North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-07-14


Rights and the untrammeled expression
Of public opinion who arc in favor of
putting the people on front seats, and
wire pullers and tricky politicians on back
seats, are invited to be present and par>
ticipate. Fellow citizens, come out; not
as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as
MEN, knowing your power and your
rights, and "kuowing, dare maintain
them"
MANY CITIZENS.
July l4th, 1869.
Vows and Items.
Three tons of silver, from Georgetown,
Colorado mines have arrived in Chicago.
......Twenty years ago there were six Post
Offices in Minnesota. Now there are six
hundred. -. Col. j. G. McIlvaine, an old
citizen, died at St. Louis recently.......
John Wells died of spider-bite, at Will
mington, ILL.,, on the Goth ult.....The Rob
inson trial cost Morgan county (Ill.) near
ly $1,000. ...Seventy>iive thousand and
FIVE hundred railway passengers arrived at
Boston in one day, to attend the Jubilee.
..... .Sixty-one new newspapers were start
ed in the United States during May.
The estimated cost Of the Illinois State
Reform School is s4S,O00.... 1.-The human
family is SO numerous that birth and a
death occur every moment. Every second
child is born; every second some one
dies. Three men were killed at Prairie
City, Iowa, on Saturday, by the bursting
of an anvil......Dr. Mckay, collector of
Charleston s. G. protests against his remov
al, alleging that his Successor appointed
by Grant is Democrat.
The debt of Burlington is $640 ,312.
$500. Farmers are harvesting rye in
Muscatine county......A Mr.. Satterlee
was dangerously wounded at Boons-
boro on the 4th.. .Des Moines has
received ,5s4 letters, and mailed
121 ,666 in the past quarter. Bur-
glars are operating quite extensively in
Keokuk ). Charles Brock committed
suicide at Burlington on Tuesday, by
hanging himself to the limb of a tree
......Mrs. Worthington, of Ottumwa,
dropped dead while hoeing in her gar.
den, Wednesday evening......Judg
Trimble, of Atacosco county, Texas
died last Friday night from the bite Of
a venomous snake. 1t is stated by
authority that no cabinet changes art
contemplated, and that all that ha.
lately been said on the subject is mere
speculation. Capt. j. L. Clark, for
merly of the 34th Iowa. and recen
graduate of the State University, ha
, been appointed Deputy United State
Marshal for Iowa. .Messrs. Hanson
) and Walker, of Nashua, were badly in
jured last Tuesday by the breaking of
glass bottle containing sulphuric acid
t which was thrown upon them.
, Ristori leaves the stage next year,.
The precise amount of which Mr.. Higg
defrauded the London Gas Company
1856 900. Connecticut has fifty-fiv
savings banks in which 149, 919 deposit
, ors have put 81, 1903, oOo..... The nun
: icipal franchise bill in the British Pal
!. lament gives women the right to vot
!. at city elections. IA Louisville prizes
has been refusing to bury Fenian....
A storm in Iowa carried four thousan
feet of lumber distance of three miles
tearing the boards to bits as they fe,
through the air......A Chicago cour
has decided that express companie
have the right to forward letters accom-
panying consignments in unstamped en-
velopes.. Burlingame will take tn
Chinese Embassy to Sweden, wher
they will remain one month, and the
! proceed to the Russian capital. ....l
$ young man of Memphis has appeared il
st. Louis to claim the reward of $40
: !, advertised for news of missing cir
|, He married her the other day after
; successful elopement.
' An abandoned city with fine built
6 ings, evidences Of high agricultur;
: prosperity and extensive facilities ft
). mining, has been found on the norther
border Of the State of Sonora 80. i
, man lately appeared in an Indian
town, wearing a vest made out of tn
4 skins of ten rattle-snakes, part of a nes
] Of one hundred and six snakes killed
e one day by a Kentucky farmer.......
: man in Adair county, Iowa, has inven
n ed cannon which he claims will shoe
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