Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

ing period last year. The winter pack.
ing season will commerce on the 1st
pro2imo.
Gen. BARNES, the Surgeon General Of
the United States Army, gives notice that
tie appropriation Tor supplying artificial
lilnbs during the year ending June 30.
1881, is now so far exhausted that no
more orders, either fer limbs ia kind or
for Communication, can be issued until!
provision shall have been made by Con
will be required to pay claims already ap.
proved. ~
The killing of VICTORIA, with sixty OF
his warriors ani eighteen women and
children, and the capture OF sixty. eight
women and children, is communicated to
General HATCH by the Mexican General
TERRAsAs, who reports thirty of the band
still at large. There are eighteen hun
dred Mexican aud eight hundred Ameri
can soldiers now on the southern border
OF New Mexico.
The Golos says that Russia, which usu.
ally exports 320000,0O0 bushels OF grain,
will have to import some this year IN con-
sequence of the very general failure of the
Russian crop. The prospects for future
good harvests, moreover, are not encour-
aging. An insect, which has defed all
efforts to exterminate It, and which has
proved the greatest enemy of the Russian
farmers, has made the fields its abode.
Being sheltered by the SHOWS during the
winter, 1t renews its work of destruction
each spring. The prospect before the
people Is anything but pleasant The
Russian Government is sadly perplexed
It's troubles seem to multiply. The Nihi-
lists are active, the students OF the Uni.
versities petition for concessions and
privileges which the Government will not
yield, and the courtiers continue to inri-
que against Gen. MELiKoFF, the most
prudent, palnstaking, and able statesman
Russia has had for many years.
MICHAEL Common, of Philadelphia, has
Just lost his seventh wife, who left him
her property, worth $4,000; she died, as
did the other six, in mysterious manner
1t Is hihted that MICHAEL is regular
Blue Beard.
In a quarrel with his wife about some
property belonging to her, GEORGE Lo.
yEIr, OF Charleston, Mo, chose ilatiron
as his weapon, and with it beat out her
brains, This done, he cut his own throat
from ear to ear.
LEWIS IRWIN, at Gallipolis, o, died,
Monday, from wounds received at the
hands of his parents. HIS father is quite
an old man, with violent temper. The
quarrel arose about pane of glass The
father shot the son, and it is said his
mother struck him with club after he
WAS down. Both are IN jail
The Democracy seem to be full of tricks.
Now it is WEAvER's turn to be the victim
Of BARNuM's torgeries; an alleged letter
of his to Congressman GILLETTE, &C.
knowledging Democratic victory in
Maine, is out, but WEAVER denounces it
as as a base fraud, and so does GILLETTE
the latter being particularly bitter on
the Democratic sGspssyaces, who resort to
such campaign ctimes'
JOHN SaEraEar, a farmer near Peoria,
ILL.,, has faithfully kept an oath made in
1860 not to cut his hair or shave, until the
election of a Democratic President, His
whlskers reach nearly to his waist, and
his hair Is kept in brsids.
DE LEssEPs still insists that he is go
ing to build that Inter. oceanic canal. In
letter to The President Of Panama he
gives assurance that he is about perfect
Ing the necessary financial arrangements
and that the commencement of active
operations in the construction of the canal
is near at hand.
On OF about the close OF the year 1880
there will assemble at the City of Panama
a conference of vast importance to the fu-
ture peace OF South America. The Re
publics OF Peru and Chilli have accepted
the mediation OF the United States Gov
ernment, offered for the humane purpose
of putting an end TO the fearful warfare
that has ragged SO long between those
countries, and viii each appoint repre-
seutatives to meet and arrange negotia
tons Tor permanent peace Other South
American countries who desire 10 partici-
pate in this notable Peace Congress, Will
be afforded an opportunity to DO so under