Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-03-18
IN A NUTSHELL.


that there is not strawberry in New
Orleans.
Signor Salvini is 10 act in England
this year, appearing first at the Drury
Lane theater
Gen. Sam Cary has turned eyangel.
list and hopes to rival Moody. His
present field of labor is Tennessee.
The citizens of Fremont, O., will ex-
tend public reception to President
Hayes on his return home.
Russia has a Count Schouvaloff, but
Chicago to-day has so many shovel-offs
that they can't be Counted.
1t is proposed to build new opera
house in New York, to cost 81 100000.
Doubts are expressed as to its success.
The Aston family, of New York, own
LOO dwelling houses, and most of
them of the brown-stone-front class.
Dom Piatt has withdrawn from the
Washington Capital, and proposes to
retire to hermitage in Ohio.
Mile. Bernhard plays in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, tonight. She has been the
victim OF the recent railroad blockades.
General Keifer, of Ohio, has an
nounced himself as candidate for
speaker of the next house of represen-
tativeS.
General Garfield has received a con-
gratulatory dispatch from Cyrus w.
Field, Of New York, on the 4th inst,
dated at Bombay.
President Garfield and his family
occupied their old pew in the Chris
tan church in Washington yesterday.
The church was crowded.
Miss Potter, the eldest daughter of
the Hon. Clarkson Potter, of New
York, is engaged to marry Mr.. Leslie
Cotton, of Wyoming Territory.
Princess Marie, the eldest daughter
of the Comte de Paris, is a beautiful
girl of IA, with wealth of golden hair,
a fair complexion and large blue eyes.
Massachusetts, evidently intends that
the small pox in that state shall not get
among the people. They have it pent
up within the walls of the state prison.
Ex-President Hayes and party re-
manned over Sunday at Altoona, Pa.
None Of them were injured in the col
nsion at Severn Station Saturday after
noon.
"Mop-heads" is the name that the
female aesthetics who make London So
clety ridiculous go by. It's the way
they wear their hair that earns the
name.
Mr.. Edward Mcpherson, of Pennsyl-
vania, is a candidate for first, and Mr..
Chauncey /. Filley, of Missouri, for
second, assistant under Postmaster Gen
eral James.
Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wiscon-
sin is now SO far recovered as to be able
to leave his bed, and will leave La
Crosse for the Arkansas Hot Springs as
soon rs the trains begin running reg
ularly.
Charles Dudley Warner, says news
paper, IS an ingenious continuance for
the diffusion of the prejudices of the
few among the many" Mr.. Warner is
an editor, and of course speaks for
himself solely.
Leopold Rothschild, just married to
Miss Perugia, is an excellent skater.
One day he skated his name into the
ice ut Hyde Park, London, when an
other skater added the legend: "Pay
The bearer $50,0O0000."
The anxiety of Paul Boynton has
been relieved by a letter received by
MS mother, dated the 9th of january,
which said that he had gone to the in
lorior Of Peru.
Rev. DIR. Theodore H.. Cuyler, of the
Lafayette avenue Presbyterian church
IF Brooklyn, will sail for Europe in the
Bothnia on March %. on six-months
cave Of absence.
A Chicago merchant, all covered with
snow, was asked one day last week how
business was, to which he replied "Our
irm name has changed to Doolittle &
Sitmoreo
Ex-Governor Coburn, of Skowhegan,
$ the richest man III Maine. He gives
arge sums to schools and churches in
different parts of the state now and
hen when the benevolent mood is on.
Three hundred and thirty-six per-
ons over sixty years of age died in
Boston last year. There were two CEN
and singularly enough, both
we're men. One is said to have been
OF and the other 101
The dinner to Secretary Schurz in
Boston is to occur on some day between
he 10th and Goth of March. Among
he signers to the letter Of invitation |
re John M. Forbes, Martin Brimmer,
Thomas Talbot, James Freeman Clarke,
edmund Quincy, Francis Parkman,
Charles Francis Adams, Henry w. |
and Oliver Wendell Holmes. |
The university of Pennsylvania has
its esteemed contemporaries. |
t conferred the degree of Doctor of
avs on Gen. Garfield last Tuesday. |
Dr.. Garfield will be liable to arrest, |
however, if he practices medicine I'M
Ter that title in Wisconsin when the |
medical bill becomes law.
Mr.. Thurlow Weed is writing his me-
noirs- work undertaken at an earn
st appeal of Gen Winfield Scott. Mr.. |
Weed says that he has rich mine of |
material in letters covering period of |
more than half a century. But age |
md its infirmities seriously embarrass
us progress, and the twelve or thirteen |
pages now written only bring |
he work down to 1888.
President Gartield's class at Williams |
College has not only furnished Presi-
lent, but Treasurer of the United !
states (Gilflland), a member of Con-
,ress (Jacobs) and an Assistant Quar-
ermaster General (Rockwell) General |
fairfield and General Rockwell have
'een companions and friends for many |
ears.
Olive Logan, who is on IL occurring |
our, says in connection with the gen
raj subject of Fanny Davenport: 1T
) terrible experience for any woman
o observe the signs of her loss of beau
y-the growing dizziness of the eye, the
ines about the mouth, the lack-lustre
lair, the changing figure; but to an ac-
ress this gradual decay is terror only
second to death itself" Fanny can |
low free her mind about Olive.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts is so happy |
n her marriage that she wants to make
II about her happy also. She has
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