Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-08-05

30 years old, are officers of high rank
in the japanese navy.
Fifteen hundred tailors of New
York City "strucll" for higher wages
last Thursday.
News from Yokohama shows that
the japanese have the latest inn
proved rifles, well-armed war vessels,
light i:ouscs, Goa; mines, anu a nos
pital in charge of an American sur
geon.
The first carload Of fruit from Cal
ifornia arrived at Chicago last Thurs
day, in excellent conditions; consist
ing of pears, plums, grapes dc.
The japanese colony in California
seems to be flourishing, and making
good start in the culture of the tea
plant and mulberry.
The French Army has been reduced
by about $4,000 men, by the granting
of new furloughs and extension of old
ones. That don't look as though
war were apprehended.
A New York dispatch says that
numerous charges Of fraud have been
preferred against Mr.. Casey, Collect
or of the Port of New Orleans, who
is brother-in-laW of Pres't Grant;
but that the charges shall be duly
investigated, and Mr.. Casey dealt
with accordingly.
President Grant arrived early yes
terday morning. The White House
being closed and the cooks off ON va
cation, he entered Wilkins restaur-
ant and called for his breakfast in q
private room. The clerk, not recog'
nizing him, refused to let him have 4
private room, whereupon he went tC
Wormley's restaurant.
A dispatch from Lawrence says the
town of Detroit on the Kansas Pacific
Railroad was entirely destroyed by a
fierce wind and hail storm last Tues
day night The wind blew down
every building in town, leaving the
inhabitants literally homeless on the
bare prairie.
WASHINGTON, July 30.
The internal revenue receipts to-
day were over "A million dollars.
Nothing has occurred to show that
the President will interfere in the
coming election in Mississippi, but
he has expressed his declaration that
there shall be a fair one. The Dis
trict commander will accordingly
appoint in each County Board OF
Registers composed of one Radical,
one Conservative Republican, and
one army officer.
Hon. Asa Packer formally accepts
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, and Mr.. Per-
shing that for Supreme Judge. Mr..
Packer will not go into the canvass
personally, being no speaker.
MADRID, July 30.
The Carlist movement may be re-
garded as. having died out.
LIVERPOOL, July 30.
The Cotton Supply Association has
adopted resolution looking to the
speedy development of railroad in
India in order to facilitate the eXpor-
tation Of cotton from that country.
This course is taken in consequence
Of the insufficient supply from the y.
s. The stock of American cotton il
not large enough to keep the mills al
Lancashire fully engaged.
!
John p. Hale, cx u. S. Minister to
Spain, was to start for this country
last Friday.
The English Government will as
soon as possible consider the subject
of cheap postage between England
and the United States.
st. Louis held an enthusiastic mass
meeting last Friday evening, to dis
cuss the subject Of removing the Ma
tional Capital to that city.
The Hon. +. G. Ingorsoll, now
travelling in Great Britain, writes in
a private letter that "the desOlatiOn
of Ireland isbeyond conception. The
whole land Is blighted, country and
town. In the populous and once
thrifty city Of Dublin there arc at
present only three buildings in pro-
cess Of erection, and they are church
cs."
4 floating paragraph in the papers
says that "All the honey-bees within
q circuit Of twenty-five miles above
st. Louis have simultaneously left
/ well-flled hives and disappeared"
A crew of select rowers have gone
from Harvard College to England to
row race with crew from Oxford
University. The race is to come off
on or about the 22d inst.
Chicago papers are making consid-
| erable stir over the fact that Mr..
Sclmits, who is acting as Mayor of
Chicago during an absence Of Mayor
Rice, has pardoned hundreds Of
thieves and other criminals out Of
prison already, during the six weeks
he-has held the office.
Henry Keep, the well-known
| dnancier, who raised himself from
poor boy to a millionaire and great
railway potentate, died in New York
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