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Year: 1879

will be called on to exercise
the election franchise in favor of
some person to perform the duties
OF the office Of Mayor and the other
| offices enumerated in the charter of
the city, to be elected on the first
Tuesday in April to occupy the Of
fees therein designated for the term
of one year and some for the term
of two years.


1t Is not unfrequently that we
hear on the street and in the office
some citizen remark in a casual or
caustlc way that we do not elect the
best men TO fill our Offices, or that
they are filled by persons incompe-
tent to perform the respective du-
ties attached to such Offices, or that
our money raised by taxation for
the city is toolishly expended, or
that the ordinances are not enforced.
or that the sidewalks are in a dan
gerous condition.


Who are to blame for these evils !?
and what is the remedy !


1t surely is not the fault of per-
!


sons outside the city Of Mineral
Point. When the Legislature gives
to Mineral Point municipal govern
ment in conformity with the general
idea of American institutions it per-
forms its whole duty. All further
responsibility is on the people of
Mineral Point city themselves.


If they culpaby neglect their own
aiiaire, ii they will not give to their
own political affairs the same atteu-
ton which the rest Of the people il
their several localities are in The
habit of giving, they must suffer the
consequences.


In about two weeks the primaries
will be held, and if ali good and true
citizens will attend, the best and
most competent men, those who are
best fitted by education or business
qualifications, will be nominated to
fill the offices. So long as the re-
sponsiblo citizen remains silent and
absent from the caucusses they will
be controlled by caucus packers,
and the vicious men as absolutely as
the Southern States are by the fire.
eaters Of the democracy


Goldwin Smith says "That there
is another class dangerous in it'
way, the class Of political seceders
Malcontents from this country arc
always telling their sympathizing
friends in Europe that the best men
here stand aloot from politics. The
answer is, that those who in a ire,
country stand aloof from politics
calu1ot be tie best mem"


A man is not bound to seek the
prizes of public life; he will perhaps
exercise more influence for good il
. he does not he is not bound to be.
come the slave Of party; he is not
bound to sit IN any coIclate O
political iniquity; but he is onnd tt
DO bis utmost in such ways as are
morally open to nim to get The
best men nominated and elected
and to make the right principle
prevail, If he fails to 60 that be i.
not a true and good citizen. II ht
cannot do much be is atiil bound tC
do what lie can. If each citizen vii
| do little all will accomplish mucl
--"In unity there is strength
At this election let all of us,wher
the primaries are held, attend, anC
see that the best men are nominated
and then do our best to elect hem
then the evils complained OF will b.
done away with. Each one mus
co bis duty in order to succeed.


Respectfully,


ELEcToR.
Year: 1879

SINCE the last appearance of the
TRIBUNE Mr.. JAS Brien's stock Of
groceries has been taken possession
of by creditors. Surely tho business
men of Mineral Point are meeting
with their due portion of misfortune
at the hands of hard times.
Year: 1879

L Osborne & Son have rented the
commodious store room lately occu-
pied by John Horn, in the Graber
block, corner High and Chestnut SITS.
The place has been painted and other
wise improved, and is now one of the
most desirable locations in the bus
mess part of the city. Mr.. E, d
Son will grace the store with as
choice and varied stock of dry goods
as ever came to Iowa county, and as
the same has been bought for cash
will be sold at lower prices than
the people are accustomed to.
Year: 1879

A city paper says that none of the passenger lines of steamers plying be- tween New York and Europe are making any money, and indeed that since the prostration of the steerage passenger business they have been doing losing business. One great cause of this is the numberless freight lines that have started. The competing freight steam CTS are built at fraction of the cost of the crack vessels. It costs much less to insure and keep them in order. They can steam for days on the coal consumed in one day by White Star steamer. With crew of thirty men all told, while the passenger steamers carry from 15O to 200, their victualing bills are comparatively nothing. No canvas is blown away. There is little wear and tear, and no pier rent to pay. Office rents are unknown. There are no small armies of clerks, no commissions to brokers, no carriage, neither advertising nor printing, and no extras to Custom House officials. Such a line will live while line of crack steamers would starve. Nearly all the railroads have their connecting freight lines, and the old passenger steamers have to go light or take freight at rate that does not pay them for handling it. Several of the lines have sold number of their steamers to be changed over for freight boats, and altogether the future is not promising for those who have invested large sums of money in ocean passenger steamers.
Year: 1879

