Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-09-21
Miscellaneous Items.

company.
Mr. SEWARD is expected home in
October
BUFFALO is iubilant over the recent
discovery of natural gas there.
THE pathetic ballad OF the Little
Brown jug" is one Of Missions weak
neSses.
ADELAIDE PHILLIPS late concertizing
tour in Canada was not q pecuniary
success.
The product of the Lake Superior
+ iron mines for 1871 is estimated at ST.
/ $50. 900.
Mrs. MYRA GAINES has sold her
/ 1925, 900 clam against New Orleans for
$50, 600.
I THE life insurance companies in Der
4 lin, Prussia, are insuring lives against
the cholera.
SEC. RoBEsoN is to speak on the polit-
/ zeal questions of the day in Philadel-
/ phia on Sept. %.
/ TIRE National District is what the
! Savannah (Ga.) Advertiser calls Wood
hull, Clafin & Go.
A M1SNEsoTA juror addressed note
to the Judge, in which he styled him
an ''onerable jug"
/ TIE difference between Il sick girl
/ and a briclbat is the difference between
a missile and a miss-ill.
i OUGHT an advocate of the policy OF
non-interference in every difficulty to
be rewarded with mcddlC?
THE Spanish Government is engaged
in equipping 5000 men to be sent to
reinforce the army in Cuba
I DU CHMLLU is coming back next win
/ ter to write about his discovery Of Fin
land, Lapland, and Russia.
JONAS G. HEART, of Troy n Y, has
camped on Ere Island beach during the
summer for more than 40 years.
CALIFORNIA has now the historical
cock of walk; F." in the form of a
rooster blessed with four legs.
President Gown of the Reading
! Railroad draws $4,000 more salary an
nually than President Grant does.
/ Gov. RANDOLPH, of New Jersey, has
offered $500 reward for the murderer of
Mr.. Jonathan Hoffman at Cape May.
| SOME of the Californians are laughing
at a stranger who in one of their
/ towns, said that he had been 'perusing
around seeing the climate. y
! The Boston Traveller already puts in
a claim for Boston as the place Of meet
ing of the next National Republican
/ Convention.
SOME San Francisco thieves got I'M
/ der the floor of the far pavilion and
tapped the huge cask which supplies
the cologne fountain.
1 CHARLES BONNER, the best-known
mining superintendent in the silver re-
gions, died of paralysis in San Fran
cisco
( A DELAWARE peach-grower, who last
week shipped five hundred baskets of
fruit, cleared three cents over treights
and commissions.
THE jury in 5he case of Samuel J.
Holley, late Collector Of Buffalo,
charged with malfeasance in office, on
Tuesday, returned a verdict of guilty.
AN Oswego local saw two ladies "go
for" moving train, and took out his
note book and pencil joytUIly, But
they got aboard in safety.
He came down town for his morning
nip, he raised the glass, he heaved
sigh; and then between each ardent
sip. he cried, ''Oh, how Is that for
rye
Two Indians attempted to cross the
St. Clair river at Sarnia, on Tuesday
last, during a gale that was prevailing,
and their canoe being upset they were
drowned.
PIUs'IX. has signed brief, provid-
ing for the election of his successor
within twentv.four hours after his
death, and without any meeting OF the
COnclaye
Mr.. BrEcHEn thinksit high time girls
were taught little practical natural
history. and SO shamed ont of scream
ing and half faintlng ut the sight OF
worm. toad or a snake.
Miss MARY HAST SpAEu,wE, great
granddaughter of Sir William Pepper
ell. and SAID to be the last OF the taml-
". died in Portsmouth,, \. H.. few
days ago, aged more than ninety years.
Gov. HMGHr, of California, has Of
fercd reward Of II. 600 for the persons
who recently attempted to roh o stage
coach between Healdsburg and Glover
dale, Sonoma County, and murdered
I. II. Benton.
4 MARL-pIr in Sharpstowu. y. j.,
cayed in on Wednesday afternoon, bury
ING seven workmen One hundred men
set 10 work Immediately T. dag them
ont, aujau but two were rescued awe.
THG remains OF a mastodon were