Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-06-02

attend t. Collect ons, and Buying and
Land 50
Wilder & Weidner
HOMEOPATHIC Physicians 4 Sur,
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with which he was playing.
Over 10000, 900 persons have died Of
the small pox in Russia since the begin.
ming of the century. Vaccination is not
compulsory in the Cars dominions.
Two illustrious Frenchmen have dis
covered the secret Of the manufacture of
Chinese gongs, and these delightful in
struments are to be as cheap as Jews
hsrps.
The fare on the London horse-rail-
ways is one penny mile. The cars are
made to convey twenty eight passengers
on the outside and twenty-five inside, and
are very elegant.
-Four hundred and forty thousand
shooting permits are delivered annually
in France, which, at twenty-five francs
each, make an aggregate of two million
two hundred thousand dollars. The num-
Der Of hunters is a million and half
"A rich American died about month
ago in Paris, of the effects of abuse Of
tobacco. He is said to have frequently
consumed as many as forty @ cigars q
day. BY his will he leaves his children
millions, and strictly prohibits them from
smoking
An English somnambulist jumped
out of his three story room window into
the street, under the belief that he was
stepping out of his kitchen into the back
yard breaking his leg on the pavement
aroused him to sense of his error.
Lord Eldon, who recently died in
London, left his whole fortune to lunatic
asylum, alleging that he had gained it by
pleading in chancery, and that, therefore,
it'should GO to the benefit Of nadmen,
since no one but mailman would prac-
tice in chancery court. az
The gambling tables at Wiesbaden
were Opener on the 1st ut april for the
season. The first victim was young
Portuguese, aged 23, who lost his entire
fortune of 100000 francs during the day,
together with his senses. He became in
sane, and was taken to the city hospital.
"A recent dispatch from Athens,
Greece, says the commission investigating
into the recent butchery of travellers by
the bandits, had received the strongest and
most indubitable evidence that the victims
were betrayed into the hands of the brig
ands through the treachery of their Greek
guide, Alexandra.
"A veloeipedist was, on the Goth ultimo,
charged with having INSTRUCTED London
thorOughfare. The magistrate held that
Q bicycle was carriage, and person OBJ
structings crossing with any description
of vehicle was liable to q penalty. He or
dered the defendant to pay q small fine
and costs
The Empress Eugene said the other
day. to the Duchess Of Rutherford, who
visited her in Paris: Ny dear friend, if
you knew what have suffered In the
course of the last two years, you could
surely not envy my position" And after
saying that, the Empress burst into food
During the vaccination excitement at
Paris, an editor invited his employees to q
pleasure party, and with great mystery
they toek seats in coaches which were at
the door, and were driven to the doctors
where all were vaccinated, and the same
Office was performed for the coachmen in
lieu Of their usual fees. -
Palestine has been visited by ter
rible storm. In Jerusalem there was
alternate rain, hail and snow for three
days. Travellers were pretty efectually
blocked in, or went on with great diff
Guilty. The pilgrims crowding the city
had started in large numbers for the Jor-
dan, and were caught in the wilderness.
Several are reported to have perished.
AT Belvidere- on Thames, England,
there is an asylum for old sailors. Not
long since an election took place, there
being twelve times as many candidates as
vacancies. William Moses Blanchard was
one OF the candidates elected TO vacancy,
and Walter Ryan to IN out door pension
The announcement of these facts to
them occasioned their deaths BY excess Of
by the report Of police case at MARI
borough street, London, It appeared that
. husband, brutally i'll using his wife, en-
deayored to strangle her. While, howev-
er. abe lay thus, favorite cat, named
9Topsey," suddenly sprang uponthe man,
and fastened her claws and teeth in his
face. He could not tear the cat away, and
was obliged to implore the woman he had
been abusing to take the cat from him to
ave bis life Az II
The Totara New Zealand) Chronicle
died, after . brief existence Of three
WeekA The demise II announced ON .
double crown sheet with the Chronicle
heading. Ali the letter press on the first
page is, blessed are they who expect
nothing, for they shall not be disap-
pointed" The inside pages are blank,
The fourth page, under the head of
s.Death," has the following: "On the
svening of the 18th instant, after short
but brilliant career, the Totara Chronicle,
aged three weeks. Let it r. ]. r.. Hoki-
tifka papers please copy"
"A letter from Dingle County, Cork,
Ireland, May Z, Gays: "A most awful oc-
curTence happened at an advanced hour