Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-06-01
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TIE tdlI OF lLStI C0AltN - VI
20 The receipts of the Mil d Miss Rail
road for april were S76.0s9 35-an Increase of
over $50 coo over last year.
sH- Wheat and grass, says the Monre Green
Coz Sent, look promising, though the former
is growing rather too rank
- It Is stated on good authority that the
circulation Of the Atlantic Monthly has reached
3O,O0O
sT- The income of the English Wesleyan
Missionary Society for the year. has exceeded
El200o0, being about six hundred thousand
dollars.
THE Overflow OF THE MISSISSIPPI
damage to the sugar crop of Louisiana, by the
Bell ereyasse (near Baton Rouge alone, is esti-
mated at not less than 100000.
NEw PAPER.-The Albany Weekly Times Is
tn title Of a paper just established at Al
bany. Green Co, By l. s Dexter & Y. T. Lacy.
WIsooysIy WHEAT IL BuFFALo.-On the 18th
Ct June. Wisconsin white wheat sold in Buffalo
at 50 cents a bushel.
CHEAP.-Potatoes are selling in WATERFOWL,
according to the Democrat. for eight cents a
bushel; butter at ten cents pound
sH~ An African chief. not being able to save
both wife and mother from drowning, saved
The latter Because said be, Ne can get
another wife, but not another mother"
6fUcH BETTER THAN WAS EXPECTED The frosts
at the South did very little damage after all the
fuss. and It is not found necessary to re-plant
much Of the cotton.
- \ stroHg-armed woman at Smyra. Della
ware, fogged a fellow severely or the piazza Of
the hotel, for sedueing her husband TO the tay-
ern, where the pair would ind ulge too freely in
drink. She then offered her arm to her hus-
band, and conducted him home.
c5- Nebraska farmers speak encouragingly
Of the prospects of the crops. The weather *
favorable and everything promises large re-
turn for their labor
sB Advices from Burlington, Iowa, state that
the Mississippi river is receding, and that the
track Of the Chicago, Burlington 1t Quincy Rail
road, which has suffered somewhat from the high
water, IS in running order.
eH- man named johnson, says the Nil Free
Dam, brother Of the proprietor Of the Brighton
House, Chicago, died very suddenly on Wednes-
day. He arrived in the city during the after
noon and was taking a walk with his brother,
when he suddenly dropped dead, il IS supposed
ia apoplectic fit.
~ at Madison, y. J., a few days since, a
man named Townley, drank from bottle what
be supposed 10 be cider but which proved to be
poison, and died in agony, and his wife became
so much excited at the terrible event that she
died suddenly, and both their funerals were at
tended at time
- Owing to the opposition that has sprung
up between the railroads ami the propeller lines,
cattle are transported from Albany to New FORK
at the rate of twenty-five cents head, and
sheep and hogs in proportion. The winter fare
was ten shillings a head.
cz7-The New York Tribune intirnatez that the
Illinois Postmasters are leaguing with the Re-
pnblicsns to defeat the National Douglas Dem
ocracy, and have 4 Republican to succeed Judge
Douglas in the [. 5. Senate.
/ 60 The correspondents Of the New orl Tn
juns says that Gen. Shields in the Senate took
his seat on the Republican side, and voted on
the l2th with tho Republicans.
- murderer having escaped from the
Sheriff in Missouri, aweste-n exchange suggests
+ that a detective be sent to Washington to ar-
preheud MIN before Buchanan appoints him to
office.
PLYMOUTH, May -.
Trial OF Mas. GARDNER.-The trial of Mrs.
Abigail Gardner for poisoning her husband, the
+ late Postmaster at bingham, which has occu-
pied the Supreme Court here during the week,
ended this morning by verdict of murder in
the third degree.
ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY HERO GoSB.-Robert
Gallup. revolutionary veteran, and the last sur
yivor of the Griswold massacre, died the Dist
ult.. at Cheming, New York. He was aged
rinety-eight.
/ ~" Gold has been discovered ii Gentry CO.
Missouri, and several old Californians are at
work there, taking out from one 81 to So per
day, it IS believed that there are heavy deposits
t in the neighborhood.
I IS huge bear entered the barn Of Seth
S,erlir g. IN Warren. "a the ed ut, and taking
a sheep went off to the mountain and although
I Us men gave chase, the bear broke through
/ their ranks and escaped.
+ - The extent of territory and variety of
climate OF the United States may be realized in
The fact that in certain parts of Texas the wheat
crop IS now ready for the scythe, while at the
North it is just beginning to grow.
/ - The Louisville Journal says the young
men who expected to be drawn to fight the Nor
mons are very much disappointed at the peace
+ prospects. and are determined TO go to Utah any
how, and }oin the Mormons if they cannot fight
them 1t adds. b. joining them these young
men viii accomplish their main object.
DISTRESSING CAsuALrrY.-A son of Mr.. Myers.
Of Flover, (says the Wis. Pinery,) about nine
years of age, kicked in the head by a horse
on Tuesday afternoon, and taken up for dead =
De was leading the horse and endeavorinr to
urge him by striking him in the flank with the
eud Of the halter, when the animal kicked him
with sharp sbod foot