Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-25
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
Hsssinxtsa News
President Grants recent message com
municating the new treaty TO the Senate
IL said to be very brief, and makes 10 re-
commentator, but merely submits Il for
consideration
Returns al the Census OMce IN Wash
ington show the oolored population Of The
States and Territories 70 be shout 1. o5.,-
600.
The new Territorial Goyernnen. for
Columbia wxs insugurssed 81 Washington
on the 18th Frederick Douglass was
elected Vice President Of the Council OF
upper brxach-
In the executive session Of the Senate
On the 18th the treaty was favorsbly re-
ported BY the Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Relssions, Mr.. Cameron, with.
out any recommendation of amendment
The Attorney General has decided that
the interest and coupon dividends accru-
ing, and the salaries of United States off,
cen earned for the last five months Of 1870,
are all subject to revenue and income taxa
ton, and corporations and persons inter
ested must be held TO the payment of the
tax
The following nominations were sent to
the Senate by the President on the 10th
David Fl. Budlong, Collector Of Internal
Revenue Fifth District Missouri; David
B. Emmett, of Kansas, Receiver of Public
Moneys at Humboldt; George II. Wright,
Of Iowa, Register of the Land Office at
Sioux City; Postmasters-Orin B. In
gals, Belvidere, ILL.,; Charles o. South
ard, Morris, Ill; Phineas Graves, Albion,
Mich. Alpheus NJ Beebe, Owasso, Mich. ;
Volney Belknsp, Erie, Pa; Miss Ella s.
Peck, Greenville, Pa.
The report of the Commissioner Of Ag-
riculture for May, In speaking of the con-
dition of winter grain, says: The autumn
season was generally favorable for germ
nation and vigorous growth; the winter
has been comparatively mild and uniform
In temperature; the freezing weather
mainly occurred in mid-winter, and found
the wheat plants protected by a sufficient
covering OF snow; the spring has been
unusually early, and the growth of grain
advanced two TO four weeks beyond its
accustomed status There is no State in
which winter killing is not exceptional,
and in several it Is almost entirely un-
known. 1t may be that future reports, as
the season progresses, will be less favor
able; they certainly cannot be more flat
tering."
The President sent the following nomi-
nations to the Senate, on the 18th: Robert
II. Milroy, United States Marshal for
Wyoming Territory; Edwin S. Stanton,
son Of the late Edwin NJ. Stanton, Sccre.
tary of the Territory of Columbia.
The East.
Gold closed in:New York on the nth at
1l1N.
The Inauguration Of the telegraphers'
statue of Professor Morse, In Central
Park, New York, has been fixed to take
place on Saturday, June III.
A Scranton, Pa, dispatch Of the 9th
says: "The bodies Of three murdered
laborers were found this mornining in a
swamp near Bugg's shaft During the
riot yesterday, when the laborers were
routed, they fed into this swamp, followed
by infuriated miners, where these three
men were beaten and kicked TO DEATH"
At Cleveland, on the 18th, the Chicago
White Stockings defeated the Forest
Citys, in game Of base-ball-18 to 10.
The fifty. fifth anniversary of the Ameri-
can Bible Society was held In New York
city, on the 18th. The Treasurer's report
shows the receipts for the years to be
1720,484; the expenditures, 1851 1876.
Seven publications In foreign languages
have been issued, exclusive of others pub.
lished abroad. Plates for the Arabic
Scriptures are now being prepared al
Beirut. The entire number Of volumes
printed by the society during the fifty five
years ofits existence amount to 27,680, 028
A collision occurred on the Erie Rail
road, between Attica and Alden, on the
morning of the 18th. A freight train with
IN emigrant Car and q caboose attached
bound west, was run into by an extra
freight train. Thirty passengers were in
the emigrant car Five children were
killed. and about twenty adults more OF
less injured.
A Pottsville, Pa, dispatch of the 18th
says the recent agreement signed by the
officers of both the organization of colliery
workingmen and employers, insures steady
work In the Schuylkill region for the re-
mainder Of the year. Tolls would be re-
duced at once by the railroad companies
thus removing the deadlock.
A resolution providing for an amend
mont to the State Constitution to confer
suffrage on women has been defeated ii
the Massachusetts, House, by vote of O.
to 68. The Senate rejected the bill to reg
ulate tho hours of labor in factories, by a
large majority.
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