North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-05-20

News and Items.
John Paul writes to the Springfield Re
publican 81 had cold in my lumber
region, probably owing to having had my
head shinged.' MFRS. Stowe says Col
onel Wilson "entered lifevn the workmans
side" Most people enter life on their
mothers side Dickens first book, "The
Life of Joe Grimaldi." is announced for
republication in. philadelphia. Portland
lady who has kept count of the quantity
she has consumed has used thirty and one
miles in length Of spool cotton within
twelve years in doing her family sewing
......A writer, dwelling upon the impor-
lance of small things, says that che al.
ways takes note even Of straw, especially
if there happens to be sherry cobbler at
one end of t."......A heavy failure has
taken place in Mexico, the Fl m having
stopped for million and half dollars.
The creditors are in London. ecen.
trio and visionary gentleman, who had &C.
vised extravagant plans for acquiring
| riches, was released few days ago from
the Maryland Insane Asylum by the court
! on the ground that such mental alteration
was not insanity.
In answer to the inquiry why modern
printing ink is so bad, the London Book
seller says that the makers use common
lampblack and other Indifferent materials.
The only demand for spirit black comes
from France. The Wilmington CONNER
cial gives an estimate Of the Delaware
peach crop for the approaching season. 1t
says that there are l,947,625 trees along
the main line of the Delaware Railroad
1.-THE blue bells of Scotland-Highland
lasses in tears......Five separate and dis
tnct thunder storms visited Winona,
Mimi, on q recent Sabbath. Seventy
eight firms in Chicago return sales over
81 700, 900 for the past zeal year......lIell
wig is the name of a family in Chicago,
and Pewterbottom is a son-in-law in the
family. Efforts are making 10y the mer-
chants of Maine to organize new express
company in opposition to the present
monopoly.
Prof. Anderson has a daughter who
beats the Japs with the butterfly trick......
Paper money lately issued by the Govern
ment Of Italy was engraved in this coun-
try......One Of the preachers in Boston
pulpit alluded to the Emusic of peas rat
Ting in their pod.". .....A reader writes
that he takes no stock in the ''new wo'
mans club" He says the "old woman's
club" is enough for him, and frequently
too ,nuch. 80. Omaha is to have two miles
of street railway this summer......Twc
hundred and forty men will he employed
by the Government this year in the survey
of Lake SUPERIOR. May-day, l.O2l
loads of furniture went across the ferries
out of New York, and 295 loads were
brought in......It is possible to make
eighty words 10y Transporting the letters OF
the word oyster. Miss Belle Armstrong
of Columbus. O., has done it,. Choler;
and gunpowder have fought neck and neck
for the soldiers engaged in the Paraguayar
war, but it is thought that cholera has come
out ahead
The new Pacific mail steamship Alaska
is about completed, and will ply between
New York and Aspinwall. The waite,
wheel shafts weigh forty tons each, ant
are the heaviest work ever made in Americ:.
! ..... The first canal boats of the season ar
rived at New York, from Buffalo, on the
E 18th. Alaska advices to April 20 rep
resent that business was good and thu
weather pleasant l.. I'VE have encourag
' ing reports from the corn and cotton crop
q in Tennessee and Arkansas. Bishop
i, Lynch has been chosen Archbishop of tn
province of Toronto, subject to confirma
p ton by the Pope. ....A man named JOIN
Freeman was killed by the falling of
p horse on Sixty-second street, New York
q on Saturday The legislature of Georgi
a is composed of Radicals, Democrats, an
Independents, the latter holding the bal
r ance Of powerful is reported that sew
| eral Imperial officers have returned t
Mexico from Havana, and that Santa Ann
is also there in concealment.. So. Dispatche
describe a fearful freshet in Johnso
!, county, r. L., on the 18th, which swel
- away Hughes warehouse, Chenille
i, chemical works and great deal of othe
property. Loss, $780, OO.....Gen. Hendel
&C. son, in a second letter to the Missouri de
egation, says: ''Ifmy constituents, homes
!. brave, intelligent and reliable, shall in
>, body condemn me, l will give up my Sc;
- when it can be done with sell-respect.
! "A rumor comes from Washington
that after the vote has been taken on ii
remaining articles of impeachment, IL
y present Cabinet will resign and the Pres
e dent will appoint new ministry through
g out which the rumor assures us will
So composed of the most eminent men in I'll
m country, who will be entirely acceptab
10 to the Senate and the people.
r. Weather, sc.
i Cool nights, beautiful days. Mono
re scarce. Trade not active but fair. Receip
ut of grain about l40 teams per day. Trav
he increasing. River falling slowly. Gro
of going ahead and very promising. Go
MS about l4O. Wheat ITS to 200. Corn 7