Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-05-31

ing the time his Nicaragua line was in opera
ton, he made Sl,9o00Oo per year, clear Of cost
s55- The steamer Star of the West, which
has been built at Racine. to go to Pixies Peak
has started 1t goes 70 Chicago, passes through
the Illinois Canal, goes UP he Missouri and
Platte 70 the immediate viciniay OF =" the Dig
ginss."
ss Horse stealing is being carried on pref
~ extensively in some of the interior counties
OF Iowa. Lynch law is threatened in Delaware
County.
- The St. Louis Directory for this year
just published, gives the population Of that city
at nearly 100000.
- Wheat is now carried from McGreeor to
Milwaukee for cents per bushel, corn cents
and oa.@ -ve cents.
90 Tie Cincinnati Enquirer of the sth, is
assured by a gentleman from New York that
Teresa BayiolI Mas. SIoKLEs) is preparing for
tina Stage, and will appear the boards next
Autumn.
sY Minnesota papers state there Is a larger
immigration pouring into that State this
Spring than at any time during the past two
wears, and this OF a much more desirable class
Instead OF real estate spectators and adeen-
turers as in 1857, they are frmers and me-
chanics, who come to reside permanently and to
+ till the soil. .
/ - 4 Marriage was recently soleninized in
/ the State Of MASSACHUSETTS, between a man one
hundred years Old. and a widow of eighty.
sg The Wilmington Herald says it is re-
J cd TINT RC-r- auI n w., o,;;+or
/ OF the Rchnni.d Enquirer, fought a duel on the
evening OF the 18th inst, and that WISE was
/ killed
.S- The ice business of Lake Pepin on the
Mississippi, the past winter has been one of
great Importance. Over six thousand tons were
+ put up at various points the Lake, The value
of which viii not be less than $4,000.
- young lady was recently refused
I teachers certificate by Il New York Commits
sioner because She declined TO pledge herself
not to dance while she taught school. She APP
pealed to the State Superintendent, who de-
cidcd that she had right 10 dance and teach
school too.
- At New Orleans. on the 18th inst, the
Lafayette Sugar Refinery and several adjoining
burned.
- Mas SINCLAIR, the former wife of the
great tngedlan FoRRE5r, is now at Davenport,
Iowa, with Mn. Henry SEDLEY, giving dramatic
readings.
~ National Convention of the <lrovers
and shippers of stock is to be held in Pittsburg
on Wednesday. the 8th of June. 1t is expected
th.. Ia. Ia
- a grca: rise has taken place in the price
Of saitpetre in the Eastern market IN conse-
quencc Of the anticipated demand for ii in the
manufacture of gunpowder to be used in the
European war.
~ The rrlst.lias made it's appearance in the
wheat fields of Southern Georgia far earlier
than last year.
~ rhe Burlington Hawkcye names Hon.
w W. HAMuroS of Dubuque rs the Republic
can candidate for lieutenant Governor OF Iowa
25g- The Milwaukee AMI Mississippi Railroad
Company are engaged in laying down a new
track betty GAINESVILLE and NiTon.
cSy- The Chicago Times of the Nth saws it
has reason TO believe that The Postmaster Cen
er;.I has already decided that unless the Post
Master OF Chicago, without delay, disnroves the
case made out against the Postoffice in that CITY.
he Will be removed from Office.
c- Judge DoUGtAs left Washington on the
15;h inst, for New Orleans.
- Wheat is nearly ready for the reaper in
the Egypt of southern Illinois.
g The estimated loss by the recent f.e at
Oshkosh IL sumaiei up at 40U,000-about one
fourth Of which isInsured.
.af- The Rock County (wis) Court House.
at GAINESVILLE. burnt TO the ground on Sat-
urday night last 1t was set on FIRE There
was snail insurance Oh the building
- The Rocky Mountain .Nelgs. of a pril 22i.
the first paper published in the mining region,
WAS received a. st. 10, on the 18th 1t con-
tains little gold news though of a favorable
character.
Is The Royal Nail steamship Persia sailed
from New York at I oclocEP NJ. on Wednes-
day 9th, with 230 passengers for Liverpool,
Including Count and Madame .RrIeEs and
CYRus W. FrELD Es,. She took cut s.. 999 GOO
in specia,
- FaASois Josrpn, the Emperor of Austria,
VINO leads the Austrian army against Sardinia
and France. Is but % years of age.
- The week ending the 18th less than
''i@o en'igrants landed at the port of New
York, making 22,32o since the commencement
of the season.
- -Four hundred and twenty lives were
lost by the wreck of an American passenger
shp Pomona, on the cost of Wexford, Ireland.
She was bound for New York
TIE Ew EyGL-sH PArIIAa Esr The London
1t"'ss expresses the opinion that the Derby
Minist ~ VIII lie unable 10 maintain themselves
before The new Parliament, which viii contain