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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
Industrial.


The Boston school fathers have de-
cided in favor of having sewing taught
to the girls of the lower classes in the
grammar schools.
AT Key Largo, Fla, small island
about ninety five miles northeast of Key
West, the product of pineapples the past
year exceeded $4,000, of superior size
and quality.
Parties are already making their ar
rangements for extensive salt manufact-
ure at Corinne, which point will become
the great depot tor supplies of that ar
ticle for Eastern Nevada, Idaho and Mon
tana.
The English Mechanic states that one
of the transatlantic steamers is being
fitted with an aquarium-car for the trans
portation of live fish. The enterprise is
undertaken with view of importing
some of the best species of American
fish and attempting their acclimatization
in England. In return, some of the more
valuable English fish will be introduced
into American waters.
The Omaha Smelling and Refining
works have been in operation four years
The works turned out 81 600, 900 in 1878,
and the operations during 1874 may be
briefly stated thus: Amount of base
bullion separated and refined, 1000 tons !;
ore smelted, 1000; coal and coke con-
sumed, 6,715; value of gold and silver
produced, $1,350,000; lead shipments,
$500 tons, valued at $8O000O number
of men employed, ninety-three; wages
paid, $65, 200; paid on freight, $3.50, 900;
for expressage, $4,000.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

The United Presbyterian mission
aries in Egypt and Syria have provided
a metrical version of the Psalms in
Arabic, for singing in their public wor-
ship.
in 1850 the Presbyterian Church of
England contained about seventy eight
congregations; in 1860 it had risen to
ninety-five; in 1870 it had reached III,
and in 1874 the number is reported at
lat.
"A Boston correspondent says the
School Committee of that city are con-
sidering the subject of increasing the
minimum age at which children may at
tend primary schools from five years to
six.
"A Methodist minister preaching in a
Protestant Episcopal pulpit and noble
collection of 81 900 for the benefit of de-
serving and needy brother ministers
were among the incidents of the late
session of the Baltimore Conference.
Some of the Presbyterian papers are
advocating the introduction of the re-
sponsive use of the Psalms in their
church worship; and they repudiate the
idea that there is anything in such re-
sponsive services that belongs exclusive
ly to Episcopacy or any other form of
church government.
i'm the late Baltimore Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church the
Stewards reported the amount received
for disabled preachers and their widows
and children to be sufficient TO enable
them to pay 100 per cent. on the dollar.
This is said to be the first time in the his
tory Of the church that this has been
done.
Since the Day of Prayer for Colleges
there has been a deep religious interest
at Dartmouth College. The daily prayer
meetings have been largely attended,
many of the students are greatly i'm
pressed and number have been con-
verified. A powerful revival is also in
progress among the students of Hamil-
ton College.
The Year Book and Register of Trim
ity Church, New York, for the present
year, shows that there are seven churches
comprised within the Trinity Parish, sup
piled by sixteen clergymen, of whom
Drs. Dix, Haight, Swope, Mulchahev and
Ogilby are best known. The corporation,
leaving out churches and cemeteries as
unproductive property, is worth seven or
eight millions, and has an annual income
OF $OO0O
Rev. Mr.. Higgins, travelling preach
er in the Methodist Church, gives as
reason for not filling the Allegheny cir
cult, to which he was appointed by the
conference, that he could find no place
to live, and nothing to live on, and the
travelling exceedingly difficult, as in
going to some of the appointments he
was compelled TO ford streams eighteen
or nineteen times. His reasons were
deemed satisfactory and he was excused
for declining the work
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
The Bad-Spel ling-Fiend.

