North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-07-10
News and Items.

News and Items.
A young lady school teacher who told her
scholars that Nebuchadnezzar ate grass
for seven years, like cow, was asked by
one of them--a small boy-if he gave
milk. ...New wheat was received in Rich
lnond, Va, on the lst......Thc Quaker
City, with the Holy Land excursionists,
was at Gibralter OH the 30th ult... Over
twelve hundred immigrants arrived in New
York on the lst.. 1.-The Government has
not been advised of the death of General
Custer as was reported. 1T is expected
that both Archbishop Spaulding, of Balti.
more, and Archbishop Alemany, Of San
Francisco, will receive the Cardinals hat
during their present visit to Rome; the
first named because he is virtually the
Primate of America, and the last because
he is an old personal friend and member
of the same religious order as the Pope....
The Editorial Convention for this State
comes off on the Sd of October, at Clinton,
......In Mississippi there are 225 Masonic
Lodges, whose returns have been received
The limitations reported are l,2l5; passings
reported, l,ll3; raisings reported, 1857
admissions reported, 72l demissions re.
ported 993 total number of Master Ma.
sons, members of lodges, reported, 9,6lS,
......The St. Paul papers say the amount
of furs collected in the north during the
winter, now coming in, is small......Thc
usual Treasury statement up to July Isl
will be omitted. Forty millions is the az
gregate decrease of the national income
for the fiscal year ending June aoth.....,
Judge Wayne, of Georgia, one Of the JUS
tees of the U. S. Supreme Court, died at
Washington on the 9Th inst. His death
has not caused vacancy, as Congress
passed an net fixing the number of Justi-
ces at seven when reduced by death OF
otherwise. 49,. The execution of Macmillan,
in Mexico, has been confirmed. The new
''Dominion" of Canada is arming-wheth.
er in anticipation of Fenian raids OF what
does not appear. The "Queens Own" are
of course included in the 100000 militia
about to be organized.........A man was
robbed of S27, 900 in street car in New
York on the Sd inst. Three negroes en-.
tered the house of a Mr.. Foster in North
Carolina recently, and murdered him, his
wife and two children.
The DEBORAH people are taking steps to-
ward the establishment of telegraph line
to that handsome city......The railroad is
completed to a point Is miles beyond
Julesburg......A new military posti is being
established at the base of the mountains
to be garisoned by two regiments Of in
fantry and some al tillery......The Indians
are reported quiet along the Platte and
coaches are running undisturbed between
the western terminus of the railroad and
Denver. Mexican advices announce the
execution Of Sauta Anna on the 18th ult
at Sisal.. 49,. The garrison of Vera Cruz left
the city on June %. The capitulation was
signed on June q. They marched out
with their colors flying, and were saluted
by the liberal forces. They were allowed
| to retain their arms, and furnished with
| Is 10 h.
Emancipation Proclamation was pulled
into the 4th of July celebration exercises
at Nashua. The Dubuque Herald says
officers are in that city arranging for the
establishment of telegraph line from St
Louis to St. Paul, to be completed by Jan
next......In a report of one Of tue late
speeches of Secretary Seward in Bostor
he was made to say that when the Presi
dent has served four years the people ''car
turn him out and put in a saucepan they
like BETTER" Saucepan turned out to DC
a misprint for successor. There is AZ
apple tree on the premises Of John kohler
in North Whitehall township, Lehigh Co.
Penn, which is over 100 years old. Las
year this tree bore over 100 bushels O
apples. 1t is GO feet high, and 81 feet il
diameter two feet above the ground.
There is great gold plethora in Eng.
and the Bank of England has $40, 0OO,O0(
coin on hand that there is no call for, not
withstandins the low rate of Interest,".
A Frenchman claims to have invented
machine by which human motires can be
measured and asccrtained with mathemati
cal exactness. If applied to American
| radical politicians and Office holders, j
would, if at all correct, indicate, in almos
every case, power, spoils and nationa
ruin......The attempt to build a tunnel un
der the Chicago river has failed this time
The entire work lately in progress, inclu
ding masonry, timber, &C., recently fell il
with crash, involving heavy losses to tn
contractors AN Austrian feet is to b
Immediately dispatched ii Mexico for tn
body of Macmillan. The internationa
congress for the regulation of gold and sill
yer coinage, now in session in Paris, ha
fixed upon the gold fve-franc piece and it
multiples as basis for uniform currenc,
in Europe and America.
The OUrsIDE.-A Coquette 80. Thought
of little boy about the stuff that is usu
ally talked to children. >. Clerical Lif
and its incidents. Dictionary of Gentle
men; an article that our neighbors can rea
with profit if their perceptive faculties en-
able them to see tho point. The Presi
dent..... .Extravagance..... Jokes. ....Con
fiscation.. boy playing "Doctor" -.
Dogs and their uselessness.. ...Size of Amer
lean feet......A Freemason......N Negro o.
the Bible. More Jokes. Fashions b.