North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-02-12
News and Items.

News and Items.
A new minister to England is to be
nominated this week.. The thermometer
indicated 81 degrees below zero at Hart
ford on Saturday. THE Society of the
" Army of the Cumberland" in session at
Cincinnati, adjourned yesterday. The
next meeting will be held in Chicago on
the 9Th of next December. "A revolu-
tionary conspiracy in the interest of Santa
Anna, to overthrow the authority of Pres
ident Juarezs Government, at Vera Cruz,
was recently discovered and shipped in the
bud'..... Cincinnati, Clevelan d, Indianap-
oils and st. Louis are spoken of in connec-
ton with the Democratic National Con.
vention...... Mexico is aga n becoming tur-
bulent and chaotic with internal violence.
Revolutionary movements appear to keep
the Government busy in various parts of
the country. The impeachment ques-
ton is being agitated again by the recon-
struction committee. 80. Queen Victoria
lately published Journal was spoiled and
will have to be made over. 1t was bound
and ready for the public before the objec-
tionabie matter, supposed to have been
added by some designing printer, was dis
covered. MILE Hedwig Raarbe, most
accomplished and beautiful German actress
will come to the United States this spring.
......Mrs. Lucy Stone don't find excitement
enough in Connecticut on the female suf-
frage question to draw together audiences
sufficiently large to pay the hall rent
She was out S. at Middletown, on We'd
nesday last.
Nashville has only 100000 of banking
capital. Before the war it had S., 100000.
1.-THE dog tax in Vermont yields that
State $4,000. Three volumes, three
centuries old, were lately discovered in a
| Brooklyn rag store. The Union League
of Philadelphia ordered 100000 copies OF
| Morton's speech on reconstruction, for
circulation in Pennsylvania. About one
hundred and forty "star' actors and ac-
tresses died during the past year.. IAN
official announcement from the U. S. Min
lister to Japan says the city Of Yeddo, the
town of Neegato, on the west coast, and
the harbor of Ebisumento, on the Isl
and of Sado, will be opened to them to
trade and residence, pursuant to treaty
stipulation, on the lst day of April next.
......Mr. Tennyson has in contemplation a
STANDARD" edition Of his poems in four
volumes......The propriety of erecting a
wigwam for the republican Convention is
being discussed by the citizens of Chicago.
......An estate in North Carolina, worth
500, 900 before the war, was sold few
days ago for S., 5000. ....Geo. II. Parker, of
this State, is being urged by leading men
of the Northwest, for the position of As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury. Ike
rosene oil will kill trichina in pork or in
| the human skin.
A movement is being made for call for
a national convention at Cincinnati, to
represent the producing industries of the
United discretionary has 1856 daily
and weekly newspapers......An exchange
says there are 10000 Spiritualists in New
York, and 10000 in the U. S., and an
other says it don't believe it,. The Brit
ish soldiers are to be taught to work by an
officer of industry for each regiment.
One of the ancient Saxon laws gave the
ladies the privilege to propose marriage,
but the man was not allowed to refuse
lie ought not to be allowed any such fool
ishness.. The British House of Peers
consists of one Prince, two Royal Dukes,
three Archbishops, 26 Dukes, 43 Marquis
es, l6O Earls, 33 discounts, 81 Bishops
and l64 Barons-the total number of Peers
being 449. The Bishop of Bath and Wells
sits also as Baron Auckland =" Grea,
Salt Lake City, is now, legally, " Salt
Lake City,. adams resignation has
been accepted and Reverdy johnson nom
inated-in prospect-to the post of Minis
ter to the Court Of st. James. Herald
cable dispatch says Napoleon has altered
his policy towards the Pope and Italy in ;
sudden and remarkable manner. He evin
ces disposition TO abandon his position
as champion of the Holy See.
A letter to the Montana Herald, from
Boulder Valley, Montana, says at half
past a. M, on Jan. 10th, the citizens
were awakened by sound similar to thu
rumbling of artillery, followed by severa
shocks of earthquake, shaking the chink-
ing out and the roofs off several log cabins
Ice in the Boulder river, two feet thick
was torn assunder for miles, the wate