Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-07-28
NEWS ITEMS

Use a large yield.
rs Corn in Louisiana promises better yield
than IN many years before.
sS- The juice of plantain leaves is an ef.
fectuai cure for the bite of a spitcr
IS The number of deaths in St. Louis for
the week ending on the Goth, was lis, against
~ OF the week previous.
rs Gen. Herman, the New Granada minis
ter arrived at Washington ON the 2lst.
rs A thick bat OF cotton worn in the top of
The hat IS said 10 be a pre- sentIve of sun
stroke.
Is most terrific thunder shower passed
over Boston. On the 18th inst strl king five diff
ferent dwelling houses killing one person. and
dong great damage to trees and crops in the Vi
entity.
sN When the stopper of glass decanter is
too tght-a cloth wet with hot water and APP
piled To the neck, will cause the glass 10 ex-
pand and the stopper can be removed
sE There are six hundred and foriv-seven
prisoners IN the Ohio pcnitentiarv, the greatest
number ever known TO be confined within the
walls at any one time.
Is Last Friday afternoon terrible tornado
passed over a strip of country in the neighbor-
hood OF Adrian, Mich, doing, great damage
The blow was accompanied with hail of cnor-
nous size. Windows were broken. trees strip
ped OF their foliage, and crops cut down.
sB The Journal Of Commerce gives list Of
the most serious railroad accidents in the Uni
ted States for the first SIX months of the wear.
and SETS down the number of killed 40 and
wounded at 80. The killed by steamboat acct
dents it puts down at SO; wounded at TO-
Sir. Lours, July %
fire broke out, about O'clock last night
In Keep 1t Cos. planning mill on Second ST.
which extended Ia Marow's furniture rnanufac-
tory, and mill of Brothertown Il Sturgeon
and consumed several brick buildings and frame
tcnements adjoining. Loss estimated betw cen
one and two hundred thousand dollars Inslr-
ancc not aScCrtaincd.
WAxTED.-Inforlnation is wanted If tho bro
theirs of one Jacob Nuglc, al insane German
now IN Waukcsha Address George G. Pratt.
Chairman Board Supervisors, Waukeshs Wis.
WuEAr.-The Horizon iigis says TIA; the
farmers of that neighbcrhood are contracting
We doubt if tho price viii long remain as high
as that.
PRoGuEss or X Ntsa AMONG rnH STAN Dry-
the regular Democratic can
dIa'c for Governor of Missouri. in recent e.
let oneering speech, denounced the German
aS - n.Htton heads, not having sense above n
pick &c oyster.
81 ] he Irish journals north south, east, and
cvca from the far west of ireland speak in the
highest terms II the farmers prosPcc 5 Agri-
cuiturists are uE2uImous IN stating that the
crops never bore h..,"c encouraging appear
aucc ii any season within Iner.1ry.
s7g- In Philadelphia, on Saturday afternoon.
a mas! dog ran through Apple IA Lewis streets
and bit no less than fiye small children who
happened IN lis way, he'ldes several dogs.
elnti.dat~ for Treasurer ui Ohio
s3~ Tnc topeka (Kansa~} yi5aac says:
d" Ne learn thut a party OF five surveyors
were surprised and murdered 10y body OF
Chcvcs,ns IndiagS ui Lutte Blue River. about
] - miles west ct here, about the I'D ull-'
- Twenty-Five. c1uels arrived ia san An
touso. Texas, on the ed ul.. for the Of Lieut.
Be@le's party. in opening The new wagon road
to the Pacific
~ The preliminary steps are being taken
for the formation OF state \ .sr.cuitural Socl-
ely iH kansas
GFg~ Steiner the h1lEuonjSt. had, it wall he
Ia abandon his ball"on on Lake
Erie. Ii WIS iut;:. next dav iIt the woods ia
CIgi,I,s, - rssIics from Etslc IL al IndDu-
ed
- new anl dangerous counterfeit on the
Nor hwcstcru Blpk oi trSInia. ui the demon
nation Of te1. dollars, has made is appearance
in Cincinnati. The counterfeit Is an cNccllcn1
imitation ct the genuine Rotc, and Is calculat,
TO deceive good judges.
- On Sunday somc ri"'in~ occurred in
Montreal ia conscttucu of The dis LAY of an.
Orange Hlg. urge crowd OF people assem-
ilctI near the flag aEI several shot, We're fired
ut IT, and two OF tlI.ec Utangcmcn ere beaten
severely.
~ \ schooner. with c; thtv passengers on
board WI, lost Among the Sandwich Islands
recently, through the stupidity Of 4 drunken
captain and crow
~ James Flynn was tried before Judge Eus-
I'll in New York, on "Wednesday. on charge
Of highway robbery. and sentenced 10 - yetr5
in,prj-oI.ncu'- He Wis indicted. tried, con" c.
ted AMI scAteuccd within an hour and Il haIf.
- I'm English paper gives an account of 4
tea party uf sixty old women, who were the
mothers of eight hundred and sINty-ulue chill
drcu They must have had something 10 talk
about at that tea party, We should think.
~ One dollar bills ON the Mechanics Ban K,
Syracuse. y. y. done by photographic process.
are aiioat. They have blurred appearance
~ Dr.. Mitchell. the State Geol ogist OF
North Carolina, WAS drowned IN the Ca'-taii
Fork OF the CaHcv River, = short time since -
He Was walking on the edge OF a preclpice, when
his feet slipped and he fell forty rect into the
river. lie was engaged at the lime III scicu
tiic exploration.
GEAssuorrrGs.-Our Minnesota exchanges
continue filed with accounts of the rava.,es of
the grasshoppers: These insects are sweeping
away every inch of vegetation from Northern
Minnesota. The ST. Paul Times says: We
speak advisedly when say that not one half
enough of corn and tho cereal grain viii be
rails Ell north of latitude ID to feed the resident
population"
Observation-Disclosures Parker. it Is expected,
will soon have TO leave his pulpit, on account of
failing health.
go Gov Wise. Of Virginia, is at Washington
To assist i'm the settlement OF the new hans;ss
war al the South.
IS Prof. LongreIlow. It is said, is preparing
a new volyme OF poems.
.R5~ The Lola GGrE7l State has the follow
ing: The most violent DISCLAIMERS against
mixing politics with religion are men with