North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-10-16
News and Items.

News and Items.
The Pacific railroad is completed and
the cars are now running to Cheyenne,
the point where the road strikes the Rock
les at their base out of which railway cap
italists and other money schemcrs are try
ing successfully too, to make . spec.
Cheyenne is five hundrcd and seventy-fivc
miles from the Missouri river......A meet
ing of the Grand Commandery and Chap
ter of A. +. 4 A. NJ. was convened at
Davenport on Saturday the 10Th inst......
"A young lady from the seminary at M,
being asked at the table if she would have
some more cabbage, replied; SPY no
means astronomical safety admonishes
me that have arrived Mt the ultimate cul-
mary degitation consistent with the code
of Esculapius. As she drew back from
the table, it was concluded that she meant
she had ''eatcn heap. man in
Maquokcta is getting up a steam wagon
for use on the plains. It weighs
$500 pounds completed, with carriage, en-
CINE and boiler of seven horse power......
When is the best time to read the book of
Nature? When autumn turns the leaves
......New barracks to cost 100000 are
erected at Atlanta, Georgia. Saint Paul
was so electrified recently by an auroral
display that the telegraph wires were dis
abled.. ....A carriage with wheels ten feet
in diameter and sails, has been construct
ed in st. Louis for use on the plains. 1t
can be used as boats in crossing streams
.....Tennesse gave Brownlow 81 ,S44 major
ity for governor. Prussian artist has
engraved upon glass series of lines, as .
test of microscopic object glasses, which are
only o. Q one-hundred- thousandth part of
of an inch apart. -. Beds of slaked lime
are the latest Wisconsin mineral discovery
......Dr Herman Kohn, of Bresiau, has ex-
amined the eyes of l0,S60 school children,
and found that more than one in six were
short-sighted. There are four times as
many short-sighted children in the town
rs in the country, and the evil increases
just in proportion to the amount of study
exacted from the children. This may &C
count somewhat for the number Of young
men seen in our streets with glasses astride
their noses..... .Silver earrings, very long
and very attenuated, are coming into fash
ion.. Two men threw nearly two hun
dred dollars worth of bouquets to the
Black Crook ballet dancers and were then
arrested for not paying the florist.
The next Republican National Convcn-
ton is to be held in Chicago. The time is
not fxed......The Reconstruction act is
needed in Rhode Island. Negro BARRIERS
there refuse to shave gentlemen of color"
...... Canada sent cheese to the State Fair
at Buffalo weighing 1000 pounds, and
valued at 81 800. .Chignons in Paris
IRE worn higher on d than ever,
and arc usually elabd plated long
curls, too, fall from behind the ears on one
or both sides Of the head, over the shout
der; and occasionally a long matte of hair
is worn falling down the back. Most of
the distinguished Senators and Representa-
tives who appeal for female suffrage have
need enough Of feminine influences them
selves. They arc generally pretty rough
set of fellows.
Nearly 10000 acres of land were enter
ed at Denver in September. An agricultur-
al fair is in progress at that place. .....It is
said Lord Derby will soon resign the pre-
miership... Memphis wanted the Nation
al Republican Convention but Chicago
played the trump Card. ....It is said the
members of the judiciary committee are
nearly all in Washington fully charg: d
with impeachment. We think the Novem-
Der elections added to the result of the
late elections this month, will throw some
cold water upon the ardor of impeachments
........ The cabinet-makers of influence
are circulating written slip Of paper,
protesting that on Nov. 8 the cabinet will
be changed as follows: Secretary of state,
Reverdy johnson secretary Of the treas.
ury, Erastus Corning postmaster-gener
VIM. s. Groesbeck, of Ohio secretary OIL
war, Frank P. Blair, Jr.; secretary of the
navy, John Quincy Adams. Secretary
Browning, and Attorney Gen. Stanberry
are to remain.
| A move to ,resusitate the Fcnian cause
is being made in Washington. ...Nint
hundred and ninety millions of men use
tobacco. THE English language has co..
600 words--in the dictionaries. Good tai
kers and writer's use but 5000 in all, and
a foreigner can travel on 500. Senate,
Sumner is intending to settle in Washing
ton.....A Nashville merchant has sued {
telegraph company for $1,000 damages
because the operator was absent when hi
wished to send dispatch. 1t is believed
by some Republicans at Washington that
in view of the results of the recent cleo
tons, Congress viii make no serious at
tempt to impeach the President. 49," Gen
Sheridan has been granted two months
leave of absence by General Grant,. 49,.
j Twenty miles of the Pacific Railroad owe,
the California mountains ore to be covered
Lovers and newly married couples viii
take that route
A cable dispatch from Paris says there
is a general expectation that the whole
Italian nation will follow Garibaldi in hi,
effort to restore Rome to Italy, and that
Victor Emanuel will soon pass the Roman
frontier and proclaim Rome as part Of the
Kingdom. .v ,aa
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