Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-02-09
Miscellaneous Items.

Miscellaneous Items.
ISABELLA is going to call on Eugene.
ILLINOIS has 1,733 idiots and 2,3s7
lunatics
dren.
KENNEsAw Mountain has been on fire
for week past.
New MEXICO is about to indulge in an
artesian we'll
FoRr Scorr made the past year three
million bricks.
TIE school-reigiou question is agi-
Eating the st. Louis public.
LEAvENwoRTH is talking about build
ing another opera-house.
DENVER streets were illuminated by
gas on Christmas eve
A GRAND COUNCIL Of noble red men
will be held at l. It. Laramie shortly.
A BALTIMORE BOY stole two marbles,
and is now immurred in dungeon.
ORANGES are now sold by retail in
Boston at one-half the price of apples.
OF 355,277 beef-cattle shipped to
New York last year Illinois furnished
204, 13l.
THE late cold weather in the Sonth
made sad havoc with the colored popu
lation.
THE "gold crop" of Montana for
the year 1870 has yielded S44, 000, 600.
The Indian Territory wants to be
promoted to the estate of Ocmulgee."
Two THOUSAND miles of railroads
have been built IN Illinois and are now
in operation, since 1869.
AN indianapolis paper puts the cap
ture of four-pound eel i'll its chrome
logical record.
A NARRow-GUAGE RAILWAY is to be
built from Virginia City to White Pine,
Nevada.
LATE accounts from France indicate
| that the French are very near their last
ditch.
IT is expected that by April next
every British soldier in India will have
Snider rife.
THE Chicago Republican publishes
Births, Betrothals, Marriages, Divorces
and Deaths.
CALIFoRNIANs have contributed nearly
$500, 900 to the French and German re-
lief funds.
SAN FRANC1so exported last year ST.
769, 742 worth of merchandise and S35,
973, 1879 in treasure.
THERE is talk in Utah about making
Corinne the capital instead Of Salt Lake
city.
A WILD turkey was shot near Leavep-
worth few days ago weighing thirty
eight pounds.
RECENTLY number of houses in st.
Louis had their roofs crushed III by
heavy fall of snow.
TUE English journals complain of the
| unusual number of railway accidents
there this winter.
THERE are ffty-two physicians in
Morgan county, H., of whom twenty
eight live in Jacksonville.
THE average salary of Methodist
preachers in Rhode Island has increas-
ed the past twenty years from $3.50 to
$1,015.
EXETER CATHEDRAL, England, is about
| to be restored. The improvement has
been long talked Of.
A PAPER MILL on large scale is to
be erected at Fort Dodge, Iowa, during
| the coming season.
THERE are in the state of New York
| 1873 savings banks, with assets amount
ing to 1920, 100000
THE Northern people about Gaines
vile, Florida, are selling out and leav
| ing that section OF the country.
ILLINOIS has paid all its state debt
| but 81, $50, 937, and there is 50, 0S2, 104
available toward liquidating that.
ST. LOUIS taxpayers protest against
the management of the parks being
placed under the control of one man.
BREAD for the supply of school at
Concord, N. H., is baked in Boston,
and is sent to Concord, by express, twice
O week.
THROUGHOUT New England and New
York prayers are being offered in the
churches for much needed rain.
TIE Davenport 1owa) Democrat
says General Add Sanders has resigned
the Secretaryship of Montana.
A WESTERN paper, versed In weather
signs, says blue streaks in the sky is
sign of coming cold weather
A BILL has been introduced in the
Ob1r, / lot, Cor q cranaral