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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

Twenty-three German Catholic Bishops
have issued a protest In behalf Of the entire
Roman Catholic Episcopate OF Germany
against any such interference in the Papal
election as Is implied in Bismarck's late cir
eular dispatch.
kilograms of late date from shanghae and
other portions Of China indicate that civil
war was imminent in that country.
King Alphonso has issued a royal decree
calling for 1000 men TO recruit his army.
Fifteen thousand Of these are TO be sent 10
Cuba
Later adyices from China are to the effect
that the widow Of the late Emperor did not
commit suicide, as had been previously re-
ported.
The French Cabinet recently rendered their
designations In consequence Of the opposition
In the Assembly to the constitutional bills,
which were made a Government measure.
The President, Hnding no French statesman
willing 20 undertake the formation cf new
Cabinet during the tendency OF these bills,
requested The old CAbiDe; 10 continue until
some one could be found
A telegram from Singapore reports revolt
al Chinese prisoners m the jail there which
was no, repressed until sixty. seven persons
had teen killed, including sixteen wardens.
Great Britain hAs recognized the new King
Of Spain
Archbishop Cullen, Of Dublin, In pastoral
letter condemns The mission in Great Britain
Of Moody and sankey revival preachers OF
Chie2go), who, he says, promise salvation
By foolish cnsssioSiaiism, without requiring
repentance"
The British steamer George Balters, for
Gibraltar, Is supposed to have founderea 8!
sea, and t~enty-one persons-her entire
erew-to have been drowned.
John Mitchell has been returned TO the
British Parliament from Tipperary without
opposition.
Dr. Keneaiy, the counsel for the Tichborne
claimant, has been elected TO Parliament from
stoke-on- Trent by 1000 majority.
The Cuban insurgents have recently de
feased Spanish column near MANAGES. The
Spanish loss was l5O.
The electors Of Tipperary adopted reso
luton ON the 18th declaring that in the event
Of Jokn Mitehers election being annulled, al
threatened, they would again return him te
Parliament 1t was reported that he had re
fused 10 take the oath Of allegiance.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.


William p. Hurburt, of Fort Lee
n. J.. aged thirteen, fell from the Pail.
SADIE Heights, distance of 600 feet, and
was killed. Strange to say. not q bone
was broken.
A few evenings ago, while the bells
OF Catholic church at New Orleans
were ringing for vespers, q little boy
who was watching the sexton was killed
by some castings giving way and falling
upon his head.
A case of death by wallpaper poi
soning has lately occurred in Louisville,
KY. An examination showed that the
paper on the wall of .deceased's bed
chamber contained two grains of arsenic
to the square foot.
j. w. Cram, barber from Chicago,
thought his fate of being burned out In
the great fire pretty tough; but the
chins of Northampton, Mass, were so
much tougher that he took aconite and
left widow and three children to ponder
over the mysterious designs OF Provi-
dence.
AT dancing party in Western Ken
lucky, the other night, to which several
women came with their babies, some
young men changed the clothes Of the in
fants while their parents were dancing
and mixed them up generally. The fol.
lowing day there was great row, and as
the families lived miles apart it took
several days TO unmix the children.
Yale College has just missed leg
acy of $4,000 by the sudden death OF
Mr.. Edmund Bradley, of Southington
Conn. Mr.. Bradley had prepared will
giving the above amount to the college,
bequeathing to little girl Of the family
in which. he boarded fine residence,
and his gardener valuable piece OF
land, but he died before siguing it. lie
was bachelor and was determined that
his relatives should get none of his
property. His unexpected death gives
il all to them.
Here Is a touching picture of a
mothers love: A tin pail containing an
infammable mixture that had been
heated burst in the hands of Mrs. Perry
Bushnell, of Auburn, N. Y, few days
ago, and the burning fluid was thrown
over Mrs. Bushnell and her little child on
the floor. Mrs Bushnell's eyes were put
out and she was enveloped in flame, but
she began crawling about the floor to
know if the child was safe. The latter
was burned to crisp, and the mother
lived but short time.
"A short time since man was
arrested for some crime in Carroll
County, No, and lodged in Jail. A few
days after this the prisoners wife called
a. the Jail and wished to see him, which
was granted. After the jailer thought
she had been in there long enough he
went to let her out and when he opened
the door she fas he supposed) stepped
out and went on her (his) way rejoicing
The door was relocked. In an hour or
so terrible noise from the Jail attract
ing the attention of the jailer, he went 70
the Jail, and beholdi there sat the wife,
A job had been put up on him. He had
let his prisoner go
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

