Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28
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Louisville has three-;sgged colt.
| The Texan wheat crop is very
promising.
The Davenport, Iowa, horse ears
pay Sl5 per day.
/ Indianapolis sent 4, ,0O8 children ta
school last month. -asss
A small boy died lately at Quincy,
ILL.,, of nose-bleed.
Pentwater, Mich, win ship 200,-
600 railroad ties this season.
During 1868 Toledo received 49,
96S 500 feet of pine lumber.
| Council Bluffs, Iowa, is to have .
new German weekly paper.
Fair Haven, CT, has just imported
q cargo of New Jersey mari.
Any Indiana voter can practice
law in the court of that State. i
Toledo claims to be the lagest black
walnut market in the world.
Concord, n. H, has had eighty
three days of continuous sleighing.
Boston is to have new music hall,
to accommodate 8, 500 persons. -
Brigandage- is again scourging
Greece and desolating the country.
wheels eight feet in diameter.
Asbury University. i'm Indiana has
Just received 50. 600 legacy.
The old-fashion. ID sedan chairs are
again coming into use in Paris.
The first missionaries toAfrica were
two Germans, who landed in 1904.
Rockford, ILL.,, dedicated q SD, 900
Catholic church on the 8th ult.
Stanton, Mich, turns out 500, 900
sawed and eo0, 600 split shingles per
week.
Laporte, Ind, has six hundred and
thirty-six scholars in her public
schools.
Theodore Tilton's lecture on
'Statesmanship" is said to be thebest
he ever delivered.
Mrs. Southworth's new novel,
"How He Won Her, has lust passed
to u second edition.
The Deseret News tells Of q snow
plough on the Central Pacific Rail
road propelled by eight locomotives.
Roman Catholic missionary priests
predict the downfall of the Celestial
Empire within year.
Three Dubuque, Iowa, miners
lately found lead lode two feet i'm
thickness.
The great depth of snow about ruin
ed the Maine numbering this win
ter.
The Insane Asylum at Kalamazoo,
Mich, has two hundred and fifty in-
mates.
The Grand Rapids, Mich, plaster
beds produce Al 500 tons of the article
IN 1868.
The Superior Court, now sitting at
Willimantic, CT, charges ten cents
admission.
A Michigan farmer recently
caught his five-year old horse killing
and eating his sheep.
The Kentucky Legislature prOpos-
es to appropriate $4,000, ,Ooe for river
improvements.
France is coming a new piece-the
"Emperor"-equaI in weight to the
English sovereign.
Sixteen hundred miles of 1.-The
French cable have been slowed in
the Great Eastern.
1t is said that the New Orleans
horserailway companies are sued, on
an average, twice a week.
A young Indianapolitan recently v
lost her lover, because he found she
was fond of eating opium.
The owners Of the La Grange, fGa. }
Reporter boast ten sons, all at work
in that office with pen or type.
Marshall county, Iowa, having
built bridge, now awaits an ap-
preparation of $500 600 TO build road
to it.
In San Francisco $S4 900 has been
refused for the "Featherstone"
mines, in the White Pine region.
The New York kAnti-gAmbling As
sociation has t'peached" on ,034
clerks.
A Hindoo gentleman, recently de-
ceased, has left So 900 To his family
idol.
Black velvet skull-caps are the
fashion for bald heads in Beecher's
church.
Blondin has recovered damages in
France againt manager who adver-
tised bogus BlOndin.
Woman's rights prevail in Gresce.
Queen Olga accompanies her hus-
band to all the Cabinet meetings.
During the first eighteen DAYS cf
Aho'th 1ot- i<oufS iiast Ouly
the aggregate loss of which was but
s. 500.
The English pateptee Of q device
for dressing millstohes by q revolving
diamond cleared 81 ,O0), 900 during
the first year of its use.
The weather prophets ofCaiifornia
are predicting dry season, and that
breadstufTs will have to be bought i'm
hn sa StaN
A party of thirsty wretches in
Cheyenne recently borrowed q baby
from its mother and pAwned 1t for q
dollars worth of whisky.
The present Eddystone lighthouse.
which took the place of that DESTROY
ed in l775 has been standingone hum
dred and ten years.
A a recent Partisan sale Of violins
q Stradivarius' sold for four hundred
dollars, and a Bergonzi's for one
hundred and forty dollars.
A valuable horse, owned at Au-
burn, n. Y, died lately from ruptur-
ed stomach, caused by eating largely
Of corn, and then drinking freely.
A citizen Of ST. Louis values his
jaw at $4,000. He charges the city
that amount for leaving open a hole
into which he fell and broke his
elocutionary apparatus.
Russia has confiscated the treasury
| 0f a Catholic capyauf in po1o,d