Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
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capitalist, is to build $780, 600 resi-.
dence.
Mr.. w. II. English pays taxes at
indianapolis on 1885,, S55 personal pro-
perry.
Algernon Sartoris, the son-in-law OF
General Grant, is hunting and fishing at
Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
The members of the Garibaldi fam.
lily have agreed to give the island of
Caprera to the Italian nation.
Rev. Cornelius Brett, who bears the
Garfield memorial volume prepared
for Queen Victoria, has sailed for
Europe.
Ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell, of Iowa,
and wife, have been visiting their old
home in Elmira, N. Y.
Mr.. Ichabod Goodwin, ex-governor
ofNew Hampshire, is dangerously i'll
of congestion of the liver, in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire.
A daughter of ex Governor Richard
j. Oglesby was one of the graduates at
st. Mary's seminary EpiscopaD, at
Knoxville, ILL.,, Wednesday.
The following Chicagoans were regis
tered at Paris, June - William Duell
]. W allack, and Mr., Mrs. and Miss
Servey; at London, same day, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. G. Collins and Hobart Taylor.
]. T. Summons, of Laramie City
Wy. t., and E. P. Prentice, of Chicago
are the prize men in the Social Union
Freshmen contest at Amherst College.
Alice Ramsdell, 16.year. old girl, of
Traverse City. Mich, recently rode on
horseback from her home in Manistee,
eighty miles through the woods. She
took her rifle tor pleasure.
Upon the two pillars which stand be-
fore each of the three entrances of Mr..
James Gordon Benefits residence at
Newport have been placed bronze owls.
They are really gas-lamps, the lights
streaming from their eyes with weird
effect.
Mr.. Lew Stewart, of Plano, ILL.,, one
day last week invited all the children of
that village to go to the circus with him
at Sandwich. About 100 of them &C.
cepted the invitation, and they had
jam-up good time. The party were
taken in private conveyances.
Among the graduates from the
United States Naval Acadamy 1T An
napolis this year, are Lebur r. avage,
of Illinois; FELTON, Parker, of Iowa !,
Edison w. Sutphen, of Nebraska; Fin.
ley A. McNutt, Indiana; Herman H.
Kenkel, Minnesota; and Emil Thesis,
Wisconsin.
Mrs. Ellen M. Cotton, the widow Of
General David d. Cotton, of San Fran.
CISCO, has sued ex-Gov. Leland Stanford
and other directors of the Rocky
Mountain Coal and Iron Company, for
over half million dollars, which she
claims is still due her late husbands
estate.
DR.. Bigelow, one of the most cele-
brated surgeons in the country, has
created quite sensation by resigning
the chair of surgery at Harvard col
lege. He was the leading opponent to
admission of women to the study Of
medicine.
Miss Clara White, daughter of Presi-
dent Andrew d. White, of Cornell Uni
versity was married to Professor Spen-
Ger Baird Newberry, of that institution,
recently, at the house of President
White, on the university campus,
Ithaca, New York.
A peculiar figure in the French SEN
ate chamber is NJ. Roger, the presi-
dent. He is "short, bow legged, like q
colonel of cavalry, with coat buttoned
up to the neck like Quaker, bald
headed, smooth. faced, with sharp
piercing eyes behind gold spectacles.
Among the applicants for place on
the Utah commission, to be appointed
by the president, are the following
women. Phoebe w. Couzins, St. Louis;
Bella A. Lockwood, Washington, d.
c.; Mrs. G. A. Romney, Colorado, and
Hannah B. Desha, Washington, d. G.
Senator Conger, of Michigan, has
presented to the president the name Of
]. ]. Woodman, the head of the Ma.
tional Grange, for one of the vacant
places on the tariff comm ission. 1t is
urged that he would make good rep
resentative of the agriculturists.
Ulysses Grant, Jr., has been promot-
ed to a 81 600 clerkship in the United
States sub-treasury at New York. Can
it be that the stories about Buck,
making go much money in stock wer"
untrue? Or perhaps the clerkshie
is sinecure, the most laborious du-
ties of which consist in drawing the
pay.
A Washington letter says President
Arthur attends to much important
official work after midnight, and does
not go to bed before 3 o'clock in the
morning. In this way he secures per-
feet quiet and freedom from callers,
and he has also the coolest hours of
the twenty four for the refreshment of
sleep. He does not rise until shout 10
in the forenoon.
"Tm not going to school any more"
said little four years-old boy to his
mother on his return otter his first day
ct the kindergarten. "Why, my dear?
Don't you like to see the little boys and
2irlsr ayes; but don't want to &c"