Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-15
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Sundays In June ana July Will be
the days of change to unfavorable
weather.
Judge John F. Dillon, formerly of
iowa, has resigned his professorship in
the New York Columbia College Law
School.
w. s. I.sdd, Portland, Ore, Banker
has given $2o 600 to huild Reform
School in that State and he will pay
all expenses connected will the school.
Lucius Robinson, President Of the
Newport National Bank, st Newport,
VT, has bai his left leg amputated to
save his life, gangrene having set in
from slight sore on the toe.
Lame 8 Elite Dictionary numbers a..
600 in the upper ten thousand OF New
York and Brooklyn. The million and
half of people who are left out in the
cold must feel very lonesome.
Two of the four horses which the
Emperor o. Russia has just given the
Emperor Of Germany are the very
Identical ones which drew the late
cars carriage when he was assassin
ated.
President Barrios, Of Guatemala, will
be the next distinguished visitor at
Washington. He has been president of
the Central Republic for nine years,
and is said to be worth 100000.
Anna Dickinson will not go 10 Eu-
rope, although her passage was taken
some months ago on one of the White
Star steamers, She will remain in this
country, playing Hamlet, and will, an
exchange informs us, next season essay
Othello.
Moody, the evangelist, will remain
this month in Glasgow, Scotland, where
his son is at school. Sankey is now
travelling in Germany with his son, for
the benefit of the latter's health.
The new home of George H. Corliss,
builder of the great centennial steam
engine, will be ready for occupancy
this fall, and will be one of the finest
residences in the city of Providence,
r. I.
The wife of John Hartman, of More
town, VT, recently gave birth to four
children, three boys and girl, weigh
ing four pounds each. All were alive
and doing we'll twenty four hours after
birth.
A dinner complimentary to Mr..
Washington p. Gregg, who has been
forty years clerk of the Boston Com
mon Council, was given June 10th, at
the Vendome Hotel. Some 800 past
members of the city government were
present.
Senator Ben Hill and wife, accom-
panied by Ben Hill, Jr., and wife, have
left Eureka Springs, Ark, for Atlanta,
Ga. Mr.. Hills health is said to be
much improved by his recent trip, and
his family have hopes of his ultimate
recovery, though it will not be for some
time.
w. W. Corcoran, the millionaire
banker and art patron of Washington,
d. c., is not going to live very long.
He is gradually growing weaker and
weaker. His physicians, while not ad
hitting that his present condition is Sc
rious, yet have no hopes of his ultimate
recovery.
Nearly the entire fortune Of Lucas
Hirst, the eccentric lawyer Of Phila
delphia, who died recently, amounting
to something over 100000 has been
bequeathed by the testator towards
founding free law library for the ben
eft Of the poor members of the legal
profession.
And now comes DR.. George II.
Moore. superintendent Of the Lenox
library, in New York, saying that the
declaration of independence was not
written by Thomas Jefferson, but by
John Dickinson. History says that
Dickinson opposed the adoption of the
declaration of independence, believing
it to be premature. The question now
is, Where did DR.. Moore get his news?
The Rev. Jesse B. Themes, of the
First Baptist church, Brooklyn, former
" of Chicago, appears to be IN great
demand. He last week received four
calls, to n chair in Crozier Theological
Seminary. Pennsylvania; to chair in
Andover Theological Seminary; to the
pulpit Of prominent Baptist church
in Rochester, and to the pulpit Of the
Seventh Baptist church, Baltimore.
He has declined the first three, and
it is expected will decline the fourth.
Here is new "Boston notion" and
one worthy of all commentator. Jor-
dan, Marsh Il Co., the largest dry goods
firm in Boston, have generously re-
solved to give eleven of their employees
vacation, and to pay their expenses
of trip to Europe, the fortunate ones
being drawn for by lot. To the eleven,
four others, who have served the firm
continuously for twenty years, are to
be sdded, the whole parry, including
the wives of some Of the gentlemen
numbering twenty-five.
Mother St. Bernard, Superior of the
Convent of Notre Dame, as Montreal,
Can, has been elected Superior of all
the converts throughout Canada and
the United States of that order. Mother
St. Victor, late Superior General, and
Mother St. Jean Babtiste, late Superior
of the convent at Kankakee, H., were
elected Assistants Superior.
An inscription on stone at the head
of grave in the cemetery at Oswego,
NY, reads: ain memory of Mrs.
Catharine Howe, wife Of Major Thomas
uoua died Decemher 16 1879 aged