Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-01-11

Late dispatches represent that the
delays in transportion on the Pacific
Railroad were apparently caused by
rnis,nanagement on the part Of off,
GERS of the Road. Four passenger
trains were lately delayed a week,
and passengers had to subsist on
crackers and dried meat.
NEW YORK, Dec. 5.--The ship
Sprite of London, which sailed this
week from Liverpool for San Fran
cisco, wrecked off Hollyhead yester-
day. Only five of the crew escaped.
COLUMBIA, S. c., Jan. 5.-The Ku
Klux trials are finished for the pres
ent. Forty-eight kuklux from
Spartansburg county, who confessed,
ranging from one TO two years. The
netit jurors were finally discharged
N Judge Bond who, it is expected,
will leave tomorrow for Baltimore;
the grand jury sets for a few days
longer. There is no decision in the
/ McMasterson case.
The Illinois House of Representa-
tives last Friday adopted, by II to
81, a resolution instructing Senators
and requesting Representatives in
| Congress to vote for Summers pro-
posed Amendment to the Constitu-
ton limiting the President Of the
United States to one term of Office.
Just think Of the immortal JefIer-
son as a fiddler! And yet Parton
tells us how skiIlful the great Nir-
ginian was as n violin player; and it
! is fact that, when he came to
/ Washington as President, he fire.
quentIy carried his fiddle" to the
| sociables of his friends.
| The new Civil Service Rules are
now in practical operation-as a GER
tain prominent Member Of Congress
found last week. He had promised
q certain office to one of his constitu-
ents, but when he went to get the
papers he was informed that this
must be govercnd by the new regu-
lations. The new Civil Service
Board is now organized, with Geo.
William Curtis as President, and
holds daily sessions.
Joseph elliott, the great steel-pen
manufacturer, is dead.
Frank Blair-WhOm some persons
may remember as the last Demo-
cratic candidate for Vice President
made a speech at Jefferson City, Mis-
souri,, last Thursday, in which he
urged the Democrats to die low and
let the Liberals nominate candi-
date" for the next Presidency. Oh,
mighty Democracy!
The landlord Of the Spencer House
at Niagara Fallscharsed Duke Alexis
81 800 for stopping at that hotel
three-fourths of day and eating one
meal. The bill was refused, of
course, whereupOn the landlord had
the baggage Of the party seized for
the purpose Of compelling payment.
The matter was finally compromised
by the payment Of 1000, the Duke
not caring TO involve himself in a
! lawsuit.
Immensely rich mines have lately
been opened in the southwest corner
of Idaho.
James Fisk, the "Prince of Erie
was shot by Edward Stokes, in New
York City, last Saturday evening.
The wound is in the abdomen, and
would seem almost certainly fatal.
Dispatches now have it that Vice
President Colfax says that he will
not decline denomination.
The Utah statute, under which
Hawkins, the Mormon, was lately
tried and convicted for adultery, was
passed by the Legislature and APP
proved by Brigham Young. rs Gov
ernor Of the Territory, on March 6,
1852. The revelation" authorizing
pOlygamy was not announced in the
Salt Lake Tabernacle until August
10th, in the same year, and did not
appear i'm the Dcseret News Extra
until the 18th Of September follow
ing. Morinons were previously liv-
ing in polygamy, but it was not a
doctrine of the church until that date.
The Louisiana Legislature is in a
state ofanarchy-the old fuss between
the Warmouthites and the others.
State officers have been arrested,
militia called out, and great excite
ment stirred up. The real facts and
right and wrong of the matter are
beyond our power of finding out
from the dispatches; but the whole
looks to us like wrangle between
two sets Of political rascals.