Charles Reade calls an English edit
or "a liar, coward and blackguard."
Why, Charles!
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the ven
cradle mother of Hon. Emerson Ether
ridge, died al Dresden, Tenn, recently,
at the advanced age of 102 years.
--One of "George Eliot's" filings at
the lords of creation: "Pm not denyin'
the women are foolish. God Almighty
made 'em to match the men,"
Laura Fair is described as mounting
the witness-stand with the gleeful skip
of a school girl." She skipped" rope
she had earned with equal agility some
time since.
--Vasquez, the California bandit, has
been convicted of thirty-seven murders.
If punished for each offense it would
take about seven hours for him to stran-
gle at twelve minutes hang.
The " beautiful Canadian Celini, the
champion female skater of the world, "
who has been cutting capers on the ice
in the Chicago West Side Rink, turns
out to be young boy named Johnny
Cook.
Gov. English, of Connecticut, has
designed monument to be erected to
him after death, which will be granite
obelisk, the largest in the country, and
has it already in process of completion.
Gen. Fitz John Porter has sent the
| President another nervously written and
| very strong appeal for a rehearing of his
case by board of army officers, on the
grounds of public justice, because he
claims to have new evidence which, had
| il been presented at his trial, would have
acquitted him.
speaking of law books recent lect-
| urer on the subject said: " Another
| popularity of these books Is, that no
| one but lawyer ever reads them. All
other books have readers outside the
class for whom they are specially writ
ten and we have accordingly amateur
men Of science, physicians, amateur art
| lists and even amateur theologians, but
no one ever heard of an amateur
lawyer"
An acquaintance of Mr.. Brennan, the
new Commissioner of Charities and Cor
rection, recently made an application to
| him for admission to an asylum for the
man." he said, and get awful nervous,
and think II was shut up in an asylum
| little while it would do me good" Mr..
Brennan looked at him moment in as
| tonishment and then burst out: "Shut
up in an asyluml Why, you must be
crazy."-Neo York Sun.
1T appears that one of the pail
bearers OF Shakespeare Is buried in the
old burying- ground of Fredericksburg,
Va. On tombstone is the follow
| ing inscriptions: Here lies the body of
| Edward Helder, practitioner in physic
and chirurgery. Born in Bedfordshire En-.
gland, in the year of our Lord 1542. Was
Contemporary with and one OF the pail
bearers to the body of William Shakes
peare. After brief illness his spirit
assembled in the year of our Lord 1913,
aged seventy-six."
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
General News Summary.


The Commissioner Of the General Land
once has replied TO request to permit the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to select
lands containing coal and iron in lieu OF The
agricultural lands, which latter the
company proposed to release In favor
OF actual settlers, to the effect that
the company receives all its coal
and iron lands without any diminution
on account Of the claim OF any settler. and to
allow IL, In addition, to surrender agricultural
lands and take the reserved eoal-lands, OF
greatly increased value, would be an enlarge
ment OF the grant and an express violation OF
the act under which the claim was presented
A general order from the War Department
with reference to carrying out the provisions
Of the act Of Congress approved Feb. 10, lo1o,
to provide for the relief Of persons suffering
from the rayages Of grasshoppers upon the
Western frontier, says:
IL ia ordered by the President that the COM
nsndes Of The 81 J, ,ne b made
soon 90 practicable. an enrolment Of me inhso-
itants OF the States and Territories within these
departments who have been rendered desn-
rolIment will, so far NJ practicable, group
fsmiIies together, giving. the name OF each
peyron entitled to relief. chsloren uuuer WE'VE
years Of age to be rated separately. Applicants
for supplies should make statements on blanks
furnished them OF their resources convertible
with safety TO their families into supply OF 1000:
and the names Of such persons az may De found
10 have resources 30 convertible shall not pc
placed on the rolls until such resources are ex-
hausted.
Representative Beck, Of Kentucky, had bis
wrist broken by q fall on the ice at Washing
ton on the evening OF the 18th.
Hon. Samuel Hooper, Member OF Congress
from the Fourth Massachusetts, District, died
In Washington on the 18th, OF pneumonia.
A Washington dispatch Of the 18th states
that he Secretary OF War had directed that
the recent general order providing for fur
nishing supplies to grasshopper sufferers In
the West should be carried out with the ut
most dispatch.
A young laboring man committed suicide
In Washington on the nth by jumping from
the dome OF the Capitol. He failed to clear
the building, and fell on the roof over the en-
trance TO the dome, and was instantly killed.
The distance Of the fall was over l50 feet.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

