North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-04-24
News and Items.

News and Items.
Gen. Frank j. Heron, formerly of thi
state, has been confirmed United States
marshal Of Louisiana. The Faber pen
Gil mandatory was established in 1926
1904 female seminary started in Sal
Lake City, which succeeded very we'll un
til the principal eloped with and married
the whole school,. Every workman and
workwoman of Paris is to be given tick.
ct to the Exposition by the Government
so that they con make at least one visit to
it without cost. Savannah, Georgia, has
given to the United States Government a
tract of land as National Cemetry for
the interment of deceased soldiers.
Theirs closed his recent great speech in
the French Chambers against the policy
of the Emperor with the comprehensive
declaration "There is not one single
blunder left the Government to commit"
1.-THE organ in use in the Episcopal
Church, Portsmouth, N. H., is said to be
the oldest on this continent. 1t was made
in York, England, during the time of
Cromwell, but was in use in Kings Chap
Ell, Boston, and in St. Pauls Church. New
buryport, before taken to Portsmouth,
thirty years ago......The milliners are max
ing strenuous efforts to increase the size
of the ladies' bonnets......At one of the
masked balls in Paris an American lady
appeared as an Indian Princess, in feath-
er dress, with a long feather hanging from
the top Of her hair, which was arranged in
genuine Indian style, and she wore largo
ringin her nose.
France has ceased to cause imprison-
ment for debt. 1.-THE eight-hour law has
passed both houses of the New York leg
islature.. Prussia is negotiating loan
of thirty million thalers to purchase arms
and munitions Of war;. .Thirty-three
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three
emf grants arrived at the port Of New York
between January LIST and April lsth......
Gen. Rosscau has been ordered to Oregon
to take command of new department to
be created out of Oregon, Washington
and "Yankce Russia" 1.-THE Cherokee
Indian treaty providing for the sale Of
SOC, 900 acres of land in Kansas was de-
feated in the senate.......Th "Peoplcs
Ticket in the municipal election at Dav-
export was successful in every ward but
one. Mr.. Donahuc, for Mayor, has ma
jority of S55. The balance Of the ticket
was elected by majorities ranging from
S31 to S9a......N Next Friday the l. o. 0. F.
, hold high festival throughout the country.
Dubuque will do the polite for this part Of
the world. .....Two men in Davenport,
Ohio, claim one woman as their lawful
wife. They have gone to law about it.
and the Judge is puzzled. The woman
says she don't care which man she has SO
she gets one.. .Forney says Thad. Stew
ems is improving, and the Boston Post says
there is great room for it......When is a
storm like a fish after hook? When il
is going to abatc a bait. )......Philosophers
say that shutting the eyes make the sense
Of hearing more acute. A wag suggests
that this accounts for the many closed eyes
that are seen at church every Sunday.
1t is rumored that our government is ne.
gotiating with Great Britain for the pur.
chase Of the British American possessions
also that an expedition is organized to OK
plore the recently purchased Russian pos
sessions.
zone might have heard pin fall" is I
proverbial expression Of silence; but it ha
been eclipsed by the French phrase, "Yo.
might have heard the unfolding of a LADY,
cambria handkerchief" ......A cable dis
patch from Berlin, dated the 18th, states
that Napoleon is actively strengthenin:
his Notifications upon the frontier, and i
putting everything on war footing
Prussia is also making unmistakable pre-
parations for war. The following toast il
given by an exchange "Woman-th'
morning star of infancy-the day star Of
manhood-the evening star of age. Bles
our stars" ......Gcn. Dix is represented a
looking upon the complications between
France and Prussia as of most seriou
nature. zee. Horace Greeley says that tn
darkest day in any mans earthly career il
that wherein he first fancies that there i
some easier way of gaining dollar thar
by squarely earning it......Gen. Ruff
King, our minister to Rome, writes Z
Secretary Seward dary;.e sAas truth OF Tn
..ory published in the American journal
that since the removal of the French
troops from the papal dominions the Amer
lean Protestant church has been ordered
without the walls of Rome. He says tn.
pope has done nothing of the kind. TIL
Governor estimates that 100000 people
in South Carolina have not tasted meat in
thirty days......F Foreign advices indicate {
war between England and Spain. The
British Government proposes to extinguisl
G24 100000 Of its national debt befor,
1885, by means of terminable annuities
......A life insurance Co. says: "Best live
taken at lowest rates" ......John B. Gougl
made his first temperance speech in Ro
chester on the Fourth of July lS43. Sine
that time he has delivered 1880 temper
ance speeches and lectures. Frencl
1 physician is curing his patients who ar
suffering from debility and reduced an
enfeebled blood by giving them the fresl
warm blood of chickens, ducks and othe
fowl. There are SOC children in tn
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