Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1869-12-02

ti,n, and ten cents for each additionalline.
No less than fifty vessels passed
safely through the Suez Canal and
back within the first ten days.
Fenian demonstrations in several
places in Ireland last Saturday, with
considerable rioting and disturbance.
.CopENHAGEN, Nov. q.
The official newspaper to-day pub
fishes the foilowing:-The ratification
of the sale Of the Island of st. Thorn.
as to the United States Government
has been postponed six months.
The Giant Powder Mills at San
Francisco exploded last Friday night,
killing two men and wounding sew.
eral others. M
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. II.
a petition to Congress to recognize
the beliigerent rights of Cuba re-
ceived $4,000 signatures in three days
in Philadelphia.
Chicago is to have milliOn-dollar
hotel, which is to cover an entire
square. The structure is to he six
stories high.
A peculiar affair occurreed at Tip
tonville, Tennessee, on the 2lst ult.
A man named Jones had in his en-
ploy some negroes who were said to
be armed. a mob of masked men
went to disarm them. Jones and his
negroes defended themselves; and
skirmish ersued, in which two or
three of the raiders were. killed.
Jones and six Of the negroes were
arrested; but while the latter were
under the Sheriff's charge mob
gathered and took Ave of the negroes
and killed them. The excitement
about the affair was intense; but the
results are not yet reported.
Belle Boyd, actress, lecturer, rebel
soldier, lighting by the side Of her
father, etc, is now the inmate Of
California insane asylum.
Albert ID. Richardson, an attache
of the New York Tribune, and wide-
ly known as the author of Beyond
the Mississippi" and other excellent
books, was shot and severely wound
ed in New York City last Thursday
evening, by lawyer named McFar-
land. The cause seems tohave been,
that Mcfarland had a wife whom he
had ill-treated and deserted, and that
Richardson was engaged to marry
her as soon as she could obtain o
divorce. AT latest reports, Mr.. Rich
ardson was in a critical condition,
with hope Of recovery,
Memphis dispatches Of Monday
tell of a fight between whites and me-
groes at Winona, Mississippi. Full
particulars are not given; but it Is
reported that thirteen negroes were
killed.
The noted desperate Hugh Gar
riiy was arrested In Chicago on Mon
day, and will be returned to Iowa for
trial.
U. S. Paymaster w. G. Murray, ut
the Mare Island Navy Yard, San
Francisco, is announced as a default.
er to the estimated amount Of about
$4,000.
The Cincinnati Bible-in-the-P Pub
lic-Schools question has been brought
before the Courts by suit for In
junction.
BY the way, the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, "a Puritan and the son Of .
Puritan" declares emphatically that
it is not right to enforce the reading
of the Bible in the Public Schools;
and the "Advance," religious news
paper fChicagO, holds similar views.
Heavy fire in Topeka, Kansas, last
Saturday evening. Loss $4,000. The
Government Land Office entirely de-
stroyed. ~
Senator Ramsey having failed to
negotiate 8 new and more liberal
Postal treaty with France, it is now
reported that the French Govern.
mcnt has asked that the present one,
which expires on the lst Of February
next, be renewed for one year, and
that our Government has positively
declined. D.