Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-20
,,cnyAL AND LITERARY.

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nelson. of Helena, and long
--Rooe 80 AZ the dirtiest man in Mon
disll' has fallen heir 10 $oo,op.-1sda
iTsnre e. Bvuss.n; nrs,,1,, hiss written
,,sxandcr Mitchell, OF Milwaukee, Tor
W aa;rhest man in the Nortnwest. IL esu-
ihe y his wealth. at $lo,ooo.ooo' &r
ms',s Iarcom, the well known, maya
-L ~;,3r has accepted the position Of
rne M;r a private school in Boston.
teacn s,,re Is not paying profession.
LiN . Iondon correspondent gives cur
- the sad rumor that Hon. Reverty
Teney , who. is now sojonrning in the
yon li;.h metropolis, is hopelessly blind. -
Hartford. Conn Coardnt pub
Interesting German letter from
n.hell as Dudley Warner which went down
Chn ne Deutschland, and was, rescued,
's.srcely legible. from the sea "a
Herbert Spencer is fifty-five, but he
aeyer married. In pretening the
ss ai;eities of bachelors life to the
sIniryities Of matrimony he refuses TO
sar out his own theory of evolution
s.,m the simple TO the complex.
yames Lick has been sued by his
.s~s;eians for .$53, 900 tor professional
pSaes." He refuses TO pay II on the
I'd that ii sught to have provided
vith every disease in the world, and
-, are several Of which he has been de-
hsaded-
| 4Rise and Fall of the Slave Power"
uhjch he lived to complete with the ex-
nanrion of three or four chapters, will be
spished Immediately and put to press by
4. private secretary, the Rev. Samuel
Hunt of Natick. kfesysi 81.
Walter Dumont, the young man who
"a courageously risked his life in rescu-
ms passengers with his boat from the i'll
faied Sunnyside, which was wrecked re-
Gently in the Hudson River, has received
rom the Humane Society Of New York
civ d gold medal and 500. ~
A Young feminine clerk at the Bos-
,on Postoffice sent word to the actor Rig
mold that she had in her keeping letter
which could only be delivered to him in
uerson: and who, when he came 10 claim
4 coolly told him that she had no letter,
but that she knew of no other way 10 get
chance to talk with him.
President Clifford, Of the Boston s.
Providence Railroad Company, who
some time ago, at the annual meeting OF
the corporation, spoke strongly against
any reduction of the pay of the engineers
upon the road, received from them last
Christmas Day present Of a gold.headed
cane, upon the top of which was the letter
&C" set with fourteen diamonds.
The aged mother of Chavez, the late
California bandit, is still living at Hollis.
ter, Cal, and Is said to be very respecta-
bic woman She wept when she learned
that her erfing son had been shot, but said
that, she was glad he had died thus, in.
stead of being captured alive and hanged
like his Captain, Vasquez. -rz
Miriam Coles Harris, the author Of
" Rutledge," has a regular income OF
81, 900 year from the sale Of her books.
When she wrote . Rutledge" she took the
Ms. to number of publishers, who
looked il over and declined IL with thanks,
as lacking the elements Of popularity.
At last she had 1t published by Mr.
Carleton at her own expense, and 10000
copies were sold just as fast as the printer
could turn them out, AS royalties were
in those days she only made $4,000 out OF
hi a pnprtnnuS sale ..H .... Z as. "a EaB