In these days of spelling matches il
would be good idea to secure among
the contestants, or at least the auditors,
some of our county officials. The spell
ing on some of the informations that
come before courts is only equaled by
the puzzles that appear in Constables'
sales" notices and "Sheriffs' sale" an
nouncements. Among the latter docu-
ments on exhibition in the Sheritf's
office may be found the following: &C.
kuntry weagen;" box at Sheriff's sale
was labeled as containing exile grese"
instead of axle-grease. A Deputy Sheriff
put up a bill of sale of a little boat
named the Maid of Erin" and he got it
off as the "Made of IRON certainly
strong enough, but not according to the
authorities. OF dozen employees in a
prominent office in the Courthouse on
Saturday, one, and only one, spelled the
word g innuendo" correctly, yet it is in
use in the Court House daily. A Dep
uty- Sheriff levied on the contents of a
hardware store some time ago, and
among the assets noted IS ougrs and Q
bites.b This is enoughsb knock "salid'
any day in the week.-9tts6prgh Dis
patch.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

Gail Hamilton says she knows a Can
gresham who "invftes his friends -
dine, does his own carving, and saves al
the titbits for himself"
The widow of the late John Mitcbe,
lives in Brooklyn with her daughter la.
bella and a son. One of her daugbtaro
is the wife of Mr.. Roger Page, of Louis
vile.
lone Frost, of Marion County. Nv
has named his five sons Severe Frost
Winter Frost, White Frost. Jack Frost
and Black Frost" An ice family thew
must be.
Mrs. Consider Dickinson, whose es.
tate is worth about 5000, and who is
eighty-six years old, has willed most NJ
her property for educational purposes in
Deerfeld, Mass.
The house occupied by George Ban
croft in Washington, where he is com.
pleting his history, has had for its ten.
ants James X. Paulding, Washington Irv.
ing, John P. Kennedy, William Writ, Pc.
ter Force and Jared Sparks.
The immense estate of the late John
Hopkins, of Baltimore, amounting to
more than $1,000, 900, has been settled at
a cost of less than three-quarters of /
per centum on the whole value. and
this although the property lay in three
States and its interests were very widely
extended.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

Recent accounts state that the Ice at Bay
de Noquet, en- the upper Michigan shore Of
Lake Michigan, was five feet and one inch
thick, by actual measurement
George Reynolds, Mormon, on trial al
Salt Lake City for poiygamy, was found guilty
on the LIST by jury composed of both Nor.
mons and non Mormons. A motion to sci
aside the verdict for the reason that the de.
fendant had never been arraigned and asked
to plead, and never had the indictment read
to him, was granted, after which the
defense waived new trial with view Of TAX
ing the case to the Supreme Court. In the
case of George @. Cannon, on the same
charge, the defendant plead the statute Of
limitation, demurrer to which was over
ruled, and the defendant was discharged.
Ex-State Senator Robert McKenna, OF
Tennessee, was recently tried for marrying
the grand daughter of his former wife and
sentenced to the Penitentiary for five years.
He has been pardoned by the Governor.
According to New Orleans dispatch of the
4th the Senatorial excursion to Mexico had
broken up, several Of the party having
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

