North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-04-08
News ana Items.

Of government of British Columbia. 80.
There is danger Of a serious break in the
levee eighty miles above Now Orleans. 80.
The estimated expenses Of the Dominion Of
CANADA for the next fiscal year foot up q.
1900, 76s......Gov. Oglesby. Of Illinois,
has designated the 18th Of April as day
of humiliation, fasting and prayer. Tho
State Department has received 'ices
from Minister Van Valkenburgh, of Japan,
stating that the Tycoon has abdicated. .....
The President of the South American Re.
public Of Uruguay has been murdered by
confederate Of his rebellious son, Fortu.
nato.. The Ohio Legislature has authorized
the building Of a bridge across the Ohio
River from Cincinnati to Newport, KY
The long span is to be three hundred
fc:s......The Allied army of Brazil, Uru.
quay, and the Argentine Confederation,
which have been at war with Paraguay
for a year or two past, have succeeded III
capturing the city Of Assumption, the cap.
ital of Paraguay. The most exciting
session Of Parliament for some time, com.
menced Friday evening and lasted t,l
3:2O Saturday morning.. Tho occasion
was the debate and vote on Gladstone q
resolutions for the abolition of the Irish
church establishment, and Lord Stanley Is
amendment thereto. After long discus.
sion, in the course Of which Disraeli said
that tho success of the resolutions would
endanger the crown itself, vote was ia.
ken. Six hundred members voted. Stan
ley's amendment was defeated by 60 ma
jority, and Gladstones resolutions adopted
by majority of IS. The Prince and
Princess of Wales were among the audi
eHce. ~. ... E...
The Pope has been very i'll and his
physician has peremtorily demanded COM
plete abstinence from all administration of
business and fatigueing religious ceremo-
nies..... Hon. Chas. Francis Adams, our
Minister to England, recently resigned,
has, at the request of the Government,
consented to remain at his post for the
present.. Gen. Carl Schurz has returned
from Europe and is at St. Louis. 80. The
steamer Phi. Sheridan arrived at St..
Paul Saturday morning, the first boat Of
the Weston succeeded in his
last attempt to walk one hundred miles in
twenty-four hours. lie walked l03 miles
in % hours and IS minutes. .... The annual
boat race between Oxford and Cambria ge,
on the 18th inst, was won by the Oxford
crew. Distances miles; time, 20 minutes
......It is stated that Minister Bancroft has
been instructed to effect a treaty of COM
merce and navigation with the German
Zolvereine......An Omaha dispatch says
the Ogallas and the Cheycnnes refuse to
treat with the Indian Commissioners, and
demand that work be suspended on the
Smoky Hill route. 80. ..Grenfeldt, the Ing
lishman, who was convicted of being one
of the chief conspirators to iberate the
rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas, during
the rebellion, and who was sentenced to the
Dry Tortugas, has succeeded in making
his escape. THE President, on Thursday,
signed the new act of Congress abolishing
the tax on certain manufactures, but a
statement Of the fact was not publicly
made until Saturday. The act is now a
law, and the department is now preparing
q list Of the exemptions for publication.
......IIon. David Wilmot, Of Pennsylvania,
author in congress of the celebrated Will
mot Proviso, in 1916, and who has, since
1868 been a member of the United States
court Of claims, died on the Goth inst......
Our Legislature has memoralized congress
for an appropriation to connect Lake
Michigan with the Mississippi river
through the Wisconsin and Fox rivers......
The bill providing that vote Of two
thirds Of the electors of county shall be
necessary to secure change of the loca-
ton Of the county seat, instead Of a ma
jority as now, was killed and buried by
laying motion to reconsider on the table.
1.-THE bill to enable towns, cities, etc.,
to aid in the construction of railroads was
laid on the table. 1.-THE resolutions for a
change Of the state capitol were postponed.
1.-THE bill looking to the change Of the
Supervisor system was killed. The bill
requiring trcasurers to note, when lands
have been sold for taxes, on the receipt
and tax books, was passed. ian attempt
is to be made to unite the Episcopal and
Presbyterian churches in Ireland. .. IA
Tennessecan has found silver mine at
Lookout Mountain. j erusalem has only
22,coO inhabitats......A stylish young lady
requested to sec some lavender kid gloves.
Puzzled by the variety, she ingcniously
asked, (which Of those pairs are laven-
derest ?"......In Lincoln county, Tenn,
is white child, ten years of age, having
three arms-all we'll defined and useful.
1.-The New York Express thinks the
young ladies have suddenly become must
cal, as each carries brass band on her
head.
Both houses at DesMoines passed the
substitute for the capitol bill, appropriate
ing $4,000 for plans, &C., and $4,000 to
fit up the present building; also bills
allowing independent school districts to
borrow money. The senate has passed
bills to prevent the spread Of the Canada
thistle: for additional building at the in
sane asylum, Mount Pleasant; appropriate
ing Sl4, 900 for the improvement of the
penitcntiary; fixing the compensation Of
members hereafter at SIS per day.. The