Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1868-03-18
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Russia, last month, eighteen persons
were frozen TO death in one wagon.
The Upper Mississippi river is open
to navigation as far up as Prairie du
CHEN.
The cholera continues terrible in
the Argentine Confederation There
were 1000 victims in Cordova.
The President has accepted there's
ignation of Attorney General Stan
berry, and given the temporary charge
of the office to Secretary Browning.
THE Minnesota State University
now has an agricultural department,
with 10000 acres of land attached to
it.
REPORTS reach La Crosse. Wis :.
that there is third less logs banked
up on the Chippewa and thereabout
than last season.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx's mother presides
at his house in Washington. She is
said to be as proud of her son as is
General Grants father of his.
THE depth of frost in the ground
this winter is pronounced by railroad
men greater than for any winter for
forty years.
THE treaty, made by Mr.. Bancroft
with the North German Confedera-
ton, provides that naturalization
changes nationality.
THE President has decided upon
retaining Charles O'Connor, David
Dudley Field, Caleb Gushing, Geo.
Ticllnor Curtis and VIM. NJ. Everts,
of New York, as his counsel.
THE Republican State Conventions
of Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi,
Mary land, Kentucky, and North Car
DINA, have pronounced in favor of
Grant for the Presidency.
THE Democratic party, whose rebel.
lion cost US half million lives and
five billions of dollars, want to be
placed in power for the sake of econ
onayt W hat impudencel
Mr. IRA E. PEARL, ofWalton, Mich,
returned to the Assistant Assessor
the amount Of 81 ,5G9 as the gross
proceeds of one half the crop Of hops
| on less than fifteen acres.
IT Is SAID Dickens recently sent his
sisterin-law, in Chicago, $1,000
His friends give as a reason for his
not assisting her before that he did not
know OF her poverty.
NALLANDlNGHAM is made Temporal
| ny happy by the promise that if the
| President Is convicted the Ohfu I-aa-
islature viii elect him to fill out Mr.
| Wade's term.
BARNUM has yet fortune of half a
million of dollars, and announces that
he has planned another establishment
which shall eclipse all his former
efforts
AN exchange remarks that An
| drew Johnson resembles a bashful Low
er, since he denies the soft impeach-
ment;' but GupPy suggests that he
probably does not see the impeach-
ment in the light of . seft thing"
WENDELL PHILLIPS Is travelling
| about the country, berating General
GRANT for not talking more. If WEN
DELL PHILLIPS would talk less he would
not be considered so much of a com
mon scold
\ GREAT many Catholic priests il
Italy are profting by .he civil act,
and marrying. The official paper,
published at Naples, recently con
tanned over fifty marriage notices of
this description.
JOHNSON boasts that he has filed
all the stations from alderman to
Presidents but there remains, unac-
countahly, one station he has never
filled, although eminentlv deserving
of lt-that Is, police station.
GOVERNOR Joshua Baker, General
Hancock's Gubernatorial appointee
IN Louisiana, has been arrested on a
charge of perjury, for having taken
the loyal test oath, while he was gull
ty OF participation in the rebellion.
THE Erie Gazette says it is believed
IN the oil regions that the 100000
stolen from Mr.. Benehoff has not gone
out Of the family. Y young brother
OF the loser, and fast young man.
has not been seen since the robbery.
WHEN the Union army formed a
triangle around the confederacv, with
Grant at one point, Sherman at
another, and Thomas at the third, the
rebellion cared. The same tactics
seem to govern in subduing the tea
pot rebellion of Andrew Johnson.
GENERAL Hancock has appointed
April II and Is for the election in
Louisiana on the new Constitution.
but has appointed rebels on the regis
try boards. Hancock would, of course.
defeat the new Constitution if poss-
ible.
ONE of the most amusing typo
graphical blunders-it cannot be said
to be an errors that of a cotempo-
rary publishing the manifesto Of the
Maryland rebels, and setting forth
that 1t is the duty of Andrew John
son to defend the constitutional
save the country and its liberines."
THE loss at Davenport, bv the re-
cent flood in the Mississippi. Is esti-