The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-07-30
50 90 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.

an overplus Of wheat to export this year.
sy' The fare from New York to Council
Bluffs, Iowa, 10 $2S. atA4-@.
c. Public drinking hydrants are being
put up in the cities Of New York and Pills
delphis.
GT The harvesting crop in England are
OF the most encouraging character.
CO The Washington, ID. C.) Star ssti-
mates the population Of the National Cspi-
tai at from $4,000 to $4,000.
c. Tbs hrst car load Of now wheat vas
received in Chicago on the 5th. 1t Was
from Perry county, III.
CO Carl Schurz. tho eloquent German,
is prominent candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor Of Wisconsin.
CT Land sales in this State, will COM
nenoe at Fort Dodge, Sept. 25sn, and ss
Sioux City, October 3oth. .-r )
CO Coal exist, in eightv.ons Of the
counties Of Illinois, and over . hundred
mines are now worked in thirty eight differ
ent counties.
y Louis Napoleon has decided that all
wounded prisoners shall be returned with
out exchange, as soon as their strength ad-
mits of it, in order to diminish tie unnec.
essary sufferings Of war. .,s@..+
O. The Louisville Courier declares that
Senator Douglas can carry "no Southern
State, district, county or precinct, while he
entertains the doctrines" Of the letter just
published.
EV The Democrat wants to know-n
kIRKwoop is to be Governor Of Iowa, who
in the name of heaven can't be. Why,
Dodge can't be.-Davsnpors Gazette.
w f. Merriam states that since July o..
1850, 2T6 persons have Lost their lives BY
burning fluid accidents, SIC more have been
more or less injured.
cT The Leavenworth Times says that
the Republican ma jority on the popular vote
FOR members oe the Constitutional Conven-
ton Of Kansas ranges between 5000 and
5000.
~ 4 recent German invention for MAJ. {.
ing paper of straw is said to successfully
meet the difficulties that have heretofore a..
tended the process
The Oberlin Eescucrs and tho Ken.
tucky kidnnppers have both been discharged
by mutual arrangement. The government
sharpers found Oberliu little too much for
them, and have to :. cave in.''
fy One Of the passengers in the late dis.
aster upon the Michigan Southern Railroad
settled with the Company for the loss Of HE
wife and child for $500.
,,,,nt J.,;.;,n - ,Lo c.->
Court of California, sustains the Chiness
system of worship, and places i, on legal
level with christianity.
- The National InteIIcencer figures the
cost of keeping Cuba, if We get it, at TWEEN.
:y nine millions per annum, in addition to
eighty or hundred1mil!i1ns already spent.
CT The Douglas Democrats in YER
mont, apply to their Administration breth-
rem, the euphonous title Of "Cow-boys;"
and the latter return the compliment by des-
gnating the Douglas men as 'Stump-tails.' >
c. The Albany Evening Journal tells u
that (" there is one army which will never
quit Italy. 1t sleeps on its arms in IN ster-
nal biynusr. They are picked men, the
bravest in both armies-the foremost in ev-
erv battle. In twenty-seven days Italy hrs
been strewn with twenty thousaI d
oorpses--poor fellows, who sought an eps, =
let, and found a grave
cy 1t is noticeable fact tha. in the
Maine penocratic convention, when the bal.
lotting for Charleston Delegates commenced
there were not over FIVE hundred delegates
present. The ballot box, nevertheless. was
found to contain, at the close, over eleven
hundred ballots Truly, harmonious De-
mocracv is "the same thing" from Bangor
in Maine, to kickapoo in Kansas.
c. a gentleman announces in the Daf-
falo Advertiser that he will deliver n leoturs
in that city, in which he will exhibit a mod
ell of his steam battering ram, by which two
men can whip oct nny usr vessel now ahoats
without firing q gun, or losing a man; anu
also model cannon, that will load, aim,
fire and swab itself out. .,.-
- Some IDEA os the density Of population
in Europe, as compared with this country
is conveyed in the fact that North and
South America comtined have less populs-
lation than France and Italy.
GT The new Fifth Avenue Hotel in New
York, covers sixteen lots, is seven stories
high, with an unobstrueted view from each
Of the four sides over all parts Of the city.
Although neither Of the sides has a ground
snrface equal into about one third that Of
the Metropolitan on Broadway, and about
equal to that on Prince street, yet the Fifth
Avenue Hotel ia more than double the size
of the Metropolitan. .. .,-s..,o
CO The total population of Marion CO.,
ot.A h,,$ $ba 10
being an increase of 1000 since 1856. No.
Of dwelling houses, c:25l number Of acres
improved, 66,734. -
cF Here's 6: tit bits FOR the super.ti-
tios There was a comet and large vim
tage in lSll, and the Russian war took
place in 1912, to the ruin Of Napoleon L.
There was great comet in 1858, and the
vintage was magnificent, and now We have
she Italian war, which some confidently u.s.
sert will prove the ruin Of Napoleon ILL.,.
c .'uries seem determined, all over the
country, to make mascaline firsers and jill
ers suffer terribly in the pocket nerve. At
Baltimore, the other day, the jury 10 ths
case of Mrs. Annie b. Herring, against JAS.
Herring, rendered a verdict Of 81, 500 dam
ages for the plaintiff.
ey The Republicans OF Vermont have
nominated for Governor, Hiland Hall. Of
Bennington Lieut.. Governor, Burnham
Martin of Chelsea: Treasurer, Henry NJ.
Bates, of Montpelier.
ev Southern Nebraska sent delegates to
the Kansas Constitutional Convention.--
These delegates we're admitted to seats and
allowed to speak upon the question of ex-
tending the boundaries of Kansas, bat were
no, permitted to vote.
CO Twenty nine vears ago, Chicago
polled thirty two votes, and minority Of
these were BY French Canadian and half
breeds. .s.-. . ,.-. 7, era
sy Eo.snth, has boen receiv everv-
where BY the Italians with enthusiasm 10
is said now, that in view of the action OF
Prussia, the allies will probably carry war
into Hungary, if 50, the cherished dream cf
his life may be realized. kossush is look :
ing out for his own interests, and ii he does
no: secure them no man in Europe could. =,
e7F Accounts from Washington say that
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