North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-02
News and Items.

revenue rules In force there, IS q viola
ton Of the provision of the Constitution
that no citizen shall be deprived of life
liberty or property without due process
of law. The Radicals of Washington
will laugh at them. ...
The ancient and fsh-like story tina,
the Queen of England is about to abdi
cate, is being revamped by the sensation
al London correspondents of the New
York press.
The negro population of Kentucky
as officially reported by the State Audit.
or, is less by two-ffths than it was in
1S6O-the year before the rebellion.
The same rate of decrease throughout
the south would extinguish the negro
race in that section in less than twenty
years
Mr.. Henry Carver, father of d. D.
w. Carver, one of the proprietors of the
Daily Dubuque Herald, died, at his
residence in Charles City, on Sunday
February Goth.
Among the laws which may be found
on the first page of this issue, there is
one changing the law in relation to
Independent school districts Read it.
Several thousand persons were present
at the hanging of the two colored men
in Newcastle, Del, the other day, and
five minutes after the execution, every
grog-shop in the place was filed to over
flowing. So much for the moral effects
of this act of justice.
A Cincinnati woman, who had re-
ceived from the Relief Union an un-
fashionable pair of boots for her daugh-
ter, promptly returned them, with the
request "Please give me finer pair,
and the tops high, for my daughter
wears her dress short"
A lady in Massachusetts, complaing
that there are persons in her town who
will 60 so far as to take an oath that
they will not divulge secret intrusted
to them, and in less than two days will
take it in a basket and peddle it around
town as they would popcorn or peanuts.
Professor johnson, of Yale College,
having recently examined sixteen differ
ent kinds of fertilizers, some of which
are sold as high as sixty-fve dollars a
ton, finds that very large proportion
of them are worthless.
Minnesota has a maiden who has
achieved maternity at the age of eleven.
1t is to be hoped that she will not prove
the little 'leven that leayeneth the whole
lump.
Two brothers recently married two
sisters in Chester, Del, and now it has
been ascertained that they both have
wives and children living in the City of
Brotherly Love.
1t cost Boston at the rate of nearly
four thousand dollars per hour to re-
ceive and entertain the President at the
Jubilee in June
A paper in Augusta, Me-, reports
that at one of the residences in that city
a lady sits at an open window even dur
ing the coolest days of winter. There
is probably a young man over the way
John 7. Deweese, member of Congress
from the Fourth North Carolina Dis
trict, and Jacob S. Goliaday member
from the Third Kentucky District, have
followed the example of Whittemore, of
South Carolina, by resigning their seats,
to save themselves from being expelled
for having accepted brides for the
appointment OF cadets to the United
States Military Academy at West Point.
The Pope Of Rome is again financially
"hard up" and asks for "Peter's pence"
amounting to over $4,000, 900 to supply
his exchequer.
Smith, of the Keokuk Constitution,
is the oldest editor in Iowa, his career
dating back to 1888.
The Hon. Arson P. Burlingame.
Chinese Commissioner, died at St. Peter
burg, Russia, on the 23rd of February.
A move has been made in the Wis
consin legislature to remove the state
capital from Madison to Milwaukee.
Gov. Merrill asks our members in
congress to vote against any further ap-
preparations for the capital at Washing
ton. This is right and the people of
the state will uphold him in making
the request.
A radical congressman who sold
cadetship, and was to use the money for
educational purposes, gave nearly all of
of it to the radical editors in his dis
trict. Perhaps he thought they were
in greater need of "education" than all
others.
The republican papers of Cincinnati