Not long ago, says New York paper, one of the bellies of society accepted the matrimonial proposition of worthy young gentleman, and was asked by him to name the happy day. She consulted her parents-who had previously given their consent to the match-and fam fly council was held. The decision reached was curious, as well as char acteristic of our country and age. The father and mother agreed that the social position of their daughter required a grand wedding. The father, however, announced that misfortunes in business had brought him to the verge of bank ruptcy that he was, in fact, preparing to make an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. To this the mother re- piled that the grand wedding being of primary importance, it must of course take precedence of the assignment, for pecuniary reasons easily understood. And it was so ordered. The marriage occurred amid blaze of glory, duly chronicled in the newspapers, and few days afterward MT. Smiths paper went to protest, and his creditors took posses sion of his limited assets.

 Not long ago fond husband informed his loving wife that his financial affairs were in that condition which indicates a speedy and disastrous collapse. The wife said little, but thought much. The result of her meditation was that the next day she went down town and bought seal-skin sacque and set of diamonds. She told female neighbor, who knew of the impending calamity, that the sacque and diamonds "would last her lifetime; that if she did not get them now she never would, and so she got them" The collapse came in due season, and it is hardly necessary to remark that the furrier and jeweler are whistling for their money.
Year: 1879

A correspondent writing from Labette county, Kansas, in which State they raise most excellent fruit, says he starts an orchard by planting in drills eight inches apart. His peach pits he plants any time he has the seed. He never lets the pits get dry. He says: "I se- cure buds from any choice fruit within reach, and bud any time from the 1st of July to the 18th of October, after good rain, which starts the sap so that the work can be done. I put the bud in about three inches above the ground, using woolen cord tied so as to hold the bud in place for four or five days. I then remove the cord and let the tree and bud stand until the next spring, when the bud starts. When the shoot is four or six inches in length cut the old stem off just above the bud let stand until the next spring and set out in your orchard. Your fruit trees will not cost you five cents per dozen if ob- tained in this way. Any of your neigh bors will let you have twig from their best fruit trees. If you have to buy from tree peddler buy only one of each kind wanted, and you may soon have more trees than you can find place to plant them and if you get your bud from bearing trees you know what kind of fruit you are budding. Plant your trees thirty feet apart, and you can cul- tivate your orchard with little difficulty, only losing one row of corn for each row of peach trees. Train your trees to grow straight. Never allow them to fork, but prune to round top, so as to be able to blow up to the trees. Do your pruning the 18th of May, then the wounds will soon heal over. Apple trees can be propagated as readily as peach. When bud leave the leaf en- tire some cut the leaf of. generally lose five per cent, not more than this amount. The leaf will support the bud as long as it remains green. Ihave tried both methods, and find that to retain the leaf is far tho better way. When I cut the leaf out I lose one-third of my buds. If farmers will pursue the above plan it will save them several dollors that would be paid to tree peddlers. Trees the thickness of common pencil are large enough to bud"
Year: 1879

A BARTENDER WOUNDED BY A YOUNG MAN WITH


WHOM HE HAD QUARRELLED.


Thomas Campbell has liquor saloon at No. 44s
Grand street, of Ridge street. IL is known
1.-The East Side Tavern. James Tracey. about twenty
three years of age is the barkeeper Notwithstand-
ing the stringent orders issued by the police author
tiles in regard to the enforcement of the Sunday
liquor law Campbells saloon was open yesterday
and did rushing business. Tracey was behind
the par and it was as much as he could
do single handed to supply the demands Of
thirsty customers. About ten o'clock Roderick
Phelan. grocers clerk, in the saloon. For
some time past there has been bitter feud between
him and Tracey. The trouble grew out of disputed
liquor bill payment of which Tracy day de-
manded from Phean in the presence Of several stran
gers. Yesterday morning he was again asked to
settle the bill The upshot OF the request was u vio-
lent quarrel and then fist fight Several blows
were struck and as the thing was becoming serious
one OF the persons in the barroom called i'll Patrol.
man James Smith. OF the Thirteenth precinct.
The officer made hurried investigation. but
neither OF the belligerents arrested the quarrel
having been settled tor the time by mutual friends
The moment the officer left the saloon Phelan again
assumed pugilistic attitude He was aueted but
not subdued aud it is alleged threatened before
night he would have Tracey's life. Having thus
delivered himself he left the saloon and went direct
to pawn shop in Grand street. where he had pledae
his revolver. He redeemed the weapon, and having
provided himself with supply OF ammunition pro-
toward CaLupoeli SalOou III u ul1n state OF
Indignation.


