North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-14
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politics cease. anu secure capable, nOneSt
men as officials in every State, and in the
country at large, and in ten years time we
can acquire an ability to throw off Ma
tional debt like ours, and scarcely feel it.
Let the Office seek the man and give a
wide outside berth to all who seek office.
That is the programme local as we'll as at
large. 1.-The Democrats carried the cleo
ton at Leavenworth, Kansas. Paper
collins are used in Europe. 1.-THE Iowa
City Press proposes an Editorial Conven>
ton, to meet in that city in June. The
income of the Atlantic Cable Company
from messages, averages So, 500 in gold a
day, showing diurnal transmission of
1000 WORDS. 1.-The price of balloon
passage from New York to Europe is
fixed at $3.50, and the plucky French
nronaut, M. Chevalier, who will make the
trip this month, says he has already one
hundred applications for passage.
The Pacific Railroads will connect in
May, near Ogden City, and tho transit of
passengers, mails and freights will be made
without interruption until the meeting
point shall be established by Congress.
Senator Spraguc is described by himself
as "no orator." A correspondent says he
speaks "with his hands in his pantaloons
pockets, with his arms akimbo, or his
hands clasped under his coat tails also,
that he turns his back upon tie Vice
President and talks to the galleries, while
twisting, and jerking, and pounding, his
empty chair" The woman's paper of
San Francisco is called "El Dorado.
The inmates Of the insane asylum in
Augusta practice on tho velocipcdc .....A
new cotton factory is to be erected in New
Orleans to run ten thousand spindlcs......
Alfred Tennyson is said to have recently
refused pcerage for the second time. -.
St. Louis is to have tournament to d >
eide who is its best euchre player. The
Fayette Union is to be enlarged soon. The
Union is the livcst of live papers and
hurts the radicals terribly, as their weekly
squirming under Mae. & RS scorchins art
ic!es, prove.......The dentists of Japan
loosen the teeth by blows from mallet
and then pull them out with their fingers
1t seems Secretary IIoar didn't hereto
fore, suppose General Grant quite so
much fool as he now believes him to he.
The eastern press report his having SO
remarked. .Shurley, of the DEBORAH
Democrat, says he wont move to Lansing,
as has been reported, but that his paper
has proven to be success and is, there
fore, fixture. Bob. is not easily moved
against his will......Andy Felt and
"Link,' of the Posts-the one in Chicago,
and the other at Nashua-have nominated
Judge Williams for U. S. Senator, and Eli
boeck has un nominated, he says,-by
authority.... Hon, Edward O'Neil, one of
the best and soundest men east of sun
down, has been elected Mayor of Milwau-
kee......The grandson of David, the
celebrated revolutionary painter, is mar
ried to the great-grand-daughter of man
whom David sent, in 1874. to the guillo-
tine, but who was accidentally saved from
being executed. The Salt Lake papers
arc making merry over fight in the
household of Mormon bishop, in which
the ''saint' got fcarfully thrashed by
several cnragcd wives. ....At conference
recently held in Alexandria, Va. Bishop
Ames of the NJ. f.. Church stated rs his
belief that 'tobacco was doing more harm
to the church than whisky. ....One
thousand English sparrows have arrived
in Philadelphia, and will reside in the
public squares of that city.
Galena, ILL.,, has given the United States
a President, Minister to France, Secre-
tary of State, Secretary of War, two U.
S. Marshals, and expects one of her for
mer citizens to fill another important
foreign mission......T The radical city of
Madison has elected Democratic Mayor.
Bully......IIundrcds of the soldiers of the
regular army stationed in Dacotah are
married to Indian women. These women,
it is said, make faithful, yirtuous, and in
dustrious wives. The soldiers rarely desert
them......The Lyons 4drocate tells of
quarrel between a married pair at Bur-
lington, which ended in division of their
household goods-the husband got a
kettle full Of hot water for his share. 49,.
Grant is going to send an editor in the
lower corner of the State to Gautamala.
To make the thing even, Lansing being
in the upper corner, he will certainly
send I. G. (roush Cuss) Medary, Doc. or
Sam. to some out-landish place for little
recreation...... Secretary of War is
Rawlins, without 81; .he Secretary of
the Navy is Adolph +. Borie the Post
master General is Creswell, with only one
$50 and there is not final re" in the
name Of the Attorney General, Mr..
IIoar.
The Directors Of the Union and Central
Pacific Railroads have decided not to have
an excursion over their roads to the Pacific
the present season. ........More than four
inches Of snow fell on Monday in central
lllinois...... Both houses have passed, and
the president signed, an important bill,
amending the judicial system of the Unit
ed States. 1t provides for nine new circuit
judges for the judicial districts, at a salary
of $4,000 year, to he appointed by the
president, and be confirmed by the senate.
These judges arc to hold the term of court