Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-07-12
BRIFF ITEMS.

EnOch Pratt ADDS money glll Oh
more than $500, 600 to the free library
in Baltimore.
Mrs. Katharine Chase, formerly
Mrs. Governor Sprague, has gone to
Europe for the Summer
Mr. Corcoran proposes to erect a
monument TO Major L'Enfant, who
originally laid out the city Of Wash
ington.
State superintendent of Public In
st1uction Raab and Congressman }.
+ r. Thomas. Of Illinois, are in Wash
ington.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg has Sc
lected "a cottage on the mountain side
at New Hartford, Conn, and Will
spend the Summer there.
Lord Randolph Churchill now has
his house in London lighted through
out by electricity, supplied by small
gas engine in the cellar.
/ Queen Victoria has granted pen
sion of ESQ per annum to Lady Pal
User, widow Of Major Sir William
Pallser, G. B., the inventor OF the
/ Palliser gun and Of many improve
ments connected with projectiles.
Lyman Beecher the father of Henry
/ Ward. was a minister of the gospel
for fiftv-four years. He died IN his
/ 18th year The family IS long-llved,
and Mr. Beecher at 20 can be still de
pended On for years Of active work.
At one of the Boston Catholic
churches. wherein collection was
taken for the pope, the officiating
priest is reported to have SAID II
YOU have and hard feeling towap. the
pope. | hope you'll show your christ
ian spirit by forgiying him to-day.
General Sherman's eldest son, who
has for five years been studying for
the Jesuit priesthood, will soon leave
. Woodstock. Md, where he has been
for some time. and after visiting his
mother will go to teach in the western
province to which he belongs.
General John A. Logan is bound
that his family shall be military, His
son-in-law is now major in the
army. on paymaster duty, and has
/ only son-Mannlng-has just passed
a successful examination for entrance
into the United States Military Acad-
envy at West Point.
The Supreme Court of Missouri, ON
am agreed case, has decided that the
/ Downing High License law is constl-
tutionaI. and that it applies to st.
Louis This viii force the saloons to
pay 81 600 per annum for the privil-
eye of doing business.
Republicans members of the Massa
chuSetts Legislature decided Tuesday
To hold six more sessions of the Tewks-
bury investigation, make report, and
adjourn by July 81 They will also
ask the Supreme Courts opinion
whether they can legally adjourn
without the Governors consent
An Independent State convention
was held at jackson, Miss. with Reu
ben Davis a Confederate Brigadiei
and Congressman, in the char The
first plank in the Platforms for free
ballot and a fair count andthe fourtf
demands legislative supervision o
railroads About thirty-tive counties
We're represented.
1t is reported from Washington tina
Lolita, the actress, was recently man
ried in that city to O. Edwin Huss,
Young Englishman who is a gradual
of the United States Naval Academ
! at Annapolis. 1t was he who save
Lolita from drowning IN Lake Georg
two or three years ago.
A wholesome Virginia law require
that any person elected or appomte
TO any post or Office under the laws {
the Commonwealth shall, before h
- acts in such office, take the ANTIQUE
l. inc oath. As Elan, one of the tw
u journalists who recently fought du,
is also Secretary of State, he woul
seem to be in something of a plight
n An elaborate farewell dinner WI
q piven in London to Henry Irving Il
O. actor. in which 600 representati'
f men participated Lord Chief Justi
d Coleridge paid high tribute to Il
% profession of the actor and said En-
,e land owed Irving debt for his pl
Ii sentation of Shakespeare. Mr.. lryn
n and his company Will sall FOR II
r. country October TO-
pa John Annoy Knox, of the Tex
HS OtIIlllHN. anu ifoN w - 49, 80
~ sculptor of New York, will fight
N duel if not interfered with The qua
IN rel occurred at a dinner given by t
N former to some friends in New Aol
ne the sculptor remarking that Texas v
n. a lawless and depraved commonwealt
be to which the funny editor traglca
ar replied, You lie.
is Nine. Jenny Lind Goldschmldt "a
)u She finds life in London ON the VIII,
ld rather dull, and her duties as teacl
or i'm the new Royal College of Mu
p neither onerouS nor exciting, but VI
nd wearisome. She thinks London Is
Ia place that never changes, and agr
Is with her old friend Sir Juliues Be
ea dict. in looking upon the bulk OF m
m ern music-except Gouuod's-as ira
to The most disappointed person IN
Union is Mrs. Myra Clark Gain
who. after years Of litigation, secu
a verdict of 5000, 600 against the {
of New Orleans. only to witness p
y. ment postponed for another long tn
it wears. until the verdict can Toe revl
a2c. ed in the Supreme Court OF the I'm