Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-09-23

HumDOiut CeleDratl0n IN Du1alO. Mr.
Fillmore was once President of the Uni-
ted States.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that
Mr. BARDoE, the Democratic candidate
for State Prison commissioner, is Nor-
wegian not by his own preference, but
by request
III IS probable that Prince Arthur,
Queen Victorias third son, over whom
our Canadian neighbors are making such
an ado, will visit the United States next
winter.
A BRAKEMAN on the Milwaukee Rail-
road named Joe Keenan, of WATERFOWL
while out sailing on Lake Monona, at
Madison, last Friday, fell out of the boat
and was drowned His companion sprang
overheard and tried to rescue him, but
without success
The scarcity Of currency of small
denominations has, for some time, been
great annoyance to our bankers and
merchants, and is getting worse daily
We trust the report is true that the
Treasury Department will at once reme-
dy this, by issuing small currency in
place Of bills of large denominations,
The Wisconsin radical platform is
notable in that it commences in heaven
and ends at Fox river Chicago Times
1t will be notable if either end of the
Democratic platform gets very near either
heaven or water = La Crosse Leader.
"A rumor is current that Napoleon,
on account of the precarous state of his
health, will shortly abdicate in favor of his
son. but will retain the Presidency of
the council
The amount of available coin in the
United States Treasury is $l02, S32 ,343 40
including S2l ,355, $40 in gold certificates
outstanding on the 18th instant The coin,
with the exception of about S4,0O0,000,
is at the Sub-Treasury in New York.
SPAIN is greatly excited over the Gu.
ban question Gen. Prim and the EN-
beror Napoleon have had a long confer
ence on the subject, the latter advising
Spain to consent to the proposition Of
the United States to purchase Cuba.
--ApvIoEs are received of the total
wreck of the Indian mail steamer Car
anatc off the island Of STADIUM, in the
Red Sea The steamer had a large amount
of specie on board whicl was lost. Five
passengers, nine of the crew, and fifteen
natives are missing and it is supposed
that they are drowned
The TEXAS ELEcTIoN.-General SHERe
MAN has ordered the election in Texas,
which was originally fixed for the 30th
of November, to be extended through
four days, on the suggestion Of General
REYNOLDS that fair election could not
be held in one day The same extention
vii! be given in Mississippi if required
-AppRopos of Mrs. Stoves Byron
story, the public may recall the scandal
which was current at one time concerns
ing Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte
An American lady meeting Thackeray
lust before his death, said to him, as it
true, this dreadful story we hear about
YOU and Miss Bronte p MADAM re-
piled the novelist, at is, | gr;eve to say,
too true Six children were the fruit of
that unhalowed intimacy, and | killed
them all with my own hand, y
WHAT Dorm IT PROFIT HlM?-The late
Henry Keep left property to the amount
of S4,O00,000 His will, which is pub
lshed in the New York papers, makes
his widow, Emma A. Keep his resaua-
ry egatee, alter bestowing upon his
daughter Emma $500, 900 worth of North
western stock; his sister Mary Kenyon,
SlS5 900 and two farms, making up 5000
600 his sister, Martha Fuller, 5000 600
and his wifes four sisters 500, 600 each.
Nothing goes to benevolent objects. The
will is dated July s, 1869
The NATIONAL LINCOLN MONUMENT -
The funds of the LINCOLN MONUMENT As.
ISOLATION at Springfield, H., amount to
Sl5S, GG3, being Sc ,9l3 in excess of their
contracts, which contemplate the pay
ment of SIS POO to LAHxIN G. MEAD, deN
siguor, and Sl26 $50 to WV K, RICHARD.
sos builder Of the monument The AS
ISOLATION has also catered into a contract
with LARElS &. MEAD to deliver in the
city Of Springfield the scu pure required
by lis design for the sum of $4,000 or
in detail, as follows $1,000 for each
group supporting that statue, and $4,000
for the coat OF arms; and the additional
funds for this purpose the Association
hopes to raise in good time.
Albert d. Richardson, writing to the
independent from the scene Of the late
catastrophe at Ayondale, describes three
fatal gases--the black damp, white damp,
and fire damp. The black dump does
not burn. consists mainly of aarbonc
acid gas, lies like a log on she bottom of
the mine, and when breataed causes a
pricking and ringing in the ear, Three
or four inhalations often destroys life,
its deadliness eqalling that of the tabled
Upas. The white damp is equally poi,
sonous, though a lamp burns more bright
ly a., - ,hon IN purp air The fro lpmp