North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-03-04
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ANe W SsA$A AeGINss
The supplemental reconstruction bill
has passed both houses and awaits tn
presidents signature. veto or the constitu
tional ten days......This supplemental bill
allows majority of the votes actual,
cast to ratfy the constitution in any state
instead of a majority Of the registered
votes. as in the present law......Miss kel
logg is the reigning belle at Nicc......Th'
cx-Queen Of Naples is much given to mas
culine masquerading and cigarettes. Sh'
ought to repair to the Spanish Court.
The Lake Superior copper interest is urg
ing the imposition of duties on foreign
copper and ORE The Louisville bridg,
will not be finished until next year. Cost
81 600, O0O.... "A bill to secure information
al copyrights is pending in Congress-.
Calhoun's family, in South Carolina, are
very destitute. His library sold lately 70,
$3.50 to satisfy debt. Judge Carter
dismissed the case of the U. S. against
Adj't. Gen. Thomas.
European astronomers are preparing tc
observe the great eclipse Of the sun thi.
year, in the Himalaya There are one
hundred and eighty theaters, opera houses,
concert halls, etc., which paid tax to the
United States last year......U Utah has H..
900 children in its schools. ..Ex-Gov.
Todd Of Ohio, died at Washington Satur.
day night. The shock Of an earthquake
was felt at Augusta, Me-, Saturday even.
ing......The advance Of the British army
in Abyssinia was at Antalo at last accounts
1.-The king of Prussia closed the Dict
on the 29th ult. in speech in which he
said that there was nothing left to disturb
the peace Of Europe......At a caucus of
the Republican members of the House,
Saturday night, Stevens, Butler, Bingham
Boutwell,, Wilson and Logan were selected
as managers to conduct the impeachment.
The Government has received adispatch
from Minister Bancroft, dated March LIST,
announcing tho conclusion of treaty with
Germany, and stating that emigration
shall be free, and that naturalization chan
ges acknowledgements Syracuse salt
mines have yielded s0,0oo,ooO pounds of
salt since their discovery in l797.....
Charles A. Bush, Of New London, Ct, has
invented process by which leather scraps
can be worked over and made into SUBJ
stantial her......Maj. Gen. Mccall, died
on the 18th, at Westchester Paris is,
like the rest Of the world, dull. Helena
Montana, boasts of gas works. Nevada
miners receive five dollars per day..
There are two hundred slang terms for
intoxication......The Milwaukee rolling
mills are soon to resume. 49,. Boston ex-
pended s94,362 for amusements during
January. The Vermont farmers are
selling their boarded wool. The
fruit crop in Indianap romises to be unusu-
ally large.
The observance Of st. Valentines 6ay
is on the decline in this country and Cana
da.....A New York woman raised the
money to pay her rent by the sale of her
hair......Detroit has forty churches,
worth about $4,000, OOO......A piece of
genuine Gobelin tapestry was recently
sold in Paris for $4,000. Fan thinks
that the oil for troubled water is certainly
not Train oil......An Edinburgh lassie re-
Gently received 500, 900 worth of wedding
presents. Five feet of snow in the
port Of Michigan. Petitions
for the reduction of the navy to thirty
vessels or less are circulating. IAN over
neat person in Ohio committed suicide in
the barn, as he explained, to keep the par
Tor carpet clean......In these dull manu-
times il takes an unusual quanti-
ty of mills to make dollar " Gen.
Thomas has brought suit against Sec.
Stanton, for $4,000 damages, claimed
for false imprisonment and malicious pros
London is to have an interna-
tional balloon exhibited in the summer.
will send her the most curious
air ships......Ne~ York city contains TO-
600 Jews, according to the Hebrew .Nessen-
ger, or more than one in fifteen of the
whole population......It has been Falsely
that the secretary of the treasury
would not honor acquisitions from the war
department, signed by Sec. Stanton......
In order to preserve cut flowers, put n
pinch of nitrate Of soda into the water
every day when it is changed. This will
preserve flowers for fortnight. Nitrate
OF potash in powder has nearly the same
effect.
New York is to have another evening
paper, called Erery afternoon, edited by
William Young, formerly Of the Albion
'.....A saucy reporter lately called huge
woman vulgarly tricked out in all the col
DIS Of the rainbow, "a fine specimen Of
the aorid gothic.". 1.-The president will.
As heretofore, remain at his post in the
performance Of his official duties until ~
ne is properly impeached by the senate, to
10 which that body says, it twill take the
proper order therefor, of which due no
ice will he given to the house Of represen-
Merrill has. offered re.
ward Of $500, for tie arrest Of j. II. Stat.
ord, the murderer Of John Minert of Al
lamakee Co......The French debt on the
LIST Of December last amounted, in round
lumbers, to sls7,70O,O00. To meet a
leiicit for 1868 the imperial government
las asked for loan of SSS, O00,O 900. 49,.
DR.. j. G. Holland (Timothy Titcomb) is
expected to so to Europe and will be