Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-04
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

THERE were heavy frosts Sunday
night in New Hampshire, Vermont and
Connecticut, and crops were damaged
in many places.
w. r. PENIcK, wholesale druggist at
St. Joseph, Mo, closed his store Mondad
morning. His liabilities are estimated at
$4,000,
WM CoRBETT, living near Vinton, Ia,
and one Of the leading stock dealers of
the state, committed suicide by taking
poison Monday.
nR. JOHN c. WATEBs, died at Indian
apolis Monday, aged 3d. He was chief
OF the Fenian organization, 'aving
succeeded James Stephens as head cen
ter.
SILVER has been discovered near
Richie, w Va, and pro9pectors are
focking to the mice, The last assay at
one mine showed $500 of silver and Sll
of lead to the ton.
A STRANGE disease, resulting fatally,
has broken out among swine in Gull
ford, Conn. Several animals have died,
and previous to and just after death the
hair will turn. The farmers are much
alarmed.
THE village of Westfall, twenty miles
from Buffalo, N. Y, is wild with excite
ment over the discovery Of oil. A com
pany from Pennsylvania has leased a
large tract Of land and will begin opera
tions at once.
EDWIN d. BAILEY, Secretary of the
National Committee of the American
party, announced Wednesday that Sena-
Tor S. G.. PomerOy, nominated for presi-
dent, will withdraw in favor of st.
John.
A PRIVATE letter to a gentleman in
Des Moines from Ireland states that the
crops in that country are the most prom
ising since 1879, but that thousands of
acres are lying in waste for want Of
labor to cultivate them.
THE schedules of Hatch & Foote,
failed Wall street brokers, show liabili-
ties Of &449L3lj and assets nominally
81, 1872 300 but actually S298, S71. The as
sets consist entirely Of various stocks
and securities.
a SCHEDULE Of the Burrows estate at
Albion, N. ", as 1t existed at the date
of Burrows death, in 1879, shows that
the property was valued aU Sl,150, 900,
which was swept away by the failure of
the Albion bank.
The treasurer of the United States has
forwarded TO the governor of Louisiana
S2l $50 free school bonds of the state
captured az Baton Rouge in 1865 by Cen
eral Sheridan
r. +. WALLACE, President of the
First National Bank of jamestown, ID.
t., Tuesday confessed judgment to hi,
brother in Newcastle, Pa, IN the sum of
10000, and the bank suspended.
LIEUTENANT GREEDY has received con-
gratulatory kilograms from M. de Les
seps and Commander Cheyne, of the
British navy. He left Portsmouth
with his wife Wednesday for Montreal
to attend the meeting of the British
Association, Sept 1.
GREELY, in answer to the criticism of
his course in not crossing to Littleton
leland, says the tide between Cape
Sabine and the island ran like a mill
race aud was full Of heavy ice, render
ing the attempt impossible.
THE Governor General Of Canada has
been ordered by the home government
to secure the services of 600 voyagems
for the relief of General Gordon at
Khartoum They are needed to take
Hat-bottomed boats up the Nile and for
making portages around the rapids.
Preference will be given to officers who
served under General Wolseley in the
Red River campaign
Memorial services in respect TO the
memory of the Mormon elders assassin
ated in Tennessee, were held Sunday in
all the large and many of the smaller
towns in UJah. The remarks of the
speakers wera generally conciliatory
and charge the murderers 20 the bigoted
prejudice OF individuals.
MICHAEL GRIFFIN, of Des Moines,
Iowa, was fined 500 and cost for selling
whisky, to be committed to Jail until
paid, was brought into court on a writ
Of habeas corpus, claiming that the JUS
tice could not imprlson beyond thirty
days, and that he had no Jurisdiction.
Judge Given decided that the justice had
jurisdiction, and that the costs were no
part of the penalty. An appeal viii be
had TO the Supreme Court