Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-14

al the letter rate-three cents. But IL by in
advertence it reaches its destination without
such prepay it is chargeable with double
the letter rates, under the provisions OF the
Postal laws.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has given
notice that the principal and accrued interest
Of $50 bonds of the issue Of June 80, 1864,
to the amount Of 81, 800, 900, and Of registered
bonds to the same amount will be paid at the
Treasury at Washington on and after Jan. l,
1876 and that interest on said bonds will
cease on that day.
A Washing ton telegram OF the Sd says it
was generally conceded that the new mint
would be located at Chicago.
The receipts from internal revenue for the
fiscal year up to the I'd were s29, 2S9,0s7, and
from customs $44, 425, IA.
In the L. s. Circuit Court at Boston, on
the 4th, George Miller and William Smith,
who had been convicted Of murder on board
of the schooner Jefferson Borden, were SEN
fenced to be hanged Jan. IA.
A horrible outrage and murder was com
mitted at Suncook, n. H., on the 4th. The
mutilated body of a young lady named Josie
I.ongmaid was found on the evening OF that
day in a piece of woods half nile from the
road over which she had started in the
morning to 20 to school. The head was
missing, having been entirely severed from
the body.
American Girl" dropped dead on the
track while trottiug a race at Elmira, n. Y,
on the I'd She was valued at $4,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has called
upon National Banks for report exhibiting
their condition at the close Of business on
Friday, the lst Of October
The United States Assistant Treasurer at
New York has been directed TO sell 81 ,000,-
600 in gold on each Thursday Of the present
month 81 100000 in all.
The American Board Of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions of the Congregational
Church met in Chicago on the 9Th. The at
tendance was large, representatives being
present from all the States in the Union and
from Canada.
Many horses in Cincinnati, Chicago, St.
Louis and other Western localities were suf-
fering from symptoms of the eplzootic on the
7th and the disease seemed to be spreading.
Point, Miss, on the 9Th and 9Th II seems
that at a Conservative convention on the
night Of the ID Senator Alcorn severely criti-
cised the official conduct of Brown (colored),
Sheriff of the county, and the day Brown
used severe language in reply, when Alcorn
threatened to shoot him. Brown then sum-
moned a number of negroes, who prepared to
rnme IN his assistance On the 5th all the
women and children were sent from Friar's
Point, and the place was attacked by force
of 500 negroes who were repulsed by white
forces under Gen. Chalmers. In the skirmish
eight negroes and one white man were
wounded
A Columbus (Oho) dispatch of the 7th
says the hog disease was playing sad havoc
in that section. Six thousand hogs had al
ready died in Franklin County so far this
month.
Friar's Point special dispatches of the 7th
state that Gen. Chalmers was driving the col
ored forces under Pease (colored) and was
determined to capture him if possible. In
the skirmishcs which took place on the 9th a
white man was fatally wounded and three
negroes were killed and one wounded, prob
ably fatally Senator Alcorn on the 1th sent
a telegram to Atty Gen. Pierrepont stating
that there was no question Of politics in these
disturbances; the whites were to a man for
defense, and the negroes who had been mis-
led were fast being reconciled. He stated
that his name had been most ridiculously as
sociated in the matter,