North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-09-02
News and Items.

News and Items.
Tin mines have been discovered in the
Pollock district, Summit county, Colorado.
There are two mines of great strength, the
ore testing, so report says, scventy-fiv per
cent. of metal. ...Adviccs from Brazilian
sources state that the P~araguayaps have
evacuated Humatia, having been reduced
by starvation. The Allies entered and
captured a large quantity of ammunition
and small stores. Three Brazilian iron-
clads had passed the batteries on the
Parana. If the report car be credited.
the war is virtually at an end.......A
Wilmington IN. c. negro said to a carpet
Dagger recently Under your teaching
we have alienated from us the mass of the
white people North, as well as South !:
you have got the Offices and e%moluments,
while We have done the work and stand
out in the cold. For one, l am done with
you."......C. c. Washburne has been re-
nominated in the La Crosse, Wis. district,
by the radicals.
In Maine the election is Sept. 18th.
L~incoln's maj. in Ga was 25,7GO. At the
last election for governor, Campbell sue
ccedcd by about 10000. lie is the radical
candidate this year and we expect his maj.
will be reduced even if he be elected at All.
1t stands the RAIDS. in hand to hold Maine
and hence all their strength is being
thrown into that contest. Pendleton is
among the Pine Tree boys.
The Harrisburgh Patriot, after a care
full overlook of the state, by precincts, says
Pennsylvania will 90 Seymour by $4,000.
1.-THE sexton of a Cornish village, in
England thought that he saw a ghost one
night in the churchyard, whereupon, by
his wi ayowal, he exclaimed, 'Avaunt,
Satan! l am the third officer of the
church."......A married woman in Wiscon-
sin says that when her husband is a little
drunk he kicks her, and~xhen he is very
drunk she kicks him. She congratulates
herself that she does the greater part of
the kicking......The refreshment stands OF
Ohio State Fair grounds rent this year for
$3.50.
Mexico with a population of eighty.
eight millions and an area Of 100 mill
lion So. miles, has 100 miles of R'y. The
RAIDS. are trying to Mexicanize the South,
......A son of the Emperor Alexander Of
Russia, IS years old, is expected to arrive
at Washington on a visit in a few days
......It is shown on good authority that
the estate of Thad. Stevens is worth over
$500, 0O0--probably $500, 00..........T The
GAINESVILLE Gazette says that although the
crop of wheat in Rock, the banner county
of Wis, will be a fair yield it is not sc
great as the abundance of straw would
indicate. The Gazette thinks that Is
bushels will be an average yield. Iowa
can beat that by from four to six bushel:
to the acre.
One of Wells, Fargo & Co.'S overland
stage coaches was robbed of a treasure
box said to contain 800 1000, on the
Western Plains, last week, by four dis
guised highwaymen.....Report come from
Colorado of massacres and other depreda'
tons by the hostile Cheyenne and ARA
pahoe Indians. At last accounts they
had made a raid against the Ute Indians
a friendly tribe, in the "South Park O
the Rocky Mountains. Speaker Cola,
and his party are in that Park anc
anxiety was felt for their safety. ...Th'
California election will not b. held SEP.
Sth, but November Sd, the day of thu
Presidential election. Their Congressman
will then be elected. The debt statemen
for August will show an increase. Th'
Alaska purchase is charged with IT,.
The proposed prize fight for the champion
ship of England between Allen and Cos
has been stopped by the authorities.
Sen. Sherman said, in a speech recent,
made in Iiillsboro, Ohio, to a radical con
y%ention: ] am not here to contend that
portion Of the STAG, 000, 600 expended 70
ordinary purposes last year might no
have been saved by a more ecomical ad
ministratic ......Eonner was to trot DeS
ter privately, on Fashion course IN Sat
urday the 90, a mile in 2:l2 or give $40,
600 to charitable institutions. .Montrea
expected a riot on Tuesday. A Fenia1
picnic was to make it,. Lyons and Gin
ton are to be connected by horse railway
The Iowa State Agricultural College is t
de opened on the Dist of October. 18th
peach crop in Southern Mich. will b
double that of last year.
OUTsIDE.-lIope on......They cant he'I
it......Iowa Age on the negro iranchis
vote Of lS57......Poor Strategy, or tn
confessions Of the radical Chicago P1st....
+ General Grantand General Buell. at Shiloh
or a brief condensation Of IIarlan's speech
delivered in the U. S. Senate after tina
battle in which the s Let us have peace
candidate distinguished /. himself. .....W Wis
consin wheeling into ine......P.residen
Lincoln's opinion on c~arpet-baggers j
lS6o......A notice of HIBBEN & Co., {
Chicago, with a reference to one VII
LIAMs, the traveller. New York Heral
in it's political "presto 1.-The politics
} situation. 49,. Death of r. S. S. Andres {
Boston......M Matt Carpenters speech fo
Polish Exilcs... .Miscellany
Henry Ward Beecher preached recent
from the text ssThSu shall not s~teal.'' III