Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-21

"a man DdfutQ DfoitSDA W0o ASSSheAJ
los. in the woods in the vicinity of Mar
quette, and it was four days before ne WAS
able 10 ascertain his Whereabouts ana
make his way to human hahi;ationA
in Lawrence, Mass, q few Gays since,
some one threw torpedo into the mouth
of . little girl as she was returning from
school, and the torpedo exploded and lac
Grated her tongue and mouth severely.
A New Hampshire shoemaker and
his wife were both found dead in their
bed, q few mornings ago. An examina.
ton showed that the hn sband had died Of
apoplexy, and the wife of heart disease.
AT Racine, Wis, on the 4th, boy
q gravel into pistol, which,
on firing, burst the barrel, the stone
entering his thigh and severing the
femoral artery, SO that he soon bled to
death.
Two little girls of Geo. Dorst went
into barn at Strawberry Point, Iowa,
a few days ago, and set Gre to some
hav with matches. Both children were
taken from the 'okarred thinkers, burned
to q crisp.
Mrs. Bennett, of Burlington, Iowa,
has recovered $500 damages from the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Compa-
nv for the death of her con Charles, ~
an accident last fall. He was brakeman
on the road.
"A man named Bard, at Eoughkeepsie,
NY on the 4th made his first balloon
ascension, but lost control of the balloon,
which descended rapidly. He escaped I'M
hurt. The balloon again rose, and landed
sixty miles away in Connecticut.
"A fearful ,conflagration occurred at
Manchester, N. H, few days ago. Prop
ertv to the amount Of $25OO0O was de-
stroyed. an area of six acres WAS burned
over, and two hundred families were
thrown out Of their homes.
Personal and Literary.
Emerson end Lowell were the poets
of their classes when at Hsrvard College,
The Queen of Denmark spends an
nually only one hundred dollars for new
dresses.
"A New York paper says young
Ketchum has made nearly S1,OOO,0Go
since anuary /.
The second annual unieD OF the 30
ciety of the Army of the Gulf will be
held at Boston, August B.
Mr.. Woolner, the sculptor, is to exc
cute a bust of Charles Dickens, and has
mask which was cast for the purpose.
Over one thousand subscriptions have
been received from telegraph operators
for memorial statue to Prof. Morse, the
telegraph inventor, to be unveiled on his
eightieth birthday, next April.
John Wheeler, D. D., for twelve years
President Of Baldwin University, Berea,
Ohio. has been elected and accepted the
Presidency of the Iowa Wesleyan Uni
versity.
-Wilson Macdonald has closed con-
tract with the st. Louis Association for
making an equestrian statue Of General
LYON. 1t will be the finest work OF the
kind in the Mississippi valley.
AT recent baptismal service in st.
Pauls Church, Marion, Ohio, the great.
grandfather of the child, all his children
save one that died in infancy, all his
grandchildren, and all his great grand
children were present. The great grand
father, grandfather, father, baby and all,
had the same name, James.
There is some talk of Dickens
memorial volume in London. It's con-
tents will be made up Of descriptions Of
his personal habits and most striking
characteristics; illustrations of his home,
and a selection of articles written for
French, English, and American newspa-
pers on the announcement Of his death.
"A correspondent, in accounting for
Rev. Mrs. Van Colts power as preacher.
says that she is a woman, and many go
from curiosity; and then she prays con-
fidently, breaches like one expecting sue
cess. and, when che il through in the
pulpit, goes into the congregation after
sinners as though she expected them to
yield and seek their Savior at once.