North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-01
News and Items-

News and Items.
The Cresco Plaindealer says the Lansing
Mirror has hauled down the Grant and
Colfax flag and proposes to 60 Democratic.
Such reports, in M opinion, do no good.
Tom Medary sold the Mirror to D. L.
Lindlcy! There is no conversion of the
late editor. In referring to newspaper
changes why not state square facts. Your
paper and your party make more by it,.
Gov. Seymour will probably be president
of the Democratic National Convention.....
1t is said Woolley is the first and last pris.
oner that Butler ever took. Very appro-
pirate, amt it? He went for Wool and
came home sheared.. 1T is said the Pres
ident will issue a general amnesty procla-
nation on the 4th. Why not? Didn't
Lincoln issue; don't the Pope issue pardon
to the Garibaldi soldiers 1.-THE Arkan-
sas admission bill was vetoed by Andy and
Immediately passed over his head. The
provisional bill required a majority of the
registered voters to pass upon the Consti.
tuition of the State: out of $4,000 regis
tered, $4,000 voted, but as these were
nearly all negroes and as two of the carpet
bag persuasion are added to the U. S.
Senate roll-call, the admission of / oil
Arkansas is declared valid !......Mrs. Jas.
Gordon Bennett IN. Y. HERALD sailed on
the Odd for Europe. Let her sail......New
York City has commenced killing dogs.
Bolognas have fallen in price,. .Cablegrams
say the Austrian Reichsrath Congress
has adjourned to Nov. 4th. Suppose il
has; does anybody care on this side the
Atlantic. Our Congress adjourns only
to have a two weeks travelling drunk or tc
Senator Henderson's Washington wedding
......Crops are reported good everywhere
except in the grass hopper regions of lowe
and Minnesota......It is now thought tha'
Perry Fuller will not be confirmed a.
COMMISSIONS of Internal Revenne.....
Eieck Randolph, of Memphis, outraged
and murdered a black woman a mob O.
! blacks killed the colored beast.
The eight-hour law for government
laborcrs passed the Senate by 26 to IL
Every democrat voted for it, except Davi,
Of KY. its other ten opponents wer'
Corbett, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden
Morgan, Morrill,, Pomeroy, Sherman
Sumner and VanWinkle... WIN. Evarts
of N. Y, the able defender of the Pres
in the impeachment trial, is nominated fo
Atty Gen. Can the Senate confirm hin
after ~denouncing all who were intereste,
in Johnson's acquittal? And yet they
confirmed Reverdy to England, and ad
journed to attend the late wedding o
Senator 10 Henderson Of Missouri, one o
the "sevcn traitors" W Democrats
is the soapish title now applied to the pat
riotic men whose votes arc wanted fol
Grant & G. RAIDS tell us all of these ar,
for Grant. Weknow a goodly number tina
d%enounce him personally, politically ant
militarily more than any other class of men
They don't vote for tax exemption ant
gold interest on one class of our indebted
ness and ''irredeemable paper" with heav,
taxes on another class. That card viii
never win and our opponents know it,
They'll know it more in November. ......
"Grant and Butler have reconciled." Thi
is highly creditablc to Grant and tn,
Spoonist
A new opera has been produced in Paris
and in the first act the characters repea
"Let us laugh 239 times......Every yea
the result of the Derby is ~telegraphed t
India, where thousands of pounds al
pending on the e......L Liverpool gives it
chief constable a salary Of 9l,O0O a yea
and provides him with a house, rent free
forage, fuel and light......P Prentice de
scribes Grants figure as big around tn
shoulders and tapering downward-ver,
like demijohn.. The new fifty cen
stamps are in circulation. The face is lik
the last issue, but the back is entirely dill
fcrent......An Englishman named Wood
house, for a bet of ego, ran forty miles i
four hours and iifty-three minutes. Tn
curse selected was the high road......Th
procession on July 4th, which is to inaugr
rate the German Schutzenfest, will proba
bly, be the grandest affair of the kind eve
witnessed in New York......It is elaine
for a newly invented screw-spike for hole
ing rails to the ties of railroads, that whe
it is used broken rails lose n~inteen-tweI
ticths Of their power for mischief.
The Washington correspondent of
Georgia paper says that Senator Doolittl
and General Butler recently met at tn
same dinner table. 1t must have been
place Of Accommodation for man an
east."-Pentice.
JEFF Davis was slightly injured on Satal
day 10y falling down stairs.......Rowley
rosin factory at Philadelphia was burne
Saturday morning. Loss S4,5OO.......Th
amount paid out under the extra bount
act of July, 1868, is s3O,6ll, s5s.......Th
Texas Reconstruction Convention is deba
ting the proposed division of the State,
The Senate, on Saturday, confirmed tn
nomination of General Mcmahon as min
lister to PARAGUAY .Wirthlin & Co.
bucket factory at st, Louis was damage
by fire on Saturday night. Loss $4,000
1.-The nail works of the Pottstown, ia,
Iron Company, were burned on Saturday
Loss $4,000. ..Archishop Kendrick
who has just returned from Europe, had
magnificent reception at st. Louis, o.
Sunday. The Supreme Court of Ne,