Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-03
The West.

The West.
The Ohio House, on the Goth, ratified
the Fifteenth Amendment-57 to So.
The Indian Commissioners recommend
an appropriation for the education of the
Indians settled on reservations.
The Iowa House has ratified the Fiji
teenth Amendment by SO to H.
The Republican State Convention of
Oregon is called to meet on the It'll of
April.
The Iowa Senate, on the 21st, refused,
by vote of 80 to IA, to concur in the
House resolutions adopting the Fifteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution.
The majority of the Senate claim that the
House should have taken their resolu.
tons, as they were the first to adopt the
same, and not have passed a new series of
their own.
Pork-packing statistics show the re-
ceipts at Milwaukee of live and dressed
hogs up to the 22d to be 129S45, against
1lk 97S head for the same time last year.
In recent libel suit of Eliza P. Buck.
ley against the ST. Louis Republican, for
$4,000, the jury returned a verdict for
$500 damages.
At fire in st. Joseph, Mo-, on the 23d,
one man persisted in the flames, three
9th, rs were killed by falling wall, and
four others were seriously injured.
Reports from the interior of Nebraska
show that large numbers Of persons per,
ished in the recent snow storms
In the Iowa Senate, on the Goth, the
Conference Committee reported that they
had agreed upon settlement of the dis.
agreement between the two houses rela-
tive to the adoption of the Fifteenth
Amendment, and reported resolutions,
and they were adopted-ayes, 40; nays, 6.
The South.
The storm on the morning of the 18th
destroyed Paint Rock, near Huntsville,
Ala, and some freight cars standing on
the switch were lifted and carried nine
hundred yards away.
A large sum of money has been raised
in Louisville for the sufferers in the
recent tornado at Cave City.
A special dispatch to the Memphis Aca-
lanche OF the 21st, from Jackson, Miss,
saysthe Mississippi Legislature had elected
Governor Alcorn United States Senator
for the long term, beginning March, 1871,
and Gen. Ames for the short term w. H
Revel, colored native, educated in Ohio,
present State Senator from Natchez, was
elected for the term expiring March, 1871,
to which Sharkey was elected, but not ad
mitted The Legislature adopted reso.
luton memorializing Congress to remove
political disabilities from all Mississippians
to be presented by Mr.. Revel, together
with his credentials as United States Sen.
ator. The Legislature adjourned to meet
on the second Tuesday after the admission
OF the State
George d. Prentice, the veteran editor
died in Louisville on the morning of the
22d, in the 6Sth year of his age.
Gen. Terry declined to submit the ques.
tons of law, in regard to the qualifica
tons of certain members elect to the
Georgia Legislature, to the Supreme Court
of that State.
In the Georgia House, on the Goth, an
order from General Terry was read de.
claring that Representatives Donaldson,
Taliierro, ard Mum were ineligible to seats
under the laws of the United States, and
ordering that they be prohibited from TAX
ing part in the organization, and from at
tempting to exercise the functions of men,
bers also, that sixteen persons elected to
the House, and who had declined to take
the oath, and filed papers for the removal
OF disability, had become ineligible, and
were prohibited from taking seats. An.
other order provided that Colonel Harris
should be Clerk pro TEN until the election
of Speaker. Col r. H. McWhorter, Re.
publ an, was elected Speaker over Col. J
4. Bryant-76 to So.