Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-06-07

, "A neat copy Of the Nem Tga Ssss
bound in GeEi5is muslin is aufFss .ssa
by the American Bible Society AZ ss'
astonishiugly low price Gj Hrs cents.
-BreL Harte has contributed his
nrest and most ambitious poem, z
love tory called "Cs1et f1rey," 70 the
.os, West Point book. Military Tic
taos"
-"George Eliot's'' manuscript
said to be s'beautlful, clear, and full of
character" while that of Mrs Oliphant
is in so fine hand as to be very diff
cult to read.
The Russian novelist, Joan Turge-
nieff, is not only admired as writer,
but is likewise esteemed in the art cir
clrs of Paris as a good connoisseur in
matters of art.
MIR. Gladstone will shortly publish
volume of Essays, Letters and Ad-
dresses" personal and literary, eccle-
siastical and theological, and European
and historical.
-Kwoh Sung Tao, the Chinese Am
bassador to England and France, has
written book of travels, which has
been suppressed by his Government as
giving too tlattering picture of civili-
zation outside of the Flowery Kingdom.
"A large portion of Cruikshank' 8
pictures, drawings, and sketches were
sold in London on May 10. The num-
ber of pictures sold was about $50. The
F." Worship of Bacchus," with upward
of 1000 figures, from which the picture
at the National Gallery was made, sold
for S16S. Cruikshank's table and chair
were sold for 10 guineas. The sale re-
allied 5000, much less than was ex-
pected.
The statue of Cervantes, to be erect
ed in Central Park, New York, will be
of bronze and of heroic size. The
pedestal will be of granite or marble,
in relief on the front side being figures
of Don Quixote and Sancho Pam
"a on horseback. On the other sides
will be representation of the battle of
Lepanto and a description of Cervantes's
Imprisonment in Algiers.
Mrs. Leon Lewis, the novelist, who
died recently at Rochester, New York,
was born in 1S41, in Penn Yam, where
she has ever since resided. Her maid
en- name was Harriet O,Brien. She
married Leon Lewis in 1856, and since
that time both have been contributors
to the New York Ledger. They have
accumulated a competence. Mrs. Lew
ISIS stories were popular abroad, and
many were translated.
School and Church.
A Catholic Congress will be held at
some point near Paris during the period
of the Exposition.
The General Methodist Conference
South resolves to do all possible for the
education of the colored people.
1t is stated that Mr.. Peter Cooper
has abandoned his project of founding
woman's college at Limestone Springs,
S. C.
Bishop Whittle, Episcopalian, of
Virginia, is out with vigorous con-
demnation of round dancing, which he
says is an abomination that he is
ashamed to particularly describe.
-Twenty-three women are now study
ing medicine in Paris, only five of whom
are French The others comprise six
English and y Russian. But 80 women
have taken medical degrees in Paris
since 1865.
The fashionable little French Eglise
St. Sauveur, in Philadelphia, is much
'c.y h0 Wi - perfect themselves n
.ztsdv oi tf9 french language. The
antsE yes RiliSf result from listening
L, fae gtJerarces of -tht rector, the Rev.
NIr Mel, are said 1e-ha greater by far
than those which ~giUw on 2 course al
lessons from iaaS host accomplished fol-