North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-10-07
News and Items

OF the Louisville journal, is denied by
that paper. ....... Damaging floods are
reported in California and Arizona......A
fou,-acre crop of peaches in gainesville,
Ohio, has been sold on the trees for $500 |
......Truly ''loyal men, in Georgia..are re-
viewing Enfield rifles in collins. .....Thc
Maine election was by no means one of
the Observation-Disclosures Wa
ter street sensation has been Dyer
calamity to religion-N. Y. Lcaler......
The revenue frauds involve hundred
million dollars and almost as many ind
viduals.. Six Chinese have been con-
vertcd in Austria. First instances on
record. .... Brigham wishes to "seal'' an
actress, but she is averse to Brigham......
Chicago is undecided whether or not to
call State street palmer Avenue, latter the
opulent Potter. .....An election bet in San
Francisco compels the loser to ride through
the principal streets Of the city mounted
on jackass, facing the tail, with negro
Heading.
A New York dispatch says: The
statement tor September, it is said, will
show an increase in the public debt of
SAC. OOO.O 600. .... .Ristori Melted, during her
trip, no less than 100000 francs.....
Alex. 4. Stewart is not an eight-hour man.
He works about fourteen hours, and gets
about $4,000 a day......The tax of one
cent box on matches last year nctted the
Government revenue of 81, 500, O0O......
The population of Cleveland, Ohio. is near
100000. The State election takes place
in Nebraska on the 18th, and not the 9th,
of October, as previously stated. .....Dav-
export, is making great effort to build
up an Academy of Natural Science. DR..
C.. c. Parry, for long time engaged by
the United States as naturalist on ex-
plorations, made an eloquent appeal in its
behalf recently. ....In Richland county.
Wisconsin, Mrs. Anna Wallace was killed,
few days ago, by a boy only ID years Of
age, for the sake of getting twenty-five
dollars. Her head was cut off with an
AK. The body was fouad the day after,
horribly manglcd by hogs. The boy was
arrested and placed in Jail. On Saturday
he was taken out by mob and hung,
amid great excitement, every indignity
being heaped upon his body. In trot
at Clinton, on the Sd inst, Bashaw, Jr.,
won in three straight heats, beating Kirk
wood and Jim Rockey. Time 2:3l, 23l J
2:33f. ..Inda's population is estimated
at $50 100000. A census is to be taken in
lS7l...... During the session of the Cabinet
on Friday the President received dispatch
from Alexandria, Egypt, announcing the
attempted assassination of the Niceroy OF
Egypt. Gen. Rosccrans is now en- route
for the Republic of Mexico, to which he
has been appointed Minister.
In the approaching Peace Conference at
Berne, Switzerland, women will be admitted
on the same terms us men, and will be in
vited to propose questions and take part in
the discussions. ....A telegram to the Sec
rotary of the Interior at Washington an
nounccs the completion of the Union
Pacific Railroad to Green river, in Utah
$50 miles from Omaha. 1t was the origin.
al intention to cease operations at Greer
river fer the winter, but the road is to be
pushed on to Bear river mountain, where
Brigham Young's contract for grading
commences. Trains now run to within a
little over 200 miles from Salt Lake City
New York has let the contract for al
!, underground railroad. Corn is offered
at ten cents a bushel in Texas, and We
finds no sale......It is reported that a con
spiracy to dethrone Abdul Assn, reignin!
} Sultan of Turkey, has been discovered il
: Constantinople. A number of politica
arrests have been made there. No furthe
: particulars have been received. ...Quee1
e Isabella has issued protest against tn
!, revolution in Spain. The document argue
= that the force used by the rebels to depos
e the Queen does not injure her rights to tn
n throne, and declares that the acts Of
junta established by violence are nc
binding on the people,. ."Sweet Sixteen
d is the name of the latest perfume......Tl
e Appletons have thirty-six new books
n press. Excessively bell crowned hats al
. threatned in Paris next spring. ....Tf
S FIRST printing done by steem was the ISIS,
|. oil, the London Times for November %, ISL
$, 1.-The servant girls of New York CAV
,s few weeks ago, about $4,000 for Il
d Popes private pocket......Fashon's novel
Sc is a necklace made of band Of black W
v, vet, fitting tightly to the throat, and (
- which are seen small gold or gilt BELLS.
ID An obscrvant sexton says that the renal
b. of those who are buried with flowers
is the coffin invariably decay sooner than t
= bodies of those who are buried witho
u them. "A devil fish Of precisely the sal
at kind as that described by Victor Hugo "
as caught off Farralton Island, near San Fra
- cisco, Cal. 1t measured eleven feet aero
NO covered -nuime4,Tesv epesJnoMs.. (
n borough Four Corners Mass. was rece
'ofi ly opened and ,040 cells were found in
in. averaging two pounds each. The pear
to crop Of North Carolina this year is rep
IN scented to be a fine one. The yield will
90, 100000 bushels. ....While removing
I'd. bodies from an old burial ground in
err bany, last week the workmen found be
nd. which had petritied, and doubled in weig
nd in the fifteenth year of its entombment.
The St. Paul Press publishes glow
description Of the town of Austin Min