Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-11


ful career in London. She rented pretty
house, which she fitted up with the taste
and skill for which she has been dis.
tingulshed. So crowded, indeed, were
her rooms with pictures, statusry, curl.
osities and old china that they were said
to rival even those of Lady BURDETT.
Courts. She had gathered about her a
circle of 1ecayed society magnates, in.
Guiding Dukes, E.rls and Msrquises
with plentiful sprinkling OF church dig.
niiaries
The Florence Qtaly) correspondent OF
the Boston Herald writes 81 learn that
both our Minister, MIR. MARSH, aud his
Secretary of Legation, Mr.. WURTz, who
have so long and cre1i ably represented
the American Republic at the Italian
Court, have definitely decided to resign
their posts by next spring, the former
gentleman feeling that ais advanced age
no longer permits MIN satisfactorily to
fulfill his diplomatic duties, and the latter
with his ample fortune And aesthetic tates,
preferring his entire liberty 10 being tied
in Rome, as now, during the hot months,
and working longer IL the diplomatic
tresdmill"
When General GRANT was in Milan,
Italy, on his tour around the world, he
was met on the street one day by well
dressed woman, who stopped him and
asked the General if he knew her Eyes"
said he, lyon kept an apple and fruit
stand near the gate leading to the War De-
partment In Washington" He asked her
what she was doing in Milan, and she re
piled that her son had shown great mus
Ical talent, and she was there to give HIM
the benefit of Instruction under the best
Italian masters That son is now the
basso OF the Srakosch. Hess Company, and
sails under the name Signor Montffirie.
--CHARLgs UTTER, the Japanese ser.
want who accompanies Gen. GRANT, is a
bright, quick. witted young man. When
asked by An inquisitive fellow what his
duties were, he replied quietly, with a
comicsl expression upon his face, " am
expected to mind my own business and to
DO of service to my employer when it ls
possible" UTTER informed a reporter
that he was assigned TO Gen GRANTS SER
vice by the japanese government to &C
company him through Japan, aud had be,
come so much attached to him that he OBJ
tanned permission to accompany HIM to
America. Gen. GRANT finds HIM invalu.
able as q body servant, and CHARLES is
enjoying his visit in this country with
great satisfaction. He minds his own
business, but keeps his eyes open.
The destn of the Mnharajah of Jey-
pore is mentioned as a misfortune for all
native India. The specially of the Mshar-
aiah was that he wss' Prince who i'm.
proved his dom;nions, without cessng to
be native. He governed well, with jus
tice and lenity, but he governed as ma
tive Prince does-by decree and manage.
ment of men, and not as a British Com
missioner does, thus making his rule IN
native eyes seem alive. He was always
improving Jeypore, but he left it native
as separate as Benares, instead of turning
it into an imitation Paris. He encouraged
schools, but they were the cheap, native
hedge schools; and though he liked En-.
ropesns, he kept aloof from their mode of
life He looked, with his keen, thin face,
and spectsc es. like dark, out Ger
man professor; but he WAS a great native
Prince, nevertheless, with high sense of
his own place among Hindoos
A leading English journalist expects
that the Cars marriage TO the Princess
DOLGoRoUKI will soon be followed by his
abdlcstion, aud suggests that the Princess
may have made it a condition Of the union
that he should escape from his present
dangers at the earliest possible opporu-
nifty. According to the ST. Petersburg
Vyed0Bsosti he has lately been exposed to
grester number of risks thsn the world
has hitherto heard e. An sttempt was
made on ms life during journey on the
LolJvaya Sebsstopol line of railway.
Several pounds Of dynamite were laid uu-
der the line, ana an explosion was pre-
vented simply by the accidental breaking
of the wire which communicated with
the electric battery The guard of the