Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-24
NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

at o'clock tea every Sunday afternoon.
The building interest in Chicago looks bright.
Small houses for retail trade are in demand.
President Hayes is about to choose new
of the United States for the Fiji
Islands. l az t#
Gov.-Gen. Lorne and Sir John Mcdonald, the
premier, positively refuse to be in
terviewed.
newspaper man in Texas has married e.
600, 600, and sorrowing brother adds, ''please
hna
The carriages of Mrs. Hicks-Lord have ar.
rived in London, and her rooms have been en-
gagged there. a
In Priest Valley, California, there is a man
who is 80 years old and four feet high, and he
is wealthy farmer.
Senator Bruce will shortly issue a letter to
his colured constituents advising them not to
emigrate to the West.
Mary L. Booth, editor of Harper's Bazaar, is
described as matronly-looking woman, with
no nonsense about her.
The country will be sorry to learn that an
unsuccessful attempt was made few days ago
to assassinate Dennis Kearney.
Monseigneur Dumont, Bishop of Journal, in
France, has been removed from his diocese by
the Pope, on account of insanity.
Mr.. Bokhmeteff, of the Russian legation at
Paris, is expected in Washington soon with his
wife, formerly Miss Beale, Washington
belle.
In France the demi-monde beauties are I'M
PEELED to give political information to the po-
lice under threat of being escorted out. of the
country.
Rose Eytinge, who is one of the best dressed
women of the stage, has all her costumes made
in this country, and generally under her own
supervision.
Mr., Joseph Glazebrook, an Oxford student
of great prominence, aged 20, committed sui
aud vegetarian. .
At Troy, N. Y, the iron works are all busy.
Twelve hundred and fifty tons Of steel rails are
produced by the Bessemer works weekly, an
unexampled product.
"Perley" writes that Cornelius J. Wander.
bilt can find several of his old accounts in
Washington unpaid, if he has any desire to
make general square-up.
At Baltimore during the past month the ship
ment of -four to Europe in bags reached $50
bags of 141 pounds each, and the quantity
will probably be increased hereafter.
Commandant Deberly, said to be the last
survivor of Austerlitz, has just died, near Bor-
deaux, in his 95th year. He entered the army
in 1902, and was pensioned off in 1888.
Gen. Burnside has not owned dog cart OF
any other vehicle in Washington for year OF
more, yet some of the lady correspondents per-
sist in describing him as riding in one.
The London Queen says that during tho visit
of Lord Lorne and his wife to New York in May
they will reside in. twelve rooms at the Windsor
hotel specially decorated for their reception.
The little Grand Duke Michael Alexandra
witch, youngest child of the Czarevitch, has al
four months old an allowance of $4,000 fol
his table and a household of fifteen persons.
Mrs. Montague once said to Sir William
Pepys, on seeing very awkward man come into
the roam: "There is a man who would give one
of his hands to know what to do with the other
The Emperor William pays for the education
of his grandchildren; and the English tutor OF
Princes William (the future emperor) and
Henry receives $500 year, and he boards him
self.
The Southampton magistrates have fined the
wife of the Tichborne claimant for not sending
her children to school. 1t was stated that in
the neighborhood she is known as ''her lady.
| ship"
The Boston Advertiser has heard story that
at a recent Sunday school exhibition minister
asked the children ''What is the best book in
the world?" and the prompt reply was, Long
fellows POEMS"
W. W. Corcoran has bought the Patapsco In.
stitute, at Ellicott City, Md, and it is under
stood that Miss Randolph, daughter of the late
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Albemarle, will
take charge as principal.
Count Schouvaloff, the Russian ambassador
to the British court. is an inverate gambler
Recently, at the rooms of the Marlboro club in
London, he played away in few hours sum
equal to his entire salary.
Minnie Hank does not expect to return from
Europe before 1881. She is engaged until that
time to Col. Mapleson, and must go wherever
he directs, and she feels sure that he win not
direct her to return to this country.
private secretaries, and who has been more re-
Gently secretary of the territory of Utah, has
| resigned, and will be a clerk in the light house
Office at Baltimore, under Gen. Babcock.
Rev. o. B. rockingham, of New York city,
takes leave of his society in May next, and
will proceed on the extended foreign tour
which it has been announced he would make
for purposes of recuperation and study.
Mrs. Amanda Bishop, mother of Wesley W.
Bishop, died at her home in Norwich, Conn.,,
on Wednesday. Her death is said to have been
caused by the confession of her son to com.
plicity in the notorious Cobb poisoning case.
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette expresses the
belief that the tide of immigration to that
State could be greatly increased by properly
organized efforts on the part of the people to
invite and aid it. It should add and protect il
after it gets there.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says that he has
| always been tolerably contented man and
hasn't grumbled much through life; but he ID
disconnected. He would like to be boy again
and enter the floating college," known as the
Woodruff exposition
correspondent describes Mrs. Jefferson
Davis as a charming sensible Christian woman
| who understands the social and political ques.
tions of the time far better than the average OF
the male sex. She has no hopes or aspirations
| in connection with "the lost cause"
L. G.. Dennis, the Florida Republican poll.
tician, otherwise known as "The Little Giant
| of Alachua," has been found guilty of perjury
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