Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-07-13
PERSONS AND THINGS.

King Kalakua's coronation will take
place on Feb. II, 1888.
Gossips say Oscar Wilde will marry
Miss Maud Howe, adaughter of Julia
Ward Howe.
The spring poets say Guiteau was moi
insane. The spring poets have already
been judged
Herbert Spencer has engaged pas
sage on the steamer Servia, and will
reach New York July 2lst.
The cost of the Gold Run debris suit
to Sacramento county, Cal, to date, has
been over $4,000.
Last week 22,777 bushels of Irish 20
tatoes were shipped from Norfolk, Va,
to northern ports.
At Kingston there is an old elm con.
tanning more than two hundred birds
nests.
Colonel Charles G. Greene, the Oldest
of Boston journalists, celebrated his
18th birthday on Saturday.
The ladies of Edinburgh presented
Mrs. Langtry with an address thanking
her for theatrical representations.
Thurlow Weed is entirely blind, a
fact that first became public at an en-
tertainment on the Sd inst.
Mr.. Blaine said he made $75, 900 in
his Virginia railroad speculation. How
much did the railroad make?
The Atlanta Constitution says CAR
thurs administration is one-horse." It's
no fault of the other horses.
Mr.. William Warren, the actor, has
just completed the thirty-tifth year of
his unbroken connection with the Bos-
ton Museum.
The wife Of ex-senator Lyman Tlum.
bull, of Chicago, is lying quite ill at the
residence of her brother, DR.. Jayne, in
Springfield, ILL.,
The Sultan of Turkey invited United
States Minister Lew Wallace to his pal
ace, and spent the day in conference
with him.
The church is looking up in England.
In serious sketch of the new Bishop
Wilberforce, and English writer states
that his Lordship is "a great lawn ten
mis- player"
In the equestrian contest at Roches
ter, N. Y, between the Misses Peek and
Pineo, ten miles, for purse of 81, 900,
the former won easily in 20 minutes
and "a seconds.
Rev. Joseph Cook is just now roam
in around in Australia. The natives
stand it well, Mr.. Cook not having lee
tured up to last reports.
Kate Shelley, the Iowa girl who
saved train from destruction, has in.
vested her money in land and is going
to school for five years. She is 16
years old now.
1t is reported that Bob Ingersol is
writing drama. This must be mis-
take--it is probably a farce. The
pope has just been through the star
route cases.
Henry Watterson rises to remark
that the reason Chicago has no cy
clones is because she does her own
blowing. He might have added that
the devil usually uses fire.
Roscoe Conkling is announced to
speak at the Minnesota state pumpkin
show in September. What has Mr..
Hayes done that Mr.. Conkling should
thus tread on his corns.
Rev. f. O. Barnes, the "Mountain
Evangelist" who recently converted so
many of the people of Kentucky is
native of that state. This accounts for
his understanding his hearers and
knowing how to reach them.
Annie Louise Cary's husband, G. M.
Raymond, is a wealthy Wall street
broker, native of Connecticut, one of
the founders of the stock exchange,
and middle aged, as is his bride,
A few days before the duke of Edin-
burg's ducking in Carrili Bay, man
who fell into the water at the very spot
was instantly devoured by sharks.
1t is stated by the Cincinnati C3m-
me,cial that the widow and two children
of Andrew Jackson's adopted son, are
living in penury at the Hermitage, in
Tennessee.
Briggs Station, Gail, is the scene of
the latest snake tale, colored man re-
porting that he was chased some dis
lance by a scarlet.topgued monster
twenty feet long.
A letter from Danville, Va, says that
the total amount of breadstuffs shipped
to the Patrick county sufferers since
the LIST of May is about 231, 100 pounds
--rations of bread for about $500 peo-
pie for two months.
The fish factories on the eastern
shore of Maryland, which have been
large sources of revenue to their owenrs
heretofore, are at "stand-still' this
season, on account of the scarcity of
fish.
The side-wheel steamer Pilgrim,
built at John Roach's Chester ship yard
will be launched about the 10th of this
month. She is the largest side wheeler
ever built, and will cost 81, 100000.
The estimated hop yield of Puyalluy
valley, Washington territory, for this
season, is one million pounds. Some
of the hop-growers have bargained
their crops for 20 cents per pound.
At Dallas, Tex, last week, a young