Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-08
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SAN FRANCISCO has sent forty carooas
Of wheat to England since July. yainaJ
at 81, 95l, 900.
OK the 1st of July 800 new money o-
der postotlices will be established, maxi.
ing 5000 in the country.
The towns of Inyo county, Independ-
ence and Lone Pine, Cal, are to be re-
built in much better style than before
the earthquake. The new houses are
of wood
THE Houghton Gazette SAYS that
town site has been laid off Mt the north,
west end of Lake Michigammi, in seq.
ton 80, town As, range 30 The local
ity is attractive, and with the GROWING
importance of the railroad and iron ino
terest in that section, place of consid-
cradle size must spring up within a
year or two.
THE celebrated gas we'll at Newton
Pa, in the oil region, is not popnlar
institution there. The gas continues to
rush forth with a noise like that Of
tornado, and the people in the vicinity
are greatly alarmed. believing the well
to have a direct connection with the in.
fernal regions. A school, three-duarters
Of Il mile away, has been suspended
and the cattle run about the fields
wild with fright.
A Boston photographer has sent to
the Sandwich Islands 40, 900 illuminat.
ed marriage certificates,
SIR MICHAEL COSTA has received from
the hand of the Prince of Wales a mas.
sive gold ring, bearing an engraved
seal of the Royal Albert Hall, with the
inscription inside, PRESENTED by her
Maiesty's commissioners to Sir Michael
Costa, in return for the valuable ser
vices he voluntarily gave upon the oc.
casion of the opening OF the hall, and
of the opening of the international Ex-
hibition III 1871"
Mrs. CATHERINE MARSH, of Balti-
more, who murdered her four children.
and was adjudged insane, is now con-
fined in an insane asylum, and though
only 20, her hair has turned completely
white.
Two balloons in which ascensions
were to have been made at Boston, on
the Fourth were wrecked by the storm
which prevailed there.
THE body of boy of sixteen, with
a skate on one of the feet, was found
in the river two miles below Newburgh,
Tuesday night.
IMPORTANT gold discoveries have been
made in the vicinity of Parley's Park,
Utah. The shipments of ore from Salt
Lake City last month were 100, 600; of
bullion, $50, 600.
MIRRORS laid over with gold are re-
ported to reflect sixteen times as pow
erful as ordinary quicksilver ones.
THE number of beer stamps issued
from the Internal Revenue Bureau dur
ing the fiscal year Just closed was o.
595, 500 an increase of 5000, 600 over
the issue of the year previous.
\ LUMP of prre gold, weighing half
a pound, was recently found by a me-
gro woman on the plantation of Mr..
Hugh c. Nlsbet, III Union county, n.
G. The woman was hoeing cotton and
knocked the lump over with her hoe.
COUNTING in Lorraine and Alsace as
taxpayers, Germany Will receive 81, 440,-
0O0, 900 from France. Her own ex-
penses were in the aggregate only $40
800, 900, leaving balance on the trans
action Of 81, 1872, 800 600, or about 800
per cent interest on the capital invest
ed. This is the most gigantic CONNER
cial operation in the history of war.
AUSTRIA is fast developing into re-
public.
DR.. SToUsBERG, formerly "the Prus-
sian railroad king" and at one time
worth many millions, has fled from his
creditors 10 hiding place in England.
For every six months that Alabama
couvlcts work well and faithfully upon
Alabama railroads their term of IN
is reduced one month.
MAYENcE. where the Emperor Con-
stantine is said to have seen his vision
OF the Gross, is the strongest fortress
in the German Confederation.
PRoF. AGAssIz was recently rendered
a public reception by the intendente OF
state of his health he was obliged to
decline. The professor found two OF
his college mates Of forty years ago III
the university at that city, one OF whom
DR.. Doneyki, gave to Prof Agassiz du-
plicates of his entire collection Of tos-
sis, by far the most complete and val
liable collection in South Amenea,
which he has been thirtyfve years II
collecting. so that Prof. Agasslz mq-
scum will have the most complete col
lection of South American fossils ever
made.
THE assessment of the city of San
Francisco has Just been completed, ana
the total valuations Of real and per
sonal property foot up S297 $50, ~
DUR1SG one of the warmest days 0!
the Boston jubilee, los women falp'eu