North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-05-19
News and Items.

Pres,den Grants Galcna mansion is
advertised for ent......Oshkosh aspires to
he the "Athens Of Wisconsin" 49,. The
Chicago Times prints 10000 copies of the
Sunday edition.. George Hudson, once
railway king in England, is in France
and out of money!. Senator Sprague
will make campaign speeches through the
country next fall. Felt, of the Nashua
Post, asks the radical convention, to meet
at Des Moines June lst., to adopt female
suffrage as part of their platform. Our
government pays Cushing $4,000 for de-
Tending Ben. Butler in the Baltimore case.
......Lamartine charged ten dollars to write
his name in a set Of his works.. Mrs.
Swisshelm has mounted the stump in
Pennsylvania. Queen Victoria has corr
responded regularly with the old King Of
Prussia ever since her daughter married
his Professor Eastman, Of Pough-
keepsie, has expended twenty thousand
dollars in trying to invent writing ma
chine.
J. L. Bowman, formerly a member of
the Chicago press, and well known under
the non, de plume of "Beau Hacket," died
in st. Louis on the l4tb, where he had
been residing for the past three or four
years. lie did the humorous on the St.
Louis Republican, over the signature Of
"IIans Patrick lie Connor." 1.-THE aver
age Canadian snowfall for twenty years
has been 1880 inches in 1861, very
snowy year, it was 96.5s inches, while be-
tween October and March, of this past
winter, there fell 1926 inches. The
emigration from Prussia to the United
States excites tho surprise of the Berlin
journals. On April 6 and I, there were
conveyed to Bremen $500 peasants, about
to sail for America. The cause of the in
crease Of emigration is attributed to the
famine and restitution in Eastern Prussia.
The mansion house of Governor Grad
dock, erected in Medford, Mass, in 1884,
is claimed to be the Oldest building in the
United States retaining its original form.
1t is so well preserved that it will last sew
eral hundred years yet......The present
circulation of Mr.. Bonner's New York
Ledger is said to exceed 10000 copies.....
......A natural cave has been discovered
by Government surveyors near Baxter
Spring. Kansas Mr.. o. A. Osborne, OF
Cairo, has invented spring to be attach
ed to the feet, by means Of which person
is relieved Of the labor of walking to a
great extent. lie claims his invention will
enable man to walk ten miles per hour
with ease..... Louisiana will probably
suffer severely from flood this season
Crevasscs are reported below New Or
leans. .Abont two emigrants only out o
every hundred that landed in New Yorl
from Europe last year went to the South
ern States.
a The Blue Grass" region of Kentucky
sold $2,000,000 worth Of mules, durin,
the past six months..... .Eugenie goes t
Jerusalem this summer, to fulfill a WOW
made years ago, that if she gave birth t
, SON she would 60 and thank God for
on the Mount of Olives. Cincinnati j
excited over the presence of a live Englisl
lord. The Galena Gazette says it is Ger
tair that Hon. j. II. Jones of Chicago
will go as minister to Belgium, about tn
LIST of June. Mrs. Jones will accompan
her husband..... early times, when tn
heart Of the world was pure, rose givel
by man to woman, declared his love
Now he must give o diamond......
J In New York bushel Of potatoes cost
|. more than lushel of oranges.
!, Minister Hale has been removed ant
Gen. Sickles appointed minister to Spain
The president would not wait, it seems
for ex-minister Hale's resignation, to taxi
effect on july j, to n.ature......A trouble
in the Washington post Office has beer
settled and the new appointee has taker