North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-11

News and Items.
The North German parliament, mcetsnt
Berlin Jon. the 10th prox...... En-. U, s.
senator, John A.SMcDougs1 of Califof-
MIA, is dead, .... Seq Browning is ip better
health. .... Gen. Sheridan has telsgraphed
| to. Washington that the yellow fevt is
raging in epidemic form in New Orleans.
The last army surgeon is dead.....A Viena
paper publishes report that the United
States is about to purchase the Islands of
st. Thomas, st. Croix and St. John OF
Denmark, for $4,000, 900 in gold. The
city Of Davenport is in debt half million
dollars. The Washington Star says Gen.
'Sickles will leave the army and practice
law in N ews York. 80. Gen. Hancock pro-
poses to avail himself of recent order
from Gen. Grant that officers orlercd to
Louisiana need not 80 there during the
prevalence Of the yellow fever.s...A fire
broke out in Davenport OF Thursday des-
troyihg $150,0O0 worth of property.
Tom Hood was opposed to early rising,
in fact anything in the line Of personal ac-
tivity. lie declared that man who was
always stirring must be q ''spoonIf: -.
Illinois is said to be the banner State in
the Sunday School cause. The French
watering places are not SO well patronized
this year as usual. Sugar weddings, oc-
curing thirty days after marriage, are
the fashion now...... .3Ie58
+ A saltwater lake has been discovered
near the head,watcrs of tho Yellowstone,
covering about 10 acres. The water is al
ways at : boiling Temperature. Meat
thrown in boiled in less than 40 minutes.
The water contains large per centage of
tincal tincture, the crude material from
which borax is manufactured. .....An Indi-
an Commissioner who has returned from
the plains states that 5000 warriors are
encamped north of Fort Phil Kearney.
They demand as condition of peace that
the troops be Withdrawn and the roads to
Virginia City abandoned. The latest
story is that Wilkes Booth is now Captain
of a pirate vessel and the terror of the
China seas......The whole number of vo-
tiers registered in Virginia is 2l6,O The
ratio is nine -blacksto eleven whites.
San Francisco has q population of 10000
......At the races. at Dexter Park, Chicago,
on Saturday, Dexter beat Brown George
and thinning matcfih ifhrdo sstrA iE3ht heats.
Best time 2 g. g President Juarez has
decreed Convention, of the Mexican peo-
pie, for the purpose Of electing a President
Congressman and Magistrates Of the Su-
preme Court - y = 2 - So i 'As*
Coy. Helm, Of Ky: disAapn It'll. gih
inst, and was buried enc week, from the
day Of his inauguration, Ills. death having
occurred during the first two years of his
term, the law makes it the duty of the
chief justice to order an electio for gov
ernor to be held on the LIST Monday of Au-
gust next. Meantime all the. powers and
duties appertaining to the Office must be
exercised BY, Lieut.. Gov. Steyenson...s..T The
election in Virginia will take place between
the 10th & 18th Of Oct. .....Gen. Sheridan
arrived-in St. Louis on the 7th and was to
have pnblicureceptiohxby the radicals of
that city on the Och inst. ....The election
for governor took PLACE in Maine oh Mon
day. Reports not lin yet. 1.-The Grand
Jury at Nashville have, indicted, over o
thousand persons for drinking beerron
Sunday ~. .Rosuish,a' boot blacks in New
York offer to polish boots for five cents,
aud when. they haye,,pss tho 'shipspneons
demand ten cents Before they touch the
other. ......tscamp Meeting john is cfedi-
tefmftN the following: "A BaptistclssgJs
man affected to the Methodist policy that
there was too much machinery to it. The
veteran of a. hundred camp meetings re-
torted, t.Yes there is good deal Of Machin
cry but it don't take 50 much water to run
it as the Baptist docs.'' G1c Gaa&
The returns from the California election
come in big. The democracyhave carried
everything, distancing the radicals, in
true Dexter style. IIaigtt, democratic
candidate for governor, cannot have Jess
than 5000 majority over Gorham, his OPP
pouent. I, They have carried the state leg-
islature and the municipal ticket of San
Francisco by overwhelming majorities.
The entire radical state ticket is defeated
Haight addressed a meeting claiming his
election as protest against corruption and
extrayagances, opposition to Chinese and
negro suffrage, and the reconstruction pol
icy of congress. go
GurTENBERG.-Our sister city of the
German Order is Boosting of City Park
Hall which will be opened by Grand Ball
on the 18th. Our Henry Fresc, Mr.. p.
Hummcl and Mr.. H. Brenn are the mana
ging men. Lifeline, B. F. Fox, IL. Frese,
M. Klein and many other citizens are in
charge Of the arrangements. L. Rice,
"Bilp' Sullivan "a brick and Mr.. Goetz
will keep the floor in order. Our German
friends 20 down there and a good many 9TH