Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-12-30
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Among the members of the lower
house of the Tennessee legislature are
q white man and a negro who held the
relation of master and slave before the
war.
Judge Horace Gray, of Massachu-
sets, who has been appointed to the
United States supreme court, is hale,
nearty man of So years, and stands six
feet four inches in his boots.
Queen yictoria's compliment to the
kings of Spain and of Saxony, confer
ring upon them the Order of the Garter.
cost the British people something like
Sto,OOO. A special mission was sent to
each court to perform the ceremony of
| inyeStiture.
4 New Orleans paper says that the
only difference between Catherine Lew
Is ana Emma Abbott in "0hvette" is,
that when the former gets recall she
Kicks OF her slipper; but when Abbott
gets one she sings the well-known hymn,
Thy Win be Done"
Mrs. julia +. Watt. Harlem IN. Y.)
widow of good family and some prop
erty, and who has two grown-up chill
dren and is grandmother, was mar
ried few Gays since to David IL. Null
ford, Jr., tine-looking young man of
about 2S years. His step-children do
not like him.
MIR. Il. 5. Blaine, brother of Hon.
James q. Blaine, has been appointed
newspaper clerk under Clerk McPher-
son, of the house of representatives.
In dress Attorney General Brewster
IS very eccentric. He wears rutfles of
the style of Seventy-five years ago. His
coat Is blue swallow tail, with brass
buttons, and his waistcoat is long and
made of bright buff cloth.
Denver is one of the wonderful
growths of the west In ten years il
has become city of $1,000 people. and
most Of this has been gained within
five years. In 1876 its real estate
would hardly sci! for taxes, while now
desirable business sites bring $3.50 to
$500 per front foot. Many of the new
structures are elaborate and handsome,
notably an opera house costing $780,
600, union depot, and an Episcopal
cathedral.
The reason why Guiteau did not car
ry out his threat to insult his former
wife, now Mrs. Dunmire, when she was
on the witness stand, has been reveal
ed. Mr.. Dunmire, her present hus-
band, who was with her n the court, is
a man who stands no nonsense, and he
had been heard To say that if the pris-
oner carried out his threats he would
be the subject of an early funeral.
Guiteau was told of this, and he was rs
polite as i'll his first interviews with the
Washington boarding house keepers
who mourn over unpaid bills.
The wife of Judge Swayne, of Ohio,
late ef the United States supreme court,
who died recently, was very remark
able woman. The Toledo Blade refers
to one act of her Somanly life tc illus.
trate this: She was the daughter of a
wealthy Nirginian-the owner of Harp
er's Ferry-but upon her marriage she
manumitted the slaves that constituted
a large part of her dowry; and thus
redering herself comparatively poor,
removed with her husband to free
state-Ohio-and began life anew. II
detracts nothing from the splendid sue
cess of her husband in life to say that
much of his good fortune was due to
her influence and intelligent assistance.
She was the kind of woman TO make
even an ordinary man succeed.
Mr.. II. III. Riddleberger, who has re-
ceived the readjuster caucus nomina-
ton for United States senator from
Virginia, which is equivalent tG an cleo
ton, is a native of Shenandoah county,
in that state, and is but little over 10
years of age He entered the confed-
crate army at the beginning of the war
as an infantry private, and was pro-
NOTED to a lieutenancy, but receiving
wound in the foot was SO famed as 10
render him unfit for that branch of the
service. He then entered the cavalry,
raised company, of which he was made
captain, and did service in the Shenan-
doah valley. Some years after tie close
of the war Mr.. Riddleberger began the
publication of a democratic newspaper
at Edinburgh, Shenandoah county,
which he afterward removed to Wood
stock, the county seat. While thus en-
gagged in journalism he read law He
rapidly developed as II fluent and elo-
quent speaker, and was elected to the
Virginia house of delegates, from which
he was promoted to the state senate
Mr.. Riddleberger was one of the first TO
rally to the standard of readjustment,
and has been one of its most conspicu-
Gus champions