Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-08-20
GENERAL NOTES

FIVE HUNDRED emigrants arrived :,
New York from Europe Aug. 18th IL
The steamer Cytha, which arrived
in New York avg. 18th. brought s5e-
o0o IN gold and American bars.
THE Reformed mems conva,,;ou
closed at Indianapolis Aug. 12th Itwas
great success. as
The official census returns of Kapso,
were completed Aug. 49, showing ibo
population of that state to be S49,91S ~
The banking scare has entirely disan
peared at Montreal, says a dispatch pf
The 18th inst, and confidence has returned
a MAN who called himself Henry NT;I
Ter, of Maryland, suicided at the Fonrth
Avenue Hotel, Rock Island, Ill. Auq ~
THE majority for Blackburn, democrat
for governor, will exceed 10000, saws a
press dispatch from Louisville, Ky
Aug. II.
BENJAMIN L. MAYHEM, deputy warden
of the Illinois penitentiary, a man jonr
prominently connected with penal in
situations, died Aug. 18th.
THE senatorial committee CONSISTING
of kirkwood, Dawes and Plumb an'
pointed 10 inquire into the causes of the
Indian raid through Kansas in 1873 met
at Lawrence Aug, l2lh.
A New YORK dispatch of Aug. 12,h
says the number of Immigrants that
have arrived here during the year ended
July 3lst, 1879, was los, 245 the previous
year 74,139.
WIN. ii. VANDERBILT, says a dispatch
of Aug. 18th, has just given tof a gym.
nasium and the erection of civil en-.
gineering and scientific hall on the
grounds of the Vanderbi'tuniversity the
handsome sum of 100000.
The Tammary, N. Y. committee on
organization on the 18th of Aug. adopted
resolutions declaring that under no cir.
cumstances would the democrats of that
city vote for Lucius Robinson, as a can.
didate for governor
A BIsMARK dispatch of Aug. 10Th saws
the steamer General Sherman reached
Butord yesterday, in fifty-fve hours, the
fastest time ever made up tie Missouri
She laid their with grain and supplies for
Fort Peck, General Miles supply depot
Fire.
GEO. w. DE HAVEN, Robt f. G. Miles
and Andrew Haight began a suit to re.
cover 100000 damages from p. r. Bar
mum, Aug. 1lth. The complainauts
charge that Barnum, by sinister means,
broke up and ruined their snow which
they called 1.-THE Congress Of Nations.
The suit was begun at Chicago, and Bar
mum pronounced it a pure case of black
mail
A DISPATCH from GAINESVILLE, Wis, dated
Aug. 18th says: Patrick O'FIaherty a
farmer residing in the town Of Center,
about seven miles west OF this city, com.
mitted suicide this evening by blowing
his brains out with Il shotgun. The
cause assigned is temporary insanity,
brought on by excess We drinking, and
financial difficulties He leaves wife
and eight children, the Oldest of which
is a daughter of -.
A TRAIN of eleven passenger cars filled
with representative colored men from
Mississippi, and thirty white men,
planters, arrived at st. Louis Aug. l4tb,
on the way TO Kansas whittier the colored
men 20 to investigate the attractions and
advantages of that state, This plan was
inaugurated by two Mississippians
who arranged the whole trip with view
of giving the colored people reliable in
formation concerning the exodus pros
poets, from men whom they can believe
and rely upon.
A New YORK special of Aug. 1lth says
the following shipments to Europe oil
fresh meats and live stock were made
BY the Henry Edge, for Ant
werp, 253 head of cattle and 40 sheep;
the Nindolana, for Antwerp, $50 lead OF
cattle; City of London for London, 5Vo
head of cattle; Celtic, Liverpool, 5OOto
of fresh meat; Italy for Liverpool!
$50 quarters of fresh beef, 230 head oil
cattle and $50 sheep Alsatia, for London.
173 head of cattle, 500 quarters OF peer
and 115 carcasses Of sheep, ana inc
Ethiopia, for Glasgow, $50 bullocks, SUI
quarters of beef and 200 carcaSseS OF
sheep.
A MILWAUKEE special of Aug lElh
says party of prominent lowans IN
GLIDING II. ID. Stevens, president OF the
First National bank of Des MONIES, AZ"
Olson Darrell. one of TIE wealthiest men
of the State, and other prominent cilzehs
are in the city with the object OF consult
inc with the officials of the Chicago,
& ST. Paul railway IN TeGalu
to the building of road from MaIlon'
the present terminus, to Des Moihes' 'i
a distance of one hunuIcu
and fifteen miles, through fine county,
company has beer organized 10 car!
out the project under the title OF the DeS
Moines, Marion d Milwaukee railway
with j. II. Clarkson as president
The first day, Aug. 18th, of the A5cn,
cry tournament in Chicago resulted a.
follows: In the national archery touIn3a
ment, the gentlemen shoot of 100 yarusS
resulted in giving W. II. Thompson u
Ind, the LIST p'lzei n
w ~ - Mnrintln Ohin the seconQ