Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-03-19
NEWS ITEMS.

OiL has been discovered in Kansas, and
preparations are making for extensive ope-
rations in that line.
A LAD, son of Benjamin F. Bell, of
Lynden, " hiteside county, ILL.,. was fatally
shot on "edne sday las, by the accidental
discharge OF gun In the hands Of a com
panion while shooting.
TIE steamer Monarch, from Cincinnati
to New Orleans, struck a snag and sunk on
the 2d inst, a, the head of the Falls of the
ONO River, In shoal wa .er. the deck freight
Is uninjured.
The Ere Canal will be opened for navi-
CATION some time between the middle Of this
month and the first of April Repairs that
have been in progress along the lac ar al
most finished. Boats are 10 be allowed a
draft of seven feet.
THREB men and their wives recently got
I into hgh, near linekiln in VAUDEVILLE,
New Jersey, and getting all cinched to-
ge'her, they fell into the kiln and were
/ burned to death.
| THE foundations in Holland continue 70
an alarming extent. More than fifty Villa
+ ges a:e totally submerged, and thousand of
families have been obi ged to leave Their
homes to seek homeless shelter in higher
districts,
FOURTEEN negroes were sold by auction
in Memphis. Tenn, las, week, at an aver
age of S950 apiece.
! LoBBIT PRArr. fourteen years old. was
arrested at Charleston. Mass, recently for
setting three buildings on fire.
/ g. w. KING has been arrested in Iowa
and has acknowledged that, with two ac-
completes. he murdered DR.. Roe, in the
winter Of 1853, and robbed bin of
| $4,000,
FANTILE MACK, the fat boy recently OK
hibited at Barnum's Museum, died the 9TH
er day. The boy was sevel years old and
weighed $40 pounds, and died If excessive
fairness.
FRoM three to five per cent of all the pa
per money in circulation is said by Wall
street broker,to be counterfeit This seems
a large proportion.
THERE were nine hundred and twelve
convicts in Auburn State Prison en- Mon
day last. This the h CHEST number ever in
the prison at one time.
One hundred and eighty seven inebriates
hon 80 4
aad manhood by the phiIanthropis.s who
for some months past, have been conduct
Jug tue Inebriates' Home in Catham street.
New York.
PoEr Az PRINcE dates of the 10th uIt,
state that the bark Million of New Orleans
has been seized there as a SLAYER.
Oh the farm Of ;. s. Morrs son, - miles
from Louisville, Kentucky, there is piot
of ground about two rods square. on which
the magnetic needle refuses to acknowledge
lis allegiance 10 the pole. No mineral de-
posts are known to exist there. Scientific
men called on to explain
The Simese Twins, Chang and Eng, are
giving exhibitions in California.
The patent bill, as finally passed, extends
the term Of patents hereafter granted to sew
enten years, and prohibits all extensions
thereafter.
The official census returns show the pop
ulation of alifornia to be 375, 900 The
population Of San Francisco is between 81
900 aud $1,000.
Two hundred thousand bushels Of pea
nuts are raised for export in and about
SCOTS Hill, South Carolina. They are
mere profitable than cotton.
A Letter from Wisconsin TO the Cleve-
laud paigdealer says that seventeen men
were poisoned IN one OF the pineries Of that
State few days since An investigation
of the matter revealed the fact that zzard /
had been boiled in the kettle used by them. /
A couple living in the county of Stor- /
mont, Canada, have twenty-six children, all /.
residing with them in the same House.
The postage on circulat- to California I
and all places on the Pacific coast is now,
by law, ten cents to be in all cases pre-
paid, for every half ounce. Letters to Col /.
orato Territory. New Mexico, &C., at the /
same rates as before.
IT Is understood that one of tho objects of /
Col. Frtmont's journey to Europe is 10 in
duce the investment of foreign capital in |
the working Of his extensive gold field in
MaHposa.
a" White House" has been hired at .
Montgomery. Ala, for the use of the Pres
ident of the Southern Confederacy a. s., 900 !
a year.
% The bill esemp,ing 5000 OF Priating
material from execution. which passed the
Senate, has been killed. VS. do not
hnli..vl t. craft cra,.n.nI IL. LTD :. L..