Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-04-21
NEWS ITEMS.

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tives.
80 Baker d Brother, shoe manufacturers at
u nm Massachusetts hive failed tor ) $4,000.
- Jcdiah Grant, The Mormon saint, lately
deceased, left seven widows.
US Iwenty-one orphans of Girard College
have been apprenuced TO printers
.Y Portage City elects Jous 2. McGaEGoE,
formerly 81 IIIwaukce, Mayor, by - majority
over Andrew Dunn, very popular democrat.
Superior real EsrArk.--In one week, re-
Gently, real estate sales were mads ia Superior,
WIS, 10 he ameGnt of 3lslI5.
~ The farmers in this region have. COM
Emenccd ptowlug. Ia many places lie sod Is
Sill too wet, bHt the higher lands are sufficient
! ly dry u Gtertot,t Dena gth i,a.
! REAI ESTATE SALE. AT APrLEToS.-Leyi Ram
dali sold 50 acres of his farm adjoining the Vii
lagc Plot to P II. Smith, for $l25 per acre
/ TnE ArBIL Snow SToRM.--The Louisville Jour
ma! (ln kentucky OF the 7th, Says: There
seems TO be but little doubt entertained thai
the peaches and pears in this section, and per
/ hals lie apples. are entirely Destroyed
CAEEYING OUT raE BAKsrow PKoGHAsfHr.-
The President has appointed James ID. Rcy-
inert OF the town Of Lake, Receiver OF Pubic
Moneys at hudson, v Is, IL place OF Gas Hoy5
resigned.
~ detachment Of three hundred United
States troops. whose destination Is the interior
OF Oregon, sailed in tie steamer Illinois, from
/ New lor!!. for Aspinwall, on Monday the 9Th
!Hst.
| q The Continental Bank, Of \ y, has
! found It necessary 10 increase its capital irotn
I S500,UU0 To 81 900 90. The new stock is to be
distributed among the old stock holders Oh the
10Th OF Jane.
e Ii il reported that the steamers of the
NItarGguau line have not only given "a cary
Jug FiIlihu,ters 70 Walker, hut have withdraw
from the California passenger trade also; ;Ae
Tennessee viii probably be put on TIA. Galveston
an:i New Orleans route.
~ Lewis NJ. Pease, the celebrated 81 Five
Points Missionary of New York CITY, ha. been
compelled, on account of i'll health, 10 give up
the work IN that locality which he has been pros
ecutug with t.nwearied devotion for the last
seven years
s9- There were more emigrants IN Liverpool,
up 10 the goth Of March, waiting passage 10
America than were eyel known in previous
years except in 1851 Ihe price, which had
averaged, up 10 that time, 80 to IS los, was
raised 10 81 aud { E0s The iact that there
was scarcity q ships contributed to thIs rise
III the price Of passage.
Iowa ELEcT0S.-Suiiicent returns nave been
received from the late election in Iowa, 10 show
that the Republican candidates for the State Of
tccrs voted for have been elected, by MAORI
" somewhat larger than that received by the
Fremont electors last fall.
TuE KANSAS Observation-Disclosures but too
/ plainly the policy Of the new Administration.
] Frederick Emory, who has Just been appointed
/ Register of the Land Office for the Nestern Dis
tnct Of Kansas, Is the Capt. Emorv-the noted
/ Border RI tfian-who drew his men mp in lire
before Phillips house and ordered him to be
( shot. lie arrested for the murder under
Geary, but released on bail, aud now rewarded
with office from Mr. Buchauan.-Nit. Sent
/ Pre- E~PTIoS CLAIMS ARR GOOD AGAINST LASp
4 GRANTS TO BAHRoADs.-TEe Land Offices in
Minnesota have been directed by he Naticflal
/ Administration 10 continue the withdrawal Of
( the lands falling within the probable line of
the railroad routes established under giants of
Congress Prescription claims b.sed upon ac-
tal set leneut and not for speculation n ale mp
to1he time when tie lines or routes were deh-
uiteIy fixed upon any of the lands Withdrawn,
viii he allowed, provided The testimony j. clear
and explicit.
