The independent. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Kan.) 1860-1874, 1865-10-21
The 1eWs.

Inc 0eW4.
The receipts Of Ictern.l Revenue for
the month ending Sept. 80. amount to
upwards Of ninesy.lhree million dol
lars.
Two gunboats we're recently sold at
Mound City at an aggregate Of $24.-
600.
Seven persons we're poisoned to death
in Shiloh. Ill. recently. Calomel had
been prescribed, which was afterwards
found 10 contain corrosive sublemste.-
II was feared others would not survive.
as the calomel had been given to up.
wards Of forty patients.
A Eve mile foot.race came of in 81.
Louis, last week. between John Grin
nell and Young Deerfoot, for $500 side.
Deerfoot won by 36 seconds: bis whole
time being 1901. Grinnell's 3O:37.
The last mile was run by Deerfoot in
s: 80.
i A Ere in Belfast. Me-. on the night ol
Oct. 18Th. destroyed 1000 buildings
Loss $4,000.
I The President is busily employed du.
ring his leisure hours hours upon bis
} forthcoming message.
Four hundred rebels we're pardoned
by the President on the l4,h inst.
The officers of the U. S. Navy are
about to petition Congress for an in
crease Of pay.
Work is being renewed in the lead
, mines in Jasper and Benton Cos. Mo-
Eastern capitalists are prospecting, viii
/, . view 10 heavy Investments. New
machinery is being rapidly brought in
JEFF. Thompson says that the only
persons in the South who want 10 d.
any more fighting are those who didn'
do any when they had chance.
7 Election returns from Iowa thus e.
show that Gov. Stones majority vii
, be about $1,000. The Legislature vii
, Be three fourth Republican.
I
: Colc'Ado hss voted in favor Of form
:. ing a State Government. and sgains
= negro suffrage.
Il Tho first Fair in Platte Co. since Is
+ 60. was held at Platte City this week
The attendance was large and exhibi
= tions 6ne.
Southwest Missouri is rapidly bein,
! re-peopled aud about all the farms vii
i be tenanied b. their former occupants
8 Most Of the former settlers are returning
:. while others. seeking = new location ar
i buying lands and making improvements
. which lend TO shortly bring this part o
the State up TO its former high staudar'
u Of prosperity.
$ 1t is estimated that the apple crop o
: Pike Co. Mo-. will reach one hundre.
and twenty five barrels. and valued a
about $3.50 900.
J. The census returns Of Iowa show
y total population Of TAG. 600. au increas
y in two years Of 47.9I2.
IS Workmen are busily engaged in pre-
IS pairing the Capitol for the spproachin,
J. Congress.
b. 1t is reported that the Cholera ha
f broken out at Southampton. Eng.
'e Lords Palmer.ton and Derby ar
/ both bed-ridden with the gout. an
y there are doubts as 10 the recovery
> the former.
The Union majority in the late cleo
sion in Pennsylvania will exceed III.
given for Mr.. Lincoln by several thou
sands.
Dates from the city Of Mexico Of Il,
, 5th inst. state that l.. Maury. lecen,l
8. ma uralised Mexican. has. by deere,
ID been appointed honorary counsellor
70 Considerable excitement was create
= by murder in the city. and the exec,
is lion Of the criminals within forty -eiel
re hours. by the order Of the Emperor.
A number Of late Union officers, hav
Il started = universal suffrage paper, ;
, Raleigh. N. c.. called the Journal
- Freedmen.
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