Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-01-31

aGOtl measures 10 ST. }fit<S Tue GilGSF ana NtSTe
putabe pracTces Of the Ganks The circulation o
the free Banks having been reduced to the extent
OF s3,Q0000o, and Of the State BANKS to million
Of dollars within tie year the contraction chiefly
taken place within months, being more than
one half of The paper circulation of The State
Horrible Fa;aiiy-Et was rusnored Yesterday
afternoon that on the day previous, at house or,
Carondeiet avenue in the !d.~ar par, Of he CITY
children in fanuly ,rrre sui6eHi, fae. sick
and all died ia one bour Il was stated that the
children died from cholera Some suspicious were
entertained. however that they were poisoned =
We hope the matter was all a rumor-LSt. Louis
Dem. 18th.
Nore Indictments ,adcr the I'uei'irs Stare Tq,c.
1t is rnmored that the Grand Jury of Judge
Miler's Court now in session at Milwaukee. have
found indictments against Messrs C K Watkins,
Byron Paine, and probably against Messrs A. II.
Bieiledt, Herbert Reed, II Hutchius J. H. Paine
and DR.. Woolcott, and several gentlemen residing
at Racine.
The Proposed Mediation Of chr Connt,v-Tt Is
stated in advices from Washington that the whole
subject is to be dropped in Congress. because it is
now ascertained that. at the very time that the
Committee Foreign Affairs was graveIv pon.
dering upon the time and method of mediation
Mr.. Marcy proposing it upon the authority of the
President, and that it declined -TMil Wis
II Carr Huntington thinks-tbat unless a live
anti-Nebraska Democrat is elected to the T. s
Senate, great harm will be done if there be
no election this session. Anii-Nebraska Demo
Gratis! Mr.. Huntington. Scarce articles them
-[Stevens PIT. Pinery (Dera.)
II Weather agreeabIe-settled winter-pIen>
ty of snow, exactly suitable to the business of
this pinery. 4 gentleman we'll posted in the mat
ter suggests that greater number of logs viii be
banked this season than has been any winter be-
fore.-[ Stevens PIT. Pinerv
minnesota Land Graut-The President has
transmitted to the House communication from
Attorney General Gushing. in regard to the fraud
ulent suit of the United States against the Mime
sofa Railroad Company, which discloses extraor-
binary facts severely rejecting upon District At
torny Warren, lately dismissed
a Honstsr G,sn-There is at the present time, in
the government yard at South Boston. cannon
which is the largest in the United States if not in
the world. 1t was cast in the foundry Of Cyrus
Algier, ia 1916, and weighed $500 lbs. It's bore
is II inches
n Lurury hoLf pad for.-The people of the
Union spend in year Tor newspapers II 5000, 600
or would if they all paid the debts due to news
papers. Publishers lose about s7o00.000 of the
81 100000, in bad debts and credulous trusts.
II DR.. Graham now at Sing Sing Prison. is
said to have created great disturbance there al
ready, by getting crazy drunk on brandy, to which
he had access for medical purposes He threat
ened the lives of those who secured him
Polygamy and MorHanisnt Elder p P Pratt
being in California, has thrown down the follow,
ing challenge in the way of discusscn:-
Resolved That Poiy5anay is not contrary TO
the constitution and laws of the United States
the Scriptures the laws OF nature or the laws OF
God.
II The Wild Man of Waldoboro'. saws the
Thomaston Journal, has turned out to be a lineal
descendant Of the Striped Pig cousin TO the
Horse with snake in his eye' and distant rel
alive to the Elephant
II John S Barbour, an eminent Virginia poll
tlcian, died at his residence in Culpeper, Va, of
disease of the heart on the 9Th inst
q Thomas T Franklin OF Chambersburg, Pa,
has been appointed Attorney General of Penn by
Governor Pollock. He held the same appoint
ment under Gov. VIM F. Johnston
Oranges and Cheap Sound oranges
are sold at ten cents dozen in New York, and
sound lemons at six cents dozen.
The Mqine Lac IN Ne,o York-The committee
on this yexed question have again introduced into
the house of Assembly the Identical bill vetoed by
Gov. Seymour last year. 1t will pass and become
law
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