Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-25

Personal and Literary.


Mrs. Bailey, wife of the Danbury
Neps man, is suffering from a slightstroke
Of paralysis.
The late DR.. John Todd left all Of bis
property to his wife, believing that she has
the interest Of all the children equally at
heart.
George Cary Egglcston, editor OF
Hearth and Home, draws salary OF "a ,0oo
year, and Mary Mapes Dodge, assistant
editor, $1,000.
The Golden Age says there are not two
more habitual readers Of poetry I'D inc
United States than Charles O'Conor ana
Benjamin +. Butler.
"A gentleman Of Utica, N. L., has
manuscript copy of the four Gospels, ID
the Armenian language, which was VIII
ten nearly $50 years ago.
--"Aftermaih" is the title Mr.. Long.
fellow has chosen for his new volume OF
poems. He has recently visited Whittier
in company with Mr.. Sumner.
Mrs Wilkes, an English lady Of rare
learning and attainments has in the press
a learned and curious work, urging the
affinity Of the Hebrew and Celtic races.
Kate Field has announced her deter
mination to climb the Pyrenees. Unless
she proceeds very carefully she is like to
complain Of frey knees before she has
reached the top.
"A writer in the London Ouarterly has
theory that no poetry can live long
which is not born in the open air. The
poetry of the study is delicate and per
ishablc commodity.
Walt Whitman is recovering, and
hopes 10 be able to do lots Of literary work
vet. He has proved altogether too much
for the critics, and may leave the paraly-
sis in the larch, as he never takes medi-
cine.
The Boston 1doertiser says that Colo
mel j. H. Dcvereux, the new President OF
the Atlantic 81 Great Western Railroad,
received 100000 as bonus for taking
the office, and an annual salary Of 500, 900
besides.
Herbert Graves, an engineer on the
Long Island Railroad who let his engine
get out Of water, and then fed 10 escape
the explosion, not long since, has been
heard from in Colorado, where he is run
ming an engine on the Pacific Railroad
Jerome Il. Stillson, the managing
editor Of the New York Wortd and sue
cessor Of David G.. Croly, is reported TO
have $500 a year, while the editorial
writers, Ivory Chamberlain, VIM. ii. Hurl-
hurt and Henry G.. Schuyler have, the first
$1,000 and the other two $1,000.
The New York Euening Post says:
"We learn from the best authority that the
amount paid to the heirs Of William II.
Seward for the copyright Of the first six
months of his Travels Round the World
was Sal ,464 The second six months be
gan on the LIST of August, and the sale Of
the work continues as constant and as
large as before"
OF Horace Gray, the newly-appointcd
ChiefJusticc of Massachusetts, The Spring
field Republican says: Judge Gray is Of
robust character morally, intellectually,
and physically; is learned in the law, and
is deeply imbued with the traditions of
the Massachusetts, judiciary, and will
maintain ITS standard of ability and in
tegrity with jealous care"
The Brahma Somaj, the sect Of Hin
doc Rationalsts, have an English daily
paper called the Indiaa MiyT0r. But no
paper is issued on Monday, in order to
save the printers from labor on Sunday.
The Sunday edition is of double size.
This IL a step towards the religious
Observance OF Sunday that some of our
good Christians would hardly take.
1.-THE BigeIow Papers," written by
James Russell Lowell about 1916, are con
sidered AS containing "A complete selection
Of the New England dialect phrases as
used by the country people Of that region.
A writer in "Aotes and Queries," who is
a native Of West Cornwall, England, says
that the "Bigclow papers" appeared to
him, when he first read them, nearly pure
West Cornish"
On the New York TriJuns the princi-
pal leader writers, like Col John Hay,
John r. q. Hassard, Noah Brooks,
Charles r. Congdon and Isaac II. Brom-
ley, get $75 week; SO does John II. Cleve.
land, financial editor. William II. G.
Shanks, the city editor, receives $50 a
week; Charles Wykoh, the day editor
House, the foreign editor, and Stearns, the
night editor, $50 a week, and other salaries
are in proportion.
"A life Of Washington is issued by
Ycddo publisher. This literary novelty,
says correspondent, is brought out in no
less than forty-four volumes in the
japanese characters, and Is profuscly
illustrated in the highest style Of art
Washington Is presented in the clothes
and fashion of the present day, and with
mOustachc carrying "a cane, and accom-
panied by Skye terrier He is gazing
at a lady with train, a Grecian bend,
and hideous waterfall
The following is given as revised
and corrected list OF the Washburns ::
Elihu Is. Washburne, of Illinois, Minister
to France; Cadwaldcr G.. Washburn,
Governor Of Wisconsin,; William b.
Washburn, Governor of Massachusetts !;
Peter i. Washburn, Ex-Governor of Yer.
mont; Israel Washburn, Ex-Governor of
Maine; w. Il. Washburn, defeated candi-
date for Governor Of Minnesota; Henry
ID. Washburn, ex-Member Of Congress
from Indiana, Charles A. Washburn, of
California, ex-Minister to Paraguay
Industrial.
Alabama has 5000 square miles of