North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-08-19

News and Items.
The Burlington bridge is completed.....
Utah claims q population of SO,OOO......
North Platte, Nebraska, is said to be the
paradise of mosquitoes. .....New York is to
receive a block of Gypsum from this state
weighing over three tons......A nun in
Scotland smashed his wife's head with a
board to ''save her soul."......T ~orpedoes
on a ball room floor is the latest practical
joke in Washington. The Sisters of Char
iy ride free on all the street cars in New
Orleans......No less than two hundred
kinds of hats are worn by men, and all
fashionable, the present season. .....T The in
ternal revenue receipts average about
100000 per day......An ex-direcior of
Erie Railway made $4,000 one day last
week in a single operation in the Stock.
The highest salaries paid to teachers in
New York. before the war, were 5 $500
to males, and 5000 to females. At pres
ent they are $4,000 for males and 81, 200
for females. Fw7
Mrs. Senator Trumbull died at Wash
ington Sunday morning......The recruits
for the regular army at the depots around
New York are ordered to the Pacific coast.
1.-THE receipts Of internal revenue for
the month ending the 18th, were S25,s37,-
600. Hostile Indians are killing white
settlers on the Solomon and Asher Creeks
in Kansas. The Governor is about to arm
the settlers for defense. 49, amphor is the
best remedy for strychnine poison......A
Frenchman is organizing a concert troupe
of ladies exclusively, for visiting the Uni
ted States......To brush the dust from and
otherwise .'slick ups the Great Organ of
Boston, takes half a dozen men o week,
and costs more than There will
soon benegroes enough in St. Louis if they
continue their habits of the last year. In
six months longer half of them will be
hung for killing the other half......Eleven
hundred and seventy FIVE barrels of beer
were made and sold in Davenport, Iowa,
last year, besides 800 barrels imported.
Mat. Carpenter, Dick Yates and-
Ingersoll failed to report at Galena on the
o ccasion of the recent great republican
failure so extensively advertised. Gov.
Oglesby's profanity was all there was on
the prosramme......As usual, the favorities
are in every case beaten at Sartoga races.
1.-THE romantic flower girls of Broad
wav are said to be very dirty and not very
pretty. There is q man in a lunatic asy'
lum in England who believes that the brit
ish Government wishes to build an iron
foundry in his stomach. 1.-THE following
arc the reasons given by the radicals why
Gen. Grant should be elected president:
No. l. Thinks negro suffrage unwise,
and calculated to produce a war of races
Doolit,e's Speech, Oct, 1865.
No. 2. He expelled the Jews from his
military lines on the plea that they were
dishonest as + class Order Aug. 1852.
No. 3. Opposed to the freedom of the
press. Letter, Feb. II, 1868.
No. 4. In favor Of stripping the presi-
dent of all appointing and removing pow
ers.-Letter Of dug, 1867.
No. S. In favor Of impeachment he
thinks its defeat would result in "blood-
shed."-Letta., May II, 1868.
No. 6. Endorsed negro suffrage at the
south and rejects t at the north Chicago
Platform.
If the Radical party increases the ma
tional debt S53, 600, 900 in one month how
long will it take to pay it off in gold, as it
proposes to do ?......IIoratio Seymour is
the first civilian ever nominated by a ma
tional party for the presidency, who has
never been a member of either branch of
Congress......The wife Of Com. Wander
bilt died on the 18th inst. There are so
negroes in the radical legislature who can't
read or write.
An infamous outrage was perpetrated at
a democratic meeting, held at Frankfort,
Clinton county, on Wednesday evening
last. A number of vicious radicals threw
stones at the torch-light procession, which
was marching, and after the crowd had
collected around the speakers stand sew
eral stones were thrown into it. One of
the stones, weighing a pound. hit a lady
on the head, inficting a wound from which
she ied.......W Within a day or two, repres-
entations have been made to the govern
mcnt that the French authorities have been
buying forage and artillery horses in this
country. There are indications of war
between France and Prussia. ...Canada
is again excited over al apprehended Fe-
Man invasion. ..... United States Minister
johnson, arrived at London on the 18th.
1.-THE new Minister from Austria, Bar
on Won Leader, sailed for the United States
on the l5th... The Board of Health of
New York recently selected four diseased
cattle and treated them with carbonic acid.
Three of them are convalescent, and the
other was slaughtered Tor examination.
ATTORNEY General Everats has written an
opinion to the effect to the officer OF Col
lector of New Orleans is vacant, and that
the President has power to fill the vacancy
by appointment.
The funeral Of Thadeus Stevens took
place at Lancaster on Sunday, the 10th.
During Saturday his body wa visited by
great crowds Of spectators. Lnrge delega-
tons attended the funeral from Harris
burg, Philadelphia. Washington, New
York, and other places. Governor Geary