The father of all corns-pop corn.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has pro-
hibited fortune-telling.
"A rascally but ingenious Virginia dis
tiller lately converted cave and hol-
low tree growing over it to his purpose
of defraudlng the revenue, the tree serv-
ing as concealed chimney.
Mrs Swisshelm lays down this broad
principle regarding the male portion of
the human race: "Only in his coffin is
it safe for woman to kiss any one man
in thousand"
"A few of his parishioners handed
one of Boston's esteemed clergynen a
friendly offering in the shape of check
for $4,000 on a recent Sunday morning,
just enough TO pay off the mortgage on
his house.
-Arnica Liniment. ounces alco-
hol; one drachm tincture arnica. Une-
qualed for pains in the feet and limbs,
for all fresh or recent sprains, bruises or
confused wounds and for rheumatism of
the joints and equity pains.
Emperor of Brazil to Uncle Sam
II have determined to abdicate in favor
of my daughter, and hereafter make
your country my home" Uncle Sam
"All right, come along; you'll be treated
just as well as anybody else"
An English country paper records
the following fact: "a cow on the farm
of Mr.. Wilson, in Barrowdale, Cumber-
land, recently broke her leg. 1t was am
putated and wooden leg supplied, and
she is now stumping about and doing
we'll"
A 10
hopper relief committee was broken open
at the Central depot, the other day, and
the contents were found to consist of
| old boots and frozen potatoes. On the
side of the box were the words: " The
Lord loveth cheerful giver. "-CticogO
Tribune.
1t is stated that out of 500 samples
of milk tested by Prof. Chandler, of New
York, 470 were diluted and then adulter-
ated with something to make the article
look like real milk. These samples were
from middlemen. On these compounds,
innocently purchased for pure milk, it is
estimated that the middlemen's profits
were 100000 per year. In other
words, the producers sales Of real milk
in New York amount to $4,000, 900 per
annum and that of the milk peddlers
tihiuulCuiCuy, Wy IuCll cACcusloA pioC-
ess, $12, 100000.
"A newly-married couple from some
where down the Lansing road were rid
ing in Grand River car yesterday, and
the groom insisted on holding the brides
hand in his big, red paw. "Oh! no,
don't!" she said, as she jerked her hand
away. "Oh! luv, let me hold yer hand,
jest for ten minutes" he pleaded. "Shoo !!
don't you see they are looking at us9"
she whispered. "They are, eh!" he re-
piled, looking up and down the car.
"Well, now, I'm going to put my arm
right around we, and if any fellow in
this car dares to spit crooked I'll git up
n mop the floor with him till wear him
up to the shoulder-bladesr' His arm en-
circled her, and the other passengers
looked as solemn as if they were on
their way home from funeral.-Detrost
Free Press
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

is discharged in protecting those govern
ments which were recognized as being repub-
lican In form by the Constitution when
adopted. The Governments Of the States
being then accepted, it must be assumed that
they are such as are to be guaranteed. The
admission of new States is then considered,
and it is found that there is nothing to favor
the idea tina. suffrage is a right Of citizenship,
but everything 70 repel 1t; also, the restora-
ton OF the States to the Union after the war,
fraye. Besides, person who has simply de-
clared his intentions to become a citizen OF
the United States may vote under certain cir
cumstances in Missouri and other States, aud
this could not be If suffrage depended upon
the right Of citizenship. The court are unan.
imous in the opinion that the Constitution ol
the United States does not confer the right Of
suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitu
lions Of the several States which commit the
truGt to men alone are not necessarily void.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

Patrick Laughran, while oiling the
shafting in No. 2 mill at Natick, Mass,
the other morning, was caught by the
shaft and instantly killed.
"A Nantucketer, few mornings
since, on going out to feed his biddies,
found crow with the flock, who re-
manned to breakfast with them.
Mrs. Joseph Searles. of Perkins
Plantation, r. l., has boarded and
shingled the frame of her house since
last summer, besides doing all her farm
work.
A man committed suicide the other
day in Boston by jumping into the
machinery of planning mill. He felt
cut up about something and evidently
wanted to try the homeopathic method
of cure.
"A child of John Bristow, of Port
land, Me-, just old enough to 60 alone,
amused himself, recently, by punching
his brother, three years old, in the eye
with poker, nearly red-hot, and the
sight of that eye is destroyed.
MIR. Abraham Andrews, of West
Fryeburg, Me-, had his eye put out by a
nail few mornings ago. His son was
attempting to drive the nail while his
father held the board The nail, flying,
struck the eye, causing it to run out.
IN. A. Christianson, German of
Minneapolis, acted strangely the other
day, and at night became SO violent that
he was obliged to be locked up. Accord
ingly he was placed in cell in the sta
tion-house. Next day he was removed
to the residence of DR.. Richter, who
seemed to be the only man who had any
control over him. Here he acted SO
strangely that the officers removed him
to his cell again, where he remained,
stark naked, refusing to keep his clothes
on. He was pronounced insane day or
two after, and officers visited his cell to
bring him out and start for the asylum
with him. Stepping out few moments,
when they returned they found the man
the privy seat. 1t is thought that while
his head, strangling him.
An atrocious tragedy was recently
committed in Toquerville, Utah. Rich.
ard Fryer, who has lately labored under
the hallucination that he was a second
Jesus Christ, entered his house in the
evening and found Thomas Batty, a
friend Of the family, lighting fire in
the CRATE. Believing that Batty was an
emissary of the devil, who was trying to
burn his premises, the lunatic rushed
for pistol and shot HIM through the
head. Mrs. Fryer, paralyzed with fear,
crouched in a corner, and was shot
through the heart by her demoniac hus-
band The next thing he did was to 60
to a cradle where his infant child was
lying asleep, and deliberately blow its
brains out This was the browning act
of the almost unparalleled tragedy.
Fryer then sailed forth into the village
armed with a revolver and gun, pro-
claiming himself the Lord, and saying
that he had slain the devil and several
of his imps. The Sheriff, being unable
to arrest Fryer, and fearing that still
other lives might be sacrificed, killed
him with shot from navy revolver.
Batty, Mrs. Fryer, the babe, and the
slayer of them all were buried on the
same day from the same house.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
Foreign GOssip.

