Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-11-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Washington News.

Warrington News
The President has issued the following
Thanksgiving proclamation:
WASHINGTON October n.
WaRnnAs, II behooves peopse rensi1e ni Hleil
3 ss A.E' ,sr rrsae 10
Hk mercie., and humbly 20 beseeca Tor nen COZ
W s. h. people Of The United state. dur.
ag he yeas aboni 70 end have special easse e be
Aankfsl for tbe general prosperity, apundan. oa1
sest and exemption rom war sno EN- s,l" Gran,
President Of the United States. concurring "a any
similar recommendations from the CHIEF Aagis,
.sasss o. she s..,ss 40 hereby nlares 81 war
ship on Thnrsday, the 34th day Of November next,
1bcre 70 give thanks for the bounty Of God during
ne year about to Close, and TO snpplicate for lis
In witness whereof have hereunto ses my
hand and caused the seal Of the Uuited states 70
Done Al the city OF Washington, this slst day OF
October In the year OF Our Lord One Thou
sand Right Hundred and Seventy. and Of the
Independence Of the United States the Ninety
afth
(signei) L. S. GRANT.
BY the President
HAnrLTox FIsH Secretary OF State.
A Washington dispatch Of the 22d says /:
"The President had long conferences with
Secretary Boutwell, and Commissioner Del
ano to-day, the result Of which has been
The definite determination that Delano be
appointed Secretary of the Interior. With
regard 70 the appointment OF Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue no decision
has yet been made by the President
The President on the ED, appointed
VIM K Thrall to be United States Marshal
for the Southern District of Ohio, and 5
n. Ashenfelter, United States Attorney for
the Territory of New Mexico.
Mr.. Morton has declined the appoint
ment Of Minister TO England. His reason
for this step is the fact that If he should
resign his position as United States Sen
s4or, the Indiana Legislature, recently
elected, would fill the vacancy with a Dem
Ocrat, and an opponent Of the Administra-
ZION
The following appointments were made
on the 18th Jas. L. Hodge, Postmaster at
Little Rock, Ark; Jas. Seely, United
States Attorney for Nevada.
A report that Postmaster General Cress-
well had been selected as Minister to
England is denied by Washington dis
patch Of the 18th.
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 2Jth
at 111ss.
Gen. Butler in the Fifth, and General
Banks in the Sixth Massachusetts, Dis
tricts have been re-nominated for Congress
by the Republicans +. ID. Webster was
nominated by the Republicans Of the
Second New York Congressional District,
and Ethan Allen in the Fourth.
The Tammany Democracy Of New
York city made the following nominations
on the 10th For Mayor, A. Oakley Hall
Sheriff, H. T. Brennan; County Clerk,
Charles +. Loew Coroncrs, Nelson ii.
Young, Patrick ii. keenan, and g. N Her
man The Republican State Committee
adopted resolutions that it was incxpcdient
10 make party nominations for city and
county officers, and advising the Republi-
cans to vote with the independent Democ.
racy and others, in opposition to Tam
many.
The Mutuals. Of New York, and Ath.
lctics, OF Philadelphia, scored twelve each
In teninnings game AT New York on the
18th the contest being tie on the 9th and
10th innings. In game at Philadelphia
on the 10Th the Athletics defeated the At
hntics 10 10 3.
II is said that Morrell will contest the
election of Speer in the Seventeenth Penn
sylvania District
A severe earthquake shock was expert
cnced on the morning Of the Goth at De
troit, Cleveland, Montreal, Schenectady,
New York, Boston, Troy, Cincinnati, Port
land, Me-, and other places at the East and
in Canada. In some instances the shock
was SO severe as to brighten people out of
their houses. At Standish, Me, sixteen
miles from Portland, three hundred feet of
the bed of the Ogdensburgh Railroad,
across Alter Creek, settled ten feet at the
time Of the earthquake.
The State Committee Of the Massachu-
sets Labor Reform party have deposed J.
X. Chattaway as candidate for Lieutenant
Governor. Chattaway is the Democratic
candidate for the same Office.
The New York Board Of Education
have refused to rescind the bylaw abolish
ing corporal punishment in public schools.
Tammany Hall nominations in New
York for Congress are; Fourth Congress
sional District, Morgan Jones; Fifth, VIM.
II. Roberts; Sixth, s. s. Cox; Seventh,
Smith Ely; Eighth, James Brooks; Ninth,
Fernando Wood. Smith Ely is the can
didate Of the Young Democracy in the
Seventh District.
The Republicans Of the Tenth Massa-
chusetts District have re-nominated Hon.
II. L. Dawes for Congress.
The twentieth anniversary of the inau
guration of the woman suffrage movement
was celebrated in New York city on the
21st
Another shock of an earthquake was
scnsibly felt in the lower part of New
York city on the morning of the 2lst,
throwing down articles Of furniture, but
doing no other perceptible damage.