Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-01-07
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minds. VINO he
-Ex-Gov. Boutwell,, of Massacbn.
has been making very careful axn
ments as to what it costs To raise oari
that State. On his best soil II co s.rn u
ty-eight cents per bushel. bat an ss SIX
and harder soil to till it wonld Co.'S
third more, or $780, one-
AT funeral in Springvale, n v
lately, whlie the bearers were abou, !,
lower the coffin into the grave. the e.r.p
caved under the feet of one OF tha,a
who fell in with the coffin over ~
After considerable hard work he u.
liberated, more demoralized than hnr,
A suggestion has been made ~ a.
London School Board that public t,o sue
ger should be employed to correct Ky
dren who play truant, but the Board wa.
OF the opinion that public opinion was
not ripe for that" vas
The Congregational Church in cor
fornia reports for the present year sir,r
seven churches, with total membarssy
OF 1880 members, sixty.nine ministers
and sixty two Sunday schools-the Iattes
having total of 6,273 pupils.
wv. oCo. DOcuiS, Vi New York
thinks Sunday-school superintendent
should be installed into Office with re-
ligious formalitics, and urges that SIM
day-school teachers should also be in
stalled with some religious solemnity.
Thomas Caldwell, President of H..
South Nashville Street Railway, under.
took TO ride with new driver the otha,
night, telling him, in response to the dc.
mand for fare, +" / own most of this roadn
and getting this reply: swell, you won't
own it long if you don't pay me your
fare. That's all I've got to say about its
The Memphis Ledger puts this for.
ward as true dog story: "In the Crimi
hal Court Mrs Bobbitt is on trial on the
charge Of shoplifting. She has trained
dog who is charged with amusing the
clerks and proprietors of stores while the
larcenies were alleged to have been COM
mitted. The dog was not indicted as ae.
cessory by the Grand Jury, but appeared
in court today. probably with view 70
be examined as witness"
An Episcopal church lately en-
plOyed one of its members to order
bell to be cast in Toronto with the motto
upon it, merry Christmas" In due
time the article was made and delivered
but imagine the chill which dashed the
benignity of that committee when il was
uncovered and the inscription which had
been given to the agent verbally was
seen to read, Mary Christmast" The
best nerve among them broke the spell
Of silence by refusing to accept the Job
Whereupon the other party produced
written order in the agents land to
prove that he had followed copy" The
committee concluded to hush up the
affair of the bell. The agent has been
elected Mayor of the city.
Yesterday afternoon stranger en-.
tered Gratiot avenue butcher shop with
a five-dollar bill in his hand and re-
| quested the proprietor to tell him
whether the bill was genuine or not. The
bill was closely examined, found to be
good and returned to the stranger, who
quilted the shop. He had gone but a
few steps from the establishment when
he turned and re-entered it and desired
the proprietor to give him one-dollar
bills for his five-dollar greenback This
was done, after which the stranger de-
parted a second time. During the course
of the afternoon the butcher made de-
post at the bank, when the identical bilI
given him by the stranger was thrown
out and pronounced counterfeit. The
rascal had changed the genuine bill for a
counterfeit before reentering the shop
and the proprietor, thinking it the same
BILL, changed it without giving it more
than casual ook.-Detr05t Free Press.