testified TO having seen Mr.. Beecher go into
Mrs. Tilton's bedroom on several oc-
casions, and to having seen The latter
sitting c.i the lap OF the former In the back
parlor. After this evidence was given Mr..
Tiiton resumed the witness stand On the
18th, just at the close OF the proceedings for
the day, one Of the jurors was taken suddenly
rick and was sent home in charge Of two
court officers
A railroad war has broken out between the
Baltimore e. Ohio and the Pennsylvania Com
panies, and on the nth the former COMPANY
had made great reduction In passenger
fare between the East and West, the fare from
Chicago to New York being reduced from
twenty-five to fifteen dollars and to Washing
ton from nineteen TO ten dollars.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Do Not Eat Raw Eggs!

ONE OF the most common prejudices of
housewives and mothers is that hard
eggs are difficult to digest, especially the
white, and that the less they are boiled
the better they are for weak and dyspep-
tic stomachs. The reverse is the case. as
there is more danger of raw and soft
white Of an egg passing through the
digestive apparatus without being really
digested than when thoroughly boiled
and hard; in fact then it constitutes a
most excellent food for dyspeptics, as ex-
peTience Is proving. A writer in the
Medical Journal saws: "We have seen
dyspeptics who suffered untold torments
with almost every kind of food. No
liquid could be taken without suffering
bread became a burning acid; meat and
milk were solid and liquid fires. We
have seen these same sufferers trying to
avoid food and drink and even going to
the enema syringe for sustenance. And
we have seen their torments pass away
and their hunger relieved by living upon
the white of eggs which had been boiled
in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At
the end of week we have given the hard
yolk OF the egg with the white, and upon
this diet alone, without fluid of any kind,
we have seen them begin to gain flesh
and strength and refreshing sleep. After
weeks of this treatment they have been
able, with care, to begin upon other food,
And all this, the writer adds, without
taking medicine. He says, what we also
have always maintained, that hard. boiled
eggs are not half So bad as half-boiled
ones and ten times as easy to digest as
raw eggs; and we have no doubt that an
animal NAV ha afarvnd tn death Inv eat.
ing only raw white of an egg, for the
by eating gelatin alone. Only toothless
babies can digest soft food, such as milk
--Manufd and Builder.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

the associations, SS2; pastors, 40l
membership, 81, 816 persons; baptisms
reported during 1854, 1850 The number
Of ordained Baptist ministers in the State
is 1888; licentiates, 120. The Sunday.
school statistics give 81, 1888 teachers and
scholars
in New York city, says the Times,
there are 304 schools, nine being exclu-
sively for colored pupils. The number
of pupils registered is PSI ,545, of whom
only III, 239 attend school regularly. The
increase in attendance over last year IL
1874 The teachers employed number
:, 039, of whom 200 are males and I, S3s
females.
The Roman Catholic Church has a
mission of over fifty priests in Japan
also mission in the center Of the CAPT
tai, which they owe to the power OF
France. Their work at present seems 10
be among their old converts. They have
a school of about fifty pupils preparing
for the priesthood.
The baptism of an educated Brahmin
is reported from the London Society's
mission in TriapOor. The young man
had lost his faith in Hindooism through
his studies at the Madras University and
had received q general knowledge Of
God. A few years later he obtained a
copy of the New Testament, and through
faithful study Of its truths he was
brought to Christ.
"A teacher in the Syracuse High
School says: "a child who memories
easily may read over four or five pages
of lesson, and if it be tolerably at
tractive and readable. by suggestive
questioning, ten, twenty, or thirty ques
tons may be asked and the child answer
them correctly. Tins will be good
proof that the lesson has been read, but
not necessarily that the lesson has been
studied or mastered. Ask such scholar
who has been taught in this way, to tell
you all he can of lesson or of a certain
topic, and nine chances out of ten he
will be able to tell you nothing at all
Again, simultaneous recitation is very
good occasionally, and for very brief
time, TO test the attention of the class OF
for enlivenment, but used anything more
than occasionally seems to me very bad.
Where simultaneous recitation is relied
upon, those that need to study the most
rely exclusively on the four or five OF
the brightest IN the class who invariably
take the lead, and thus the end and aim
of the recitation for the majority of the
class have been lost"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Industrial.

