Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-08-03

The election Ill missouri taxes place on
the 2nd of August. Members OF Congress
to be chosen.
:E- strawberry plant is on exhibition at
Albany on which can be counted upwards of
four hundred berries.
- The Austrians complain that Prince
Frederick William. of Prussia, is going to make
himself the head of the Free Masons of Germany /
sX- There We're twenty deaths from yellow
fever in New Orleans, during the week ending
the Goth inst, an increase Of eleven over the /
week previous.
s1-The Mississippi river at Vieksburg, when
the flood was the highest, was ninety-seven feet
deep.
es- lead mine has been discovered near
Ramsey, c. W, and mining operations have al
ready commenced.
IS Z. W. Tracy has hauled Isaac Cook, the
Postmaster Al Chicago, up before the Police
Court on charge of disorderly conduct.
80 Coruelioas Casey, of the town of Thora.-
ton, adjoining Chicago, has been arrested for
beating his wife as to occasion her death.
ss- Harvard College, at the Commencement.
conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws upon
Gov. Banks and Lord Napier.
sH- The Kansas Herald (pro-slavery) says
that Ex-Gov. Stanton is candidate for the L.
S. Senate from that Territory, when it becomes
a State.
s5g- There are now in the United States one
hundred and twenty -four colleges and UNIVERSE
ties, with al aggregate number Of students of
fourteen thousand
- a water spout, with a base offrom fifty to
one hundred yards in width, and rising to a
very great height, was seen in the Potomac riv-
CT. recently.
] rY storm of hail passed over a space Of
/ five miles in width, near Coleburg, Iowa, on the
23rd, the stones measuring from seven to ten
inches in circumference.
s&- 1t is said that ten thousand hogs are
kept by the squatters south of Eighty-sixth St,
New York, ana the City Inspector is busy rout-
ing them One-Ialf of the swinish herd have
already been removed.
sY- The harvest, with the exception of oats,
is nearly gathered in Bucks county, Pa The
wheat is fair average crop. The hay crop is
heavy. Oats are ripening fast. Corn is coming
on finely and an average crop may be expected.
Potatoes doing well.
- The New York Times states that in the
Supreme, Superior, and Common Pleas Courts
Of that city, there at this moment upon the
law and equity calendars, untried and undis-
posed Of, about 5000 cases, involving at least
S50,000o00, and very many Of these cases are
over three years old.
~ Returns from fifteen counties in Ken
, lucky, make the aggregate number of hogs over
six months old, 1884, against 628,I24 III the
same counties last year and IL, 335 the year be-
fore last.
~ The amount Of copper shipped the pres
ent season from Lake Superior region up to the
last dates was 1855 tons. The shipment from
the Superior region for the season are expected
to reach 1000 tons more than last year
- thousand missionaries are to be sent
out TO China from England.
- Judge Cato, Of ka9sas. has resigned.
5 rs Rev, Granville WardweH. formerly pas
tor of the church in Kalamazoo, Michigan. while
under an attack of insanity, put ar end to his
{ life at Westminster, Vermont, on the 9th al
timo.
- The nett gain TO the Congregational
? Churches of Of massachusetts during the last
year Is 1900, which number includes but small
: percentage Of the recent revival
q Brigham Young and his company have
, not yet left Utah. They are al Provo. in the
southern part of the Territory.
Gzg- Byron Rotbsclild of Vienna, was de-
clared winner in the lottery Of St Cenois, to the
amount Of seventy five thousand forms.
- The Erie Canal enlargement has come
10 a stop Cor want Of funds. Work or the " es-
tern Division has been suspended.
- The Fox River Improvement Company
is making out deeds L. the settlers on tire even
sections.
- Gen. Dodge, our Minister to Spain. IS to
be recalled, Dan Sickles is spoken of as his
successor