Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-24
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President Grevy, OF France, is seri-
ously i'll.
Clark Russell, the successful nov elist.
is son Of Henry Russell the musical
composer of A Life on the Ocesr Wave,
and father and son live together In Lon
don.
Hon. Lorin c. Collins, speaker of the
Illinois house of representatives., has
accepted an invitation to deliver the
address on decoration day at Pontiac,
Ill.
The family of Herr Scholz, the Ger
man minister of finance, have been en-
nobled by the emperor, and they are
now entitled to put Won before the fam
lily name.
Mr. Sohn F. Slater, the donor of $10-
100000 for the education of the freed
men, has lately given $4,000 TO the
Park Congregational church at Nor
WITCH, Conn, where he resides.
Mr.. G. R. Barker, the young checker
player of Boston, has won freeh laurels
by defeating all couaers in remarka-
BILE series of games just played IN New
York. Out of 90 he lost bat three, 20
being drawn.
General Grants mother took deep
interest in public affairs up to the time
of her death. She read the daily pa
pers with great regularity.
A RECENT ettempt to blow up trans
Atlantic steamship has just been made
public. A timely suspicion frustrated
the designs of the FL nds who plotted
tho destruction of the vessel
Elk SENATOR CHAFEE to a Denver re-
porter: Talk business to a Congress-
man and you find him deaf and dumb"
Mrs. Ann " Landstreet, who died in
Baltimore on Sunday, shook hands just
before her death with forty-seven great
grandchildren. She was ninety-two
years old.
Mr.. Ga1feld's SOD Harry has declined
an invitation to deliver memorial ad-
dress at North Adams, Mass, on Deco
ration Day. He is student at Will
Jams college, 10 that town.
Professor Timothy Dwight has COM
pleted the twenty-fifth year of his serv-
ice in the Yale Divinity school. He will
give reception to his old pupils at
New Haven on Thursday.
Captain w. w. Bush, the first man
to volunteer at the time of Mr.. Lin
coins first call for troops, on April Is
1861, has been presented by the people
of Lockport, n. Y, where he lives,
with gold badge in c0mmemoration
of the circumstance.
The Baron de Bonnemains, one of
Marshal McMahon's aides, and Lieu
tenant Weiss, relative of President
Grevy, have settled down on a large
sheep ranch in Montana. They expect
to make money as shepherds and to
nave lots of fun as hunters.
John Pearson, trembling old man,
who has been resident of Forth Smith,
Ark, for forty-three years, claims to
have been the actual inventor of the
revolver patented by Colonel Colt. He
SAYS that liz 1884, while he was working
in Be lumore, Colt hired him to make
experiments, which resulted IL the per-
fected revolver.
Jay Gould abetsins altogether from
LIQUOR. Recently, while he was i'll at the
a. kansas Hot Springs, Colonel Fordyce
advised him to take brandy or whisky,
Dub tOulu 1Ol hiLi w buhV My
Finally by subterfuge, Fordyce per-
suaded him to try a glass of 'rock and
rye" which did him good, and Gould
said that the man who owned the
spring producing the water had for,
tune IN 1t.
D. w. BURTON. reliable clergyman
now at work as a missionary in Liberia,
writes that the colored people can do
much better in America than in the
young African republic. Skilled labor
ers only can find employment there.
& MINISTER MORTON has collected, at
some expense and trouble, complete
sets of the postage stamps of FIance,
under the Empire and the Republic,
and has given them to be placed in the
cornerstone of the Garfield monument
in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland.
The WAsHBURNEs of political note
have caused 10 be erected at south
Livermore, Me-, a building called
Memorial Library Hall" The build
ing will be dedicated during the sum
mer, when Elk Minister Washburn and
his brother are expected to visit South
Livermore.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is entertaining as
a guest at Beauvoir, Miss, George w.
Jones, an ex me- Or general, ex-Repres-
entstive ia Congress and ex United
States Senator. Mr. Jones, whose home
is in Iowa, was college chum of Mr..
Davis and they were together rs young
officers in the Black Hawk war.
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