Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-06-27
General Items.

ALE is now openly sold in Lowell,
Mass.
. IL THE gold mines of Australia AZ, go
Europeans are at work,
FoUR-FIFrHs of the widows in Canada
remain widows less than thirty months.
An English company has undertaken
to dredge the Tiber for lost treasure.
A MONTHLY auction of Cape diamonds
is held in Covent Garden, London.
STRAWBERRIES measuring SIX inches
around the waist are grown down south.
THE British iron product is about s.
500, 900 tons year, and the American
about 1000, 900 tons.
A HAPPY MAN at New London, Conn,
is to marry off his four daughters all at
once, this month.
A CHICAGO man named Tenny econ
omically writes his name Ky, that is,
10y.
The soapstone and serpentine marble
ouarles at the east end Of the Hoosac
tunnel have been sold tor the sum of
$50, 900
THE Rev. DR.. Pussey is sufficiently
recovered from his late indispositlon ns
to be able to resume his duties at Ok
ford University.
The Princess Alexandria, ii is re-
ported, is becoming deaf. Her mother,
the Queen of Denmark, is afflicted with
the same difficulty.
AN English lady in the city of Biz
mingham has been made to pay a tine
of ESQ for giving an mdeserved rec
concentration TO discha rged do
nestle.
TnE expedition fitted out in Califor-
MIA to 90 to Cocos Island after the
buried treasure of the last generation
of buccaneers has failed, and the old
man who said he saw the treasure
buried there narrowly escaped lynch
ing.
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
at its recent meeting, authorized its
various Missionary Boards to ask for
the following sumo Foreign Missions,
$3.50, 600; Home Missions, $3.50, 600;
Church erection, 5000, 600; Freedmen,
1926, 900; Education, II 900.
CoNsERvA1iyE minds in London are
struck with 'dismay ut the proposition
to cover the walls of st. Paul's Cathe-
dral with Italian and mosaic adorn-
ments, and sweep away all the
Vaccinations Of Sir Christopher
Wren. But the money has been raised,
and the work is to be done.
THE steamer Kairaira is taking Is, 600
bushels of oysters OF the Virginia
coast to plant in France Chamay,
the farmer of the enterprise, has tested
the bivalves from Mass ichusetts to
California, and thinks that those OF the
lower Chesapeake are best suited to his
purpose.
On the night of the 22d of May there
was an eclipse in part of the moon, Wis
ihle in England, and astronomers say
it was the beginning of an eclipse
month. The first eclipse month oc-
CURED in December, 1871, and it was
during that period that the famous So
lar eclipse of December 18th took
place.
AMERICAN politics abroad are very
uncertain, AS well as at home. The
Paris Patrie is journal of consider
able weight and influence in France,
but not fully posted. . 1t says in
late issue: "Mr. Greeley was elected
President in the city Of Cincinnati, and
will enter upon his term of Office i'll
November"
SINCE the San Francisco authorities
have offered a premium OF SO for
every dead body recovered IRON the
bay, the Chronicle advises drunkards
and Oregon flats to give a wide berth
to the water front, Ten dollars, it
SAYS, may seem small sum for muir
der, but times are hard and human
nature weak.
HoRATIo SEYMOUR as President of
the New York State Fisheries Commits
sioners, has objected to the capture by
millions Of the menhaden fish and their
use as fertilizers on the barren soil OF
Long Island, His reason IS that the
menhaden is the natural food OF more
valuable species, lacking which they
prey upon each other.
THE Hartford Comm Courant says
Mark Twain has received, to date,
little over SOP, 900 for InnOcents
Abroad, " and is likely to receive very
nearly the same sum for the first SIX
months of Roughing 1t, which is
not very rough on Mark, but a long
way short Of the $500, 600 spoken OF III
newspaper paragraphs.
A BARREL of flour, the pride of
Augusta" made from Georgia wheat,
was on exhibition at the Boston Corn
Exchange, on Friday, and was sold by
auction for $3.50, The wheat from
which the flour was made was reaped
on the 18th ult. A barrel OF the same
brand Of -four sold for $3.50 at the st.
Louis Corn Exchange, the excitement
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