THE SHOOTING.


About half-past eleven O'Clock he sauntered in.
There were half dozen persons at the bar. Phelan
cal ed for drink. and while Tracey preparing
it, with his back turned the former whipped mis-
revolver, cocked it aud deliberately fired before the
bystanders could interfere. The bullet took
effect in Traceys loin. short distance to
the left of the spine. He uttered q cry and sank
to the floor behind the bar. Phelan looked cooy on
and replaced his weapon. The shot was heard in
the street and a crowd quickly gathered. One of
the persons who i'll the saloon tor doctor.
Near the saloon he met Detective James Moran, of
the Central Office, to whom he told what had taken
pl,ce. The officer hurried to the saloon and
as he reached the side door Phelan rushed
into his arms. He arrested and
taken Police Headquarters, where he
was given accommodations for the night. He said
that rum in great measure responsible for his
desperate deed; that he was sorry for what he had
done, and hoped Tracey would not die from his
wound. This all he chose to say on the subject.


The bullet extracted and the wound pro-
nounced not serious. Tracey was removed to his
room at No ASS Grand street in a coach, and the
saloon closed for the day.
Year: 1879

The Fort Lee boats did thriving business. The
hotels which have been built that resort since last
year have entirely changed its character Prices
moderate and the accommodations similar to
those at Brighton and Manhattan beaches The ordi-
nary number Of visitors on Sundays is from four to
five thousand. While one enraptured at the
splendid panorama of nature, stretching from the
Palisades to the distant highlands of Staten Island
his reverie broken by fifteen twenty
of lager o foot high ornamented the tables.
The shooting gallery man, in voice that would
have discouraged Cicero, announced as the first
prize for shooting patent toothpick and a mug of
coffee for the second prize On the very edge Of the
cliffs. 500 ieet above the Hudson. family of the
better class reclined the grass. while babe
swung in a brand new hammock that cost So so in
Fulton street. The rustic and half finished road
way down the steep lined with trafickers in
popcorn and fans, and the sight fairly resembled
approach to an Oriental bazaar in time OF A
fine programme of music was given in the afternoon
and evening,
Year: 1879

Rockaway Beach actually swarmed with visitors
from morning till night, and the three decks Of
the Columbia and Grand Republic 1t did not seem
possible to crowd another person. The latter boat
made regular landings at the pier at Concy
Island, and not few passengers dsembarked each
trip. Rockaway is essentially democratic in its
pleasures. on the beach there was in full operation
every conceivable kind of side show from the air
gun gallery to menagcric The proprietor of tho
bathing privileges told HERALD reporter that more
people had gone in bathing than on any previous
day of the season except the Fourth. One in.
dvidual created no little sensation by taking sand
Year: 1879

SINCE Joaquin Miller has had his hair
cut he has condescended to talk a little
on mundane affairs. The latest thing at
tributed to him ii this "An Indinn is
never honorod with a distinctive name
until ie has done something noteworthy,
and which reveals Il marked trait Of char
acter. When Sitting Bull was young
nun he was shot IN the legs in battle and
disabled but he sat bold upright On the
ground and continued to fight with the
ilefcfness Of d wounded buffalo bull and
il was this incident which drew from the
tribe the appeIlation Of Sitting Bull.
Year: 1879

