North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-09
News and Items.

The population of St. Petersburg on
the 10th of December last was 667 ,O26.
A ball is talked Of at Bridgeport,
Conn, for men who have red hair, ex-
clusively.
The New York Commercial Adver.
tiser says suicide is the sickle with
which the Almighty reaps the harvest
of fools"
The latest walking advertisement in
Broadway, New York, is man attired
from head to foot in greenbacks.
1t pays better to be Philadelphia
Alderman than Judge of the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania.
In 1869 the State dog tax of Ken
lucky netted 2,109, and in that year
dogs killed 81 LOG sheep, valued at $50.
342.
The independence Beige says that it
pays more for its Paris correspondence
than the whole English press taken to-
gether.
A Kentucky couple lately eloped on
a hand-car.
The Mayor Of Fort Gaines, Ga, re-
Gently adjourned session of the Coun-
Gil by knocking two Aldermen and the
Clerk under the table.
Six tons Of pickerel have been taken
from the reservoir of the Pennington
Water Power Company, in East Otis,
Mass, this winter, all caught through
the ice. A thousand pounds of good,
plump pickerel, many Of them weighing
three pounds each, are often caught in
one day.
A correspondent ofthe Maine Farmer
has new use for cats. He says: "My
way to cure sulky steer that lays down
when you first yoke him, is to take .
cat and let her put her paws on the end
of the steers nose, and, if necessary
hold her rather hard. My word for it
he will be on his legs quick"
Every county but one in Massachusetts,
increased its valuation last year.
The whaling feet in the North Paci
&c, Ochotsk and Arctic Seas secured As,
GA barrels Of oil, 596,793 pounds o.
whalebone, and 1866 pounds of wal
rus ivory, during the year 1869.
A majority of the shares Of the
Thomaston National Bank, in Maine
are owned by women.
The women in Bristol, Tenn, tax.
their knitting to church.
The New York hotel keepers have
raised $25O,OOO to crush out the ice
monopoly.
The editor of the Chicago Times had
q battle with the Blondes, as he desig
mates some players at Crvsby's Opera
House. Two females had whips in HAND
to cowhide Storey, but Storey wouldn''
submit Arrests of some of the Blonde.
were made, and after an examination
fined 500 each,
Ten Of the released Fenians from
Australia arrived on the 18th ult. il
Dublin. A large crowd assembled on
the quay when the steamer came in
There was great cheering, but no othe
demonstration. The returned Fenian
visited the Theatre Royal in the evening
and a demonstration Of Welcome wa
made. The audience in the pit ane
galleries stood, singing "God save Ire
land" The performance was suspend
ed for considerable time.
Emma Carroll, a notorious courtezan
now lying at the point of death il
Greene street, New York, has willet
100000, most of her fortune, to found
ing home for fallen women.
Ben. Butler, true to his instincts, mp
pears in Congress as the defender O
Whittemore, the corrupt carpet-bagger
who sold the cadctships belonging to hi
district to outsiders for the sum Of So,
900. Birds of feather flock to
gether."
Cadetships are now retailed at 81,
hundred dollars apiece. BY the gros
they come cheaper.
Nineteen babies a week are left il
the basket of the New York foundlin,
hospital.
The village of Sweet Heme, Missouri
has been destroyed by fire. 1t contained
two houses
The woman question-"Where dit
you buy your back hair?"
A Vermont youth rejoices in nin'
grandparents.
The ice crop is fine in Alaska
fourth of mile thick.
Theirs, though over seventy years o
age, still ranks as the first orator o
France.
Apple stands pay u license Of $50 /.
year in Columbus, Georgia.
Your ALASKA sable" furs, my dea
madam, were once worn by the Mephit
is Americana.
Minnocofo counfy hoo 10A hoh;a