Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-02-12
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Roscoe CoNKLING is 50.

! ROSCOE CONKLING Is 81.
MARK TWAIN is said to covet seat in
congress.
JONATHAN HAND, county clerk of Cape
May county, n. j., has been forty sue
cessive years in his Office.
| PETER GOBLET was under the doctors
care, and died. The grateful heirs
have just presented the doctor with S25-
600.
The Lord Mayor of London gives
bond OF $50, 900 for the safety of the off,
cial diamonds, and one of 500, 900 for
the safety of the plate.
Hon. GEORGE P. MARSH, American
minister to Italy, lives in magnificent
apartment of the Palazzo Bospigliosi,
in Rome, and entertains in royal style.
GERrY HosMER, 15-year-old girl OF
Leadville, secretly got married to two
fellows, and then killed herself with poi
son because her parents criticised her.
WHEN Parnell visited Lynn, Mass,
the other day, he was taken through the
shoe shops by the mayor, and pair of
shoes were made for him. The mayor
himself, once shoemaker, finished them
up.
GENERAL PATTERSON, of Philadelphia.
the ex-president's old commander in the
Mexican war, now nearly eighty years
old, has been invited 10 accompany the
c~-presiuent on his tour to Mexico and
l. accepted the invitation.
Mr. OLIVER DALRYMPLE, the great
Minnesota farmer, intends to cultivate
30, 600 acres of wheat this year He Will
have twenty steam threshers in operation
with !35 reaping machines. Last year
he employed coo men, and this year will
increase the number to 700
DUKE FLEMING, Texan, vowed many
One day last week, feeling that death
was about to catch him in his natural
grip, he drew his bowie upon a fellow
desperado, and the latter shot him
through and through the heart.
MARY CnEMMER is a woman of COM
handing height, a striking face blue
eyes, delicate complexion and brown
hair, worn III clustering curls over her
forehead, and simply knotted at the back
of the head. She is energetic and cleo
trio in conversation, a tritle imperious in
manner.
MINISTER FOSTER is reported to have
expressed wish to be sent to Europe in
order to study the social and political
institutions of other lands He is not
very rich man, yet has enough to live in
ST. Petersburg in dignifed fashion with
the help of his salary. He cannot leave
Mexico for two months, and will proba-
bly, not reach Russia for four or five.
MADAME CoLBAN, the distinguished
Norwegian authoress, who has produced
I'VE charming romances. did not begin
er literary work until she was 60 years
Cd. Her children were all established
in life, and, owing to failing health, her
dates and occupations as a woman of
society became irksome, so she removed
to Rome and began her career al
writer.
Mr.. EDWARD ATKINsoN's gift of sam
plies of American cotton manufactures to
India has been rcquited by present of
nearly 200 statuettes representing the
different castles and classes of people i'll
that region. The figures are Of clay,
dressed in actual stuffs made up in the
exact fashion of East Indian costumes.
The donors of this valuable collection are
a firm of Bombay Hindoo merchants.
Mr.. PRInLIP f. MORGAN, the new
minister of Mexico, comes of an old and
eminent Louisiana femily and was a
Union man, who, after his state joined
the Confederacy, went to Europe, where
he remained during the war. He is
called one of the ablest lawyers of
Louisiana, and is a master Of the French
and Spanish codes. After the war he
WAS placed on the supreme bench of the
state.
/ The Weaver family at Maidstone, Eng
land has long been noted for the long
evitv Of its members An old woman of
this family recently died at the age of l05
years, MS the parish register shows, and
left behind her a daughter of 10 years,
and so grandchildren and great-grand-
children. Her husband died ten years
AGO, aged 100 years; her father was 103
wears old at the time OF his death, and
the grandfather lived to be l05.
" BULL Run RUSSELL is not so young
as when he accompanied the Prince OF
Wales on his Indian tour, being now 62
wears old. He went to Natal last year.
The journey out knocked him up, and he
has been obliged to remain at Pietermar-
itsburg. This has soured him, and he
has written to the London Telegraph,
which he now represents, some very Sc
we're structures on the conduct of the
officers and men of Sir Garnet Wolseley,
who had been very kind to him, which
that general has written to pronounce
"unmihgated falsehoods.
CAPT DAILY ordered his company TO
Liclc I'M oil the dust fhnY could ri YellOM