Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-15
General Items.
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General Items.
THERE are now 400 professional wood
engravers in the United States. Thirty
years ago there were not 20.
EVERY member of The Mutual Life
of Chicago is equally interested in its
success.
WHEN the black caterpillars come
down on a Tennessee district, the far
mers turn in the turkeys, who have
Diet of Worms.
WITH the exception of Pyatt and
Grousset, all the Commune chiefs have
been killed or taken prisoners.
CALEB CUSHING has bought and now
lives on the estate known as the Globe,
near the Aqueduct Bridge, in Virginia.
MAJOR GENERAL O. O. HOWARD has
recently purchased a residence at
Glencoe, Illinois, on the north lake
shore.
EARL DE GREY has publicly compli-
mented the architecture and internal
arrangements of the Washington school
houses.
Mrs. ANsoN BURLINGAME will here
after reside with her father, Isaac Liv-
ermore, at the old homestead in Cam
bridge, Mass.
CAR hooks are being abolished On the
New York street railways, and an APP
paratus of leather is to be substituted.
The house near Ashland, Va, in
which Henry Clay was born, in 1777,
was recently burned It was situated
in the county of Hanover, about five
miles distant from Ashland
THa next Conference of Jewish
Rabbits, preachers and delegates of con-
gregations of the United States will be
held in Cincinnati, on Monday, June
9Th, 1871.
EASTERN papers say that very few
trout are caught in the small streams
this season, and they attribute the
scarcity to the drouth of 1870, which
dried up the brooks and killed the fish.
never were the tobacco flies 50 numer-
ous and destructive as this season. And
throughout the south is dismay at the
number, size and voracity of the mus
quitoes.
SoLoMoN's wisdom is accounted for
by the suffrage sisterhood. They as
sert that he was in the habit of con-
sulting his 700 wives on all important
occasions.
The manufacture of salt on quite an
extensive scale has been commenced at
Brandenburg, Meade county, Ky. Five
or six salt wells near that place have
been running for several years, but I'M
til recently they have not been devel-
oped.
CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin
plmples, rngworm, salt-rheum, and
other cutaneous affections, cured, and
the skin made soft and smooth by using
the JUMPER TAR Soar, made by CAS-
WELL, HAZARD & Co, New York. 1t is
more convenient and easily applied than
other remedies, avoiding the trouble of
the greasy compounds now in use.
Nor MERELY vo TICKLE THE PALATE,
but to infuse health and vigor into the
enervated and diseased system, is the
high purpose and sure effect of DIR.
WALKERS VEGETABLE VINEGAR BIrTERs.
This famous restorative creates no sud
den flash of excitement, to be succeeded
by increased debility and ten-fold
gloom. 1t braces the relaxed nerves,
and imparts permanent tone and regu-
larity to the whole animal machinery.
Dyspepsia, liver complaint, physical
prostration, diarrhpa, and, IN fact,
nearly all complaints that are not or
ganic, yield to its operation.
The American Congregational Union
held its annual meeting at Mount Yer
non Church. Boston, on June / Hon.
Emory Washburn presided, and Rev.
DR. Webb conducted the devotional
exercises. The Treas urer's report
showed receipts of $50 900. and expen-
htures, including balance from last
year, of $50, 009, which has been paid
to 81 churches, to aid them in building.
Sir the society was organized 700
churches had been aided. to the amount
OF $4,000, the entire cost Of such
churches having been 81 500. 900