Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-03-20
News ~ the Past Week.

passed resoIutloa excluding alco-
hole liquors from the Capitol building.
THE report that the. City ofMexico
has been captured by the Liberals is
contradicted--a all Mexican reports
generally are.
JsFFERses DAVIS is said to have
received $4,000 in subscriptions
from his frienes since his incarcera-
ton IN Fortress Monroe.
CANADA is excited By rumors of an
other intended Fenian raid across the
border from st. Adams, VT Mill
tary preparations are making to re-
sist it.
The Secretary of the Treasury
states that the net profit TO the
Government by the sale Of rebel cotton
and abandoned property amounted to
about S25 100000
THE city Of Chattanooga is suffering
terribly from the prevailing food Its
streets are filed with water. All that
section Of country is suffering Many
lives are reported lost by drowning
THE Iowa division of the Chicago
and Northwestern, west of Boone. IS
com pletelv blockaded by snow, and il
viii probably be several DAYS before
trains will be able to get through
from or to the Missouri.
The Chiffon {Wis.) Times says 10
sqph Delano, boy aged l6, had a
fight with large she bear, and killed
her with an AK, capturing four cubs.
He was considerably scratched about
the legs, but escaped serious injury.
: THE Committee on Territories. in
the present Congress will again report
in favor of the admission of Colorado
as & State, and it is believed the
measure could now be carried over
the Presidents veto.
THE New York Board Of Health has
issued a circular warning the public
of the probable approach of cholera
this Summer. and urging the legisla-
ture to provide for suitable quarantine
regulations.
DrrrhaR1A in typhoid form has
become an epidemic in the Ohio Deaf
ard Dumb Asylum. There have
been over thirty cases. The school
has been suspended, and the pupils
are being sent home as fast as pos
sible.
THE failure of Taft & Co, of Prov.
idence, Rhode Island. was followed bv
that Of the Wauregan Print Company
with liabilities to the extent Of 50,
600, 900 These failures were caused
mainly by the fall in cotton and
cotton goods.
Further accounts from Alabama
and Georgia represent the destitutior
greater than has hitherto been stated
Deaths are reported from starvation
IN Alabama, while a leading papel
In Georgia estimates the total number
Of starving there at so, 900.
THE loss by fire in the United States
during the month of Januarr, 1867
counting only those fires which in
volved loss of $500 and upwards
amounted to $1,000. 900 In Feb
ruary the loss was S402, 600 greater
being S4,405,O 900.
THE total reduction of the United
States debt within a single year from
March /, 1866, to March /, 1857
according to the monthly reports Of
the Secretary of the Treasury. has
amounted to 8l,O76,lIO. At this
rate the entire debt could be extin
guIshed IN fifteen years.
| Mr.. STOMACH sends his respects Il
Mr.. Brain, requesting him, if con
venlent, not to undertake any strona
intellectual effort after hearty
dinner, as he wishes to bring the
strongest possible concentration oil
vital power upon the meal inst con
signed to him. for its proper digestion.
The boiler IN the Novelty Iron
Works IN BrockviIIe, c. w. exploded
on the l4th, killing two men instantly.
One body was blown into three pieces
and the trunk was found one hundred
yards from the scene of the explosion.
Several others were severely injured
and one has since died.
OK Monday last judgment was rem
dered against theMavor and Aldermen
Of Dubuque. Iowa, in their private ca.
pacities for the sum of S.. LOCI SO. thew
having refused to make tax lew
sufficient TO pay for some propertv
which had been condemned for the
use of the city.
The prejudice against negro suffrage
it said to be gradually giving wav in
Georgia, the people being anxious for
a settlement of the reconstruction
controversy, SO that Northern men
and capital may flow into the State
for the development of It's material
resources.
The flood at and below Carlo con.
tinues. Mound City is now submerged
the crevasse having raised the water
inside the city to the same height as
outside the levee The flood in the
Arkansas river IS now at stand
The effects of the freshet at Helena
were disastrous in the extreme.
Many houses were swept away. and
the destruction of property IS i'm
mense- Twentv-seven persons. mostly
freedmen persisted in the food on
cage Tribune.
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