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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Personal and Literary.

President Grant recently purchased
$40, 600 worth of real estate in Prince
Georges County, Md, few miles from
Washington, to use as stock farm.
III. B. Clafin, the eminent dry goods
merchant, worth, it is estimated, from
$40, 600, 600 to $15, 600, 900, commenced the
world with nothing but energy, deter
mination and hope, and see how munifi-
Gently he has invested them.
Brown. the famous sexton of Grace
Church, New York, began life as car
penter. He is now worth 100000, the
accumulation for the last twenty years
of his salary as a sexton and the fees
given him by attendants at the church.
The brakeman who attended ex-Sen-
ator Nye to Richmond has been present
ed by the ex-Senator's daughter with a
pair of handsome gold sleeve-buttons.
Virtue is it's own reward; but articles OF
this kind are never to be merely sneezed
at.
Senator Frelinghuysen, who has
long borne the reputation OF being q
clear, deliberate, unhesitating speaker,
is known (says the Philadelphia Press) to
write out his addresses carefully, and
commit them to memory before de-
livery.
The Troy Times says of the parri-
eide, Frank H. Walworth, in the Auburn
Insane Asylum: HE appears to be slow
ly wasting away, and his health certain
~ is rapidly declining. Epilepsy in an
aggravated form is his principal ailment.
His mother, who visits him at intervals,
is weighed down with grief at his de-
plorable condition, and her interviews
with her wretched son are described as
most tendcrly pathetic"
The Hon. Ebert Herring, of New York,
was ninety eight years old on April o, and
is the Oldest practicing lawyer in the
world. Mr.. Herring has lived in New York
for more than ninety years, was admitted
to the bar in 1898, and was Judge of the
Marine Court the year Napoleon became
Emperor of France Charles O'Conor,
now an old and illustrious man, was
student in his Office. Mr.. Herring was
also Commissioner Of Indian Affairs-the
first that held the position.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Religious and Educational.

The death is announced of Rev. John
w. Roberts, Bishop of the Methodist
Church in Liberia. Bishop Roberts was
a Virginian and negro, and had been in
Liberia since 1888. He is spoken of as a
man of fine character and excellent abil-
tiles.
The Episcopal Church in the United
States comprises fifty Bishops, five Bish-
parishes, 1902 communicates, 23,OO7
Sunday school teachers, 225, 1913 Sunday
school scholars Contributions during
the year, $685., 9S3.27.
The Rev. Thomas K Beecher, IN >
letter to his brothers Christian Union,
says: cable preaching, by itself, pro-
duces laziness, sponginess, sentimental
ism in the pews." He argues that the
members of church as well as the
preacher need something to do.
Though Swedenborg, the founder of
the New Jerusalem Church, was Swede,
very little has been done for the propa-
cation of his peculiar faith in his native
country, owing to the lack of religious
federation. Since the passage of the
federation act" q society of sixty mem
bers has been organized in Stockholm.
Southern papers have an account of
a wonderful series of revivals in the val
ley of Virginia, which has been in prog
ress since last summer, in connection
with the labors of Rev. G.. N. Howard.
In some places nearly the whole of the
adult population has been converted, the
ministers of all denominations co-operat-
ing with him. Such extensive revivals
were never experienced in that section
of country.
AT late teachers meeting in Provi-
dence the Superintendent, speaking of
schoolroom work, criticised the lack of
life and animation which he had some
times observed, impressing the thought
that dull, listless pupils would result
from want of life and sympathetic in
terest in the teacher. lie also depre-
Gated the teaching of abstract rules be-
fore the illustrations of them were un-
derstood, and urged thoroughness id that
which is really to be learned.
The deficient instruction of the pub
lie schools is severely criticised by the
Baltimore american. "The biographies,
histories, grammars and textbooks of
mathematics and the elementary books
of scientific instruction have, as a
whole, IL says, NOV pcen nearly 81
much improved as might reasonably be
expected within this generation. Rules
are still crude and dogmatic, the parrot
fashion is still prevalent in teaching,
and the machinery is not essentially
changed. 1t has been on trial for long
time, and nobody can deny that with q
vast majority Of pupils it confers only
very superficial education. The problem
of breaking away from old forms and
erecting new methods on more intel
ligent foundation is both intricate and
difficult, but it is one that is confronting
all intelligent people, and must continue
to excite still deeper interest"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-22
Miscellaneous.

