North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-11-10
News and Items.

harbOr is tull OF mackerel, ana the hSh
market is glutted. =. .Wiregrass from
Michigan sells in Buffalo for $50 per
ton to the paper makers. The Con-
necticut Masons arc to erect monu-
ment at Hartford over the remains of
Thomas II. Seymour. There is good
sleighing in Kenrebeck county, Maine,
the snow varying from six inches to a
foot in depth. ..... Poor whisky is called
Fifteenth amendment" in the South,
because it is hard to swallow. DR..
Beecher says he "knows not what Eve
felt in leaving Paradise" She felt
ashamed. There are 100000 thresh-
ing machines in the United States, not
counting "school marms." The roy
al society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals has commenced the publica-
ton of a monthly magazine called the
Animal World.
Cretinism is on the increase in Swift
zerland..... Our exports for last year
reach s413,954 ,625........ Comfortable
collins" are advertised in Boston. ....
There are ten thousand Smiths in Mas
sachusetts.. st. Petersburg is to have
a Woman's Rights Convention. A
tbree-quarter interest in the Onondaga
stone giant has been sold for 100000.
with population of 35,O00,OO0,
Prussia has 100000 in the common
schools. GA beautiful woman" says
Emerson, sis picture which drives all
beholders nobly mad. Ten thousand
dollars worth Of struggled hair was
seized in New York on Wednesday......
Old fashioned English note paper,
stamped with rustic letters, is coming in
vogue again.
II came near selling my boots the 9th,
or day." said Scuttle to friend. E"How
so y" "Well, I had them halfsoled." go.
.....Somebody styles Livingstone, the
African traveller, "the illustrious Living
stone" So much for being always lost.
......It is estimated that three pints of
vest buttons were found on the floor of
the Music Hall after Josh Billings lee
ture recently. The total amount of
sugar now consumed by all nations, may
be estimated at 100000 tons. Amer
lea consumes about 100000 tons........
Josh Billings says that the mosquito
was born of poor but honest parents,
who had in their veins some of the best
blood in the country.
The flow of silver into the Philadel-
phia mint during the past month has
been very heavy, and coming has been
correspondingly active.-..A young lady,
who has being studying finance for some
time past, wishes to know whether the
day rate of gold affects the nitrate of
silver. Over nine thousand males re-
Gently applied in one week to the New
York Free Labor Bureau for employ
ment. For these there were but 42S
situations......Gen. Dix is spoken Of as
the probable successor of Butterfeld as
Assistant U. S. Treasurer, at New York
city......The hotel now in process of
erection at Saratoga is to be the largest
in the world. 1t will be five stories
high, and have a frontage of one thou
sand and fifty feet........ King Victor
Emanuel, of Italy is reported in dying
condition.
A wag remarks that he has seen a
couple Of sisters who had to be told
everything together, for they were so
much alike that they couldn't be told
apart. They have had four inches of
snow at Covington, Va, and Greensboro,
N. c., and six inches fell in some parts
of Canada on Saturday.. In the pub
lished report of the proceedings of the
Grand Lodges of the United States, of
the Order Of Free and Accepted Masons,
it is stated that the membership of the
order in the different States and Terri
tories, and the British possessions,
reaches 1856, incluning 29,S5O in
Pennsylvania.
A sub marine cable between Mexico
and the United States is being urged
upon the Mexican congress. ..Secre-
tary Boutwell, will, in his next report,
set forth plan giving the South and
West greater banking facilities. The
Secretary, Gen. Spinner and other
Treasury officials have come to the con-
clusion that the volume of currency is
inadequate to the wants of the country
! 80. There has been more silver received
and handled at the United States Mint
in Philadelphia during the past month
than has been forwarded to that depot
for at least fifteen years. There is a
great demand for fine bars (bullion) for
shipment to foreign countries and for
domestic use among the platcmakers.
Another prominent New York u. S
Treasury official is charged with fraud
49,. The New York World has an ar
ticlc saying that specie payment is be
resumed and the legal tender act abro