North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-11-25
News and Items.

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Amherst College has $50 Students.
England and Wales contain million
Of paupers......C Cows can be purchased
at $40 per dozen in Texas......Twelve
per cent. of English criminals are UNI
der sixteen. .... The belle of Dresden is
Chicago girl who sings divinely......:.
Gutta percha houses arc suggested for
earthquake countries......A colored di-
plomatic agent from Liberia has been
recognized by Russia. The white
Fawn" is said to have lost the mana
gers 10000 in Philadelphia....A grape
vine in Jouchcey, France, "a years old
yields three tons weight of grapes......
A skating club proposes to give med
al to one proficient in the sport, for
back-sliding. American steamers,
aggregating more than $4,000 tons, are
now running in Chinese waters......A
man in Hartford carries an umbrella
that was bought in 1S47, and has never
been stolen but once......It is said that
there acorns enough within miles of
Jefferson, Texas, to faten 1900 hogs....
The Supreme Court of California has
compelled man to pay his wife $4,000
upon promissory note given previous
to their marriage. The question of law
involved in the case was new one-..
A Montgomery county, Ohio, farmer
who wished to give a lot for a church,
and burial ground, had the deed made
out, TO God Almighty, His heirs and
assigns forever" and the deed is SO re-
corded. ....A London magistrate has
humanely decided that any household
err feeling or otherwise encouraging a
street musician, to the annoyance of
any other person, is liable to the same
extent of fine as the musician himself.
Wilkes thinks Weston is humbug.
What Weston thinks of Wilkes is not
known. 49,. Bonner's chances for Cab
met office are considered good...... Mrs.
Schuyler Colfax has dark hair and
brown eyes. When does a hen like
beer? When she has little BROOD.
The Fenian Stephen is still watched
blythe Paris police...... Buchanan and
Thad Stevens sleep in the same grave
yard. 1t is the first place they ever
agreed in......A number of the Good
Tenplar Lodges in Wis. have chosen
women to act as Worthy Chiefs.
monster has appeared in the woods
near Brooksville, KY, which the peo-
pie think is Old Nick himself, horns
and ALTON election day, the "Gen-
tiles" at Salt Lake went through the
form of voting, and cast SS votes for
Grant and 20 for Seymour......A Cleve-
land man, having relieved himself of
two wives by divorce, concluded to try
shorter method with his darling, and
SO kicked her to death...... Mrs. Moor,
who created such Juror in New York
by her walking capacity, has been
walked into prison at Rochester.........
The Fenian prisoners in Jail at Otta-
wa under the habeas corpus suspension
act, are to be liberated on bail at once.
Buckley, Doyle and Kensella, indicted
Us accessories to murder of Darcy
MCGEE, will not be liberated.
Already several enterprising Demo-
cratic papers have nominated the Hon.
John Il. Hoffman for the Presidency
in 1772 Henry Gowing went insane
because he discovered quartz lode in
Montana and his partner cheated him
out of it," Marriage in high life" is
the style in which our Dominion
neighbors mention the union of Col
fax and Ben Wade's niece. Can
you talk with these Cinnamon ?"
asked Mrs. Smith. "Broken China,
Madam" was the reply......Any one
desiring to know just what the Gre
clan bend is, should watch base ball