North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-30
News and Items

There were asa deaths in New York
last week.. The United States will be
asked to send delegates to the approaching
Peace Congress at Berlin...... Mrs. Lincoln
goes to Europe on the 10th prox......T They
talk about new indictment against
Surratt...... The Grand Lodge of ODD Fell
lows holds its next session at San Francis
co......The recovery of ex-President
Pierce from his present illness is now
considered doubtful. Gen. Sherman is
said to have determined to issue arms to
citizens along the frontier, to enable them
tie defend themselves against the Indians.
.........A Dublin dispatch of the 9th says
that the Fenian leaders in Ireland are
allying themselves with the Tories......
Late advices from the Sandwich Islands
report earthquakes, an alarming rise and
fall in the sea, sinkings of the earth, and
other natural phenomenal. The London
Times favors the annexation of Mexico to
the United States, upon two conditions,
W., the future peace Of that country, and
the payment of her debt. Thomas Ball
is to execute a $4,000 statute of John
A. Andrew, for Boston, within two years.
The late governor, one Of the most pow
crful leaders the radical party ever had,
died democrat. He denounced, as
Stevens, Chase, and many others have
done the radical financial policy as being
outragously wrong. THE Great Eastern
is to lay the cable between France and
America, and Sir James Anderson is to
assume command Of the Leyiathan.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order that from and after the Is. day of
January next, the registration fee on all
letters registered in and addressed to any
part of the United States shall be fifteen
cents instead ftwcnty cents, as at present;
the same to be in all cases fully prepaid in
postage stamps affixed to tie letter and
Cancelled. The present rates will continue
until New Years day.......Near Green
River City, on the Central Pacific Railroad.
a pile of quarried stone recently ignited
spontaneously, and at last accounts was
still burning. 1t is apparently sandstone,
saturated with petroleum. There are
100000 worth Of window glass in
Stewards new store. They have discov.
cred medicinal mud in Texas. 1t is sour
earth, which acidulates water to an extent
that renders it valuable beverage for the
invi goration of fever weakened systems.
The mud brings more money bushel
than corn.......The latest adyices from
Spain are to the effect that Queen Isabella
has resigned the throne in favor of her
son, the Prince Asturas. The revolution
appears to be gaining in strength and ex-
tent. Troops of both armies are on the
move, and general battle is looked for
soon.......A Washington dispatch says it is
ascertained now that the trial of JEFF
Davis will surely come off at the next
term of the United States Court in Rich
mond.. 1.-The citizens of Minnesota are
to vote on the question of negro suffrage
at the election in November.
The Dubuque Times says, tooth
weighing between three and four pounds,
| was taken from coal bank near Harader's
mill in Adams county. 1t is double
tooth, and evidently came from the ex.
IRENE back part Of the Jaw Of some animal
years ago extinct. .....At Rola, Mo-,
there are l5l registered voters, and G6l
DISTINGUISHED by the Infamous restrictions
placed upon the right of suffrage by the
radical party of Missouri. There was a
snow atorm at st. Paul week ago to-day.
......In three months, from June lst to
September LIST. the public debt was in
creased about thirty five millions of dollars
and yet we are told by the radicals in
speech and print, that the public debt has
been diminished Wendell Phillips, the
model man of the radical party, says he
will vote for General Grant, although he
has no confidence in him, and denouncei
the radical platform as :'shufling, evasive
unprincipled, and corrupt" And yet he
supports it and its candidate, and why
Because vote for Grant is vote FOL
negro suffrage. Anything to fly the black
flag above the whi1e...... Robert L. Lincoln
was married recently, to daughter o
Senator Harlan. ...Surratt has been dis
charged Oh the grounds that the indict-
ment was not found within two years
after the oEensc was committed "A
negro exhorter at Opelousas, La, the 9th
er Sunday, told his congregation tina
what they lacked in guns they could MAKE
up in matches, adding, "They are cheap
five cents a box, and those who can't shoe
can burn" Send more troops to protcc
those lands.
BY the latest returns from Colorado j
appears Beldem, Democrat, is elected del
egate to Congress by l47 majority. Ant
this is the way Colorado went radical
The radical increase in Maine was littl
less than thing...uThc radicals Of New
London held meeting the other evening
hired man to throw stone through tn
window, and then tclegraphed a demo
cratic outrage" Tie Grand Jury too
the matter in hand, surprising it to be
bona tide affair, and now the radicals ar
trying to stop investigation. Ever
workingman is taxed to help pay tire
hundred and sixtysix thousand dollars
day to support standing army in time G
tpeace. What use is made of the army
10 force negro rule upon the white men {
the South, preparatory to adopting tn
same policy in the North. Was ther
ever a people thus insulted and outrage