Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-30
Personal and Literary.


-Manton Marble paid 100000 for the
last quarter of the Worlds stock.
Mast charges $4,000 a year and has
carte blanche for his Harper's Weekly
pictures.
-Admirals Winslow and Semmes be-
gan their naval career together as mid
dies" on the sloOp-ofwar Falmouth.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has the
most costly and elegant of the new resi-
dences in Washington.
The Rev. Henry Boehm, who resides
on Staten Island, has been in the ministry
seventy three years, and is now 80 years
old.
The American Social Science Asso-
citation has elected Geo. William Curtis,
President, and Frank b. Sanborn, Secre-
tary.
General John H. Whistler, aged "a
years, died recently at Burlington, Kan
sas. He was the first white person born
on the site where Chicago now stands.
George Peabody laid the foundation
of his great fortune during Il financial
panic in England, when American secu-
rites were sold at very low rate.
Mark Twain is in London, busily at
work on a book about Newgate. Having
done up the innocents abroad, he now
thinks it necessary to speak word for the
criminals.
Mrs. Patterson, who was mistress of
the White House during Johnson's Ad-
ministration, has been taking premiums
for the best butter exhibited at IA county
fair in Tennessee.
Imagine book costing 100000.
The ninth edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica" it is stated on reliable au-
thority, will cost that sum. Spencer
Baynes is to be the editor.
The late Mr.. Schonchin. who closed
his eloquent speech on the Fort Klamath
gallows with "All l have now to say is,
let Schonchin de- is known now in
California as the Daniel Webster of the
Modocs.
The colored Secretary of State, Ho-
hon, has been admitted as student in
the South Carolina University. Three OF
the principal professors, Takey, Gibbas,
and Laborde, have resigned in conse-
quence.
-Abram Wheeler, S5 years old, who
PLAYED the fife at the battle of Lundy's
Lane, is to be seen on the streets OF Biz
mingham, Conn, every fine day. He is
allowed pension of 800 year, but is
supported by the town of Huntington.
1t is not generally known that John
Millions tomb is still intact in London,
and that in the parish of st. Giles, Grip
plegate, the remains of the great poet, in
tered in 1874, lie with those of his father,
buried in 1646 The church itself is OF
grano proportions, and the oldest but one
in London, having been built in 1890.
MIR. Ross Winans, of Baltimore, has
completed in that city one hundred and
thirteen brick dwelling houses, four stor-
les high, suitable for people in moderate
circumstances. They possess unusual
accommodations for dwellings of their
class Their cost was about $O0,OOO,
and they will accommodate about 800
people.
The most notable person present at
the laying of the cornerstone OF the new
Michigan Capitol, at Lansing, was Orange
Risdon. He is the oldest settler of Wash
tenaw County, assisted at the cornerstone
ceremonies of the old Capitol, at Detroit,
fifty wears ago, and is the only Knight
Templar living in America who took the
degrees as early as 1915.
We give the following paragraph for
what it is worth: 1.-THE most interesting
discovery of the day has recently been
made at Paris, in the shape of an unfnish-
ed manuscript by DeFoe, the author OF
Robinson CrusOe.' 1t is entitled Six
Months in the Air. and describes the sup
posed wanderings and experience of soul
after its separation from the body. The
narrative is said TO be in the most graphic
style of the celebrated author, and has
been purchased by wealthy American
for $4,000"
-Beecher is the Colossus of American
humor. His introduction of the Rev. DIR.
Stoughton, of London, to the audience at
the New York Academy of Music, the
other evening, was recognized as master
piece of fun. The Doctor was quite over
come by II, but managed to muster
strength to reply as follows; "Ladies and
Gentlemen-f am appalled, at the length
and breadth of American humor. II IS
bounded on the north by the Aurora Bore
alis, on the east by the Rising Sun, on the
south by the Tropic of Cancer, and On the
west by the Day Of Judgment"
Religious and Educational.