Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-24


England received SAC, 200, 900 from
Australia in 1868.
Cricket-piaying has already begun
in Philadelphia. /.
Maine votes $40 900 for her A gricul-
tural College.
Ohio has Sl62, 80, 900, worth of
live stock
Iron is being sought for near Sara
toga.
Fort Moultrie is deserted, and is
without garrison.
There are ninety-four papers put
lished in Louisiana.
Ninety-six members of Congress
retired on the 4th inst.
New maple sugar is sold at Pitts
field, Mass, for forty cents pound.
heyenne has three church. organ
izations and church edifices.
Missouri is talking of appropria-
ting S3 600 for State Entomologist.
The Partisan places ofamusement
received eSl $50 during December.
John H. Kinkhead is postmaster
Of Sitka.
Tennyson. the poet, is said TO he
an inveterate smoker.
William s. Dodge has been re-elec-
tea Mayor of Sitka.
Y. S. Arthur & Sons of Philadel-
phia, now publish three magazines.
Alexander II has presented Patti
CauX with a fur wrapper worth Sl6,-
900 in gold.
Harriet Martineau is now i'm her
siXty-seventh year ,and has been able
n
Gen. Stewart L. WOOdfOrd, eX-
Lieutenant Governor of New York,
is lecturing on ''Phil. Sheridan"
Spiritual Photographs are taken
on Broadway, New York, for $40
each.
Fifty peppermint" distilleries are
going up i'll Wayne County this
spring.
The Pullum palace cars now run
within fifty miles of Salt Lake Val
ley.
Norwich, CT, boasts boOk-keeper
who writes with both hands at once
New York sidewalks have had
to be cleared of snow but five times
this winter.
A Pennsylvania paper speaks of a
man who committed an accidental
suicide.n
The owner of the horse Georoe
Palmer, declined 100000 for him a
few days Ego.
The Pfussian Court does not off,
cialiy mourn for any prince under
twelve years old.
Last year the average yield Of hay
per acre in Massachusetts was | 81
tons per acre.
The Tennessee River Improvement
Convention met at Chattanooga on
the oath ult.
In North Carolina, a lawful fence
must be "horse high, bull strong.
and hog tight"
The common error of spelIing
Goliath without the lis made bT
even religious papers.
Recently five large eagles were
Killed the same day by one sportsman
on Naushon Island, CT.
ST. Louis Irish girls sent nearly
$4,000 to the "ould countreeu durino
Christmas week.
The young women in a straw shor
at Palmer, Mass, lately kept silence
for whole hour.
OHIO killed her sheep by wholesale
last fall, and now sheep are worth
four times as much as then.
In Calcasien Parish, La, oil bsrers
found a bed of pure sulphur at a
depth of five hundred feet.
A Louisville burglar; "went
through" four private houses and a
1emale seminary the same night.
The Norfolk Virginian saws that
State has GAO, 900 acres ofoyster rocks
yielding $4,000, 600 annually.
A New Hampshire lady who kent
silver dollar for thirty-five years,
recently FOUND IL to be counterfeit.
The present House of Lords does
not contain single descendant of
the twenty-five barons appointed In
enforce the Magma Charta.
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Ans
ira, has reinstated some Of Kossuth's
generals IN the Austrio-Hugarian
army.
w. 5. Marshall of Indiana School
for the Deaf and Dumb has been cleo
ted Elce-Principal of the Deaf and
Dumt institution at Fulton, Mo.
Gen. II, w. Slocum lectured i'm
Brooklyn recently before the Long
Island Historical Society upon the
Military Lessons Taught by the
Late War;
One of the richest men in Berlin \.
named Moss, who has made a
fortune in few years by an adveT-
using agency. Rolling rocks gathe
no moss, but lively Moss seems to
have gathered the rocks.
Susan Medberry is the name Of
giri in Connecticut who is four
years old, and can already play hun
dreds OF pieces on the piano with
perfect accuracy.
Mr.. Ira Atwood, of st. AIbans
VT, was completely severed fbe
other day by a circular saw, The
man in chargeof the machine was SO
used to saving at wood that he did
not discover the difference until II
was too late.
One of the circuit judges ofFlorida
has been indicted i'm the Initial
States District Court for that district
on two charges, "for opening and
secreting letters" and for perjury i'm
making false returns to the bankrunt
court.
There is powerful revival in the
Chicago Union Park Congregational
Church, of which Rev. C.. ID. HeImer
is pastor.
New Bedford, Mass, is excited
over rise in sperm and whale oil
the former to 81 so and the latter to
Sl.15 per gallon.
Some one writes to the Chicago