Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-26
Clippings and DrippIngs.

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! goes to the Crimea to recuperate.
Matt H. Carpenter has been secur>
I cd as the 4th Of July orator lit Oconomo-
woe Darlington friends please take
notice.
| Miss Minnie Warren and Commo-
/ dore Mutt were Joined in matrimony at
! West Haven, Connecticut, on W ednes>
day, the 9Th instant.
"A colored man named Turner, APP
I pointed several weeks ago Postmaster Of
Macon, Georgia, has not yet furnished
/ his bond.
Susan Denim Is said TO have been
/ once more married, and this time it is
an English nobleman.
A genial Irish Orangeman has been
/ kindly speaking of the British Premier
as Judas lscariot Gladstone.
The court has refused new trial
! IN the case of Mrs Nancy Il. MADDEN,
| convicted of the murder of her son>in
law, Obediah Jones. Of Canton, Mass,
in July last, aud sentenced her to be
hanged.
The society fer the prevention of
/ cruelty to animals, in New York, has
caused the arrest of thirty persons for
driving sick and lame horses, since the
| list instant.
There is one less Surratt-by name
/ at least-one Touey, of the Surgeon Gen
I erals Otice at Washington, Having with
/ great fortitude, married Annie, on the
! 18th instant
-General Hamilton, in his canvass
/ for the Goyernorship of Texas, declares
/ that, il elected, he will never pardon
/ fairly convicted criminal.
The smallest real estate transaction
/ on record, and one of the most extrava-
/ CANT, occurred lately in New \ ork A
/ man paid 500 for lot on Portland
I street, three inches wide and thirty long
| A line from Judge Noggle to friends
/ In GAINESVILLE, states that he has already
/ been holding court in Idaho, and that
/ Chief Justice Bowers denies that he ever
( threatened or intended TO contest his
| (Nog9leS) right to the Office.
( The Milwaukee UiSc0nSin reports
! that the total number of immigrants ar
+ rived at that port, for the week ending
June 18th, TO have been ,50T OF these
/ l.l35 were Scandinavians; 362 Germans,
ana 10 II el>h. There remained in Wis
( consin 3lT Germans, Clio Scandinayians
and 10 Welsh.
| Somebody writes from England that
( the Queen Is not likely to return to Lon
/ don for some time, and that ii is proba-
! BILE MIR Motley Will begin his formal in
/ tercourse without waiting as usual, 10 be
presented to her.
A gentleman of Chicago who has
/ just returned from long business tour
through various parts of southern Hill
Egypt is the largest that has ever been
known in that region.
congress, at the last session. author
lied the President TO spend - 900 in
buving 4 tull-length oil portrait of Lin
coin, 10 hang in the " hite House
| llea'y and Co-swell are, as vet, the only
competitors. The latter has submitted
the standing figure which was exhibited
in the Senate lobby last winter, while
Heaiy has just sent on q sitting figure,
which Will be shown to the President
and tie public this week.
A letter from Delaware saws: "The
fruit prospect Is magnificent. The whole
state Is full of Strawberries now at six
cents per quart. Blackberries will be
more plenty than mosquitoes eeery-
where Peaches will he u full crop and
unusually large and luscious, if the
weather be dry
ST. Louis has report that five thou~
sand Chinese laborers have reached
Omaha, en- route 10 New Orleans. A
60
and Mis>i>sippians has been called to
meet at Memphis next month, to take
measures for the importation Of Chinese
laborers TO that region.
A private letter from one of our
leading consular officers in England. saws
Mr. Motley has been very kindly re-
ceived by the best class Of citizens of
that country; that everybody Is anxious
10 know what his instructions are: and
that Lord Clarendon is quoted in club
circles as saying that he has no doubt
that Mr. Motley and himself will ulti-
matsiy be able 10 draw up treaty salts
factory to right feeling men on both
sides OF the water.
Prom various parts of California in
telliGence Is received Of the rapid prog
Fess Of the rust in the wheat and barley
crops. The damage i most considerable
IN IL coast counties, where heavy fo-s
prevailed the past few weeks Although
accounts indicate that the rust is not
general, the mischief is more serious
than anticipated.
Young Cadet Grant is not more
than ordinarily good or smart" In his
mathematics, last year. he marked about
! in the middle OF his class, while in
French he was AT the yery bottom. In
his frs: wear at West Point, be received
more dement's than any other man in
bis class, but last year did better or his
comrades did worse, 20 that he stood
fourth from the rear end Of the class.
The press of Iowa generally is COM
planning of cold weather ana backward
ness OF the season From the Fort Dodge
Northssst We clip the following, which
l. q lair sample of the complaints that
reach Us from all sections Thus far
we have had the feweSt warm DAYS we
ever remember, up 70 the middle OF June.
Corn i very bac kwara and the prospect
not very fattering for good crop.
By the reduction in the Office ex~
penses clerk hire etc and Of assessors
and collectors, OF internal reyenus.
amounting in each district, to about
- Ouo which has lately been made bv
I :. Commissioner Delano. a saving OF
nearly 100000 per annum, viii be