Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-02-08
BRIEF ITEMS.

General Lew Wallace, the American
Minister TO Turkey, is said to occasion Il
great deal Of jesiously..in the diplomatic
corps at Constantinople
Col. Robert G. Ingersol gave al in
tertainment in honor of the leading
members of the Boston Ideal opera
troupe, at the close of their engagement
of two weeks in Washington.
Miss Sargent, daughter of ex-senator
Sargent, OF California, now American
minister at Berlin, is reported engaged
to az officer attached to the troops that
do service in the German Emperor g
palace.
Father Martineau, a Roman Catho-
lie priest in Montreal, is waking up the
churches Of that city on the temper
ance question, and has obtained, in a
very snort time, six thousand pledges
to total abstinence.
Mrs. Lsngtry does not return to Eng
land in the spring, as originally intend
ed, but will remain in this country in
definitely. She is anxious to purchase
A new and original play. She is now
in New Orleans.
Julian Hawthorn, the noevlist, son of
the famous Nathaniel Hawthorn, in
about 80 years ofage, looks more like an
Englishman than a Yankee, and is de-
scribed as a very handsome man, with
a refined, cultivated, well bred air.
Prince Jerome (Plon.Plon), in an au
thcsra ph letter, thanks the sx.Empress
Eugene for visit. She replies, stating
that in future she would have nothing
to do with politics, and invited the
Prince to visit her when he regained
his freedom.
Louis Rosseley, who died near Cleve-
land, Ohio, few days ago at the age of
about one hundred years, was in most
of Napolean's battles and received a
wound at Waterloo.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louisiana.
is such firm believer in the beet sugar
industry that he has been in Maine buy
ing machinery for a beet-root factory on
his plantation.
The Chicago correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier Journal says he
learns from an entirely trustworthy au-
thority that Mrs. Langtry's age is
thirty
The Hon. Charles w. Stone, the re-
firing lieutenant governor of Pennsyl-
yania, was last week presented by the
state senate with a handsome gold
watch and chain valued at $500.
By the will of relative who died in
England recently, Mrs, Mary A.
Barnes, a poor but worthy lady of
Watseka, H., has come into possession
of So, 900. Her brother receives
similar amount.
In Boston they speak of Gen. Ha-
zen, the chief of the United States sig
nal service at Washington as "Old In
dicator," instead of "Old Prob" the
appellation that was applied to his pre-.
decessor, the late Gen. Myer.
Rev. William Gottlieb ScLaufler
died in New York one day last week.
He was noted for his linguistic attain
meuts, being master of nineteen Ian
guages, and also to preach extempora-
neously in six. He was born in 179S
at Stuttgart.
John Gilbert, the actor, who so mar
rowly escaped from the Newhall house
fire, was told yesterday for the first
time of his wife's fate, and his mental
suffering at the news was pictured in
his face. He sat immovable for
while, and then his frame shook with
emotion.
The English postmaster general, Mr..
Fawcett, is totally blind, and Mr.. Geo.
Richardson, who has recently been APP
pointed receiver and accountant gen
eral to the British postoffice depart.
ment, is totally deaf. But in the ad-
miralty there is an official who is both
deaf and dumb.
James A. Grinstead, of Lexington
KY, was quite prominent on the turf
from Saratoga last season. He was
known as the "Bentinck of the Ken
lucky turf" having become noted on
the race-track nearly forty years ego.
He died last week.
1t is rumored that Miss Alice Blaine,
the daughter of the ex-senator, will en-
ter the Roman Catholic church soon,
as Colonel Coppingor, whom she is
aNOh" ~ AidlI y, 10 ~ NOulLnttitCdllb vi
that church. He is the son of an Irish
nobleman, is % years the senior of
Miss Blaine, tall and handsome look
ing.
The third Cincinnati opera festival
was inaugurated last night, with Patti
in "Travitia. The audience mum
bered between 5000 and 5000. Nine.
Patti as Vio,etta made such marvel
Gus success before the vast and brill
liant audience, both by her acting and
her singing, that it overshad0wed ali
other features.
Miss Emma WiXom, otherwise Mile.
Nevada, this year receives $1,000 per
month for singing in opera in Paris.
Next year her contract calls for
Sl100 per month, and in the fol-
lowing year 81 200 per month. BY the
expiration of her present contract she
will thus have earned $50, 600 at the
Opera Comiquc. Then she will come
home to America to make some more.
Sergeant Boston Corbett, the man
who killed the assassin of President
Lincoln, is living in Kansas, engaged
10 the cattle business He has become