Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-15
General Items.

lHE OF. Louis lines HIS dDout
100000 worth of libel suits pending
against it.
A PARTY of twelve have left Quebec
overland for the coast of Labrador to
hunt seals.
WOMEN are getting their rights in
Canada. Toronto is to have a new
prison " exclusively for ladies'
TIE Roman Catholic liturgy is to re-
place the Gallican III the French Ro-
man churches.
A NORTH CAROLINA man of seventy
nine has been married to Isabella Nor
ton, aged eighteen.
VIRGINIA banks that issued shinplas-
tiers during the war are held liable to
redeem them.
UNDER an old building in Kansas
was found box containing large as
sortment of valuable jewelry.
The Earl of Kenmare, who recently
died in London, was one of the forlorn
hope AT the siege of Badaio2.
NATURAL gas from the Bloomfield
well has been conveyed to the pipes III
Rochester, n. Y.
SOME worthless dogs, al Leavenworth,
have killed Dr. Hudson's full-blooded
Cashmere goat, valued at $1,000.
The harvest tool factory of the
Fletcher brothers in Lowell, Michigan,
was burned on Friday last.
RUTLAND, Vt, has English sparows,
for whom boxes have been placed in
the shade-trees about the streets and
private grounds.
The engine of Whitaker & Co. 5 fork
handle factory in Bronson, Michigan,
exploded on Friday, terribly scaiding
ID. H. Whitaker and a. J. Trigg, 1t is
thought fatally.
Miss adobe ID. BALLoU, a disciple of
Victoria Woodruff, has brought suit
against the Terre Haute Gazette for
$4,000 damages. She ought to procure
a Wyoming jury.
The Methodists are complaining that
there is but one of their denomination
on the Committee of Biblical Reyisers,
which numbers twenty-one names
They do not like this method OF doing
the work.
Mrs. p. ". PArTEN, who was burned
to death day or two ago III New York
city, was the daughter of the famous
musician Ioller, who organized many
singular societies in Germany, and re-
ceived for his compositions a medal
from the Duke Of Saxe-Meiningen.
In Hornellsville, on Friday evening,
during an auction of millinery goods,
the door gave way and fell to the cellar.
Several persons were severely injured,
among whom were Mrs. Benjamin Ben
net, Mrs. Miles Hawley, Mrs. Hathaway,
Mrs. L. Nj. Cronkeyle, Mrs Halter, and
others
THE sum of SIS, 236 has been subscribed
for the erection of Il suitable memorial
at the Virginia Military Institution, in
honor Of Lieutenant General "Stone-
walln Jackson, who for nearly fourteen
years held the chair OF natural and ex-
detrimental philosophy and artillery
tactics in the institution.
THE graduating seniors of Harvard
university will struggle over 1.-The de-
struction of Chicago this year, that
being the subject announced for the
annual prize poem, They will all re-
member that Macaulay composed his
Destruction of Pompeii' on a pre-
cisely similar occasion, and will do
their best.
ANOTHER Enoch case has arisen
in England. George Bryom left his
wife and child at Oldham, and went to
America to seek livelihood. Core
spondence, at first irregular, soon stop
ped altogether, and after while the
wife married again. Byron at length
returned, laden with presents for his
family.
THE night editor Of Detroit paper
under took to grapple with dispatch
from st. Louis, the other night relat-
ing to the proceedings of the B'nai
Birth. He is evidently not much of a
Hebrew scholar for, after wrestling
with the thing for long time, he
headed it, "The b. N. l.. Brethren
in Full Blast ~ and rushed on.
WHILE hotels on the European plan
are becoming very popular III America,
it is singular to note that hotels on the
American plan are growing IN favor
along the main lines of travel over seas.
Even the Grand Hotel, Prais, has in
part adopted the American system,
and you can now go there and obtain
lodging, meals, and service at fixed
price.
A CITIZEN of North Stonington, Conn,
buried his first wife, and inscribed upon
her tomb, can Angel on Emth--A
Saint in Heaven which was all right.
But, when he buried his second along
side his first, the marble dealer in
scrided on her tomb, "Another Angel
on Ealth--Another Saint In Heaven"
and the neighbors want to know how
long this thing is going to lastl
Nyurrp n vender of Green's in Boston