North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-01

| News and Items.
Fine apparel frequently covers every
thing in the shape of humanity except
human greatness......A man was prosecut-
cd at White Plains by married woman
for having offered her his seat on Hud-
son River railroad car, and other ''out-
RACES" ....."...The negro candidate for
| governor in Tennessee says he is going to
prove in debate that Parson Brownlow is
I the greatest enemy Of the negro race in
that state......Seven states have passed the
eight-hour law. lit is said that the cost
of living in New England now is higher
than it is in any other country on the face
of the globe. The portrait Of Her Ma
jesty, Queen Victoria, designed for pre-
sentation to Mr.. Geo. Peabody, is valued
at SIC, OO0.... During the time the Paris
Exhibition is open the public will be I'D
mitted without special leave and without
passport to visit the imperial palaces, the
museums, the State establishments and
monuments. The servants at The various
places are strictly forbidden to hccept any
gratuity.......Mr. Buchanan's fortune is
reckoned atS2OO, 900; larger than any other
surviving ex-president......The ground on
which stands the Merchants Exchange,
in London, is valued at $4,000, OO0..."
Fred Douglas youngest son has been
made clerk of the Freodman's Bureau.
......New York is to have Spanish thea
tre......Almost every young ladf is public
spirited enough to have her fathers house
used as court house. .Thurbv Weed
advises young men to never become seek
ers......Since the last acquisition of terri
tory by purchase, this country is entitled
more than ever to the name of "Rush-in'
America. Skates, with a warming of
the toes apparatus, is the latest novelty in
Paris. \
1t cost 81, 500, 2s7 ,65 to run the govern
mental machinery of the city of Chicago
the last year,. The African slave trade
still flourishes. Over six thousand have
landed in Cuba within few months.
Connecticut votes for president when other
states do and she elects her state officers
in April so that every fourth year, while
under the present law providing for the
meeting Of the first session of each con-
gress on the 9Th of March, the state must
go unrepresentsd for several weeks
Change will no doubt be made. 80. Penn
sylvania has 1884 miles Of railway under
one management......T rebuilding of the
Lindell hotel is the popular excitement in
st. Louis.....A religious papersays that revi-
walls, like last seasons bonnets, have gone
out Of fashion. >. Patti has been coldly
received by the Italians in Paris. IA
ninety pound lump of silver has recently
come from Montana. The prince impe-
rial of France is eleven years DID,. The
radical newspapers have not written obitu-
aries upon the democratic party for seve-
raj weeks. Flour costs three times as
, much in Boston as it does in Salt Lake
city,. Russian America abounds with
just the kind of coal the California steam
ers need......A French savan publishes a
proposition to utilize the dead human bo-
dies which are now wasted, by distilling
them into illuminating gas, as is actually
done in India. Judging from appearances
in life, some bodies would be vastly more
valuable than others for that purpose. ...
Queen Victoria has declared that she will
sign no more death warrants. So there
can be no executions in England. -. The
income returns throughout the country, as
| far sant in, arc sold TO average bnt e~~
half the returns of last year......It cost
$500, 900 to run the fire department of
Chicago last year......A little boy was
poisoned in Albany by eating piece of
green showbill paper which he tore from
fence. go. Gov. Andrews address in favor
of license law excites intense disgust
among his former friends at the Hub......
The average weekly number of new pa
tients is 1.-THE only Chapter of Royal
Arch Masons west of DEBORAH and north
of Waverly was recently organized at
Usage, Iowa.
A Jewish insurance company, with a
large capital, is about to be established in
New York. There is to be baby show
| at the Paris Exhibition. Choice wheat
sold in the St. Louis market of the 9th ult.,
at So, As the bushel and in Cleveland, Ohio,
at s., so, either of which is above the high
est price paid in the last half-famine year.
.....Awestern editor once wrote: "a CORES
pondendent asks whether the battle Of Wa
terloo occurred before or afte- .h =,
meno..,, a,-s. -.AAs Cnristian era. We an.
swer it did,. 1T is reported that the
Crow, Black Feet and Sioux Indians are
massing near Fort Ben ton. On the 18th,
party Of United States troops from Fort
Mitchell had an encounter with Indians.
They killed seven before they were driven
back to the fort...... Baron Gerolt, Prussian
Minister at Washington, seems confident
that there will be no war at present be-
tween France and Prussia. The Odd
Fellows anniversary on Friday, was recog-
nized by appropriate ceremonies in most
of the principal cities of the Union. A
report shows that the receipts of the order
in the United States for the last year were
| 81, 100, OOO.. The state of Wisconsin is
in debt to the general government on &C.
count of war expenditures in tie amount
of one hundred thousand dollars .....G Gen,
Rousseau was taken sick on the eve of his
intended departure to his department al
Washington territory. There are SOC
female telegraph operators in this country