North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-06-19

News and Items.
Gov. jenkins urges the people of Geor-
gia to raise corn and let cotton alone......
BY another year Union Square will be the
center of retail trade in New York;.
The radicals Of Ohio propose to turn out
their Gov. Cox to grass. Chicago COM
plains that it has no good beef to eat
nothing but widowed, cmaciated cow;
superanuated old bull; aged and invalid
stag. Maggie Mitchell went on the
excursion to the Holy Land. She has the
state-room which was to have been occu-
pied by Mr.. Beecher.. The last man in
Tennessee who sold negro slave at auc-
ton and took in payment thereof con-
federate money, is now one of the radical
candidates for congress-. The bakers of
New York give notice that on and after
Independence day they will have dollar
a week extra pay-or Notwithstanding
to the commissioner of internal revenue
less than half million out of the whole
population of the United States have in.
comes of more than 5000 year.. Gen.
Hooker sailed for Europe on the 18th
inst. The North German Parliament
will re-assemble in Berlin in Augusta.
It will require the remainder of this week
to get jury for the Surratt trial. ....An
effort is being made in Paris to reduce the
military establishments of Europe but is
believed it will not succeed. The official
orders and forms for proceedings in bank
ruptcy have been printed and will be dis
tributed at once......A report started by
New York evening paper, that the Presi-
dent is seriously i'll with Bright's disease
of the kidney, is groundless......Th Thomas
Poyner, second mate on the steamer North
ern Belle, was killed at Dubuque a few
days since by tho falling Of skiff which
the deck-hands were hosting from the
foreeastle.
Official adviccs by way Of Constantine
pie state that the Cretans have been de-
feated in recent engagement with Omar
Pasha. The report adds that the insur-
gents lost 500 in killed and wounded, but
the report needs confirmation. From IS
to 100 clerks are about to be discharged
from the Quartermaster and Treasury De-
partments. In the former no appropria-
tion'is made, and in the latter the work is
falling Latest reports from Mexico
state that the Juarez government has de-
termined to Danish Macmillan and his
principal Chiefs. IAN effort is being made
to move the capitol of Nebraska from
Omaha, to Lancaster county, Immediately
west Of Nebraska City......lIon. W. B.
Allison, is in New York negotiating for
funds to build bridge at Dubuquc......
Hon. +. E. Bissell, of Dubuque, Attorney
General of this State, died at his residence
on the 18th inst. The Chicago Erening
Journal says that the forthcoming directo-
ry Of that city will contain s9,lO3 names
-l2,SS9 more than in that of last year.
From this the Journal estimates the popu-
lation of that city at 267 ,3O9.. Somebody
reckons, we do not know on what date,
that in 1860 there were $4,000, 600, 600
worth of gold in the world outside of the
mines, or more than double the amount in
lS43.. ....There are one million people liv-
ing in New York with less than fifty thous-
and dwelling houses for their accom-
mediation; an average of about twenty
persons in every house. .....Mr. Chauncey
Burr, has challenged Wendell Phillips to
discuss with him the capacity Of the negro
for enlightenment II have" says Mr..
Bnrr, with great pains, and with unfal-
tering devotion to the cause of truth,
searched over the whole globe for an in
stance where the emancipation Of any con-
siderable number of negro Slaves has n OF
resulted in the ruin of both races. "......
Advices from Fort Randall show that the
Indians are numbering and pillaging in
THAT vicinity.
The Fcnian Walsh and his companions
who have been on trial before special
commission at Limerick have been pro-
nounced guilty......Another attempt to ex-
pei Horace Greeley from the New York
Loyal League, it is said, has p rovcda fail
ule......It is said general Longstreet has
turned radical......It is announced that
since the LIST of last February the Treas
ury Department has converted one humid
red and fifty-one million seven hundred
and forty.six thousand six hundred dollars,
in sevcn.thirties.. The Cholera is raging
terribly in Brazil and Diseases = yrcs.'....
A, ,~~e.-ss'Off literary men Of all nations
is spoken of to take place in Paris during
the Exhibition......lt is gossiped in Paris
that widow of forty-fve summers mar
ried a young man aged eighteen. By her
first husband she had a son who, at the
time of her second marriage, was twenty
one. She recently died, and by her will
left her fortune to her son and husband
AS her husband was not Of age, her son
was appointed his guardian. lit is said
President johnson has intimated that, if
congress does not meet in July, he will
call an extra session the 1st of August to
settle the difficulties arising out of the re-
construction act in the south. new
radical newspaper is to be started in Des
Mones sometime in july. Mrs. Swiss
helm says there is nothing brilliant about
Grant. What, not even his flashes of ST.
1 lence g.. .a...New Jersey, has abolished cor
porcal punishment in public schools. -. In
stead of levees on the Mississippi, it is
now talked of laying drains to carry off
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