Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-11-17
PERSONS AND THINGS.

William Black, the novelist, il q
vegetarian.
Moody, the evangelist, is seriously in
in Lincoln.
Jay Gould is 4s years old, and weighs
III pounds.
Marian Harland, the novelist, is
writing history of Virginia.
DR.. Lyman Abbott is writing biog-
raphy of Henry Ward Beecher.
The English Duke of Newcastle has
arrived at Boston, from Liverpool.
Her name is Lillian Langtry. The
ALTERATION is siust too sweet for any
thing"
Herbert Spencer, the English philos-
opher, sailed from New York, Satur-
day, for Liverpool.
President Arthur has been elected
an honorary member of Boston's An
cient and Honorable Artillery.
Ben Buffers plurality is $40.
General B. F. Butler is 64, and is
still in training for the Presidency
Herbert Spencer knows now prob
ably that the American people do have
their way sometimes.
An admirer of General Butler pre-
diets that he will declare for President
Arthur before the expiration of year.
The Massachusetts, Democratic State
Committee has issued oongratulatory
address to the party,
General Thomas O. Osborn, of Chi
cago, United States Minister to Buenes
Ayres, will soon return for his post. He
gave dinner Tuesday at Washington
to the British Minister.
Mr.. Glastones political jubilee will
occur on the 18th of next month, the
Premier having first been returned to
Parliament, as q member of Newark,
on the 18th of December, 1882.
When Mrs. Lsngtry laid down the
papers on the morning after her debut,
she paid this tribute to the New York
critics: won't somebody please tell
me what sort of an actress am?"
The Ottawa (oct.) Fres Prsss prints
report that the Prince of Wales will
come to Canada to preside over the
meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, in Mon
tresl.
Johann Strauss, the waltz composer,
who has been divorced from his second
wife, recently made his last will, one
of the items in which was an appro-
priation of 250,00o for the founuation
of a musical institute. He has no
children.
Rev. DR.. II. NJ. Scudder, of Brook
lyn, has preached is farewell sermon
in that city, last Sunday, and fully one
thousand persons were unable to gain
admission to the church. He will
next Sunday occupy the pulpit OF Ply
mouth Church, Chicago.
The regular monthly lunch of the
New York Sisters of Sorosis was great
ly disturbed by the discovery that a
clock-repairer at work upon a step
ladder was well known to Mrs. Croly,
the president, and the walters were
called on to expel the spy.
Margaret Scott, of Msrtintown, p. c.,
who for three weurs had been almost
helpless from congestion of the spinal
cord, claims to have been restored to
health by the prayers of party OF
ladies at her bedside. Rev. James
McCAul, of Montreal, vouches for the
truth of the story.
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden,
aHd daughter of the Grand Duke of
Baden, has been safely delivered of a
son.
The late Mrs. Seguin, of New York,
who killed herself and her three chill
dren, was in early life q teacher in an
infant school.
The Crown Princess OF Germany,
Queen Victoria's daughter, has arrived
in London.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Clinton Beatty,
who died at his residence in Steuben-
vile, O., last Monday, was probably the
oldest Presbyterian minister in the
country, having been licensed to
preach in January, 1892. In 1929 he
established the Steubenville Female
Seminary. He contributed to public
institutions during his life over $780,
600, and leaves an estate valued ut
$4,000.