North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-04-20
News and Items.

..Meadyille, Penn, has one of the fin
est Opera Houses in the country......Al
the naval vessels are to be provided will
a full supply Of lifc-boats. Half of thu
negro population in Pennsylvania reside
! in Philadelphia. The Kcnnebec rivsl
( has furnished nearly 100000 tons of ict
this eason......The War Department bat
pronounced against the use of anything
but black ink......Louis Napolcan calls
$4,000 schoolmasters of his realm ''the
pacific army of France. .....A bearded
woman died the other day at Toulouse
aged lO4 years. She had beard two
feet long. .Vicksburg has deaf police
man, and arrested roysterers complain
that he will not listen to reason. Some
English Quakers have sent box Of books
to Lexington, KY, for the use of the ne
gro schools. -. The estimated number oil
members Of the Masonic Order in the
United States and British America is
46S, 455... 1.-The manager of the Fifth
Avenue Theatre, New York, refuses to ad.
NIT persons on tickets sold by spectators.
A Ncwburyport sexton says: Business
is mighty dull here; l haven't buried a
single living soul for over week.
The Stanton memorial fund amounts to
SAC, 900, and is on deposit drawing inter-
est for Mrs. Stanton and children. >. ;. The
Assembly in the New York Legislature
has agreed to concurrent resolution for
the reduction of canal tolls..... Eight in
mates of the city workhouse, at Cincin-
natl, escaped, yesterday morning. Six Of
them were subsequently recaptured.. 49,.
The Rockford, Rock Island and St. Louis
Railroad Company have contracted for
twenty-five miles of grading from Bush
nell, Ill.,, south.......The Anglo-American
Cable Company, in response to petition
of Liverpool merchants, have promised to
run direct telegraph line from Liverpool
to Valentia.
The Chicago times says Mr.. Colfax will
name his new boy Albert Richardson
Beecher Colfax and the-Pos thinks the
young scion will be titled Albert Richard
son Beecher Bross Colfax.. The Siamese
twins have not spoken to each other for q
month, owing to difficulty about receipts.
......Victor Hugo, it is said in Brussels,
will soon be married to a very wealthy
young lady of that city,. .Eibeck, of the
Journal and some other citizens, recently
examined the bridge, spanning the Turkey
river, at Elkader, and pronounced it I'M
safe. The Journal reports the stringers
''almost entirely rotted away" and advis
es people to cross at the ford until repairs
are made.
Snow fell all day Saturday at st. Louis,
and the storm continued with increased
violence until a late hour of the night......
Over seven thousand immigrants arrived
at New York during the past wcek......
The Canadian expedition to the Red River
will number 10000 picked men, including
a steel battery and Rocket brigade, as
well as 1000 loyal Indians. 80. Commo-
dore Meade was struck with paralysis
Friday evening, in Brooklyn, and was
sent to the City Hospital. ....Hon. Chas.
Emmerson, member of the Illinois Con-
stitutional Convention, died at Decatur
Saturday.
American silver will be received in
Canada, on Government account, at per
cert. discount, up to the 18th of April,
after which the discount will be ST per
cent?. Canada is in state of great
commotion over the anticipated Fenian
invasion......A county in California re-
ports the rainfall of the season to be
1906 inches. The longest bridge in the
world is to be commenced in few days
across the Delaware......The rapid rise of
the river, at St. Louis, on Sunday, broke
the main caisson surrounding the east pier
of the bridge that is being constructed
across the Mississippi at that point, and
the pier is now twenty.four feet under
water. No further work can be done on
this pier until the river falls, but labor on
the west pier is progressing finely.
In recent storm on the Sierra Nevada
mountains, two feet of snow fell on the
line of the Central Pacific Railroad. This
was probably the last storm Of the season.
Trains have run on time, all the season,
demonstrating the fact that the road can
be kept open all seasons. ....Serious dis
orders have broken out at Ovar, Portugal,
and some fighting. Several persons are
reported killed and wounded. :. Another
success is the Post Office, with its educat-
ing energy augmented by cheapness, and
guarded by certain religious sentiment
in mankind SO that the power of q
water or drop of wax or gluten to guard
letter, as it flies over sea, over land, and
comes to its address as if battalion oi
artillery brought it, ] look upon as a fine
MISTER of civilization. Emerson.
The Ecumenical Council at Rome, has
adopted the doctrine of the Instability OF
the Pope, almost unanimously. Speak
ing of the lectures of Stanton and Locke
-Nasby-in DEBORAH, the Republican
says: "The last five minutes of his Ices
ture was more convincing than the whole
of Mrs. Stanton's effort, because there
was more sense in il" ......Wanted-in al.
most every town on the Mississippi river,
good-sized water. fall.
Omaha offers bonus of $50, 900 for q
$4,000 hotel, with no takers. :.
Mr.. Asa Eeach, of Farmersburg, has
just returned from trip through Illinois
and part of Indiana Ho raporfc tho