Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-05-05

-In North Lawrence, KanMA l. ie4 I
days ago, colored woman killed her I'm
FAINT, three days old, by applying . lighted
match to ito nostrils, thus causing sufBo-
0tion- Tfff
a little six year old girl In GiEas4
= fire burning In her fathers garden,
caught her clothing on fire, and was %
terribly burned that, after lingering In
agony about ten hours, she died from TIA
effects.
IA locomotive attached to Q freight
train ON the Toledo, Wabash d Western
Railroad, exploded its boiler at Toied0.
the other day, instantly killing the hre.
man, James CLARK, and fatally injuring the
engineer, William Darker. John AldricA,
brakeman, was slightly hurt tgT
"A boy and girl of Wolcott, Iowa.
were poisoned few days ago by pulling
and eating what they supposed to 30 cul-
tivated parsnips, but which was Wild
growth Of the article, and deadly poison.
The girl died before medical aid could be OBJ
tanned. The son was expected to recover.
Religious and Educational.
Baltimore has q church to 1881 in
Mbitants
The Episcopalians of this country
have only three missionaries in China.
There is in Scotland one church for
about every 1926 of all the persons of At
age to attend.
"A female teacher in indianapolis has
been fined for cruelty beating little girl,
one OF her pupils.
: The native churches on the Sandwich
Islands gave last year nearly $4,000 in
gold, for Christian objects. 3a0
The Illinois State Sunday School Con-
vention will be held in Quincy on the 7th.
9Th and 9th of June.
The average salary per week paid the
school teachers Of Newport, VT, is $2.60.
There are 397 families in the town.
The Bishop of Jerusalem states that
there are twenty four Protestant schools
in Palestine, in which 1000 children arc
taught the Bible.
Mrs. Albert, of Kentucky, has, by
her own efforts, established twenty-five
Sabbath schools for the poor and destitute
people living among the mountains Of tho
State.
The established Kirk of Scotland has
1854 congregations, and about 100000
members, the Free Church 5000, and
the United Presbyterians 100000.
The receipts of the American Baptist
Missionary Union for the year ending
March 81, 1870, were 5000, 953 so, which
Is more than was ever before received by
1t in one year.
Miss Anna L. Coffin, who was chosen
on the Newbury lMass.) School Commit
Aan Ill al 80 ~ ~
tend to the duties If she would, and would
not If she could.
There is Freewill Baptist Confer
ence In North Carolina which has thirty
seven ministers, 6fty.seven churches, and
3,398 members. Their numbers have
trebled In sixteen years.
1T 10 officially announced that the
delegates for conducting the local examine
ton of Oxford University viii admit girls
to examination In June, subject to regula-
tons already issued for boys.
The town:of Wardsboro, VT, elected
Miss Ellen A. Brimhall School 6upeYin-
tendent, but the moderator decided that Il
was not legal to elect woman TO such IN
once, and directed the meeting to elect
another person.
The International Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association win
be held at Indianapolis on tho 22d, %, 2lkh
and 25th Of June next. It is expected
from 1900 to 1900 regular and 1900 %
5000 corresponding delegates will b
present.
"A petition has been signed by the f.
| ..asi. ace oha-s:ef the N.w York city nuhll<s
schools, and presented to the Board Of
Education, asking for the restoration Of
corporal punishment. The women declare
that experience has taught that the rod
alone is Of any effect to keep the unruly
class Of boys in subsection.
Industrial.
New York will hold her next State
Fair at Utica.
Cincinnati is introducing Chinese q.
gar-makers.
-Skillful frog hunters, 1t Is said, earn
$12 day at Memphis.
They make three Yankee clocks eve
ry minute during working hours at Bris-
About 100000 oysters worth %
per 1000, are annually used In the Phila-
delphia market.
-Washington Territory boasts Of su
| IHmohoo Si"HOCiiy moaouy yACsuiu8 AVVs-
600 bushels in single CROP
Illinois has now 5000 miles of rail-.
road (of which 5000 are open for busi-
messy, costing, with their equipment
$40, 100000.
"A farmer in the neighborhood Of
Newport, r. l., has recently put 600 bar
rels Of blackfsh on his land, 20 manure
at twenty cents barrel.
Agricultural implements are being In.
troduced throughout New Zealand, and
the culture of flax 10 an industry which