North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-07-07

News and Items.
Advices from IIong-Kong, dated June
8, report great battle between the Ina
peralists and the rebels, IN which the lat
ter were defeated with q loss Of 10000
men !. On the third week of June $500
emigrants left Liverpool for The United
States...... The San Francisco women's
rights organ has ceased to appsar......
Only one newspaper in Texas supports the
regular Republican nominations......De-
corah didn't eel, brate the 4th. They pro.
pose to celebrate the arrival Of the IRON
horse in that city, instead...... Man."
says the anatomist, changes entirely ev-
cry seven years." Therefore" says
Jones, "my tailor should not ask me for
the bill contracted in 1862. am not
the same person hence l owe him moth
ing."......The Lyons City Adrocate, one Of
our best exchanges, is now published
semi-weekly......The civil war in Japan is
reported to be still raging, and heavy
fighting was anticipated. mail ady-ces
to the Sth, have been received at Lisbon,
from Rio Janeiro, stating that Lopez had
offered to withdraw from Paraguay on
certain conditions, which are not named.
Two American and ono English officer had
been passed through tho Allied lines to
the Paraguayan camp. Lopez received
the Americans. but compelled the English
man to retrace his steps to Asuncion.
Advices via London say that Lopez offers
to surrender under the guarantee Of per-
sonal safety.....Tt is announced from
Madrid, that Admiral Topete, Minister of
Marine, and Seno Liguerata, Minister of
Finance, will shortly resign......Gen. NJ.
M. Trumbull, Of Dubuque, succeeds Col.
Henderson as collector Of this cong. dis
trict......In 1867 this county had 22,s79
inhabitants, AID the Register says the re-
turns just received, at Des Moines, show
a gain of 2,l4s, making our present pop
ulation 25,O27. We have 4.440 families,
and 4.476 dwellir.s......Fort Dodge has
$500 dogs. ....The grasshoppers in Idaho
and Utah, having devasted the crops, have
commenced on the trees. The State
teachers association will meet Aug. Oath
25th and Goth. a.s aa- he.a
The owner of the largest personal es-
tate in the country is Cornelius Vander-
blt, the figure being S20,OOO,000. The
Astors have only about 100000 in
personal property. Chicago parties have
made contracts for the regular delivery in
that city of fresh grapes from California
bv the Pacific Railroad. -. 1t is said that
Secretary Robson is wholly in favor of
the eight hour system, and that he will
take the earliest opportunity to insure it's
adoption. The Chicago Republicans
Minnesota correspondents says that State
vii! go democratic this fall notwithstand
ing the $1,000 republican majority given
one year aso......The rumor is revived
that Rawlins will soon resign on account
of ill health, and that Hoar's time is
almost out. ....In two months Denver
bankers have sold 100000 in drafts for
Texas cattle...... The Iungarians are rails
ing sugar from pumpkins. laant 81
Some Of our exchanges have given place
to the New York HeralTs Washington
letter in which the correspondent pretends
to give correct report of an interview,
which he claims to have had, with ex-
president Johnson. The writer left his
work most too open to deceive, and it is
certainly too poorly put to reflect much
credit upon the author. The Office of
the County Treasurer of Winnebago Co.,
at Forest City, was catered by burglars,
the safe blown open, and 500, and some
county warrants extracted. Mr.. Linn,
editor of the Press, and Mr.. Manning, of
Clear Lake, were arrested, and bound oyer
to court in the sum of IS 600 each. Many
think them innocent.
The 18th Of this month the number Of
money order post Offices VIII be increased
about 800, making an aggregate Of about
1900 in the country.....Although the
public debt statement shows reduction
Of Sl6,000,O00 for June, and $50 ,OOO, 900
since March, the real fact is that, for the
fiscal year just ended, the debt has been
decreased in IL months but SIC, lS9,OOO.
That is exactly the decrease on the state
ment made as compared with that of one
year ago. The laws Of Ohio provide
that when the Fourth of July falls on
Sunday, the following day 1.-THE 5th) shall
be legal holiday. Notes falling due on
the 4th must, therefore, be paid on the
3d......A portland man has cured one Of
the most dangerous cases Of cancer by
drinking red clover tea and applying a
red clover compress, and thinks it will
prove an infallible remedy in all cases......
The Dubuque Daily Herald speaks Of a
second adventist in Hardin county, who
imagined second food was coming, and
began to hew out the timbers for an ark,
when--it quit raining. H
The Troy Times remarks that if all
women resemb!ed Susan Is. Anthony, it
would not hesitate to become radical
supporter of that lady's posision in respect
TO married couples sleeping apart........
ro,as;l nl,,ffS cn{4arod SS0 AQO do N, ,,.,
by the late storms..... The Chicago Re
publican says: 1t cost S2S 900 to present
arms to Gen. Grant in Boston, during the
jubilee, and, significantly, pronounces
this ",epublicaa simplictty'......A carpet
ba .ruar named IL Roe MYERS annlied 10