May we voter" lisped the fair
daughters Of England the other day, and
gruff old Parliament, bringing down its
equity foot with stamp, unciviliy an.
swered "Nol"
"A smile costs the giver nothing; yet
it is beyond price to the erring and re-
penting, the sad and cherries, the lost
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


About fifteen months ago B. +. Rob-
inson, Of 6augus, Mass, stepped upon
needle. which entered his foot and broke
off. troubling him for q long time. Recent
" he felt pain in his ankle and pulled out
the needle, which was three-fourths OF
an inch long, and had traversed nine
inches through his foot since the acct
dent.
"A physician Of New Bedford, Mass,
recently performed the operation OF tax
ing out the right eye of Frederick Y. Hip.
lev, and found among the fragments OF
the membrane of the eye single nail,
perfect in all its parts, one-half an inch
in length, which had been In the eye forty
years, and had destroyed the sight dur
ing that time. The iris had become COM
pletely ossified.
Rev. Patrick A. Shields, Catholic
priest, was arrested recently in Chico
pee, Mass, for drunkenness. While in
the lookup he attempted to commit sui
eide by cutting his throat with pieces of
q glass bottle which was given him filed
with wster. The wounds were not suf-
ficient to cause death, but he died next
day in consequence, it is thought, of hav-
ing swallowed pieces of glass. He was
twenty-nine years old.
Since the Yale faculty have become
experts In the detection OF all sorts OF
underhand communications between the
students in the class and examination
rooms, the students have resOrted to the
deaf and dumb alphabet. 1t is now pro-
posed by the faculty to require all stu
dents to wear mittens at the recitations
and examinations.
"A Portland Me- man couldn't find
his coat the other morning, and finally
went to his business in an old one. Dur
ing the day his wife found the coat in
the servant girls room. A row was i'm
minent until it was discovered that he
had left the coat in the sitting-room the
night before, and when the girl came in
she threw her shawl upon 1t, without no.
tlcing it, and when she went upstairs
had picked up coat and shawl together.
Prof. +. w. Walker died at his resi-
dence in Brooklyn, recently, from the
effects of dose Of fluid extract of hem
lock, taken by advice of his physician.
He procured an ounce vial of that medi-
cine, and, going home, took it according
to his instructions, and, calling his wife
to him, dictated to her description of
his symptoms under the operation OF the
drug. This dictation of symptoms was
his invariable habit when taking medi-
cines prescribed by physicians, or taken
under his own course of treatment, he
having, at times, been his own physician.
The dictation was begun at 4:1O, and was
closed as follows: At $40 p. M, nausea
and twitchir gs on the right side; trouble
to articulate; eyes closed; fullness
almost to suffocation in the throat !;
pulse about sixty. Here MIR. Walker
stopped and asked for some water. Mrs.
Walker started to get some coffee, and
had partly prepared it, when on return
ing to the room to see how her husband
was she was alarmed to find him unccn-
scious. A physician was Immediately
summoned and arrived at the house, but
the professor was then dead. Mr.. Walker
was Past Grand Master in the Masonic
fraternity in Illinois.
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General News Summary.



Congressman Wheeler arrived in Washing.
ton on the 9th, en- route for New Orleans, 70
aid in carrying out the terms Of the Louisiana
compromise.
The President has appointed Richard Gibbs,
OF New York, Envoy Extraordinary and Min
lister Plenipotentiary to Peru.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that money temporarily borrowed by
banker in the course Of business Is not taxa
BILE as capital.
Several warrants were issued on the 10th
for the arrest Of clerks In the Postofice De.
partment implicated in the recently discov-
cred frauds In that department. y. Kinds,
the contractor implicated, had given bail
Two clerks who confessed their participation
in the frauds were held as witnesses against
persons who persisted in denying their guilt
Treasurer Spinner, on the 18th, received az
autograph letter from the President accepting
his resignation as Treasurer OF the United
States, and expressing for him the warmest
sentiments OF regard, personally, and high
appreciation Of his probity, patriotism and
official integrity.
A Washington special of the 18th says
suspicious person, who had been lurking
around the White House for several days, had
been arrested by detectives, and loaded re-
yolver found on his person. 1t Is supposed
he had designs on the life OF President Grant.
He gave the name of John 8. Lockhart, OF
Indiana, and was believed to be crazy, and
was sent to an insane asylum by recon-
mendation Of physicians.
n ia stated that all OF the clerks In the Post
Office Department implicated In the recent
mail contract frauds have been dismissed by
the Postmaster General.
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