Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-05-11

vention, and instructed TO give tier prefer
ence 10 senator Morton IS . candidate for
Pressden; Of the United ststcs
TIE recent California Republican State
Convention expressed preference for James
@. Blaine for President Of the United STATES.
but left sts delegates 10 the National Convex
ton unInssructed In that regard.
AxxnuycyxExT was made on the 18th nlt
that the Straits Of Msckinsc we're open, and
| thss steamers had succeeded In efecting .
passage
! The Chicago Esexaag Josrnal Of the 18Th
/ alt says Don Carlos, the Pre;eDder 70 the
/ Spanish throne was recognized In this city
| last Sunday, BY those who have seen him al
| Madrid aud Paris, WHO assure us most posi-
| lively that they san him, accompanied By
three spanish companions, at mass in the
| French Catholic Church, on Halsted street.
on that day. Those from whom we derive
this information are very positive that II W@-
the reritAble Don Carlos"
The Chicago Tribune Of TIE c9th ult, pub
fishes letter from Custer City, 10 which the
writer says there Is gold Ia the Black Hiils,
but not around that city. On Rapid Greek,
near Rapid City, miners were doing well,
making about six dollars day, and would
do better az soon az the frost was out Of the
ground. He thinks there is plenty Of gold TO
pay anyone that has neans to build sluiees,
but not enough to pay for pan work
Food was plenty and cheap; -four
five cents pound; bacon, fourteen cents !;
sugar, twelve cents; coffee, forty cents, and
SO on. young man named James NcCune,
who returned to Quincy, H., on the Goth nlt.,
tells another stroy, giving very discourag-
ing account Of Affairs In the Hills. Hesays
many miners, including himself, had deserted
that region after becoming convinced that
gold had not been discovered In paying guam
tities, or, II it had been, that the danger from
the Indians was too great 10 tempt any Of
them TO go where 1t was 10 be found.
IL was not often that any one was
found who had been lucky enough TO
pick up nugget Of any value. He says -four
was twenty cents pound gold; sugar
nifty cents pound, and other things
In proportion. A large number Of those
who had rushed TO the Hills lived entirely
upon game, which was fortunately plenty.
FOURTEEN prisoners escaped from the Chi
cago jail on the morning Of the Both ult. IL
seems one Of the prisoners who was serving
out a brief sentence, and 10 whom was as
signed the duty Of sweeping out the Office
occupied by the Waterman, ovcrpowered the
latter, and, with the aid of another prisoner,
bound and gagged him, secured the keys 70
the cels, and liber ated those who escaped.
THE seventeenth delegated General Con-
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal Church
assembled In Baltimore on the LIST Bishop
Ames made the welcoming address, and
Bishop James responded. A resolution was
adopted ratifying and confirming the action
whereby the place Of holding the present
General Conference was changed from ST.
Louis 10 Baltimore. Geo. w. Woodruff was
chosen Secretary, and Rev. Israel Pershin9,
OF Pittsburgh. Assistant Secretary
THE municipal election In indianapolis on
the I'd resulted In the success Of the Repub.
lican ticket by from 5000 TO 1000 majority,
and the election of Republican aldermen IN
eleven out Of thirteen wards. riot .oc'
Cured In one OF the wards, at the close Of
the polls, between u number OF negroes
armed with clubs, aud several white men, in
which the former were fired upon by the lat
ter, and six Of them badly wounded, two
Of them, IL was thought, fatally.
A NEW ORLEANS dispatch Of the I'd says
armed bodies at West Feliciana had demand
ed the resignation Of the Parish officials.
News had been received from Coushatta that
State Senator Twitchell was MORALLY wound
ed, and George King, his brother. law,
killed, by an unknown party, while crossing
the river ut Coushatta. Senator Twitchell
was one of the holding,ever Republican sena-
| tors.
TnE Republicans OF Oregon have nomi-
mated Richard II. Williams for Congress,
The Michigan Mass Greenback State Con.
yention was held at Jackson on the 3D.. Del.
egates were chosen TO the National Conven.
tion at indianapolis, and resolutions were
adopted, among others, calling Themselves
the Independent Greenback party; demand.
Ing the unconditional repeal Of the Specie.
Payment act, and the regulation by Congress
Of the values and volume Of currency, which
shall be Issued only by the Government, so
that the rate Of interest shall not rise above
the increase Of wealth by productive labor;
declaring that 1t Is the duty OF the Govern
meut to establish monetary system estab-
lished on the faith Of the Government;
demanding that the circulation OF banks be
withdrawn, and that the Government issue
ia notes directly 10 the people without the
Introduction u any banking system, such
money TO be legal tender for all debts and
duties, the portion Of lntercst made payable
In metallic money 10 be so paid-this money
to be at the option Of holders, interchange.
able with Government bonds bearing interest
not exceeding 3.G5 per cent per anuum; de.
claring that justice demands the payment OF
our specie debt In coin Of the weight Of 1902.
IN Chicago, on the 3D., spring wheat, No.
closed at 95a965Sc cash. Cash corn
closed at 45c for No. 2. Cash oats No. 2, sold
AT 29lS 0829tsc; June options were sold
at S0Se. Rye No. 2,6i19@62c. Barley, No. 2,
82(a624c. Cash mess pork closed at 5000
042O40. Lard, si2l5@i217K Good to
choice beeves brought si.3o95S5; medium
grades, s4O00Q4.25; butchers stock, o. 50Ce
400, stock cattle, etc, s3.500J,00. Hogs
brought $7.00C17.40 for good 10 choice.
Sheep sold at s5.0o96.25 for good to
choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A VIENNA dispatch OF the 2sth ult. says