North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-08-12

tack Rome.... Baltimore has removed
about 10000 carloads of mud and sand,
which the late visiting waters deposited
on her streets......T The harvest is reported
very bad throughout Russia. In the
southern provinces there has been no rain
since May l, and most of the crops are
destroyed. A severe famine is in prospect,
and prices of food are enormous. ....More
than three fifths of the chaplains in the
army and navy of the United States are
Episcopal clergymen. Italians are emf
grating to South America by thousands.
1.-THE sweet potato crop of the South
will be a very large Decentralization
has reached Sitka in the shape of corner
apple stands.
Potatoes weighing four pounds each.
raised in fifteen days from the day of
planting, without irrigation, were offered
recently in the San Diego (Cal.) market.
1.-THE o ld-time swallow-tailed coats are
reported for the winter style......It is said
we are to have another humorous weekly
nextautumn, to be called the GrapeShot, and
that $4,000 and IA corps of clever writer's
have already been secured for it.......The
last new thing in ladies' fashions is patent
cyelashes ....Says a Paris letter: Miss
Menken has been taking the ~''cool," and
reappears this week in the most reduced
of toilets on the widest beast the Chatelet
can get for her. Miss Adah Menken's
clothes escape criticism; they are neither
long below nor high above; they are centre
"a centre of which, there being no ends,
%wranglers cannot argue that they meet.
.......Children afflicted with whooping-
cough can be cured by exposure to air i'm
pregnated with common coal gas. Car
Donate of lime placed in their sleeping
rooms in quantities sufficient to produce
a moderately strong odor will also effect a
cure. ....K Kentucky gives 10000 majority
for Gov. Stevenson. democrat........lt ap-
pears from the books of the treasury de-
PAL tluU W OutSttiIoiiSs VI
| the various issues of seven-thirty notes,
the following amounts-the time for their
conversion into 5-2Ts having expired,
they are therefore payable in currency =
First issue, August, 1864, S6l4, 200, the
time for the conversion of which issue ex-
pired one year ago; second issue, of June.
1865, S2,327, $50, the time for the CONVEX
sion of which issue expired on July L.
Third issue, of July, 1865, S4,S65,SOo,
the time for the conversion Of which ex-
pired August !. The total amount out
standing is S., SO5,950
Sherman, the highest point on the
Union Pacific railroad, is $500 feet above
the level of the sea, and 1892 feet above
Omaha......A dispatch received, announces
another terrible colliery explosion at
%Jernmpes, in the province of l~Iainult,
Belgium. Fifty-one persons were killed
and a great number injured......The Chi
ncse Embassy expended $4,000 in hack
hire while in Washington......The Chinese
Embassy will sail for Europe on the 18th
proximo......Texa contains l50,O00,0O(
acres, and is six times as large as Ohio
....."..B ismark's pay as Minister is only
$4,000 per annum.........Gov Patton says
that Alabama will raise 500, 00O, 0O(
worth of cotton this year......There is {
general feeling in France, that Napoleon
is preparing for some grand event..
Nova Scotia papers continue publishing
editorials favoring annexation to tn,
United States.......A Frenchman has in
vented a vehicle in which the ''cart really
goes before the horse"
Montana farmers are trying to domes-
ticate the Bufalo......The grape crop alon:
Lake Erie never looked better......One sod;
water man in New York draws his fou
thousand glasses a day....."..Ripe figs
grown in the open air in Minnesota
are on exhibition in Minnepolis........
The woods in the vicinity of St. Loui
are swarming with locusts.. 49,. During /;
late hail storm at Wellsboro, Penn,
sheet of ice measuring about two fee
square and three inches thick, fell from
the clouds with the hail stones...,..
Piles nave been driven one hundred ant
sixty feet in San Francisco without 6ndin,
hard pan......The wheat harvest i'm Min
nesota is estimated at fifteen million
bushels, nearly double that of last year
......Iowa has thirteen railroads in opera
ton, embracing l,470 niles Those VIII
ought to know say there is not a bottle q
pure wine in the United States, nor ha
there been for twenty-five years......Ge zen
Meade, commanding the Department G
the South, has issued an order declarin
that the disposition of troops in North an
5 South Carolina will remain as at presen,
. .....Gen. Buchanan has issued an orde
taking command of the Department c
| Louisiana, consisting of the States c
Louisiana and Arkansas, and transform
, to Gen. J. j. Reynolds the command
! the Fifth District, consisting of the Stat
Of Texas......The estimated crops in Uta
this season are Wheat, $4,000 bushels
corn, $4,000 bushels; potatoes, 10000
bushels; sorghum, 10000 gallons. Th
grasshoppers caused more damage TIL
Year than any previous season. The en-
: tire crops in some counties were destroy
ed.
, The Pacific railroad is completed to
100 miles west of Omaha.......
> now appears that Gen. Butler wanted