Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1847-09-03


after the fall payment of the August in.
terest. there IS 4 balance in the Treasury
of 1927 ,227 30.
Samuel Scu lder has been arrested in
Ohio, and Is now on his way to New
York city, charged with forging the &C.
ceptances of various farmers and merch.
ants IN clutches, Orange, and other coun.
ties, amounting tn between thirty and
forty thousand dollars. This Scudder has
been for many years an EXTENSIVE butter
contractor. and bore an excellent repita.
ton until last winter.
Cattle are now exported from Michigan
4 large drove recently left Marengo, Cal
houn county. for New York. A few years
ago cattle were driven into Michigan from
the States Of New-Yorlx and Ono. The
expectation of horses has also commenced
IN the eastern part of Michigan.
The Legislature Of Maine have passed
a bill and resolves for altering the Con
stltutlon, SO that hereafter the Governor.
Senators and Representatives to the Gen
eral Court and to Congress, may be elect
ed by plurality.
In 1890, the whole personal property in
the State of Massachusetts was estimated
at S44 024 BAT. IN 1909 it had increased
TO S97 9iO,6lG. In 1880 it was S2O5,
S56,422, and in 1910 it amounted TO S299.
$50, 33S. The average in 1910 was S4O6.
30 to each resident Oft the State, the num-
Der of inhabitants being more than 100
600, and in lS47 it will amount to about
S364,00 600 From these facts It an
pears that wealth increases in Massachu
sets three times faster than the popula-
ton. Were the property of the State di-
ylded, every family consisting Of five per.
sons would have an estate worth So O32
But the cost of living has kept pace with
the increase, for the average surplus over
consumption is only about $40 per head.
The Nantucket inquirer says that sew
eral boats are now engaged at Quidnit and
Siasconset in taking sharks. Four men
took, in two days last week, fifty OF these
fish, which made so gallons oi oil. worth
As cents gallon. The car casses sell for
nine dollars ton for manure.
The greatest circulation attained by
any periodical in New York city. or in
the world, so far IS we know Of, belongs
to the" American Messenger '-amonlh-
" paper published by the American Tract
Soc ty. Its ~,guIar edition has reached
% 600, anu 5 rapidly increasing The
price to sing. subscribers is rs cents =
to companies IF 40, or taking 40 copies.
IS ia cents.
The Philadelphia papers give an ac-
count of a most brutal cha>tiscment in
flcted by pious and refined lady of tha'
city, upon little coiored girl whom she
suspected of stealing mon y from har.-
After whipping the girl herself, having her
husband do t e same, and letting Young
man frightcn her with 4 RIPE and threats
of hanging. the lady found the money all
safely pinned in "A dress, lust where she
had placed it herself, and had forgotten i
Rev Mr.. Wilson stated at a recent
missionary meeting. in Boston. that the
wars on the West Coas! of Africa. which
supply the slave-tradc, are kept up by
New-England rum, shipped from the port
If Boston.
Swedish emorants TO the number of
400 recently arrived al Chicago, on their
way TO Henry county H., where 900 Of
theil countrymcn located Themselves n
year ago, The community, about eleven
hundred, have purchased nearly the whole
of Henry county, and hold their property
in common. They are linen manu(actu-
rers. Their religion is modification Of
Lutheranism. rel cling, however, the rites
and ceremonies of that church, and ac-
knowIedging no spiritual guide but The
Bible, ana no spiritual authority bat that
of God,
The body Of MIR. r. Movciy. mcr-
chant of PainosvilIe, Ohio, was found in
the creek at Buffalo. The circumstances
Justify the conclusion that the large losses
which he had, in common with others,
sustained. in breadstnfs, Frustrated his
mind, and led to self destruction Spec
ulation in bread stuff IS a horrible bust
ness any way, and we cannot much won
der that such as pursue such business
should have the horrors.
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DEALER IN MERcHANDIsE ~ GENERAL.