North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-06-02

OO0.. ....A number of the Vigilance Com
mittee for New York and Brooklyn held
meetings last Saturday night to hear re-
ports on cases of prominent criminals
now at large on bail. A committee was
appointed to attend to their prosecution.
......An exchange gives recipe for
keeping out mosquitoes, which is-burn
camphor.... The sign.board of tavern
near Strasbourg, France, bears tho follow
ing inscription: "Strong beer and wine
of the first quality. Customers drinking
more thap twelve glasses will be sent
home in q cab, free of charge, in case
they are unable to walk. Reports
from Lake Superior are to the effect that
the production Of iron orc is larger than
ever before, and that there is q greatly
improved feeling in the copper regions.
...... Bergen hill, in New Jersey, is to be
tunnelcd again, and straight line OF
railroad will be built through it from
Hoboken to Hackensack. 1t will take
two years to pierce the hill.
A Buffalo l.dy was annoyed by man
named Thompson. She pulled out pis-
tol and snapped it at him. lie moved of
in good order and had her arrested. She
was discharged on the ground that an un-
loaded pistol is not deadly weapon......
The New York Express has heard Of one
American woman in Europe "who turned
up her aristocratic nose at pocket
handkerchief costing 1000 francs, de-
handing one which had to be fabricated,
and which was not to cost less than lO,-
O0O." Flour thousand laborers are
building railroads in Minnesota. .......A
New York girl takes thirty-seven white
muslin dresses to West Point. :. Boston
merchants employ 10000 "drummers"
who will assist at the jubilee. go. Our tenn
pie is the whole earth. Our priest is
nature; and our high priest--God.-
BeecAer... Dead Fall, Pacific railroad
town, claims to be the worst and most
lawless town on the entire line. "A Nor
wich clergyman preached an hour and
twenty minutes, but kindly had the
Doxology sung in the middle.
About $4,000 dead letters are opened
and disposed o! daily......A new popular
national anthem is wanted for Prussia"
Hotel rates at Niagara have been consi-
derably lowered......The Druid Lodges of
Wisconsin propose establishing mutual
life insurance companies......Th The French
Post Office confscates nine out of ten news
papers sent from this country. ....... The
Canadian Rife Association will distribute
$4,000 worth of prizes at the annual tours
nament, at Halifax, in August. The
Central Pacific Railroad is going to pubs
lish, in the San Francisco papers, regular
lists of its through passengers. Mayor
Hall, of New York, is quoted as referring
to quack doctors as pliers of the constitu-
tion......The annexation organ in Prince
Edward Island, the Sumnerside Progress,
has suspended publication. The at
tempted sale at auction of the Continental
Hotel. Long Branch, broke up in fight.
The sale was postponed. More home
steads have been pre- empted in Nebraska,
this spring, than the entire previous num-
Der since the settlement of the State.
cards now have the name of the
bride and groom. groomsmen, bridesmaids
and ushers all on one card.
A London clergyman adyertises that he
will ''lend" his weekly sermons for half
crown apiece, or four for los, warranted
"original, earnest and evangelical" ......A
New Orleans gambling house claims that
it has lost fifty nine thousand dollars the
past season and demands the "protection
of the law" ......An Irishman went to live
in Scotland for short time, but didn't
like the country. ~ was sick all the time
| was there" said he, "and if l had lived
there till this time I'd been dead year
ago. 1.-Two men in the Michigan State
Prison, convicted of burglary, last winter,
by the positive evidence and Identification
of twenty witnesses, have lately been re-
leased by the confession Of the real crilni-
nals......Ice water is pure water and pure
water acts upon metals with more energy
than water holding much organic or inor-
ganic matter hence the importance of a
perfectly safe vessel in which to retain it.
Swallow. tailed coats are indispensable
articles Of costume for St. Louis lawyers.
The Agassiz work on Brazil has been
translated into French. General Prim
has offered Mazziui an asylum in Spain.
Thirty trunks are said to contain the
wardrobe Of our new Minister to Eng
land...... Fechter, the German impersona-
tor of Shakespeare, will make his debut in
America in few weeks...... John r.
Henry, formerly State Treasurer of Ten>
reessee, died at Knoxville on Thursday
afternoon. ii. Russell made the
fastest yelocipede time on record, at Jersey
City, N. j., on Tuesday evening-one
mile in two minutes. Nothing Unrea-
sopable' is the title of Anna Dickinson's
latest lecture. 1t cannot be altogether
an autobiography. Heller has given an
organ concert in San Francisco for the
benefit of the sufferers by the Gold Hill
disaster. Prince Louis de Bourbon, the
disowned descendant Of line of threne>
less kings, has declared his allegiance to
the United States. ..Congregatiopalism
has had rapid growth in Iii. Twenty
five years ago there were less than a score
of churches of this denomination, and
there are now two hundred and City.