Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-11-20
Personal and Literary.

Cough has lectured Boston $40
times.
--Bcecher begins to wear "the look of a
tired worker"
"A daughter of General Rosecrans has
become nun.
"A. T.. Stewart will employ no one
that smokes or carries matches in his
pocket.
joaquin Mller's matrimonial en-
gagement in England, is said to be brok-
en- off.
Mrs. Sinclair, wife Of the tragedian
Forrest, Is living at Staten Island, N. T.,
in good style.
An Iowa exchange suggests that
Stokes ought to apply for new trial and
get clear altogether.
The Rev. Mr.. Toothacrc has been ex-
tracted from the passionate of q Congrega-
tional church In Maine.
Lydia Sherman, the female poisoner,
is the only woman occupant of the Con-
necticut State Prison at Wethersfeld.
The latest important information con-
corning Bradlaugh, Is that before lee
turing he invariably charges his stockings
with birthstone
Laura Fair read poem on sclfcul'
ture, in San Francisco, the other evening.
She is well qualified to teach the young
idea how to shoot
M. Loyson has been Father a long
time, but now Mrs Loyson Is a mother,
and the young Hyacinthe is a charming
little bud of promise.
An American aeronaut named Wells,
is announced for balloon trip from vi
emma to the United States by way of Asia
and the Pacific Ocean.
John Hays prospective father
in-law is worth four millions, and 1t is
feared Johns fate will tempt other men
to perpetrate dialect poetry.
David Styles got through being the
oldest man in the Northwest at Dubuque,
the otner day, aged one hundred and
seven years and four months.
Senator Sprague is broken down in
health as we'll as in fortune. For some
time past the responsibility of providing
for the Indebtedness of the firm has de-
volved solely upon his brother.
Prof. James Allen, of Providence, is
under an engagement to make balloon as
tensions in California from the first of
December TO the first Of May. After that
ent.
Ida Isaacs Menken does not seem to
have been the only wife of Heenan, the
pugilist. Since his death Mrs. Sara
Stephens Heenan, who was an actress ut
Wallack's fifteen years ago, has turned up
at London, and is on her wayto this coun-
try to claim his estate.
Mast having been running tilt at
the Herald, that paper has satirically
started penny subscription for an appro-
pirate reward of merit for him, and now
the papers gravely announce that MAST,
the artist, is in destitute circumstances,
and relief fund for him has been opened
in New York;
| The richest man in Maine is ex-Gov-
ernor Coburn, Of Augusta, who has several
eral million dollars 'salted down." most
of which he has made in the numbering
business. He is now over seventy, and a
bachelor, and rumor says that he will
leave million of his property to Colby
| University, which has already received
several requests from him.
| DIR. Strauss, author of the "Life of Je.
sus," writes to the editor of the Gege.odrt,
OF Berlin "Since last spring have suf
fered from q disease for which have
sought cure at Carlsbad in yain-a dis
ease which physicians have declared in.
clrable, and which has compelled me this
long time to cease my literary labors,
without the hope of ever being able to re-
sumo them"
The Saturday Reuieao pronounces its
critical judgment Of Mr.. Stewards postum
nous book, Travels Round the World
thus: IF we had expected less from the