Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-12-30

NEWS Or The WEEK.

at Crown Like, lad, on extraditlon pa.
pers from Switzaraod, where he murder.
ed an old woman and her grandson, and
burned the house.
Mrs. BERGMAN, the young wife who
abandoned her home in Philadelphia and
went to New YORK, mas returned to Phila.
delphia under promise that she will not
be forced to live with her husband.
Professor CAsILEAR, the expert en-
graver, pronounces The plates made by
SMYTHE for the BrocKway gars the most
perfect counterfeit ever prod 1ced. He
admits that had mis- attention not been
directed to them, he would have accept
ed the spurious notes as genuine.
Bishop KEANR, of R.chm' n !, Va, :s
vigorously working among Roman C,tho.
lie liquor vend,:s of that city, tor the
suppression of the sale Of liquor on Sun.
days; thirty of them have already signed
pledge to that effect, and all are to be
cosxed or coerced into the scheme.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Mon.
treAl are vigorously advertising SARA
! BERNHARDT, by forbidding their hocks to
attend her performances Ia that city. La
the Grand Seminary of Montreal, Sun.
day, there were ordained twenty.six
Roman Catholic priests, eight deacons
and twenty-five sub-deacons. Minor
orders were conferred upon forty.one
young men. Several Of the clergymen are
tor the United States.
The House Committee on Printing lave
recommended to the Committee on Appro.
priations bill granting $37 900 for ex.
tending the Government Printing House
The present bulldog i5 unsafe, and 700
lives and much valuable property are III
constant danger.
ALEXANDER STEPHENs' bill authorizing
mint charges for melting and refning all
bullion, whether above or below standard
has been approved by the Committee on
Weights and Measures.
The U s. Supreme Court decided, Mon
day, that an individual shareholder Of go
insolvent national bank cannot be com
PEELED TO pay more than his tuli proper.
lionate share OF the banks liabilities, in
order to make G BOD the deficiency caused
by the inability Of the other stockholders
to pay their proportionate share.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx, in letter to q
friend, denies in the most positive te ms
that he is candidate for the Indiana
Senatorship.
A report comes from ST. Louis that JAY
GOULD Is now preparing to buy the ST..
Louis and San Francisco Railroad.
Tnere is talk OF making the Census Blu
reau permanent appendage of the Gov
eminent.
Four Pennsylvania railroads have been
consolidated under one management The
roads are: The P.ttsburg, Titusville Il
Buffalo, the Plttsburg & Yves ern, the
Salamanca, Bradford & Allegheny River.
and the Ttusvile & Oh City. Tne Pitts
burg, Buffalo & Western railroad is the
title of the consolidation, with 204 miles
Vi uACh. Aue tcslit Vi tho III oHnRtis 10
to enter Buffalo and connect with the New
York, Ontario & Western road.
1t is hardly necessary tor the friends of
Senator CoNKLIN6 10 announce that he
had no part in bringing on the Sprague
divorce suit 4 Washington dispatch
says that Mrs SPRAGUE has been viriuslly
an outcast from polite society ct the CAD.
itsl for the past year, and is heavily in
debt The eallsnt Roscoe will be com.
PEELED TO step forward with counsel and
cash, and the array ct witnesses TO be
summoned by Ben BUTLER will doubt.
less include halt the Distinguished people
In the country.
j. +. MILLER Of Richmond, Ind, has
sold Great Western, the l.-sest uottng
horse in tie world, 10 gem smsn in ST.
l. uis for 81 900
Germany has declared her readiness to
scQuesce in the proposal tor European
arb tratiou OF the Greek question, provid.
lug tue other Powers assent thereto, and
Greece promises to abide by the verdict.
MICHAEL CHAsLEs, the FRENCH msthe-
matician, and Francis rREvELAN Buck
LAND, the English writer on natural his
tory, are dead.
Cardinal JAcoBTNI, the recently sp