Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-07-08


The National camp meeting opens
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to-day.
u. S. Treasurer Spinner retired
and gave place to Mr.. New, on the
lst inst.
Nearly three hundred men are
employed on the new State Capital
building at Des Moines.
TheSpiritualists held camp meet
ing at Dubuque last week. They
INDUCED in music and dancing.
A drunk man was run over by the
cars at Keota, Keokuk county recent
ly, and lost both his legs.
The public debt statement shows a
reduction in June of 81, ,i3l ,2l9. Re-
duction since June 80, 1875, sl4, ,309,-
5l4.
Secretary Delano will retire from
the Cabinet, on his own motion, a a
time not yet fixed, and for reasons
not stated.
The volume of fractional currency
is being steadily reduced. The
The amount retired and cancelled last
month was about 81 100000. 1t will
be partially replaced by new coinage.
One hundred employees of the
Treasury Department at Washing
ton, mostly females, but including
some Of the prominent officers Of the
bureduwere discharged on the lst
inst.
Ex-Speaker Blaine received such
! injuries in recent railroad accident
that he will be unable to take active
tsaTtt in tine political campaign in the
West during the summer months.
The California Democrats, on the
| Goth ult., nominated Mr.. Irwin for
Governor, and made platform fa-
voring hard money, State rights,
whiskey, and a transcontinental, rail
way on the 39th parallel.
JEFF Davis, in recent letter to n
friend in Shreveport, says: 1.-THE
majority of Negro voters in this
State (Mississippil is already so large
and so rapidly increasing that / cam
not foresee the day of her deliver
ence."
Boss Tweed says to his political
friends: a want it distinctly un-
| derstood that / am as good Demo-
crat to-day as / ever was" w as 1t
because of his continued party loyal
ty that his Democratic friends releas-
ed him from the penitentiary
The Iowa Supreme Court has re-
Gently affirmed the decision OF "A low
er court, granting to a colored boy a
writ OF mandamus 10 compel the
Board Of Directors Of the Indepen-
dent School District Of keokuk to adj
NIT him to the Schools.
The NJ. y. conferencesfor Iowa will
meet this year as follows: Iowa,
Sept. 18th, at Keokuk Upper Iowa,
Sept. 23d, at Dubuque; Northwest
Iowa, September 29th, at Fort Dodge;
Des Moines, October 9th, at Indian
ola.
Robert Dale Owen, ex-Congress-
man from Indiana has become de-
ranged on the subject Of Spiritualism,
and came west from New York to
his Posey county home on the 10Th
ult., in care of his son.
The new motive power which l.
to replace steam and revoiutionize
the world Is the power which runs
the soda fountain immensely increas-
ed by means not yet revealed 10 the
public.
The cash in the United States
Treasury, about S0,000,000 in coin
and { 1000, ,000 in currency, was
counted on the lst inst. The work
was done by about l25 women, un-
der appropriate supervision. The
new Treasurer, Mr.. New, gave bond
and took possession.
Speaking Of the finance plank in
Ham, Irish 4 Co.'S Iowa platforms the
New York World, the leading Dem
ocratic organ OF the country says:
"It Is not worth while 80 discnss a
fiscal policy founded upon such gno-
rance. and fabricated with such a5-
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