Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-21

NeiShbOrhOOd Gossip.

La Fayette County Agricultural Society
will distribute 81, 500 in premiums at their
fair in September. The Brass Band of
Darlington have dissolved partnership and
given up the ghost. A Lodge of Odd
Fellows was organized in Darlington on the
afternoon of the l4th inst. Several mem
bers from Shullsburg and this city were
present and helped to set the machine run
ming The Republican saws the chap who
was going to clean our the whole of D.
last Saturday evening, has concluded not
to do any more at it till after harvest
Mr. Jas. d. Eaton takes charge of the pub
lie schools for the ensuing year.
SAUK COUNTY The Baraboo Re
public says the farmers are storing such a
crop as is without parallel since the year
1860 So mote it be. >. .Baraboo, Kilbourn
| City and Niroqua are building a new school
| mouse each -. In the village of Wone
/ Woe for the last few days, there have been
| by actual count, but six men left, all 9TH
ers having gone harvesting. On the 18th
Mr. Draper was thrown from his wagon,
| by his wheels striking a rock, and bruised
/ quite seriously. His horses took fright at
the accident and took good run, but broke
nothing save one of Mr.. DIS ribs
RlCHLAND CoUNTY.-The RepubE-
can reports three accidents One of lit
Tie fellow who got caught in the sickle of
a reaper which was in motion, and two of
couple OF lumber men, who got severely
bruised from heavy logs falling on them. -.
The same paper thinking Richland Center
noted for its babies, proposes that some of
the churches of that village hold a Babies
| Fair. w heat in this county is not going
TO turn out as well as last wear; corn is
growing fast; potatoes are going TO yield
well, with dry weather, and hay is heavy.
Some fellow killed thirty-eight rat
tiesnakes near Ash Greek one day last
week, and it wasn't very good day for
snakes either" Whew!
| CRAWFORD CoUNTY.-The Prairie
du Chen College commences its first term
OF the coming year on Tuesday, Septem-
Ser 9Th. :. The Prairie du CHEN U,,ioa re-
ports that the work of bridging the Miss
issippi AT that point is about to commence.
GRANT COUNTY -There is consid-
cradle complaint of blight in wheat in the
vicinity of Plattevile. THE Board of
the Platteville Joint Stock Agricultural
Society have appointed September 3Oth
and October LIST and End as the time for
| holding their fair this year A revival
under the auspicies of the Baptist church
Is IN progress i'll Platteville. They hold
their meetings in grove. A little daugh-
ter of Isom and Sarah Jane Atkinson aged
about l6 months was drowned in the mill
| race of the Big Patch mills, on the 9Th
| inst. The race was near the house and the
child had been out of sight but a few mo-
ments when she was found floating in the
water. The fall term of the Grant Cir
cult Court commences on Monday Septem-
Der 18th. The village of Platteville has
| passed ordinance that saloons shall be
closed on Sundays, -or the propretors fined
A correspondent of the Herald saws
that Muscoda contains four ware houses, as
many hotels, five dry goods stores, three
smith shops, two lumber yards, two furni-
| ture establishments and-saloons.
Alfreta, aged l6 years, the only child of j.
ID. Clayton of Patch Grove, died last Mon
| day from the effects of eating toad stools
which she had gathered and cooked, sup
| posing them to be mushrooms
GREEN COUNTY he Wisconsin
Grand Lodge of Good Templars hold SEES
sion at Monroe commencing Tuesday Sept
Trh
modate the large delegation which is ex-
pected to attend. There is some com
| plant of blight in oats in the vicinity of
Monroe. "A man named Clevegord was
thrown from a reaper while in operation
last week, and received such severe iniu
ries from coming in contact with the ma
| chinery that his recovery is doubtful
| The corner stone of new NJ. T. church
was laid at Monroe on the 10th Rev. Sam
uel Fallows led the ceremonies, and bust
ness was almost entirely suspended, the
people generally attending the services
An old man named Snider, 81 years of
age, partially insane and an inmate of the
county poor house, committed suicide by
hanging himself in the barn of the poor
farm on the 9th inst. A young lad named
White was driving home from Monroe
few day ago with a new reaper in a wagon
when the horses became frightened and ran
away. The wagon, machine, driver, horses
and all went over an embankment by the
road side smashing things generally, kill
ing one horse outright, and seriously in
juring the young man.
GALENA.-Four men have struck
big lead, near the Twelve Mile House,
from which they taking out 1000 to
5000 of mineral per day, with a prospect
that it will continue for almost any length
of time. A curious reptile of the allig-
tor species, about Is inches long, having
four legs, head like a dog, and a body
like an eel, has been captured in the Gale
ma river. A fellow hired a livery horse
TO 60 from Galena TO Platteville about three
weeks ago, and has failed to return. He
was traced to the Wisconsin river, headed
north, but no further trail can be found.
W ARREN.-W m Piatt met with a
severe accident last Thursday evening
while engaged in stacking hay. Instead of
going down on the ladder of the stack he
slid down and lit upon a broken pitchfork