North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-15

i6"'SoA yeOtS oSo TIC Wcn'IH VI VIII
fornia was represented by thousands; now
it is over two hundred millions. e. The
emigration from Ireland to this country is
immense. Nine ships were filled in a
week at Cork......The Nevada State Prison
was burned May l. Loss about $4,000.
No prisoners escaped. My eyes may be
very small, said young lady to a gentle
man who patronizingly intimated that she
would be very pretty if they were little
larger, but such people as you don't fill
thcm......A negro woman in Kansas City,
Mo-, said the recent earthquake was moth
ing but the 'bottom cross de riber having
de ager.". 1.-THE Independent thinks
THE political equality of American citi-
zens is likely to be sooner achieved in
Mississippi than in Illinois-sooner on the
plantation of Jefferson Davis than around
the grave of Abraham Lincoln !'...... "A
barefoot -four can be purchased in Paris,
sent by rail and steamer to Liverpool, and
thence transported in sailing vessel to
Boston, at less expense than it now can be
purchased in the latter city. Flour is
worth over double as much in Boston as it
is in San Francisco. -. In lS42 Milwaukee
had 1000 inhabitants; now her population
is about 10000. In relation to the earth
quake of the % ult., the Wapello Repub-
Hcan says: The emotion was not violent,
but easy and swinging, giving one SEN
sation something like the first effects of a
dram Of whisky. In the new rolling
mill Of Portsmouth, Ohio, the furnaces for
making the Russian sheet iron are boxed
up with sign Of "no admittance. 49,.
The Cedar Falls Gazette suggests holding
the proposed editorial convention at Clin-
ton during during the time of tn. State
Fair.
The only radical sheet published in the
state of Miss, was suspended week ago.
......Queen Victoria has ten grandchildren.
......lt is proposed in Boston to connect
East Boston with the city proper by means
of cast iron tube 5000 feet long, 80 feet
wide at the base and II feet high in the
centre, to be laid 90 feet 6 inches below
the low-tide level. Fifty thousand dol
lars is the fee claimed by the counsel en-
ployed by the United States to defend the
Fenians on trial in Canoda last winter......
The losses by fires in the U. S. for Janus
ry, A,O43,oOO; February, s4,405, 900 +;
March, S2,960,OOO; April, So 100000; to-
tai, $l4 ,40S, O00..... President Day, of Yale
college is so feeble as to be unable to walk
without hel p......Several new express COM
panies are to be organized on the plan of
the Merchants Union-ene to run through
the South; one in New England, which will
connect with the Union in New York, and
one in Canada. 1.-THE Paris Exhibition
building has been insured for 100000
francs. Hogs in the vicinity of Flor
ence, this state, are said to be troubled
with a new disease called "thumps". $500.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has joined the
Episcopal church. .Crinoline dies hard.
The ladies in Paris are about equally d.
vided as to its continued USE. =. of the
three hundred contributors to the National
Academy of Designs, fifty belong to the
slender GENDER. 49,. Massachusetts now
has state debt of $2s, 100000; and her
towns and cities have an ind ,btedncss of
S27 100000. The last legislature passed
an act to equalize thu bounties Of her vol
unteers, placing all on the footing of tie
highest bounties. This will add to her
state debt SIS, 900, 900, and require levy
Of 81 ,OO0, 900 a year in taxes to be pad
by about as many inhabitants. .....At the
time of the earthquake in Missouri and
Kansas, April oath, an acre Of ground
three miles south of Carthage, Ohio, on
the Miami Canal, sank ten feet. The
ground, which has always been of very
solid character, and bore several large
trees, sank bodily, leaving perpendicular
wall Of ten feet or more on all sides.
Returning to hard currency-paying for
new territory with iron-clads.. ..Spurgeon
makes periodical pauses in his sermons to
allow his audience to cough, expectorate,
and otherwise relieve their feelings with
out disturbing one another. man in
Pennsylvania owns gallows and hires it
out to counties when any of their citizens
require hanging.......There are 100000
more males than fen.lss4i'.r' United
.s...s~s.....it is proposed to settle an Irish
colony of 10000 in Virginia. Senator
Doolittle has been appointed by the presi-
dent special agent to visit the Russian
government on secret-scryiee mission. 1t
is generally supposed that it refers to the
recently ratified Russian treaty 80. Gen.
Grant has received additional unofficial in
formation showing that the reported Fort
Bu(ord massacre is undoubtedly false......
A Washington dispatch says: Tie ex-
penses of the war department alone for
the present fiscal year will be from $780,
100000 to Sl50,OOO,Oo0. 1t is stated that
the secretary of the navy will recommend
the suspension of bounties.... The Great
Eastern is not expected to make another
trip to New York as the last one did not
pay......Two thousand cmigrants arrived
at New York on the 10TH. The Post
master General has issued orders to post
masters to furnish the letter list to any
newspaper which will print it gratuitously.
As soon as such publication is begun, the
official publication will be abandoned.
Hon. S. S. Marshall, Representative in
Congress from Illinois, who has been
oJituaried by all the western papers, de-
MES that he is dead. IA dispatch from