Wandering along MY way, NTlVes ire-
nssusn In the New York Observer, and
passing a bench Of Bridgcts, bcaux and
babicS, one Of the latter fell head first
from its cradle and struck upon the solid
concrete walk. Ii made no scream, and
hoped il was not hurt But when !
had passed few steps on, the cry came,
piercing INV ear and heart The stunned
child had "come 20, end was now
shrieking in pain and fright Doubt
less il was soon Lushed, and Bridget
pursued her interrupted tete a-tete with
her cousin The fond mother at home
will never know of the accident that
happened 10 her darling child while the
unfaithful nurse was flirting with a man;
but in the course Of year or two the
child will become more and more rest
less, ftful, uncontrollable; then it will
he lethargic; commissions will seize and
distort it; parents will weep and pray,
and plead with doctors to DO something
for it; they will shake their heads and
fear there is water on the brain, and if
SO, there is great reason to fear. "Did
the child ever fall on its head /" No,
ne, er; and then comes one more con
vulsive struggle; its little hands are
clutched; its limbs are drawn into fierce
contortions, and the doctors say it does
not suffer pain; it is quite unconscious;
these awful throes are involuntary; then
it opens its eyes in the light of a moth
er's love, and its soul goes out to Him
who gave it.


That is the result Of Just such an ac.
cident as happened when ! passed the
unmatched cradle in the park. Hun
dreds of such cradles and nurses are in
the park. Fond mothers think they are
doing everything for their babes when
they hire one woman for each child to
give her whole time to it. But they are
trying to get for their children what
money cannot procure.


You live in the country, and imagine
that the hints in this letter are intended
for the mothers of New York, whose
babies and nurses enjoy the Central
Park. But l am writing to them and
you. The progress of social refinement,
the increase .f wealth and culture, the
division of labor, the demands of society,
women's work in the church, take up
so much time that mothers turn off the
care of their babes upon hired
nurses Mrs. Smith sent for me
to come and talk with her about
founding an asylum for deserted and
orphan children. Her own son, twelve
years old, was stretched OH rug, with
dirty shoes munching an apple, and act.
iDg more like pig in the straw than the
Oldest son of lady. She told him to
get up, put he wouldn't and he didn't.
We talked as well as we could, and
thought her own children needed care
quite as much as the Arabs of the street
or the desert. And SO it is everywhere
Home is the source of salvation for So
ciety. We want good homes Mothers
are the makers of the manners of their
sons and daughters. But the mother
who commits her tender babes to the un.
watched care of ahalf.civilized pagan or
papal nurse, and then imagines that she
has done her duty, is mother false to
her nature, to herself, to her children,
false to God and society. If she has
heart enough to ache, she will yet re-
gret her neglect of maternal duties when
it is too late to retrieve the lamentable
loss
Year: 1879

Feeling the necessity Of having more


extensive accommos ations in conse-


quence of being compelled to turn away


old customers and friends, Dan Holton,


proprietor of the popular Holton House,


leased the large building on the corner


Of Alder and First streets, and fitted it


up in the most elegant style for hotel


where he could entertain all patrons


who desired the comfort and hospitality


of his house. To-day we visited the new


house which is open for the reception Of
guests, and was shown through it. The


barroom is the most complete and mag


nifcent in Oregon, the panelwork coun


ter and bar being made of that beauti-
tul wood known as maple burl and
which no State in America can equal.
The billiard room adjoining is finished
with maple and black walnut. with bill
lard and card tables and is the favorite
resort Of gentlemen in the city. On the
first floor we found one of the cosiest
and most handsomely furnished parlors
in the State, where the guests are made
to feel at home and ladies find books in
the library to suit their tastes. The
rooms on this floor both in suits and
single, are complete in every particular,
two of the rooms being furnished with
furniture made entirely of maple burl
which are the only ones of the kind in
the world. All this furniture was
made by Isaac Sensheimer, who is
pronounced the most skillful workman
in Oregon. The other rooms, all of
which are light, pleasant and airy, are
furnished with black walnut and maple
burl furniture with libraries in each
room. The floors are covered with Brus-
sells anddamask carpets, walls ornamented
with beautiful paintings, and everything
within the walls, to lace and damask
curtains, are in keeping with this ele-
gance. The rooms are elegant and COM
Portable enough for even Gen. Grant
without any extra touches, From this
floor, as from the other apartments,
stairways lead to the dining and billiard
halls below as well as to the street.
Passing to the third floor we find the
rooms on the north and east side fur
nished with the same elegance. The
corner, or Fourth Of July chamber, is
the hghtest and most comfortable in the
house, from which views of the city,
Mt. Hood, st. Helens and Rainier may
be had. On the south side of this floor
are the rooms prepared for palmer peo
pie, containing white ash and maple fur
niture and carpets less expensive. Taken
altogether the Holton House is the most
elegant hotel in Oregon, and persons
paUronizing the genial Dan will have no
cause to regret their chslce Ladies re-
ccive every attention and will find this
the pleasantest place in Portland to re-
main while visiting the metropolis