Hoe s. Co, of New York, have a
school-room in their factory and compel
their apprentices to spend two hours a
day in study.
DIR. Glenn, said to be the largest
farmer in California, has just sold his
last years crop of grain for nearly $780,
coo, gold coin.
The House Of the Arkansas Legis-
lature has passed bill exemrting from
taxation for period of seven years cap
ital employed in mills and manufac-
tories.
Maine lost 1855 by her State Prison
In 1874, the prisoners costing that amount
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

The restitution In New York city is
said to be appalling. Never in the
history of that city has there been such a
constantly-increasing army Of homeless,
unemployed ones.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Miscellaneous.

New Hampshire farmers have to
melt snow to water their cattle.
What is 1t which has mouth and
never speaks, and bed and never sleeps?
A river.
"A Memphis doctor treated patient
for asthma when his disease was kidney
complaint. A jury has put 81, 500 plas.
ter on those fortunate glands.
"A New Jersey paper says that when
ever an old pioneer of that State is found
frozen to death in the road bottle of
whisky may be found not far away.
Mrs Gardner, of Alabama, had 2S7
hoop-skirts among her effects when she.
died recently, and there were over fifty
calico dresses which she had never worn.
"A Cleveland artist painted little
negro boys nose a bright red, one day
recently, and being sued Tor damages
was compelled to pay the lads mother
800.
The wind "went west" from Chicago
the other day at the rate of $50 miles per
hour. Even Mr.. Greeley would have
been satisfied with this rate of going
West.
Boston has established new char
ity which it calls diet kitchens. The food
given out is meant for the sick only, and
tickets are distributed by the dispensary
physician.
Amos Kenyon, Of Thurman, Pa,
died lately, aged seventy-five. He had
kept his room for twelve years under
the delusion that he had committed the
objectionable sin.
Dying words amount to very little
nowadays A citizen of Kansas was shot
of of stolen horse the other day, and,
as he kicked around on the snow he
gasped: Honesty is the best policy"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Congressional.

In the Senate, on the 18th, minority
report was presented from the Committee ON
Elections, signed by Messrs. Hamilton and sauls-
bury, againstlthe admission of Mr.. Pinchback as
Senator from Louisiana The House bill au-
thorizing the President to appoint commission
TO attend the International Pcnitentiary Con-
gress, to be held in Rome next yce..
was passed. ;. The Senate bill granting the
right OF way to the Salt Lake & Walla Waila
Railroad and Transportation Company, and for
other purposes was discussed and rejected =
yeas, IS; nays, 81 The bill to provide govern
mcnt for the District Of Columbia was taken up,
and the amendment to have the Commissioners
elected by the voters of the District instead o
being appointed by the President was rejected
~ to ~.
In the House, on the nth, the Post
Office Appropriation bill was reported from Com
mittee of the Whole, with an amendment pro-
viding for the free transmission Of public docu'
ments and seeds from the Agricultural Depart
ment through the malls, which amendment was
rcjected--yeas 93. nays i25. An amendment can
ceiling the Pacific Mail contract OF 1872 was
agreed to, and the bill was passed The Tarih
bill was considered in Committee OF the Whole,
and lengthy debate erkued, Mr.. Dawes advocat-
ing and Mr.. Wood opposing the measure.
In the Senate, on the 18th, during Q
discussion on the Portland, Dallas d Salt Lake
Railroad bill,it was stated that the Committee on
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
Religious and Educational.