Victoria and Eugene have been swap.
ping biographies of their husbands. How
wildly Interesting to both of them,
Waste-paper is cheaper in England than
in the States.
The surplus of the State revenue in
Sweden in 1874 was IL, $40, 900 crowns. It
is stated that the financial condition of
that country has never been more brill
liant than at this moment.
The Canadian Government is about
to withdraw its twenty-cen pieces from
circulation. The resemblance of the
coin to twenty-fve-cent pieces has been
costly to many people.
A girl was killed in Manchester, En-.
gland, by falling over backward while
rocking herself. The Coroner's jury CEN
sured the manufacturers for making
rockers of such dangerous pattern.
Five shots from his revolver a reso-
lutte gentleman of Paris, intent on sui
eide, fired into his head; but being una.
BILE to find his brains with that num-.
Der he gave it up and went to the hos
pital.
Paris is excited over the exhibition
of genuine Cyclops, who has but one
eye, and that in the center of his forehead.
He is native of the Australian bush.
His name is Piper Wilson; his age twen-
ty-two.
in London lately a man ate whole
newspaper in one beer-shop and raw
herring in another, and on account of
this eccentricity in diet he was fined ten
shillings. Yet they talk of British free
dom.
The postal routes across the Alps
have suffered greater and more frequent
interruption this winter than for years.
Sixteen and eighteen feet of solid snow
has been the level average on the st.
Gothard route.
If "high interest means poor securi-
ty" the French Imperialists have but
small chance in the future, as they are
now regularly borrowing money to be
repaid 1000 per cent. upon the restora-
ton of the Empire.
In the suit against the London World
for libel in some sharp articles against
money-leuders the court dismissed the
complaint, holding that malice was not
made out and that "a strong case of
public benefit was shown"
His Royal Highness the Duke of
Edinburgh has invented and brought
into use a style of dress in which the
tops of the shoes are made of the same
material as the pantaloons, which must
tend to largely increase the shoemaker's
bill
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
The East.

Mr.. Rcdpath was ross-examined on the LIST
and stated that In an interview he had with
Mr. Beecher the latter did not deny that he
had given Mr.. Tilton cause of offense. When
asked II, In all his conversations with witness,
Mr.. Beecher had denied the commission OF
the crime with which he is charged, witness
answered that he did not ask him (Beecher)
about 1t. Mr.. Beecher was the next wit
ness called to the stand. He said he had con-
scientious scruples against swearing on the
Bible, and was sworn by the uplifted hand.
He then began his evidence in answer to
questions by his counsel, giving detailed
history OF his life and his acquaintance with
Messrs. Bowen, Tilton and Moulton
down to about the year 1870.
His evidence for the day closed with a
statement OF an interview had by witness and
his wife with Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Morse, at
Mrs. Tilton's residence, and at her (Mrs. T.'s)
request, on which occasion Mrs. Tilton and
Mrs. Morse spoke Of the domestic Difficult
ties in Mr.. Tiltons family, and the result OF
which was that he (witness) conceded with
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

