Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-10-28

cha; military operations had heen suspended
rs Gov. srne.. npoE ample aad minute as
suraDce 81 leading citizens 81 thai stale saSs
there should be peace and far Ane Tree
elccsloa. They weald not undertake 10 az
swes foF la.iessness. bat guaranteed 70 aia
the civil officers In the execution u me
laws.
! Got. HorsToy, az Alabama, has appointed
Nov isss the day Cor The people 20 vote upon
ire new Constitution which the convention
Of that State has just completed.
Txovygc4ar. returns received at Columbus
| an the 18Th from ell the counties 10 Ohio
give Hayes . majority Of s,7s3 over Allen, ana
Republican majority OF seventeen In The
House and three In the Senate. The entire
Republican State ticket IL probably elected.
Cary. for Lieutenant. Governor, ran about
1000 behind Allen In the State.
The Texas Constitutional Convention has
adopted provision making the Governors
term four years, and providing that no per.
son shall be eligible for more than one term
Ia eight years.
BIZ order OF the Postmaster-Gcnerala re,
arrangement OF the fast-maii service be.
tween New York, ~. Louis and the South
west ID TO be shortly made 30 that all sdeh
matter az naturally belongs TO the PennsyL
wanna Railroad shall be sent by that line in
| stead Of the New York Central and Lake
Shore route.
The Chicago Journal Of recent date eau
tions people against counterfeit hVe'doiiar
| notes on the First National Bank OF Aurora,
H., and says they are the same as those OF
the Traders National Bank Of Chicago and
a Paxton, H., with the exception Of the
| change In the name Of the bank.
AT Carson City, Col, a few nights ago,
twelve. year.old girl named Carrie Bueking.
ham, who was visiting her sister, Mrs. Evans,
undertook 10 start a fire with coal,oll. The
can exploded her dress caught Are, and 10 d
moment the flames communicated 70 Mira
Evans and her infant, one year old. The
three were fatally burned.
Tnr vote polled In Cincinnati at the late
election was the largest ever cast In that city,
| being 1850. The vote In the county was
about 1900.
OLgAaY, the Chicago pedestrian, recently
walked leo miles In the unprecedented time
| OF eighteen hours and hfty-cight seconds.
Tng other day the Sheriff Of Portage Coun-
ty, VIE, was killed by two brothers named
Amos and Isaac Courtwright, whom he was
attempting 10 eject from building. On the
morning Of the 10Th party Of masked men,
numbering forty, went TO the jail at stevens
Point, seized the turnkey, beat down the
door Of the Jail, took out the Conrtwrlghts
and hung them 10 pine tree oycrhanging
the road.
PEor. JAS. G. WATSON, Of the Michigan
University, has recently discovered a new
planet IL shines like star OF the first mag
nitude.
A cotoRgp man named Isaac McAfee has
been recently convicted and sentenced 70
twenty years imprisonment for having about
a year ago caused terrible accident on the
Selma (Ala.) Il Dalton Railroad by placing
obstructlops on the track. Two white men
are 20 be tried for the same oiiense.
TnE Des Moines State Rsgister OF the 18th
haa returns from elghty.sescn counties In
Iowa, which give Kirkwood 2s,679 majority,
and indicate Republican majority OF thirty
In the state Senate and forty.two In the
House.
In Chicago, on the Goth, spring wheat, No
2, was quiet, closing at ti.l0XMLil cash
Cash corn firm; closing at 53Ac for No.
and 524c for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2
sold at 331l6133Jfc; November options were
sold at BIC. Rye, No. 2, 72Cg721<c. Barley
No. Q, 951GGa96c. Cash rness pork closed a
s22. ooa2225. Lard, sl370(6i3.7b Goot
10 choice beeves brought s4.75@625, medium
grades, s4250e4.75; butchers stock, $500
37b; scalawags, etc, s20o@2.25. Hog
brought ~. G2li 90 for good 10 choice. Sheet
sold at a .25Gt4Tb for good 10 choice.
FOHEIGN aNTELLIGENCE.
LONDON dispatched Of the 18th say that III