North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-20
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school Mt Fort Monroe. go Each and eve
~ grave in Trinity and St. Paul's church
yards, New York, is said to be worth two
thousand dollars. The president has par
doned @. B. Crittenden, late major gen.
eral in the confederate army, graduate OF
West Point, and son of the late Senator
Crittendcn, of Kentucky......New Albany,
Ind, has more miles of paved streets than
any other city Of the same size on the con-
tinent.. ....At the coming session of con-
gress four important Offices are to be FILL
ed !: Minister to Austria, Consul general of
HAVANA, Commissioner Of Agriculture,
and Naval officer ut New York. Nomina-
tions fos all these Offices were pending be-
fore the senate when that body adjourned,
but owing to rule Of tho senate, new
nominations must be made in order to give
the body power to act. The president will
not send in the names of any of those
nominated heretofore for these positions.
......Sir Isaac Newton's house in London
is now restaurant, at which the favorite
dish is apple pudding with gravitation
sauce.
Forney is now spoken Of for Vice Presi-
dent. Forney thinks he has private as.
surances that he and Grant would scoop
Pennsylvania by $4,000 majority......An
Englishman is going to try to ascend Mont
Blanc in balloon. The Dubuque papers
report horse railroad in that city Ger tain
now. The iron has already been shipped
aud the company intend to have the road
in running order early the coming winter.
......The truth about the St. Thomas af-
fair, of which much has been said by the
press lately, is, that Mr.. Seward has made
a proposition to the Danish government to
purchase the islands Of St. Thomas and
st. Juan from the Danish government for
100000, provided a majority of the in
habitants consent to the transfer. A Dan
ish commissioner is now on his way to ST.
Thomas to ascertain the sense Of the peo-
pie on the subject. The King of Prus-
STA, in his address at the opening of the
North Germany Parliament, declared that
the preservation of peace in Europe was
now certain. The recently convicted Fee
MAN prisoners at Manchester, England,
will DO executed on the 22d of this month,
except Mcguire, who has been pardoned by
the Queen. Ion the 18th inst they had a
fall Of snow in Massachusetts, sufficient to
delay the trains on the railroads. .. Trains
on the Union Pacific Railroad are now
running to the new city Of Cheyenne, at the
foot of the Rocky Mountains, and five hun
dred and seventeen (5l7) miles west Of
Omaha.
1t is said our popular liquorice drops
are made of bad sugar and lampblack, fla
vored with liquorice.. Short dresses are
to be worn during the winter. They
have seven thousand pound cheese in
New York.. Two daily papers are pub
lished in Cheyenne, city two months old.
.....A Meteor hit Gardiner, Maine. the
other day, left no trace Of itself except a
substance resembling starch. 1T is stated
that the financial crisis Of 1857 killed thir-
teen bank presidents. -. Murdoch is play
ing in Washington. Gen. Neal Dow is
coming home from Europe next month.
......An English farmer recently remarked
that T" he fed his land before it vas hum
CRY, rested it before it was weary, and
weeded it before it was foul. 1.-The bayo-
net cactus,on the Nevada deserts, promises
to serve instead of rags, jute or hemp for
paper manufacture. 49,. There are twelve
Universities in the Dominion Of Canada.
The Oldest is Kings College, Windsor, No
va Scotia, which received its charter in
1902, and the youngest, Ottawa and Regi-
opolis, which were chartered in 1866. No
va Scotia and New Brunswick have no
Medical School, and some of the other
Universities mentioned have never had or
ganized classes except in Divinity and the
Arts......The contractors for the mud Of
the public streets Of Paris pay for it in
mass, COG, 900 francs. When sold in retail,
as manure, at the rate of from three to FIVE
francs the cubic metre, it is supposed to
realize about three millions. In 1929 the
municipality received only $4,000 francs
for what now fetches them 100000. The
sweeping and removal of the refuse is Of
course at the cost Of the contractors, who
maintain staff of several thousand per-
sons for that purpose.
Our State Capitol is to have horse rail
road. The iron and cars are on the way to
the city,. The cranberry crop of the coun-
try this year is 100000. Kansas is more
than twice as large rs New York. The fig
ures are $4,000 and ~ 900 square miles
respectively. France is seeking loan
of f2S 100000, which it is represented
the government wants for peace uses......
A cataract is forming over Reyerdy John
sons right eye. He lost the sight Of his
left eye some time ago. Congress will
be asked to assist in bringing about the
completion Of the Washington monument.
.....A half-woman monster, with no lower
limbs, is on exhibition in Kansas city,
She was found in cave in New Mexico
along with WOLF. Washington has
10000 inhabitants. The English gov
eminent has decided to place all the tele-
graph lines in the country under the direc-
ton of the Postofice department. dis
patch, dated Naples l4th, states that Mt.
Vesuvius is in volcanic action, and that a
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