North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-22
News and Items.

News and Items.
Barnuma wants to be in congress by
proxy. He has an idea of electing his
learned seal as senator from Russian
America. Boston stands number five
among the cities in the amount of mail
matter delivered and collected monthly ....
A New York paper says modern under
takers bill is about as frightful as visit
of the sheriff. To lay out, ice, shroud,
coffin, decorate, remove and bury an adult
costs about $3.50. AS consequence peo-
pie all over the country arc postponing
dying......The city of Chicago is about
five and half million dollars in debt.
A young African wanted to get on the
''ladies car" The conductor told him it
was for white people. II doesn't care if
it am" returned Eboskin, II amt at all
proud, and 'ud jes as leev ride wild white
folks as wild some mean niggers l knows"
The conductor would not permit him to
condescend.. ....Mr. John Trenier, res
pectable and intelligent colored man of
Mobile, whose name was used by the late
radical convention in that city, says it was
without his consent, and he takes occasion
to say that "while feel that understand
politics enough to leave them alone, feel,
also, that l have done my duty when !
give my feeble assistance in endeavoring
to establish peace and harmony between
the white race and my own" 1.-The King
of Prussia and the Emperor of Russia are
to visit the Paris exposition together......
Lord Lyons has been, appointed British
Minister to Peris... An attachment against
the Great Eastern has been sued out by
her crew for the non-payment of wages.
......Advices by steamship state that the
Cretans gained a victory on April sth, kill
ing two hundred and fifty Turks, including
an officer of high rank. The insurgents
gained another victory on the Sth ultimo.
......W ashington, D. c., has population
of 100000. Coral jewelry is nov. the
"rage" in Paris......A student riding, be-
ing jeercd on the way for wearing but one
spur, said that if one side of the horse
went on, it was not likely that the other
would stay behind.
1t is said that the St. Louis Republican
supports negro suffrage. ....At the recent
fire in Cincinnati, ten Thousand boxes of
candles were melted in the basement. The
grease puddle is valued at $50, OO0.. The
steam ram Dunderberg, the most powerful
engine of naval warfare extant, has been
sold to the French Government for So, O0O,-
O00 Another Fenian raid is said to be
reported to our government......A decision
recently made by the U. S. Supreme Court
makes treasury notes legal tender for
gold contracts made before the passage of
the legal tender act......A boy in Spring
field, to the inquiry why ship is called
"sha" Quoted his teacher with the reply,
"because the rigging costs more than the
hull" Last year there were $50, SOL
500 pounds of tobacco produced in the
United States, falling off of 100000
as compared with the crop of lS6O......
The Georgia and Mississippi injunction
cases have been dismissed for want of
jurisdiction go. The New York Tribune
say Senator Doolittle has been authorized
to treat with Denmark for the purchase Of
the Island of st. Thomas while in Europe.
......An old author quietly says: "Avoid
argument with the ladies. In spinning
yarns among silks and satins, a man is
sure to be worsted and twisted. He may
consider himself wound Up" ......A regu-
lar bounty is paid by the English govern
ment for every authenticated case of a
triple birth......A New Orleans dispatch
says: The republicans are advocating the
appointment of negro policemen, and there
is talk Of running Mr.. johnson, promi-
nent and extremely popular negro, for
mayor. The Internal Revenue returns
for this year are much less than the aver
age last year. In some districts the i'll
come tax has fallen as much as fifty per
cent......The supreme court has virtually
decided that Texas is state in the union
by granting, an injunction to restrain the
payment of certain Texas bonds to par
ties to whom, it is alleged, they were sold
during the rebellion by parties in armed
hostility to the United States, who had
seized upon the archives of the treasury
and the property of the state.
ga Great Moral Evil"