North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-12-02
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III Aentucky Is tO,oAI.........A lew uay D
since the shock of an earthquake was felt
ut Middleboro, Mass. 80. The rebellion in
Cuba has reduced the price Of slaves......
John S. Palmer,a prominent auctionecr of
Pittsburg, committed suicide on Friday.
The official vote in Maine is, Grant 20, 433,
Seymour 1880 ..McCulloch and Roll
Inns differ in opinion respecting the work
ing of the new internal revenue bill.
The former regards it as failure...."...
General Grant will indorse Generals Shcr-
man and Sheridan's recommendations
transferring the Indian Bureau to the War
Department........A According to the latest
advices 633 Members of Parliament had
been elected, the Liberal having a majori-
ty of There was a large demoa-
stration at Sarragossa on the Goth, in
favor of Republic in Spain. .Burling-
ton, Iowa, has new post-oflice. 1t is 40
by GO feet--has 1876 letter boxes, and
two or three hundred drawers. The total
number when completed, will be 1900.
The interior work will cost $4,000. 1.-The
University Law school at Iowa City, has
over 20 students, and more coming.
Judge Wright is organizing the depart
ment. e. The wise men OF Iowa City saw
between 800 and 400 mcteors on the night
of the great universal ornamental schultz
enfest. Only 90 at Grinnell fla
A special to the New York Evening
Post says: ''An intimate personal friend
of General Grant says that in his first
message to Congress, after becoming
President, Grant will recommend an
amendment TO the Constitution providing
that any person who has once held the
Presidential chair shall not be eligible for
a second term of the same Office. The
skeleton in every married mans house
his wifes skirt. Admiral Farragut is ih
Westinghouse. Grants Official majority
in Nebraska is 1900. Cincinnati has
the small pox, bad. One hospital is nurs-
ing seventynine scs.........Goyernor
Grape, of Michigan, is rapidly recovering
from his last attack of illness. ..All
Government departments were closed for
Thanksgiying......A man named W. D..
Sweeney was drowned in an oil tank at
Petrolia, Canada, on. the night of the 23d.
500. John Schumacher, cook at Pound,
Halbert & Co.'s boarding house in Chip.
pewa Falls was drowned in the Chippewa
river on the Sth.. ....Lucius O!cott, one of
the oldest settlers of Oshkosh. died sud-
denly at that place on the 18th, of disease
of the heart. Mr.. Olcott was 65 years of
age. He came to Oshkosh in 1S49......
The Badger State Banner says the recent
rise in the river was great blessing to
our lumbermen. Not less than 10000
600 feet of logs, beside considerable lum-
Der, passed down to the booms.
A young lady advertised for maid.
One applied, and in response to the inquiry
if she was quick, replied, sob, so quick
that will engage to dress you every day
in half an hour 'In half an hour!
replied the young lady; "and what shall
1 do the rest of the day gi......"IIave
not, my son, given you every advantage?'
ooh; yes, but l couldn't think Of taking
advantage of you, father Frank
Winship, of Sioux City, the energetic
detective who arrested W. Kidd, the Wis
consin murderer, has received $4,000 by
the authorities of that State. The
Oshkosh Times says: Son Wednesday last
the infant daughter of Mr.. P. Levi, of this
city, was scalded by the upsetting of a
stove, on which was kettle of boiling
water, receiving injuries which resulted in
her death the following day.. AN
editor in Illinois gives notice that "thcro
will be no paper this week." as his wife is
using the scissors. Gen. Grant says that
during his recent absence in the North he
did not receive q single application for
Office, nor did any one offer any suggestion
as to his policy when he should become
President, or as to the composition of his
Cabinet. ..a.......
1t is argued for short dresses that they
give plain girls chance. What nature
has denied to the face she often gives to
the understandipg......On Wednesday last,
Mr.. Herbert Eubank, Of Waupun, left his
home for Berlin, taking with him team
which he purposed selling at that place.
Since then nothing definite has been heard
Of his whereabouts. .Gerrit Smith has
written letter to Gen. Grant urging upon
him a policy Of universal suffrage and
universal amnesty.........A kilbourn city
paper facetiously says man was seen last
week, not ten miles from Kilbourn city,
planting hop roots' His friends should
take him to Madison as soon as possible,
for it must be dangerous to let him run at
large. IA farmer in eastern MassacEu-
sets has made a net profit of S4 900 on
his onion crop this year,. slim, how
does the thermometer stand toIday?''
sour stands on the mantlepiece, right
agin the plasterin.'
Mount Etna is in a state Of eruption
....... The cirgar-makers' strike in New
York has ended in a compromise. ..Berr
yer, the celebrated French lawyer, died or
the 2Sth inst, aged Is ycars........ The
Fenian Congress at Philadelphia, or
Saturday, elected John ONeil as Presi-
dent. The Pail Mall Gazette says tina
Garibaldi is coming to America to. make j
his home. The rebel General Wickhalr
is elected president of the Chesapeake ant
Ohm Railrnad The prnyisinnal Coy