Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-01-26
Miscellaneous Items.
Y, Illinois, owes 50, 416, 40.

ping point tor cattle.
The whole length of Hoosac Tunnel
now opened is IL, 500 feet
THE ladies of Boston are about to
! hold a French fair.
| Two hundred tons of silver ore per
week pass through Salt Lake City.
Boston is to have ''Home for the
Poor, to cost 1923, 900.
Ten acres of land adjoining Denver
City, sold for So 900 last week.
THE question of reviving the usury
laws is being agitated in South Caro-
lima.
Rock ISLAND, H., expended $685.
900 for improvements last year.
THE cash revenue derived in Fort Scott
from the sale of coal is 5000 per day.
KENTUCKY is proposing to call con-
vention to revise its constitution.
THE leading paper in Aberdeen,
Scotland, is under the control of an
American.
That famous tunnel is little more
than half through the Hoosac mountain.
MASSACHUSETTS, wants to raise 50, 500
900 by taxation for State purposes this
year.
A HEAVY tide of emigration is setting
in from Tennessee and Georgia to
Texas
PROPERTY in Atchison county, Kan
sas, has increased 400 per cent in eight
years
FIVE good men in Iowa City have sub
nod Il AflD aaoh toyrarl a E'y,f,
copal church.
In Chicago, man has been fined SO
for stealing baby from another man
on the street.
THE vanguard Of a new colony from
Chicago has recently located near Par
kersvllle, Kansas.
THE population of Wilmington, N.
c., has increased nearly six per cent.
since 1860.
THE Shawnee Indian landsin Kansas,
heretofore untaxable, will be placed on
the tax rolls next spring.
The liberated Fenian prisoners are
to have a rousing reception on their
arrival in New York nextweek
A TIGER, said to have escaped from a
menagerie, is roaming through Schuyl-
kill county, Pa
The Board of Health of New Orleans
have ordered the vaccination of the
children attending the public schools.
SOME of the Vermont families get rid
of bed bugs by putting cedar shavings
between the ticks.
A GERMAN poet declares that his
country possesses cas- many songs as
bayonets rather large estimate.
CHAMPAGNE is going up in prlce, and
the fashion of serving wine at parties is
consequently going out.
AN Ohio female is in jail for buyinga
bonnet with money collected for sol
diers' orphans.
THE Oneida Community have receiv-
ed but one new member since 1867, and
declines all further applications for
membership.
FoRr SCOTT is shipping barrels of
prairie chickens to Montreal. Wild
game was never more plentiful in Kan
sas than this winter.
The Cheyenne Leader states that the
carbon mines are still burning, and
that no efforts to eXtinguish the fire are
being made
THE Greeley settlers thought they had
got out of their latitude when the mer-
curry got down to thirtyseyen degrees
below zero.
A LARGE number of clerks and sales
men are said to have been thrown out
of employment in New York at the be-
ginning of the New Year
In order to improve the food supply,
the New England papers are urging
better and more provident system of
farming all through the East
The New Orleans Commercial says
that the Introduction of Canadian labor
in Louisiana has begun, and creates
much interest among the planters.
A NEW SCHEME is on foot in Memphis.
1t is to terrace the middle bluff over
the levee and to excavate it into a
mammoth warehouse for grain, pro-
duce, etc.
A SILVER sHEKEL, said to have once
lain in one of the vaults of King Solo
mons Temple, is on exhibition at Nor
wich, Conn.
COMING OUT PARTIES are coming in
fashion. A lady up town has mace her
manageable daughter "come out ~
tour times,
WHITE ties are en- regie among young
gentlemen for all full dress occasions,
balls, parties, Germans, receptions and
dinners
WASHINGTON is to celebrate the Law