Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-05


ANOTHER Livingstone relief party will set
out about the last Of the present month. 1t
will penetrate West Africa from Sierra Leone,
under command of a young English Navy Off
GER selected by the Geographical Society.
Liyingstoues friend, J, Young, Of Kelly, has
contributed SO 900 for it's expenses, to which
will be added subscriptions from the pubic
and the Treasurer of the Society. Several
papers were read, all agreeing that Living
stones recent explorations are along the
tributaries of the Congo and not the Nile.
A TELEGRAM from San Francisco states that
tho Oregon wooden mills, at Oregon City, were
burned on Saturday. Loss $l25,00O insured
for $50, 900.
JOHN GARRILY was brutally murdered in
Scranton, on Saturday night. Patrick Gavin
has been arrested on suspicion Of being the
murderer.
In New Nork, last year, out OF one hundred
aud eighteen cases ofhomiclde, only forty-two
convictions have been obtained.
The New York Times announces the organi-
nation of new reform association to super.
sede tho Committee of Seventy, which, 1t is
alleged, has developed such spirit OF Office
.eesing that its further existence is unneces-
sary.
BOGUS coupons Of the city of Toronto de-
bentures, signed S. L FitzhcRny, Chamber
lain have been received from the United States
for collection. A. +. McCord has been Cham
berlain o Toronto since its incorporation.
A CIRCULAR ofinstruction to internal revenue
gaugers, which for'oids them charging whole
sale liquor dealers and dstillers with materials
such as paste varrish, brushes, &c, used in
gauging, will soon be issued from the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau.
USAwED by past experience, new Demo-
cratic daily, to be called the Federal Democrat,
to take the place of the Patriot, will be started
in Washington in few weeks. A stock COM
pany is now being formed There are 1000
shares at $50 each in the concern, about 500 of
which it is said, have been taken
The Comptroller of the Currency discusses
at length, in his annual report, the evils Incl
dent to Administering the usury law, contained
in the currency act, and concludes with bold
and earnest recommendation that Congress re-
peal every act on the statute books, which pro-
hh,s the oaning of money by banks or indi.
NiuuaIS NJ OsullDUb iHlts MI. MUM huNS al
such loans are easily eyaded
THOMAS CAMP was executed at Princeton,
Ind, on Friday, for the murder of John Il.
Bildcrback.
MIssouHIANs will urge Senator John b. Hen
derson for appointment as Secretary of the
Treasury, should that portfolio be sent west.
A SENSATION was caused in San Francisco on
~, Nv ba Dnhl irat pT an ellpUpI
OF Laura D. Fair and a Observation-Disclosures,
named Frank, to poison Judge Dwinelle and
the Counsel for the People, Alex. Campbell.
The plot was formed before the second trial,
and since revealed by Frank. He said Mrs.
Fair tried to induce him to put poison IN de-
canter at Judge Dwinelle's house or in the
milk-can at his door. About the same time,
woman went to Judge Dwineles house, dis
guised, and told his wife not to leave the can
out of doors.
Tue steamer Dakota sails from San Francis
co to New Zealand, December A, inauguratins
direct line to that country.
The Trinity Episcopaliau Society of Chicago
will erect $1,000 church editce at the cor
ner OF Washington avenue and Twenty-Sixth
street.
DIR. MAY the American who shot and killed
a laborer named Maggie some time ago in Lon
don, has been tried and acquitted.
SAM ColLYER and Patsy Mcclure, two bruis
ers, fought prize fight two miles above Lit
tie Rock, Saturday The fight lasted twenty
minutes, during which seven rounds were
fought. Collyec was declared the winner be-
cause of foul on the part of Mcclure.
A FIRE broke out last Saturday night in a
stable of Pitcher, Wright & Co., on Center
street, Nashville, and extended to several ad-
joining stables. Twenty-Five horses were
burned with the stables. Loss, $4,000 no
insurance.
The Union Bank at Marietta, O.. has sus-
pended payment. 1t is underst God there that
this is the result of complications growing
out OF the suspension of w. T. Cutler.
Abroad.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Berlin to the Lon
don Times says forty landed propriotors will
probably be elevated to the paerage, to qualify
them for seats in the upper house of the
Landstsg.
A DISPATCH from Rome says five persons
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