North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-04-15


statesman.
There is q great scarcity of -four in the
West Indies. LIN Belgium and Switzer-
land kilograms can be sent for dime any
where. ......A French Louis or has been
found imbedded in an oyeter she'll at
Richmond;. 1.-The London yacthsmcn
talk of challenging the New York yacths
to race from the Isle Of Wight to New
York;. During three years there were
reported in the Union army but one hun
dred and forty three bayonet wounds and
one hundred and FIVE sabre cuts. The
Yalla5usha and Yazoo rivers have over.
flowed their b; nks. and the food greatly
interiors with planting in Mssissippi..
skins were shipped from st. Paul. The
travel over the Erie is said to be unprece-
dented for this time olyear.. The British
Parliament has abolished public hanging.
.... 4 Silver wire the thirteenth Of an inch
in diameter, will sustaiA l37 pounds. A
wire Of lead of the same size will sustain
Is pounds, and of tin 3o......Eouv hundred
dollars reward is offered for he capture of
a ghost at Sccttsville, Virginia. ......" ."Ro-
binson Crusoe' at the Paris Opera Conf
que and at Brussels. is spoken of as dead
iailure...... Quincy, ILL.,, is about one hun
dred miles further west than st. Louis,
fact not generally known. The Ontario
Lake Shore Railroad Company has been
organized, with Gerrit Smith as President.
and Sl42 900 stock have been subscribed.
......Over twelve thousand persons have
died of cholera in the Argentine Confede.
racy during the late outbreak Of the dis
ease. There nre indications o. yellow fe-
yer ut Lima and Callao.. During the last
fiscal year the United States sold seven
millions of acres of land. 1t has still four
hundred and sixty-ive millions remaining,
besides three hundred and sixty-tive mil
lions more in Alaska......C ...Competition has
brought down telegraph rates between To-
ledo and New York from Sl.I5 to 81 for
dispatches of ten words. 1.-The Iork Her.
aid says that every indication at present
in the horse market in that city and else
where goes to proveth the coming season
will be the most brilliant we have had for
years. 1.-The Macon Co. Journal says
that the Bible used in the Dumirieshre
Masonic Lodge, Scotland at the time when
Robert Burns presided over it, is now in
possession eff the Grand Ledge Of Georgia
1t bears the evidence of its antiquity in its
printing, quaint Illustrations and binding
in boards OF the ''beechen tree
Baltimore is SO we'll pleased with its
new line Of Bremen steamships-the only |
American line now crossing the Atlantic, !
that prospect for second line is rapidly
growing in that city, and John S. Hop
kins. fifteen millionaire, offers TO build
the first steamer out OF his own pocket......
The horn Of a sea unicorn was lately ex-
tracted from the side of the ship Po,hon-
tas, now at Boston. It had passed thro |
a thickness Of four and half inches of |
Southern pine, and about twenty inches |
in length left in the ship, showing that it !
must have been driven with tremendous |
force. English papers express
much surprise at the enterprise Of New |
York journalists. The amount Of tele-
graphing done throug the Atlantic cable |
IS source Of continual wonder to them.
lit is said that sham diamonds are now
made to deceive even experienced jewelers.,
who trust to the eye alone. The only
means Of detecting the spurious gem by
weighing it and ascertaining its tempera-
ure. ...A London musical paper says
hat by the adoption of Barker's system of
Electricity to organs, it is possible tor Il
performer in England to play on an in,ru-
nent situated in American. The libra
ian of Yale College has discovered be-
ween the leaves of an old book given to
Yale College by its first President, Rector
Pierson, monitors checklist OF Harvard
College, dated 1868, l664. 1t will be pre-.
ented to Harvard ...Still standing in
Dayton, O., is the first log house built
hero, AS early as 1909, it was tavern,
nd at different times has served as court
Iouse, Jail, Justices Office, tailor shops,
tore, military headquarters, arsenal, ord.
lance bureau, loan Office.