Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-12-28
BRIEF ITEMS.

The late Samuel H. Hill, of North
ampton, Mass, had given directly to
that town for educational purposes over
100000.
The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of
Indiana, has so far recovered his health
as to be able to go'about and attend to
business.
Jay Hubbell, who has of late be
come famous in the line Of voluntary
ssessments," has been helping lately
to raise funds for a church in Mich
gan.
Neither Sir Garnet Wolseley nor Sir
Reauchamp Seymour has a sen to keep
alive the peerage each has won. The
admiral is unmarried, and Sir Garnet
has only daughter.
To be woman suffragist IS not with
out rewards. 1t is stated that a friend
of the cause has bequeathed Susan b.
Anthony $4,000.
A new opera recently produced in
Europe is called the "Adamless Eden"
The scenes were, of course, laid IN the
internal regions.
John r. Buchtel, of Akron, O., has
sold 100000 worth of stock in the
Buckeye Works, to enable him to
make an additional gilt of 100000 to
Buchtel college, in that state,
President Grevy has viewed and
greatly admired the mosaic portrait of
President Garfield, which is on exnibi-
ton in Paris, and which will be exhib-
tied in London before its dispatch to
the United States.
George Augustus Sala says that Sen.
ator Bayard is the best story-teller in
the United States. Evidently George
Augustus never heard of Tom Ochiltree
and Eli Perkins.
Judge William d. Kelley, the Penn
sylvania Congressmsn, has named the
18th of April his 10Th birthday, as the
date for q mplimeutary dinner ten
dered him by prominent citizens of
Philadelphia.
The New York Farmers, a society of
about thirty of the best-known gen
tlemcn farmers of that city, had a
banquet last evening. Gen. Grant sat
next to his Long Branch neighbor, Mr..
w. B. Dinsmore,
Hon. Albert Palmer, the new Demo
cratic Mayor of Boston, is a New
Hampshire man and graduate of
Dartmouth. He is in the ice business,
and has frequently been member OF
tAe legislature of Massachusetts,.
Last Thursday a letter was received
at the Washington Post Office marked
Wiltshire, o., December II, 1882"
and addressed to Senator Oliver p.
Morton who has been dead somewhat
more than five years.
The trustees of the Asbury Indiana
University have elected the Rev. S. l..
Bowman, d. D., of Jersey City, to fill
the char of theology in that institution.
DIR. Bowman is the nephew of the
Methodist Bishop Bowman.
Empress Eugene had written M.
Rouher requesting him to convey to
the city of Marseilles the park and cas-
tie which the court decreed belonged
to her. The Elk Empress says she be-
ieyes she is carrying out the wishes OF
her late husband.
The youngest inventor on the rec
ords in Washington is Walter Neve-
gold, la1 10 years of age, of Bristol
Pa, whe has patented important i'm
provements in aolling- mill manchinery.
The Rev. G. c. Pierce, who has just
been appointed by President Arthur
chaplain of the Ninth regiment, United
States cavalry, is pastor of the First
Baptist church, in Jacksonville, Ill.
Senator and Mrs. Eugene Hale, OF
Maine, and their three boys will spend
Christmas with her mother, the
widow of the late Zach Chan.
dler, in Detroit. Mrs. Hale's youngest
boy, aged six years, is go strikingly like
his Grandfather Chandler in appear
ance and maunerisms as to attract the
attention of strangers.
E. Lord Randolph Churchill is 80 years
old; he parts his hair in the middle
and wears curled mustache; he has
been eight years III parliament; he is
made prominent before the public by
the newspapers; by many he is regard
ed rs the successor to- Beaconstield,
and the London World goes so far as
to say that il matters go on at the pres
ent rate he will in ten years be the only
possible prime minister in the ranks of
the conservative party.