North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-08-11

The next session of the Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb at Iowa City,
will open on the 18th of September.
There is an effort being made to con-
meet South America with the United
States and Europe by cable from Gu
ba to Central America. Walter
Brown. the champion oarsman of Amer
lea has gone to Liverpool to try for the
championship of England. They had
a snow storm on Friday in the vicinity
of Montreal. lit is now believed that
the difficulty between the Sublime Porte
and the Viceroy of Egypt will be peace
ably settled. The western part of
Florida wont annex itself to Alaba-
MAJ. The British government has re-
fused an exequator to James Haggerty,
United States Consul TO Glasgow, on
the grounds that he was connected with
the Fenians! ~
A ticket-of-leave-man ran away with
the jailor's daughter. His defense
was that he was SO accustomed to penal
servitude that he could not live without
a wife........Miss Anthony writes her
speeches in bed......A giant, eight feet
and six inches high, is said to have re-
Gently arrived in this country from
China. One of the most fashionable
young ladies at Nahant wears a hat
which cost only ten cents, and the trim
ming she had in the house. She is
unmarried. -. The real estate owned by
the city of Boston is estimated to be
worth about fifteen million dollars. The
real estate owned by individuals is tax
ed at nearly five hundred millions. 80.
Iowa has 224,OOO and the United States
1,000,00O more acres of wheat this year
than ever before. New wheat on sale
in Des Moines.
IL The State Teachers Association meets
at Marshalltown on the Oath. 49,. Mr.
Choate wishing to compliment Chief
Justice Shaw, exclaimed, "When ! look
upon the venerable Chief Justice Shaw,
am like Hindoo before his idol I
| know that he is ugly, but / feel that he
is great..... On Tuesday some wag pu,
placard on the portico of the White
| House,. containing in big letters the
words, "To let for four years to a per
manent tenant" The word .permanent'
was capitalized. The placard OCCASION
ed great merriment to passers, and re-
NAMED undisturbed for nearly an hour
Spain continues to be disturbed by
conspiracies, plots and counter-plots
Many arrests and some executions are
reported. The election of King il
October will probably end the popular
turbulence. >, The Kentucky Legisla
ture is composed of ninety-two Demo
Gratis and eight Republicans, in the low
er House, and in the Senate, thirty-siz
Democrats and two Republicans.
President Grant has returned t.
Washington. The Internal Revenue
Department has decided that baseball
clubs are subject to taxation. In future
they will be compelled to take tel
dollar per annum license for their ex
hibitions, and pay tax of p per cent
on their gross receipts. Treasurers o.
clubs will be required to make monthly
returns. 1t is said it will cost the
government $4,000 for the shooting and
sending on Grants horses. -. The
Florida Legislature sat only three weeks
in the late extra session. The members
have yearly salary, and not daily
pay......A Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia Age repeats the ru
NOR that Attorney General Hoar is te
retire from Gen. Grants cabinet, and
Judge Brewster, of Pennsylvania, is te
take his place.
| The Iesultsof the Tennessee election
has given renewed confidence in the
conservative republican cause in Missis.
|isippi and Texas, and the representatives
Of the party in those states now have
declared that three candidates will be
elected by overwhelming majorities, re.
gardless of department infuences......A
dispatch from White Sulphur Springs
West Virginia, dated Aug. 8th., says;
The eclipse yesterday caused the ther.
mometer suddenly to fall with great
rapidity, and the weather turned SO cold
that frost was visible this morning. ......
Only SIS, 900 in SO notes remain in
the vaults Of the treasury department
All the fractional currency Of other de-
nominations have been issued, and there
is great demand from all parts Of the
country, and much complaint at the
bank note comrany's failing to supply
the department with a sufficient quantity
for circulation. "a card has been is
sued by some Cubans saying that they
do not desire annexation to the United
| States. f .est.g {.
The Siamese Twins are in New York
...... The Canadian salmon fisheries have
never been known to be so productive