North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-12-29
News and Items.

abused when living, and praised when
dead. .....After New Years day, all let.
tiers dispatched from this country to
Great Britain and Ireland, if they weigh
not over half an ounce, will be charged
but six cents, or half the existing rate
...... The New York Chief of Police esti.
mates that about thirty London thieves
arrive in America per week. .....A new
oil excitement is going on at Middleton's
Run, Penn. One man has sold quarter
interest in four hundred acres for $780,.
000.. IAN imperial decree has been
issued making new postal arrangement
between France and the United States,
by which letters are to be prepaid.
New York city has 429 churches, OF
which ~ are Baptist, So Methodist
Episcopal, II Old School Presbyterian,
90 Protestant Episcopal, and 80 Catho.
lic......A German savan has discovered
that after bedbug has taken the three
hundredth bite, he begins to fade and
droop away.
Harper shows figures to prove that in
fifty libel suits instituted against news
papers during the last ten years, the
gross amount Of money collected is only
three thousand dollars. 80. Some of the
Californians want an extensive canal cut
through a portion Of the Sacramento
Valley, and ask the State to aid it by
issuing bonds for 81, 100000, to be paid
by a tax levied on the lands thus re-
claimed. ....... Government has granted
to railroads 1876, s9O,794 acres of public
lands, or 200,454 square miles-equal
to the combined area of Great Britain
and France. People who do wrong
seldom have any difficulty in finding out
excuses and justification for it...... The
Postofice Department is sending circu-
lars to all postmasters in the United
States, ordering them to make an ac-
curate monthly report of frank or free
matter deposited at their Office for the
period of six months, commencing JAN
uary /.
Admiral Poor is going to Hayti with
his flagship, to look after Uncle Sans
interests there. The difficulty between
the Missouri Pacific and Missouri River
Railroads eliminated in the entire sus-
pension Of operations on the latter road,
by the former Withdrawing its rolling
stock to the State line. Lucy Stone
thinks boys are like vinegar-the more
another" ia them the sharper they are.
1.-The Provincial Government of the
Red River country have issued a declar-
alton of independence, in which they
claim that the Hudson Bay Company
had no power to sell the authority con-
fded to it, and they refuse to recognize
the right of the Canadian Government
to attempt to govern them, and as there
was no legal government they have Or
ganized one.
Ten more Of the Spanish gunboats
have left New York, and are lying off
Quarantine, waiting till the last three,
which are short of men, can join them.
......General Amcs has ordered the
Mississippi Legislature to convene on
the 18th of January, and the State Of
6cers recently elected are appointed
provisional officers until their installation
......A little girl looking at picture of
Eve in Boston gallery, exclaimed, 30,
mother, / should think that woman
would be afraid of the grasshoppers !"
......B Black velvet is the most popular
material for ladies' hats.
The Denver mail coach was stopped
fifteen miles from Cheyenne Saturday
night, by two armed men. The stage
contained two men and the driver, all
unarmed. The robbers, after firing sew
eral shots, took the stage, team and mail
and drove off, leaving the passengers to
walk to Cheyenne. Sixty cavalrymen
have gone in pursuit. -. Seven Spanish
gunboats, from New York, for Cuba,
put into Charleston, s. c., on the 26th.
......T hirty-six hundred cards of silk
worm eggs have arrived at San Francis
co, from China and Japan, en- route to
Lyons, France, via the Pacific Railroad
and New York......A flying machine of
sufficient size to test the practicability
Of the invention is to be constructed in
San Francisco. The first installment
Of Chinese laborers, numbering 255, en-
route to New Orleans, arrived Sunday
night at Omaha, and left by the Han
nibal and St. Joseph Road yesterday
morning, for St. Louis, thence by steam
er.
The mean rate Of discharge of the
Mississippi river into the Gulf of Mex
leo somewhat exceeds 80, 600, 900 pounds
Of water per second. Should the mis-
sion to China be a frst-class one, the
salary Of the incumbent will be increas-
ed from $4,000 to SIT 900 year. ;. ;.
Daniel Mcfarland was arranged in the