Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-06-14
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w. II. Vanderbilt is already on his
way home frem Europe.
There is rumor that Potter Palmer
contemplstes retiring from active busi-
ness soon.
Secretary Folger, who has been visit
ing his home at Seneca, N. Y, has re
turned to Washington.
John Russell Young, U. S. minister
TO China, is collecting material for a
work on that country.
Miss Mary Crowel won the literary
esssY prize at the Vanderbilt university
4 at Nashville over 12l males.
Mr.. Childs, Yale's first basemap,
hos played twelve games this year
without an error, putting out 125 men.
Ex-senator Window. wac does not
propose to abandon the field of politics,
will henceforth. with his family, reside
in Minnesota.
?. T. Barnum, who is 70, is re-
markable example of the robust,
hearty and well-preserved old man. He
gets about as lively as boy OF Is.
Rumor has it that Gen. Sherman's
youngest daughter, Miss Rachel, is be-
trothed to Ex-secretary Blaines second
son, Mr.. Enmons Blaine.
Mrs. Garfield and her children, Miss
Mollie and Irwin and Abraham, will go
to the farm at Mentor this week, where
they will spend the summer.
Hosea Webster. President of the
Brooklyn Savings Bank, and one of the
Oldest residents of Brooklyn, is dead,
aged "a years.
Congressman w. D. Kelley, of Phila-
delphia, who had an operation for can
has sailed for Europe.
Congressman Robert +. Hit will de-
liver a Foul th-of-July Grafton at Peca-
tonica, Winnebago county, Ill. He Is
now at his home at Mount Morris, III,
General Grant arrived in Washington
s quite unexpectedly yesterday after
noon, and, instead of going to any of
his friends, went to the Arlington.
The Marquis of Dansdowne, the new
Governor General of the Dominion of
Canada, is expected to reach Oftowa,
the capital, on the 18th of October
next.
A reception and banquet were ten
dered the Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor and members of the Michigan
Legislature last evening, by the citizens
of Lansing.
\ Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell is to sell
4 her pictures and works of art by auc-
ton, at New York. She has go neglect
ed her private affairs as to cause re-
duction of her income.
William Stuart Gladstone, nephew
of England's Premier, is stopping for
few days in New York, en- route for the
West, where he is going on pleasure
trip with his wife and child.
The Dublin journals mention with
4 pride that President Arthur, who, they
say, is an admirable judge of wine, gets
n his sherry from the Irish capital.
n Congressman ]. Willis Menard, a
Creole, and the first colored man who
sat in the National Legislature, is now
proprietor and editor of the Key West
4 News.
A Mexican lady of rank, now visit
i ing st. Louis, has hair two and half
yards long. She wears it in Two braids,
and has page to carry the ends as he
would train.
Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachu-
sets, has brother who lives in tree
in California, and eats fruits and nuts.
A failure to establish veget9 rian COL
ony made him insane.
Mr.. Charles Sprague Pearce, the Bos-
ton artist who has received the medal
of the Paris Exhibition, is less than 30
!. years old, and is almost an invalid be-
cause of weak lungs.
The Duke of Edinburg was given
H E12, 900 10 go to Moscow with, to rep
resent England at the coronation. He
is said to have the faculty of Voltaire
/ of saving three-fifths of his perquis.
I ties.
More than 1000 members of the
Dickinson family, from all parts of the
Union, are expected to be present at
the Dickinson family reunion, al Am
+ herst, Mass, on August and 9.
Frederick Douglass writes to the New
+ York Globe that he never talked with
Nh. Arthur about the coming race con-
1 vention in Louisville and that thepres-
lueuL LAS NOV SOuBut W hSuuic III VIC
| matter.
Generals Buford, Whitaker, Walker
l ank Thomas II. Taylor, four veterans
of the Mexican war, were present at
the unveiling OF the monument to
| General Zachary Taylor at Louisville
few days ago.
/ The Rev. DR.. John Brown, who
served FOR sixty-three years as rector Of
st. Georges church at Newburg, n. Y,
\ is the latest man to be put forward as
the coolest Mason" He has been a
Y member of Hiram lodge at Newburg
for sixty-six years.
| Mile. Marie Litta, the opera singer,
mas arrived at her home in Blooming
ton, H., in very critical condition,
and fears that she may not recover are
l freely expressed. Litta was taken sick
l at Negaunee, Mich, while on concert
.our, May 10, and has since been in the
care of her sister.
Oaeen Victoria is reported to have