Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
The News.

Mr. loughbridge, of Iowa, to increase
the volume of currency circulation $50 :
100000, 1t is thought the Senate will
not concur.
lr is expected that tho President will
make formal declaration of the ratif-
cation of the Fifteenth Amendment, this
week, and that the necessary legislation
by Congress TO give it effect viii imme-
diately follow New Hampshire and
Connecticut will hold the first elections
under it
ANOTHER steamboat disaster on the
Mississippi. The steamboat Emma, No
3, from New Orleans for Cincinnati, with
passengers and freight, has been DESTROY
ed by fire above Memphis. The number
OF lives reported lost is ten or twelve
but no definite news has been received
A RESOLUTION expe ling Whitmorc, of
South Carolina, from his seat in Con-
gress, for having sold cadetships to West
Point, is before the House of Represen-
tatives, and will probably pass, as it
ought to-
SEVEN hundred and forty bills have
been introduced in the Assembly. and
two hundred and ninety-cight in the
Senate at Madison during the present
session.
The following are the occupationSo Of
the members Of our present Legislature.
In the Assembly. Al are classcd as FAR
mers; Is merchants; lawyers edi-
tors 3 each manufacturers, contractors
and insurance agents; 9, Pierce and
Pease, editors and lawyers; 2, Chandler
amp Kuntz, executors and frlmers; Q
each, physicians, land agents ana mlllers;
each, printer, civil engineer, surveyor,
land agent, miner, brewer, general agent,
banker and real estate agent, produce
dealer, builder. In the Senate, 5 are
lawyers; 8 farmers; - manufacturers
each, physicians, merchants and g Sen.
ators;' ! each, malster and grain dealer
hotel keeper and farmer, lnmberman,
editor, farmer and merchant produce
dealer, lawyer and farmer.
A Bill has been introduced in the
Legislature to raise jurors fees in JUS
tice courts to one dollar per day. That
is right Witness fees should be raised
to the same amount.
A good deal of sickness prevails in all
parts of the State principally produced
from colds ty the changeablc weather.
The La Crosse Democrat says God
knows the Democracy is guilty of enough.
Nearly every one else knows the same
thing
DISEASE is aiding in the extinction Of
the North American Indian. A small
tribe in Montana Territory, the Gros
Ventres, have recently lost 800 of their
number from smallpox, from which dis
ease they also suffered greatly last year.
The tribe now numbers but 200, and
the smallpox is still carrying off large
numbers.
THERE are 100 men in the State Prison
at Waupun engaged in making chairs,
and they turn out from 1000 to 1900
each week.
ADMIRAL FARRAGUr is quito i'll, and
fears are entertained for his recovery, -
His friends think it is return of his old
complaint
A SPRINGFIELD correspondent Of the
Henry (III) Republican speaks of the
woman sullraglsts as our brethcrn OIL
the female persuasion"
1Hg Assembly Of Minnesota passed
bill for the amendment to the Constiu.
tion, on the 10th inst, providing for TO-
male suffrage
A JOINT stock company has been form
ed for tho purpose Of starting two new
daily papers in misunderstanding aud
evening We do not think it viii be
very profitable for the stock holders.
OK Tuesday. the 18th instant, the in
! initinl step was taken in the construction
of the Nor,hern Pacific railroad by break
Ing ground at Dalles, st. Louis river,
Minnesota. Six parties of engineers are
in the field and loo men are already at
work. This is good news Its constrnc.