Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-02-03

permanent residence in Washington about
February -.
sToCK men from the ranges in western
Nebraska report great loss of cattle from
storms and snow.
GENERAL WALKER. superintendent of
the census, is mentioned as the incoming
secretary of the interior.
A BILL has been introduced in the New
York assembly providing that telegraph
wires shall be laid under ground.
DELEGATE BENEFITS bill for the divis-
ion of Dakota has been adversely reported
by the house committe on territorses.
TIE senate of Minnesota rejected the
nomination of p. Burt az superintendent
of public instruction by a two-thirds vote.
Ben BUTLER will send his yacht to Nor
folk in February, and embark from that
port for a cruise of three months in the
West Indies.
AT Fairbury, Ill, the children are af-
hicted with the measles. All but TWO pu-
pills in a school of twenty-fOur are suffer
ing.
A ROUTE for the Dakota railroad has
been surveyed from Mandau, on the
Northern Pacific, to Deadwood. Coal was
found at various points.
Ir is understood at Washington that
Senator Allison has received limitations
that he can have the treasury portfolio.
1t is a weil-known fact that he Is Blaine 5
first choice for that position.
No less than thirteen persons have re-
Gently fallen victims to Apache hate in
the vicinity of San Marcial, New Mexico
About seventy Indians. divided into small
bands, are ranging about that country.
LEVI Il. LETTER has withdrawn from
the firm of Field, Letter x Co., and the
remaining partners will continue business
under the name of Marshall, Field Co,
IT is believed that the Pennsylvania
member of the new cabinet will be Whar-
ton Barker, the banker who in May, 1879
presented Garheld's name for the presi-
dencv.
Dr. De WoLF, the health commissioner
of Chicago announces that there are
twenty-eight cases of smallpox at the
hospital and eight securely quarantined at
their homes. He urges vaccination upon
all persons.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed at
Des Moines to build railway connection
between that city and the Wabash, in the
hope that it will be made a main line to
st. Louis. j. ). Clarkson is at the head OF
the enterprise.
PROFESSOR RILEY, the bugmaster, warns
the people of Marquette and Green Lake
counties, Wisconsin, that the seventeen
year locust will appear there this summer.
The thireen-year brood will visit southern
Illinois.
SIR THOMAS HEsKETH and his Califor-
MIA bride the daughter of Senator Sharon,
have reached their estate in Lancashire.
The police authorities have received warn
ing to watch carefully the jewelry and
plate of Rufiord hail.
THE death of General Gridley, OF
Bloomington, H., has unveiled t. the
gaze of the public the unpleasant features
OF his home life. His eldest daughter is
now the wife of Partisan, but was twice
married to and divorced from Frederick
later, merchant Of Chicago. She prints
card in Bloomington journal, an
nouncing that she was not permitted to
take leave of her dying father, but was
allowed to view his corpse in the early
morning, when the other members of the
family were asleep.
The government printing Office is almost
daily in receipt of letters from medical
men throughout the country, asking where
they can get copies of the Medical and
Surgical History ofthe War" A bill has
recently been introduced in congress,
which authorizes the public printer to re-
print from the stereotype plates an edition
of $4,000 copies of each of the four vol
umes heretofore issued from the govern
ment printing office. The fifth volume is
now going through the press. Should the
bill become law these books will be gra-
tutously distributed by members of con
gress. Consequently those desiring copies
who make timely application can no doubt
be accommodated.