The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1873-10-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Mark Twain Is travelling through SCOT
land with Mr.. Clemens.
Anna Dickinson receives this season
500 for each 81 her lectures.
Hon. Chas. Francis Adams j. writing
the biography Of his father. John Adams.
sir samuel Baker, the distinguished
African traveller. AMI wife viii visit this
country neN summer.
-.1Ile Gildr-l Age /, the title Of the
forthcoming novelty Mark Twain and Mr..
Warner. of Hartford. Conn.
Secretary Delano. Of the Interior De-
partneut. i said 10 he the only native OF
Vermont who ever held a cabinet office.
William Everett. son Of Hon. Edward
Everett. formerly lawyer and author. has
been admitted 10 the ministry.
-Gerald Massey has sailed for this
country. and an exchange says that ii he
expects To make anything at the poet
business he will be- disappointed. Fire "A
shotgun in any direction In this country
and you hit a poet.
Elder Moses Howe aud wife celebrated
the anniversary Of their goiden-wetlding
few DAYS since Ia New Bedford. lie was
%entitlel 10 il. for during those fifty years
be- had married ls1J couples, and preached
SND sermons.
Charles O'ConOr recently answered a
request from "A lecture committee in this
way 1T j. proper "a say that | never de-
l~iyerctl a lecture on any subject. and have
no present expectation OF doing - a tany
time hereafter.
Julia a. Miller. a grcat-great-great-
granddaughter Of King Philip. died n
Gently N Lancaster. New Hampshire.
Philip wa "A firs'-tribe Indian. OF good red
stock. hi, father. Ma-Sasoit. having been a
biz ~schem 40 wears ago. But he kept
getting into trouble with the palc-faccs.
who were always treatying" him ont OF
hi, land. and finally. To close up matters.
killed the old fellow. lie cost the colonist>
about SJO0.pO. which was a powerful sight
of money IN those days.
The latest English novel. TOO
strange Not L. be True take,it, heroine.
al th. beginning ~ the last century. To the
bank, Of the Mississippi. where she is de
lighted with views o fthe Rocky Mountains.
ami awakes an existence amid the gam
bOling- Ofmonkeys and tumhling Of bufil-
loss. ~hc gather. lotus flowers A. she pad
die her OWL canoe near the Fails Of Mime
hala. She returns home again 10 the songs
81 the dI>ky children of the forest chant
ing HLawatha. The story may be- charac-
teriZerl a. Economically e~c>tatic. hu. lillict-
cl with geographical aud chronological
softening Of the brain.
Mis-. Emily Faithful j. publishing in
the Victoria Magazias her notions OF
American journalism. andis. on the whole.
complimentary. She quotes in mitigation
~ our newspaper p~cculiarities. the re-
mou>tnnc. al = shrewd deacon 10 his
minister. who had laid down some strict
rules ~ church discipline III the Lord
l. % have a church in this town. | guess
he- gOt 10 make il ont of the materials
~ finds here" Miss Faithful j. not
clary 81 complimentary personalities. and
gives many Of the leading editors OF the
country iir>t-clasS notice. While speak
my cf the employment Of women n jour
nali~ts IN this country. she mentions a
curious fact not generally known. The
first daily paper printed in the English
language wa Published in l7G2 by a wo-
Elizabeth Mallet. 1t was called
the Daiy C9nruf. and was not issued A.
2 woman'- rights paper. but ITO spare the
puhiic az least half tire impcrtinences
the ordinary papers contain