Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-01-22
Personal and Literary.


Personal and Literary.
--Edmonia Lewis is to furnish a statue
of the Virgin for st. Louis church.
Bishop Meade said our girls are
poorly educated, but our boys will never
find it out"
- Mr.. Richard Proctor, the eminent
English astronomer, Is convert to the
Catholic faith
JEFF. Davis is the sole survivor of his
fathers family; his sister, Mrs. William
Stamps, having died recently in Missis-
sippi.
The wife OF Capt. Hall offers all her
means, though but little, to help fit out a
vessel TO go in search Of her husbands
body.
"A Boston paper says the news Of the
Punishment Of Caleb Cushing was re.
ceived with yelps OF delight by Fernando
Woods dog.
John A. Cockerill, editor of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, has been presented with
q solid silver game-cock, in commemmO
ration OF the Democratic victory in Ohio.
ington correspondent, who was Minister
tary Of State, is TO edit the new age at
Philadelphia.
Eli Perkins lectured in New York the
other night, and the World says "every
man in the audience breathed deep and
earnest wish for dead cat, long before
the gabbler's show was over"
Hon. j. l.. Pennington, the present
Governor of Dakota, was an apprentice
boy In the old Raleigh Star office, thirty
three years ago. Ex-Gov. Holden was
foreman in the office at the time
1t is suggested by the New York
Herald that If a detective, impeled by
the reward of $1,000, should blunder
upon Harry Genet. the prince would inn
mediaIely see the reward and go il $4,000
better.
And now Julia Ward Howe declares
that "thele is nothing but dumb submits
sion for the women" If Julia is type
of the class for whom she speaks, we
should say the submission was anything
but dumb"
BY the election of Governor Booth,
of California, to the United States Senate,
Lieutenant Romonaldo Pacheco will be-
come Governor. He, 1t is said, will be
the first native Californian who ever filled
the position.
-" Prince" Harry Genet, the escaped
Tammany convict, is grandson of citi
zen Genet, the French Minister during
Washington's Administration, who then
made himself so troublesome that he was
finally recalled.
There are limits even to the utmost
heroism Miss Slider, the Massachusetts
girl who the other day jumped into the
Merrimack and rescued drowning child,
tainted away the instant she saw her false
curls floating down the stream.
--"When think of the bummers that
left Boston in 1S49 to find their fortunes
in California, and then hear Bret Harte
call 'em Argonauts," said gentleman
after the lecture, III must award to Bret
the credit Of refining whatever he touch
es"
Tom Benton left two daughters be-
sides Mrs. Fremont. One of these, Ma
dame Boileau is now living in Paris, her
husband being in prison for his part in
the Ell Paso Railroad affair; the other,
Mrs. Cary Jones, is teaching school in
San Francisco.
We learn from an Eastern journal
that early in January Miss Susan b. An.
thony will bring suits against all news
papers that have "thrown mud at her. !"
Miss Susan Is aware that we have always
maintained, with both pen and pistol, that
she ia the most beautiful and accomplished
young girl Of the northumberland
"A man may die worth $S,000,O00, be.
queathing it entire to charity, and yet
have his name misspelled by all but two
or three OF the obituary writer's. Such
has been the case with the late Johns
Hopkins, of Baltimore. With all his
wealth and benevolence he was never able
to make the American press grasp that 8
in his Christian name.
Judge Morton, Of Topeka, Kan,
while on his way from court few days
since, was accpsted on the street by a gen.
tleman who desired to know why he had
not been recognized. The Judge, in reply,
stated that the face was familiar, but he
could not tell where he had seen It, The
upshot of the business was the calling
upon Archie Williams, who introduced
Col. G. A. Morton to Judge Morton, the
stranger being his brother, whom he had
not seen for years.