Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-04

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President Gant and fkmily len Wash
i>eton On the 21Et Sor Long Branch
VIM. Sherman, Thomas B. Sherman
md Calvin Brown, Of California, have
been appointed Commissioner OF tne
aouthern Pacific Railroad; James D.
Heviey, Surveyor OF Customs Ut ST. DO
nuph No: Samuel A. Orchard, Surveyor
a Customs, Omaha, Eeh.
The President has appointed Capt Ball
cuEmxDaer Of the Arctic expedition
Il hes been o6cisl,y knnounced THAT NJ.
Bsssheny, owing 70 the death OF Psrscol,
yin remain in Washington IS French
Minister.
fsseSrsrns have been received At Wash
fnespr from m authorisisye source. say
ing that the Bremen s.es-zers are rnAly
dehnisesT withinwn from the ocean 10
consequence Of yspoleoa's refusal TO ex-
enps private property from seizure. This
action settles al question Is 20 the trans
putassoe of the mails BY that line. Pas
sx,een. Ew Germacy and Bremen mus
rench their destination from England By
British sse2nerx
Tie East,
Gold closed In New York On the 2s.h
n f2iss.
Sena,os Ar,es and the daughter Of Gen.
Rem Butler we're married 8: Lowell,
Mss, On the evening Of the 2ist-
An Albany dispatch Of the 22d Ays the
wheat crop Of New York State VIII be
one- half more than last year. and of supe-
nor quality. Oats win be larger crop
than last year.
Il II announced thss the President,
while II Long Branch, will give public
receptions to visitors once . week in
order 70 escspe being bored by office
eeekem
Collector Murphy entered on his duties
q the Custom House in New York city,
ON the 2ist, appointing James Terwilliger
Special Deputy Collector and Private
Secretary.
The remains Of Paradol arrived at New
York on the ED, and were taken ON board
the steamer Lafayette.
Chevalier Charles +. Deloosey, for the
pasa twenty years Austrian Consul Gen
eal ut the port Of New York, died sud,
denly on the 2lst, Of apoplcxy.
Nearly all the business part OF Cole.
brook, N. IL, was destroyed by fire on the
2lan. A 100000 fire occurred In East
Boston on ths 18th, and about $50, 0C0
worth Of property was also destroyed by
IRE in New York city.
At West Lebanon, New Hampshire,
conductors Henry s. 6hattuck and George
W. Barnes, and engineer Andrew N.
sSnabtea9 A L the zee ssaecond dsgree IN Isss
collision on the Northern railroad.
There were twenty deaths from sun
stroke In New York city on the Goth.
A fire in Philsdelphia on the Goth de.
stroyed . large sugar refinery, with valu-
able machinery and large stock OF re-
fined sugars. During the FIRE the rear
vail fell on an adjoining building, crush
inx II and carrying down hine fremen,
al Of whom were believed TO be killed.
The Grand Jury at Windsor, W., has
Indicted the Fcnian General O'Neil.
The Philadelphia Ledger estimates the
los at the recent fire in that city at $780,.
Oo0. No firemen were killed, but several
were injured.
The yacht Cambria passed Sandy Hook
ON the afternoon Of the 9th, and Is the
winner OF the ocean race. The Dauntless
was only one hour and thirty five min
utes behind.
The West.
Tho Republican Convention Of the
Sixth Iowa Congressional District, q
Fort Dodge on tho 21st, nominated the
Hon. jackson Orr, Of Boone county.
Hon. W. =. Niblack has been nominated
lx Congress by tho Democracy Of the
Yirst Indiana District, and Hon. w. 8
dOlm40 Uy to0 ACuluIAuNy Va WIZ = AAAA -
Lady Franklin, widow Of Sir John
Franklin, the Arctic explorer, arrived In
Cincinnati on the 28d. She visited Gin
cinnati In order 70 see Captain @. +. Hal
and confer with him In regard to thu
Arctic expedition.
In Chicago, on the 23d, the Mutual Base
hall Club Of New York city, defeated thu
White Stockings, Of Chicago-9 too.
Major w. g. MORGAN II the Democratic
Candidate for Congress from the Eighth
Indiana District
Nearly dozen cases Of sun-stroke &C
CARED In st. Louis on the 26th, mostl,
proving fatal; also, two cases Of hydro
phobla were developed, one Of which wa
fatal, and tho other probably would be.
At Chicago, on the 10th, the Harvar'
College Baseball Club, OF Boston, defeat
Cd the Chicago White Stockings-ii to
srha Mut,lals. of New York, defeate'