North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-08-05

sippi valley to actual settlers, according
to returns to the land Office during June.
The sum of S30,350,OO0 has been ap-
propriated ty Congress for the payment of
invalid and other p~ensions..fo tlheycar end
ing June 80, 1869, of which $4,000, 900
are for invalid pensions, S2O,0OO,OOO for
widows, children, mothers and others, and
the balance for navy pensions to invalids,
widows and other relatives of officers and
seamen in the navy......Gov. Yarmouth,
of Louisiana, has made an application to
the government for military assistance to
aid him to ~ carry the elections to suit
the radical party.....An apparatus for
propelling street cars with compressed air
has been invented. ....John P. Irish, ed
itor of the Iowa City State Press, lately
nominated for Congress by the Democrats
of the Fourth Iowa District, is only TWEEN
ty-five years Of age and is one Of the most
promising young men in the state......
Samuel N. Pike is worth $4,000, O0O......
Charlotte Cushman is in Westinghouse.
SAKE denies that he is a judge of wines
1.-The English woman think Longfellow
handsome, but spoil the compliment by
adding that he looks English. The repub-
lican candidate for Governor in New Jer-
sey, John l. Blair, is said to be worth
nearly $4,000, .....Miss Hildreth,
niece and ward of General Butler, is the
next Senatorial bride, according to gossip,
and Senator CONFESS is the happy man.
......1 ,O3s British smugglers of tobacco
and spirits were captured in 1s67......The
proportion Of officers to men in the Brit
ish army is to %.
Yellow ochre will suppress rats......
There is now q regular monthly line of
steamers between San Francisco and Hong
Kong......The drouth in England, which
extended also to France and Germany
has at last ended, after continuing for some
fifteen weeks. No such season has been
known since 1898, and the crops have suf-
fered greatly a fact which in england has
a political Significance, so closely connec.
ted, in that wealthy country, are the price
of bread and the pub lie peace......Ovcl
thirteen hundred steamship voyages a year
are made between England and America
......New York allows no wooden buildings
o be erected below One Humid red and
Fifteenth street.. There is a negro wo-
man in Dubuque who claims to be $50
years of age, and says she nucscd George
Washington.........It is supposed that the
schooner Gsneral Butler has been lost Of
Cape Ann, with ten men......John c
Heenan has challenged Mike McCoole to
fight for the championship Of Americ;
1.-The amount of specia and bullion i'm
ported during the last fiscal year wa
1911, AL, a decrease of $40, 00O,O 900 from
the importat;ons of last year......Gov
Cox, of Ohio, having declined the appoint
ment of Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, the place has been rendered to Mr.
Delano, Republican member of Congress
of Ohio.
Maryland and Virginia wheat does no
thresh as we'll as expected......We shall
get a third more rice this year than las
; from the South. The Missouri whea
crop this year is the largest ever gathere'
t in the ...Oswego is to have q cor
t ~vcntion of church choirs. Tan colore
: shoes are more popular than ever anon
the ladies......Siik producing in Californi
t is exciting considerable interest in France
1.-The stalk Of the hop vine, after th
4 hops are gathered, makes an e~xceller
I fibre for coarse cloth and cordage. 1t re
quires to be stepped in water till there is
sign of loosening then dried and beate
: till the woody center separates from tn
: center fibre, which comes off easily in Ion
threads. Brick Pomeroy is to start
e paper in New York City. He says it wi
5 be decent in tone and give attention
!, morals. lie is going to reform, probabl,
......Jamcs Russell Lowell is the hand
S soonest of the American poets. lie is fit.
r and does not look more than thirty.