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

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News ana Items.
Victor Hugo's new book is to be called
"Thc Exiles."......Dr Franklin introduced
broom corn into this country. Tomato
wine is said to be excellent. There is a
semi-wcekly paper published at Circlevillc
Ohio, which bears the name of The Bushy
Marthu......Both bituminous and anthra-
cite coal have been found in the Rocky
way, close to the track. The best coal
field is near Benton, in the vicinity of the
crossing of the North Platte. Great com-
plants are being made by visitors to
Mount Vernon Of the wrctched condition
in which they find the estate. Visitors
landed there, are taxed fifty cents, and
hundreds go there every week. Who gets
the money? Somebody has made a good
thing out of Mount Vernon. Council
Bluffs have voted a loan of $500, 600, to
aid the railroad bridge across the Missouri
River......Says a radical sheet, "Blair's
worst enemy is the bottle, ink or whiskey,
it makes no difference" That sheet can't
see the published account of Grants re-
cent tco days stay at the Denver Hotel,
Denver City, Colorado. That account
says: "Two days board, $40; lemons,
whisky and cigars, SIS; total ss5." Ulys-
ses is evidently having a gay time of it.
The ink bottle never ruined any one.
Ulysses speeches may ruin him-they are
so ..Advices from Japan to the
3Oth ult., shows that the civil Wal is pro-
crossing with great violence. The cause
of the ex-Tycoon seemed to be gaining
ground. A division of the country into
two nations is talked of......The Falkeren-
ncn, a Norwegian paper, published
at Winona, Mimi, is getting an immense
circulation, and doing good Democratic
work. The Winona Democrat in one day
it received one hundred and ten subscribers
from Red Wing.
The rice crop in South Carolina. will be
one third larger han last ycar......Dubu-
que ia about to build another mile of
street railway. Robert Douglas, eldest
son of Steven A.. Douglas, is now the
Private Secretary Of GOV. Holden of South
Carolina. ....A Although the annual election
in this State usually takes place in Octo-
Der, it is by law postponed till November
in wears of the Presidential election......
The annual session of the Grand Lodge
of tie Independent Order Of Good Tenn
plars of Iowa will be held at Marshelltown,
commencing on Wednesday, August 29th,
instead of September I'd, as originally an
nounced...... caution comesfr from Havana
to lovers Of pine apples. The Cuban
doctor, who ought to know, say the fruit
is bad this year, and caunot safely be
eaten, either by invalids or healthful per,
sons.
There is 70 be a total eclipse of the SUI
in Asia on the 18th Of this month and F;
total eclipse of the radical party in the U
S. in November. Retail business of al
kinds is daller thar usual in Boston thi
SUMMER. Receipts on Western railroad
average twenty per cent. more than las
year. milwaukee claims to have 94,56'
inhabitants......It is expected that tn
cars will cross the Dubuque bridge b,
New Years......W Waterloo elected it's frs
Mayor on Wednesday last.......A bed o
!, iron-ore, eight feet thick, has been discov
cred near Usage, Mitchell county. as W
, learn from the hran. Old miners say
will yield sixty per cent. of good iron.
Two more beautiful ~frescoes have bee,
discovered at Pompeii, in the vestibule o
J a house in Via. Stabina, in an e~xcellen
state of preservation. They are suppose
to be the portraits Of the master and mis-
= tress of the house. The woman is SEE
T. ted and evidently preparing to write
The frescoes have been removed to tn
t museum Mt Naples. ..Garibaldi refuse
r to sec American visitors......Miss Garci'
of HAVANA, now at,Saratosa, wears 500
900 worth of diamonds. ..Tennyson
Memoirs are said to be trashy......Victc
Hugo won't patronize American publish
ers...... Rothschild wants. to by Jerusalem
...... Hole-in-the-Day's eighth wife was a
n Irish girl. .Bismark gets $4,000 a yet
y and found.... .Pendleton's father-in- +
t. wrote the "Star- Spanglel Banner.
l., nv ~ r:l..~o sc TT,1sc,~ &c o1.snipr
be the originator of the Atlantic Cabl
le .....Eugenie has the smallest waist in e
W rope. The Queen of Spain has the largest.
N at present.. There is q rumor that Il
m brother of the late Prince Consort wan
G. to marry Victoria and that V. is willin
in ALASKA was paid for the last day
July. Washington people say that Gc
it Banks will be appointed minister to Rr
I'd STA. Cassius Clay resigns......Thc Chine
ne embassy will visit Secretary Seward,
m Auburn, and 90 thence to Saratoga, Mia
in ara and Boston.
a Reports from South American war 4
ry very conflicting. Adyices from BRAZIL
lis sources state hat the allies have TAX
IIumaita. On the other hand, a Lond
dispatch brings intelligence from the p;
aguayans hat they still hold that fortre
ny and that it is more strongly fortified tn
Sn ever. They also claim that the allies
Gently made q reconnaissance in force a
'ut were routed. .....It is denied that the
on low fever is prevailing at New Orlea
:. ......The mortality in New York city is
y. -... al 80 ,1,.,,;u r,to Tho Do