Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-17
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Personal and Literary.

Personal ana Literary.
--Gottschalk left three unpublished
operas.
Gen. Grants father was rs years old
~ the 3Oth ult.
y -Ex.Secretary Seward will publish his
travels when he gets home.
A colored lawyer has taken out IL
cense to practice law in Troy, N. Y.
The New York Legislature has a
member in it that has served thirty years
without break.
Prof. Agassiz is again so unwell that
he is not able to attend to his correspond
ence even.
John P. Hale, ex.minister to Spain, is
at Rome, in very poor health, and will not
return until next June.
Brick Pomeroy was thrown from a
wagon by runaway horse in Central
Park, New York, few days ago, and Sc
riously injured.
Hon. i. H. Williams, of Clayton
county, has accepted the appointment of
Judge of the Iowa Supreme Court, in
place of Judge Dillon.
Samuel L. Clemens MARK Twain) was
married on the evening of the Sd inst, at
Elmira, N. Y, to Miss Olivia L., daughter
of Jarvis Langdon, Esq of that city.
H. J. Raymond, E. M. Stanton, Geo.
Peabody and ex-President Pierce are the
only Americans noticed by the London
Times in its list of the eminent dead for
1869.
The New York Tribune says that after
Prince Arthur lett his seat in Trinity
Church, on Sunday, number of young
ladies rushed there in order to sit where a
live prince had been sitting.
The Newark (N.J) Courier states that
&" Awful" Gardner is not in mad-house.
He is one of the quietest and best citizens
of Newark, besides being jealous church
man.
Commodore Vanderbilt refuses to
make a will. He desires that his youth
full wife shall have her full legal share OF
his property. She will be heir, therefore,
when he dies, to some $23,000,000.
"A New York letter says Mrs. Com
modore Vanderbilt is much handsomer
than newspaper accounts have made her.
She is tall, dark, queenly dresses plain
ly, but richly; enters into converse
ton readily is wellread and intellec-
tual She wears no perceptible jewelry
save splendid solitaire ear-drop,."
"A woman doctor in Boston-Sarah A.
Fletcher-has turned her home into hos
pital for the shelter and reformation of in
ebriates. II is said that she has succeeded,
without money aid, in retaining a large
number of victims of intemperance, and
making them useful members of society.
The original commission of General
Francis Marion is on exhibition in Charles
ton, S. G. 1t bears date April 10, 1882,
and commissions him as Lieutenant
Colonel in the United States service, to
take rank from September IS, 1776. His
pay commenced from the latter date and
the Courier has ascertained that he drew
it accordingly.
Ben Franklin, the old simon-pure
Ben, left fund of $4,000 to Boston. the
interest of which should be loaned to
young married artifcers under the age
of 25." The fund has never been so ap-
piled, but has increased to $4,000. Jo-
siah Quincy now proposes that its income
be loaned to such young men as wish to
build houses for themselves, as many do,
on the mortgage of the real estate itself,
Henry ]. Raymond was heard to make
during his life, and his biographer has
found preserved among his notes, a re-
mark to the effect that he was better pre-
pared, at fifteen, TO 60 to college, than his
father was to send him. That father,
nevertheless, was determined that his son
should have this advantage, and he
morJgaged his farm for 81, 0O0 and with
that sum Henry was sent to the Universe
ty Of Vermont.