North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-09

News and Items.
The New York Times pleads for the
use Of the word "cable'' as a verb......
Switzerland has IN army of two hundred
and three thousand men.......The Toledo
Blade is frightened at the radical despon-
dency and exclaimes "God grant a good
scare to wake Republicans up !'......A
young Peruvian millionaire has spent
two hundred thousand dollars Mt Saratoga
this season.......A young Woonsocket
Or. ~ left for Australia on Friday, to DO
MARI ed to a lucky gold digger, who form
erly lived in Blackstone. ...Colfax writes
that he will be home from his western
tour on the 18th inst. A report of a dam
ger Of being massacred in the South Park,
Colorado, by the Ute and Cheyenne
Indians, it seems was not we'll founded......
The losses to American marine insurance
companies for August amounted to
S64s 900 and for the first eight months of
the year, $4,000, 500. During the last
ten years 81 ,l2O,O00 worth Of drug stores
have been consumed in St. Louis.
Ministers in Philadelphia require a con-
sideration in hand for administering the
rites Of baptism. Decidedly a new idea in
the performance Of religious duties......
~High-buttoned vests, bright-colored plain
silk scarfs, tight trowsers, longer coats,
and Tapped talmas for overcoats, are the
fall fashions for gentlemen......The secre-
tary of. the navy, in accordance with the
will Of congreSs, has succeeded in reducing
the personnel of the navy to $500 men,
the force it counted previous to the war.
......Roman brigands were compelled to
cut off q rich bankers nose before he
could perceive the propriety of disgorging.
......An Omaha dispatch says there is re.
ported to be a large force of Cheyenne In.
dams moving north, intending to strike
the Pacific railroad between North Platte
and Julesburg. Gen. Augar's troops will
endeavor to intercept thence overn-
ment commissioners have accepted another
section of the Union Pacific railroad, car
rying it nearly 95 miles west of Benton.
......An eminent French physician says
that in an examination of thirty thousand
infants, he never met with an instance of
one born with teeth ready cut.
Russia must be a paradise for school
teachers, as one hundred and ten days Of
the year are devoted to instruction, and the
other two hundred and ffty-fve to holi-
days and vacations. ....It is said that the
old mineral spring at Ballston has been
re-discovered, and a company vii; under
take to resuscitate the fashionable reputa-
ton Of the village. Ballston was once
far more popular than Saratoga--indeed,
it was a smart town before Saratoga was
thought of.......Some member Of a repub-
lican torch.light procession in Cincinnati
recently, fatally stabbed a young man of
that city by the name Of Cash. The city
council have offered $1,000 for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer. The
Hon. John I. Hoffman has been nomina-
ted for governor by the democratic con-
vention in New York. The nomination
assures a democratic majority of seventy
five thousand in that state in November.
A writer from the Chippewa Valley,
Wis. says: From the indications l have
scen-politically speaking-I am assured
that the democracy will gain considerable
more than the necessary four per cent. in the
Chippewa Valley-to assist in retaining
the state next November.......It has been
ascertainea that the total tonnage of steam
and sailing vessels of the United States is
$780, 67 tons. The number of steamers
is 2,942, and Of sailing vessels 1902, all
of which have been officially furnished
with registered numbers.......Ole Bull WIS.,
sits this country again in the fall......If
Adams life had been spared he would
have been 1868 years old on the 18th Of
this month";. .Beecher says, to make good
coffee 60 to the principal hotels, res.au-
rants, railroad eating houses, &C., and
ascertain just how they make coffee-then
make it as they don't......The Triennial
convention of Knights Templars and Roy
al Arch Masons is to be held at St. Louis
on the 18th inst......A DR.. Mower, of Ton
AMANDA, Pa, claims to have discovered a
system by which he can transmit messages
by electricity through large bodies of water
without q cable or other conductor. ....
According to the official canvass, the Dem
ocratic majority in Kentucky is s8,67S..-.
General Rosccrans says that during his
mission in Mexico he will not favor fill
clustering or annexation moyemcnts......
The Dubuque Herald says: Lforts contin-
ue to be made to have an extra session of
the general assembly called to repeal the
railroad tariff and restriction bill. Those
interested are sanguine of obtaining the
pledges of enough members to repeal the
Objectionable law, in which event, it is
understood, the governor will call the
assembly together.
General Piatt, Of Ohio, has formally re-
nounced radicalism, and gave his reasons
in a speech last week at West Liberty in
that state......Col. j. II. Matheny, Capt.
John A. Chenery and Capt. G. w. John.
son, who have all served with honor in
the union army, and who have heretofore
acted with the radicals, addressed
a reccat democratic meeting in Spring
field, ILL.,, and declared their in
tonk;on 70 s,sfa;n &ho dopaoa.at;a aa.Au =.