Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-27

Congressional nominations on the 18TH: Re-
publcan--Ninth Indiana Dis trict, Thos. j
Cason, reneminated; Ninth Ohio, j. NJ. Roe-
inson, renominated Eighteenth Illinois;
Isaac Clements, renominated; Nineteenth
Ohio, Jas. A. Garfield, renominatcd Demo
cratic--Eighth Tennessee, j. ID. G. Atkins, re-
nominated; Tenth Indiana, Vim. $. Hoy
mond
The Nebraska Democratic Central Com
mttec have issued call for a straight-out
Democratic Convention, TO meet in Lincoln
Sept TO- to nominate State officers.
The funeral OF the late Bishop Whitehouse
took place In Chicago on the l3th and was
very largely attended. The remains were
taken TO New York, TO be inferred In Green
wood Cemetery.
The Arkansas Democratic State Convention
is to be held on the Sth OF September
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 14th Democratic
Ninth Tennessee District, w. p. Caldwell
Rcpublican--Fir Alabama, jeremiah Haral.
son (colored).
A Memphis dispatch of the 18th says teh
recent trouble In Austin, Miss, was trifing
affair. During the entire disturbance only
one negro was killed, and no white man was
even wounded. The eolored men Of Mem
phis held mass-meeting on the night OF the
18th and passed resolutions dcprecating all
violence and conflicts between the races
The Chicago Tribune of the 18th has re-
port Of an interview between Theodore Tilton
aaa the special correspondent of that paper,
In which Mr.. Titon is represented as firmly
,..a Nf bt
Mr.. Bcceher. He furnished the correspond.
ent with card on which was written: His
sworn statement was never thought Of by r.
L. till after Bcecher had originated the Com
mittee of Inquiry, and after Elizabeth had de
serted her house and Mr.. Ovington had pub
lished q card IN her behalf, announcing that
that she had gone from him forever. Mr..
Beecher's apology was made six months be.
fore T. T. ever saw Mrs. Woodruff"
Earl Dufierin, Governor General Of Canada,
arrived In Chicago on the 18th, and was re-
ceived and entertained by the city officials.
A decision has been rendered by Judge
Williams, Of Chicago, in the celebrated
Cheney case, the effect of which Is to put the
bill of complanants out Of court, and to declare
that the Rev. Mr.. Cheney was not lawfully
deposed from the Episcopal ministry.
Avery brilliant meteor, described TO be as
large as the full moon, and almost as bright
as the sum- exploded near Cairo, Ill., about one
o'clock on the morning of the 18th. The ex-
plosion shook the earth and houses in the city
and made the windows rattle For nearly a
half-minute the streets were light enough TO
read.
The Prohibitionists have nominated Rev.
James Campbell for Congress in the Fourth
and ID. w. Goldman In the Twentieth Ohio
Districts.
A Charleston Is. CO. dispatch Of the 10th
says that Georgetown, In that State, was the
scene OF dangerous contest between negro
factions led by Bowley and Jones, negro
members OF the Legislature, each of whom
seeks TO control the county, In which the
negroes have large majority. Meetings
held by one faction had been broken up by
the other, and there was Il general feeling OF
insecurity. On the 18th the town was filled
with armed negroes, and the excitement was
intense and liable To break out In deeds Of
violence at any moment
One Charles Levy, a Prussian jew, twenty
two years old, has given himself up TO the
authorities at Bloomington, H., claiming to
be one Of the murderers Of the New York
banker, Nathan, in 1870 In his con-
lession he says he had partner
who instigated the crime, but that
he Ievy) killed the victim with stonema-
sons tool, sharp at one end and round and
heavy ut the other, while his accomplish com
mitted the robbery, securing between 5000