North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-10-28
News and Items ..

News and Items.
London has 200 Norm ons. 49,. Princes
Louisa of Sweden, has the consumption
......Tisht boots killed man in Louisville
acknowledgements Chinese, SILVER in the
London fogs.. 1.-THE Queen of Prussia
has been cured by a grape diet......" Ac-
knowledsing the corn" in St. Louis, las
caused many ia lures. Californian
| lived and talked for three days after his
neck was broken. Fifty dollars was paid
for II single seat at the Kellogg concert in
New York.. .Connoisseurs say August
Belmont gives the best dinners in New
York.........Crcquet is dead. lie was q
Brooklyn jcwelcr and he took arsenic
.....A French legislator recently fell into
wine vat, and narrowly escaped tho fate
Of Clarence. Tho mountains of iron in
Missouri is five miles long and 200 feet
high......A laday in Paris committed sui
eide because Of a boil on her nose......
There were eleven births and two sudden
deaths among newspapers in September
......Mrs. Catherine Fitzpatrick of Brook
Ign endured life for one hundred and eight
years, but gave it up on Saturday......A
Wisconsin firm makes five thousand willow
carriages year, and has ninety acre
willow plantation.
An Illinois girl tho other day chal-
lengcd lawyer to mortal combat, for
words spoken Of her in court. The
"Grand Duchess was played in the dark
at Portland the other evening, the gas
giving out.....Smyrna is only two:hour:
and twenty minutes distant-by telegraph
The people of Minnesota, at the coming
general election, will vote on the question
Of abolishing the present grand jury sys
tem 1t is said that one af the first act.
ofthe government in Spain will be to pas,
a decree declaring Her Majesty's Queer
Isabella) children bastards and incapable
of reigning......A challenge has been is
sued from Chicago to billiardists Of New
York to mach seven, nine or eleven o
their players against an equal number o.
Chicago players for purse of 81 900 te
$1,000 side......An apprentice in Pari.
hanged himself because he dislikcd to run
errands. Indians in Omaha wear pape,
collars fastened with shoestring, becaus
they have no garment on which to button
them. ....Therc are fewer people, in pro-
portion to the aggregate population, en-
gagged in the various branches of manu-.
featuring industry at the present time than
there were ten years ago......1n the open.
ing lecture Of the law course at Columbia
College, on Monday night, Prof. Lieber
made an assault on the Grecian bend cha
raeterizing it as peculiar combination
of graceless curves"
The great mass Of Irish immigration
have generally attached themselves, with
singular unanimity, to the democratic
party in American politics. Not only
because the principles of that party are
the most just, the most opposed to monop.
| oily, exclusion and restriction in general,
but, also, and especially, because democ-
racy has ever been the bulwark, the rock
and strong tower on which they could
trust for protection against the narrow
and un-American spirit Of native Ameri-
canism. When know-nothingism arises in
any Of its forms, it naturally seeks its
adherents among the relics of the whis and
federalist parties, and in the modern and
powerful factions Of black rcpublicanism.
Thus not only by natural afHnities (ior
| the Irish are an essentially democratic
people, as pure Celtic races always wereI
not only by instinct and sympathy, but in
selfdc!ense and from respect. Irish citi-
zens have with great uniformity taken
their stand in the ranks of the democratic
party.
It's enough for them that this is the
party which champions right against pow
er; the rights of independent communities
against Capitalization; the rights of ind-
vidual citizens against prescriptions; the
rights of America against the whole world.
There has been no need to bribe them
with promises of place and plumber, there
fore, they have not been bribed. No need
to barney them with fine compliments
and an aifectation Of generous interest in
their cause; therefore, there has not been
much Of this barney bestowed upon them.
On the whole we will venture to say
land not without some pride,l that no
large class of citizens in this country have
ever given themselves up with devotion
so disinterested to the support of any
party.
We have not been famous in this Irish
Citizen for our indiscriminate praises of
this same democratic party-for which
reason. perhaps, our good word may be
more valuable. We cannot endure the
name of any other party; and if we do
sometimes quarrel with it, it is because it
is not democratic enough. If we condemn
its practice, it is because the practice falls
so far short Of the principle. But every
day brings some additional reason to bind
US more closely to to the democracy, as
against all other parties.
A grand struggle is now approaching,
and is almost upon Us. The issue will dc.
| termine whether the United States are to
be governed inside the constitution, or, as
Mr.. Thaddeus Stevens said, outside Of it
in other words, whether we are to be
be ,uled by the law or against the law.
No doubt means will be used, and are
now used, to delude the Irish American
citizens into the ranks of the radicals.
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