Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-16
Foreign Intelligence.

4 deputstion Of Americans waited upon
Mr. Wa-hburne. the American Minister
II Paris. on the Cd. and presented him a
service of plate. as a recognition Of his
services to his eountrymen during the
siege under the Commune.
II is stated that recent adyices from
Cuba represent that the instruction there
had lately resumed more extended proper
tons
Recent advices from London and Bcr-
lin report continued large subscriptions 10
the Chicago relief funds. The Bana 81
England and the Union Bank of London
had subscribed s.. 900 each.
Letters from Paris. received in London
on the 4;b say that the offering 10 Minis
ter Washbnrne on the 81 was a very
agreeable affair DINNER and tea services
of fine silver, the product of American
mines, Of American manufacture, were
presented by large number Of American
gentlemen. An appropriate address was
delivered, 10 which Mr. Washburne
replied in few graceful remarks, in the
course of which he complimented Col.
Hoffman and other members of the
diplomatic household"
The London Telegraph Of the 4th prints
a special dispatch from Paris, stating
that plot against the Government of
Spain had been discovered in the latter
city.
Victor Hugo has made a second visit TO
Theirs 10 procure the pardon Of Henri
Rochcfort The President received him
kindly, but declined TO interfere. The
Communist Quesncl has been convicted
of firing buildings in Paris, and sentenced
TO death
The amount received at the Mansion
House in London up TO the evening of the
3D., for the benefit of the Chicago suffer.
ers, was f46, 800 Contributions continued
to be received from individual donors, and
from committees in provincial cities and
towns
The Belgian Government has forwarded
$50, 900 to America for the relief of Bel
gian settlers in Wisconsin who suffered by
the forest fires The government has also
opened subscriptions for voluntary con-
tributions TO the same object
The British Parliament Is prorogued un-
til the 9th of December.
Intelligence has been received at San
Francisco of the wreck and abandonment
in the Arctic Ocean Of n large feet of
whaling vessels The vessels were forced
on to the mud banks by ice driven
down from the northwest, the ice grounding
in twelve to fourteen feet Of water. The
loss by the destruction of the fleet is about
81 100000 The catch destroyed foots up
1906 barrels of whale, go barrels of
sperm, and 100000 pounds Of bone.
-5hc emigration returns of the port Of
Liverpool, for the month Of October, show
u total of IA, 2G3 departures for the United
States.
The British expedition for the observa-
ton Of the total eclipse of the sun, on the
18th of December, has arrived at the Island
of Malta.
The Lord Mayors Uondon) fund for the
relief of the sufferers by the Chicago fire
had reached, on the evening of the 9th, the
amount Of e47, 100. Contributions from
the interior towns and from individuals
still continued to be received.
The London Times Of the 9th, in a lead
ing article, approving the action of Presi
dent Grant in regard to the Mormons, urges
in strong terms their severe punishment.
The unwilling of the statue Of the En-
peror Macmillan took place at Vienna, on
the 18th, with solemn and imposing cercmo-
MES.
A negro woman, Of highly respectable
character, has been arrested at Jacmel, in
the island of Jamaica, upon the extraordi-
nary charge of cannibalism. The accuse
ton alleges that she has killed and eaten
twenty-sx children, whom she had invei-
gled into her premises for that purpose.