Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-18

Personal and Literary.
Anna A. Pomeroy has been granted a
divorce from her husband, n II.
{" Brick y Pomeroy, and awarded $4,000
alimony.
Prince Bismark's last title is heredi-
tary, but can only be worn by the eldest
SON of the family.
Mrs. Lizzie Watson, who is described
as young widow, intelligent and smart,
has Just been elected Supervisor of Schools
in Pittston, N. II.
Archibald TAFT, of Mendon, Mass,
died, recently, at the age of 76. He was
the father Of nineteen children, and six of
his sons acted as bearers at his funeral.
Major William McDiarmid, a printer
in the Office of the Cincinnati Times, is
ninety years of age, and used to set up
Walter SCOTS poems from the original
manuscript.
Harvard rejoices in four old boys:
Samuel Thatcher, class 1893, now 81 years
old /; Horace Binney, class 1897, 81 years
old, and Willard Hall and 8. d. Parker,
class 1899, youths of 30 and SO respectively.
Three of these have served in Congress
1T has been discovered that the au-
thor Of Goody Two Shoes" renowned
in the juvenile literature of the last cen
tury, was Mr.. Giles Jones, resident Secre-
tary of the York Buildings Water Com
pany, London, and not Oliver Goldsmith,
to whom it had been generally attributed.
The inauguration of the Morse statue
in Central Park, New York city, has been
fixed for the Gath of May, the first tele-
graphic message in America having been
sent on that day, twenty seven years ago,
by Mrs. Ellsworth to Professor Morse
The message Is now in the possession of
the Wadsworth Institute, in Hartford.
Conn, and bears the Endorsement: Sent
May "a, 1874, at 8:45 a. m. (Signed), s.
f. B. Morse" The entire cost Of the
statue, amounting to $1,000, has been
subscribed in sums from ten cents upward,
all received in voluntary contributions
from Professor Morse's admirers.
Incidents and Accidents.
"A little boy, named Becker, was killed
by an ugly sheep, the other day, near Holly,
Mich.
"A little daughter of j. M. Whitmer,
of Portage, Ohio, was scalded to death
few days since.
"A little child of John Berger, of Evans
vile, Ind, fell into kettle of boiling
soap, the other day, and was severely
burned.
"A little daughter Of Christopher
Grimshaw, Of Milwaukee, slipped the
other day, while skipping, and broke her
thigh.
I'm Cincinnati, few days ago, boy
named VIM. Stole, fell from the fourth
story Of building in course Of erection,
and was instantly killed.
Minnie Dawson, a little girl of
Bloomington, Ill, was recently severely
scalded by falling into tub of boiling
water.
"A Virginia youth, watching the per
formances at a circus, had one OF his eyes
put out by a small stone thrown from the
hoof of horse.
Mrs Conner, wife Of the Hon. w. W.
Conner, of Hamilton County, Ind, died
the other night from the effect Of a dose of
morphine, taken by her in mistake for
quinine to relieve chilly feeling.
"A young fellow chopping wood near
Salem, Oregon, accidentally unearthed
pile Of gold coins, worth in all $500.
Most of them bore old dates, and they had
evidently been in the ground long time.
"A young Chicago woman named
Eliza Vase was taking kettle from the
kitchen stove. few evenings ago, when
her clothes caught fire from the flames in
the stove, and she was terribly, and it was
feared fatally, burned.
Miss Augusta Collier, of Waukesha,
Wis, was terribly burned on the face,
hands, and breast by kerosene, which was
thrown on her person by the breaking
of a Jug, while her father was filling a
lamp, few evenings ago. 1t was thought
she would survive her injuries.
The Madison wis Journal says: "a
man residing in Pierce County, ate seven
teen hard boiled eggs thereby winning
wager of $3.50. That amount deducted
from his doctors bill Of $37, still leaves
him in arrears $34.5O."
"A little girl of Springfield, Ill.,, named
Emma Broden, dropped an ignited match
into a package containing quantity OF
powder. An explosion ensued, and the
place looked as If it had been struck by
lightning. The girl was dangerously
burned.
An insane woman rushed into a school
room in Richmond, Va, a few days ago,
and told the atfrighted teacher that she
had been sent to teach the children gym
nastics; and, the teacher being afraid to
object, she put the children through
series of the most extravagant antics, alter
which she quietly departed.
"A dentist is on trial in Lockport, N. Y,
on suit for damages for injuries done boy
ten years of age by the use of laughing
gas. 1t is charged that he gave assurance
that the gas, which was administered in
January, was harmless, and that on the
contrary, since that time the boy has suf-
fered from fits and kind Of dementia, as
direct consequence of its use.
"A few days ago, Winfield Clark, q
young man who resides at New Provi-
dence, Ind, in attempting to light match
over or near an open. keg containing sew
eral pounds of powder, dropped spark
into the explosive mass, which ignited it
and caused most terrible explosion,
tearing the keg into fragments, knocking
everything near topsy- turvy, and SO ser-
ously injuring Mr.. Clark that his life was
despaired Of
-One day recently farmer in Page
County, Iowa, returned home from Clarin-
da, where he had been making purchases,
among which w0a n bOx of matche0