North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-29
News anu Items.

poor........The proposition Of Russia to
abandon the use of explosive bullets in
time of war has been generally accepted
by the great powers of Europe, and a
Congress at st. Petersburg to settle details
has been agreed upon......The president
is going to Newport. ...... Trains are now
running over 700 miles of the Pacific rail- I
road......The Fenian Stephens is in New
York. The court has awarded Mrs.
Frank Leslie a decree for a~limony at tire
rate of $50 per week......The reduction of
rates over the Atlantic Cable will go into
effect on the LIST of September..........The
Grand Duchy of Hessc wishes to con-
cluae a naturalization treaty with the
United Statcs......A revolution has broken
out in the northern part of San Domingo
under ex-President Cabral......A motion
to quash the Indictment against John II.
Surratt, was overrulcd by Judge Wyler,
of the Criminal Court Of the District of
Columbia.
"A bill has been fixed up by the sub
committee looking to the control of the
elections, internal affairs &c, in Texas
OF course it will pass both houses and be-
come a law, for the fall elections must be
controlled. 1t would certainly be too bad
to allow white freemcn to vote as their
Judgment might dictate. .......By direction
Of the president, the secretary of war will
soon issue a general order recognizing
the existing military districts in the south.
A number of officers now on duty in that
district will be relieved and ordered to
different posts......The receipts from GUS
toms from July l3 to July Is, inclusive,
were S2,S47 400. The bill amending the
homestead law, which entities all soldiers
of one years service, or those discharged
for wounds or sickness, to receive a patent
or certificate after one year, instead of five
as provided in the act of 1862 for all per-
sons, from the entry of the land, passed
the house, and it is expected it will pass
the senate......lt is said that Fred. Doug
lass declines to take the stump for Grant.
1t is expected that the cars will be run
ming from St. Louis to Cedar Rapids by
the LIST of January......The German shoot
ing society of Dubuque will distribute
over $4,000 worth of choice prizes, rang
ing from $500 to $40 in value, at the
forthcoming festival, commencing on the
4th of AuSust......An extra session Of the
legislature is talked of......The Indian up.
preparation bill, as passed by congress, is
in accordance with the plans and purposes
of the Indian peace commission, to pro-
vide fer the Indians a permanent home, a
higher civilization, and protection from
outrages. The money to be expended in
the country is, by the bill, made subject to
the approval Of Gen. Sherman. Terri.
torial reservations are to be set apart fol
the exclusive use of the Indians as recon-
mended by the peace cemmission--one on
the north of Nebraska, called Cheyenne,
and one south of Kansas, to be called
Cherokee, over which a military govern
ment is to be established until a civil GOV
crnment is o rganized..... .A proclamation
against Christians has been issued il
Japan, and distinctions nre thrown in thu
way of foreigners who wish to settle
there.
The negro population in Florida in
~crcases moro rapidly than the white-..
The Catholic World for August maintain:
that the Catholic church does not condemn
the Bible, or forbid her people to circhlat'
ara read it......It is said by observers t.
be a fact that the heat was much higher las
week in the rural districts than it was il
the large cities, and that Boston and Ne'
York people ought to stay at home t.
keep cool......Thcre is said to be a kind o
corn grown in Tesas having in place 0
tn tassel, fiity-two ears of corn........l
reverend gentlemen of Manchester, Eng
land, says that five things are necessary t
humanizc the trough element in moder,
societv-viz: employment, amusement, ed
u~cation. supervision and organization....
a process has recently been patented i
England, by which the bran Of -four, al
t ter being separated, is ground into an in
4 palpable powder, and then again nike
r with the flour. In this way all the nutri
tious ingredients are preserved, while tn
l ~tineness of flour is not affected.
An old painting, which an America
t tourist at Pisa purchased a few days age
for a few scudi, turns out to be one of Pie
tro Perugino's masterpieces, which Wi
supposed to have been destroyed at a cor
S Migration in the sistc.rth century. 1t
worth at least q thousand times as mite
as the American tourist paid for it..,....
$ The London Times uses 70 tons of pape
and two tons Of printing ink every weel
: ......The tide Of fashion is in full dow fo
t Saratoga. Thc papers of that place sa
the torn is filling."....It is said that "
y wards of 1--WE thousands different article
in common use are manufactured out {
v the ordinary willow ee..........N Ninety
S eight thousand gross Of steel pens ar
made weekly at Birmingham, Englanl
......Po:tland has built 1000 new house
since the great fire. There were but l,7O
r burned. ...... Pennsylvania manufacture
s two-thirds of all the glass made in tn
n country. Pittsburgh alone turns out seve
million dallars' worth a ycar......B Beasts {
burden should be mercifully treated.
horse can't hold an umbrella noF stop /:
a corner tavern for "tzwei lager"
Dan Voorhees, is the democratic card
dates for congress in the 9th Indiana di