North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-11-27

News and Items.
Sen. Reverdy johnson has pepared an
argument to show that the president cannot
be suspended from Office pending trial of
impeachment, and that he can he convict
ed only on charges of treason and bribery.
......Is is believed the act allowing the
Secretary of the Treasury to contract the
currency at the rate 81 600, 900 month,
will be repealed as q sort Of compromise
between the contractionists and the intla-
tionists......It is said that terrible revela.
tons against certain treasury department
officials arc to be brought out this week.
......Congressmen don't seem to like the
lucent fractional currency now ready to
be issued, and it is intimated that it will
be thrown out......
A remarkable evidence Of presence of
mind was recently given in France. Mon
sieur J. was talking with his mother
in-law at her country chateau, whom .
stroke Of lightning almost literally reduc-
ed her to ashes. The domestic ran into
the room, when. without moving q mus
ole, Monsieur J. said /: "John sweep
up my mother-in-law ..... Gen. Grant will
be 46 years old in April. Every con-
gressional district in Ohio except the sew.
enteenth, eighteenth and nineteenth gave
majorities against negro suffrage. There
is not one republican elected to the leg
islature Of Maryland. ....Chas. A. Dana
will issue his new journal on the LIST prox.
......Hon. W. E. Chandler, asst secretary
Of the treasury, withdraws from the de-
partment on the lot Of December. ....It is
claimed that as many Methodist preachers
have turned Unitarians the past wear as
the Unitarian theological schools have
graduated. ....A sister-in-law of Governor
Stone died recently from accidental pois-
oning... ...The state census report, just
completed. gives the population of the
State at 9O2, O4G-a gain of l47 ,O4l in two
years......It is understood that secretary
McCulloch will recommend in his report
to Congress the issuing of q Eve per cent.
loan for the European market, principal
and interest payable in gold.
Dickens has arrived in Boston. JEFF.
Davis arrived at Richmond on Friday NOR
ning..... Secretary of tho Navy Welles is
better, but not yet out of danger. He has
been very i'll for several days. Pres
ident Buchanan, who is very feeble at his
house in Lancaster, Pa, is not expected to
live through the winter. 20. The Queen We
ry emphatically declines to grant the petit
ton of meeting of citizens of London
asking postponement of the Manchester
executions. ....Reports have been circulat-
ed in London that the United States had
made propositions for the purchase Of the
property of the Hudson Bay Company.
1.-THE Union Pacific Railroad builders
do not even stop at Cheyenne to breathe.
The grading is done fifty-two miles west of
that magic city. If the weather continues
good thirty days, it will be graded to the
summit OF the Black Hills, $40 feet
above the level Of the sea, and 400 feet
higher than the crossing of the Alps by
the Mount Gems Railroad
Kansas is estimated to have popula-
ton of 100000. The Paris Rothschilds
made half million of dollars by hearing
of Garibaldi's arrest half an hour before
anybody else......A live plckerel was found
in digging well, fifty five feet below the
surface, in Coldwater, Michigan. Who
would expect to find live pickerel in hot
water ?......Eight bull fighters have been
killed by bulls in Spain this season..
A printer in Texas has dubbed his infant
son BREWER Fullface Jones. That boy
will learn from long primmer and be
minion of knowledge......2,797 persons
died in New Orleans of yellow fever be-
tween the 7th Of July and the Goth of
October......Gen. Burbridge is talked of
for Scrgeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate.
......One thousand and fourteen persons
lost their lives in the late hurricane in the
island of St. Thomas. =. .Garibaldi is re-
ported seriously i'll in prison at variagano,
Italy. The Pope has released all the Gar
ibaldian prisoners recently captured.
The last valuation of the property Of the
State of Ohio is SI,l4O, OO0, OOO.. -. The
new suspension bridge across the Niagara,
at the Falls, is to be finished before the
LIST Of June. The wire, two hundred and
fifty tons, has been delivered at Montreal.
......Three condemned Fenian prisoners
were hanged at Manchester, England, on
Saturday. The Government had made
preparations to quell any outbreak, and
although there was an immense crowd in
attendance, no violence was attempted.
All the European Powers, including the
Pope of Rome, have agreed to the pro-
posed conference of nations for the settle
ment of the Roman question. The con-
ference is to meet at Munich on the 18th
of December. ...Ex-president Buchanan
is not expected to live until next spring.
A carpet which Mr.. A. T. Stewart
bought in Paris for parlor in his new
mansion cost So ,OOO.. Hart L. Stewart,
Of Stewart VS.. Stewart, reappears as a
prosecutor of the principal witnesses
against him for perjury. .Massachusett
he's had twenty-five governors under the
state constitution, of whom seven survive. |
-. Hiram Powers, the sculptor, has made
100000 by his art, in Italy, during the
past twenty years. Both houses of con-
gress met on Thursday the 2lst and after
some preliminary business adjourned until
yesterday MONDAY ......At last accounts
the impeachment Committee was equally |