Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-10-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Foreign Gossip.

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Arthur Field, a London letter-ca
rier, has been sentenced TO five years
penal seryitude for stealing letter.
The shipments Of coffee from Ceylon
for the current season show an excess
over those Of last year of 3S3Y 600 cwf
Two children were crushed TO death
by the crowd during the recent ceremony
Of unwilling the Victory Column" in
Berlin.
Glasgow wanss d geological garden as
large and valuable as London's. The
city authorities have the sbject under con-
sideration.
The new German iron-clad now build
ing in England viii be the most powerful
vessel in the German navy. II Is to be
named Deutschland.
lit i stated that the port 81 Nagasski
has been selected as the headquarters Of
the United States squadron. and the naval
hospiial vii De shortly removed thither
from Yokohama
A Calcutta dispatch saws that two
more men Aave been killed by the idol
car In Madura The Bengal Government
have 81 length ordered the magistrates to
prevent danger 70 life from these jaeger
naut cars.
-That exceedingly rare occurrence,
diamond wedding. took place IN Canton
Zurich. Switzerland. recently, and the
pastor who married the couple seventy
five wears Ago was among the guests, all
three being rsBssist and IN tbe best of
health.
a discover ~ considerable economic
value hgs lately been made in Newfound-
49, q xs-If rI
In texture sn4 quality, rivals the far
famed o,sl-ssyne of Turkey for sharpening
the fneT-ed ged tools, and il Of unlimited
extent
A picture entitled HMarino Faliero,"
by E1ges. Delscroir. which he tried in
rain 70 sci %. / 800 francs on its finish,
was sold ten years after for i2eo9 franco
After passing through two hands, it was
ultimately bought FOR 5000 francs. or
eighty times the price originally asked.
An old man al fvry, France, recently
died Of joy he had been very poor all
ms life, Hhea he was suddenly informed
that he had fallen heir 10 large fortune.
The old man Sas greatly agiiated by the
news, and was Fastening 10 the Mayors
Office 20 sign some necessary papers,
when he fell dead in the street
English naval officers are, when on
foreign stations, in the habit Of perform
ing marriage ceremonies, there being no
Consul OF Chaplain in the neighborhood,
On board their vessels. The law officers
Of the Crown have just decided that such
marriages are not valid, and, In conse.
aucnee, the Commissioners OF the Admi-
rally have directed that no commanding
officer shall in future solemnize mar
rage.
The Jerusalem pilgrimage, under the
protection of the Archbishop Of Paris,
will leave Marseillcs about the middle OF
this month, and on the way to Jerusalem
they will visit Alexandria and the 18th.
mus. From Jerumsalem excursions will
he made 70 Bethlehem, Jerico, the Jordan,
the Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, and other
places. The party will be absent about
two months and half, and will return
home by Smyrna and Athens.
The foundation stone of new col
iege was recently laid by Lord de Tabley
at Knutsford, ten miles from Manchester,
England. tits TO be great school for
the northern counties, and is to be on
scale rivaliug Eton and Harrow. II is
designed 10 accommodate five hundred
boys. The style of the building is the
middle pointed gothic. The grounds are
forty acres in extent. The cost is esti-
mated at $50 900, and the building is to
be completed by January, 1875.
There is now at The Hague com.
positor of princely rank, who, like Peter
the Great, has jOurneyed westward TO
Holland to learn a useful handicraft for
the benefit of his country. The august
parsonage in question is Prince Macao,
daimoi of the first grade Of Japan. His
mcritorious conduct is not strictly volun-
tary, he having been sent to Europe by
his sovereign; but he appears to have
made the act Of sacrifice his own by the
uncommon zeal he exhibits, spending
several hours day at work In the print
ing-office.
BY Article $50 of the French Penal
Code, a criminal prosecution will not lie
when child has stolen or embezzled the
property Of the parent. Last June dia-
moDds and other jewels, worth 100000
francs, were taken from the shop of M.
Spincili, a jcweler i'm the Palace Royal,
Paris, by his son Hector and his nephew,
Robert Loiseau. The sum of $500 francs
in bills was stolen by the young men at
the same time. The son, Hector, could
not be prosecuted, but Robert Loiseau, his
cousin, has recently been tried i'm the
Court of AssiZes. He made full cOnfes.
sion of his guilt. The distinguished advo-
cate, M. Lachaud, conducted the defense,
and the jury seeing the manifest injustice
Of the law which would allow one of the
culprits to escape, though equally guilty,
while extending no such exemption to the
other, brought in verdict of acquittal.
Industrial.
Jacksonville, Fla, shipped 81 200, 900
feet Of lumber in 1870, and 42 1884, 900 in
1878
One Wisconsin cheese factory lately
shipped nineteen tons Of cheese to Liver.
pool
The salt shipments from Bay City,
Mich, this season amount to about Ats,
600 barrels.
Another vein of iron ore, twelve feet
thick, and close to the surface, has been
found in Emporium, Pa.
Rock Island Oily glass-blowers blow
TO some purpose. They make from SEC
To $25 per day of eight hours.
The Sacramento (Cal) Beet Sugar
Factory this wear will make 5000 barrels