North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-16
News and Items.

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cess at Paris. 1t was girl.
To own yacht in England is certi.
6cate that the possessor thereof enjoys
an annual income of G3,00e to 5000
A girl at Newark, N. j., was married
at 10 in the morning, and at IL wa,
consulting lawyer about divorce.
The ladies of the Uuiversalist Church
at Clinton, have hit on new dodge fol
raising funds. They have Glove making
and mate choosing meetings" at twenty
five cents per head.
The Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman, Of Sat.
urday says that Gen. Leslie Combs, the
oldest man in the world, was in town
last week, looking as young and hearty
as he did some three hundred and fifty
years ago, when he first came to this
duntry with his friend and schoolmaster
Christopher Columbus!
Prince Arthur is said to have been
followed to this country by Prussian
lady who figures in society as Marchio.
ness, and who, to the great CONSERVATION
of the young mans mentors, appeared
in Washington Immediately after his
arrival. The Queen had given stringent
orders to keep her son away from this
irrepressible female, who follows Arthur
from place to place. She is handsome
woman, and full of vivacity.
The murderers Bonner and Boden.
burg were executed at Huntington, Pa,
Wednesday. Their necks were broken
by the fall, and no struggle.
In the House of Commons, on the 9th,
the rate to provide for the maintenance
of ministers in Scotland was rejected by
majority of III.
The Ancient and Accepted Scotch.
rite Masons are holding their eighteenth
annual reunion in Cincinnati. Dele.
gates are present from nearly all the
Northern States of the Union.
The Union Pacific railroad stockhold.
ers have reelected the old Board OF
Directors. 1t is estimated the earnings
of the road, for the ensuing year, will
reach S12,OOO,OOO.
BY the passage by the Kentucky
Legislature of bill establishing a bu.
rcau of insurance, all foreign corpora
lions will be required to deposit $780,
600 of securities.
Mrs. Sarah Blocketter, who murdered
her husband at Litch6eld, Mimi, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of
$4,000. She is only seventeen years
of age, and, it is said by some, was goad-
ed to the crime by brutal treatment.
The Bradford Bros, one of the oldest
firms in Milwaukee have dissolved.
They failed short time ago.
The president has accepted the invi-
tation of the citizens of eastern Connec-
ticut to attend the proposed grand mass
meeting on Woodstock common on the
4th Of July next, in honor of the day
and particularly in honor of the passage
ofthe fifteenth amendment. Hon. Stew
art L. Woodward and Hon. B. F. But.
Ter will address the meeting. The
President in accepting the invitation,
which he did without qualification, said
he hoped congress would adjourn early
SO he could go to Long Branch in June.
Pauline Markham, of the Thompson
Markham-Storey embroslio notoriety,
is i'll with brain fever.
The French official journals say there
is no intention of Withdrawing the
French troops from Rome. They are
there to defend the territorial rights,
not the religious claims ofthe Holy See.
1t is reported that Count Daru, the
War Minister, will issue manifesto
explaining that he did not demand that
France have representation in the Coun-
Gil because of the proposed introduction
of the dogma of infallibility, but On ac-
count of the publication of a scheme
which seems to touch the question of
church and state.
A conflict between the French SEN
ate and the Ministry is feared, on &C
count of the proposed reform in the
system of nominating Mayors.
Sumner wants congress to reduce let
ter postage to one cent.
The receipts of thr Suez Canal from
the 18th Of November to the LIST of
February were about G23, 900.
Gen. Prim denies having sent pro-
positions to Senator Sumner for the
sale or cession Of Cuba to this govern
ment.
The Senate will probabably concur in
the main features Of the House bill for
the reduction Of the army, despite Of
strong pressure to the contrary.
Real old-fashioned fox hunts are the
fashion now in the the vicinity of Keo-
kuk.
Count Montaembert, chief of the lib
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