The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-07-12
News and Items.

News and Items.
The new houses Of parliament have alread
cost SIS 100000.
1t is known that people continue to die
starvation in the streets of London and Ola
gov.
The Council Bluffs Nonpariel (Rep.) is DO
itively opposed to granting the right Of suffrag
to the negros.
1t cost the government three and half mi
lions day last year.
The late Rear Admiral Dupont bequcathet
before his death, the amount of his prize none
during the war, $l75, 900, for home for tn
orphans of sailors and soldiers The HON
is to be located at Washington.
The editor of a Buffalo paper has got him
self into very bad fix. He is between tn
horns of dilemma. Having dunned an eI
ring one for his subscription, the subscriber re
fused to pay aud threatens to thrash the edito
il his paper is stopped.
The Marquis of Westminster has an incom
Of $4,000 per day.
The "Angel on the sixth floor" is the It'll
of Paris Vaudeville.
A profound adept in human physiology re
marks that if a woman WAKES fat with the pro
gress of years, her tenure Of life is somewha
precarious, but If happily she withers as sh
grows old, she lives forever.
"The British empire, sir" exclaimed an or
ator, sis one on which the sun never sets -
"And one" replied an auditor, Gin which tn
tax.Rather never goes to bed
It is believed that the military force abou
occupy Texas under Gen. Sheridan is 40
less than IS thousand. "a III
The Prince of Wales, it is said, won on
Derby day ten thousand pounde.
The "prettiest girl" question occasioned q
severe riot in Patterson, ]. The resident
ladies were infamed by fair New Workers.
securing the award.
A machine, said to be capable Of manufac.
turing 10000 bricks in ten hours, is in opers.
ton at Windsor Locks, Conn.
1t is said one.tenth Of the original cost viii
be required to repair the railroads of the south
which will amount to $50, 100000.
Says ARENAS Ward: "Yu ma differ a!
much 40 yu pleaze about the stile Of young
ladys igger, but l tell you confdentially, il she
has forty thousand pounds, the fgger is about
a. near rite as you will get it."
Dr.. Johnson said, of widower who wa,
about to marry, that it was remarkable case
Of the triumph Of hope over experience.
Crockett, the celebrated lion tanner Of
Howes Circus, fell dead just as he was en-
tering the case of wild beasts to commence
the performance, at Cincinnati, on the 9Th.
The Cincinnati papers say that Gen. Sher
man has selected that city for his future resi-
jence.
New wheat has been marketed in Baltimore
at $3.50 the bushel.
General Grants monthly pay, income tai
deducted, 10 one thousand and sixty-two dollars
and seventy cents. This sum is exclusive oil
Communication of quarters, ETC., which amounts
to nearly as much more.
Roger A. Pryor has taken the oath of allegi
ance and commenced the practice Of law in
Petersburg, Va.
About SO gunboats and other vessels, for
merly comprising the Mississippi squadron
will be sold at Mound city on the 18th of Au
gust.
There are two European crowned heads in
search of wives-one aged ninety, the othe,
twenty. The possessor of one Of these is the
Bavarian King, and it is said that King George
of Greece. has laid his heart and crown at the
feet Of fair Grecian of ancient lineage and
high degree.
The first specimen of vanilla ever grown il
France, or, as it is believed, in Europe, has
just been harvested at Bordeaux, where it wal
produced in the lighthouses of the St. Bruno
public gardens. The quality is affirmed to BE-
superior TO that imported from the West In
dies.
In the course of the next six weeks nearly
all the general hospitals will have been bro
ken up. Convaleseent patients are being dis
charged or transferred as fast as possible
There are about 10000 sick in the hospital al
present.
1t has been calculated that during the trav
cling season which has just set in, and which
lasts from May to November, only six months
the expenditure of American tourists in Eu.
rope will not be less than $3.000,0OO.
It is said that tho old Capitol Prison, a
Washington, 10 to be sold at auction.
It is said. in recent speech at Keokuk
Gov. Stone took strong grounds against Presi
dent Johnson and his policy of reconstruction
Adjt. Gen. Baker is preparing . military
history Of the state. He is now attending 9
meeting of adjutant generals in Boston.
A mule in the United States service is nov
called "brevet horse"
The trustees Of the State University have
resolved to give tuition free to all Iowa sol
diers regularly discharged.
Gen. Halleck sails on the LIST of August Il
assume command on the Pacific coast.
The oats and hay crops throughout central
Indiana will be unusually good. Corn wa.
never more promising. Wheat will be below
the average. ..... ...
The Fourth was celebrated in Washington
BY the colored population only, on the grounds
Of the executive mansion. Fred. Douglas
Fremont, Gov. Andrew and Senator Wilson
made speeches, the burden of which was negro
equality.
Quarantine is to be established below Wash
ington as precautionary measure against the
introduction of the Russian plague and Other
epidemics.
The Office of the treasurer of Floyd county
was entered by burglars some days ago and
$45,O0 stolen, most of which belongs t1
Treasurer Huntley. The loss of the county il
little over $4,000.
The receipts of customs, receipts from the sale.
Of public lands and internal revenue, for the
fiscal year ending June 80, will amount, in
round numbers about a. follows: customs SIC,
100000; from sales of lands, Sc, 400, 900
internal revenue, $206, O00, 900.
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Grand Offering Sales
JAMES WILEY, of the Union Cheap Casf
Store, will offer his entire stock of goods a