Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-08-22
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= 4" Simple, yet beautiful rs the mon
key said when he painted his tail sky
blue
Harrison Fosdyk, clerk in the Adj
jjutant Generals Office at Washington, shot
himself on Friday.
A Boston dealer has cigars worth
$400 and $500 per thousand, and their
flavor IS correspondingly delicious.
= 1t is positively stated, on good au-
/ thoritv, that Secretary Stanton will not
write a letter endorsing the Philadelph phia
/ Convention.
/ - Capt Fisk's Montana party was at
i Fort BarthO,d on the 2Oth ult The Sc
ceded party had already passed there
Fuel and fodder were plenty and all went
we'll
Major General B F Butler will visit
the Northwest this week, on business in
connection with the Soldiers and Sailors
National Asylum. lie Is expected at Mill
waukee.
BY order Of the British Government
a criminal was executed at Baroda in In
dia, by being dragged through the streets
OF the city bound TO the foot Of an ele-
plant.
The cholera j. rapidly decreasing in
New York. There were but two or three
new cases on Saturday. and but one or
two deaths. In Brooklyn and on the Is
lands the reports were favorable.
-Gogernor Throckmortin and the rest
Of the recently elected State officers Of Tex
as were inagurated Friday. This termi-
mates the last of the Provisional State
Governments in the South.
- The rule about rivers dividing king
doms does not hold in Europe. The Dan~
ube for example, flows through two hing
doms and two empires 1t begins as
protestant rivulet, becomes Roman
Catholic, and finally t"'"e I urh'
- Private letters from Boston state
that Gen Butler viii be a candidate be
fore the nominating convention in the filth
Massachusetts District, for - seatin Con
gress now occupied by Hon. Jno B. Alley
LIZ Commissioner Cooley, of the Indian
Bureau, has instructed the agents of his
department to prohibit traders from sell
ing arms and ammunition to the Indians
in the different Territories.
a Federal officer was attacked by a
crowd of rebels in Louisville on Monday.
He defended himself valiantly, and only
succumbcd after receiving three wounds
from ristol shots lie is likely to recover.
One of his aSsailants, formerly rebel OF
fcer. was badly wound ed, and Will proba-
bly, die.
ILL The Lafayette (Ind) Courier is in
formed that Young lady,a school teacher,
named Ada Murray and one Of her pupils,
a child hv the name of Lane, were Iu-
stanrIv killed by a shaft Of lightning, at n
place about seven miles from 1arshtield
Another child was severely shocked but
viii probably recover.
The Richmond Ubig wants to know if
the South is to be left at the mercy of
ere In New Orleans-where according 10
Gen Sheriden. about " 80 whites and
blacks were killed and 100 wounded by
U-b.g people, we consider this rather a
cool question.
-A 4 rural chap visiting Grand Rapids,
Mich. GOT playfully drank, when ohserv-
ing n bull pup, he went down on his hands
and knees to have a little game with him.
The pup feeling cross, grabbed him by
the nose and after much trying and
twisting, tore 1t Oft
- There are over seventy telegraph OF
fees in New Your city, with force OF
SD persons there are now thirty wires
between " aShiagtou and New \ orS, and
nearly one hundred wires leave the city
of New York The American and West
ern Union have about 1000 Offices, with
5,oto employees
~ The editor of a Western paper OBJ
serves. The poem which we publish IN
this weeks Herald was written by an es-
teemed friend. who has lain many years
in his grave for his own amusement On
the other hand an eastern editor expresses
rreat Indignation at the manner IN which
4 woman, who had committed suicide,wa:
buried. She was buried Ike a dog witt
her clothes on.
The Oswe-o n. W Times reports tht
brutal whipping Of a lad about twelv,
wears of age hv his father. 4 man name,
EuphrateS Lake of that city. Lake Is ;
Seyeuth-dav Baptist and whipped his sol
in n shocking manner because he did no
want to work on Sunday. when told 70 i,
50 by his father Ii Is said lhat a Shor
rims ago the same man turf FL out Q
doors his daughter, fifteen % 4,rs old, be
cause she would not work on Sunday.
The Favet;e County (Iowa) ReCor,
says Miss Lottie Robinson, ot that place
was somewhat startled few days aEo
while breaking a hen e--. 10 see a sma.
snake, about six inches long, and as larg
As a pipe stem, come out with the v0lk-
The err was a common hen egg. the vol
perfect. and the snake coIed up in th
: white of the egg. The snake Is bottle
up and on exhibition At Robinson x Wa
tcrburys drug store We have seen i
e. and can youch for the truth of what W
saw We regard 1t as ono Of the mo:
singular freaks Of nature, Well worthy th
investigation OF the naturalist