North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-04

News and Items.
Mr.. Bonner says he will never trot Dex-
ter for dollar. "A gentleman can hold
fast horse" he says, "without gambling
with him." American mowers and rea-
pers were the only ones that won higher
success than bronze medals at the Paris
Exposition. The white police in Mobile
are resigning not relishing the idea of serv-
ing under negro lieutenant......T hun
bred shoemakers are on strike in Chi
cago; butt they don tstart apeg... The trans
lation of the Bible, by Joseph Smith, the
Mormon, is announced for publication this
fall......An Episcopal church is to be es-
tablished in Salt Lake City, and minister
is going from New York to take charge of
it......A great battle is expected in Para
gauy......A serious drouth is reported
south and east of US. In some To-
calitics stock is being fed to protect them
from starvation. The Dubuque Heard
says the notorious II. II. Heath, formerly
of that city, is practicing law in Santa Fe
1t is said the administration has under
consideration a supplemental proclamation
of amnesty. 1t will not be universal but
will include military officers Of the rebel
army below the rank of Major General and
all the navy below the rank of Captain......
The Washington Star of the 3Oth, speaks
of rumor that Gen. Steedman is to go in
to the war department. The rumor is not
believed to be true......There are As pris-
oners at Dry Tortugas two thirds or more
being U. S. soldiers sent there most of
them, for the crime of desertion. The
cOnepiratorr, IL 10 claimed, fur el,o az
the other prisoners. 80. There is no truth
in the published dispatch that the presi-
dent has positively decided to remove Gen.
Pope.
Maggie Mitchell, when little girl, used
to sweep out Barnum's Mus um.. -. The
new suspension bridge at Niagra Falls is
to be ready for use next spring. The tow
ers will be los feet high the span l $50
feet high; above the water, It's feet, and
width of roadway 10 feet. Wendell
Phillips advertises that he neither gives nor
asks quarter. In his last communication
to the public he calls Henry Wilson
"Grant's jackal," and senator's Sherman
Fessenden and Conkling 'murderers..
The New York Daily Telegraph, strictly
republican party paper by Mr.. Dana will
pear about the lst of Oct
Four men-two passengers and two fer
rymen-were carried over Niagara Falls
on the night of the 18th inst. Their bod
les had not been recovered at last accounts.
......There are ten States engaged in iron
mining. They rank as follows: Penn
sylvania, Michigan, New Jersey. New
York, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connect
cut, Maryland and New Hampshire......
Gen. Grant has become satisfied that he
Inexperienced the real meaning of the
law as to his powers and those of the
President in reference to Southern Com
manders, etc., and that he has Withdrawn
his protest. The order for the assignment
of Gen. Hancock to Shoridan's place was
promulgated on the Goth ult..... Paris has
S62 newspapers. Louis Napoleon is in
debt, individually, six millions of francs.
Napoleon made another speech on the
29th ult, in which he spoke Of the seer
tainty of peace and deprecated the course
of the press in spreading uofounded ru-
mors.. The government has taken active
interest lie saving the life of Santa Anna,
and has sent dispatches to our acting min
lister in Mexico to urge President Juarez
to deal with him literally. is claimed
that Gen. Grant recently expressed HIM
self opposed to unqualified negro suffrage.
Gen. Hancock says if the troops
were withdrawn from the west the whites
would all be driven out of Colorado and
the highways closed. ....Gen. Candy has
left Washington to assume Gen. Sickle's
command.