The Methodist Church In Michigan
has $1,000 members, 10000 Sabbath
school scholars, 462 church buildings,
valued at 2,679, 800, and 265 parsonages,
worth $378.4
The Methodists are the leading de-
nomination in Illinois, having member
ship of all sorts of about 10000. The
Baptists are next, then comes the Disci-
pies, followed by the Presbyterians and
Congregationalists quite distance be-
hind.
The Baptist associations of Illinois
number ~; churches belonging to
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

more than they earned She thinks of
giving up the business, and the workmen
express willingness to leave a. anv
time.
The IRON Age estimates that in the.
hills Of Columbia County, N. ". there ia
supply of at least 90, O00, coo tons of
iron, which could be mined and eeliy-
cred In boats on the Hudson River at a
cost OF not over two dollars a ton.
The orders receive in Sheffield
England. from America for files. saws
tools and cutlery were lighter during the
last season than they have ever been
This is largely owing to homemade ar
ticles taking the place of British through
out the country.
An enterprislng lady, Mrs. r. Screw
en-, of Liberty, Ga, planted some young
pear trees three years ago, and from
their fruit this year shipped in Savannah
fifteen barrels Of pound.pears, retailine
at five cents each. She has also success.
fully cultivated many thousands of tea
plants.
The consumption of ice has greatly
increased in this country during the past
five years. As illustrative of this fact,
it is stated that in New York city in
lou OUO,OV pOuS VI lCc met me ue-
mands of the people, while now one firm
has put up $50, 600 tons, and other par
ties have packed as much more.
"A certain New York boot-b black has
a more lucrative income than some of
the leading business men, and it is said
that the cake ana pie stand at the Post
Office is worth more than any clerkship
in that institution. There is also said 10
be a newsstand in the same neighbor-
hood whose income ispreferable to many
distinguished city editor, while the fel-
low who sells cakes and coffee on an
other corner has realized sufficient TO
purchase a farm besides fifty or sixty
thousand dollars worth of real estate in
Gotham. Another man is growing rich
by purchasing pigs feet at the slaughter
house for $1.25 per hundred and then
turning them into souse, for which he
has large and growing custom.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25

THE Shakers OF Lebanon shook out .
clear profit Of ga, COO last year.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-02-25
The East.

The Bishops Of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church have fixed upon Monday, March
/, as day OF fasting and prayer, and Issued
an address 20 the American people pleading
for the enjoyment Of every civil and political
right.
The Supreme Court OF Massachusetts, has
rendered decision In the case Of Jesse IL.
Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, oyerruling
the exceptions and ordering judgment on the
verdict He win therefore be sentenced to
death.
A New York dispatch of the 18th says the
Pacific Mail Directors had approved the ac-
ton Of Rufus Hatch In ordering the institu-
ton OF suits against those parties alleged to
have received subsidy money About thirty
persons win be involved
The Connecticut Democratic State Conyen-
ton met at Hartford on the 10th and renomi-
mated, by reclamation, the old ticket, headed
by Gov. Charles X. Ingersoll. The resolutions
adopted favor hard money and oppose Federal
Executive interference In the States OF Lou
isiana and Arkansas and the increase OF
Federal taxation at time when the industry
OF the country 10 SO greatly depressed.
Mr.. and Mrs. ID. B. Mellott, OF McConnells-
burg, Pa, went away from home ON q visit
ON the 18th, leaving three children locked In
the house. On their return few hours after
ward they found the bones OF the children In
the ruins Of the house, which had burned
down during their absence.
vyss Il Co., straw goods dealers OF New
York city, have failed. with liabilities reported
ct $1,0C0,oO0. -
In the Beecher trial, on the 10Th, Mr.. Tilton
left the witness stand temporarily to give
place to witness named Catherine Cary,
formerly nurse in the plaintiffs family
who had been subpena.d by the prosecution
ana was in waiting TO give her evidence. She