North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-29
News and Items.

News and Items.
Mcclure, the Fenian, has plead guilty
Of treason......Th Michigan constitution
al convention passed resolution not to
put an eight-hour clause in the instrument
they are to reate......Colored men have
been appointed on the Election Boards in
every precinct in Washington by the
Judges Of the District Court. "A petition
for the pardon of JEFF. Davis is being cir
culated in Washington. ...Anothcr for
midable movement of the Fenians is re-
ported to be organizing on the New York
and Vermont frontier, for the invasion of
Canada. The President will leave Wash
ington next Saturday, for Raleigh, to be
present at the laying Of the cornerstone
of the monument to his father on the 4th
of June. ..Ex-detective Baker has filed
bill in court to compel the city Of Wash
ington to pay the $4,000 reward offered
by it for the capture of Booth. !. The
barking Office of Hughes & WATSON at
Richmond, Mo-, was entered at sbout two
o'clock on the ~ inst. by party of men
who robbed the tray of $4,000, and killed
three men......Inspector SewelI of the
Freedmen's Bureau, has just returned to
Washington from an extended tour in the
south. He is decided in the opinion that
no such general suffering prevail, as the
complaints from that section indicate....
The Milwaukee Daily Sentinel says: Mad
ison dispatches mention letter fiSm Gen.
Sherman, wherein that Offices states that
he will be kept at home from hiscontem-
plated Eastern voyage by the anticipated
difficulties with the Indians. His family
will spend most of the summer at Madison.
......James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of
the New York Herald, returns this year
an income of sll9,967. His return for
last year was for Sl5S,64S. A. 7. Stew
art, the merchant prince, gives inH$736,-
s62, against 81 OIL ,256 last year,. The
fast trottsrs "Cooley'' and "Magna Char
ta," of Chicago, have test of speed on
the Madison track on the 4th of July for a
purse of $4,000.
The number Of steam and sail vessels
engaged in commerce on the lakes is over
1900. There are annually about $4,000
arrivals and clearances at Buffalo, with an
aggregate tonnage of 7,000,OOo...... The
"bride' Of tin wedding in Vermont turn
ed up missing on the evening of the festi-
val, and after considerable search it was
found that she had eloped with young
man, taking with her all the "tin'' her
husband had saved in ten years.......A
widow in Erie, Pa, has advertised a
"grand hop" to pay the expenses Of her
husbands funeral. IAN old lady, Is
years old, in Petersburg, Va, has recently
cut FIVE new teeth, and three m re are
about making their appearance in her
mouth, the old ones having long since fa!-
len ut......The salary of the President Of
Jamaica is S35 900 in gold a year. Blind
Tom is giving successful concerts in Paris.
......Ladies' swimming clubs are becoming
fashionable. Punch says it is natural for
the ducks to SWIM. Fifty deaths day
are reported at Vera Cruz from yellow
fever..... Budroodeen Tyabjee, Moham-
medan, has been admitted to practice at
the English bar. 1t is proposed to aban-
don all methods of hoing up the hair, by
the ladies, and let it hang down over the
shoulders. .....A ravine in Mass, 100 feet
deep was filled with snow last winter......
A new England christian charged servant
girl S. month for the privilege Of living
in christian family There are an I'M
usual number of French families in Lon
don. Their houses have been let at a sub
stantial profit, and they wish to escape
chere Paris for time.
There is more liquor sold in Boston now
than there was before the prohibitory laws
existed. ....A meeting of the Grand Lodge
of the Free and accepted Masons of this
state is to be held at Davenport on the first
Tuesday in june. ....Plunkett is in Min
neapolis with his troupe, it is said, having
fine success......There are thirty thousand
dollars worth of government Indian goods
in store at St. LOUISE. Last year, in New
York, only one Jew was converted, at o
cost of $725, 1O......A chess match between
Detroit and New York 10 to be played on
the wires next week.. People have walk
ed, in Georgia, twenty miles for peck of
corn meal. Minnesota man realized
from his wheat crop last year more than
twice the amount paid for his farm the
year before. There i - 10y &C IAfay cite,
Lad, VINO is said have played on the piano,
at sight, fifty pages of Bcethoven's COM
positions, full of difficult passages, without
a mistake. !. =. RAGS boats are now made of
paper, weighing only 30 pounds. 1.-The
printers at Memphis are making extensive
preparations for the meeting of the Ma
tional Typographical Union on the LIST of
june. There will be great gathering
of Catholic prelates at Rome, on the goth
of June, to celebrate the eighteen hpndreth
anniversary of the martyrdom of St.
Peter. Quite party of priests sailed from
New York for Europe, many of them bear
ing rich presents for the Pope, and money
to relieve his present difficulties. .....A
London dispatch by the cable ahAfounces
that Queen Victoria has issued her royal
proclamation, declaring the union of the
Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada,
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, under
one Government, to be called the Dominion
of Canada.