Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Pere Hyacinthe is coming to Amer
lea in August, and Will lecture.
/ Of the bishops of the Church of
England three are over so and nine
over 90 years of age.
/ Henry Irving, the English actor,
/ does not want to be a knight. It's
case of Jack and his supper.
Mr.. William L. Scott has presented
a Catholic church in Erie, Pa, with a
chime of bells costing $4,000.
7 General Sherman is to be at Bar
Harbor Mount Desert, Me-, with his
family, about the first of next month.
John Boyle O'Reilly is on his way
to Long Island Sound, coming down
/ the Connecticut river in a canoe
Jefferson Davis regards Southern
pine trees and Northern dollars as
having a natural affinity for each
1 other.
John Kelly, the Tammany chief, is
said to be worth $4,000, ,000 1t pays
well to be political boss in New
York.
4 Lord Coleridge, who is coming to
this country, will be given banquet
by the New York Union League Club
in September.
Rosa Bonheur is in the 61st year of
! her age, paints incessantly, and still
! dresses in male attire while at work in
/ her studio.
Mrs. Don Cameron has written to
friends in Washington that the SEN
ator does not expect to return home
until the summer of 1885.
The Rev. Thomas Vickers, profess
or of history in the Cincinnati uni
versity, has applied for divorce from
his wife, on the ground of desertion.
Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt is 3 surpris-
ingly good whip, and handles the
ribbons with a degree of grace and
dexterity that is quite unusual with
| the fair sex.
Mrs. Morris, the widow of Com
mander Morris, of the United States
navy, has purchased very pretty cot
tage on Rhode Island avenue, New
port, for about $40, 900.
1t is rumored in Washington that
Mr.. Marble, the Commissioner of
Patents, is about to resign. DR.. R. G.
Dyrenfurth, of Chicago, the present
Assistant Commissioner, is spoken OF
as Mr.. Marbles probable successor.
1t is stated that Charles O'Conor,
the aged lawyer of New York, is an
/ inveterate and industrious collector of
literature relating to love and the fair
sex. 1t is stated that he has several
thousand volumes of such books.
! Discussion having rearisen as 10
Mr. Tilden's age. it is settled by
reference to the American Cclopedia,
which says he was born in New Le-
banon, Columbia county, n. Y, on
February 9, 1914. He is, therefore, in
his 10th year.
! Ex-senator Wallace, of Pennsylva
MIA, is said to aspire to the democratic
nomination to the presidency During
the time he has been in private life he
has rebuilt his fortune and is now
thought to be worth So, 600, 900.
The patrons of Saratoga are com
| bining solid attractions with their
| pleasures this summer. They are to
have, bosides a season of grand opera,
a school for the study of languages,
and series of lectures from distin-
guished persons
Chief Justice Waite has returned to
| Toledo, O., from his unfinished trip
with General Sherman. He is still
suffering from injuries received by
being thrown from horse in Mon
tana, and fears that rio is fractured
He is on his way to Connecticut.
Ex-Governor Hartman, of New
Hampshire, who has Just been stricken
with paralysis, was a Universallst
preacher before the war, and gave up
his church to command a regiment in
the army of the Potomac. He used to
be considered the ablest stump speaker
in the state.
The name of Abraham Reucher,
who died in North Carulina. on the
9th of July. at the age of IS, will be
new to the most of our readers, but he
had been member of congress, min
ister to Portugal and governor of
New Mexico, and President Buchanan
offered him the secretaryship of the
navy.
The Hon Thomas Swami, Mayor
of Baltimore, Ex-Governor of Mary
land, and ex-member of congress, is
lying dangerously i'll at his summer
residence. Morven, four miles from
Leesburg, Va He is over so years of
age and his health has entirely broken
down.
A sensation has Deen created in
Vienna by the announcement that
the great financier, Baron Wodianer,
is engaged to marry his housekeeper
From the point of wealth and in
f1uence the Baron is second only to
the Rothschilds.
NJ Waddington, the new French
Ambassador to England, is himself
English in name, descent and educa-
ton. His paternal ancestor was an
English hotelkeeper at Brighton, and
in his day aided the flight of Charles
Ii. to France and was awarded a pen
sion.
Mrs. Nevins, once so popular as a
ballad and oratorio singer throughout
the United States, Is at Richfield
Springs. n Y 1t was of her soft,
rich voice that the celebrated Lucre-
tia Mott once gave SO quaint yet ex-
pressive criticism by saying: Il can
understand thee. and thee does not
scream
The Earl of Carnarvon will sail for
Canada August % Lord Carnarvon
was Secretary for the Colonies during
Lord Beaconsfield's administration,
and in that capacity prepared the
agreement between Canada and Brit
ish Columbia known as the ''Carnar-
Won terms. Lady Carnarvon will
accompany him.
Consul Pakenham, whose death un-
der painful circumstances was de-
scribed by Mr. Gladstone in the House
of Commons recently, had been for
twenty-one years British Consul at
Tamatave. Only few weeks have
elapsed since he was gazetted Consul
General at Odessa, and it is therefore
impossible that he could have heard
of his promotion at the time of his
death.
Lord William Beresford, whose
plucky but daredevil exploits ON the
field of battle and in sport are noto-
rious throughout India. has again
broken his collar-bone in two places
1t is difficult to believe that two sound
places could have been found in his
collar-bone, as this is the fourth time
in as many months that he has met
with a similar accident