North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-28
Wews and Items.

flows and Items.
The DEBORAH papers announce the pros
poets of q branch railroad to that place as
being more Aattering than heretofore.
Mrs. Swisshelm is lecturing in Western
Pennsylvania. JEFF Davis and ex-Secre>
tary Jacob Thompson are expected back in
Mississippi this spring. ...All the sons Of
the Harper brothers have been admitted
to the firm since the death of James Har-
per......The Circassian Chief, Schamyl now
living in Kieff, has received from the Russian
Government permission to make pilgrim
age to eccs......The fuckers, of Monson,
Mass, are long-lived family. Two died
lately aged 96 and 100 and there are four
still living, Of whom the oldest is SO and
the youngest 79....Prince Napoleon began
to write history Of his uncle seven years
ago, but the Emperor heard of it and ais>
suaded him from completing it......A Ber-
lin dispatch mentions, confdentially, the
probable marriage of Mrs. Lincoln and
Grauch, Chamberlain of the Grand Duke
of Baden. ....An Englishman, named La
mont, formerly member Of Parliament,
intends to start on an expedition of his
own to the North Pole this month, in
steamer he has fitted out at his own ex.
pense... ..Larmajant, tbs French engineer,
who has invented the ingenious one-rail
system, by which it is thought complete
revolution in railroad affairs will he
brought about, is young man of twenty
three......Among the presents sent to the
Pope on the iftieth anniversary of his
conservation to the priesthood was an ivory
watch, of exquisite workmanship, made in
France, which is perfect time-keeper.
A movement is on foot in St. Louis and
Dubuque to put boats on in opposition to
the compromise lines or effect reduction in
tariffs in some way......Mr. A. +. Stewards
property on Broadway. alone, is worth
about FIVE millions. Mr.. W. B. Astor's
real estate on Broadway is worth about
three millions. The Lorillard estate has
eight millions invested in that thorough.
fare......There are forty-fve American
artists now in Rome......It has become
fashionable for Partisan ladies to wear
wigs made Of floss silk......A colored velo>
cipede club has been organized in Savan-
nah......The Navajo Indians, unlike most
Of their race, have natural talent for
useful labor. There is an alarming in
crease of burglares in London. =. The
crop Of maple sugar in the Northern States
is unexpectedly large. Three hundred
English sparrows have been let loose in
Syracuse. Fourteen incomes in Hart
ford, Conn.,, exceed 100000 each. ....
Saxony, with population Of 6lO, 900, had
2l9 suicides last ycar-l58 men and SO
women......A negro woman, in Caroline
county, Nd, has been indicted by the
Grand Jury for witchcraft. 1t is estimated
that twenty-five thousand dollars were lost
by the strike on the Second Avenue Rail-
road, New York. ....A. j. Alexander, of
Kentucky, sold to Mr.. Alexander Patter-
son, of New York, his trotting nurse Tat
tier, FIVE years old, for SIT 900,
Mrs Betsey Dodge, a widow lady of
seventy-three years Of age, On Block Is
land, has during the past year woven, in
an old fashioned hand-loom, four hundred
yards of cotton and wool CLOTH, and eight
hundred and ninety one yards carpeting,
making in all 1921 yards, beside doing
all the work for her family. Savannah,
Ca, has elected a colored King Solomon,
Justice of the Peace. The natural name
of Dan Rice, the clown, was Crum......M
Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial,
pays tax on an income of S34,653......An
irreverent Englshmau has done Rossni's
mass into quadril:es..... The Rev. w. II.
Charming, of the Free Christian Church
in London, is coming to America next
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sprague is said to own
all of Rhode Island excepting the Provi-
dence Journal, and Senator Anthony owns
that.
Almonte, the Mexican, is praised rs an
honest man because he died poor. His
enemies say he was only unlucky.. Saint
Beuvc is under the ban in Paris. lie is not
invited any more to the Court halls or to
the soirees of the Empress. >. Davenport
papers contained call for Y. L. c. A.
"Youag Ladies' Christian Association
to be organized in that city......A Mrs.
Livegood, of Iowa City, committed suicide
few days ago, under religious excitement.
Having been converted, she killed herself
to avoid. falling from grace. ....In the var
ious mills and manufactures of Clinton
and Lyons, a capital Of about $3,75O,OOO
is employed. Of this, Lyons has nearly
one million, and Clinton two million and
three quarters.
Henry Achilles Wise, formerly chief of
the Naval Ordnance Bareau, died in Maps
les on the lst instant. He was naval
officer of merit, and the author of lively
narrative of adventure in Mexico, called
Los Grin.os. He married daughter of
Edward Everett. Seven hundred million
feet Of logs were cut on the various lumber
rivers emptying into the Mississippi. These
figures are largely in excess of the log pro-
duct Of any previous year. The past year
has been ono Of unexampled activity and
success in the lumber trade, and the sea-
son opens auspiciously for the new supply.
Prices have been high and the demand