North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-02
News and Items.

News and Items.
Geo. d. Prentice, of the Louisville
Courier-J Journal, is dead. -. The Volga
Valley Times says: ".Allison is snubbed
but not conquered" is common OK.
preston among those who know the
man. The Unanimous North" look at
it in another light The rumor started
in Paris that the Pope was dead is dis
puted.. 49,. Salnavc, President of Hayti,
was recently captured by his enemies,
the revolutionists, and shot. The event
was made the occasion of general rejoic-
ing at Port au Prince. The election
returns from the country, as far as heard
from, are against the present Govern
ment of Spain. The defeat Of Mont
pensier is confirmed.
Keokuk is to have the next State
FAIR. Ole Bull is in Chicago. (. ;. /.
The original discovcrcr Of California
gold is as poor as jobs turkey. Vir-
ginia has 124 ,62O negro voters..... The
ex-grand duke of Tuscany, Leopold II,
is dead... The Hon. Hiram r. Reyels,
the colored Z. s. senator-elect from
Miss, is in Washington with a certif-
cate of his election and ready to take
his seat......It is said that an organiza-
ton of French and American capitalists
has been made in Paris, to construct a
ship canal across the isthmus Of Panama,
connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific
oceans......It is reported that the Pope
yields to France, and will withdraw the
project Of infallibility.
The amount of business before Con-
gress is shown by the statement that
98S bills have been introduced in the
House, and proportionate number in
the Senate. 49,. The present authorities
of Hayti and San Domingo are reported
to have agreed upon basis whereby to
defeat tho lease or transfer of SANTANA
to the United States, as negotiated by
Salnaye.. General Candy, relieved of
his duties in Virginia under the Recon
struction laws, is soon to have a new
military department carved out for him,
in which Virginia will be included with
Maryland, etc......A "Colored Immi-
grafton Aid Association" has been Or
ganized at Little Rock, Ark. The
residents of Fejee Islands wish aunexa-
ton to the United States. "A Fen. Con-
gress is called to meet in New York in
April. Chinese idols are now sold in
New York.
Russians are said to have invented
nothing but peculier tea-urn and
ready-made cigarettes. $500. .Handbills
have been posted up in London favoring
annexation of Canada to the United
States. 80. President Grant has just re-
fused present! A Spanish dog was
expressed to him from Cleveland with
ten dollars charges which the president
refused to pay and the expressmen de-
cided to sell the purp to get the tolls.
....Disraeli does not know anything
about his birthplace.
A cable dispatch says the Pope has
issued special elimination against
the Fenians, both in America and in
Ireland. He charges their meeting in
secret conclaye as dangerous to the
peace of society, welfare of the church,
and well-doing of its members. 1t dis
orders their minds from regular and
rational pursuits of life, and renders
them liable to be led astray by passion
through the influence of designing men
There is lot Of Bohemians in
Washington who make precautions liv-
ing by writing speeches for illiterate
Congressman. They write for any party
and on either side. One related recent
ly, in great glee, how he had prepared
a speech for an honorable member, and
a few days afterward was employed to
answer his own argument by gentle
man in the opposition, which he did
with decided success.