North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-01
News and Items.

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three millions of dollars. -. Two women
were brick-laying or new building at
Boston, on recent Sunday......A scent
ury plant" less than twenty years old
has Just bloomed in Louisiana. ..... Five
hundred and eighty ounces of gold dust
were sent in one day to Kansas bank.
graves at Granville, Nevada,
are all of persons who have died violent
deaths ..... Locomotives are hereafter to
burn coke only in passing through Pitts
burgh. IA family toothbrush has
been in dispute in New Orleans court.
......A halfdozcn rcady-made houses
arc to be shipped to Yokohama from
Chicago. Mississippi panther re-
Gently devoured female blackberryist.
coca clergyman in Tennessee was re-
Gently shot dead in his pulpit Omaha
boasts one hundred and forty new build
ings in progress.
Galveston uses New Orleans ice.
There is only one Protestant place of
worship in New Mexico. Cali
fornia air-ship has made another success
full flight. Watcrmelons are only five
cents each in Charleston. Gettysburg
was an old Indian battle ground. "A
state Universalist convention is to meet
at Des Moincs on the 18th continuing
through the Sth and 9th. ...A curious
letter from Sir Walter Scott to Mr..
Slade, disclaiming the authorship of the
Waverley novels, and dated 1921, has
lately been bequeathed to the British,
museum I. :. ). Another little diamond
found at the Cape of Good Hope is said
to be worth 100000. The Ohio
democrats have adopted the following
motto: Pendlcton, Peace, Prosperity
Plenty, Grcenbacks, Good Times, Good
Prices, Good Pay.
The headquarters of the Department
of the Missouri will be removed from
Leavenworth to St. Louis the latter part
of this month. 1T. NJ. Anterior, ESQ
has resumed the entire control of tn.
Mitchell County PRESS, Mr.. r. X
Crum having withdrawn his interest il
that sheet. Tho Virginia tobacco crol
is failure. =. Official Partisan journals
denounce as falsehoods the reports that
the health of the Emperor is worse
They report him much improved......
So high is bread in Rome that the Pope
never appears in public without being
saluted with cries of "Holy Father
bread, bread !" The actual time Of
the transmission of the message announ
cling the result of the great boat race on
the Thames from the telegraph station
near NIortlake, to New York, was only
twelve minutes. 1.-THE Paraguayans
assert that the forces of the Allies are
not strong enough to attack the positions
of Lopez in the Cordilleras. Brazilian
reports state, however, that battle i:
imminent, and that both the land ant
naval 1SIcco or clo Allies are actively
preparing for offensive operations.
Maryland newspapers are filled will
complaints about the drouth and tn.
blighting of the corn, potatoes and to
bacco crops and say that even trees ap
pear to be dying. Frederick City is OF
half rations of water. Frostburg is sim
ilarly affected, and the Chesapeake ant
Ohio Canal is very low on some Of thu
levels. "A letter received at Washing
ton, from Arkansas, says that move
ment is on foot there to cut off two tier
of counties in the Eastern part of tn,
State and join them to the Choctaw ane
Cherokee nations, for the purpose o
forming new State organization. Th'
plan is to be submitted to Congress a
the coming session.
LONDON, Aug. 3O.-The Pail Nal
Gazette reports that in one large village
in Russia LOO persons, members of
new fanatical sect, burned themselves t,
death. .... In the boat race between tn
Harvard and Oxford crews the latte
beat the former by four lengths in tn
four and quarter miles,. The Elem
ming Bros. are making the timbers 70
a railroad bridge to be completed ant
trains crossing before the 1st of Januar
1870. Think of it; a bridge to be throw
across the river at this point this fall YET
1t will be done. IAN attempt to dc
stroy the q. S. frigate Sabine, now ly
ing at Cherbourg, France, by twenty
two of the crew, was detected and seve
of the conspirators hung......A Wash
ington dispatch says: Information ha
been received here showing that a pre-
position is to be made at the next sessio
of congress to create two new states on
Of old ones,-one by cutting off eas
from middle and west Tennessee, an
another by taking portion of Arkansa
and joining it to the territory occupic
by the Choctaw nation. Such divisio
seems to originate among few schen
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