The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-11-28
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The President has appointed Edward
Uhl of N. y, as consul to Guatemala. ....
Admiral Dahlgreen is to assume command
of the South Pacific squadron. e.. Gen. Lo-
gan denies the statement that he is trying
to impeach the President. The Canadi-
an authorities are making extra cxcrtions
! to defend the frontier. >. "A rcgulator-b band
has been organized in Marion Co., Ky
three men have been hung, and others in
custody will probably share the same fate.
49,. During the past year the postal in the
ii seeded states has paid for itself and
netted 1921 900 profit. .....A story is told
ola clergyman who had been specializing
in oil in giving out his text one morning,
he said ss'it would be found in the last chap
ter of Acts, the last verse and the last half
of the verse and one-third Of the oH......
Facts should always be stated in black and
white; anything written in red ink of
course appears incredible. The popu-
lation of Cincinnati is 100000; in 1926
the population was but 5000. There
is horse in New Jersey said to 20 hands
high and weighs $500 pounds.
A little orphan boy, in Little Rock, Ark
ansas, who has for the past few months
followed the trade of boot black, was
last week made owner of $l2S 900 by the
will Of q deceased relative in Louisiana.
l.......A single tow of coal recently sent
from Louisville to New Orleans, contained
1926, 600 bushels, or three and quarter
acres as it lay in its original bed. This
was the largest trip of coal ever made by a
| single tow boat. 1.-THE coal fields of
America cover over 225, 900 square miles,
an area equal to % such states as Massa-
chusetts. One cubic mile will furnish sew
en- millions of tons annually for a thous-
I; and years. At this rate our coal will last
sixty thousand years. Drive your cattle
upon ice if you want cow-slips in winter.
The Davenport Gazette suggests that
convention of steamboatmen, lumbermen,
shippers, &C., be held at some central
point early in January, to confer concern
ing Improvements to the navigation of the
Mississippi, and to memorabilia Congress
for adequate appropriations to carry out
such measures as they may suggest......
The lock-makers of Birmingham, England,
turn out the amazing sum of 81 500 doz-
en- locks per week-ranging from Cd per
dozen to f3 apiece......A. Smith, who was
elected from New York and Albany
steamboat for selling his state-room at a
premium, has maintained in law his right
to do SO, and got verdict of 81 400 for be-
ing put of the boat......It is said to be the
firm intention of Maximillian to remain at
the head of the Mexican government even
after the French troops are withdrawn
He says he could not possibly abandon,
even for moment, the post of honor in
which he had been placed by the desires
and confidence Of the Mexican people.
According to the South Carolina and
Georgia newspapers, the crop Of Sea ISL
and cotton is estimated for this year at
from $4,000 to 10000 bales. :. The re-
ceipts from customs from the 10th to the
Eth instant are as follows: Boston, S39l-
l7s; New York, 81 1868, 7S9; Baltimore,
Sl2O, 29O. At New Orleans, the receipts
from the 4th to the 10th inst, were $780,
OBS /; and at San Francisco, from the Goth
to the 9th ult., $780, About 4
o'clock last Tuesday morning, the Goth
inst, meteor, lighting up the whole
heavens, was seen in the vicinity of Rome,
Ca, moving rapidly southwark. 1t APP
pearcd like ball of fire as large as the
sun. 1t exploded apparently about ten
miles Oft, with tremendous report like a
forty pound cannon, that shook the earth
and made the windows rattle. There will
be 20 acres of glass used in the Paris cx-
position building......A penitent lady in
Paris has given all her diamonds
million francs worth--to the church.
Prentice says five negroes have just been
sentenced to the New Hampshire peniten-
tiary, and two to the Massachusetts legis-
laturc......A strangers and citizens bu-
reau of information, detective, protective
and commercial" has been started at New
York......The empress of Mexico is recov-
ering. She drinks milk, embroiders, SAYS
her prayers, smokes cigarettes and is be-
coming tranquil in her mind and sane. >. :.
Attempts have been made within the space
OF about one year to assassinate the em-
peror of Russia, the king of Prussia, and
the emperor of Austria. What a stencil
there must be at the p. o. department in
Washington Il, 600, 900 dead letters in one
year......A recent survey of the Mississippi
Rapids has developed the fact that naviga-
ton cannot lie improved by digging the
channel. The Commissioners report in
favor of canal..... Brigham Young is lux
urinting in the honeymoon of his seventy
fifth bride, a beautiful Danish girl of sew
enteen. He has just lost his .twenty-fourth
wife, who was buried without any ceremo-
ny, or even notice of her death.
What riches are those that certainly
take unto themselves wings and Ay2 Ost-
riches. man in Connecticut fired both
barrels Of his gun at a rabbit, and missing
him, threw his tobacco box at the animal
and killed it......1n some of the English
factories the children work sixteen hours
a day. They have the twice eight-hour
system......A statement of the number of
employees in the Treasury Department at
Washington, shows that 2,1s3 clerks and
messengers and 3l2 females-2,495 in all
ARE employed in the eighteen Bureaus
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