Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-23
Personalities,


Washington, has recovered his health a,
the While Sulphur Springs.
The unwilling oftte FARRAGUT statue
in Washington will be postponed by Sec.
rotary THOMPSON until after Congress ss.
sembles.
A rumor says that after the winter
session of the United States Supreme
Court, Justice SwAYEE, OF Ohio, will
probably retire.
lie largest single tax in Lowell.
Mass, this year is $500, paid by the J.
G. AVER estate. Gen. BUTLER psys So .367.
Ex-Governor HENRY d. COOKE, OF the
District of Columbia, is lying very Ill st
Fire Island, aud it is feared that he can.
not recover.
Rev. ROBERT CoLLYER is announced
to deliver the anniversary address st the
Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
on the nth inst.
Postmaster General MAYNARD often
drops in among the clerks in his Office
during Office hours. These visits tend to
keep the clerks at their desks.
The Duke OF Argyll begins in the
September number of the Contemporary
Repie1o series of scientific papers on
THE Unity of Nature"
SAMUEL B. HALDKMAN, professor of
comparative philology in the Pennsylva.
MIA University, died at his home in Chick.
les on Friday, sged 6S.
MIR. BONNER is reported to have re.
Gently expressed an intention of entering
his fast trotters, Edwin Forrest and R.rus,
in public tro'tng race in New York,
shortly, to prove that they "can beat the
world"
DR.. LEWIS SWIFT, Of Rochester, has
just received from the Imperial Academy
OF Sciences al Vienna another prize for
discovering new comet last year. The
prize is medal OF fine gold worth sew
enty dollars.
-GEoRGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, who is
travelling in England, says that when,
using the British accent, you say to your
British cousin, "Vyictorya, can't you
give US kiss ?" she says, 'I'm shore |
don't know" American girls who are
cultivating English manners may find
this conversation useful.
MARSHALL 0. ROBERTS, the well.
known New York capitalist, who died at
Saratoga or Saturday morning, was one
Of the weslthiest men in this country.
His investments in stocks and bonds
alone amount to $l0,000,000, and he had
much real estate and other property be.
sides. He made most of his money in
the steamship and railroad business.
The citizens of Quebec gave ball to
Admiral Sir LEOPOLD McCLINTocK and
the officers Of Her Majesty's fleet, in the
Music Hall Thursday night. A hundred
couples were present. The Governor
General danced with Lady McCLINTocK,
Sir LEOPOLD with the Mayoress of
Quebec, and the Lieutenant Governor
with Mrs CHAPLEAU. Most of the Min
listers OF the local Government were
present.
Bishop Simpson, Of the Methodist
Church, was taken seriously Ill Sunday
with congestive chill while preaching
in the East Methodist Church at San
Francisco on the occasion of the sttend.
ance Of President and Mrs. HAYES upon
divine service at that church. The
Bishop had to be removed to house near
by, where he soon rallied rom the attack
and was soon pronounced IN much i'm
pre- I'd condition.
Ten years of insction would seem to
have made the officers of the German
army tired of life. Dueling has increased
to an astonishing extent among them.
The latest distinguished victim was Count
GoLTz, of the Captain Generals staff. who
was killed "in an encounter at Fnids,"
by 8 brother shoulder-strap. A Count
and General Of the same name is Al aid
to the Emperor, but the dispatches are in
doubt as TO whether he was the person
perforated.
Miss EMMA ABBOTT, the singer, in s
recent talk with a reporter at Columbus,
O, told this story Of Signor BRIGSoLI;
while rendering the opera OF The Be-
hemisn Girl the wad of gun fred at