Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-21


Ham, Christian Andersen WASH
worth mu, b money, but all children love,
him.
DIR. hit. Helmbold has been agai,
sent 10 an asylu. u for the insane; this tim,
at Bloomingdale, N. 7.
MIR. Lands has not heard the last o
that yineland shooting affair yet. Mr.
Carruth, the victim, is said to be failins
rapidly.
Singer, the sewing ma, chine man, died
worth SIS, 000, 900, but how much better i,
is to live on and be worth two or three
thousand.
Little Josey SuliivaR, of New York,
who had been missing tor several weeks,
and who il was supposed had been kid
mapped, has been found The child had
climbed to the back part of a warehouse
rilled with cotton-bales and had fallen in
one of the interstices beyond hope of re-
covery. His body was only discovered
when the bales were removed for ship
ment
THAT grave of Guibord's, in Montreal,
they say, was lined with nitro glycerine
cans, and in about 100 years or So the pub
lie may expect 10 see this item going the
rounds: "A party of 'resurrectionists,'
digging around a grave in Canada re-
Gently, were noticed by a gentleman OBJ
serving them at a distance 10 quit work
suddenly, shoulder their shovels and start
for the moon"
John Hay will devote most of his
time to the management of his father-in-
laws business in Cleveland. Eligible IA
Tiers in-law, wishing similar services per.
formed with expedition and dispatch, may
apply at once to the nearest literary bu-
reau or newspaper office. America is
crowded with young men who part their
hair in the middle and would like To
marry some rich mans daughter and
ducats.
The New York Graphic has been led,
by the study of American history, up to a
point where 1t is surprised at no achieve
ment attributed 10 Chicago people, and
says: There is no need of being surprised,
as the World seems 10 have been, at the
feat of Mr.. G. II. Taylor, of Chicago, who
lately went up and down Mont Blanc in
the unprecedented time of eighteen hours.
Chicagoans are easily Injured to such ex-
plots, those hardy mountaineers often
climbing the most precipItous precipices
Of the neighboring ranges very early in
life. Boys of nine and ten years pursue
the eagle TO his nest and chase the prairie
hen TO its mountain Businesses, hazarding
their lives for their eggs, which are the
sole food of large portion of the inhabit-
ants. The chief wonder is that it took
Mr.. Taylor SO long to take a fake from
the snowy crown of the monarch of the
mountains"
MIR. Benjamin Moran, United States
Minister to Lisbon, is visiting In London.
He was passenger on the Boyne, which
was wrecked on the rocks off Brest in
August. Through the lack of discipline
on board all the passengers barely es-
capped death. They were floating about
in boats without tillers and badly leaking,
and were rescued by some English wreck
ers who happened TO be in that locality
looking for an English steamer which had
previously gone down in the same place.
A Norwegian bark approached them, but
c0Olly sailed away without Offering relief.
The sailors of the Boyne, rs soon as the
vessel struck the rocks, broke open the
stores and appropriated the liquors, and
robbed the passengers trunks of money,
jewelry and everything OF value. MI.
Moran says that his losses were more than
81 $50, and that if the company does not
reimburse him he shall have recourse 20
law