Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-01-17
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Matt Quay, the Philadelphia boss
4 politician, is candidate for United
I States senator
Henry Watterson and his wife have
gone to Washington, to stay there and
ia New York until June.
Monsignor Capel offers to deliver
two lectures in New York for the
benefit of the families of the lost
Gloucester fishermen
EX-COngresSman jay Huh5ell says
he is out of politics for all time, His
time is now given to his stock farm in
Nebraska.
Mr.. Henry Willard cannot sleep.
Several investors who know him don't
sleep very sound.
Ike Murphy, the negro horse jockey,
is said TO be worth 500, 600, aud is the
richest jocky in this country.
Edward Backus, who failed at Chica-
90 eight years ago aud went to Brazil,
has returned and paid his debts
Cardinal McClosky's golden jubilee
fund, for the erection of marble
pulpit in the Cathedral in New 70 rk,
amounts TO $40, 600.
Andrew Jackson was great, but
not a fair minded man. He put two
is in reference and allowed only
one for difficulty
Cardinal Newman entered the Ro-
man Catholic church VIXEN he was ij
years old, and Cardinal Manning was
a clergyman of the English church
until he was a.
Barnum estimates his fortune at
$4,000, 600, but the genius who has
devoted forty or fifty years of his life
to circus posters and advertisements
is perhaps given a little to eXaggera-
ton
ExCongressman, Rev. j. Hyatt
Smith has resumed preaching lie is
now the officiating politician Of the
East Congregational church in Brook
lyn, a rival to the establishment to
which he was attached before going to
Congress.
DIR. Lucy M. Hall has declined the
position of Superintendent of the
Massachusetts Woman's Reformatory
Institution as successor to Miss Clara
Barton.
1t was remarked in Philadelphia, on
Saturday, that Secretary Robert 7.
Lincoln, who then paid that city a
short visit, was looking unusually
thin and careworn
Mrs. r. d. +. N Southworth, who
has written so many narrowing love
tales, is a tail, spare woman, with e
sad, grave face, and gray hair. She
al ways dresses in black.
The little Tellers aud Lincolns are
down with measles in Washington.
Nellie Arthur is dreadfully afraid she
will catch EN-. y
President Elliot, when called upon
for an epitaph for Peter Cooper's
monument, sent back: "An honest
successful, kind and generous man"
Janauschek declined to act at New
Haven Saturday night until the man
ager took in an offer of gallery seats
at twenty-five cents, and raised the
price to fifty cents.
Relic hunters have chopped John
G. Calhoun's tomb to pieces and car
ried off the bits, aud the South Caro-
lima legislature recently had to APP
propriate money for another
The Crown Prince of Germany has
sent Mime. Lucca, the singer an oil
portrait of himself dressed as q Sles-
ian Cuirassier In a letter he thanks
Nine Lucca for her performances in
Berlin.
Mr. Charles Delmonico, the res
tauranteur OF New York, left his
home Saturday, and has not been
heard of since He has not been in
the best of health, and his friend,
fear for his safety
Henry George, the Socialastic wri
ter, and author OF Progress and Pow
erty, on arriving in London from
New York, was welcomed by an as
semblage Of fifteen hundred working.
men, to whom he expressed hi
thanks.
The life-size portrait Of Miss Jenni,
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which was ordered by the Prince o
Wales, has been placed in the Mari
borough House. The Chamberlain
family are about TO visit the Duchess
of Edinburgh
Senator James G. Fair, made thu
San Francisco Boys and Girls Aid
Society a Christmas present Of s., 900
James G.. Flood gave 81 900 each tc
the San Francisco Roman Catholi,
Female Orphan Asylum and the St
Vincent Orphan Asylum Of San Raj
ael, Cal
Nilsson was presented with pal
of wooden slippers on Christmas
which so awoke this tender recollec
tions OF her girlhood that she she,
tears, so it is reported
At meeting Of Liberal students o
ST. Andrews University at GLASGOW
Scotland. recently, much regret wa
expressed at the retirement Of Mr.
James Russell Lo we'll from the rector
ship.
Mr.. John Mccullough, the actor
saws there seems to be a growing in