Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1867-04-24
4eWS Of the Past Week.

RE prospects Oh the frult crop u
Ohio and Indiana are said 10 be verv
favorable
ADyIcEs from Ireland indicate that
another and more extensive Fenian up
rising Is anticipated.
THE Republican majority in the
State of Michigan, at the recent Judi
cial election, IS p ,874
A CABLE dispatch states that Glad
stone resigns the leadership of the
Liberal party in England.
The bill to increase the passenger
fare on the New York Central Rail
road has again failed
a HOMEOPATHIC physician in France
cures rheumatism BY placing bee on
the spot where the pain IS the seyerest
and exciting 1t until 1t stings.
y STAGE coach was attacked by In
dams near Ferrit's Ferry, on the 26th
ult., and the driver and two passengers
killed.
THE New York and Erie Elevator
in Buffalo was destroyed by fire on
saturday morning. Loss about 500
600.
IT is stated that the President is
about to resume the pardoning busin-
ess, which has been Suspended for sew
eral months past.
Arkansas" The Governor Of Ar
kansas says that that State is ready to
organize under the Reconstruction
act.
II Is said that Nicaragua is about
to demand indemnity Of the United
States for injuries sustained from
Walkers fllibustering expedition.
ILLNESS OF GEN. KING.-The State
Department has received information
that Gen. Rufus King, our Minister
at Rome, is very i'll with fever.
THE Waukesha Freeman saws
large breadth of wheat has been sovn
in that county, and thinks considerable
more wheat viii soon come into mar
ket.
La CROSSE LAND OFFIcE.-The Re
publican SAYS the La Crosse Land Office
was re-opened on Wednesday By order
Of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office.
THE Vienna Post, the organ Of the
Austrian government, declines to put
very much confidence in the peaceful
adjustment of the Difficult t. between
France and Prussia.
GEN. SHERIDAN has ordered mill
tary commission at New Orleans. for
the trial of one Wicker, cleared by
jury of having murdered 4 colored
man. and the July rioters viii proba-
bly, follow suit
THE very latest from Mexico comes
from Matamoras dated the 18th inst.
The Liberals have taken Puebla.
Macmillan had offered TO surrender,
but the Liberals would not accede to
his term.
Mad dogs are among the later Iuxur-
les that Chicago boasts Of. On Thurs
day three children were bitten bv
cur that gave unmistakable signs Of
hydrophobia. One Of them. at least
IS beyond the hope of recovery.
DISPATCHES have been received At
the state department from Gen. Dix.
at Paris, wherein be- IS represented as
looking upon the complications be-
tween France and Prussia as Of
most serious nature.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER has been
nominated by the Republicans Of
Kings county as a delegate TO the
New I ork Constitutional Convention.
The copperheaas had about 10000
majority in that county last fail.
IT IS stated that the evidence taken
before the Judiciary Committee shows
that John IL. Surratt was ignorant Of
the conspiracy to assassinate President
Lincoln, ont that he was a party to 3
plot to abduct him.
THE Senate on SATURDAY rejected
the following " isconsin nominations
q NJ. Robinson, Collector 9Th dis
trict d. ". Maxon, Assessor 4th
district; William Johnson. Collector
9Th district; Joseph Wagner, AS
SCISSOR Attn district.
4 RU>foR prevails at Washington
that our Government Is negotiating
with Great Britain for the purchase Of
the British American possessions
also that an expedition is being organ
lied by our Government to explore
the recently purchased Russian pos
sessions
SoUND.-Attorney General Stan
berry IN his address before the Su-
preme Court said that he was directed
to say that the Presidents opposition
TO the Military Reconstruction Bill
ceased when he had vetoed It. Now
that 1t had become law in a consti-
tutlonal manner. he regarded il as his
duty to see 1t faithfully executed.
WHEAT SowING.-Bv the time this
issue IS IA the hands Of cur readers the
farmers Of this section viii have nearly