Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-11-08
News Items.

On Saturday last drover returning from N
7. had his pocket picked on the Cleveland and
Columbus Railroad of 81 900 in 800 bank
notes On the Thursday previous, passenger
on the Erie Railroad was relieved of his pocket
book cont.ining $l,70o. In neither WIS
the thief arrested.
The proposed amendment Of the State Con-
situtiou of Ohio. providing for annual instead
# biennial sessions of tie Legislature, which
was voted upon at the late election, is probably
rejected by a large majority
Miss Della Bacon. who startled the world a
few years srnce with 4 theory that Shakespeare
myth. and his plays the work of other
hands. died IN the Insane Asy lun at Hartford a
few days ago.
MADAME Jenny Lind Goldschmidt has been
singing in Dubin with Signor Bee;ti. She IS
determined to return to public life once more
Otto and the children are powerless against the
footlights.
THE oil springs discovered in Crawford coun-
ty, Pa, create a feverish excitement in all that
section. and everybody is going into the bust
ness, the yield being enormous and the ex-
peuses but tritling.
THE Dodgevlle Adoocatc says, that on Satur-
day last, Mr.. Samuel Rohr, of that village
while returning home in buggy, his horse took
fright and ran away, throwing him out aud
breaking his leg The accident occurred in
the immediate vicinity of town.
THE same paper says that on Tuesday evening
last while helping TO unload load of stone for
the County Building, Mr.. Samuel Stephens.
OF that place met with severe accident. In
| endeayoring to assist in placing the stone some
distance from the wagon. his coat got entangled,
throwing him DOM, and the stone falling upon
his hand. cut of his fingers clean off, aud
severely damaging another.
THE same paper describes a visit to a cave
some two miles southeast of the village, con-
tanning seven apartments divisions, one of
which &c feet long, and As feet wide, and
from to I feet high, and some so feet below
the surface The solitude and serenity of the
cave, in connection with little of Paddy S
eye water" which The Editor took along, seem
! to have had awe inspiring" influence upon
him. which, it is hoped, Will not suddenly wear
| off,
| WE have advices from Oregon to the Goth of
September Rain had fallen since the 18th of
September almost necessarily.
! - Election day in Baltimore, was the oc =
casion of the most disgraceful riots, so that it
was impossible for peaceable citizens to vote
| Is repairing break in the Grafton aqueduct
at New York, last Saturday, the fact was dis
closed that the pipes inhabited by ifs hes
among them fine white and yellow bass, one
specimen being nine inches III length.
TIE Journal of Commerce expresses the opn-
ION that the 10th day of April next will be des-
! ignated by the Democratic National Committee
as the time for the meeting of the Charleston
Convention.
! THE extension of the Grand Trunk Railroad
from Quebec to Rivicre-du- Loup, and one hun
bred and fourteen miles, infor nally opened
on the 18th inst, temporary rails being laid
down for the last eight or ten miles.
/ Mrs. Fanny kcmble and her daughter re-
turned from their visit to England in the steam
er Europa.
/ THERE was heavy frost at Augusta, Ga.
last Saturday morning. and the weather was 50
cold that ice formed
AT the opening of the Court of Common
Pleas, in Cleveland, last week, there fifty
five applicants on the docket for divorce.
VOICE FROM THE ToMBs.-Senaor Douglas
Is out again in reply TO the Attorney General
and in defence of Squatter Sovereignty"
NIsIAS E. WHIrksrDgs is mentioned anon 9
the candidates for the place m9de vacant in the
U. S. Senate by the death of Brodcric< of Cal
ifornia. Ninan went TO California from the
western part of this State. was well known in
Territorial times, and was the speaker of the
first Assembly under the State Constitution in
1913. He has qualification whatever for the
place, and is scarcely the man that even the CAL
ifornians would send to Washington
THE Republicans of Kentucky will meet in
Convention on Wednesday morning. Nov. 10th
1859, at Newport. to organize the party in the
State--to form Presidential electoral ticket.
appoint two Senatorial delegates for the State
at large, and transact such other business as may
come before the Convention.
THE St. Paul Pioneer and Democrat talks Of
unexamPled hard times at St. Paul, and SAYS
that it sees little hope of any change for the
better before tie opening of navigation next
spring.
TnE majority of the Republican candidate for
Governor in Iowa, Is about 1000. The Repub-
licans have majority in the Legislature on joint
ballot of %.
TuE number of lives lost ny the laundering of
the propeller Troy on Lake Huron is stated at
twenty three.
. Tha S,Iar Ion Surt H.,