North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-07-31
News and Items.

News and Items.
The number of emigrants landed in
New York since Jan. LIST, 1867, is l44, 1896
1.-The coffee crop of Hawaii this season
is estimated at 25O,O lbs, worth $4,000
in the home market. ;. "A man advertised
for wife, and requested each candidate
to enclose her carte de visite. A spirited
young lady wrote to the advertiser in the
terms "Sir, do not inclose
my carte, for, though there is some au.
thority for putting a cart before horse,
know of none for putting one before an
ass" ......It is reported that the illibuster-
ing in the south, for the invasion of Next
co, has been abandoned. Drivers should
bear in mind that, by well-establishcd
principles of common law, pedestrians
take precedence in regard to the right of
way......Admiral Farragut is in rank the
highest naval officer ahoat. His station
corresponds to that of Lord High Admit
raj in England, an Office which has not
been filled since 1923, and which can only
be filled by Prince of the royal blood
Prince Alfred is now training for it......
The Chippewa Union says A child with
two heads, four arms, and one body, was
born in that village July l4th. The body
is perfect, and the separation takes place
just below the arm pits the heads are
well formed and features regular the
features represent that of male and female,
one side lived a few minutes after being
ushered into daylight, and then died,
while the other did not breathe. c.
Wyley, one vf our most respected citizens
And IL veteran Of the war Of 1912, died at
Savannah on the Oath inst. Immense
deposits of tin ore have been found in
Madison Co., Mo-, one lode being between
500 and GOO feet wide the surface ore
yields from to Is per cent. These are
the largest in the world......New wheat
was delivered at Muscatine on the 23rd
inst, and averages GO! lbs. to the bushel.
......The amount of gold in the vaults of
the treasury is sl77,OOO,O00, of which
amount SCI 900, 600 are in gold certificates.
1.-THE wheat yield this year in Georgia
is larger than former years. The corn
crop is abundant. :. Marquee, who is
skulking in Mexico with price on his
head, carries q fortune of more than a
million in foreign exchange-the fruit of
his robberies-concealed on his person.
.....An extensive conspiracy against the
life of Queen Isabella Of Spain, has been
discovered, and over 1000 arrests have
been made. The Minnesota journals
claim twenty million bushels of wheat as
the yield of the present harvest. There
is no famine in that statement. is
stated that excavations for the new sus-
pension bridge across the Niagara river,
have been begun ON both sides. The talk
is that tie bridge will BIZ ready for foot
passengers before the year is out......A
young woman named Nellie Shanger, was
brutally ravished by two rlfians in a
street car in New York on the 18th ms.
......A dispatch to the State Department,
at Washington reports volcanic eruption
nine miles west of the Island of Terceria,
one of the Azores. Several villages sui:
fered from the earthquake. olives were
lost. The volcano was in action on the
9th of June. Between Memphis and
Nashville is the following inscription at a
railroad crossing "Look out for the In
CINE wen the whsle blows or rings......."
believe mine will be the fate of Abel
said a wife to her husband one day
+" Why so p inquired the husband. BE
cause Abel was killed with club, and
your club will kill me, if you continue to
60 to it every night" ......Why is mouse
like load Of hay Because the cat II eat
Sincerity is to speak as we think,
believe as we pretend, act as We profess,
perform as We promise, and really be what
we would seem and appear to be....... How
do you know that Pharoah was carpen.
ter? Why, he made Joshua ruler.....,
The bodies of Macmillan, Miramon and
Mejia have been embalmed. .....t is tho't
the grain crop of Hungary will be i'm
mense, and French and English agents
have gone there to negotiate for large
quantities......Tw of the Fenians in con-
fnement, at Dublin, are said to have be-
come insane.... Paris dispatch states
that Napoleon still continues to purchase
large numbers of horses for the army, and
that the military workshops are over
crowded with work. ....To kill warts
make strong steep from red oak bark, in
hot water when cold, apply when con-
venient, the oftener the better.... The de-
mand Tor American flags, in Paris, is said
to be extraordinary FIVE hundred and
sixty thousand letters are delivered daily
in London. Georgia has bull. more than
seventy cotton factories since the war......
New axiom-A thorn in the bush is worth
two in the hand. 49,. "A dispatch from New
York states that Mr.. Otterbourg is to be
clothed with limited powers to represent
the United States at Mexico for the nres-
ent...... 1t was not intended as joke when
a person in New York declared that he
would not write line-fact or fiction-for
any journal, !" "Day Book or "Ledger"
under the "Sun," received from clergy
man the quiet reply, Norwood" 49,.
It is limited that Gen., Meade will succeed
Gen. Sheridan if the President decides to
remove the latter. ."What did you used
to do, mamma, before you were married.
asked n cherub Of four wears old. GWell.