/ DEArH Is sFAR UsTo FTsTIvIrr.-At \ ball in
Ransom street Hall, Philadelphia, ou Monday
evening. 3Uih rij.. Z man named lillian owen
J had occasion 10 draw down the lower sash of
( the east window it being very high, his hands
slipped. and he was VrecjIjralea nut IF ic Win
dow to the ground beneath, breaking his neck
and killing hirn instantly.
Spring WHkAT Sows-We learn from gem
fientau from Portage that u good deal of spring
Wheat III Columbia and Marathon counties vas
Sewn previous 10 he present SNOW storm. This
/ Is fortunate ~ the snow i supcr-eNcetieut iuv
4 it, II is also known that the earlier that our
SprIGE " Leaf Is n, the more closely does il
resemble Winter " heat.
+ SERIOUS Los>-ORcHARU DEsIRoT ED.-Samucl
Allen. living between Oakland and Lake Mills,
III this State. has lost his entire voung fruit or
cIard, of 800 tree--many OF them bearing fruit
-Sr applying lamp oil TO prevent them from
L,Ir-.- l-uawed bv rabbits and mice which rem
ed lac has, read il paper, says tie Weekly
Jgtjegsoulau.
Fi,E HuSDEEu Toxs oF GOPHER II LCar.-
The Outouagon -Hilc+ Of the ~ INST, says -
! " There Is an Immense mass of pure copper 9x-
posed in the Minnesota mine, which - some
forty feet Ia length, and, IN the tbIckest part as
much a. eight nine feet IN thickness. II 1t
- as pure d. il appears To he, 1t contains prob
ably more than 800 tons Of n,tai-itud II is GER
iaiuiy worth Is II lies, more than SI5U,UG3.
/ INDIAN MASSACRE AT SPIRIT LAkE-Letters
from Hort Dodge at the date Of March 10Th, slate
hat up to that tIa. not . single survivor OF thc
>ettiguou. o. forty 70 tfiy persons that existed
u short time before ~ Splrli Lake, III Iowa, had
! been heard from. Tie suPposltion wss preya-
lent there, that every one Of tHeiu Hau been
ulss,sacIeed b. the Indians. The Government
/ must act promptly in dealing out retnbutiye
justice 10 the THUrderers or none Of those lSoIa-
ted settlements VIII be safe. There can be 40
ntislakiu@ the proper course of duty IN this case
The safely of the living depends on It. Having
once tasted OF the white man blood. these IN
dams Viii thirst for more. unless they are crush
I Ell speedily, with terrible CrUshiI e GGl. +!
! TEE pr.s ArD BoKEa CAsy.-N-. and Mrs.
John Dean have NOT BEEN IL Chicago as w;s
+ re inrtgd-hut JOAN ma been away 10 school 4;
Utica, and Iirs. Dean has returned 10 her tath-
/ or s-,lohn u boser-whe she Will remain
The y. \. Post says that they have agreed.
+ for one year, not to each other except In the
{ IFu-CHce OF their friends. Boxer Is reported TO
( be worth about S30900O, and has three chill
GEgu. The most curious feature III this whole
affair, i the circumstance that Miss Boxer,
4 4 a 10
come desperately attached to one literally
without any education.
WASHINGTON, April 10.
7 Ex-Governor gerry returned to Washington
! this moaning ,u c'ose his official business with
the Gov,ruueur. lie has stated 20 his friends
that ne VIII not bc drawn into a newspaper
+ controversy, beng satisfied that while he Was
Governor, lie honestly, and to the best Of has
ability, discharged hiss duties. lie also says he
viii not be responsible for publications Of re-
ported conversations many Of which con-
/ Trajectory, but Is willing 10 lie Judged by his