Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-10-29
In A Nut Shell.

Colonel Thomas 4. Scott, Of Phila-
delphia, has contributed 5000 toward
building m Episcopal church 1t Chiffon,
Pa.
Mr. Robert Burdette the Burlington
HdWeue man. with his wife, will make
Philadelphia his home this winter
Among the guests 1t the Palace hotel,
Buffalo last week We're Senator hos
coe Conkling and Mrs, Kate Chase
Sprague.
Mr. Thomas Woolferd White, said 70
he i grandson Of King George The
Fourth hv Mrs Fitzherhert, i ! resi-
dent Of Leadville, Col.
Sir Edward Thornton. the British
minister 1t Washington. Will sail for
England with his wife and daughters on
Noyembor6.
Colonel a. II. Mcclure, Of tile Phila-
delphia Times is MI untring theater-
goer. Ills genial face il always u be
seen III the first nights.
A new disease Inns broken out among
the horses at Nermillion y. t., which
il CARRYING them oft III tweuty-four
hours. It puzzles the skill If the
veterinary surgeons 70 tell what il is,
The coal companies are Said 10 lie
now producing II tive rate Of 33,O0oOo0
tons per annum, 1T which rate the
dealers assert that the market must
yield.
The wheat crop for 1850 i new said
to be oycrestimated The total pro
duction is now figured ii 454,000Ooo
bushels with surplus Of lStoo0onp
for export.
One ofthe murderers ofDr Parsons,
the American missionary. has been
condemned to death, and two Others
have been sentenced to fifteen wears
penal seyitude.
About s. Of every 100 Of tile weather
predictions sent out by the Washington
weather bureau the past year have
been verified. This beats the almanucs
ut least
On the 18th Of January, lS67 there
existed only seventeen daily newspa-
pers III Paris, while on the LIST Of Sep
TENDER, 1880, there were siyty-one daily
newspapers in circulation.
Dame Rumor asserts and most
emphatieally, too-that Rev. Phillips,
the great Boston deyine, will shortly
lead to the alter Il wellknoml fhila-
delphia lady,
William Nj. Moolctt, i we'll known
architect, and the publisher Of several
books Of sketches and drawings for
houses, died at his summer home at
Londonyille, near Albany, sunday
Miss Nellie Calhoun, grand-niecc of
John G. Galhoon. made Il very success
full debut Monday evening Us Juliet, at
the Grand Opera house in san Fran
cisco, and was accorded 4 gratifying re-
ception.
Judge Elisha Carpenter Of the Su-
preme court Of Connecticut, has had iii
attack Of paralysi. affecting hisle side.
His brainiS unaffected but he will not lie
able t. attend 10 Iii. duties for some
time.
Hon George Bancroft, who has re-
turns this week to his winter home in
Washington The last volume Of his
History Of the United State. will
soon be ready for the press,
Dr Lou See On, a Chinese physician,
has registered in Buffalo, y. y. under
the new law. lie SAYS he was licensed
to practice ~ Lou Com Chong, a duly
authorized person i'll the province Of
Canton, China Emperor Ton Kong
ruling al the time.
Cardinal Manr ing is now q far re-.
stored to health that he will immedi-
ately resume the active duties Of his
ecclesiastical office. After working
tour in the Midlands and the North Of
England he has returned t. London,
looking mere energetic than ever.
General Karge, Of Princeton college,
who has filled the chair of continental
languages and literature in that instr
tuition since 1870. has been rendered II
similar professorship in the Western
Reserve University, which is soon to be
removed to Cleveland Ohio from Hud-
son.
The American Erehapgc at London
reports astonishing expenditures by
Americans this year, in Europe, and,
Judging from their letters OF credit, c.
Inmates the outlay Of 10000 travellers
atS1S0, 100000
Diphtheria il raging with increasing
fatality IN Brooklyn The health Of
tieers attribute the prevalence Of the
terrible disease TO the filthy condition
Of the sewers and the imperfect ventil-
alton ofthe tenement houses
Algeria has i river Of ink, formed hy
the union If two branches. one coming
from the regionof ferruginous soil and
the other from peat swamp. The
IRON ofthe one and the gallie acid u
the other unite 70 form 4 true ink
At Bat England there In, been dis
covered, about thirty feet below the
present Roman bath, eighty feet long
and forty feet wide. tile whole Of the
interior being lined with lead three
fourths If IN inch III thickness,
Why Maggie Mitchell i on the Stage.
Maggie has been on the stage for
thirtv years. She acknowledges to
forty-three. and IL she has made i
great deal Of money. people wonder
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