Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-05-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

BISHOP UTTERTON, of Guilforl, left by
will an estate of 500, 900, and the Rev.
E. X. Burney, of Thurman, upward of
e225, 900.
A CANADIAN missionary has begged his
much-used tomahawk from Sitting Bull,
and it has been placed among the
treasures of the museum Of the College
of Ottawa.
Mile. VERA SAssULTTCH, the young
Nihilist conspirator, has not been ex-
terminated in Russia-because she has
not vet left Switzerland. She is living
in Genoa and writing for revolutionary
journal.
THE Danes are exceedingly fond of the
Princess of Wales, and always receive
her with enthusiasm. "Three times
three for the apple of our eye they
cry when they sea the pretty woman
drive past, and hurricane Of cheers are
sure to follow.
The first duchess of Oneida is dead.
She was lineal descendant of the tenth
duke of Thorndale, and belonged to
Lord Skelmersdale Congestion of the
liver was her trouble; it cost the lord
$4,000 six years ago to get her-but she
was trst-class COW, and is lamented ac-
cordingly.
THE wretched beggars whose feet are
washed every year on Good Friday by
the King of Spain are the most unhappy
of mortals. They are forced to take six
footballs day for week previous, and
a whole army of chiropodists are let
loose upon them to extract corns, polish
and perfume.
The wedding robe of Princess
Frederick, of Hanover, was of ivory
satin, trimmed from throat to bottom
hem with old point lace. The tunic is
looped up on the hips, and the train IS
in silver tissue, with arabesgues III seed
pearls. 1t is further trimmed with myrtle
sprays and orange blossoms. The cos
..me was apresent from Queen Victoria.
THE cars bedroom i'll the winter
palace, it is said, communicates by sub
terranean gallery with the fortress of st.
Peter and Paul, so that, in case Of need,
he may reach the fortress III few
minutes, and be in perfect safety. The
room of Emperor Paul ]. was provided
with similar secret passage, but he was
not quick enough for his assasslns, who
murdered him on the threshold OF the
passage.
A FIRE recently broke uaJ III an extern
siye German brewery and blerhaus IN
Monte Video. All available supplies OF
water having been exhausted, and the
flames still advancing, the fire brigade
asked and received permission of the
proprietor to make use of large stock
of beer on the premises IN order to cen
tnue their operations. After some 90
600 gallons of beer had been cast into the
flames. the conhagration was arrested.
A COUPLE were lately married at Turn,
but. in consequence of harsh treatment,
the bride soon after returned to her
family and applied for divorce, The
husband then sought an interview with
her, and induced her TO return at once
to his house. That night he stripped
her, put her in bag, until she was
suffocated, and then dropped her into a
narrow well in her mothers garden.
The corpse was discovered by means OF
an Illuminating mirror from the top OF
the we'll The husband confessed has
crime and was executed.
The ravages of what Is commonly
known as rot" or "bane are assum-
ing most appalling proportions in the
midland and western counties OF Eng
land, in consequence, it is generally sup
posed, of the excessive and long-contln-
ued wet weather last year. Tens OF
thousands of sheep, principally ewes, are
dead and dying. In some parishes in
Gloucester, Oxon and Warwick there are,
comparatively speaking very few sheep
left, and in Somerset there are only
5000 left in one district, which usually
winters sc, 900. Hundreds, If not thou
sands of sheep have been sold off in the
British district at from 3s Cd. to los. a
head