North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-09-15
News and Items.

News and Items.
Prince Arthur is expected to reach
Ottawa about the goth inst. e. :. Charles
Sumner will lecture for a few weeks
previous to the opening Of congress.
Brigham Young is now drilling his mil.
tia. There are $4,000 of them. -. l..
Bierstadt will return from Europe this
month. .Beechcr is to lay himself
open to abuse by editing newspaper.
Louisa Muhlbach is one of the best
chess players on the continent. She is
coming to America on a visit. Mr.
Kinglake is going to the Crimea again
to settle some ugly questions that have
arisen in the investigation of the history
Of the war. ....Fifty-seven years ago
Treasurer Spinner used to carry surrep-
titious loye-lettcrs for T. w. to his
sweetheart. The fact that a certain
estate turns out to be insolyent is due,
so southern papers say, not to the fact
that no spoons were stolen, but because
the brother-in-law was administrator. .. e.
A Berlin clergyman boxed the ears of a
bride whose demeanor didn't suit his
ideas of propriety, and is now in JAIL.
Already young man in Cleveland has
announced that it is his mission to wed
the ''widder Vanderbilt"
The Portland papers fear that Gen
Grant will attend the New England
fair......A southern paper advises Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe to 90 to the
"Erring Woman's Home" in Chicago.
1.-The Countess Waldegravc believes
in the prophecy that the fifth husband
will be a prince, and Chichester Fortes-
cue, her fourth partner, is getting nerv-
ous... Prince Napoleon has wary eye
on-the throne. The emperor is grow
ing feeble, and the other prince-the
emperor's son-may find it well to trav-
ell for his health if the father yields up
the ghost.
Donnclley was defeated in the MINI.
radical state convention, Horace Austin.
of St Peters, having received the NOM
nation for governor The ticket made
is creating good deal of dissatisfaction
in the party......Thc negro postmaster
at Valdosta, Ga, has beed retired, and
a white man put in his place. -. The
Byron Collar company has commenced
a libel suit against Mrs Stowe -. Hon.
j. L. Wilson, cx-member of congress.
is talked Of as successor to the Hon. j.
W. Grimes in the U. S. Senate. il. =. 1t
is said that PRESIDENT Grant has gone
to Washington to live......It was re-
solved at the Keokuk Commercial Con-
to petition congress to make
appropriations for holding the Worlds
Fair in the valley of the Mississippi in
G. NJ: Dodge and Hon.
j. /. Wilson are each spoken of in con-
nection with place in the cabinet.
1t is said Ben. Butler has abandoned |
the contest for the Mass. scnatorship...
...Pennsylyania claims the vacant seat
IN the cabinet. The pope is about to
make great efforts to convert the negroes
If Africa. Two hundred of them are
studying for the priesthood. 80. General
Sherman's commission as Secretary of
If War appoints him until the end of
he next session of congress. He can
lold the office of general also, but will
'cceiye the 50! larry of only one of them.
THE State Fair was opened at Kco-
iuk yesterday.
The election in Maine indicate, at
his writing, probable radical MAORI
y of 5000 against $4,000 at the
,ubernational election, and $4,000 at
he presidential election, last year. The
lext time their loss will be our success
II that state. Three times and out.
They have had the third. Good
nough.
The Chicago Journal has San Fran
isco dispatch which says a document
Eas found on the coast giving inform
tion of the fate of Sir John Franklin.
t says the party wintcrcd on Beecher
sland in 1916 and 1917 and that Sir
[ohn Franklin died on the 18th of
Tune 1S47..... The report of the En-
error Napoleon's intention to abdicate
n favor of his son is repeated.
Now is the time to insure in the Wash>