Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-11-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.


Gerald Massey, the English writer, Is
rrparsed 10 be suffering from mental aDer- |
szskiou, and to have been placed W
s5ySvzsfe asylum.
ON = recent Sunday Rev. Joshua Day, !
aru<h,r Of the North Baptist Church OF
Newark. N. j., was fatally stricken with
nx,opSexy while preaching.
--Ex Coy. Harrison Reed, OF Florida,
sssr,ueriy az Wisconsin, has editorial
--harve Of Che SEMI 7ropieai, a monthly
r,ausT. devoted To Floridian development.
IT is priyssely given out by the
friends of Joaquin Miller, In order 10 pre-
werzf, Misunderstanding and heartburn
Suar. that the Zone Fair Woman Of
wisom be writes In recent volume Is no
hunger living. She died long ago, and
there In none like her now on the face Of
the Garth.
Mr.. John w. +. Hobbs, of North
arnps0u, Mass, has given $4,000 for a
ssrJre0I house la that town. Ii - said OF
Mr. Uobbs that not a great many years
ago he borrowed money 20 start line OF
ssnnibuses in Boston, driving one Of
gi,efn himself, and that now he ID worth
a million dollars.
Miss Maria Mitchell, Professor OF
Astronomy In tassar College, IL described
syy nome one who saw her at the woman's
4xaagr.ss as a large woman, with fine,
commanding figure, a square face, with a
tsYoninent chin and mischieyoas brown
.ryea, and hair falling over her face in
short gray cnrls. --Grdpltc.
A year ago Gen. w. ID. Washburn, Of
Minneapolis, MINI, being in financial
struts, made complete assignment OF all
bis property for the benefit Of his cred
Eanrs. Recently The assignees, after paying
every claim in full, have restored 10 Gen.
Mashburb assets worth about 800, ZOO,
and with ibis capital, and business rep
zatafion rather strengthened than i'm
saired by his reyerses, he can commence
over again with better prospects than DC,
4f0fs-
There have been some very prolific
and eaiarprising book makers in this
country. Increase Mather, who died In
t72J, Ieff eighty eight separate works be.
hiesd him Cotton Matber, who survived
tsis father five years, far surpassed him
Tn book making He was the most prolific
ysrifey the United States has ever seen
The Headleys and the Abbotts try In vain
tsD equal him, He wrote and published
ssST books, or about one a month during
his ministry,
Ten years ago John Mackey WAS
.astrk ing a. mining laborer In little ex-
pisriDg shaft in Virginia City for four
s,fiars day. Now he has larger in
come Than any man In America His
.2eonthly gains from the Consolidated Vir-
gi1ia Mine foot up 1896, 900; from the
California Mine $3.50, 600, from crushing
zaiIls 100000; from the Bank Of Nevada
GA, O00---in all 1891 900 a month, or AT the
raic Of nearly $i0,0oOG0O year This
d docs not include the income Of his vast
rEeaifli In real estate located In San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Mackey Is said 10 be modest
and retiring, dresses plainly and might be
supposed from his appearance 10 be a
weiLto-do iarmer--nothipg more.
--~ Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson has been
talking with correspondent Of the Con.
ssaord Boait0r about the habits Of his poet.
zeal friapds. g Holmes" said he, is 40
fall i,al &lc can write at any time. Lowell
5roods oyer his subject for time, and
then c0mposes with great swiitness He
siaes not like 10 write to order, though de-
,sifous Of cmpa Dying the stimulus Of great
occasions. We asked him 10 read poem
al Concord ON the tooth anniversary ~
she fight but I've said he could not. His
uife, d day or two before, wrote 10 me
naytng: ] cannot speak of James, yet ]
think you may expcct.a poem from him on
the I9th. He has been going about for
so,ne time in that peculiar way which IL
promise of somcthing;' and on the 10Th
LawcIl was on the ground with his poem
--and grand one IL was. Bonglcllow
prepares bis poems 10 be read on any
great occasion, ~ minister who lives
near Boston prepares his sermons, nearly
a year ahead. lie wrote the poem read at
ttowdoin College last summer early In the
Call os the preceding year, and well !. was
Rae did 10, for the months intervening
have been iruitless as far as literary labor
IA concerned, owing 10 physical proslrn'
lion"