If you are gong to paint your house,
barn WAGON or machinery the wonder
Year: 1879

If you are going to pant your house,
barn, wagon or machinery, the wonder,
full Imperishable Mixed Paint Is surely
the best, for it is warranted by their
agents in your own town not to chalk,
crack, peel or blister; to cover better and
work easier than any other paint. The Imper
over all other paints, at the California state
Fair. 1873, and the gold medal at the oregon
state Fair, 1879 Get circular from their
Agent, which explains this wonderful diScov-
cry. Try the in snd you certain.y would
have no other.
Year: 1879

Many years ago, at Carne farm house,
where relatives of mine were then living,
the household cat was observed to enter
bedroom in course OF being spring cleaned.
The locking glass being on the floor, the
cat, on entering, was confronted with its
own reflection, and naturally concluded
that he saw before him real intruder on
his domain. Hostile demonstrations were
the result, followed by rush to the mirror
and then, meeting an obstacle to his ven
geance, a fruitiess cut round to the rear.
This man9uvre was more than once re-
peated with, of course, eIual lack of sue
cess. Finally, the cat was seen to deliber-
ately walk up to the looking glass, keeping
its eyes on the image, and then, when near
enough to the edge, to feel carefully with
one paw behind, for the supposed intruder,
while with its head twisted round to the
front it assured itself of the persistence of
the reflection. The result of this expert
ment fully satisfied the cat that he mad
been the victim of delusoin, and never
after would he ccndescend to notice mere
reflections, though the trap was more than
once laid for him.
Year: 1879

A field stretching away for miles and
miles without hedge, ditch or boundary
stone to relieve the sight offered by what
seems to be a very ocean of waving corn
tinged with red by millions of poppies. A
Jew is surveying this glorious crop, and as
he does SO he turns to sniff the breeze
which is blowing gently from the Black
Sea, about thirty versts off; then he lets
his eye wander complacently down a steep
road up which long procession of empty
carts is toiling The Jew is q merchant
from Odessa, who bought the crops before
him as far back as three years ago from a
nobleman in difficulties, and he is pleased
by the sight of those carts, because he
knows now that he will be able to get his
wheat comfortably to Odessa before the
September rains set in. The difficulty in
Southern Russia is not to rear wheat, but
to get it shipped; so when the aged Ben
judas was haggling with Prince Nokine,
the straitened nobleman aforementioned,
about the purchase of his harvests for three
years, he took care to mention that it would
require more than a hundred carts to carry
the wheat to Odessa, and that after that
there might be some trouble about getting





could be shipped. In fact, he described
the purchase of the corn as quite a galL-
bling speculation; and so it often is. But
not to dealers like Benjudas. He never
buys an acre of corn without being quite
sure about his carts, his barn, his ship, and
his reapers; for behold! even as he stands
surveying that noble field at five in the
morning, on promising August day, a
hundred or 50 of Prince Nokine's tenants
come slouching out of their cottages with
scythes and sickles, while more distant
group, coming from the BARNES castle, ap-
pear pushing before them a grand steam
moving machine Prince Nokine, like all
Russian landholders, invests largely in
agricultural machinery, as child would in
toys if he had the money; and it was part
of Bcnjudas's contract that he should have
the Princes machine at his disposal. Not
one of the Russian peasants can work them,
but Beniudas has brought with him q
couple of sharp German ship-stokers, who
know how to do everything more or less,
and who soon light the fire under the engine
and set the mower snorting, moving, and