North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-08

Then "without ceasing" I will pray,
Fen tho my lips move not;
I'll keep my heart prepared for Him,
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Chicago, April 9th, 1867.
News and Items.
A California paper thinks in fifty years
from now there will be as much trade and
ship-building in Puget Sound as on the
coast of Maine. -. The artist who took
Ristori's photograph at Niagara on Sun
day was arrested for breaking the Sub
BATH. ....In Philadelphia negroes are not
allowed upon the street cars week days and
white people are not allowed upon them
Sundays......The first attempt at univer-
sal exhibition was made under Nero more
than eighteen centuries ago.. The post
Office department is about to sell at public
auction some six thousand daguerreotypes,
ambrotypcs, &C., that were seAt through
the mail and finally found their way to the
dead letter offlce......It is said thai. the fees
Of lawyers in the United States 6Mount to
S35 ,00O, 900, that the keeping of criminals
costs Sl2 ,OOO, 900, that the dogs require
SIC, 1000, 600 for their subsistence and en-
tertainment, and the preachers Sc, O0O, 900,
and that there is more grumbling about
the expense of supporting ministers and
religious institutions than about all the
others named. :. Chief Justice Chase re-
fused to grant an application fora writ Of
haJeas corpus in behalf Of JEFF. Davis.
Afterward Judge Underwood, of the U.
S. district court, granted an application
for writ made returnable before the
court Of that district on next Monday at
Richmond, Va. The object of the writ is
to get Mr.. Davis before the court, with
view to trial or discharge. 1t remains to
be seen whether Gen. Burton, in command
at Fortress Monroe, will produce Mr..
Davis in court......The Japanese commits
sioners are in this country to buy light
draught vessels-of-war, including iron
clads and not to make commercial treaty.
......A state Sabbath School convention
will be held at Davenport on June 4th.....
An artist in Fincastle painted dog SO
natural that the animal had the hydropho-
bia during the hot weather. He's the
same man who painted a copy of beer
bottle with such skill that the cork few
out just as he was finishing it, and after
he was married he painted a picture Of his
first baby so life-like that it cried, and his
wife spanked it before she discovered her
mistake.
A call for a democratic state convention
will, says DesMoines dispatch, be made
in few days. correspondent of the
st. Cloud Times in statistical letter con-
corning the Minnesota senate, says: "The
only foreign born members are Buck, of
Nicolett, who was born in Germany; Fol-
som of Washington, who was born in
New Brunswick; and Buffers, of LIE Seuer,
.7'tv 1o.":.s 4rAf"e!n That viii DO
for Maine !......M. f. Cults, chairman of
the republican state central committee has
fixed upon the 18th day of June for tho
state convention to meet at Des Moines
A governor, judge Of the supreme court
and superintendent of public instruction
will be elected in the fall. TO show the
benefits of advertising the New Orleans
Ifcayune gives the following: "a gentle
man yesterday advertised in our columns
a dog lost This morning the dog went
home of his own accord. lie thought it
OF no use to attempt to run away if the
newspapers were after him. Senator
Doolittle intends making trip to Europe
this summer, and will visit the Paris Ex-
position: ....The New Haven .(Conn.) Re-
gister says: There is report that on
recount of the votes in the Sixteenth SEN
atorial District, Seth S. Logan, of Wash
ington, was found to have majority, and
is therefore elected, giving the Democrats
majority of one in the Senatc......A ca
BILE dispatch from Brussels sa~'s, i-' .o-
n
consideration to make the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg neutral territory in order to
avoid war between France and Germany.
......In the house of commons the liberals
have majority Of eighty votes. IA New
York dispatch says: Great numbers of
refugees are arriving in this city from
Ireland. They give very discouraging &C.
counts of the state of the country, and say
the Fenian movement in Ireland; is entire
ly abandoned. 1t is said that Col. Roberts
has made special call on the Fenian
brotherhood for aid for the families of
Irish prisoners. There are nesrly twice
as many newspapers published in the
United States as in all the rest Of the
world together. .l. @
Owing to the scarcity of wheat for seed
md -four in Hamilton, Wright and Han
cock counties, the supervisors are consid-
ering the propriety of pledging the credit
Of these counties for the payment of such
supplies as are absolutely required by the
people. There are 1884 Offices in all
the departments Of government subject to
the presidential appointment......In the
upper part Of New Hampshire there is said
to be man who can neither read nor
write, but yet as a minister Of the gospel
he draws big audiences, and as a physician
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