Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-02
Miscellaneous.

Buffalo is to have deaf and dumb
! fair
Vermont has 81 Masonic lodges and
115 of Good Tempars,
"A Boston physician was recently called
to New Bedford to attend a patient His
bill for few hours service was S400
Herring & Co., the safe manutactur-
ers, propose to make a fire and burglar
! proof car to serve as a treasure car for eX-
presseompanies.
The proprietor of Boston bonemil
advertises that persons sending their
own bones to be ground will be attended
to with punctuality and dispatch"
A Swede pauper died in the Des
Moines county poor house recently, and
was buried at the county's expense. On
opening his trunk life policy of $4,000
was found, payable to himself
A bull dog and a large bald-headed
eagle, owned in New Haven, have become
strangely attached to each other, They
| sleep and eat together and neither per
mits any interference with the other,
1t is stated that, at Philadelphia, the
mean velocity of the wind during the en-
tire year is found to be about eleven miles
an hour; at Toronto its average velocity
is nine miles and at sea it is estimated at
eighteen miles.
A California landlord recently direct
ed a couple Of dandy Nimrods from FRS
coe where to shoot deer, then cooked the
venison for them, and wound up by add
! ing to his bill another covering the
amount of fines for killing deer out of
| season.
The large elephant belonging to
French q Co.'S circus slipped and fell in
the mud, on the road near Ludlow, Vt,
the other day. She obstinately refused to
get up, and actually had to be hoisted on
to her feet by means Of timbers, levers
and ropes.
The General Superintendent of the
Kansas Pacific Railway has received the
following
Wm. A. anderson:
"Since you have formed yourselves into
soulless corporation, and are destroying
our cattle daily, we, the farmers, twelve OF
US, have formed for the purpose of reveng
ing the death of every head Of stock cattle
hereafter killed along this road, with your
wood bridges, depots, and so forth"
An auctioneer in Baltimore recently
sold farm containing between four
hundred and five hundred acres, known
as the Temple Farm" near Yorktown,
! Va, said to be one of the best cultivated
farms in that section Of the State, 1t was
sold to Miss Clara Hewson for 5000
This is the farm upon which Lord Corn
wallis surrendered his forces and signed
the articles ofcaptulation, and is therefore
an historical spot.
The St Louis Grain elevator Company
have constructed new machine, on the
endless chain or platform principle, for un-
loading boats "At intervals of four
feet on the moving platform are fixed
blocks, to hold barrels and hogsheads in
place, the width being four feet, sufficient
for hogshead Of sugar 1t is run by
steam, and is capable Of unloading 1000
barrels of sugar, 700 barrels of salt, or $50
hogsheads OF sugar per hour. Sacks of
grain can be unl0aded as fast as they can
be put on and taken of. 1t extends dis
lance Of so feet, and reaches from the
guard of the boat from which goods are TO
be unloaded, a considerable distance into
the warehouse 1t is also arranged 50 that
it can be adjusted to high or low water
The iron ore shipments from the Iron
Mountain Of Missouri TO the East are as
suming a shape that is truly astonishing,
and there are very few who take any no
tice of it. The Indianapolis g. st. Louis
Railroad, from the first of July TO the 18th
of the present month, have taken TO the
rolling mills of Harmony, Ind, one hum
dred and fifty seven cars Of ore A car
holds ten tons, which will make in the
aggregate $4,000 pounds Of this yalua
bic metal, which is carried to a distant |
State, manufactured into rails, and sent /
back again to many Of the railroads in
Missouri which capital from ST. Louis /
builds.-S Louis Republican,
The wcll-meant enterprise Of some of /
the Boston newspaper men was defeated /
in curious manner the other night (
There was sensational item at the South /
End late in the evening, and friendly pO- /
liceman hired a small boy to 90 and notify |
the Post editors Mr. Harlow, who pre- /
sides at night, had visions of good eXclu- |
sye and he gave the boy dollar to 90 /
directly home and keep away from the I
other Offices with his information. Small /
boy thought that if it was worth dollar 7
to one paper it was to another, and he /
stmightway visited the editorial rooms OF /
the Heraid, .I0urnal and Adrertiser and by /
shrewdly representing that he had not /
and would not visit any other offices, he |
was literally rewarded by the several /
night editors When, an hour later, the /
several reporters arrived at the scene Of the /
tragedy there was mutual establishment |
and profanity all around.
Industrial.
There are forty.seyen trade societies |