North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-11-18

News and Items.
Two printers represent Lynn, Mass, id
the legislature. The teachers and
scholars of three schools in North Wey-
nputh, Mass, were nearly killed lately by
an escape Of gas. London clergyman,
who was fined five shillings for being
found drunk in n gutter, plead that it did
not happen Gerry often, and that he was
not son ddty'' at the time. .."The New
Pilgrims Progress is to be the title of
Mark Twuin's book......A recently elected
New York Judge intends retiving the
practice Of wearing judicial wig New
York had l94 marriages last xcek......
Half Belgium's population cannot read...
......Ohio has only five hundred acres of
public land left......Lord Napier received
a solid eighteen-carat gold sword from the
Corporation Of London, prior to his de-
parture for India. .Reyerdy johnson is
to be banquted in Manchester, and has
also been invited to public dinner in
Birmingham......A woman was found
dead in the streets Of Kingston, Canada,
the other night with dead infaut in her
arms......Grant's majority in Kansas is
nearly 2O,O0O.....It is now probable that
Grant has carried Alabama. "A Madrid
dispatch says that the party in favor of a
Republic, is gaining ground. From q
school census just completed, Chicago
claims a population Of 252,OOO..... The
piano-makers, shoe-makers and cigar
makers Of New York, are on strike. -
Guizot completed his eighty second year
on the 5th of October last......A New
Havener, sat all day in the top of q tree by
way of paying an election bet. Victoria
has found another candidate for her mat
rimonial prize for triplets (43) in a
Scotch lady......B Brigham Young is the
third largest depositor in the bank OF
England. Gen. Mcclellan is about to
take up his residence permanently at
Hoboken...... Henry Vincent, of England,
addressed the Christian convention in
Pittsburg, on the llth.. The portraits of
Napoleon and Eugene have been publicly
destroyed in the streets of Madrid. We
understand that Harriet Beecher Stowe
has son enjoying the hospitality of the
irebriate asylum at Binghamton.. 1t is
predicted that Archbishop Manning and
Bishop Ullathorne will soon wear Cardin-
ais hats, and that the Right Rev. j. L.
Patterson will be created Archbishop of
Glasgow and Primatc of old Scotland. >. ).
The Belgian Queen's health is fast declin-
ing from necessarily watching at the
bedside Of her son.. The last dress
Eugene was seen in at Biarritz, was
chestnut poplin, trimmed with crosscuts
Of the same, bordered with satin of the
same shade, a white cloth loose jacket and
q chestnut brown straw hat, trimmed with
velvet.
The ex Queen Of Naples and the cx-
Queen Of Spain are out of employment,
and would like places as governesses.. :. ;.
Anna Dickinson is lecturing upon "Chil-
dren ana Marriage" which induces an
impertinent journalist to inquire if the
cart hasn't been put before the horse. go.
A daughter Of Gen. Earl Van Dorm was
recently married in Mississippi, to Mr.. T.
A. Lumsden, of louisiana. Secretary
Stewards marriage is said to have been
prevented by the remonstrance of his
family against his ringing that little belle
The little belle was. Miss Risley, OIL
Chautauque county, N. Y......Mrs. Hole
in-the- Day, widow of the chief of that
name, with an infant eight months old, is
seeking employment, in St. Paul, as a
domestic. She was, before marriage, a
laundry girl in Washington hotel. -.
Anna Surratt hos been crowned "Queen
OF Love and Beauty at tournament
in Virginia..... Henry A. Wise did no,
vote, because he would not, he said
to UGH either one of their damned parties
with 10-foot pole"
The queen of Portugal, Victor EN-
manuel's daughter, is crazy land occupies 9
padded room to prevent her from breaking
her royal head......It is said that all the
foreign ministers at Washington, includ-
ing the English and Turkish, are Roman
Catholics. The wife of Mr.. Jones, Of
Ohio, few nights ago, twice dreamed
that she was blind, and, awaking, found
that the dreams were realized. Two
cousins of the lady became blind in a
similar way......A transcript in Hebrew,
written in the year 936, ist preserved in
the National Library of Florance.. The
women of Germany ore to have conven.
ton to discuss the question of managing
babies. Harry Choate is billiard cham.
pion of Ohio, having recently won the
cue at Cincinnati. 49,. The latest cause oil
suicide in Paris as the unwillingness of a
boy of sixteen to run errands "A sta
tion-master at Rome started train when
be ought not. It camc into collision with
another train, and five persons were killed
The station-m master was tried and sentanc.
ed to five years. hard labor at the galleys.
Served him right.
"Im sitting on the style, Mary" said
the envious young girl as she pumped
down on her sisters hat and feathers. !. I.
Alderman philosopher predicts that Eu-
rope and America will be submerged in
SOC, 1000 years, and no one dares con-
tradict him !......A barber in Duane street,
New York, charges dollar for hair