Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-02-08

burg on the 18th. of the total destruction
by an earthquake the day before, oil
/ Schamachi, a town Of Arctic Russia,
Trans Caucasia. Many lives were lost.
The English journals Of the 2sth ex-
pressed apprehension as to the character
and amour, OF American demands before
the Geneva Conference. The uneasi-
ness was reflected on Change, where 1t
had a depressing influence on American
securities.
Prcsiden. Roberts, of the Republic of
! Liberia. was inaugurated on New Years
I Day.
SiA Charles Dixie was married in Chei-
+ sea, on the Both, TO Miss Shell.
Hon. Peter John Locke King, Member
of Parliament for East Surrey, in an adj
dress delivered at Southwark on the night
of the 3G.h, said that the well informed
people of England were no, uneasy about
the American treaty.
A Havana telegram of the Both reports
the capture, by the Spanish gunboat AS
tuto. Of an English schooner and crew.
| The schooner was towed to ManZanillo.
Ii is reported that the schooner had al
ready landed a contraband of war on the
Island when captured.
A recent Halifax dispatch says the
opinion prevailed that the Dominion Gov
eminent would accept the Treaty OF
Washington. 1t was known that large
majority in Parliament was in favor OF it.
A recent special from Paris says that
Theirs, in discussing with Rothschild the
project for further evacuation of France
by the Germans, said: II would like to
see the end of the German occupation, II
we had stable Government and settled
public opinion AS it is, if the Germans
were gone we would have worse dema-
gogues. The Bonapartists would come
forth, and in few days al! the calamities
OF relentless party strife would take
place. will yield, though with regret,
to the general desire, although consider
that the presence Of the Prussians is
guarantee of peace and order"
A Madrid dispatch Of the 3fst states
that eight thousand reinforcements had
sailed from Cadia for Cuba
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 31st
at 1007s.
The Supreme Court at Albany has af-
frmed Judge Learned's decision holding
Connolly to bail in half a million OF dol
L. 81; m, w
which is to stand at million.
A Buffalo dispatch Of the 25th says !;
''The severest snow.storm that has occur
red here for several years past has pre-
vailed all day"
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention is called to meet at Harris
burg on the 10th of April. to nominate
Governor and other State officers, and
select Senatorial ticket, ana Dele
| gates to the National Convention.
The Turf Board of Appeals at New
| York has decided that Goldsmith Maid
is entitled to a record of 2:17 ut Milwau-
kec.
George Bolts was hanged at Newark,
n j., on the Goth, for the murder of Pet
Halstead.
The contributions for the Greeley statue,
at New York, amounted to nearly $12, 600
on the eth, and were increasing at the
rate Of $500 to 81 900 per day.
The filibustering steamer Hornet has
been libelled at the suit of thirty persons,
who shipped from New York on the UNI
Outstanding that they were engaged in
the merchant service, and when out at
sea were compelled to enlist in the service
of the Cuban Junta.
An Albany On. w. dispatch of the 31st
says: "The trial of Tweed will not take
place until the March term. This prac'
tically puts the case over until the close
of the Legislature. 1t is probable tina,
Tweed will now take his seat"
The Republican General Committee OF
New York has elected John G. Townsend,
President and John j. O'Brien, Secretary
Several persons who are charged with
furnishing supplies TO the New York
City departments, in accounts recently
published, represent that they never re-
\ CCINCu SSa w VASA' ~
also appears that many of the articles
were never furnished.
! The West.
The Japanese Embassy visited the pub
lie schools in San Francisco on the ED,
and exhibited great interest. Compli
mentary messages passed in the Western
Union Telegraph Company's office be.
tween His Excellency Iwakaura and Sec.
rotary Fish, Morse, the inventor of tele.
graphy, and others. Messages were sent
in his presence to his sons in Brunswick,
N. j., and instantly responded to, which
greatly delighted him.
An Omaha dispatch of the 25th says
"The Legislative foolishness at the State
Capital ended tonight at II o'clock, by an
adjournment sine die. No quorum and nc
new Governor"
In the Illinois House of Representatives
on the 25th, the Republican caucus reso.
lutiOns were adopted, declaring "that