Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington News.

Washington News.
Customs receipts for week ending Feb
ruary 9Th, were So, 69,1OO
A telegram was received by the Indian
Department at Washington, on the 18th,
stating that the Regan Indians of Montana
were in a deplorable condition. Small
pox was raging in the tribe, and they
were suffering intensely for the necessi'
ties of life Commissioner Parker issued
instructions that their wants be immedi-
ately attended to-.
The Census bill being killed in the
Senate, the ensus must now be taken
under the old law, with Gen. Walker as
Superintendent.
The Gold Investigating Committee
closed its labors on the 18TH, and the Chair.
man had commenced his report, which
would be ready in about a week.
The Treasury statement issued on the
18th shows the receipts by warrants for
the quarter ending December 81, 1869, to
have been $116,974,S91.37; expenditures,
$1O7,925, 912O7; balance in Treasury De-
cember 81, 1869, 1928, ,s3716.
Among the nominations sent to the
Senate on the 18th were: Barnabas Smith,
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Sec
Ond District Of Missouri Chas. S. Hemp
stead, United States Attorney for Utah !;
John L. Routt, Marshal of the Southern
District of Illinois; Haynes E. Hudson,
Attorney for the Western District of Ten
nessee. Postmasters-H Prince, Angus
Ia, Ga. Jesse Schriver, Tifiln, Ohio; Jno.
A. Martin Atchison, Kansas
The complement of men for the navy
allowed by law, viz, $500, having been
reached the department has directed that
enlstments shall cease.
The East.
Horace Greeley has been elected Presi-
dent of the American institute.
The trustees of Cornell, IN. ", Uni.
versity, on the 10th, elected Hon. Amasa
j. Parker and J. H. Selkridge, Trustees.
Hon. Geo. Geddes was elected Professor
of Agriculture, ard John Fl. Swift, NJ. D.,
Professor of Microscopic Sciences.
The Forest River Lead Works, at Sa.
lem, Mass, has been seized for alleged vio-
lation Of the internal revenue laws.
Dr. J. G. Hall has sued the Pittsburgh
Gazette for libel, laying damages at 100000.
The Lebanon Springs and Rutland and
Bennington railways have been consoli-
dated as the Harlem extension Augustus
Schell is President.
The body of Greenwald, one of the
Americans recently murdered at Havana,
was received in New York on the 10Th,
and taken charge of by friends.
The earnings of the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad, last year, were l7,250,0 900;
expenses, $12,0OO0O0; and the net earn
ings exceed those of 1868 by $l7,3l4.
Twenty thousand valentines passed
through the New York post. Office on the
t4th inst.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her fiftieth
birthday on the evening of the 10th, by
a reception at the Womans Bureau in
New York city.
At the charter election in Syracuse,
N. Y, on the 10th, the Republicans re-
elected Mayor Clark by 1856 majority, and
one Overseer of the Poor and one Justice
The Democrats elected one Justice, one
Overseer of the Poor, and two Assessors
On Supervisors the Republicans carry five
of the eight wards. On Aldermen the
Democrats carry five of the eight wards
The Common Council stands five Demo
Gratis to three Republicans.
The obsequies of Isaac Greenwald, muir
dered in Havana, took place in New York
City, on the 10th, and was attended by
several Hebrew Societies. The Spanish
Consul was present, at the request of the
relatives. No public demonstration was
made.
Friends Of prohibition in Massachusetts
held a convention at Boston on the 10th,
and adopted resolutions in favor of pro-
hibitory law and looking to the formation
of third political party. The attendance
at the convention was not large.
A New York dispatch of the 18th states
that the bankers and brokers, insurance
companies and business men of the North
have sent word to Southern lawyers and
business men that they shall not take
advantage of the recent decision of the
Supreme Court relative to contracts and
mortgages,
The West.
Two Chicago citizens publish card in
the Tribune of that city on the 10th, claim.