Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-10
Gleaniugs.
John Mccullough is 46 years old.


The wife of General Diaz is 10 years
old, but wears her high honore grace
fully.
John w. Foster, United States Min
lister 10 Span, expects TO leave for his
post on May 10.
General Joseph r. Hawley has been.
invited to deliver the decoration day
address, in Brooklyn, n. Y.
The military order of the Loyal
Legion in New York has received Gen
eral Grant into membership by a trans
fer from Illinois.
Theodore Tilton's hair is growing
grayer and grayer, and he wears 1t long
so that he resembles Henry Ward
Beecher more than ever.
1t is said that Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife
of the railroad magnste, will accom-
pany her husband on his Euro
pean trip. The party will sail Saturday
Mr.. Thomas Smith, who since 1860
has been President of the Bank of
North America, in Philadelphia, has
resigned on account of failing health.
Lord Wolseley presided at the an
nual dinner of the Royal Literary Fand.
inLondon, and Minister Lowell respond
ed when the United States was toaste
Naval cadets w. II. Woolfersberger,
of Illinois, and George l.. Dille,of Iowa,
are about 10 tender designations to the
secretary of the navy on account of
color. blindness.
G. d. O'Arien, Democrat, was elected
mayor of st. Paul, Mimi, Tuesday,
without opposition.
The friends of Governor Sherman, of
Iowa, think he has sure thing for a
reelection next fall.
The President has appointed the fol-
lowing Postmasters Robert 0. Beebe,
Paw Paw, Mich; Edmund S. Rowland,
Republic, Mich; Amelia A. Palmer,
Saint Mary, Kan.
G. w. Couldock, the veteran actor.
now in his sixty fourth year, will sail
for England on June 5, to visit two sis
tiers, one of whom be has not seen for
forty years. He will be absent eight or
ten weeks.
Nine. Nilsson, having reached Lon
don, has begun legal proceeding against
eye and the Covent Garden Opera COM
pany. Abbey says he knows Nilsson in
tends to sing at his new house next sea-
son.
The report that the Hon. Randolph
Tucker, o Virginia, was dangerously
i'll in New York, is erroneous. His
brother, Beverly Tucker, has been quite
i'll at tine New York hotel Tor six weeks
with rheumatic govt, but is now conva-
lescent.
Mrs. Tabor, the wife of the ex. sena-
tor of Colorado, confided to q friend the
other day that "neither the famed pal
aces of the California bonanzas nor the
mansions Of the Stewards and Wander
bits should be so fine rs the house her
husband will build"
The town of Erfurt has already col
lected 10000 marks toward Luther
monument to be erected there on the
occasion of the fourth centenary of the
great Reformer's birth, on November
10 next. 1t was at Erfurt that Dr. Mar
tin Luther received his education.
Marshall MacMahon was present at
the late reception of M, Perraud. He
is still erect and retains his fresh COM
plexion. But age is telling upon him.
He was stimulated for awhile by the
salutations of old friends, and then he
folded his arms on his chest and drop
ped asleep.
There is an island somewhere to the
east of Sardinia to be bought, all except
the port, which is the property of KING
Humbert. The rest is for sale, the
price being $50 900, and the purchaser
will be permitted if il suits his caprice,
TO assume the name, style, and title of
king.
Charles r. Miller, the new editor in
chief of the New York Times, is men
toned in The Boston Post as Dart
mouth graduate, very bright fellow, q
logical and brilliant writer and horri-
BILE penman."
Mrs. George III. Pendletop, whose
husband is again attracting attention as
a presidential candidate, is of Puritan
origin, her earliest Maryland ancestor,
Edward Lloyd, having been forced out
of Virginia in 1860 for incouformity.
A third party is being talked of in
Canada, the aims of which are the abo-
lition of separate schools and of the
French language in Parliament. 1t is
proposed to christen in the Protestant
party.
The Orangemen (aJIti Catholic Irish
men) OF Lower Canada intend to form
new political party whose platform
viii include no separate schools and
abolition Of the use of French in Par
lament.
Mr.. Lareau, Liberal candidate for
Bonville county, Canada, at the last
election, has obtained a judgment Of
$500 and cost against La Minerve, of
Montreal, for stating that he was
Free Mason, in order to prevent the
Roman Catholics from voting for him.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution Dem
ocrst) says Of Governor Mcdaniel: He
has broad views, in spite of the asser.
tons of the reaetionists to the contrary;