North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-11-11
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st. Louis is about to indulge in clear
ing ouse......The President has proclaim
ed an cxtradition treaty with Itlay......
Hon. Schuyler Colfax is at New York, on
quiet visit to his friends. 1.-THE London
Times of the 5th, devotes its leader to U.
S. Minister Johnson. Edward Remack.
a prominent German journalist of New
York, died on Friday Gen. Grant begs
leave to be excused from public recep-
ton at Washington on his return there.
......San Francisco went Democratic by a
majority of l,3l3.... Gov. Crawford, Of
Kansas, has resigned, to take command of
a company of cavalry against the Indians
......Mayor Hoffman was serenadcd at n.
Y. Friday night, in response to which he
made conciliatory speech......A dreadful
railroad accident occurred near Newhavcn,
Wales, on the 9Th, in which several pas
scngers were killed......It is reported that
Governor Harrison Reed, of Florida, has
been impeached for high crimes and mis-
demeanois.
From Cuba comes the intelligence that
the insurgents are in favor of iniepen>
donce or annexation to the United States.
1.-THE excitement in Wall street yester-
day, in consequence Of the speculation in
stocks, was very great and caused gen.
eral stasnation of business. ....A Mrs.
Sibley succeeded in killing herself, after
three attempts, on Tuesday night last.
She imagined herself burden to her
daughter, with whom she lived, and killed
herself in order to relieve her....... Prone
made suits of Irish plaid are coming into
fashien......The Louisiana sugar cane crop
will be very large this year. ....Daniel o.
Connell once said that if a lie got ten days.
start, truth could never catch it......It is
proposed that tho Austrian army and
navy shall be established on war footing
of eight hundred thousand men,. st.
Louis is in a state of perturbation because
a wealthy citizen Of that place recently
married chambermaid.. ga marriage
took place in Thomaston, Me-, in which
the bridegroom was eighty-fve and the
bride eighty. ....JOhn Brougham it is said,
is engaged on Christmas story, Dickens
having left the field open to him and
others. Lucy Stone and Mrs. Blackwell,
her mother in-law, offered their votes in
the Eleventh Ward of new York, on the
day Of election, but the judges refused to
receive them.......A clergyman in Wauke-
gan, ILL.,, has inherited 100000 from a
gentleman who had devised it to a young
lady betrcthed to the clergyman, also now
deceased..... lone of the most significant
and disgraccful stories of the times, is
that which describes the Queen of Spain,
the King her husband, and M. Morfari,
her paramour, betaking themselves all in
one coach together. from the scene Of
their glory, in Spain.
The warden of the Jail in Washington,
d. c., has been arrested on charges of Sc
duction and rape Of some of the female
prisoners under his charge......A man in
Westville, Conn.,, discovered foundling
on his doorstep and took it in. Two
days afterwards the parent of the waif, in
a fit Of remorsc, claimed it; but the hospit'
able entertainer refused to part with it
unless he was paid $3.50. The Bourbon's
left Spain and deficiecy of s25, 900 in
the treasury at the same time. ....Law-
renee, Mass, employs $4,000 factory girls
......English capitalists have s90,OOO,OOO
interest in East India railway. .....A Chin
csc printer works on The San Jose Nercu-
'y 800. Literary papers in German have
largely decreased the book trade. In
1867 the English mint issued nearly 49,
100000 pieces Of mcney......Two Haver
hill (Mass.) boys emptied jug of rum,
the other night, and one filed grave two
days afterward. ......T The hair of James
Ferguson, Buffalo copper worker, has
turned sea grecn......A western millionaire
astonishes the New Workers by driving a
span of blacks, tandem, with white leather
harness.. The son of Lewiston Me
lady escaped the Indians, recently, by
gnawing off the thong with which he was
bouud prior to execution. The 500
hands engaged by the Merrick thread
company, Holyokc, Mass, turn out 5000
dozen spools of cotton daily.........T The
Sandwich Islands were visited by severe
tidal wave on the 10th ult.
The Court of Inquiry in the case of
Gen. Dyer is in session at Washington
1.-The report that Secretary Seward is
negotiating for the purchase of SANTANA is
revived......A London dispatch brings the
report that Sir VIM. Ausfed is to be placed
in command of the army in Ireland......
The Court of Common Pleas of England
has decided in the case of Miss Becker
that women have tie right to VOTE. The
London Post has little confidence in the |
consummation of treaty of |
between the United States and |
Canada ........ Advices from the South |
American war are to the 10Th ult. The |
allied fleet and army were before Asccn-
sion, and the surrender of that place was
hourly expected. .....General Candy will |
leave Washington to-day or to- morrow, and
releave General Reynolds in the command
of Texas, who will then resume command
of his regiment, the Twenty sixth Infant.
~, which has its headquarters at Austin
1.-THE Secretary Of the Treasury autho-
rizes the denial of the report started in
New York, to the effect that he has lately
been SELLING Z. 20 bonds and 81. VIC fL,t IN