Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1873-09-04
The SOuth.

A reign Of terror appears to exist in some
portions of Arkansas. Recently, while the
Board of Supervisors Of Perry County were in
session at perryvile, one Means, the former
Clerk of the County, backed by four or five
friends entered the court house, and attacked
Matthews, an attorney, and broke up the court
Matthews retreated into store and there was
firing on both sides, during which Matthews
was wounded, though he managed TO escape
The friends Of Matthews, to the number OF
$50 entered the village in the evening and kill
ed man named Trice. Warrants were issued
for the arrest of Names and his party. Suisse
quently he and his followers, to the number
of thirty, entered Perryville and took posses
sion Of the Court House. 1t was understood
that the State militia had been detailed to pre-
serve order.
The recent Republican State Convention OF
Texas renominated E. j. Davis for Governor.
The balance of the ticket Is composed as fol-
lows For Lieutenant Governor, T. II. Taylor;
Comptroller, J. w. Thomas; Treasurer, A. L.
Moore; Land Commissioner, Jacob kuchler,
Superintendent Of Education, A. b. Morton.
A resolution was adopted endorsing the Ad-
ministration Of President Grant.
From the developments in the Wawaset in
yestigation 1t seems that when the fire broke
out the engineer was tending bar. He served
two or three customers to drink while the
smoke was issuing from the immediate vicin.
ity of the boiler and fre-room.
Several frame buildings, three miles south
of Louisville, KY, were destroyed by fire on
the morning of the ed, and negro family,
consisting Of father, mother, and four chill
dren, were burned to death.
Representatives Of the Patrons of Hus-
bandry Of the Georgia State Grange met in
Athens, a few days ago, the number OF dele
gates present being sixty-four. The number
of Oranges organized in the State was ninety
six. Great enthusiasm in the Order was mani
Tested, and much important business was
transacted.
Mrs. Sarah johnson, Of Little Rock, Ark,
was bitten by rabid cat about year ago, and
died recently Of hydrophoba.
The steamer George G. Wolf was blown up
at st. Francis Island, in the Mississippi, on
the evening Of the 22d. Twelve persons were
lost, and many were injured. The lady pas
sengers were all saved.
An accident occurred on the Baltimore
q Ohio Railroad on the oath, four miles west
Of Cameron, w. Va, by which three or four
German emigrants were fatally injured, and
fifteen or twenty wounded. The accident was
caused by the spreading of the track, which
threw the tender, express car, and one passen-
ger car down an embankmenta and all the coaches
off the track. The coach that went over the
bank some fifteen or twenty feet contained
some seventy or eighty men, women, and chill
dren. The car turned bottom upwards, the
trucks with 1t. Some Of the emigrants became
cnragcd, thinking the conductor and engineer
we're trying to kill them, and set upon the
officers Of the train with stones, and they had
to flee for their lives.
The Supreme Court Of Georgia has recent
ly decided that the law forbdding the validity
Of judgments for notes whose consideration
was slaves, Is unconstitutional, and that, I'M
less bound by the statute Of limitation, such
judgments can be made operative. The Court
was divided, Judge Mccoy dissenting.