Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-01-04
NEE S ITEMS

given the certificate of election 70 JoHS b. Has
ky, in that Congressional District,
re. ". ApA,ss has established Bank of
issue at Manitowoc. called the :" lake Shore
Bank"
- Ten prisoners broke out of the Jail at
Columbus. Ohio, on Sunday the 9th.
- i proposal for a new constitution for
Indiana is being agitafed by papers il. that
State.
- The Beaver Dam Eaeeloe4rat is decidedly
Of opinion that Judge Louis Of Columbus, should
be the noxt DeH1eera. candidate for Governor
sB- Money is 80 easy with cur friends over
the water, that the Bank Of Ensla--t has reduced
its rate of discount = per cent
/ sE- Ex-Governor Walker, of Kansas, is about
to proceed 10 California. to take personal charge
! Of some important private interest there.
sSA bridge across the Wisconsin River,
canoeing Muscoda. in Grant county, with
Richmond, in Rieihand county, is projected
- More than the amount required for the
construction Of the Saoz ship canal has been
subscribed IN London.
- 4 new paper to advocate State As
sumption Is about to De started at Itipon, in Fon
du Lac county, to be edited by \. r. NAPFEs.
~ The health of FonrScE NlGHrixeALE is
50 broken that Sic IS Obliged to forego all of her
usual attention to objects Of public benevolence.
~ The Albany Journal received tcle-
graphic despatch over the Sprir gfield line by
HuGuEs instrument. 1t says the printing is as
perfect IS tie best letter press.
~ new bank Is about to be organized in
Boston, under the general banking law Of 1851,
to lie called the Safety Fund Bank" and to
have capital of 100000
- The State of Indiana appears to have
made some two millions Of dollars clear out Of
the old State Bank. which goes into the School
fund.
- The Schooner Fair Play, at Sherboy
gan, viii run all winter between that place and
Milwaukee, and other ports south on the lake
for freighti.s purposes.
Eg CsEEruL-A countryman had his pocket
PICKED Of $50, at the La Crosse Depot last
might. It was all the money the poor fellow
had. So says the AsEs.
- The orange crop-of Louisiana This seasyn
Is reported to he unusually large and the crop
IS selling from plantations al from six to eight
dollars per thousand, cheaper than apples in
this quarter.
The IyDrAyA SEyArors.-Thc Legislature
of Indiana have elected HENRY 5. LAyE and
WN McCAErT, United States Senators, the
former till l5G9 the latter till 1861 These
gentlemen viii now 90 to Washington and con-
test the seats OF AIessrs Bright and FITCH.
- The Legislature of Illinois met on Non
day the third Of january. The first business
before it, viii be the election of United States
Senator, There is small doubt that Douglas
viii he chosen without trouble
- The Governor has issued his proclarna-
'ion ordering special election u the Fourth
Assembly District OF Fon du Lac county, on the
18th Of JANUARY, TO GIl the vacancy made by
5. L. BARNES.
! - Ministers are moi allowed TO hold seat.
, in the North Carolina Legislature. Whether
the ministers are too good for tLc place, or III,
+ place too good for tie ministers, does not ap
E pcar-
- Jouy EEEUNEE. recently convicted at Sc
d uera. Kane county. Illinois, Of the murder @
AxtoIxE CoSrAu.a farmer in Kendall county, il
january. Ie57, las been sentenced to be hun.
n on Friday, The 18Th day Of February next
- There are now eleven projects and bill
e before Congress for the construction of Pa
&c cii.c Railroad We fear the multitude Of coan
= cillors viii not prove matter Of safety in til
il important subject.
= - on Thursday ,-st. about eight o'clock i
"a the morning. the barn of 81. W..s-xEY, on III
- farm adjoining the village of jefferson. wa
+ burned down, with all his crops of grain an,
III hay which were housed Ia 1t. His cattle wer
s, got out safe. The fire is supposed to have bee
10 eccasioned by cigar
q - Railroads are uov In progress which
" when caulpl..feeI --.l ~--....r-s E.,kv hIiculga
h with the Gulf OF Mexico at Now Orleans. an,
q the time IS not remote when they viii be com
plotod The time then from Chicago TO New
Orleans. viii be about forty-eiglt hours. It j
At now from eight to twelve days.
4 - Counterfeit - M,is on :re Traders
.e Bauk r. =. have been pat 81 circulation /,
y New York The bill is well engraved. hat tb
1 printing looks pale. The vi-uctte Is sprea,
II eagle IL the foreground. with slip in fun sail
-r and city ihe distance. The biiI j., unlike III,
J. original.
Il - Another brutal exhibition Is 81 eoute,n
1t pla'ian 1t New York Forter~ Sruit Of III,
; Times says Woods challenge 70 fight Hcenan l.
1 accepted Hecuau's friends having deposited
- 500 w',A Tie editors Of Shat journal ar the o.
p'~iie party T. cover rs the irst .ustallneat 4,
liso proposed tet Of S2.500.
- Some three n'or rs ago among crowd
: 81 prisoners semitic the Chicago House 81 Cor
rs1tio" were :-2/ men, orc OF whom was sen. ur
i'r two days and lie yoke-feilow ttr ninety
DAYS BY some iuadvcrtcnce, those TWO 70;
mixed oP and the twc days convict was made
10 serve the other roF1 : term n Stone breaLi,
3 The victim OF this mistake has sred Cor DANA