Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-27

spend S. 600 in representing America
] properly a. the coronation.
The Rev. Dr.. Henry NJ. Storrs, OF
Brooklyn, has finally decided not to
accept the call of the State Street Con-
gregational Church, OF Portland, Me.
At the Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence at Ithaca, on Monday was cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of the
entrance into the ministry of Bishop
Jesse T. Peck, and the Rev. Messrs. F.
II. Stanton, James Irwin and D. w.
Bristol.
Mr.. James Clement Ambrose of Ev-
anston, H., through the Alliance Bu-
reau of Ohio, will present his popular
lecture, THE Sham Family" in thirty
two of the towns and cities of the State
starting at Columbus, October 2S.
The recent accident to Mrs. Hamil-
ton Fish, of New York, was caused by
breaking of the king bolt of her car
riage. The vehicle then turned throw
ing Mrs. Fish violently to the ground.
At last accounts she was recovering
from her injuries.
The steamship Arizona, from Eng
land, on which were Mrs. Langtry and
the Wyndham comedy company, ar
rived in New York h2rbor last Saturday
night. Nine. Christiane Nilsson, Mime.
Adelina Patti and Nine. Modjeska are
also now Sailing DER the sea" in quest
of American dollars.
The only daughter of Mr.. Ruthford
B. Hayes, of Fremont, o., is now at
the same boarding school at Cleveland
that harbors Miss Mollie Garfield. Mr..
Ruthford Hayes, Jr., who is very young
having only last year left college, is in
bank at Fremont, of which his father
is one of the Directors,
Baron Beuter was employed when a
boy, in brokers' Office in Frankfort.on-
the Main, and while there he originated
the idea of duplicating stock messages
from London and other large cities by
means of manifolding. Soon afterward
he conceived the idea Of establishing
the general news agency which has
since made him famous.
In this weeks Harper's Weekly, Tom
Mast presents little picture which
represents Jay Gould as jack-in-the-
box, With Gen. Grant looking at him.
The box is inscribed, "The One Man
Bugaboo Box of Our Republic" and
"ex-Bugaboo Grant" is saying to "Bug-
aboo Could" "How do you like it Mr..
Gould! l am enjoying my rest.
Chong Got, full-blooded native of
Japan, and proprietor OF a tea store in
Washington, was to have been married
the other evening to Miss Katie Kel-
lum, a bright, vivacious and handsome
young girl of II summers, living in
East Washington, but an immense
crowd of angry residents gathered in
the vicinity apd made such threats
that the would-be brides friends sent
word to the minister not to come.
The "Jap" made his escape by the
back door, and the wedding was post
poned.
Mr.. Perzel, the husband of Marie
Prescott, the actress, who recently re-
covered judgment of $12 500 against
the American News Company in New
York for circulating newspaper 10
which was libelious attack on her
character, has brought suit against the
same company, claiming $25, 900 dam
ages, for libel on his character, con-
tained in the allegations of the answer
that Miss Prescott was his mistress.
The time for an answer to the COM
plant in this suit expires on Friday
next.
A strange and romantic marriage
ceremony was performed at the resi-
dence of Judge William Bowie, of
Montgomery county, Maryland. The
Judge was suddenly prostrated last Sat
urday with typho. malarial fever, and
being told by his physician that he could
not live, he requested that his eldest
daughter, Ella, beautiful young girl,
and popular belle in society, should
be married at once to DR.. White, to
whom she had been betrothed for
several years. At the request of the
dying father, the daughther arrayed
herself in her white satin wedding dress,
and, with her betro:hed and few
intimate friends of the family, assem-
bled around the old mans bedside.
When the minister had pronounced
the couple man and wife, the dying
man gave sigh of relief, and fell back
exhausted, the last wish of his life hav-
ing been accomplished.