Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

JOAQUIN Miller rises TO remark that
the daily newspaper is :. thessix-shoeter
of Eastern civilization" Every man
must have one or fall to the rear of the
procession.
= Henry D. Mcdaniel, who was
elected Governor Of Georgia recently, is
worth about $50, Coo and has practice
as a lawyer worth from $1,000 to S4.-
600 per year. as. TO uloaTi.-' aag 7.s
LEO XIII. seeks relaxation in the
composition of Latin poems, all of
which are printed under his careful
supervision After few copies have
been taken the type is distributed. -af-
George Alfred Townsend has bought
house in New York with the proceeds
of his pen, which, like. good hnS
band, he has promptly given to his wife,
and in which he expects toSend his lit
erary days.-M Y. Graphic.
The venerable senior and Presiding
Bishop, of the American Episcopal
Church, DIR. Smith, may be said to have
been a citizen under every President of
the United States. He was five years
old when General Washington died.
Representative Holman's home. in
Dearborn County, is about seven miles
from the county seat, where he prac-
tees law. He goes down on the rail
road in. the morning, comes, back to
dinner at noon, goes down to court
again before two clock, and returns
home In the evening. He has done this
for years.--Irsdianapolis Journal.
who has gone far to the
front as the leading American cartoon
ICf fnI Gov Il
Five years ago he was employed by a
leading publishing house at palsry
salary of thirty-fiye dollars week, and
he is now said to be worth over half a
million. His health, is, however, COM
pletely shattered. and his European
tour is solely for the purpose of recov-
ering his shattered system.-N Y.
Times. 's4 80 ~ ;i-.s sliT.l.s; a..
r. APostmaster-G General Gresham is the
sixth member of the Cabinet from In
| diana since the organization of the Gov
eminent These were the following:
Caleb b. Smith, Secretary of the In
terror, 1861 to 1868; John P. Usher,
I Secretary of the Interior, 1863 TO 1868;
Hugh McCulloch. Secretary of the
Treasury, 1865 to 1879; j. n. Tyner,
Postmaster-GeneraL, 1876 to 1877; r.
W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy
1877 to 1880 g" s.oi.5''i'
There have now been sixty years
of American novels-for it is about that
time since Cooper dashed into promi-
nence with his "Spy'1 and his sea
stories, and his character of Leather
stocking. He was our forlorn hope for
some years-since Irving could not
properly be called novelist; but
now our authors like misfortunes
90 come nOtlsingle spies, but in battal-
ions. 4 and there is Il ruck of novels,
good, bad, and worse.
In November next four hundred
years will have passed since the birth
of Martin Luther, and a new edition of
the reformer's works is announced as
one of the proposed modes of doing
him honor which, Germany will adopt.
Hitherto the best edition of his Latin
and German works has been that pub
lished at Erlangen. 1S26-1857, and in a
second edition, 1861. That edition will
be superseded by the new one. The
German Emperor has presented the
necessary funds for the undertaking,
and the Prussian Ministry of Worship
has appointed committee to superin-
tend it,-M. Y. Herald ~