Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-07-06
VS. ITEMS
y Forty delegates from uine counties nave
organized Repubheanparty in ebra-ha ee-
ritory.

iteN d0uidate III iic -1'tN-'t
district, Ohio.
~ The Hartford Courant says dictionary
! -o to be nu tlIsiIeoi, which will contain ten
thousand words more Imam It's predecessors.
rw- Five gallons Of New York swiI milk
we're recently placed in patent churn, and the
product oftLe cluruing was two gallons of good
vbiskey.
~ The highest honor at the University of
Cambridge, Eugland-that of Senior Wrangler
was taken this year by ~ P. Bell, an Arneri-
can student.
sgr Letters received by the Persia report
,lat the health oi Charles Sumner has not been
50 much improved since be LETT New York as
LIS friends desire
~ The colorod people of Warren, Ohio have
given one OF their number fifty lqshes the
bare back for acting is stool pigeon to the slave
hunters aud disclosing the direction which fu-
gitive had taken.
~ The catch Of salmon about Halifax this
summer has been very large. Immense guam
titles have been exported 10 the United States
/ The price IN the Halifax market Is 81 to Sd per
eooHd.
~ Late adrices from Texas states that niuc
/ persons have recently been killed by the Indi-
ans, about twenty live miles from Weatherford,
/ Parker County. On Kreehi Creek, in that
county. the people are building forts for proec-
lion.
sz-The Republicans ofthe ST. Louis Con-
eressiorsl District, in Convention, nominated,
Frank p Blair ~ reclamation for reelection.
s5y- The commander Of the cruisers, Jasper
Buzzard. and Styx. the British Vice Admiral in
Jamaica assured the Commander Of the Wabash,
would DC held to strict account of their doings.
60 At ircmeu's row III Philadelphia, on
Monday night one fireman was killed and two
athers severely wounded
- John " Forney, editor Of the Philadel-
pima Press. ii Is said. viii be nominated and
elected as the anti-Lecampton candidate for
Sheriff of that county at the next election. The
office is womb about $20,0Go year.
- ! few days ago. twenty-eight prisoners
arrived Al tie Alton Pellitvatiary from Chicago,
being the proceeds Of single term Of the Re
corder's Court.
/ - We learn from Washington that in the
confident expectation Of peace in Utah. 4 por-
ton ofthe troops ordered to that Territory, are
! to be sent to Oregon, where Indian hostilities
have Recommended, and another portion TO be
recalled 10 our North " esieru settlements
80 The heat in the Atlantic cities sor several
days past. has been intense. and many deaths
from sun stroke have occurred.
- Intelligence is now hourly looked Tor
from tAe A,sDiie telegraph feet, and the great-
est anxiety prevails TO hear the result Of The
second trial 10 lay the cable.
- The e LAID Of Steady Habits" was rem
derrd quite unsteady, Tuesday might, by the
invented shock Of an earthquake.
sE~Tle 3;ev York Plolsuce Market Is again
lower, with prospects Vi a still further decline.
- Las, year the weomcn Of Ike United
STATES spent thirty eight million dollars for
fiaery-
- The Washington Union eontradicts " by
authority the rufnor that Nessrs. Cobb and
Floyd ere about 10 retire from the Cabinet
+ - Five million acres of the land granted to
the State of Michigan by act OF Congress in
1899, to be thrown into market Tha
sales VIII commence at Lansing On the 2sth of
July
sE-Tbe Hon. Nathan Clifford The new Uni
ted States Judge. mnde his first appearance on
the Bench in Boston. on Wednesday.
- Ex-rresieieut Pierce Is said TO be en-
gagged IN writing a history Of the Mexican
+ wax.
- The Cincinnati (o) Price C,v-c,a saws
the price Of washed wool VIII rule from % to
50 cents
- \ planter. living near Choctaw Island,
Mississippi had 2l0 cattle dlowucd I,v the
overflow Of The river.
80 Il said tbat one Of the American cap
taius whose vessel was recently overhauled by
the Stvx. Is determined 10 make It a personal
matter Vlih lie commander Of that vessel. lie
proposes 20 whip him bind en- sight
Clrr5>G WnrAs-The Alton Democrat Of
yesterday SAYS Harvest operation commenced
Yesterday az Monticello. and H. the PIass re-
sIous be gram stauds we'll, and the harvest
wish ;A's beautiful weather, promises greatly
Fine tears of russ, cut-worm, lodging etc, a:e
mostly sroUldless, IS yet
CasstIILE. WIs--Age arc informed. that al,o,,-
eae huadred Thousand bushels ct grain will D..
Slapped from the above town this season II l.
IS "a fr-f raIe Ie1omuneuGa,ion. Blakes Prairi.
tles back g.. Cassyi.lc. 4 gentleman who lives
there informs rs, that double the amount If new
prairie Is being broken there by tie plough ms
ear iAan ever IA eHs year before Galeaa Ga
s.te.
New York, June 90
Several deaths from sun stroke are reported
tale morning. aud there are some 30 eases ON .
Gle cogouer's books waiting Enquiry The
weather Is three CT four degrees cooler than YES
tcfday
kuLLrn RE LeursrNc.-We understand from
o ~-r