North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-22

charge nothing for information, but really
this seems a very reasonable explanation
Of the phenomena. Scholars may blow
us up il they choose, but we have no scho-
lastic reputation to lose, and hence our
maiden effort in aspiring to explain "heav-
emily things will be pardoned.
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News and Items.
During the great Crystal Palace exhibit
bition at New York, Captain Grant, now
General Ulysses s. Grant, rode a horse
into a hat and cap store and performed
several other feats, which at last brought
him to a court martial. He was %pronounc-
ed "guilty of conduct unbecoming m Of
6cer and gentleman but the finding was
not published and he allowed to resign, a
thing never before known to be done after
military charges had been preferred.
His resignation was allowed by JEFF. Davis,
then Secretary of War, only because he
pied and finally begged that the proceedings
be stayed in that way, and he the captain)
saved from ruin. Returns from all but
two counties in Mississippi give a Demo-
cratic majority of ll,40O.......Mrs Eliza
beth Cady Stanton says: "Why not fol-
low a good man with the Democratic par
ty, rather than with Republicans, help to
place a drunken soldier in the White
House ?"......It is said that the radicals
have determined not to permit any election
to be held in Virginia, inasmuch rs they
are convinced that they will be defeated.
The father of the junior Of this Office cast
his maiden vote in that State, when all
went boldly to the polls and voted cico
roce and when men put up for Office worked
for the good of the whole country and not
as now for the plunder......The present
heated term, in its long continuance, if not
in its intensity, exceeds that of any sum-
mer since 1915. The heat is remarkably
uniform throughout the country, the mer-
curry in the thermometer ranges about the
same in Canada and in the Northern and
Southern States.......The radical convcn.
ton Of the 9th district were in session
three days ~wrangling until the 18th ballot,
IN which Chas. Pomeroy was nominated.
The house has passed the bill appro-
priating s7,5OO,O 900 in gold for the pur-
chase of Alaska......The specie in the
Bank of England decreased f364,O00
sterling during the past week......On
Thursday Is deaths from sun-stroke oc-
Cured in Philadelphia on Wednesday
81 deaths in Albany, N. Y, and during
the week about fifty per day in New York
from the same cause......It is said that
Banks has been promised the Russian
Mission for procuring the Alaska appro-
priation. .....Dr. w. S. G. Morton, the dis
covcrer of %chloroform, died by sun-stroke,
at New York, on Thursday. ..Advices
from the South American war, though
Spanish sources, indicate the early fall of
Humaita. Libby prison has been sold at
auction......The city of Paris ives $780,
6OO,OOO......Fifteen thousand mormon
r selytes have left England during the
season for Utah......Gold in such amounts
as may be "picked up in Jumps" is report
ed having been discovered in Alaska.
Bancroft has concluded q naturalization
treaty with the Grand Duchy of Baden.
......A London dispatch of the 10Th states
that the yield of wheat in Great Britain
will be above the average......The number
Of deaths in New York last week was H.
l42, of which more than one half was
from sun-stroke.
One fatal case Of cholera is reported in
New York city......Hon. W. NJ. Evarts,
the newly appointed Attorney General,
has entered upon the duties of his Office.
1.-THE president has vetoed the electoral
college bill and it is said he will veto the
tax bill also......The orange crop of Flori-
da is unusually promising, and has been
generally engaged at $40 a thousand.
Other tropical fruits are growing finely.
......It has been warmer at Montreal the
past week than at New Orleans.
{, Wendell Philips demands the impeach-
ment Of Chase......McCoo having issued
his challenge Cor any nan in America,
Philadelphia hackers of an unknown
propose to cut out some work for him, and
have forwarded $1,000 to George V. At
kinson, of the St. Lawrence, as forfeit
money to be covered by the giant.
The South and North Carolina and
Louisiana Senators have been sworn into
Office. This makes ca U. S. Senator.
Thad. Stevens said in congress that if
Frank Blair stood on the Chicago platform
he would vote for him......A Washington
dispatch says: The third party movement
seems to have fizzled out. Several Of the
leaders who have been supposed to be in
terested in it have abandoned it, and writ
ten letters informing their followers that
the thing is inexpedient and unwise......
The Senate Pacific Railroad committee had
under consideration a bill for building a
railroad from Cairo, ILL.,, to the Rio
Grandc, through Arkansas and Texas
The bill calls for aid in the shape of a
guarantee or Endorsement of the United
States upon the bonds of the company,
and postponed it till the next session..
The tariff question will 80 over till anoth-
err term......John G.. SAKE, the poet, wants
to be made minister to Austria. Watts,
Of Phila., is spoken Of in connection with
the mission......I 1t is believed that if Con-
gress adjourns this week, the President
will Immediately call an eatra session of