Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-05-11
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Last week Tuesday, for the first
tfmesince 1850, the whole Govern
meit list Of securities were Held at
and abovtpar in gold in New York.
How would they stand if the country
were under Democratic rule:
NEW YORK, May At is still
reported that the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad company is buying
large lots of 'railroad iron to complete
the connection from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, the only missing link
being between Chicago and Omaha.
A tremendous amount Of frauds on
the Government, by revenue officers,
in connection with the whisky ring,
has lately been unearthed in Balti-
more.
Brick Pomeroy, of the New York
Democrat, hates Gen. Butler with a
perfect hatred. Therefore Mrs.
Pomeroy employed the said Batter
as her lawyer in the recent suit in
which she won her divorce and $2O,-
OCO from Brick. Mrs. p. is said to
be a very intelligent and respectable
woman.
The States Of Michigan and Texas
have just passed laws compelling
1 children to attend School ut least a
part of each year. This experiment
in this country will be watched with
interest.
The number Of rebels now disfran-
chised in the South is generally esti-
mated at $4,000; but recent core
spopdent of the Chicago Tribune
puts the number at nearly 100000.
Two of the most successful and best
paid editors i'm New York are women
Miss Mary l.. Booth, of the Bazaar,
who receives $4,000, and Mrs. Mary
T.. Dodge of the Hearth and Home,
who has salary Of $4,000.
A tornadoswept over Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, on the I'd inst, killing
several colored persons, and damag-
ing property to the amount Ct about
| $4,000.
NIAGARA, ONT. May "A life
boat belonging TO Fort Niagara got
adrift during the gale this morning,
and boat manned by six sailors and
Lieutenants l.. G. Ashbury and j. G.
Morris started in pursuit, but their
boat capsiZed and all were lost.
Alta sale Of imported Jersey cattle
in Philadelphia last week, heifers
sold at price ranging from 1910 to
1926. a three-year-old COW brought
$3.50. The whole lot, nineteen in
number, was sold, the bidding being
spirited. A Guernsey COW sold for
$3.50. Another $500. Pigsand boars
| from Prince COnsOrt SOW, at Windsor,
England, sold from $50 to $50.
Ex-Gov. Wood has given his mag
nificent residence at Quincy, Illinois,
with its furniture, &C., valued at
sl25, 900 to the Trustees Of the Quincy
Female Seminary, for educational
purposes.
State Senator jerks, Of Louisiana,
attempted to commit suicide at New
Orleans last week, by shooting him
self. He is charged with being
defaulter to the State.
Advices from Buenos Ayres to
April II have been received. The
ravages OF the yellow fever are dread
ful. The deaths have increased to
700 per day.
The British Government has re-
ceived official assurances that DR..
Livingstone, the great explorer in
Africa, is safe, and that his immedi-
ate wants have been provided for.
ST. LOUIS, May 4.-Miss Phebe
Cozzens, a somewhat noted lecturer
on woman suffrage, graduated today
from the law school OF Washington
University, in this city.
1t appears from dispatches that the
eoal-miners' rumpus in Pennsylvania
has been finally settled, and work.
resumed. $40
The laborers sent t0repair the Erie
canal at Rochester, got into big |
muss last week, and. the military had
to be called cut. Finally the rioters
were quoted, end work wen. on. :