North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-12
News and Items.

SALE. The canal to connect the Mediter-
ranean with the Bay Of Eiscay will cost
SSS, 400, OOO......The highest store rent
paid in New York is 100000; the highest
in Chicaso, $4,000. The municipal
council Of Macon, France, has voted sum
of s, 200 francs for the erection Of monu-
ment to Lamertine. "A st. Louis husband
put his wife's head under the hydrant for
few minutes, recently, ''to satisfy the
neighbors." When public clerk is re-
moved from his position in Washington,
he is now said to be "retrcnched." 80. The
| Spanish takes names that sound queerly
to Saxon ears. The President of Costa
Rica, just elected, is Jesus Jimenez IA
grindstone which was sent to England in
bale Of cotton has come back to the old
plantation in cask of sugar. IAN "aerial
velocipedist" in San Francisco tried to
ride bicyle across rope stretched over
the water, he tumblcd off and swan ashore
...... Ericsson, the inventor, has received
in Sweden cup Bearing the inscription,
"To the noblest representative Scandinavia
ever had in the United States" ......A Bos..
tor paper is Gin favor of women voting if
they wantto.n A western paper. sswould
like to see the man who could make them
vote if they didn't want to-, .....Algeria
being menaced by locusts, the government
has offered 500 for every 200 pounds of
their eggs. These eggs will be crushed
and buried with quicklime.
A magistrate in London recently, ran
away with the wife of a merchant and
justice Of the peace. The lady is said to
be possessed of 100000 in her own
right, and the magistrate is married and
has children..... Two London clergymen
appropriated their sermons from the same
source few Sundays since, and had tsc
satisfaction of seeing them printed simult-
aneously in Monday morning paper......
Washington is 70 have hotel for colored
people,. The number of German papers
published in the United States is $50, so
of them being dailies.. The Irishmen of
Cincinnati propose to start new weekly
paper, to be named "The Irish Vest.
......A New York paper says that the very
purest milk that can be obtained il: that
city contains fully one third water..... The
running time on the Pacific Railroad from
New York to San Francisco, 1888 miles,
is six days seventeen and half hours. - :
Twenty>eight. thousand two hundred
and twenty-one marriages were solsmniz-
ed in Ohio during thesyear ending. Dec.
81, 1863. The soil Of the Missouri slope
is the deepest in the world-seventy-
feet to hard-pan, below low>water line, in
the river at Council .BluEs......A man
whose sweetheart had died in st. Louis,
recently, followed her example, and, when
dissectcd, it was found that his heart was
literally broken......Schuyler Colfax is
now at home in South Bend. King
William, of Prussia, is - years old and
reads without specs. Robert Bonner
paid 100000 for advertising his, last
Ledger story. Henry Ward Beecher has
been made a member Of the New York
Cuban Junto......The Republican Mayer.
of Toledo, VIM. Kraus, recently elected,
is on Israelite..... Fanny Kemblef de6med
at Boston thirty-six years ago. She was
then twenty one years old.....N. g. Sny-
der, Of Philadelphia, has received god
medal from S. F. b. Morse for rapidity in
telegraphing......William A. Richardson
has declined the appointment of Judge of
the Superior Court Of MASSACHUSETTS,, ten
dered him by Governor Claflin.
Sarah Dillon, a former resident of Green
county, Ind, now the sixteenth wife in
Salt Lake city harem, writes that "she
would like to get back to the old place.;
......President Grant is said to be of the
opinion that linen educated to military
Life are illadapted to being thrown upon
the world to secure a living in any other
profession" 1.-THE papers speak of it
as surprising thing thot the Prince of
Wales is bald. But he has been married
six years, and some men have their hair
pulled out before they have been married
half that time....... Water sells for twenty
five cents, coin, a bucket at White Pine....
Whatever you dislike in another. take care
to correct in yourself. England contains
3S ,OOO, 900 inhabitants, and land is owned
by $4,000 people. -. Marshal Brown, celc-
brated as the owner of remarkable pups,
returns S2i 900 Income. fortnight
ago young couple were married, seated
in buggy, before the pastors residence in
Upton, Iowa.. Two ladies have travelled
from San Francisco overland, accompanied
all the way by bull dog as a protector
A Pittsfeld adreeently sold 3Ql musk
rat skins Of his own trapping, and with
the avails thereof paid his last winters
tuition at school,. -. The California papers
figure up the cost Of a. frst>class through
ticket from New York to San Francisco
by the Pacific Railroad at 153 81 in green.
backs....... Francis Crosby, seventy-nine
years old, will start upon a pedestrian tour
from San Francisco to New York, on the
18th instant. lie is an old hunter and
trapper......John Priest aged scyentysiye
years, and his wife, aged eighty years,
died at. Brattleborough, Mass, last Sunday,
within twelve hours ofeach other..... .Ho-
ratio Seymour has been buying large tracts
of land in Iowa. and has become President