North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-15
News and Items.

News and Items.
Franklin Pierce is the only man living
ever elected President ofthe United States,
Er. In November there will be one other
and that one will be Hortio Seymour, if he
lives......The artist Bierstadt gave Long
fellow a dinner, at London. on the 9th......
Mexican dates of the 4th state that Estrada
had burned and sacked the town of Vile
dc Valle.... General Galvez has been en-
ecuted......A brother of Miramon had
been imprisoned for having r%cactionary
documents in his possession. ...... Capeda
has been rcinstated as Governor of Yucca
tan......The number of acres of land taken
in Dakota, by actual settlers, for the
month of June, was over $4,000. Gen.
Napier has been made a peer with the
title, "Lord Napier of Magdala." The
House of Lords, on appeal, has confirmed
the sentence Of the Fenian Mullahy.. ....
The Texas Constitutional Convention has
indefinitely postponed the subject of divi-
ding the 1.-The news from the
wheat crop in Western Missouri is highly
encouraging. The average yield is forty
six bushels to the acre in johnson county.
1.-THE Nicolson pavement patent has
been extended seven years longer, by the
acting Commissioner of Patents. The
yellow fever is abating at Lima, Peru,
and has totally disappeared in Callao.
Ten thousand deaths have occurred in the
two cities from the disease......The latest
instance of western economy is that Of the
lady that accompanied her husband from
Cincinnati to Florida, where the latter
died. She saved a freight bill by packing
oranges and sweet potatoes in the vacant
corners of the box containing his remains,
and was able to undersell all rivals ut
home.
The total valuation of the real and per-
sonal property Of New York city liable to
taxation foots up this year to 1881 $685.
Sl3 last year......A Washington dispatch
of the 9th says ''The scene in the Senate
late this afternoon, when Reverdy John
son resigned and took his leave, prepara-
tory to sailing for England, was quite
touching. His last act was to carry
through the bill giving $1,000 for repair
ing Mt. Vernon. He was so affected when
he rose to say farewell, that his colleague
took the words and read them, after which
the Senators generally gathered around
Mr.. johnson and babe him goodbye
......It is said there will be a large crop of
prairie chickens this season, and that
after the LIST of August pointers will have
fine sport......In the Senate Thursday,
while the tax bill was under consideration,
a motion to retain the tax at 50 a gallon
was defeated by 81 to l4......Amasa w.
Sprague, q sober brother and partner of
Senator Sprague, was a delegate to the
New York National Democratic Conven-
tion......Senator Wilson, in a speech in
Massachusetts,, said he would not ignore
the fact that the Democratic party was a
strong, compact organization which might
cast 9, 100000 votes. He based his hopes
of success on Grants receiving 100000
INSTRUMENTATION apples sell for two
dollars in gold a dozen in Hong Kong.
......Miss Cecilia Cleveland is the name of
the niece of Greeley, who is making a
sensation in foreign musical circles......
Some of the Mexicans want the Empress
Carlotta to return.
Victor Emanuel is declared to be very
profigate in his private life ......Brigham
Young is having seven costly carriages
built in New York......The father of Rob-
ert Bonner was an inn keeper in Raymel-
ton, Ireland...... Sir Morton Peto is a
bankrupt......The citizens of Waterford,
Ireland, are trying to raise funds to erect
a monument to the memory of Thomas
Frances Meagher. Waterford was his
native home......It is reported that Con-
gress will adjourn about the 2Sth inst......
The HAVANA submarine cable has parted.
The expenses of our government un der
the present radical ruling amount to
$500, 000, 900 per annum, $4,000, 900 per
month, 100000 900 per week, 81, 400 600
per day, 100000 per hour and 81 900 per
minute. Eminent Berlin physicians, it
is said, concur in the opinion that both
Bismarck and King William will die very
soon and very suddenly......The height of
forehead bestowed upon Gen. Jackson,
says a Boston paper, as represented upon
the two cent postage stamps, is a flight
of imagination, and not justified by any
portraits of the original. Both in the
case of the hero of New Orleans and
Shakespeare, the pencils of the artists have
scared extravagantly into the roots Of the
hair......The property of the late James
Buchanan has been appraised at $330,5S2.
1.-THE ex-rebel Gen. w. c. Wickam,
who rose to high military distinction I'M
der Lee, has taken the stump for Grant
and Colfax in Virginia. OF course a rebel
who turns radical is all right
Senator Grimes is reported improving
1.-THE streets of Houston, Texas, are
to be paved with shells at an expense of
S40,OOO......It is no longer fashionable to
carry a folded handkerchief stiffened like
a corpse in the hand handkerchief rings
and Aimsy handkerchiefs are now la mode.
There is said to be more beauty than
usual in Newport......A German newspa-
per is to be started in Des Moines on the
democratic side. Three failures to get
up a G. & G. club have occurred at Daven-
port. The McGregor club is not asuccess;