Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-05-18
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- Great Britain wants f4o0000o to make
! up the difference this year, between her income
and expenditures
IS The Lepiothan when completed, will make
several experimental trips to America. before en-
tering npon her regular line of trade,
s&- The schr. Correspondent leaves Cleveland
shortly on account of owners, with cargo of
slaves for Liverpool direct.
/ ~ The amount of money expended in Bos-
+ ton for the relief Of the poor from Nov !, 1857,
to March ], 1888, was $40 69l,72
| s5y~ It is stated in the n Y Times that Mr..
Vanderbilt receives $4,000 a month for with
drawing his opposition to the steamboat line
between New York and San Francisco
- The Pittsburg Gazette OF the Goth ult,
says the fruit crop is killed in that region
peaches, pears, plums and cherries entirely, and
apples, gooseberries and grapes in part
y. IN Franklin county, Maine, distant about
sixty miles from Portland. the snow lay foot
deep last week, and farmers came to the court
house in their sleighs
IS. Approximations are expressed by the
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama papers
that the several frosts of last week have serious
80 The coming of the United States Mint in
Phiadelphiafor the month Of 4 pril, was 81 .000,-
500 in gold principally m double eagles; S354,-
uOo IN silver, wholly in half and quarter dollar
pieces, and $4,000 in cents
rs Judge Shaw, Of Mass. has decided that
the keeping of intoxicating liquors contrary to
law, is nuisance, and that individuals have a
right to abate it. A case has Just been decided
at Rockport Mas under that ruling.
~ The Converse Rope Factory, Montreal
was burned on the afteroon of the Ist inst. The
fireman and three girls, employed in the Fac
tory, persisted in the flames Tie loss is heavy
and uninsured
rs Rev. Isaac B. Scott has been sentenced
to the Penitentiary from Giles county, Virginia,
fora term of three years, for passing counterfeit
money.
.&s a correspondent writes that while trav
cling at the South, he attended a negro meet
ing, where the sable preacher offered an earn /
est prayer for" de white element in our popu /
lation."
~ The Missouri Wine Company have offer
ed $3.50 in premiums for the best pure native
vines, the product of the W ine growing States /
of this country, and of the vintage of 1857.
IS Governor Wise, of Virginia, opposes the
last dodge of the Lecomptonites. Governor 4
Packer, of Pennsylvania, regards it as even
more atrocious than the Senate bill. Z
rs The Bedford, (Va.) Democrat saws that
:. Judge Douglas, IN fact, may now be consider
ed politically dead, 50 far as his connection with
the Democratic party is concerned"
u J. Dickinson d Co, paper manufacturers
at Dayton, Ohio, with branch at La Favette.
ind, have failed; their liabilities exceeding
100000.
~ Last year a this time, tialcna potatoes.
brought in St, Louis 81 per busheI. They are
Low selling at - ceuts--so says the Galena
co,nier
- Archdeacon JeiTrics, a missionary in tbe
East Indies states that for one really converted
Christian as the fruit of the missionary labor.
the drinking practice of the English have made
fully one thousand drunkards in India.
Is Canal boats are now towed from TROY to
Albany for 80 cents. Last year the price was
So Boats are new sowed from Albany to New
! oFk for 50. Last year the prices were sl5and
$40. ',''|'
IS The production of beet-root sugar in
+ rance THIS season exceeds the previous crop by
over l05,O000o0 los. This excess is equal 70
one-third OF the entire production of cane sugar
in the United States.
IS The Toledo Blq1e intiraates that arrange
ments are in progress to restore the steamboat
lac between that point and Buffalo, during, the
coming Summer
FATAL RAILROAD AccrDEST.-Mr William
/ uFnoph' and cid citizen OF Highland Park. in
Lake County, was run over by freight train
aud killed, on The Chicago and Milwaukee R. f
~ near that place, on the 4th inst He was
RIDING on horseback, and in attempting to cross
The H. H. track was struck by the locomotive
IS The Grand Jury now in session has
ound true bin against the Sheriff for discort-
eous language towards one of Its members =
SaHte Re Gozette
GREAT Snow STORM IN ESGLASD.-The Lon
lon papers contain an account OF storm,
u singular. and. considering the lateness of the
season almost unexampled severity, which oe-
'urfed, on Wednesday night, the 18th of April,
Is chief intensity being apparently concentra-
ed upon The district lying between the Danfo, 4
md Denistone stations on the Manchester, Shelf
leld and Lincolnshire Railway line, where a
init OF snow formed so deep entirely to block
II the line, and to put stop "a the traffic du-
Ing the whole of the day.