North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-07-08
News Ind Ifems.

The Reps. say Seward is going for
Grant. What matters it. All the reputa-
ton he had as a Republican has been des-
troyed by the ~malignants ofthose to whom
he was once a father.....,.The Providence
Journal says in dainty diction, "thc Dem
ocratic party will be in hell in November
1.-The bite of a locust is said to be death.
The best remedy is to apply half of a
chicken to the wound, warm. The flesh
of the fowl will turn green, if it is applied
soon, and the patient will recover.......A
young man at Allentown, Pa, was bath.
ing in the canal, and was drowned by
cramp. He had been in the habit of ''fool-
ing by false alarms and his young COM
p%anions did not go to his relief till it was
to- late. 'Thus the fool dieth.' For
the defence of Paraguay, S. A., it is said
Lopez has organized 4 10000 female war;
riors. Generates Eliza Lynch, a spunky
Irish woman, and the lady love Of Lopez,
is the boss of court and field. 1t is said
the Generallikes bosoms bettcrthan bullets.
Who wouldn't? Lord, what a rafting of
tongue musketry they will fire off! All
the time loaded too.......Some town out
west killed ten skunks in one week.
Night-blooming serious there you bet.
Strong town.
The cholera has made it's appearance at
Havana, Cuba.......The President on Sat
urday issued a proclamation of amnesty,
pardoning all rebels and traitors except
such as are under indictment for treason.
......Great excitement prevails in the
Southwestern parG of Colorado Territory
over new and very rich gold discoveries.
That Territory promises a gold and silver
product of 800, 100000 this year......Mrs.
Senator Trumtull is seriously i'll at Wash
ington......The President has removed
Gen. Mcdowell from the command of the
4th military district and restored Gen.
Gillcm.......The four Catholic Archbishops
in New York protest againt recruiting
men for the Papal army, and propose to
raise money therefor instead......"John
Stewart IA w%ell-known gclding, on the
30th, trotted ten miles in twenty-eight
minutes and two and IA half seconds, for a
purse of 81 500, at Riverside Park, Boston.
This is pronounced the most remarkable
feat in the modern annals of the turf.......
A dispatch from Washington to the New
York Sun asserts that Secretary Seward
has nearly completed negotiations for the
purchase of Greenland and Iceland from
the Danish Government, for So, 1000,
and is about publishing a full description
of the advantages to be derived thereirom.
......Mr. B~urllngame says the Chinese
have more books, encyclopedias, PAM
phlets, magazines, ETC., than any other
people. Their principal encyclopedia
embraces five thousand volumes.
The visit of Mr.. Burlingame with the
Chicago Embassy has had a wonderful eff
feet. Already a number of Americans
talk of going to the Orient to embark in
business, and particularly in railroads,
of which there is not now one in existence
in that country. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
ond her son "Tad' will sail for Europe
soon. They are to spend some time with
friends in Scotland. IA California far
mer has bought thirty-five tons of sacks,
in which to ship his crop of wheat this
year......lt is the intention of Hon. Edwin
nj. Stanton to resume the practice of the
law, in partnership with his son, at the
close of the warm weather Daniel
Webster wore a hat the size of which
was Il Thurlow Weed wears the same
size Abraham Lincoln's was ZIG; Dan
iel Lords 6 Horace Greeley's ) James
Gordon Benefits 7$. Mr.. James 4.
Brady has a head as large as that Of any
public man in the country. Boston is
sending a large lot Of New England RIM
to Africa in exchange for palm OIL
That is Yankee philanthropy, all over......
The monument to be erected over the
grave of Gen. Scott, at West Point, has
been completed. 1t consists of a granite
base, upon which rests a single block Of
polished, Italian marble.
Five thousand persons have died in
Peru of yellow fever......Gov. Placida
Vega, the Mexican revolutionist, is at San
The Austrian Government
has granted leave of absence to $4,000
soldiers......Thc Governor of New lIamp-
shire has vetoed the bill repeating the
usury aw......Advices from South Ameri-
Ca indicate Inst there will be no further
hostilities between Spain and Chili......
We have advices that the rebels in China
have met with recent success and threaten
to take Pekin......The Fourth of July was
duly celebrated by the American citizens
so journ:ng in London, Berlin and Stuff
gart......Mexican adyices state that IA plan
is being discussed for the session of the
states of Northern Mexico to the United
States, on the payment by our Government
of the debts of the unhappy county,.
The bill removing political disabilities
from 200 citizens of North Carolina, in
GLIDING Governor Holden, one Congress
man and several state officials. was signed
by the President on Thursday. 49, The
President has signed the bill providing
that in case of the removal of the Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court from Office,
or Of his death, resignation or inability to
discharge the duties of said Office, the
same shall deyolvc on the senior Associate
Justice until such inability is removed or
another appointment made.
"A celestial in California, when asked
why he smoked SO much of late, he re-
piled, "me alice same as Giant alice time
smoke" Chief Justice Chase, in con-
versation recently, expressed himself anx-
ious for the withdrawal of troops from the
southern states, before the election, in
order that the country may see how the
people will vote when unawed by bayo-
Admiral Farragut owns a hand
some property at Vallejo, Cal, the tempo
rary terminus of the Central Pacific road,
which will make him Il millionaire.
Collax is pronounced as if written Coalfax.
sherman Ola Greenbacks.
Late New York papers publish the fol-
from Senator Sherman Of Ohio, to
his friend Abijah Mann of Brooklyn.
This is a brief letter, but it has a crushing
on the hopes of gold hunters in
the Grant and Colfax 'diSgings." The
action is such even since the Chicago
that an ''imprudent'' member
of Congress only a day or two ago begged
leave to introduce a bill looking to the
of bonds in g~recnbacks! The
coster nation Of the wise ones who had SO
fixed up the Chicago platform
may be imagined. Every fair minded
man must sec that Sherman is right. All