Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-07-05
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| Day.
| - The Democrat estimates the population
OF Prescott at between I, 800 and 2,O0O
| sE There has not been single case of vel
| low fever reported in New Orleans this season
| sE the railroad fare from Milwaukee O,
Chicago to New York, has been put up to $23
sB DR.. GaEGoRY T. BEpELL has been elected
Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of the Episcopal
Church of Ohio.
sH The annual commencement of Be,oit
College will take place on Wednesday the 18th
inst.
eB- The Wolf River Pinery will furnish the
Mississippi valley with 100000 feet OF pine
| lumber this season.
| cSy George Walston, of Louisville. Ky. was
killed in that city Saturday, by the bursting
of Il soda fountain.
sB- On the l4th a severe gale occurred on
St Croix river. says the Hudson Star, smashing
up several RATS.
sS The seventh annual exhibition of the u
S. Agricultural Society will be held at Chicago
| on the 18th of September next
s8 Gen. Soorr, it is stated, has made wa
ger of five hundred bottles of champagne that
Louis Napoleon viii never return to Pa-is from
the War
RAcINs CoLLrGE-The annual commencement
of the Racine College is appointed to be held
| IN Titus Hall, at Racine, on Thursday July
18th ensuing
sH George Bailey, editor of the Nationul
5th ult. He had left for Europe in quest of
health.
- Mr.. Merrill of Prairie du CHEN, and
brother TO the editor of the Courier was danger
ously burned by the explosion of lamp on the
10Th inst.
aE tobacconist at Cincinnati says that he
sells upwards of two hundred pounds of snuff
in the course of month to ladies p who chew
it in lieu of the weed in the leaf state
PRoGREss IN MrssouRI.-A Republican paper
has just been commenced at St. Joseph, Missou-
ri, called the Free Democrat The free State
cause is making gratifying progress in Mis-
souri.
.9- 1t is stated that 10000 Americans are
travelling in Europe, whose expenses average
81 per day. This makes the sum of s5I 900 900
year, spent by Americans in pleasure travel
abroad
DAUGHTERs OF MALTA.-The women of Bliss
field Michigan, have organized lodge of the
g Daughters of Malta" and are holding their
mysterious meetings two or three evenings in
each week.
s- In Grant, Richland and Bad AK counties
the people doing extensive business in
digging ginseng, whice abounds there. 1t is
now sold (green) at s and 8 cents a pound, and
is in good demand.
FEARFUL FRE.-At the late fire at Brody, in
Austrian Gallcla. 500 public buildings and pri-
vaie houses destroyed. Ten persons lost
their lives 1t is thought that the fire the
work of an incendary.
A MIGHTY MIKRon-A mirror for the Filth
Avenue Hotel, now building, has come from
Paris. 1t measures 66 by l65 inches. and cost
over $ coo. This does not count in the frame.
1t was TOO large to be shipped hither otherwise
I than as part of ships deck load.
- Late advices from Turks Island state
that the Salt market has been unusually dull,
only one vessel loading for the United States.
The weather had looked threatening, and lit
tie rain had fallen, but not enough to damage
the salt that was ready to rake.
sW- Mr.. Joseph Charless, whose recent death
by violence created so much excitement In ST.
Louis, had insurance on his life in the different
offices to the amount of S22 500. He left no
will Taylor and VIM I. Blow, have admins
tered on his estate
sE- The President has issued proclamat., an
for the sale of public Land in Iowa. cor,menc-
ing at Fort Dodge the Goth of Sept, and
Sioux City on the Sd of Oct. The lands in
the Northwestern part of the State. at the head
of the Des Mones river and It's tributaries.
.E- Mss Smith who was burned to death in
Orange Co. n. Y, had just been Queen Ct
May, and at her funeral the dress she as
May Queen was used as her funeral shroud, and
twelve maids Of homo. who were her compan
ions at the May celebration formed the sad cor
tege.
Tho Kansas papers generally discredit
the recent exciting news from Pixies Peak
which the Leavenworth papers have made SO
much fuss ever. All the recent startling Kan
sas news has TO the public through the
channel Of Leayenworth, and should be received
with disirust and caution.
sE- The Boston correspondent of the New
burvport Herald remarks that Teunysons new
poem The War Song" meets with very Sc
we're criticism on all sides 1t adds still more o
! the disgust in which he Is held as poet, and
IL this place not only the poetry but the Ian
cuace and sentiment Is vulgar and absurd
sE- Brown says. If you want your boy 10 De-
have we'll, give him good clothes Dress hi
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