Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-18
General Items.

victs in the Tennessee penitentiary are
negroes
YORK, England, is to have the larg-
est railway station in that kingdom, its
cost being $1,000, 900,
The new steamboat act before Con-
gress abohShes low water gauges and
lock safety valves.
THERE are said to be more handsome
women IN Brooklyn than in any other
city OF It's size in the Union.
Two sons of Robert Jones, aged re-
spectiyely ten and fourteen years, were
frozen to death near Virginia City,
New, on Thursday.
YANKEE sharpness is satisfied. The
Boston Traveller announces that the
dinner given to Alexis cost S35 plate,
and that given by Alexis $50 a plate
A clear gain of SO In favor of Boston.
EDWARD CouGHERTY of Albany was
| killed, and John Little and David DIES
Morier We're severely injured by the
| fall of n scaffold at the Globe Wooden
Mills, in Utica, on Tuesday.
IN future no white horses are to be
employed in the French army, they
having been found such an excellent
guide TO the Prussians there to direct
their fire, A blow TO the French Wou-
vermeus.
Two young Indies recently walked
into hotel IN Jacksonville, Florida.
armed with cowhides and administered
an unmerciful castigahou to Il young
man who had wronged them in some
way.
a DEED was recently prepared by
law firm in Illinois, which was thirty
feet long. 1t transferred two thousand
pieces of land in Iowa, all owned by
one man.
Tue newest style Of mirrors are
framed with wide frames of FURNISHED
Steel, and the chandeliers are to match
Of glass and steel, with glass pendants.
by caslight the effect is perfectly daz-
cling, and many of the new houses be-
my furnished up town have adopted
this style.
BELLS have been known and used in
China for 1000 years, but the Celes-
trials have not during all the time,
shown any appreciation of American
/
! from this country was recent ship
ment of three large sized bells to
Shanghai by a Troy On. W firm,
Ar Aurora, Ill.,, on Thursday, Mr..
Martin b. Miller, an old citizen of that
place, had his left arm crushed between
two immense rollersin the silver plating
factory. The arm was amputated near
| the elbow. Thursday afternoon, at the
same place, j. L. Curtis, one of the
proprietors Of the City Mill, had his
coat caught III the gearing and stripped
! from his back, tearing the flesh from
his side in frghtful manner
Some few silks have been imported
/ with large chiptz patterns on white
or buff ground. Though very elegant
for bah costumes, they are not always
! becoming. We hear on the best au-
thority that the muslins, percales and
! lawns for this year are all to be of this
style of pattern, and wIll, no doubt,
"take we'll among certain set
THE arrival Of quantity of arms
provided with the "angular bayonet
At the arsenal in Galveston, leads the
News to remark quantity that elf we
are to be "a free people, perhaps it
would be well for our physicians to
study the character Of its puncture,
and the best means of stopping the
three-cornered hole that it makes.
A CLEVER thief was captured in Col
umbus, Georgia, recently. On being
carried to the station-house the officers
went through him and found the stolen
money on his person. 1t was laid on u
bench while he put on his clothes. He
stole the money again while several Off
GERS were around, and destroyed it
how, no one knows.
| A CoLORED man at Canton, Miss,
lately wished TO kill sheep, but not
understanding the process to a nicely,
held the animal upon the railroad track
for the locomotive to slaughter. The
sheep escaped with broken leg, but
the dead body that was picked up i'm
mediately after had on black wool and
wasn't good mutton either.
THE sentence Of Jim Coppedge, the
last Of the gang who murdered Redfern,
at Wilmington. n. c., was recently
committed from hanging to imprison-
ment for life, after the scaiTold was
erected for his execution. He is only
sixteen years OF age, and, as the intelli-
gence was brought to him, he said, 81
had Just as soon be hanged So to stay
that long time in the penitentiary, "
Wmu the burning OF the Dardmstadt
theatre has disappeared the great
mechanical ship invented by Herr
Brandt, and used with such immsnse
success three years ago at Geneo IN the
" Aflicaino," The vessel, mounted by
more than two hundred performers,