North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-21
News an a Item 8.

......A man recently died IN Toledo iron
fright. caused by burglars entering his re
sidencc Fashionable invitations t
swell dinners in Paris now specify tn
menu, or bill of fare......A lady in Detroi
has obtained divorce because her husban,
used unkind language to her and compel
led her to black his boots. .....A doctor il
Iowa says he can tell when his medicine
are taken to order. The handle of th
door is sure to be decorated with blacl
crape.........It is reported by Minnesot;
paper that the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company has secured sufficient funds tt
construct one or two hundred miles Of
road, and that it will Immediately begin
operations at the Western or Pacific ter.
minus. lone of the Philadelphia papers
sold $4,000 copies of the edition contain.
ing an account Of the suicide Of Twitchell
and the hanging of Eaton, and the demand
for morning journal of that city was SO
great that it was reprinted on the follow
ing morning......At this season, with al
ternate warm and cold days, don't take of
the oyercoats, or the thick shoes, or the
underclothes, too soon. One indiscretion
of this kind now, while the constitution is
run down by the winters confinement,
may entail on you lifelong suffering $50.
Mr.. John Chamberlain, of Ellisburgh, N.
T., has new machine for shooting crows.
1t consists of three gun barrels, so arrang-
ed that one cap fires all. He places some
carrion in the field, short distance from
his barn, brings the machine to bear on
the point, and when crowd of crows have
collected, fires. With three shots, re-
Gently, he killed forty, forty-fve and fifty
one crows......A serious conhagration took
place in Altoona, Pa, destroying property
20 the extent'of 100000. Late adyices
from Caracas report the breaking out of
a revolution in that land of earthquakes
ard volcanoes......The loss by the burning
of the oil refinery near Pittsburgh, on
Wednesday, is nearly S25O,00O. The re-
mains of an unknown man were found in
the ruins. THE Old School PRESBYTERIAN
Synod, in convention at Morris. H..
adopted resolutions in favor of re -union
of the old and new schools. ......... Major
Chas. Q. Rogers, proprietor Of the Boston
Journal is dead. The United States Su-
preme Court has adjourned until October
No decision was given in the legal tender
case......Tom Allen and Mike McCool, of
st. Louis, are to fight two months hence,
for one thousand dollars side, and the
excursion money. They have put up two
hundred dollars forfeit. The Commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue has decided
that all money, whether borrowed or not,
save deposits paying tax as such, used in
banking, should enter into the estimate of
capital taxable under the revenue law.
Richmond, Louisville, Philadelphia, New
York, Indianapolis and CINCINNATI had
the pleasure last evening Of witnessing a
magnificent auroral display. The electric
current was so strong that the wires were
worked between Philadelphia and the
western part of Pennsylvania, and between
Boston and New York, without the aid of
batteries.
Alta school exhibition given one night
last week four miles from Plymoth, India.
ma. a theratical performance containing O
duel was part Of the entertainment. The
pistols used were supposed to be unloaded,
but when the triggers were pulled, one of
them went off, and the bullet entered the
right side of one Of the performers, inflc-
ting probably fatal wound. The pistol
had been borrowed for the occasion, and
was supposed to contain no load. :. Mrs.
Cady Stanton thinks that of all pitiful
sights is a sick man. A woman arrayed
in rich drcssing>gown and cap can look
quite interesting, pale and thin in an easy
chair but a man, with his Adams core
unkempt beard, irritable TENDER, his hope
less views of the future, and his long legs
that no one can lift to bed or out, is
enough to appal the most patient and low.
ing OF Ewes daughters. Let us have done
with sick men. She proposes to abolish
them by giving women scientific medical
education, which we fear would only in
crease the evil, by adding to the tempta-
tons to be sick.
A special to the Detroit Tribune reports
the destruction by fire, at Kalamazoo, Of
Stevens clearinghouse and five adjoining
on Academy street. Loss,
SOC, OOO......A Topeka (Kansas) lady has
brought suit against the Judges of Elec-
ton for refusing her vote for State and
County School Superintendent She claims
$4,000 damages. Joseph Smith, who
died at Plano, H., on the 25th ultimo, was
son of the late Mormon leader of that
name, and was the head of the Mormon
Church in Illinois, which organization is
becoming quite numerous. It has news
paper organ at Plano, and last year pub-
lished an edition of the Mormon Bible.
Il. G. January, of the firm of Il. G. Jan
uary It Co., leading merchants of Mays
vile, KY. fatally shot himself through the
head on Tuesday morning, in sudden fit
Of mental alteration. ..On the Doth inst.
the graves of the rebel dead will be deco
rated by their friends roagLout the
South.
France has 266, l66 fremen and 1920
fire engincs......Prentice says it isn't often
that we find man big enough to contain
Fish, Secretary of State,
says that he goes for "the cessation of all
strife.n Give MS ynnr fin on that