Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-06-25
Personal and Literary.

No fewer than five different lives Of
the late Charles Sumner are in course OF
publication.
%. III. Kelley, Secretary of the Ma
tional Grange, was In 1847 resident of
Muscatine, Iowa, having been sent there
TO open It's first telegraph office.
Modern journalistic enterprise: The
London Times has secured a private tele-
graph wire between Paris and London.
The cost Is about $4,000 year.
Gen. H. b VanValkenburgh, of whom
the country has lately heard but little, has
recently been appointed Chief Justice OF
Florida. He was formerly member of
Congress, and more recently the American
Minister to Japan.
The Literary World says the sale of
books In the last twelve months has fallen
off ut least one.q quarter from that Of any
corresponding period. Ii attributes the
decline to the increased sale and read
ing of our numerous popular maya
zines.
The will Of the late Gen. Dyer is a
model for brevity and clearness Ii is as
follows: 81, Alexander b Dyer, Chief of
Ordnance, United States Army, reposing
The utmost confidence in my beloved wife,
Eliza ID. Dyer, bequeath all my property,
real and personal, to her, and constitute
her sole executrix."
The late J. Edgar Thomson leaves no
children, and his very large estate will
probably revert after the death of his wife
to the formation Of fund for the estab-
lishment of u home and asylum for the
orphan children Of the employees of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company who
may lose their lives in the discharge Of
their duties to that corporation.
Edwin Booth responded as follows to
q request from the Baltimore theater man
ayers to act for the benefit of the sufferers
from the floods In the Southwest; am
very sorry that can do nothing for so
good cause. l am, as you must be
aware, a bankrupt. Every moment of my
time and every dollar OF my earnings are
now of vital Importance to me, for l have
to fight my battle unaided."
Five years ago Miss Gaylord, Of Bos.
ton, and her sister started from Denver In
their own carriage on q wonderful jour
ney of $4,000 miles, which having &C
compllshed, they have returned to that
city safe and sound. They have visited
every camp, settlement, village and city
in the Western Territories and on the Pa
cific coast. Miss Gaylord now starts for
Australia, where she will spend the next
two years in similar exploration jour-
ney.
DIR. William Clough, an eccentric
physician of Plttsfeld, Mass, died re-
Gently. He rarely took an adequate fee,
never asked any pay of the poor, and his
house was made of marble powders
which he had taken of the farmers In lieu
of fees, while they were cut and laid by
the laborers whom he treated. As he grew
older his peculiarities grew upon him, and
the most striking feature about his prac'
tice was his repugnance to receiving any
remuneration whatever for his services.
Industrial.
Twenty-Five cents will purchase a
salmon on the Pacific coast.
The flower and vegetable seed trade
| of Rochester, N. Y, is immense, one firm
alone reporting 1888, 725 orders received
during the five months ending May 30.
TO secure direct Chicago connec-
ton, the Baltimore 81 Ohio Railroad has
purchased sixty acres in South Chicago,
and will build car-works worth quarter
of million dollars.
-epium culture is successfully carried
on at Sherman Island, California. One
man thinks that he will have this year
200 pounds. The poppy-pods are as
large as the two fists Of man, and the
seeds are also large and perfectly de-
veloped.
Arkansas planters just across the
Mississippi, west of Memphis, say that
the flood deposited over the cotton.fields
the richest, thickeEt layer of alluvium
ever brought down from the Western
mountains. II is q quarter OF an inch IN
thickness, and full OF lime. Crops slim
ulated by such forces of fecundity grow
and mature with extraordinary rapidly,
and only vigorous energy In depressing
weeds and grass Is required through the
| FIRST few weeks Of summer to assure the