Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-24
ITEMS OF Interest
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
The title of Jean Ingelow's new
novel is 4" Sarah de Berenger."
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines proposes
to found great library. 1t will proba-
bly, be located in New Orleans.
Sam Small, the "Old 81" of the
Atlanta Constitution, is writing book
about the " Fighting Alstons of Hall
fax" and the Cox-Alston case.
The German Empress Augusta has
offered prize for the best treatise on
in year.
Mr. Froude is parent of the last
curious blunder, and in his new book on
Caesar speaks of that General as return
ing "with the light of twenty victories
blazing round his bayonets."
The late Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale
was active in many excellent public un-
dertakings. She had much to do with
the completion of the Bunker Hill Mon
ument; for 80 years she labored to have
Thanksgiving Day made National ho].
iday; and she greatly influenced her old
friend, Matthew Vassar, In the organiza-
ton of Vassar College.
Paul Morphy is harmlessly insane.
He denies that he knows any thing about
chess, imagines that he is great law
yer, and that he was defrauded in the
settlement of his fathers estate. He is
living quietly at New Orleans, prone.
nades Canal Street daily, and if any ac-
quaintance rashly gives him chance,
rehearses the long story of his wrongs.
He is well cared for by his friends.
The late Mr.. McGahan, the Lon
don Ne,cs correspondent who first di-
rected attention to the Bulgarian atroc-
tiles, Is being all but oanonized by the
Bulgarian natives in gratitude for his
fearless services to them. They are
about to hold high religious services ia
his memory on the anniversary of his
death, and Prof. Muller of the St.
Petersburg University is about to write
his biography for distribution among
the Slavonic race.
Mark Twain, when asked why he
hasn't written book on England, says:
81 couldn't get any fun out of England.
1t is too grave a country. And its grav-
ity soaks into the stranger, and makes
him as serious as every body else. When
| was there I couldn't seem to think of
any thing but deep problems of govern
ment, taxes, free-rrade, finance-and
every night went to bed drunk with
statistics. / could have written million
books, but my publisher would have
hired the common hangman to burn
them"
Edwin Booth wrote private letter
from Chicago to friend in Richmond,
Va, Just after the attempt to assassinate
him, in which he said: " Your very kind
aud welcome letter of congratulation
reached me in due time, but the nervous
shock (referring to the shooting) has
been so severe to both Mrs. Booth and
myself that we have been unable to do
much more than play nurse to each
other since the event. The poor fool
that committed the outrage is in safe
keeping, and hope he will be confined
in an asylum for the rest of his life. He
is dangerous lunatic-nothing more" ="
School and Church.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church, South, met at Louis
Vile, KY, on the 18th. Rev. Joseph
Wilson of Wilmington, N. c., was elect
ed Moderator.
The Presbyterian General Assem-
bly met in annual session at Saratoga,
N. Y, on the 18th. Rev. DR.. Henry
II. Jessup, OF the Syrian Mission, was
elected Moderator.
| The forth-ninth General Assembly of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
met at Memphis, Tenn, on the 10Th.
Rev. j L. Grider, Bowling Green, KY,
was elected Moderator.
/ r. as Cakha1ra1 -,
England has written book, in which
he asserts that "the divine right OF
episcopacy has always been, and always
will be, an open question in the Church
of England"
The Congregational Church at
Ionia, Mich, has been without pastor
for several months. The officers of the
church take their turn at reading ser.
mons from newspapers, and the people
like this plan so we'll TINT they contem.
plate continuing it permanently, and
calling no minister.
The ten ladies who are County
School Superintendents in Illinois have
managed the financial part of their bus.
mess particularly we'll. Not one cen,
of the large sums over which they ha6
supervision has en- lost, either through
dishonesty or ignorance of business
Even those male educators who opposed
the law making women eligible to thi.
office now pronounce their work sue
cess, after the five years. experience.
The Northwestern University a
Evanston, Ill is one of the great train
ing schools where young men are edu
Gated for the Methodist ministry. 1t il
in pecuniary trouble. From an aggre
gate of $34, 900 a year of professors
salaries there has been cutting dow
of one-half, and even the reduced sala
ries are now largely in arrears. En-
deavors are now on foot for relief, witt
hope of success.
Mr.. Spurgeon sounds a warnin,
note against the habit, becoming to-
common in many pulpits, of prominent
ly describing the theories of unbelievers
He does not think it necessary in givinI
,, guest wholesome food to accompan
it with dose of poison, and declare
, that many young men have got thei
first notions of infidelity from thes
. ministers, having sucked in the poiso
3 and discarded the antidote.
There is good deal of suggestio
in this paragraph: GA State Superir
, tendent who had made during a lon
! term of Office, hundreds of visits to un
graded country schools, declared this
4 be never once saw teacher conductin
. a recitation without a Textbook j
/ hand; that he seldom saw either teact
!; er or pupils at the blackboard; that b
4 never saw a school-globe actually in use
. that he never saw teacher give an oil
!. ject-lesson; that he never heard a lesso
I on morals or manners; that he neve
a saw but one school-cabinet; that
= never saw a reading-class trained
r stand erect and hold a book properly
s that he never heard teacher give
: lesson in local geography; that classe
n when asked to point north, uniform
= pointed upward to the zenith; that