Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-28
Late Jews ant osher Items.

THE Norwegian Democratic PAPER at
Milwaukee-the Fremad-is about to be-
come Republican journal.
FASHION PIE weddings at Now York
now occur before noon--the groom wear
inr frock coat and light trowsers, and
the bride Il rich travelling dress.
THERE are now twenty colored presid-
ing elders in the Methodist Episcopal
Church--a result of the organization of
colored conferences.
\ LITTLE girl named Repic was burned
almost to a crisp, on the i4th, at a sugar
camp in the town of Franklin, kewan-
nee county.
/ THE residence Of William Jafrrey, in
White Oak Springs, was destroyed by
+ FIRE, April 10th The house WAS valued
at $500; insured for $500.
/ Tue Hudson River Railroad track is
washed away between Stuvvesant and
/ Sehodack, and at several other points
/ Travel is suspended.
I PRESIDENT GRANT has solved the prob
/ lem, can a negro hold Office in Georgia ?
I by nominating Is Assessor of the Third
Revenue District Of that State mulatto
named Belcher.
FoUR women are to be appointed to
! 81 200 places in New York, as searchers
of female passengers from abroad; and
I there are seven hundred applicants for
the position.
The Baraboo Republic says on Sunday
I night last wolves, wild eats or dogs at
I tackled a flock of sheep belonging to Mr.
/ Adams, killing fourteen lambs, and r:or-
/ rying scsen old sheep
| THE Illinois State Blind Asylum, loca-
ted at jacksonville, was totally destroyed
by fire, on the morning of the 10Th. The
unfortunate inmates were all rescued. and
cared for by the citizens of the city.
/ A MAN los years old, from Onondaga
county, n Y, passed through GaIena
I the other day, on his way home, having
I b. n to Iowa to visit a son. lie walks
/ without cane and reads without glasses.
SO says the Gazette
a CLERGYMAN in Virginia, writing to
some friends, says: Yesterday, at half
past three clock, preached the funer-
al sermon of a man; and -to-day, at the
same hour, married his widow to an
other man"
GEN JoHS a LOGAN, Cimmander-in-
Chief of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, has issued an order recommending
the strewing of flowers upon the graves
of departed comrades, on the 10Th of
May.
TEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND
TWENTY-FIVE acres of land were sold at
the t. 5 Laud Office, at Menasha, dur
ment and cultivation under tn home
stead laws
The Kansas City (Mo.) Journal Of
Commerce says the merchants Of st
Louis have commenced the sharp prac>
tice of sending railroad passes to the
country dealers of Western Missouri aud
Kansas to induce them to give Kansas
City the COSBY" in purchasing goods.
Mr., JoHS HI1z, Consul General of
Switzerland, at Washington, IN circu-
/ lar invites the Swiss and Swiss Associa~
tons of the United States to attend the
general target shooting festival of Swift
zerland. which will be held at the city
of /ug next summer.
ADMIRAL EARRAGUr has for two
weeks past been seriously i'll, suffer NJ
from acute neuralgia of the optic nerves
Last night he was much better, and his
family basing their hopes upon the Adj
mirals great recuperative nature, ex-
pressed the belief that in a few days he
will be convaleseent
TuE new postage stamps, which have
lately made their appearance, are neatly
executed and are of the following orders I:
One cent-Roman oehre Two cents
light brown. Three cents-blue Ten
cents-oran-e. Twelve cents-green-
Fifteen cents-brown and blue Tween
! ty four eents-green and purple. Thirty
cents-carmine and blre Ninety cents
black AMI carmine
The Spanish Government has ordered
| the proceeds of the coudscated property
| OF the disloyal Cubans to be applied to
/ defrav the expenses of the war \ num-
Der of planters near Villa Clara have of
| fered their services to the Government
| to put down the insurrection The pas
sengers taken from the Lizzie Major have
been placed Mt the disposition of our
| Consul ut Remedies
| AK international trial of reaping> ma
| chimes is to be held between July and
| 10, 1869. at Altenberg, in Hungary, UNI
der the auspicies of the Hungarian Beard
of Agriculture The machines are to oe
adapted to the pace of Hungarian oxen,
which from their endurance, strength
| and swiitness, are well qualified to OPP
crate the reapers. Prizes, consisting Of
| four gold and two silver medals, and S40a
| in money in different sums are 10 be