Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-12-08
Personal Notes.

proving
SENATOR SPBAaUE reports the health
OF Judge Chase much improved.
The prospect of Porfrio DIaz a. can
didate for President in Mexico is i'm
proving.
THE Princess Editha is to he married
to Brooklyn gentleman this week
GENERAL SWORDS, of the United
States army, returned from European
tour yesterday.
B. G. BANFIELD, Solicitor of the
Treasury Department, is in this city on
official business
PROFESSOR Edward w. Root, of Ham
ilton College, died yesterday. st the age
of twenty-nine years.
Mrs. PLANK, of Killingly, Conn, il
los years old, and in full possession OF
her faculties.
THE Rev. DR. Ballard, well-known
Episcopal preacher of Maine, died very
suddenly ut Brunswick, on Monday
SAMANrANAN ToMHynAwR il the name
of young Canadian Indian recently or
dained into the Christian ministry
BosroN is to have Catholic Choral
| Society, organized by DR.. J. II, Wilcox,
G. s, Whiting, NJ Falkenstein and
others.
! JosE"H TUrrLE, for half a century
/ respected citizen of Dorchester, Mass,
died on Monday, at the age of eighty
| four.
Mrs, LENA RAuDEN, who is occurring
IN Indiana against woman suffrage, is
| Cherokee Indian, and educated herself.
| GENERAL KrLrArRIcK lectured on Sun
day evening in tho Bay State Course, at
Boston, on the Incidents and Battle
Scenes of the rebellion.
BRAZIL, with nearly 1000 900, 900
acres of land, has population of leas
than 100000 souls, and is, therefore,
manifestly in great want of inhabitants
SENATOR CArrEnI has been i'll for soma
time, but his health has 80 much improv-
ed that he expects to take his seat Mt the
meeting of Congress,
THE heads of bureaus in the Treasury
Department, except the Treasurer and
Sixth Auditor, have requested m in
crease Of salaries.
SENATOR YATES, of Illinois, has been
confined for n short time with foyer, but
he is now convalescent, and will be in
Washington in few daya
RoDERIcK r. BUTLER, of Tennessee.
reports that he will be in Westinghouse
| a few days to answer the charges brought
4 a hin, n pnnnnatinn with fruuIu
in the Pension Bureau.
The Maine Historical Society has
, suffered "A great loss by the death of the
Rev DR.. Ballard, Of Now Brunswick
He has been for many years one of it's
most earnest and learned members.
Mrs. PALLIsER, well known for her
History OF Lace" il bringing ont in
England curious work, copiously il
Illustrated, on 'War Cries, Devices, En-
blems, &c"
SUPERVISOR Emery, of Tennessee,
writes that under the new ruling Of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, allowing tho
use of certain mechanical means of dis
tillation, several hundred new distiler-
les will be started
Mrs. SARAH JANE HALE, the well
known authoress, is native Of Newport
N. H., and in 1852 was dress maker in
that village. She is now SEVENTH five
years Old and resides in Philadelphia
Mrs. BoLLEs has knocked one sob
lection entirely out of sight by the
statement that an invention has been
perfected in Boston by which the cradle
can be satisfactorily, securely and con
tinuously rocked while the women go to
vote.
DIR. DECHAUMoHT, al English loctur~
on military hygiene, regards tea, coffee
or cocoa the best beverages to work on.
He considers the issue of spirit rations
to soldiers mistake, but thinks that u
moderate ration of good beer or red
wine would be beneficial.
HELEN A. BRAsToN declares that "a
rule, Interesting American girls de
velop into sickly, complaining women,
who break down and grow prematurely
DID, and peevish, and morbid, and good
for nothing, under the first burden of
maternity.
THE heirs of Lochy Cs.iom, the wo
man miser of Poughkeepsie, who died
recently, are multiplying, and numerous
bills are presented against the ''estate.
The largest charge is that of her attor
ney, John p. Tolman, for legal services
during period OF twelve years.
JAMES RUSSELL, of Sutton, N H.,
committed suicide lately by hanging
himself in his barn. A piece of paper
was found on which he had written, 81