John G. New, who is to succeed Mr.. Spin
ner as Treasurer OF the United States, is said
to be hard. money man.
A Washington dispatch Of the 4th says the
Mexican Government would soon have
State the enormity Of the offense recently
committed by invading Mexicans on the Texas
border, with such demands for reparation as
will satisfy our national honor.
The President has appointed E. c. Walker,
OF Michigan, TO be Inspector Of Indian
Affairs.
President Grant is reported as having stated
on the 5th, in relation to the recent reported
outrages OF bands of Mexicans in Texas, that
he could see no reason for apprehension Of
war between the two countries, but OF course
no one could tell what might be In the future.
Nothing, however, would be done by this Gov
eminent to provoke such result.
The Court Of Claims at Washington has de-
cided, In a case recently brought before 1t,
that the power vested In the President to par
don crimes docs not authorize him to restore
forfeited or confiscated property.
The President on the 7th suspended w.
Ringgold, Postmaster at New Orleans, under
the Tenure-of-O Office act, and appointed John
NJ. q. Parker In his place.
Recent Washington dispatches report the
discovery Of numerous frauds upon the Post
Office Department in'connection with mail
route bids. II seems that some Of the clerks
OF the department have been In the habit of
informing professional contractors of the low
est bids after the time for receiving propos-
ais had expired, and then, by means Of counter.
feits of official stamps, of Substituting later and
lower bids. 1t is said the department has
lost nothing by these transactions, the SUBJ
stituted bids being in all cases lower than
those regularly made.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15
Foreign InteiliGence.

A special dispatch from Berlin of the LIST
says great financial crisis had occurred
There had been twenty-eight failures and
several suicides in consequence Of financial
reverses.
The Carlists were reported on the LIST to
have entered the province OF Santander with
view Of penetrating CASTLE.
The Uruguayan Chambers have passed a
decree suspending payment of interest on the
public debt, and providing for its redemption
by the issue Of new paper at q forced price.
The foreign representatives have protested,
and the situation is considered serious.
A dispatch from Berlin OF the I'd reports
that eighty ecclcsisstics had been imprisoned
In Posen alone, and that Papal delegate,
who had been administering the Archbishop
ric OF Posen since the incarceration of the
incumbent, had been arrested.
The funeral Of John Martin, the brother.in.
law OF the late John Mitchell, was attended
by 10000 persons.
schichken, the Russian diplomatic agent
In Servia, has been appointed Minister of
Russia to the United States.
A Madrid dispatch OF the Sd says that the
Carlist Gen. Saballa had had an interview
with Gen. Campas at Olot, under flag OF
truce, with the view of seeking terms for the
transfer Of his allegiance from Don Carlos to
King Alphonso. 1t was reported that 100
Carlist officers had already given in their ad-
hesion to the latter, and that the Carist army
had been largely thinned by assertions.
Wilson, MeLay d Co., metal merchants,
London, England, have suspended, owing, it is
stated, to difficulties arising from their Amer
lean contracts for rails. Their liabilities are
estimated at $1,000,00O.
A Rome correspondent Of the Paris Journal
dies Debats writes to that paper that the Pope
will take up his residence in the United States
II 1t should become impossible for him to re-
main In Rome, and 1t was with view to such
possible emergency that Archbishop McClos-
key was elevated to the Cardinalate.
On the It'll the public prosecutors at Liege,
Brussels, commenced an investigationinto the
Duchesne plot for the assassination Of Prince
Bismarck.
The bill to enable unmarried women To
vote for members Of Parliament was refused
a second reading in the British House oil
Commons on the 18th, by vote Of 152 to 1877.
The Premier voted with the minority.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-15

Now, just rs we have learned to read
his signature, Spinner must up and re-
sign.
Bret Harte now reckons up four sons
own heart. -
"A SON of former Governor of Ice
land, named Bjornson, is teacher in q
public school in Michigan.
Horace Greeley, during the last fif-
teen years of his life, lent $4,000 to
parties Of whom sixteen cents cannot be
collected.