Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-11-09

the late ltcoIatIb Sa!!laYe CDutTacttl Win hIu
f9r the eitesgner at q valuation OF ; 80 GOO, and
that $4,000 Va paid on the contract He has
Iron ht' SUIT against the President T., the bal
ance, 100000 The case IL stu before the
ourts.
Ar ulior City, Tenn. Saturday night, wl4llo
Inc passengers Of the train on the A,obiie and
jumped o. the engine and ran tho tran bsek
two miles. while two Others entered the ex
press car, robbed the express safe Of about
a, 900. and escaped. The rnessengs, was at
supper lie lad left one man ON guard who
was oyeTpoWered by the robbers.
The project which was much discussed be
fore constructing the new wings to the Court
House. to cover the whole OF Court Hotse
Square with buildings has been revived since
the ere. The proposition is to co.'s gruCt an
immense building, which sha!l oeCapy the
whole square, the frs. story to be composed
Of lirst-ciass stores on all its four points, the
upper stories 70 be devoted TO the use % the
city and county, 3 law institute and Offices i0I
members Of the bar, wide corridors to run on
the first floor through the entire building,
from Clark to La Sale and from Washington
to Randolph, with handsome fountains al the
mtersecung points.
The Japauese have been studying American
institutions from a protective standpoint, The
silk dealers Of Yokohama have destroyed haiti
of Their new stock Of worm-eggs 10 create u
scarcity and increase the value OF the goods
on hand The Mikado has decreed that all
further attempts at bulhng the market IN this
manner shall result 10 batch Of nea1less
silk merchants
Now that the ripple Of excitement over
Mont Cenis has passed away, oil eyes are
turned TO the next engineering attempt
St. Gothard railroad Though lar from 30
great task, it is none the less interesting, al
it's completion w-iil enable one to step from
summer TO winter, and ptee VCrsa, at half
hours notice, and to rattle by rail through
one OF the grapdest passes of tho Alps
SIR JOHN BuRGoYvE, late Field Marshal o.
England, died on the 7th ult. His eldest sou,
Captain Hugh Talbot Burgoyne, was IN com
mand Of the al fated turrot-shtp Captain,
when fosudered OF Cape Finisterre on the
eth of September last year, and, from the ei
feet Of the consequent shock to hiA nervous
system, the deceased veteran never recovered
CoNHurEARLE excitement was occasonod ia
Bloomfield, N. j., on Wednesday, caused Ivy
the discovery Of two women the wife and
daaghte' Of Frederick Iilman, ono dying and
the other dead The circumstaucos point
strongly 20 the conclusion that they had been
poisoned
A HoNEr,r epidemic has broken out IN
Kudist&L. Its symptoms closely resemble the
plague. Tumors under the armpits, a charao-
teristc Of the Ioudon Infection OF ib65, pur-
pie STAINS on the aim, bloodshot eyes, and al
most upeXceptloual fatality are tho prominent
algus.
TRE Iamm&uy party of New Yort ctty and
county have made the following nominations
Justice oi The supreme Court, Tl4os A Led-
with Justice Of the Court of Common Pleas,
Charles / DAILY Register, Edward j Shard
10y. Judges Jones and Spencer. tho present
we're nominated az JudreH of the
Superior Court
TIKI prairie t.roa have extended mo Maoto-
bs Thousands Of tons Of hay hive been
burned, and ia many instances tho farmers
have los. all their household effects, nipple
ments, crops, Ac 30. The smoke at one
time waaEo donso ct Winnipeg that The in
habtants could scarcely breathe.
A SNAKE, said 10 have boon at lcyst i've feet
long aai aa thick as a mans wrist, a.a itilled
in tie ladies caI Of the train going FROM Nash
Vile 20 Chattanooga, near that place las, week
The reptile was discovered crawling along the
alsiC, and created "a terrible sensation before
Il waa dispatched
AHpE koREE defeated UctmboId ia -four
mile dash at Jerome Tark on Tuesday The
tine Of the iirst mile was 1919, second mile,
1850. thgd mile, 1880 and the fourth milo.
l:52. The total time, 1883. This is tho fastest
-four miles ever made on this course, and TAX
Ing into consideration the track aud ita cOudl-
g. ,,k, D. . Soc Ia
IuG committee appointed at the recent
meeting ci the Conference to ascertain the
losses Of the Methodist churches by the liz
III Chicago, report ~ follows: Loss TO the
Garrett Biblical Institute, in buildlugs owned
in the city, $50, geo; Methodist Church block,
500 eco Grace Church, 200, eco Scandiua-
wan and two German churches. &l5,0b The
amount 81 insurance THAI can be recovered ~
about $50 GEO
TIT THIRD and fourth infantry reserves =
tHc German army wiu shortly bo permitted to
fetnu bone Tho cavalry reserves viii ro-
mauu ou duty lor0 present
GuAI ar,s are burning ia the woods "a Can
soda uea' a. "nyoaItio River and about Wal
pole Island They arc destroying great quaa-
titles % valuable tImher ard are uycasaoujug
general apprehension
Turat 81 o great scarcity OF money iu Paris
To roheve 10 sotno measure the public dts
trees, the ll,uI of france has commenced the
ISSUE .. $4,000 ,Oo1 francs N currency OF sunal
uenomuauara
10 SHOW the value OF the postal treaty rc
rwh,y negotiated between the uuitod States
4 d Z ~ q 1.