Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-23

his love. He plead earnestly with the
Mayor that he would not separate them.
declaring that to him death would be pre-.
ferable.
AT recent meeting at Danbury, CT,
where contribution was taken up, q
wealthy member Of the congregation
dropped twenty-five cents in the contri-
bution-box. The amount realized being q
little more than that required, the wealthy
member quietly suggested to the deacon
who passed the box that his little amount
might be returned and it was.
"A lady conducting private school in
Greenwich, Connecticut, some eight
years ago, failed to pay her expenses, and
after struggling along and getting deeply
creditor seventy cents on the dollar, the
latter cheerfully accepting that for the
whole amount. Fortune having since
smiled upon her, she has lately paid up
her old debts in full, with interest to date
A female shoplifter, recently arrested
in store in New York, had in her peck.
cts two bottles of wine, fifty yards of
guipure laees tVo -babys' dresses, embroid-
cred and tucked, one piece of mauve vel
vet trimming, two pairs of kid gloves, sew
enty-f1ve pairs Of children's fancy stock
ings, one fancy figured glass, seventy five
yards Of blue and green velvet trimming,
one pair Of jet earrings, and one large
Bible.
The Fort Atkinson wis Heraldsays:
j"Mr. Ernst Beamer, who lives in the south
west part Of the town, lost four children
week before last. Three of them were buried
on Wednesday, and the other the day fol-
lowing. The cause of death is still mys-
terry. The whole family were simultane-
ously taken with violent cramps, dizziness,
etc, very much as though they had been
poisoned. Several physicians were called
in, but were unable to agree as to- the
cause; All but the four children recov-
cred"
"A juror in Cincinnati thoughtlessly
asked one Of the defendants in case lately
on trial, to lend him twenty five cents with
which to buy his dinner. The counsel, a
personal friend, explained that he could
not do as requested, for the reason of the
relations in which they stood, and at the
opening of the afternoon session of the
court, the juror, convinced of his grave
error, asked to be permitted to withdraw
from the Jury. The request was granted.
"A short time since, at wedding par
ty in Bloomsbury, Columbia County, Pa,
q young man picked up q gun and inquir-
ing whether it was loaded received mega
tive reply. In playful manner he point
ed the gun at the bride threatening to
shoot, at the same time pulling the trigger,
when to his horror the gun went of, the
contents passing between the feet of the
bride, tearing her dress and lodging in
table standing near by. No serious harm
resulted.
Near Stuart, Iowa, the other dav,
Willie, aged five years, son Of William
Gray, was found dead underneath barn
door, 1t seems that the child went to the
barn, and, in endeavoring to open the
door, which shut rather tight, he stood
right in front of it, and as he got it open
about foot or two, and was Juggling at it
with all his little strength, the wind, which
was very high that day, swept in through
the opening he had made, and, bursting
the door open with great violence, threw
him down upon his back, passed over his
feet. and up over the whole length Of his
body, until it reached his neck, and there
lodged, choking him to death. He fell
upon slight incline, with his head higher
than his feet, which accounts for the door
stopping when it reached his neck.