North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-01-29
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too weak to stand. The Catholic priests
of Italy are profiting by the "Civil Act;'
and taking unto themselves wives = so
says an exchange. A grass-widoweI
alots side of us, says he isn't SO damn
sure they have protited much in the
change !......In the Danish Islands of st.
Thomas and St. Johns 1866 voted to be
annexed to the U. s., and only % against
it......The Madison Journsl says "The de-
sire of the Democratic heart is evidently
to facil tate fraudulent voting" We re-
greet that SO neatly printed and so we'll
conducted Daily should discolor its col!
umns with so broad and ungenerous a
statement. Quit that ......A radical jour.
nal in Louisiana is printed on yellow pa
per. The editor tried black paper at FIRST
with white ink, but his disgust of pure
,chite changed the programme......There
are l2l Insurance Offices in Iowa of which
81 are agencies from the east......S. w.
Cole and lady, late of West Union, and
now of Cedar Falls, are in charge Of the
Orphans Home.
A copy of the Springfield Mass Re
publican, on our table, says, Maj. John F.
Barrett, formerly Of Read, this county,
was one of two persons from the burning
car at the terrible Lake Shore disaster......
The Seine at Paris was lately entirely fro
zen over-the first time in twenty years.
......A move has been made in the Wis
consin Legislature looking to the abolish
ment Of the grand jury system......Fcur
feet Of snow have fallen in the valley of
Southern Kansas, where it is rarely seen
to the depth of over four inches. PROF.
Agassiz has received a nice mess Of fish
from the Amazon. There are 1920 Of
them-all specimens...... Three hundred
thousand dollars worth of property was
destroyed by.a fire. caused by the explo-
sion of coal oil lamp, at Ottumwa, re-
cently......A hoosier, in Egypt, declines a
nomination to the presidency. This fixes
Illinois in 1861. .Juarez has appointed
Senior Romero, long Mexican Minister a.
Washington, to be his Secretary of the
Treasury. The Chicago Journal says,
old settlers thereaway predict that We will
now have our January thaw......Thurlow
Weed suggests that the House continue to
assert its dignity, as that is the only way
by which such possession can be made
apparent. gold brick weighing over
eighty pounds, having coin value of near
ly twenty thousand dollars, has been cast
at Helena, Montana. 900. Canada has about
$4,000 active militia, of which Ontario
and Quebec have $1,000, Nova Scotia
1000 and New Brunswick 1000. The
enrolled militia of tho Dominion numbers
about $4,000.
Our State packed 1924 hogs last
year, being an increase of 20 per cent.
over the operations for lS66......A Miss
Hunt has been elected enrolling clerk Of
the lower house of the Kansas Legisla-
ture... Colorado will ask for admission
during this session. She thinks she has a
sufficiently increased population now to
succeed...... Some one has said, 'Beauty
draws us by single hair" Then how
about a whole waterfall ...... There are
two hundred and twenty thousand Odd
Fellows in the United States. ....A wretch
ed California miner. who has hardly sub
sisted for years, has just dug out SIG, 900
III gold......Longfellow says that Sunday
is the golden clasp that binds together the
volume of the. week.. "Housatonic.'
long supposed to be an Indian word. is of
Dutch origin, and means "the winding
river of tho West" The Canada Leg
islature refuses to annex with the United
States.........George Francis Train has
brought suit against the British govern
ment for hundred thousand pounds dam
ages......The Wisconsin legislature are try
ing to repeal the law paying bounty for
the destruction Of wild animals. New
Orleans is reveling in her FIRST fresh straw
berries.
1t takes two men one honr to wind up
the clock in Trinity Chuch, New York 80.
Thirty thousand people are said to have
persisted of yellow fever in New Orleans.
......Since the beginning of the late Carl.
baldian troubles, France has sent fl2O,-
600 and Ireland f4O, 900 to the Papal ex-
chequer... The receipts Of the Internal
Revenue Department for the fiscal year,
up to the 18th inst, were 07,5l9,775.
......lt costs q million and half dollars
year to do the printing for the national
Government....A Cheyenne paper the
other day, annoanced that the regular
train would wait half an hour for the Chi
ma and Japan mails. ....A Hoosier propo-
ses to whip Heenan, or pay $500 to the
man who bets on John C......A very deli
cate arrangement has been invented to de-
terminc with accuracy the color of various
stars. The questionis regarded by many
astronomers us one Of considerable impor-
tance......A convention of Southern rail
soad managers was held at Atlanta, on the
18th instant. For the purpose of encour-
aging immigration to the Southern States,
it was suggested that the following tariff
for the transportation of bona fde settlers
and their goods be adopted. The South
ern railroads now carry actual settlers for
one cent per mile; children between FIVE
and twelve, half price; under FIVE, free
Baggage over one $50 pounds, two cents
per ton, and the road on which the imi-
grant shall settle, shall carry him and his,