Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-04

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of May 29th, ste'e that the Cb;oa..
Milwaukee and st. Paul railway GO
pany has obtained control of the Sui
ern Minnesota railway company, who
commences at La Crescent, MINI ona
Is completed 100 miles west. with
spur from Wells nosthward to Manta,o
The intention, in time, is to extend y,
main line west to the Missouri r;vnn
thus giving the Milwaukee & St. PAM
company two parallel lines of rood
pentrating central and southern DaLn,a
to, and possibly beyond the Missour;
river.
AT Newark, VT, on the 2Sth q nor,,
OF mn children drank water from .
brook, the waters of which had baon
polluted by the carcasses of a horse and
several sheep, and were poisoned. from
the effects of which seven died sonr
after, their bodies becoming putrid and
demanding immediate burial. OtberS
cannot survive. A Mrs. Morse Ios,
two. Mrs. Carpenter lost three and
two more are the ones referred 10 as
dying, taking her entire family. Mrs
Aldrich lost two. There is great excite.
ment in the community about the mat
ter.
AT the Saratoga, N. ", National Pres.
by:erian Convention, on May 9th, the
following resolution was adopted:
Resolled, That in view of the increac.
ed attendance of church members at
theatres and opera, this assembly bears
earnest and solemn testimony against
this practice as inconsistent with Chris,
tan duty, since it not only gives coun.
tenance and support to an institution
justly described by a former assembly
as "a school of immortality" but is in
itself spiritually hurtful and tends to oh.
literate the tone which should always
be plainly visible between the followers
| Of Christ and the world.
In response to a letter of inquiry.
says a Springfield, Ill.,, special of Nav
2oth, Internal Revenue COMMISSIONS
Raum makes the following statement
which will be OF interest to cigar manu-.
facturers: "In reply to your of the
10Th, inquiring if it is lawful to use
rubber stamps for making cancellation
lines on cigar stamps, instead of cop
per or brass stencil-plates, as prescribed
by the regulations, page 25, Sec. Z, No.
S, l will say hal this office will allow
the use of rubber stamps or stencil
plates, provided that the six waved
lines shall be put upon the box and
across the stamp continuously, and in
as effectual a by such instru,
ment as would be done by means of a
stencil-plate."
A New YORK dispatch of May 9th
says a private meeting of the Bishops
who attended the Cathedral dedication
was held at Cardinal McCloskey's resi-.
dence, for the purpose of devising
measures looking to the liquidation Of
the debts Of the Archbishop of Cincin-
natl. The Cardinal presided, and near
him sat the venerable Archbishop Pur.
cell. There were some thirty Bishops
present, among them Bishop Ryan, Of
St: Louis: Corrigan, Of N5w York;
Gross, of Savannah; Loughlin, OF
Brooklyn; Lynch, of Charleston
McNierney, of Albany; OReilly, Of
Springfield; Healy, of Portland; Nc
Mahon, of Hartford; McCloskey, Of
Louisville; and others. The proceed
ings were entirely harmonious, and the
whole circumstances OF the financial
embarrassment of Archbishop Purcell
were freely discussed. 1t was decided
to draw up an address to the clergy, to
be signed by all the bishops, setting
forth the facts, and calling for their co,
operation to liquidate the liabilities OF