Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-07-19
ITEM S OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Annie Z. Kerr, literary editor of the
Chicago Times for the last six years,
died recently, aged 32.
Ralph Waldo Emerson read the
Declaration of Independence at Con-
cord, Mass, on the 4th.
-Longfellow writes to an inquirer
"The Golden Legend is founded upon
a German story of the Middle Ages,
written by Hartman Won due Ane."
Miss Anna E. Dickinson is in Phil
adelphia, and is also, it is said, in good
spirits, and still holding to the deter
mination not to desert the stage.
The selection from the letters of
Charles Dickens, which Miss Hogarth
and Miss Dickens are preparing, was to
have seen the light in the spring, but
the publication of the work has been
unavoidably delayed. The book will
be out some time before Christmas.
Oscar, the poetic King of Sweden,
has written book on Free masonry, in
which he seeks to defend and support
that society by quotations from the BIZ
BILE. 1t is not to be published until au-
thorized versions in German, English,
French and Italian are in readiness.
james Wick, the well known nurs-
eryman of Rochester, N. Y, used to
set type along side of Horace Greeley.
When Whitelaw Reid was in that city
the other evening delivering an address
before the editors of New York, Mr..
Wick sent him model of an easy-chair,
made of flowers.
MIR. Louis j. Jennings, who edited
the New York Times several years, has
been obliged to suspend publication of
his London venture, The Week. 1t was
modelled on the American plan, and was
bright and readable paper; but the
average London reader prefers to con-
tinue on with the full reports of the
Parliamentary debates.
-Lopgfellow recognizes that a dis
tinctive American race is growing up in
the West. He says that the VESTS the
nursery of Americas productions. He
has his library in a southeast room, be
cause he loves sunlight. Longfellow is
small, thin, and straight. His long
hair and full beard are white as silver.
His walk is sprightly.
DIR. Alexander Clark of Pittsburg,
Pa, a we'll known Methodist divine and
author of numerous books, theological
and miscellaneous, died at the residence
of his friend Gov. Colquitt at Atlanta,
Ga on the 9th. DIR. Clark went to
North Carolina to deliver the annual
address to the students of Yadkins Col
lege, was taken sick with typhoid dys-
entcry, and died quite suddenly. He
was 45 years of age.
Mrs. Sarah Ann Dorsey, lady
well known throughout the South for
her literary labors, author of the novels
"Lucia Dare, !" "Agnes Graham" and
Panola," besides several biographical
works, died recently at New Orleans.
At the time of her death she was engag-
ed in assisting Jefferson Davis in the
preparation of his autobiography. Mrs.
Dorsey was a woman of great genius,
highly educated and accomplished, and
in addition to her literary work she de-
voted much time to humanitarian pro-
jects, principally in the instruction of
the colored people. She bequeaths her
entire property to Jefferson Davis.
Science and Industry.
Great Britain and Ireland, and
their shipping trade, consume 113 mil
lion tons of coal year.
st. Louis gets her principal supply
of coal, not including the anthracite,
from the coal fields of Western Illi-
nois, and all within a radius of 60
miles.
The Maine Beet Sugar Company
will put in this year additional machine
ry so as to be prepared to work 100
tons of beets per day, during the next
manufacturing season.
The employment of wood in the
| manufacture of paper is not conducive
to the longevity of that substance. A
German scientist has called attention to
the subject, pointing out that the paper
used in their public offices is mainly
composed of wood, and that the de-
struction from natural causes, of many
important official records may be ex-
pected. He limits their duration to
about IL years.
Atlanta, Georgia, has cotton mill
capable of working 5000 bales of cot
ton per annum. When it is in full op-
Grafton it will give employment to near
ly 1,100 persons. 1t is equipped with
the best machinery that Northern me.
chanics could put up. 1t is the first
mill of the kind that Atlanta ever had,
and commenced running a few days
ago, amid great rejoicing and in the
presence of the Governor of the State
and of other prominent officials.
The latest structural use of iron
is the invention of iron shin
giles. Wooden shingles have been
growing somewhat scarce and expen'
sive, and have often to be renewed
| Now it seems that kind of tile, OF
plate. of iron, much the same size and
shape, will rapidly take their place. The
iron plates are much lighter and
more durable than the wooden covering
for single layer of the iron tiles viii
last as long as the beams and rafters o
the roof beneath. Again, the iron does
not expand and contract with every rain
storm and dry day, and so much leaking
is avoided. A special advantage is tn n
they make the roof practically fire-proof
No ordinary sparks and cinders from
adjacent burning buildings can set al
iron shingle on fire, and only brand
large enough to heat through and chal
the beam beneath can do damage. These
shingles are said to be as cheap anC
more easily put on than the wooder
| ones.
| School and Church.
There are 50 Jesuit establishments
IL