Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-10-26

NsNEaccs bears are reported to have
|beer killsd II Adams county.

d. A San FEANoIscO firm is, shipping
cured salmon to England. -.
The Mayor of Marion, Ala, is sery
i ing out bis Official term in the peniten-
tiary.
I anna Dickinson has new lecture,
entitled .Demagogues and Working,
i men" s-v - ,--e- ~ = ~ vsss
\ New foRG grocer imports West
phalla hams and saEsages wrapped in
tin foil. Loo
! =. CALIFORNIA has a brandy factory
which turns ont six hundred gallons
per day r'l haisa #aSS
THE Florida papers all agree that not
more than hah a crop of cotton Will
be gathered in that state.
! THERE are more newspapers pub
lished in California for the number of
inhabitants than IA any other state in
the Union. 4aaa -
T. THE whole amount of money spent
! for the support OF common schools in
4 the State OF New York last year, was
1 S9,905, 514.22- .g4
SOME of the old orange trees in Flor
! ida have suffered SO much from insects
that many groves have been burned
down to get rid Of the pests.
| ORDERS have been issued at the
Treasury Department at Washington
! for the construction of twenty or more
new hfe-saving stations ON the coasts
of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
KANSAS Cry, Mo, claims to be the
wealthiest city in the West. With
valuation of $50, 000, 600, or nearly
$1,000 for every man, woman and
child
In one county of Kansas alone there
are 121 acres OF castor beans under cul-
tivation, and Greeley thinks it needs no
mathematician to show that the crop
viii supply castors to every belstead
III the United States. @ slk
THE farmers OF California propose to
cultivate the italian sunhower. 1t is
raised for its root, which is represented
to be as nutritious as the potato One
Thousand five hundred bushels to the
acre is good crop. .saar.J a .e5
ANY hard steel tool, says the Boston
Journal of Chemistry, Will cut glass
with facility which kept freely wet with
camphor dissolved in turpen tine. The
ragged edges of glass may also be thus
smoothed with fiat file.
BIG, burly, rugged, gray-haired, I'M
couth in feature and manner, eccentric
in dress, bearing and theory-a huge
baby in all the ways of the world-such
a man is Charles Reade, looked at
through the spectacles Of Justin Nc
Carthy. E 'ssaa. sau ea@
TIE author Of e'Ihe New Gospel of
Peace of which there were circulated
more than half a million Of copies few
years ago, is out with a satire
on the Darwin theory of sexual develop
ment, entitled THE Fall of Man, Or
Loves of the Gorillas. - ~
FrrrY thousand dollars worth Of ami
mails, not belonging to the city, are now
in the New York Central Park At the
risk of the owners. So many aniraais
have been offered the Department Of
Parks for free board during the winter,
that the offer of one large 4nenalggerie-
owner has been refused. a.a "a
COLI WuLINM L. SHuTLwoRTH, q vet
eran of the Mexican war, died on the
9th. He was brerevtted captain tor
gallant and NERVOUS conduct in the
bembardment and capture OF Vera
Cruz. AT the time OF his death he
held the rank of colonel in the Cnited
States Marine Corps.
IRA MILLER of Sleepy Hollow, whose
farm adjoins the property OF the mur-
derer Buekhout, sold his farm last
week for $34, 900. The same property
VS. bought twelve years ago forS5,-
F5u5. II Ruckhout gets of and goes
back to that neighborhood to reside,
property viii probably so Gown again.
THERE is story going aroundS that
Prince Albert was one day telling his
scapegrace of brother, Alfred, what
he would do when he should be King.
80" retorted Alfred, tpefore that time
comes there will be competitive es-
animation for Kings, and you viii not
get a certificate.
AN almost brokeu- hearted widower
in Elmira, New York, has atiast found
consolation His wife believed he did
not love her, and found surcease OF sor-
i.row in A flowing bowl of Iaudanum,
The bereaved husband first collected
the insurance on her life, and then sued
and recovered damages from the drug
gist who sold her the Lethean draught
! A BosroS paper says that new car
coupling has been invented which uses
the common link, but instead OF pm
has 10 tumhling hook plvoted N the
lower lip of the drawbar head, winch,
when the link IS inserted, passes mp
| Through it, and is held in place sby a
cr.rgitatiug catch. This IS disengaged
| bv lever on the platform OF top'oi tue