Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-26


in that village nearly every evening.
The street commissioner is making some
good Improvements. Numerous new
buildings are being erected there this sum
mer-. Sen. Matt II. Carpenter is invited
to deliver the Grafton on the 5th. "Will
he, nil he, be there p. Hon. j. B. Park
inson is to be orator at Fayette, on the
same day. The recent wet, cold weather
it Is feared will prove injurious to the
corn crops of Lafayette.
GRANT County, Tom" Bishop,
of the Boscobel Journal has been presented
some native" strawberries, of which he
brags considerably. We have had no op-
portunity of testing the quality of Mineral
Point strawberries as yet. Guess they
amt ripe about here. Boscobel has an
organized fire company, good engine, and
the village is going to build an engine
house. A celebration of the 4th is to be
had there. Hon. c. K. Dean Is president of
the day. :. The Platteville Witness gives
an account of how little three year old
daughter of Mr.. n. ". Winter had both
he limbs broken, by being thrown from a
heavily loaded wagon, and one of the
wheels passing over her.. The new Con-
gregationai church there is rapidly APP
preaching completion. The Episcopal
pastorate of that village recently vacated
by Mr. frisbee, has been filed by Mr.. Nc
Gowan.. Lancaster has passed an ordinance
forbidding the running of cattle at large in
the village, rather out of season we think.
-Potatoe bugs are devouring the vege-
tables throughout the county. Farmers
are generally using the Paris green remedy,
given in the Tribune a few weeks since.
the only trouble with which is that com
monty too much of the green is used-one
IS about the right proportion. Three
men named Douglas, Ross, and Mcpherson
have been arrested and lodged in the Ian
caster Jail for passing counterfeit money
Joe Barker, for stealing a boat load of
wood at PotosI; and Ed. Mflmot and Sam
Daley for stealing oxen at Oceola, and sell
ling them at Dunleith, have been given
quarters in the same place . Considera-
bic effort is being made throughout the
county TO sell the Platteville town railroad
bonds; what success we are not informed
Charley orion, a merchants clerk, at
Lancaster, while experimenting with re-
volver last week, accidentally shot himself
through the baud, making a painful wonnd
Mr. Samuel Barstow, of Mt. Hope, fell
off load of lumber and broke his thigh in
two places, endangering his life
RICHLAND CoUNTY.-A mass meet
ing of the people is called to assemble at
Richland Center to-day, 'for the purpose
of taking into consideration the railroad
interests of Richland County, The lead
ing merchants of the village of RlchIand
Center have agreed to close their places
of business after noon on July 9TH (Aten-
tion of Mineral Point merchants is invited
TO this fact.) A twelve pound cannon has
been secured TO give ee}at to the celebration
W alworth calls it ''heavr ordnance" a
typographical error, no doubt. The Re
publican is jubilant over a subscriber who
paid two years in advance for his paper:
the fellow could not have been in full pos.
session of his faculties at the time, or else
he is expecting to be elected to some coun-
ty Office. =. More than the usual number of
new buildings are being erected there this
season, among which is a fine new school
house. The bop-louse has made its APP
pearance in large numbers in the county.
SAUK COUNTY Fishing parties
have caught some very fine pickerel and
silver cells in the Wisconsin river and
Devils lake, recently; one pickerel weighed
20 pounds, and one of the eels measured 3
feet in length. Three horses were drown
ed in the river last week The residence
of the town treasurer of the town Of Deltou,
was partially destroyed by fire one day last
week, and $3.50 in money belonging to the
town was burned. The people of Sank
City have resolved to celebrate our ma
tional independence on Sunday, the 4th
instead of on Monday, the 9TH, as is geuer-
ally being done; and, as a consequence,
there is considerable ''onpleasantness" in
eiitiO ioSdiIte' NH4Cn - " DC regretted
CRAWFORD CoUNTY.-The Prairie
du Chen Union means over the fact that
no steps are taken for celebration at that
place Of the coming 18th of July. The
sheriff of Crawford has made several ar
rests of roughs, confidence men, thieves,
&c, at the ''Prairie" lately; some of whom
are lodged in Jail, and a sharp lookout is
/ kept for others; looks like such characters
are plenty up there. Several efforts to
impannel jury TO try Mary Miller for the
murder of Emery Wright, proved abortive,
| and the scenes at the Court house are said
to have been disgraceful to the community;
no particulars are given. The Milwaukee
& St. Paul R. r. Company contemplate
/ bridging the Mississippi river at Prairie du
( Chen, and some of the directors are now
engaged surveying, making estimates, sc,
to that end. Friend Brown. of the Union.
/ goes for" Bill Merren, the blackcuard ed
itor of the Prairie du Chen Courier in
handsome style, in reply to some fonl slam
/ der recently published in that sheet; Brown
concludes his remarks, thus:
We advise Nerreu in the future TO couhue himself
principally to putting privies a. he did Cars in his
last Issue Tieu tle institutions 7rFfcE ,reqte
. and te>p Up t3@ demand fer r Is Sheet
GREEN CoUSTY.-Nonroe Is some
what excited over her prosnect of hariny