Treasury Charles
Foster. declares that there is at present
a surplus of over $50, 900, 900 in the
| treasury rather than deficiency, and
that at the. end of the present fiscal
year of the government-on June 80,
| 1S93-there will be surplus of about
$40, 900, COO. !,
On that point, perhaps, Charles Fos-
ter is better calculated to speak than
any other man of whom we know. AS
for the other point-the alleged in
crease in the tariff as. regards the rev.
enue collected under it, the journal is
prepared to prove with a few simple
! figures which>are a matter of. public
record and are accessible to all that
the Wall Street Stakeholder is either
an ignoramus or deliberate falsifier.
The revenue of the United. States
from tariff duties during the fiscal
year ending with June so. 1890, which
was the last full year of the operation
of the tariff of 1898, was S999, ,66s, 5S4.
The revenue of the United States
from customs during the fiscal year
ending with June 80, 1891. which en-
braced three months of the Old tariff
and nine months of the new Mckinley
law, which became partially operative
on October.6, 1890, was S2f9, 522, 2e5. \.
The tariff revenue OF Ine United
States for the year ending with June
80, 1892, the first year during which the
Mckinley law vas fully operative, was
S177, 459, 964.
In the interest of truth and de-
cency we. call upon the Wall Street
Stakeholder to correct its error and ad-
nit.
Y That during the last full year Of the
tariff of 1883, the revenue collected un-
der it was S229, ,668, 5S4.
That during the first full year of the
Mckinley tariff the revenue collected
under it was SLIT, ,452,9 964
That the reduction in the tariff rev.
enue brought about by the Mckinley
/ law was $50. .2l5. ALBANY Journal.