Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-02-09

| Is valued At million ana NAH Vi uoiiaiS D.
| --The veteran actor, Peter Richings,
died few nights ago, at his residence in
| Media, Pa, from the effects OF injuries re-
ceived short time before by being
thrown from his wagon.
From certain statistics recently pub.
lished it appears that there are nearly 1000
newspaper publications in the United
States, and 3, 400 newspaper offces-some
Offices issuing more than one publication.
| Of the offices the State Of Pennsylvania
has the greatest number-513, and New
York next, 478; Illinois has 426 Ohio,
376, and Massachusetts. 234 The British
American Provinces have SO5.
Religious and Educational.
Kansas has 1,15l female teachers en-
ployed in its public schools.
The strongest religious denomina-
ton in San Francisco is the Presbyterian.
The different Methodist bodies in the
world have 22,333 travelling and 50,SlS
local preachers. 80.
| The Boston Young Mems Christian
Union has opened savings bank for the
benefit of young men. @
The church property of Wisconsin is
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are 1,476 church edifces in all.
The average daily attendance In the
public schools of Ohio last year was 49,
S65. There were 10000 more boys than
girls. .,t
A Sunday School scholar, aged sew
enty years, received handsome present
in Marietta, Ga, for faithful attendance
every Sunday during the year 1870.
Children have been SO "crammed !"
with study in the Troy schools, that physi-
clans have found it their duty to interpose
and prescribe, not drugs. but fewer les
sons. ~
The Sabbath Shoot class of Rev j. p.
Fitch. Methodist preacher of Fitchburg,
Mass, have made the unclerical gift to him
of double barreled fowling piece and ac-
coutrements.
The Massachusetts, Horticultural
School for Women, located in Newton
Center, has farm of two acres, and seven
pupils. The zeal manifested by those
who are attending convinces the directors
that the experiment is good one.
AT church dedication in Newport,
N. H., recently, Rev. Ira Pearson, who
offered the dedicatory prayer fifty years
ago, performed the same service in the
new sanctuary, and it was ascertained that
fifty three persons were present who at
tended the dedication fifty years before in
the former house.
One year ago a company OF young
ladies' met in New York to consider what
they could do with the five million Pres
byterian memorial fund. Each agreed TO
take missionary box for children's con-
tributions, to be made on the morning OF
each Sabbath of the year. These boxes,
ninety two in number, have been opened,
and seven of them were found to contain
over 800 each; twenty over 200 each !;
the total amount proved to be x3,2O5, all
the result Of systematic giving in small
amounts. 49,. a,.gI{ sE4 t.tFgsa
Foreign Gossip.
There has been q great deal OF snow
in London this winter
I'm England the government supports
schools that are under UNCONVENTIONAL con-
troll ss,us. ,s.i
1T is stated that no less than six thou
sand German poems have been written
upon the war.
A London banking house has formally
prohibited any Of its clerks having sal
airy less than $500 year from getting mar
ried.
January % was fearfully cold day in
Canada, the mercury at various points
standing as follows: Lindsay, % below
zero; Btlleville, %; Kingston, 10; Mon
treal, rs; Port Colborne, 20; Quebec, 30.
Even at this late day, Vienna paper
gravely speaks, as other foreign papers
have done, of Daniel Webster, the ex-
FOUNDER of the AmericaL Constitution,
and author Of an excellent dictionary.
Emily Faithful, in a late London letter
TO the Revolution, says: at is a terrible
statement to make, but l do it on the au-
thority of DR.. Lancaster Coroner Of Lon
don) there are in Great Britain at least
$4,000 mothers who have destroyed their
children"
A beautiful spider from Greece, which.
feeds on large grasshoppers, was exhibited
at meeting of the London chronological
Society, on the 9Th Of December, He was
alive and well, although he remained with
out food since last July. ,,f.y
According to a Belgian paper, a passen'
ger who left Paris in q balloon was fright
ened by the rapid ascension of the bal
loon In such manner that he lost the
power Of speech, became delirious, and
died two days after his safe arrival in Bel
GUM. .s
The widow of Hon. Thomas Darcy
MCGEE died suddenly, in Montreal, few
days ago. One Of her two daughters re-
turned from party at late hour, and,
entering her room, found her on her knees,
dead, with prayer-book in her hand, she
evidently having expired while engaged in
her devotions. She was 46 years Of age.
"A terrible accident occurred, lately, at
the rolling mill In Thalgan, Austria. Fiji
teen workmsn were employed In cleaning
away the SCOT which had accumulated
over the great furnace when the boiler
burst, and threw the hot water over them
In All attempt to get away, one of them
of them jostled the man In front Of him,
on the narrow scaffolding of planka, and
Eve of them were Immediately precipi-
tated into the forge below, where, In . sec
ond, they were reduced TO cinders. a
"A Journalist in q little town Of Alsatia
humbugged the German authorities Of that
place In : most lsughable manner. He
published tri-weekly sheet, which on one
aide was printed in the French, and on the
other side in the German language. The