Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-03-31
Late News Items.


THE United States Marshal for the dis
triet of Georgia is reported to have re.
Gently absconded with about one hun-
dred thousand of the public money The
authorities are after him.
SIGNIFICANT The Chicago, Rock Is,
land and Pacific Railroad Company re-
| Gently received lot of new cars Cor their
new 'red line freight business. They
are lettered ''from ocean to ocean-no
transfer" Freight will s. on be shipped
from the Atlantic to the Pacific without
re-shipment
A NEW issue of $50 and sl00 greens
back netes is now nearly ready They
are 20 take the place of the present Sc
RES which has been largely counterfeited
| The 800 notes are to bear the likeness
of Lincoln, and the $50 notes, the like
| ness of Grant.
A PASSENGER train, on the Toledo,
| Warsaw and Peoria Railroad, on the
morning of the 23d, was thrown down an
en- bankment some twelve feet, when
nearing Peoria, and between thirty and
forty passengers ipjured-some quite
| badly. Hore:io Seymour, late Presiden-
tial candidate, was among the passen-
gers, but escaped with a slight scratch.
NAVIGATION viii soon be resumed on
the Mississippi The ice is fast break~
ing up and slight rise would nearly
clear the river. The ferry boat between
Dunleith and Dubuque made its first trip
| for the season on the 22d inst
THE Northwestern Sangerbud will
| hold its fourth annual festival, ct Madi-
son, June 18th, Goth and 9th. Twelve
or fourteen hundred representatives from
| the different German singing societies of
the Northwest are expected to be pres
emit; and one Of the grandest affairs Of
the kind ever held is predicted.
TIE Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpariet
reports the work on the railroad bridge
across the Missouri river at that place,
as progressing finely.
An express train on the Great West-
ern Railway, at Beachville, Canada, was
run off the track on the morning of the
2lst, and a Pullman sleeping car precip>
itated over a twelye>foot embankment,
turning "a complete somersault No one
was killed, but number of persons were
injured.
VICE President CoLFAX has gone on
visiting tour to his relatives in Ohio and
Senator Anthony, Of r. l., has been elect
ed President pro tenn of the Senate.
JOHN Il. French, of n. c., has been
elected Sergeant-at-arms of the I. S.
Senate, rice Brown, and Almon II. Clapp,
of the Buffalo Express, Congressional
Printer, rice Deirees.
SECRETARY boutwell,, when recently
visited by the House Committee on Cur
rency, urged the passage at this session
of a bill for the Redistribution of the ma
tional banking currency, as a measure
Of relief needed by different sections of
tho country.
PRESIDENT GRANT intends to thoroughly
purge and purify the Indian department.
Gen. Eli ). Parker, late of his staff, is to
be appointed Commissioner of the Indian
Bureau, and Quakers are, as a general
thing, to be appointed as Indian agents.
y CALIFoRNIvJudge has made a
novel decision with regard to election
bets A Democrat of that State rcpudia-
ted bet, and sued the stakeholder for
the recovery of the money deposited
The Judge decided that bet could be
Withdrawn prior to the election, but that,
after the election had been decided by
the people, the money was forever lost to
the person .betting on the unsuccessful
candidate.
OREGON papers report smoke issu-
ing from mounts Hood, jefferson and the
Three Sisters, and apprehend earth-
quakes in consequence.
a BOLD robbery took place in Cincin-
natl, on the 23I Three men entered a
dwelling, about , o'clock in the after
noon; and, after gsging the lady of the
house, who was alone, stole 1880 in
money and escaped.
NAvIGATioS on the Missouri river has
commenced. The steamer Columbian
reached Omaha, from st. Louis, on the
9th
In letter 10 Gen. ]. A. Kellogg, of La
| Crosse, dated March 18th, Governor
Fairchild announces his intention of not
| being candidate for denomination at
the next Republican State Convention.
An Evangelical minister named Graves
has been holding a series of protractei
religious meetings at the various church
es in Madison, and is said 10 have revived
the religious interest largely in that city.
PHILo \. ORroS, Jr., of Darlington, has
been nominated for County Judge by the
La Fayette County Democracy.
THERE is a triangular race for County
Judge, in Grant county-al indepen-
dent Republicans, The candidates are
William McGonigal. present incumbent,
Joseph w Blanding and Samuel Mer-