Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-08-19
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CHoLERA.-Several cases have recently oc-
Cured at Oquawka. 1t has also appeared at
Buffalo, N. Y.
GEORGE GLENN, Clerk in the Supreme
/ Court of the U. s., in Georgia, died sudden
! ly at Savannah, on the 9th ult., aged 20
years.
! O. A late paper says Z" there is a great
decrease Of crime in San Francisco, Califor-
MIA"
II Ex-Governor VANCE is lying Danger
ously i'll at his residence near Urbana, from
an attack of paralysis, with little or no hopes
of his recovery.
! q At New Bedford, demijohns wreathed
with Grape, were hung on lamp posts on the
first day of the new law. Dealers closed
their bars, and the sales at the city agency
were few.
II Advces from New York, of Sd August
say the revenue cutter fancy was capsized
and sunk at noon in the NaTrows. 1t is re-
ported that six persons were drowned. Cap
tain and officers saved.
10 The Worcester Spy says the wife of
JOHN Davis, Of Holden, who was suffering
from severe tooth-achee, induced her physi-
clan TO let her inhaie choroform, for the pur-
pose of having it extracted, when upon inha-
lation, she expired immediately
I C. DR.. WATTS, formerly President ofthe
State Board of Agriculture, who went to Eng
land some weeks ago to purchase cattle, has
returned to this country with about 20 head
ofimProved stock, principally from the north
of England.
10 The Burmese War in India. is likely
to be marked by great ferocity. The Cover
nor of Rangoon has offered so RUPEES for the
head of every British white soldiers and 80 for
the head of every black one.
Il The Steamer Swan, running between
Toledo and Detroit, was burnt at Toledo, on
! Tuesday night. No lives lost.
/ GoLD.-Gold has been discovered near
Groningen, Mich. Copper was also found
at the same place.
/ ~ The horse rode by Gen Whitney. the
( marshal at the Niagara meeting, was the one
rode by the gallant Col. Hardin, when he
was shot at Buena Vista.
! u Boats drawing over four feet and a
half cannot navigate the Ohio from Louisville
to Cairo. AS matter of course, southern
| freights have accumulated at all the principal
landings, and shippers are offering greatly
enhanced rates.
| Fg- The coal banks in the vicinity of
| Wheeling continue on fire in spite of all the
efforts at extinguishment. Mr.. Sutton one of
the owners, had lost, says the Gazette, not
less than SO, 900 already.
Since the operation of the Liquor Law,
there has been scarcely any business before
the New Bedford (Nass.) Police Court.
A company has been formed in Mexico, to
run two steamers monthly between Vera Cruz
and New y ork, stopping at Tampico, Havana
and Charleston.
@ LAKE FISH More than thirty thous-
and barrels and half barrels offsb, from Lakes
Huron, Michigan and Superior, have been sold
in the Cleveland market since the opening of
navigation this season.
% S. II. Clark, of Ogdensburgh. N. Y,
IN one day last week, sent to Boston, by Rail-
road. $4,000 pounds OF butter and cheese
chiefly the former.
C. A telegraph from Washington says
Gen. Gonzales, the Creole fllibuster, has
left Savannah to reside in that city, for the
purpose of stimulating the American Govern
ment to negotiate for the freedom of Cuba.
% Three wires, insulated with gutta per-
cha, hemp and pitch, have been sunk across
the Mississippi River, opposite St. Louis for
the House and O'Reilly telegraph lines.
c. Gold in Oregon.-The Oregonian SAYS
that Mr.. P. Ankey has shown them very
fine specimen of Gold bearing quartz, found
in that vicinity. 1t is thought that the Cas-
cade range will produce as good mines as ex-
ist in California.
GODFREY, THE WIFE KLLER-This man,
who murdered his wife at St. Paul, has been
apprehended. " learn by gentleman from
Minnesota, that his wife disclosed, before she
died, that he was of number, who muir
dered pedlar in Grant county, Wis, some
time since, and that measures had been taken
to investigate the matter more thoroughly
Galsna .4dU.
We regret to learn that Col Goodhue. of
the Pioneer, has been confined the past
week by dangerous illness. Most of the time
he has been so low that it was deemed i'm
prudent to allow his friends to visit him.
We were pleased 10 hear yesterday, however
that he was --Ninnesotian
O. People down east seem determined
TO keep the Maine Liquor Law in operation.
/ The three candidates for Governor in Maine
have announced their determination to support
il ifelected,