Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Col. John w. Forney sailed for Eu-
rope day or two since.
London wants Theodore Thomas, but
she shan't have him. There will be war
first.
Prof. James Russell Lowell and his
wife have arrived in Boston from Liver
pool.
Rev. DR.. Bellows, of New York, was
married in Boston recently to Miss Pea
body.
Prentice milford is to start paper
at Sag Harbor, l.. l., to be called the
Indspe71dent.
-Four sisters of the late Thomas Dun
ham, of New York, living at Martha's
Vineyard, get $4,000 each flom his es-
tate.
The venerable Rev. Thomas Maddin,
ID. d., of the Tennessee Conference, died
in the city of Nashville, June 20, after
painful Illness of few hours.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the distinguished
astronomer of Vassar College, is spoken
of for Superintendent of Schools in Cam
bridge, Mass.
The Hon. George H. Brown has de-
clined the ef-Justiceship of Rhode
Island, to which he was elected recently
by the General Assembly.
Prof Patton, of Chicago, is confined
to his bed by illness brought on by over
work. He has never fully recovered
from his great exertions at the Swing
trial.
The Rev. DR.. Chaplin, of New York,
has Just completed new cottage at Pig
con Cove, Mass, where he has spent
nearly all of his summer vacations for
twenty years.
Miss Lavina Goodell is favored with
the brief distinction of being the first
woman admitted to practice law in the
courts of Wisconsin. She will undoubt-
eddy have followers"
Minister Schenck laid the corner
stone Of the Lincoln Tower, few days
ago, in South London, to be erected to
commemorate the emancipation OF the
| negroes.
"A meeting recently held at Leeds, in
England, has resolved to petition Parlia-
ment for the release of orion, the unsuc-
cessful Tichborne claimant, and for new
| trial. Mr.. Guildford Onslow addressed
the meeting.
james Gilfilan has declined the APP
pointment of Principal Clerk in charge
of the Appointment Bureau in the office
of the Secretary of the Treasury, and ac-
cepted the position of Chief Clerk in the
Treasurer's office.
Mr. A. Hayward, of San Francisco,
has sent check for $50, 900 to the St
Lawrence University, at Canton, N. Y.
This makes $55, 900 which the university
has receifed within month, and $780,
600 within the last fifteen months
The Rev. Mr.. Parry, of Worcester,
Mass, thinks he has found way to fix
the attention of his congregation. Every
Sunday he announces the topic fos the
following Sundays sermon, and asks
them to hunt up the appropriate text.
Gov. Dingley and Joseph Titcomb, re-
spectively Republican and Democratic
candidates for Governor of Maine, have
been appointed lay delegates from the
Maine Congregational Conference to the
National Council to be held in New
Haven in September.
1t is noteworthy fact that while in
Weston's recent undertaking each days
progress was duly heralded, walk OF a
thousand miles in thousand hours has
Just been quietly completed at Spring
field and Weston's most brilliant achieve
ments outdone by-Don'-k now-who.
Gen Banks is going to adopt lectur-
ing as profession He is at work on the
following subjects: American Volun-
teer Soldiers, y" Blue Stockings, v" What
a Man Owes to the Town He Lives In"
and 1.-THE Princes of Diplomacy"-Ca-
YOUR, Gortschakof, Castelar, and Theirs.
The Rev. James H. McMechen, of
Wheeling, w. Va, has Withdrawn from
the Protestant Episcopal Church because
he finds himself ain entire sympathy
with the Reformed Episcopal Church,
which, by the recent action of its General
Council, has put itself in position to
represent with clearness the certainty
and, without suspicion of vital error, the
cardinal truths of revealed religion as
taught in the Bible"