North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-06-24
News and Items.

| News and Items.
Another convert to political truth and
justice. They are coming in multitudes,
as all the lost elections show, and we say
let them come. The Clinton County ILLS
Independent has left the radical ranks and
is now working with the honest tax pay
ers and for the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton and laws. George Sellers, its editor,
has been a Republican ever since the par
ty was organized, but says he can stand it
longer. Here is what he says: "Near-
ly all the decent men who ever belonged
to the Republican or Radical party have
left, and many more will leave it as soon
as they learn the truth. Chief Justice
Chase, Senators Trumbull, Grimes, Ross,
Fessenden, Cowan, Doolittle, Dixon, and
even the President Of the United States,
have left the party since it fell into the
hands of such dirty thieves as beast But
Ter, Dirty Work Logan, and original ia
natics and abolitionists like Stevens and
Sumner. .Garibaldi, it is said, expects
to visit England and this country next fall.
........Cardinal D'Andrea, before dying,
employed his last hours composing a bit
ter letter, such as Cardinal never before
penned, ~denouncing the Court of Rome,
its policy and system. He also predicted
that the Pope would follow him to the
grave in a short time. .....Andy's Post Of
fee was besieged with congratulatory
dispatches on the occasion of the compile
ton of the telegraph wires to Nashua......
A lode, the quartz of which assaG $4,000
the ton has been discovered in the Denver
region of the mountains.
As far up the country as Minneapolis,
the thermometer indicated 1922 in the
shade, a week ago to-day......The treaty
for the Usage Indian lands in Kansas,
(about s,O0O,0 900 acres) is being cut to
piecies in Congress. The house passed
resolutions, unanimously repudiating it
and the Senate will as unanimously concur.
......Both houses have passed amendments
extending the operations of the frcedmen's
bureau n year from July 1st......The
California end of tie Pacific Railroad is
now completed for q distance of over $50
miles from San Francisco to Reno, in the
State of Nevada. The cars will be rum
ming a distance Of ITS miles by the LIST of
July......Butler's so-called committee, has
no testimony amounting to anything yet.
......The Italian Garrino says that Napo-
leon has spies at Washington, as well as
in two other American cities and the Eu-
ropean capitals, in the person of "ladies''
of the demi-monde, whose Fashionable es-
adjustments are maintained out Of the
Emperor's private purse. ....Greeley is
said to have taken to smoking, as an evil
dence Of his orthodoxy on the Grant ques-
ton W. hope he will not deem it neces-
sary to be seen drunk on the street on
Sunday."..An impertinent fellow asked
a gentleman at a public gathering why he
had shaved off his side whiskers, and was
answered that to meet some men he re-
CURED mere "cheek."
A Radical Senator in the Connecticut
Legislature refused to rise during the
prayer made by a Democratic clergyman.
.......A few months ago Greeley said !:
Probably General Grant can afford to be
a deaf and dumb candidate, but this coun-
try cannot afford to elect a deaf and dumb
President. ".....Forney says, "the future
lies before u.s." We may add hat For
ney will probably lie in the future as in
the past......The daughter Of an English
toll gate keeper has got herself into trouble
for "dead-heading" her lover through the
gate. An exchange says 'she never toll
ed her love."......The more a woman's
waist is shaped like an hour glass the
quicker will the sand of life run out.
......Almost every paper we take up has
an account of one or more deaths by light
ming, or of a city, town or country being
washed, drenched, cut to pieces, property
carried off, torn down and in whole or in
part destroyed, fruit and other trees broken
down, twisted of &c. &c. Not far east of
us in Wis, it is reported, a mill was car
ried away entire and with it several thou.
sand dollars in government bonds and val
liable papers, probably lost forever. The
Chicago Tribune says: We have kept a
pretty CAREFUL record of persons killed by
lightning thus far during the month of
June, and they foot up an aggregate of
twenty-one. This may be near the aggre-
gate but it is more reasonable to suppose
that it falls for short of the entire number,
probably is but a small fraction. 49,. The
five finest soprano singers of the day
Patti, Titiens, Kellogg, Lucca and Nilsson
now in London.
A majority of the house committee on
foreign affairs have decided to report in
favor of making an appropriation, at once,
of $7,500,OO0 in gold to pay for Alaska,
and Gen. Banks intends to present the re-
port and urge the passage of the appropri-
alton as soon As the tax-bill is disposed of.
=. In boring for water at Mankato,
Mimi, the shaft, at a depth of thirty feet,
fell four feet, until the handle touched the
ground. The auger was drawn out. when
a large volume of smoke arose for a few
hours, and was followed by a stream of
beautiful water......Th omnibus bill
which has passed both houses, propose to
force a constitution upon each of the states
of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisi-
ana, Georgia, and Florida, which forever
prohibits the people OF these states from