Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-17
Clippings and Drippings.


this summer.
A large number of male clerks in /
the patent Office at Washington, have /
been dismissed to make room for SO fe- |
male clerks appointed last week
There are about forty Norman |
missionaries in New York en- route for /
Europe These people are interchangeable |
in pronu eating their doctrines and MAJ
king proselytes-
The great Decatur cotton case, involv-
ing the value of $4,000 bales of cotton,
has been decided against the Govern
meUt, at Memphis Secretary Boutwell,
viii carry the case up to a higher court
Detroit has voted down the proposition
to aid, to the extent of 81 100000 certain
railroads, constructed or in process of
construction, having their termini in that
city. IpsiIanti voted $4,000, and Bay
City, $4,000, in favor Of their roads
The Emperor OF the French is not in
clned to yield too much, but maintains
his fidelity TO the Constitution. At the
latest accounts no change in the Ministry
had heen announced, but important leg
lslatlye concessions had been made
A dispatch to the New York Herald
says there is rumor which processes to
have excellent foundation, that Secretary
Boutwel contemplates retiring from the
Treasury at no distant day, for personal
and not for political or financial reasons
- 1t is stated that private letter has
been received from General Hancock in
which he intiluates that, if rendered the
nomination for Governor of PENNSYLVANIA
by the Democrats he viii resign his COM
mission and accept it
1t is stated that the fare on the Pa
ciic Railroad will shortly be reduced 81
as to make the rate between San Fran
cisco and New York at $40 instead of
| 5000, currency. The Union Pacific Rail
road Company announces q further re-
! duction in freight rates.
- The Telegraph purchase bill, now
! before the House Of Commons proposes
| to raise 100000 in bonds for the the
| purchase of the lines, and to make the
service monopoly, to 20 into existence
January lst 1870.
-Ex-P Pre- sident FILRMoRE, the great
American opher came out of his hole
| the other q Y, and with ridiculous pom-
! pOslty threw dirt at GRANT, rubbed his
| talr round belly, and went back into the
same hole he came out of as tonished that
the country wags on the same
The other day, in a conversation. Gen.
| sherman said that regular details ought
to be made from the cadets at West Point
to 20 upon the plains and fight the In
dams, whereupon Parson Newman was
Mortified and called it :" the slaughter Of
! l. =
Every one to his trade-the soldier to
his battle and the parson to his text"
Brick Pomerov makes his New York
paper, whatever else may be said of it,
! very lively sheet, and it is we have no
doubt, thorn in the fat sides of the big
| Indians of lammany. He has TO idea.
as was at one time intimated, of giving it
! up, but on the contrary, has recently pat
| its business affairs into the hands of Mr.
| G. Z. Sykes, Of La Crosse, that he NAV
| devote himse f exclusively to It's editorial
management.
France is in the midst of a minis
! terial crisis The Emperor is convinced
| that he will have to change his Cabinet
! Ministers and adopt more LIBERAL poll
| cy; but VI. Rouhcr. his Minister of State,
| Is prevented from resigning by his wife.
| who is not prepared to give up the hon
ors Of her position. This fact, it is said
| that now delays Il change Of the Min>
istry
! REvESUE REcEnors.-Internal Revenue
receipts for the eight business DAYS of
/ July aggregate $4,000 or oscr one
million dollars per day. The receipts
| for the nrst two or three days were ex-
| pected to be heavy, but large aggregate
surprises all the treasury officials Their
| explanation is that the income returns
for the year must be considerably in ex-
cess of those of last year.
- 1t is stated by the Chicago Repub~
| Lcan s Washington correspondent that a
| movement is on foot in u ashineton and
! elsewhere to secure the Repu lean nom
| nation for the Presidency in 1872 for
| Secretary boutwell,. It's alleged that
| this ~ ovement was commenced aud was
carried on without the knowledge Of Sec
rotary Boutwell,
In New York a day or two ago,
| Low hurchmau, after a futile attempt
| to convert his mother from Ritualism, en-.
| deayored to have her condemned as
| i4najlc; bnt the examination clcted the
fact that the lady was not only of sound
| 'iiiHr Ut Iioo9tNG"u o. more imam orll~
nary powers of Intellect Would it not
be well to have the filial Low Churchman
sent to the asylum to which he sought t.
1onsgn his mother.
The Adams County Press has an
account Of a severe hail storm which
visited the southern portion OF Burr Oak
Prairie on Tuesday of last week The
track OF the storm was about half mile
wide, and within it scarcely green thing
Is LETT standing Some of the grain fields
are htera l. pounded INTO the earth. A
Mr. I0ynbee had rye field containing
forty acres, and not spear or blade is
left standing. Other feds are in the
same condition. Hardly pane of glass
was left whole in any house within the
limits of the storm The oak grub and
saPhn2ss have their leaves and great part
OF the bark whipped of The damage
must reach many thousands Of dollars.
= The New Jersey Gazette SAYS that
MIR. Robson, the new Secretary of the
Navy, has family record of high char
acter. Jonathan Robson was one of the
HrSt Judges IN Sussex County. \. J His
lather and grandfather both wore the err
mine beiole him in PENNSYLVANIA. while
ms son, grandson and great grandson.
each IN his turn, have occupied seats on
the JuaIcIa! bench. The late VIM
hooeSon OF Warren County, and father
81 the Secretary, was the sixth Judge