North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-30

News and Items.
A succession Of very heavy showers
passed over St. Louis and vicinity few
nights ago.. The New Madrid wheat
growing country has produced the largest
harvest ever known. :. The new gauge of
the Missouri Pacific will be four feet nine
inches. The old was FIVE feet six. The
new gauge is the standard railroad gague
Of the railroad world. The new spikes
are now being driven. The late rain
storm did $4,000 damage in Council
Bluffs......St. Joe and Kansas City are in
Tested with roughs and criminals.........
Stokes, the ultra radical candidate for
governor in the recent Tennessee election,
sold the best negro that was ever sold in
that State..... .Browrlow says that Grants
administration has rendered that of Andy
johnson respectable. One of the recent
EMOTIONS" is q white hearse, which is des-
cribed as attractive, not to say inviting"
There have been three Popes beside
Plus TX. who have celebrated the fftieth
anniv ersary of their first mass Gen.
Hancock is in Helena, Montana. Hos
pital Steward, w. p. Lowery, has been
dismissed from the service by order of the
war department. The only charges pre-
ferred, were that Mr.. Lowery recently
married Miss Annie S,rratt. ;. IA child
has been born in Spain, on the surface of
one of whose eyes is imprinted the exact
resemblance of a watch dial. ....A Chicago
wife has sued for the possession of her
husband.
The ex-Postmaster advertises as ''lost'
zone hundred dollars paid to Congress-
man for the Waterbury Postofice." .....
Sec. Borie has resigned, and George w.
Robson, formerly attorney general of
New Jersey, has been appointed to the
navy portfolio. 80. Unless the Cubans meet
with some disaster, it is believed that their
rights as belligerents will be recognized
within thirty days......A Portuguese has
invented war machine that fires eight
hundred shots a minute. Man is yet am
bilious to invent the greatest killer......
The receipts from internal revenue for the
fiscal year ending June 80, are estimated
at Sl5S, 100000. ....secretary Boutwell,
has decided that woman are not eligible to
the Office Of Collector of Customs.
Chicago is to have wonan's suffrage
convention in the fall. The velocipede
has chad its day and ceased to be-"
Machines which cost sixty dollars are
sold with difficulty for fifteen. Cali
fornia produced last year nearly fifteen
million pounds Of wool, which was lar
ger by almost two million pounds than
the production of any other state......
The new Territorial seal of Wyoming
bears an elk's head, shield, train of
cars, and agricultural implements, art
istically arranged, and the device, "Let
us have peace. 49,. Parepa Rosa's voice
is thus described by misguided Bos-
ton critic: olive hundred feet long
three hundred feet wide, and as high
as the Coliseum" 49,. Anna Dickinson
is going to lecture to the Mormons. .....
Gen. George B. Mcclellan will occupy
a cottage at Long Branch this summer.
...... Mr.. George d. Prentice has almost
abandoned writing altogether. Col.
Green Clay, Grandson of Henry Clay,
and large planter in Mississippi, is
talked Of for conservative candidate for
Congress from that State. ..... Oats six
feet high were cut recently in Los
Angeles county, aud oats seven feet
high are noted as among tall things in
the neighborhood of Sacramento city,
Cal
There is mistaken idea prevalent
that strawberries will not keep more
than one day. If the fruit is kept in a
dry, cool place, where the air is plenty,
it can be kept nearly a week But it
is bad plan to shut the berries up in a
tight box and place it in damp refrig-
orator