The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1866-03-21

Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
GEN. GRANT has just taken his eldest son
to West Point.
TEsNysoN is engaged upon . new poem, Of
considerable length.
PATTI has just made an engagement to
sing at st. Petersburg, at the rate Of $2,OoO
q night
Fnox $4,000 to 10000 copies of each are
sold of the works of Marian Harland !"
Mrs. Terhune).
SEVEN thousand copies Of Whitier's new
poem. "Snow Bound,' were sold on the day
Of publication.
BY the death Of DR.. Mott, Rev. DR.. Spring
is left sole survivor Of tho original American
Bible Society.
Gov. MoRToN, Of Indiana, arrived in New
York from Paris on the 7th. He is suffer-
ing severely from paralysis.
AT sale Of paintings in New York, on the
was purchased by John b. Johnston for
81 800.
tbs Independent says: "Ncxt to Mr..
Spurgcon, the most effective Gospel preach
err to the masses in England is the Rev. New
man Hail."
ApAuGHrER Of Sir William Herschel, the
English astronomer. was lately converted to
Roman Catholicism through the influence Of
Father Sccchi, of Rome.
NJ. VIcTOR HUao writes to a French pa
per to say that he has read statements that
he is blind and can neither read nor write,
and wishes to contradict them.
JONATHAN II. GREEN, the reformed gam
bier" who was arrested in Cincinnati on
charge of having passed a counterfeit 500
bill, has been honorably acquitted.
GEORGE NJ. BEELER, Secretary Of the In.
diana State Horticultural Society, died on
the 18th. Mr.. Dccler had obtained consid-
cradle reputation as writer on horticul-
ture.
"WHAT would give" said Charles Lamb
"to call my mother back to earth for one
day, to ask her pardon upon my knees, for
all those acts by which gave her gentle
spirit pain"
THE connection of George Alfred Town
send with tho New York Citizen terminated
last week, and the paper will hereafter re-
main under the exclusive charge of Col.
Halpine.
BIsHoP ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, generally
known as founder of the Disciples, or de-
nomination of Christians, and eminent as
theologian, especially as q debater, died at
his residence at Bethany, near Wheeling,
West Virginia, on the night Of the 4th, in
the 18th year Of his age.
DIR. WINDsHIP, who is now thirty-two
years Of age and weighs about ono hundred
and sixty pounds, retains his strength re-
markedly, his lifting power being now up
wards of a ton and quarter, which is, we
believe, about one third greater than that Of
any athlete Of whom any authentic record
is preserved.
In few days L. A. Cooley, the proprietor
Of the Lady's Book, will sail for Europe.
His magazine has been source of pleasure
to our countrywomen for nearly forty years.
1t is the leading ladies' magazine in Ameri-
ca, having a monthly circulation Of upward
of one hundred and twenty thousand
copies.
Mr.. CHARLES HAPGooD, of Chicago, form
erly of Pctcrsham, Mass, started on n
journey around the world, last May, going
overland 10 the Pacific coast with the "Col-
fax party" and thence to the Sandwich Is
lands, Japan and China. lie had reached
Egypt the last of January, and is now in
Europe.
OLD usages of modern slang words turn
up in unex pccted quarters sometimes Most
Of us think that the word 'jOlly," in the
sense Of very, extremely, is Of recent date;
but in q serious theological work of two
hundred years ago-John Traps "Com-
mentary on the Old and New Testaments,n,
(London, 1656-7)-wc read: "All was jolly
quiet at Ephesus before st. Paul came
thlther."
As LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Boss of Him
oils, and friend were driving toward Chi
cago quite late on the Sd inst, they were
assaulted by two highwaymen, two miles
north Of the city limits, one of whom made
for the carriage and the other for the horses
heads. The highwaymen were terribly
shocked and mortified at discovering that
the gentlemen were earned to the teeth.'
Mr.. w. D. HowELLs is about to be en-
trusted with the editorial charge Of the
Atlantic Monthly. For about three years
Mr.. Howells was Consul at Venice, but some
months since he resigned the position. and
since then he has been exclusively occupied
with literature. Several very able articles
from his pen have recently appeared in The
Nation. and one or two in the North American
Quarterly.
Thu publishers of the Round Table are
moving toward urging upon Congress the
adoption of an International Copy right law,
by which every author and publisher may
obtain some return for the sale of their
books in other countries beside their own.
The petition for this object has been signed
by many of the leading writer's, including
Bryant, Holmes, Bayard Taylor, Lowell,
Lohgfellow, Losing, Hillard, Olmsted, SAKE,
Stoddard and Parton.
BENJAMIN franklin left fund TO the CITY
Of Boston, in trust, for the benefit Of poor
apprentices. Hon. VIM. Minot, who has
been treasurer of this fund for fifty five
years, has just resigned. In his hands it
has increased from about $1,000 to q sum
exceeding Sill, 200.
Domestic Paragraph.
Ground was broken for the building Of