Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-08-25

| The National Neshodist Camp Heetns
opened q Des Plxines Station, near Chi
czyo, on the 9Th, and would continue Ten
dsya
During the Presidents Wit On the 12sh
TO the Merchants Exchange q 81 Louis
Mayor Cole presented 70 him. on behalf
OF the Irish and American citizens. Pc
tition for the pardon Of Gen. O'Neil and
ether Penians, IN prison for violasion Of
the neutrality Laws. The Presidens re
. ceived the petition and said he wouls
give 1t consideration.
!. The large oil, paint and giaS establish
mcnt Of MeaGrA Heath q MiIlignn. Chi
caeo, wss totally destroyed by fre On the
evening Of the 18th, involving . loss IN
the neighborhood Of 10000
/ The Congressional Republican Conven-
ton Of the Eighth Ohio District have re-
nominsted General John Beatty. The Re-
publicans of the Thirteenth District have
noninsted G. W.. Poswin, Of GAINESVILLE,
for Congress.
President Grant arrived In Chicago on
the evening Of the 18th.
The fourth annual session Of the Ma
tional Labor Union Convention assembled
ct Cincinnati On the 18th.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad IL com.
pleted TO Denver. The last rail was laid
on the afternoon Of the 18th.
DR.. 9. B. Nerp,e, who was reported
killed near Bitter Greek, July 30, where
his party were attacked BY Indians, has
arrived at Virgins City, Montana. He
was captured By the Indians, and sutsc-
quently escaped, by the aid Of young
squaw.
Hon. Thomas w. McNeely Ia the
Democratic candidate Tor Congress in the
Ninth Illinois District.
The National Teachers Association
commenced its session at Cleveland on the
18th, with teachers from twenty-five
States In attendance.
The sixth annual meeting Of the Illi
nois Press Association, recently held at
Chicago, elected, az officers for the ensu-
ing year President, Z. II. Griggs, OF the
Rockford Register Vice Presidents, A.
w. Edwards, 8. p. Rounds and T. r.
Bolton Secretary. J. II. Mosser; Asso-
ciate Secretary, r. K. Woods; Core
spending Secretary, J. j. Birdsall
Treasurer, j. r. Bailey; Executive Com
nittee, w. II. Steele, James ShoaH and O.
| Waters.
Congressional nominations were made
| ON the 18th as follows: Republican
Eleventh Ohio, John T. Wilson; Fifteenth
Ohio, VIM. p. Sprague; Sixteenth Ohio
John A. Bingham; Fourth Ohio, w. b
McClung; Seventh Indiana, General Lew
Wallace, acknowledgement Indiana
q. J. Anthony.
The Iowa State Republican Convention
on the 18th made the following nomina.
tons: For Supreme Judges, G. 9. Cole
Jas. @. Day, w. 4. Miller; Secretary o
State, Edward Wright; Auditor Of State
John Russell; State Treasurer, Major
Rankin; Register OF State Land Office
Aaron Brown; Attorney General, Majo
O'Connor; Register Of Supreme Court
r. Fl. Stiles; Clerk Of Supreme Court
Chas. Lcndcrman.
The SOath.
A decree Of amnesty has been publish
cd In Spain, pardoning all political offences
committed since the Goth Of September
1858, with the single condition that per
sons in tho military service who come
under the operation of the decree shall
take oath TO the constitution.
An Atlanta, Ca, dispatch Of the 18th
says the Prolongstion bill had been do
faated, and an election will be held THU
fall. A motion TO reconsider was rejected
ga TO IA.
The second bale Of new cotton wa
sold at Montgomery, Ala, on tho 18th
for 1890.
A Raleigh, N. g., dispatch Of the 1871
says: ut is asserted on what II con
, sidered good authority, that Governo
!. Holden will surrender the prisoners hell
by his order at Yanceyville, to Judg
Brooks, at Salisbury, on Thursday. Iii
further understood that an injunction vii
Z be sued out to restrain tho Treasurer from
paying Holden's State troops"
Whittemore has issued an address to hi
. constituents of the First South CAROLYN
District, formally Withdrawing his nam
- candidate for the Forty.seoond Con
greas.
The Democratic State Convention o
Georgia was held In Atlanta on the nth
Foreign Intelligences
Strasburg was closely invested by
largo Prussian army on the 18th, and thu
surrender of the city had been demanded
and refused. Tho King of Prussia hat
issued . proclamation, stating that b,
warred against soldiers, not citizens, ane
the latter might continue secure In persoI
and property 20 long - they ahstainet
from hostile acts.
Paris dispatches Of the 18th declare will
certainty that the Prince Imperial hat
not quit France, while tho London Pal
Nall Gazette Of the same date rea6irms hi