Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-04-21
@(RRiL NEWS SUMMARY.


been appointed specaA Agent oI INC
Treasury Department.
The new postal treaty with the North
German Union, which takes effect July
1, reduces the single rates on prepaid let
tiers eia England, to 10 cents, and csd
Bremen or Hamburg TO 7 cents; nm
prer, aid letters pay double rs.es. News
PAPER rates are unchanged, but must be
prepaid
On the 7th, the President signed the
Joint resolution directing the Secretary OF
the Navy TO investigate the Oneida dis
aster
ChiefJustice Chase gave hearing on
the 7th TO the counsel in the Richmond
Nayoralty difficulty on . motion to dis
solve the injunction granted BY Judge
Underwood asaina Ellison and his 1850
eia.eA After the arguments Of counsel,
the ChiefJ ussice took the case under
advisement.
The United States Supreme Court has
decided that the robbery Of . receiver of
public moneys Is no defense for the bonds
men, the claim Of the government against
them remaining perfectly valid.
Walter Brown, the oarman, has been
appointed by the Navy Department In
struc.or OF rowing at Annapolis.
Vice President Colfax received the con-
CALCULATIONS Of many Senators and friends
on the 18th, on the addition Of q son TO
his family, which event occurred on the
11th-
The following nominations were sent TO
the Senate on the 18th: Consuls-Ed-
mund johnson, Of Arkansas, At Client; A..
Journdan, of District on Columbia, at Sc
vile: Hamilton Richardson, Of Wisconsin,
1t Ancona Samuel T. Day, OF Florida, at
pscscu; VIZ. T. Fszoa, 81 Connecticut,
at Curacao A. B. Long, United States
Attorney for Louisiana; George Lount
Receiver Of Public Moneys, at Prescott,
Arizona.
The Supreme Court has decided that
the number Of counsel who will be heard
In the legal tender cases. shall be four, or
two for each case.
The President nominated 70 the Senate,
on the 18th, as Postmasters in Kansas,
John III. Smith, Paoli; James w. Rice,
Garnet, and James II. Brown, Olathe.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th
says: "The President informed gentle
man, last night, who called upon him rel
ative to issuing general amnesty procla-
nation, that he had no intention Of issu-
ing one at present"
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th at
1i2A.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has I'D
journed sine die.
The remains of General Thomas arrived
in Troy on the morning of the It'll The
Troy. Nv nv a
During March, 1890 immigrants ar
rived at New York city, including 1886
Germans
The New York Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church has voted In
favor OF lay delegations-145 TO 80.
The col0rcd citizens OF New York city
celebrated the Fifteenth Amendment on
the 9Th, by procession 10000 strong and
an enthusiastic meeting in the evening.
B. G. N. Sylvester, alMs Jack Reynolds,
the murderer of William Townsend, was
hanged in New York city, on the 8th.
In the Mcfarland case, ''on the 9Th, the
counsel for the defense introduced the
plea Of insanity along with testimony to
show conspiracy TO break up his family.
At Troy, N. Y, on the 9th, the mortal
remains Of Gen. George II. Thomas were
Inferred in lakewood Cemetery, with
solemn and most impressive funeral rites,
attended by President Grant, members Of
the Cabinet, Senators and Representa-
tives, tho Governor and Legislature of
New York, officers of the Army and Navy,
and great concourse Of people, includ-
ing the Society Of the Army of the Cum.
berland. U8# ~
Several members of . family named
Cove at Lowell, Mass, we're dangerously
III Of trichinosis on the 9th. Physicians
conbidered the symptoms uninistakable
and caused by eating uncooked pork.
The final meeting of the American
Antl-Slavery Society was held In New
York city on the 9th. The organization
had been in existence thirty seven years.
The Stanton Memorial Fund amounts
TO $4,000, and 10 in deposit, drawing in.
tercst for Mrs. Stanton and children.
The reunion Of the Army of the Poto-
mac at Philadelphia, on tho 9th, was at
tended BY President Grant, and q large
number Of Generals and other officers.
The President held q levee ct Philsdel.
phia on tho nth, and left for Washington
by special train ct noon. YGl
The Academy building at Kennebec,
Me-, occupied by the High and Grammer'
Schools, was burned on the evening Of
the 10th.
Two new three.story buildings at Sche-
nectAdy, N. r., fell on the morning of
the nth, and are complete wreck. Six
or eight men were In the building one
was killed and three injured.
A prize-Hght announced to come off on
the 12th. at St. Charles Island, near Mil.
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