Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-16
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miscellaneous.

The City Treasurer of Philadelphia has been
arrested as a defaulter.
FIVE deaths from yellow fever in Charleston
during the past twenty-four hours.
A zHIPYARD for the construction Of cuirassed
vessels is being formed at Sicolaief,
Gov. HAYES, of Ohio, has appointed the Both
of November an day Of thanksgiving
A GAZING earth-bank at paducah, KY,
crushed the life out of four men and a boy
The state debt of Florida, together with her
liabilities and railroad endorsements, amounts
to sI4. 500, 600
GOLDSMITH MAID and Lucy trotted at Pitts
2:2Gl. 2:2lJl, 2:24lI.
A SAMPLE Of tin ore received from Utah was
found on analysis at the Land Office, not to
possess a trace OF tin.
THE big marsh in Brdgewater, Washtenaw
county. Mich, is still on fire. In some places
it has burned nine feet deep.
THE President. Secretary of War and Gen
Sherman are engaged in rearranging the mill
tary departments Of the country.
TnEY are firing cannon and burning tar
through the streets of Vicksburg, TO purify the
air against the advances the of Yellow Jack.
A Yocsa lady in Oil City Penn, while
wringing out dress, ran needle through the
palm of her hand, and died in five minutes.
THE Mohaiye Bank, at Great Darlington,
Mass, was robbed Of $4,000 on Saturday
night by VIM 5. Hine the teller, who has
fed
The Agricultural Department has received
from Australia seeds Of trees to try if they
are suitable to plant on the treelesa plains of
the West
president GRASr has expressed a doterm-
nation to declare martial law throughout the
entire South in consequence of the continued
outrages.
TuE Secretary of the Treasury has called in
another million and a half Of three per cents,
OF tho denomination Of $4,000. The interest
will cease on the 3lst of December.
REVENUE stamps to the amount of 3G6, 900
damaged in the Chicago fire, have been re-
c.iycd at the Internal Revenue ONCE, aud will
be returned to the Bureau Of Printing and En-
craving, for exchange,
A DOUBLE duel took place ro,ont!y at Co
lumbus, Nevada in which four young men, all
of good family, were engaged. Three of them
were mortay wounded, two being shot in the
bowels and one in the lungs
Tue actual extent of the district burnt in
Chicago IA now stated to be 2. 800 acres cover
ing section of land four and half miles
ng by mile wide. The number of build
ings destroyed il Is, 900, of which IS, 600 were
substantial structures.
+ + W, PECK. ono of Chicago's pioneer
citizens, died on Tuesday evening" aged sixty
one years. Mr. Peek came to Chicago in 1891,
brick building. lie was one of tho woalthiost
If not the wealthiest man IN Chicago.
TuE United States ateamcr Wabash, the
flagship Of the European squadron, will sail
from Boston about the latter part of next week
for Europe Gen. sherman and Cot Audeu-
reid, of his stan, take passage on the Wabash.
They viii be absent about six months
Amour eight miles from Dclphos, Ohio, on
Saturday night a burglar broke into the house
Of a man NAMED Steycr, an old bachelor, for
robhiug, and probably murder Steyer hearing
the mau, shot hum dead ss soon IA he got in
side. tie was a stranger IN those parts.
\ CONVICT named Robert Morgan, sent from
Detroit IN 1865 for robbery and burglary, for
five aud ten years respectively, committed SUI
eide at the State Prison gt Jackson. Michigan
FRIDAY night. Ho bal begun to manifest
within day or two, ymptoma of insanity,
EttAs H. Ra,Nwnr has been awarded dam
age, 60 the amolsD of sl2,09o against the
Imrl Ayeo0o Hallway Company Of New York
tor Wiuriusrvgulysl IN MAY, 1868. While run.