Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-07

E w. KErEs has been re>appointed
Postmaster at Madison.
President GRANTS recent indisno-
sition was bad cold which settled in
his face in the shape Of neuralgia
SENATOR FENroN is charged with
receiving fee of $4,000 for signature
to certain law when he was governor
of New York
IMMENSE gold discoveries are reported
in Alaska, but the mines can only be
worked about five months in the year on
account of the rigorous climate.
Iowa is certainly a model State. 1t
does not owe one cent. and has surplus
of six hundred and thirty mine thousand
dollars on loan.
The Pacific mail steamer Hermann
was recently lost in Japanese waters
She had large number of japanese sol
diers on board, all of whom were
drowned
MATT. Fl. CARPENTER is to deliver
the agricultural address at the next Min
nesota State Fair.
The initiatory of Chilli (P. r. par
lance) recently occurred during ses~
sion of the House Committee on Elec-
tons. Burr, NJ c. from II inois, pitched
into Stephenson, ~ c. from Ohio; but
blow from Stephenson laid Burr out
Thus the matter terminated.
JAMES HARPER, ex-mayor of New
York City and senior member of the
great publishing firm of Harper Brothers,
died on the 9th ult, from injuries re-
ceived by being thrown from a carriage
He was se7enty>four years Of age.
CHICAGO recently 20 ed to construct two
more mammoth public parks. Chicago
will soon become the great park city of
the Continent.
MAYOR HALL, of N. Y. City, has
issued circular cautioning strangers
that all cooperative unions, gift enter
prises, dollar stores, and other schemes
of that nature in that city, are swindles,
and asks the country press of the nation
to publish them as such, reiterating the
same often.
HEAVY rains and great freshets are
troubling New York and New England
this spring
GEN. CHARLES S. HAMILTON, of
Fond du Lac, has received the appoints
ment of u S. Marshal for the district of
Wisconsin.
The Democratic members of the 1ndi-
ana Legislature who resigned to prevent
the ratification Of the Franchise amend
ment to the Constitution, have all been
reelected, and now threaten that, if the
Republicans insist on rat. ;ation, they
will again resign.
Hon JAMES H. WooDwoRTH, Pres
ident of the Treasury National Bank of
Chicago, ex-Mayor of that city, and ex-
member of Congress, died on the 2Sth
ult
CARLOS MANUEL CEsPEDEs, the Gu
ban insurgent chief, is in his forty fifth
year He ranked as the leading lawyer
in Havana. On the commencement of
the revolution he liberated all his slaves,
most of whom followed him to camp
The Cubans have great confidence in his
ability and discretion and his power as
a leader is, practically, unlimited
LIEUT.. GENERAL SHERIDAN has is
sued an order changing the headquarters
of the Military Department Of the Mis-
souri, from St. Louis to Chicago.
As AN Indication of the literary taste
of the Kentucky Democracy, it is men
toned that n valuable library of GOO vol,
umes sold, in Lewis county, recently, for
$50 %.
THERE is yet in the Z. S. Treasury be
tween four and five millions of dollars,
belonging to soldiers, being bounty mon
ey undrawn. Dishonest claim agents
are gobbling it up
The Independent says its exchanges
the past week report over 1000 conver>
sions and accessions TO churches, as the
result of reviyals Of these four thou
sand are among the Methodists, $50
among the United Brethren, and 600
each among the Baptists and Presbyteri-
ans
SAN Francisco and other districts in
California had another severe shock from
earthquakes, on Friday evening. No Sc
rious damage was done.
ADvIcEs from Cape Town, Africa, state
that tract of country, in Southern Afri-
ca, four hundred miles long and from if
teen to one hundred and fifty miles
broad, nearly as large as the State of IL
linois, had been burnt over
WHEN ANNA DIcKISsoN lectured at
Des Moines she received n note while on
the platform. The writer asked for an
inter Jew at the close of the lecture,
which was granted, and he proved to be
a rich Omaha merchant, who proposed
to Anna on the spot Anna declined
HAYTI WANTS AN Iron CLAD