Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-08-24

OhciA Statistics Just complesec sHoN
thsi 70, the fiscal year ending June 80,
is7e, the value Of whestAnd wheat -four
exported from the United States was 81.
42a. $50, of which $685., 822 was from he
Pacific coast
The Acting Superintendent OF the Cen
sus il preparing table Of the number OF
mSle citizens in each StSie shove the are
@! 81 entitled TO vote The following are
the Western S;sies, so far as compiled ;
Ohio, Js3 $50; Illinois, 542, S33; Indiana,
S77,93s. Iowa, 255, All; Michigan, "a, 45s I;
Minnesota, 1924; Wisconsin, 2o4,lU,
Nebraska, 1902
The Commissioner of Patents has de-
cided that no party il entitled. as OF night
20 cover in single patent more than one
article Of manufacture, unless the several
improvements presented are necessarily
connected with each other.
The convention for the interchange Of
postal money-orders between Great Britain
and the United States win 60 into effect
on October 2, next, and the Post Office De
pArtmeni has completed the preliminary
arrangements for its practical operation.
OF 2,455 money order Offices in this coun-
Try, $40 have been authorized TO issue
postal orders on the Postmaster al New
York city for payment in the United
Kingdom OF Great Britain and Ireland,
and. 10 pay orders issued by him for sums
certified by the Post once Department Of
th&s country for payment in the United
States.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th says
returns recently received show that the
c1ops are in better condition than WIS
reported in July. including corn and cot
ton. A letter from Arkansas says that al
though the acreage Of cotton is not so
large as last year, the crop will be gen.
orally as large and so for other States
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th
says: "The constant reception Of dis
patches by the War and Interior Depart
ments, giving accounts Of Indian hostili.
ties, render IL almost certain that there
will be serious difficulty in preventing a
general outbreak among many Of the In
dian tribes which were on reservations,
and army officers say they only confirm
the assertions made by prominent officers,
that large standing army or a thorough
subjugation will be necessary, TO secure
permanent peace with the savages"
The President has appointed James
Birney and Claudus Grant, of Michigan,
Commissioners at the Centennial celebra-
ton Of American independence, ~ Phila-
delphia. He has also appoints1 as Post
masters J. w. Lewis, of Barnes Ohio,
and Lsmuel SAVERS, Of Tecumsch. Mich
On the 18th, Secretary Boutwell, issued
circular to agents for the negotiation OF
the new loan, stating that he had decided
To withdraw the loan, for the present, from
the market, with the exception Of the
per cent. bonds as offered to the National
Banks by circular letter of the Secretary
of the Treasury, dated August 10. This
communication relates to the per cent
bonds in combination with the 5 per cent.
bonds.
On March 10 last the late Commissioner
Pleasonton decided that any writing,
whether called a receipt or otherwise,
which contains contract to continue in
force any policy of insurance which has
not expired, is exempt from stamp duty.
Commissioner Douglass on August 10, in
letter TO Coli(etor Ames at Providence,
II. l., reversed S6is decision, and holds that
any written contract, made In the form of
. receipt or otherwise, which renews or
continues policy, requires the same stamp
~ the original policy, whether the renewal
receipt Is given before or after the expira-
ton ofthe policy.
The East.
g Id closed in New York on the 10th
ut 1929.
Captain w. +. Lyons, the well-known
Irish patriot, died in New York city on
the 10th. He had been for some years an
editorial writer on the Herald.
John 8. Roberts and Henry Storms,
both scalded at the explosion of the West
field, died in New York on the 10th.
As the Maine Central Railway train
was entering Bangor on the night of the
9th, a bridge across the Hampden road
gave way, causing general smash up,
killing one person outright, and injuring
dfty others more or less severely.
Jacob Eisenhardt,a German butcher of
Now York city, recently attempted to
punish his little son for trifing misde.
meanor, and injured him so severely that
he died In few hours.
Joseph Messner was executed at Roches-
tor, N. Y, ON the 18th. He fully confess
cd having murdered his wife in April,
1858.
During the investigation, on the 18th,
Of the Westfeld disaster, experienced en-
gineers testified that the iron OF which the
boiler was made was of the most worthless
character, and had not been welded thor
oughly, and. in some places the Stag was
visible between the layers of the metal.
Mrs. Vallandigham, widow of the late
G. L. Vallandigham, died at Cumberland,