North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-08-21
News and Items,

News and Items.
Work on the Oregon Central railroad
will be commenced in September. 1T is
said the Sultan didn't know how to shake
hands when he arrived in England. &c.
Piazzi Smith, astronomer royal for Scot.
land, who has recently made thorough
examination of the great pyramid of Egypt
thinks he has fixed the date of its erection
by certain astronomical calculations at
2l7O B. C..."The Davenport brothers
have rival in new wizard who has
made his appearance in England. He not
only shuts himself up in a box, but gets
out without opening the door.......Santa
Anna il in Vera Cruz. The queen has
signed the reform bill, and it is now law.
-; 80. . A son Of the dismissed secretary Of
war, is clerk under Gen. Grant. :. The
cotton in the coast regions Of Louisiana
and Texas, is suffering from the cotton
worm. ....Whale steak, with snail sauce,
is the latest Partisan delicacy... The stea.
mer Quaker City with the American excur-
sionists is detained in quarantine at Naples
..... 1t is said that there has been no rain
in Central and Southern Illinois since
June, and the corn crop is looking very
unfavorable. - In London there are four
teen thousand persons connected with the
press. 80. Somebody has unearthed a tick
ct of the Cumberland Mountain Road Lot
terry, dated 1868, and signed by George
Washington as treasurer......Gen. Grant
is trying to get down to Is cigars day.
......A man lynched for murder in Della
ware was hardly cold when he was proved
to be innocent. Mr.. Bonner, Of New
York, has bought the celebrated horse
Dexter, for price not known, but suppos-
ed to be considerably more than $50, 600.
At the Buffalo races, last week, when TO-
900 persons were assembled to witness the
best stepping on record, Dexter made his
mile in 2:l7i. Bonner will allow him to
trot twice more-once on the same track
and once in Chicago-when he will leave
the turf forever and 90 into one of the fin
est stables, said to be, in the world......
1t was decided in cabinet meeting on
Friday to remove Judge Holt and assign
him to duty elsewhere. The removal of
Sec. McCulloch is being urged by men of
supposed influence. The center of the
United States has been fixed at Columbus,
Nebraska, &c miles west of Omaha. ....A
lady stepping into railway car, said to
her little son, 'saren't you going to kiss
your mother before you go?" The little
rogue couldn' + wait, and called out, "Con-
ductor, won't you kiss mother for me ?......
Parepa's physician has forbidden her to
sing until fall. -. Gen. Rosseau is to leave
on the 23d for Walrussia.. ...Advices from
Hayti give favorable accounts Of the stu
alton of that island. The coffee crop will
be the largest ever known. A rebellion in
favor of Ex- President Gaffrard was prompt
ly suppressed. The Italians of Chicago
have started a,paper known as Z Unione.
Zone of the drinking bars as Saratoga
clears $4,000 year.. Fourteen thou
sand five hundred million dollars have
passed through the hands of the United
States Treasurer since l861..... The Rus
sian army has been increased 90, 900 men
since the Crimean war. Its effective
strength is now l,l0O0, 0OO......The Du-
buque Times dominates Chief Justice
Chase for the presidency.
Gen. Sheridan has been transferred
from the Fifth District to the Missouri and
Arkansas District. Gen. Thomas succeeds
him......Cabinet changes are rumored, but
apparently without foundation. The
state department has just abolished the
secret CIPHER system which it has used
since the foundation of the government,
and is getting up new one, which can be
used over the cable for conveying commu-
nications in a brief space......A western
editor thinks that if the proper way of
spelling thois ''though, !" and DO 'tbeaux,"
the proper way to spell potatoes must be
poughteighteaux." The new way of
spelling softly is "psoughtleigh.'.
Rhode Island Spragues are worth twenty
five million dollars. "A wife's farewell to
her husband every morning." buy buy"
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MUsIc.-Our good-many-years-ago ac-
quaintance, H. N. Hampstead, of Milwau-
kee, frequently favors this Office with choice
Music, and we sometimes talk back at him
sometimes we forget it. As general
acknowledgement of his courtesies, we re-