Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-16

IOWA NEWS.
The Annual Meeting Of the Iowa
Press Association is called to meet at
Iowa City on the 28th inst.
Senator Grimes has donated 81, 500
worth Of German books to the Burl.
ingtOn Library.
It was the poet Tennyson who,
through one Of his characters, OBJ
served and queried:-"They follow
old trails very well; but when did
woman ever yet invent" Never.
theless, a Miss Mary Potts, of OF
tumwa, has invented q new flat-iron,
and had; it patented. And We re-
member &hatta Mrs. ROsbrugh, Of
ipthrie County. this State, hae lately
invented apA patented a new Bleach
ing Process. -.
Misses Helen and Grace Eaton, of
ClariHda, were severely injured in a
collision on the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad. some months ago. The
Company has paid them $4,000, and
settled all expenses consequent upon
the accident. Sosays the Register.
Mr.. Smith Tharp, Of Blakesburgh,
has n farm of some two or three
thousand acres; Is building barn 40
by l05 feet in size; shipped five car
loads of stock to Chicago few days
sgo; and runs five breaking-teams,
and other forces enough to make his
expenses 500 per day. A few years
eGQ he Was z poor eagileera With
~ .p To. x&eut - M ESl15e! e. ~
il1ld6 his money by hard labor and
god management.
An unmistakablc fossil fish-net has
been discovered in an excavation in
the bluffs at Ottumwa, % feet below
the surface Of the ground, says the
Courier.
The people Of Abba and vicinity
have been for some two weeks great
~ excited because the Abba Deposit
Bank has suspended payments. The
amount Of Its deposits Is not definite
~ known. The Cashier, Mr.. II. *.
Steele, assures the Union that no loss
will accrue to depositOrs ultimately,
II they will only wait while.
The State Woman Suffrage Con-
tion'beglns at Mt. Pleasant today.
Maj,,A. II. Pierce, late Senator
from Jefferson County, Is spoken Of
as candidate for Auditor Of State.
Mr.. Castor has 100 acres of broom
corn in Mahaska County, says the
Herald.
And the same paper, Of last Thurs
day, says: "The American Central
Engineer corps isat work hcreabOut,
and II we knew anything to say of
their doings our readers should have
it. We don't, aud therefore we put
here -"
Among the class Of fifty-nine grad
uating at West Point this year are Il.
8. Chaplin and w. y. Birkheimer, OF
Iowa.
The Iowa Capitol Commissioners
are TO meet at Madison, Wisconsin,
the 9Th Of July, and commencing
there will proceed To examine the
principal State Capitols0f the Union,
In order to be better prepared to
make such notifications as may he
desirable in the plan selected for
Iowa.-Reyister.
The Grand Lodge Of Iowa Masonry
has some $500 invested in Govern
ment bonds.
George Wells, a Farmer in Grundy
County, offers to give the right OF
way for a Railroad, and to grade the
road, through his farm, a distance Of
seven miles,
!. A hoy 10, years old, son Of an In
sane man named Hansel, had his
head horribly crushed by the acci-
dental fall Of a great stone In KeO-
kuk lastSaturday; says the Cute city.
TRe State Sabbath School, Conyen-
ton, ned az Cedar Rapids last week,
was largely attended and highly sue
casSfiil. ~. iM.G0le Of Taga City
vas elected spresident, and +. q.
4 ybatsffi or nbpr,es City secretary ard