The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-10-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Mr.. julia Ward Howe recently made
her fir~t appearance in New ORR pulpit
al Unity Chapel, Harlem.
MIR. Ernest L0ngi,ll0w. Ion If the
poet. has studio in Boston. where he J.
now engaged Ia painting Maine land
-ape~, from sketches made last summer.
senator sumner has addr. sscd letter
a. hi lecture agent csIuoling hi engage
ment-. The atkicr Of hi- friends j. given
a. hi~ reason. aud lac adtl- = Had this
representation prOcecslsd from few only,
ar had my friends been divided or less
Strenuous. should not. perhaps. have felt
constrained. A. DO now. by their unani-
NOUS Judgment in letrerand conversation,
leaying me No alternative"
1t j. becoming th. rule for most editors
III large pupcr> o. employ the aid of a
stenographrr 20 10 the vast amount Of
writing incident To- such position. such
j. the practic. IT Whitclaw Reid. Charles
A. Dana. Manton Marble. ID. g.. troly.
samuel Bowl,->. John W. FOrney and some
orhrrS- Yet Munt IIalStead. Horace
White AMI Henry Watter-on still do the
bulk ~ their writing each with his own
hand
u New York correspondent of the
Troy TTe,ss thus recall, Motlcys first lite
thu time when Motley came IA thi- city a
psor ami ambitious author. with catch
penny nOvel uuder hi~ arm. looking for a
publisher. The Harper got the book out
anil the writer NJ this had the pleasure Of
selling il behind the counter Of Broad
way bookstore. II was called 'Morton's
Hope. ami like many other hopes. proved
= severe disappointment. such was Mot
lev'- beginning Ina l>,El.-
NJ. ID. Conway. ia rertnt letter from
IOuiou. SAYS. Last year and this. sew
erll female artists. whose work, had been
~ rejected. sent their contributions under
iei-nsd masculine names. and. ia nearly
every ease. thu pictures 20 sent were ac-
crptsi- applaudsd. aui well hung for the
aimir.lti0n "a rh- public. a lady al Rich
Innmd borrowed THE name of a gentleman
81 hey acquaintance. and the pictures sup
posed t0 D. hy him We're sold az a very
large prize. ansi it wa~ only because of a
largely Increased demand on the said gen
tirinau TT Income Tux that the ri-e had 10
De- confessed. and fhe fact made known that
a male name la Eugli-h art j. equal 10 sew
eral hunind pounds
The following item Of information.
frum the Washington CORES pondencc ii
fhe Boston Post. j. puhii~hed: = There j.
Nhf~f rNrlAfiF ANlitnFfIN tNr announcing
tle engagement ~ Lieut.. Fred Grant and
Mir Nifty Cooke daughter Ut III. u.
Cooke. now iu a state III suspense. The
authority + originally that % young
lads iu Chicago, o. whom LIEUT.. Grant
cpuiislri fhe -teret. and 10 has travelled 20
Your correspondent through TWO or three
-"urr~. HE cnuii,iautr kept the secret
uurh -he found that several Others had
iiAeVvi~e. bsen told the ~ainc ia confidence.
~ -ii, now. it -eem-. consider, herself re-
lsas'7i from her promise"
-tscn- Grant viii D. - APRIL y. 1874:
John Bnekinridge wa~ -. Jan IG. 1873:
y. r. Banks. -. Jan. ~. 1873: Henry
WILSON. ~. Feb. lf. l>73: John q. Ere
mour. en. Jam. Fl. ISIS: simon Cameron.
-; IInraiiu SEYMOUR. 81 +: Alex. H.
~-rrheu-. 90. Fed. m. 1873; Caleb Cu-li-
mg. -. JAN Il. 1873: Charles sumner.
-. Jan. 2. ISIS: James g. Blaine +3: OH
vrr T. Morton. 40. Aug. I. 1873: Roscoe
tnnSiiug fI. CIT. a. 1873: Wm. ID. kel-
by 49, April y. 1873: samuel !. Randall.
81. Oct. l>1J. Leonard Meyer. ~. NOV.
i3. l>13: 'ha-. O'Neill. -. March p. 1873:
t'corgr W. Williams. Acknowledgement
United States. "A. Mar'-I q. 1873: Hanil-
Com Fish. >.rr-tary AZ state. ~: y \. !.
trr~well. Po-rma~fer-i ienersil. -. Nov. =.
l>sS. Columbus pelano. Secretary ~ the
Interior -: Rcycnly Johnson. -. May
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