North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-10-14

News and Items.
The Indian Peace Commission is in se:
sion at the fremont House, chica TO-. :.
The National Conference of Unitarians i:
in session at New York......It is denied
that the Cabinet has been considering th,
question of the purchase of Cuban.
Mcllcnry, the principal s,it1ess agains
Commissioner Rollins, has been arrested
for pcrjury......B sadier Gen. VIM. Gates
L. S. A., died in New York, on Wedncs
day, aged eighty years......A memorial
statue to Major General Sedgwick will be
dedicated at West Point on the 2lst inst.
......The Rollias investigation has been
concluded, it being found that there was
no cause of action against him.. ;. a Paris
dispatch states that preside mt Lopez, oil
Paraguay, has been driven from his rosi-
ton at San Fcrnardo......It is announced
that the provisional government in Spain
will cmancipate all the blacks in the SEar,-
ish colonies. ... Boutwell, has been re-
nominated for Congress Ivy the Republic
cans Of the sixth Massachusetts, district.
......An explosion occurred in manuiac-
tory of fire works at Barnsby, England,
on the 7th, resulting in the death of fifty
persons.
The delegates to the Supreme Circle of
the Brotherhood of the Union, in session
at Washington, paid their respects to the
President, on Wednesday .... The triennial
convention of the Episcopal Church met
at New York On Wednesday,. Dish. l, of
Armitase, represented Wisconsin, Rev.
j. II. Craig, of Kentucky;>sas elected
president Of the convention. Iowa has
is daily papers......Omaha contains 49,
600 fo!ks......St. Louis set up. 900 build
in5s the past year,. London has 500
story writers......Stewart new palace has
$4,000 worth of window glass. A Ro-
m IN fool Of old times built house entire
ly of glass. Europe boasts of 100 millions
of ca.tle...... York claims to have 10
thousand professional thieves; the non
professional are innumerable. ..FAsEY, of
Philadelphia, the fastest typo in America,
died recently in that city.
Some fellow says baby is like wheat
because it must be Graded and thrashed.
Will some sharp cu,s tell us why baby
is like a boat? Or will he condescend
to explain why the Mississippi River is OPP
posed to the Good Temp!ars? Why is it
like sick man? Why is it like catfish :?
Why is Jenny Lind the tallest woman
ever in America? Why is it that no cd
tor is in prison? Why is a boy of six
months, Drawer than his brother of lG
years? Why are modern conundru ms
made off-hand.. OF 200 thousand French
onscripts over 200 thousand can -ead and
write; thousand can read 60 thousand
Ire unlettcred. Such people permit
military power to rule them Americans,
IAN you see ?......The Pension Office has
dispatched special agent to New Haven,
CONN.,, to investigate numerous frauds
committed lately in that vicinity on that
bureau.
"A Mimi. paper says ':many cattle in
County have been injured and
oms have died by eating corn' No
such cattle disease here. The Williams
Bros. and the Cawclti & Bergman gents,
'ftcn make them 50 dead after eating corn,
out the disease the cattle die with builds
handsome brick meat markets !..... DIR.
lonrick Of Dubuque, manufactures salve
alled Amaranthine. He gave us large
'ox and it fixed our sore places all right.
zee. Gen. Sltmmer, the commandant at
c. Laramie, died few days ago.
John Perkins was executed in the Ill
t Portsmouth, Va, on Friday, for viola.
ion of the person Of Saran Ford. lie de,
Jared that he was innocent. Six thousand
nd six hundred dollars has thus far been
aised in Buffalo for the sufferers by the
arthquakein Peru and Ecuador. i. j effer-
on Davis and family sailed from Queens
own for New York, on the steamship
ity of Paris, on the 24th of September.
1.-THE friends of wonen's rights have
allied national convention, to be held at
Washington in December. 1t is expected
hat Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, Lucretia
lott, and Lucy Stone, and other alyo
ates of the movement, will attend. The
rst line of the call for the connections
eads: "Women of the United States,
on sleep surrounded by sufferings; you
ream amid dangers. singular ia
'lity exists among horses at Bloomington,
Il. They swell Up as if from collie, and
le within few hours after the first at
'ck. Three died in this manner last Sun
ay forenoon.
Santa Anna has been ordered to leave
uba...... Post Office at Prairie du
hien, WIS.,, was visited by robbers Fri
~ evening, and robbed of small mail.
sg containing the down-rirer mail from
t. Paul to Prairie du Chen. The thieves
iected an entrance by cutting through
10 door and turning the key on the in
le......Gencral Meade will distribute the
oops in his department, including Geor-
"a and Florida, in few days, to aid the
vii authorities in keeping the peace du-
ng the Presidential election. :. The
atholics are erecting, at.Quincy. the lar