Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-17
Nefghborhood Gossip.

family the necessities of life though able
to afford them He makes his children work
and pockets their earnings without giving
them enough to bread to themselves, He
boards money while his family suffers for
food and clothing 1t is now proposed that
he shall make good provision for his family,
or else the law in its majesty will appoint
some one for that purpose who will do So
The Republican says that a boy was
killed at Mazomanie on the the 9TH, during
the celebration. Mr. 6 \. Nickel was
badly poisoned from ivy last week. Mr..
Henry Short, on the 10th day of June.
sheared from his Spanish Merino buck, a
fleece of %! pounds.
GREEN COUNTY Monroe Sen
t''et says the masons are now engaged in
putting up the stone wall of the NJ E
Church in that village and The brick work
VIII commence next week. The engine
house of Mr.. Berry was set on fire By some
malicious person on the 9th inst. Geo.
Fencil, an employee of the Monroe Manu-
faeturing Company, got caught in the belt
ing OF the machinery and had his leg bro
ken below the knee. He is doing we'll
MI Bently scared dark-lantern lark
badly last Sunday morning about o'clock
Mr. B. heard him operatingand cody waited
TIL he was about to enter the window,
when he grabbed for the lark " and sue
eeeded in capturing his hat The man and
dark lantern suddenly Disappeared
LAFAYETTE CoUNTY.-The Demo
eTat reports the entire force of that Office
TO have Celebrated the fourth in regular old
Democratic style, to-wit: AT 10 o'clock
one was enquiring the way to St Paul with
the design of buying the entire British
American possessions: another was irving
to climb the Methodist Church steeple
another was indignant because the orator
of the day had not submitted his speech to
him for suggestions while the Devil was
demonstrating the Grecian Bend TO admi-
ring crowds on Main street "-Inference-
all drunk As part of their doings the
18th of July committee erected a new flag
staff and fine flag. Mr.. A. G.. Mason, of
Wiota has COW of Devonshre breed,
which in the month of June, averaged 10
| pounds of milk per day. A gentleman was
attacked in Darlington one evening recently,
! by a couple of roughs, being knocked down
with clubs. He called for help, and they
vamoosed. Wheat will be ready for the
reaper in this county week after next, and
the crop is expected to be better than av-
erage, notwithstanding the wet. Other
| crops about the same.
GRANT CoUNTY.-THE Platteville
| Titnes> takes US to task for saving Eve could
not see the philosophy of Belmont paying
( for the transfer of the terminus of the rail-
| road to PIatteville," and sagely says the ex
| tension of the road and transfer of the
/ terminus does not at all depend upon the
! vote of Belmont; that the road will be
! completed to Platleville within the next
1 four months whether the tax be voted up
/ or down, but that Belmont agreed before
| the work commenced 70 vote the tax. We
! are sorry friend Rindlaub feels aggricyed at
| our curt remark, and assure him that we en-
! tertain none but the most friendly feelings
| toward him and his town. =. The Witness is
| obliged by the mail arrangements to change
its day of publication from Saturday to
| some other. Instead of Prof Duncan of
! McGregor. il was Prof Duncan McGregor,
/ of Platteville, that delivered the Grafton
/ in PIatteville on the 4th.. Mr.. Tenzel,
/ of Liberty township, had an arm amputated
| last week. The operation was necessjtated
! by Mr. W. having pricked his thumb nearly
a year ago with a pigeon bone, which pro.
| duced erysipelas, which continued to spread
| up the arm until amputation was necessary
to save life. .Profs McGregor and Pur-
man of of Plattevillc attended the State
/ Teachers Association at Oshkosh last week
An engineer and brakeman of the
/ Platteville railroad having, a little "on-
pleasantness," one day last week, while
/ running 5rain. The train was stopped
near Martins mill, and the disputants adj
! jouIned 20 the prairie and settled the mat
| ter By : little muscular development,...
/ Hazel Green had quite trotting race on
/ the Sth. The contestIng nags mere Missou-
/ ri Bill and Nellie Gray. The horse won
/ the three straight heats. Best time made.
| 2:45. The condition of the road was very
! heavy. The Herald gives an inter
/ esting account of 4th of July celebration
/ in Lancaster thirty years ago; part of the
1 exercises in which, were TO steal corpse
/ from another town 10 inter in Lancaster
| so as TO establish burial ground there.
But the corpse was recaPtured by its own
ers, and the graveyard failed to be estab-
/ lished, as hoped. The Boscobel neigh
/ borhood, where considerable hop-rajsing i
/ done, is infested with the louise to an alarm
/ ing extent 4 drunken fellow malicious
| " drove his team over a woman in Bpsco-
/ bel, on the 9Th F.; not, however, infiicting
/ any serious harm. Burglars have made
/ two futile attempts 10 raise little wind
49, The journal reports a school district
meeting held in Boscobel or Monday to
F have been more boistrous that the worst
| of the scenes in Congress. From former
meetings with which we have been aCqCain-
( ted, we can imagine this one to have been
/ as the Journal savs-.'racy.n. Hon. W
/ ". Field has planted % acres Of Melons
/ and If the crop is IS good as last year ex-
/ poets re realize quite u handsome profit.
+ Lancaster is TO have a new brewery built
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