The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-03-20
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Personal and Literary.

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Bishop Simpson has arrived in Mexico
in good health.
The Rev. DIR. M'Cosh is writing a HIS
tory Of Scottish Philosophy, which will be
published la the autumn. Ii will be 10 a
great extent biographical, embracing the
lives of hundred or more eminent men OF
Scotland.
The son Of Sir Digby Neave. OF Eng
land, heir to estates in England worth
500. 900 a year, was murdered lately IN the
Wet Mountain Valley. Colorado. Not long
9 one of his brothers was killed by a
bear. another by a tiger, and another fell
in the Indian mutiny.
That wonderful scholar. Mrs. Somer-
Vile. read Greek every morning before
breakfast. After she had passed her nine
tieth year she divided her time between
the higher algebra, reading the poets and
the newspapers, receiving friends, and
working with the needle without specta-
Giles.
Mrs. Bridges, of Pennsylvania. de-
scribed as "A young and graceful wife of an
octogenarian millionaire. Ii l. claimed by a
correspondent, wears the most magniti-
cent diamonds ever seen in Washington.
At a recent reception she was literally
ablaze with jewels, comprising necklace,
earrings, tiara, bracelets. and stomacher.
Hon. John ID. Defrees, formerly editor
of the Indianapolis Journal. is engaged in
preparing the materials for A Civil and
Political History of Indiana. with Sketches
OF its Prominent Citizens, from the For
nation of it, Territorial Government to
the close of the Year 1873" This period
embraces nearly three-quarters OF "A CEN
fury.
William Wheelright. late of Newbury-
port. Mass. is To he numbered among the
good New Englanders who in lifetime were
thoughtful for the good of those to come
after them. Two-ninths of his estate he
devised for the purpose OF founding
scientific college IN Newburyport. 1t !.
tolcrably certain that about 100000 will
be- realized for that object, and possibly
more.
I'm the third volume of Forster's Life
Of Dickens. recently published. the later
years OF the noted novelist's life are repre-
>ented as deeply tinged with morbid mel.
ancholy and unrest. His work had begun
TO tell upon him. and writing. which in
his earlier days had been almost spontane-
Gus. began to be an effort. He sought in
society. and i'm the hustle and change OF
ildNtiliE. ititl lOi ii~ ifSl'--h'Nr. IN,
state of mind was known 10 Dickens's in.
innate friends. but in general society he
was gay and full of humor.
The Lowell Courier says hat the Hon.
Frederick Smyth, lately Governor OF New
Hampshire. was nee a resident OF Lowell,
He began a. porter at the Merrimac House,
then kept by Mr.. Murdoch. and used &c
back boots al four cents per pair. He sub
%sequcntly was employed on the MiddleseS
Corporation at eight dollars a month, and
he tells with honest pride that the first pail
of pants he ever owned which were not Of
h0mespun were earned on the Middlesex
He was afterward promoted to yard hand
on the fremont az ~scventy-fivc cents a day
Having thus in a few months accumulated
a little money. he went to school. and IN
due time worked his way up by energy,
industry, frugaIity. and faculty" to the
mayoralty of Manchester and 10 the guber-
Material chair OF his native State. His first
visit to the Merrimac House after he threw
down his clearinghouse as porter was in
company with his Executive Council as
Governor of New Hampshire.