North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-30
News and Items.

j. Russell Jones, of Illinois, has been
confirmed as Minister to Belgium.
The total number of Free Masons in
the United States and the British Pro-
vinccs is set down at 100000.
Mrs. Mary Foster, one of the girls
who carried laurel leaves at the funeral
of Washington, died at Newark, N. j.,
on the 10th inst, aged ninety-three.
The Missouri House has passed a bill
abolishing the Office of State Printer,
and providing for State printing by the
lowest bidder.-If this were done by
our Legislature great saving to the tax
payers would be the result
A copy of the first folio edition of
the works of William Shakespeare were
sold recently at auction for e63O.
Gen. Butter6eld has rendered his re-
signation as Brevet Major General and
it has been accepted.
The City Council of Denver has re-
solved that the national capital ought
to be removed to the geographical GEN.
ire of the country which that body fixes
at the forks of the Republican and
Smoky rivers.
Young Grant-Ulysses, junior-has
been dis6guring, at West Point, the
countenance his fellow cadet, Gilmore,
relative of Gen. Q. A. ditto.
Prince Pierre Bonapartc, whose trial
for the murder of Victor Noir has been
in progress at Tours, France, the past
week, has been acquitted.
Prince Arthur is to visit California
the latter part of April. He will then
return to Montreal and leave in the
troop ship with his brigade for England.
Hon. Pierre Soule, formerly United
States Senator from Louisiana, died at
New Orleans on Saturday.
| 1t is announced that General Ames
United States Senator elect from Missis.
sippi, is soon to marry Gen. B. +. But
ler's daughter.
At grand banquet of the English
volunteer forces, after the Mordaun1
trial, the health of the Prince of Wales
was proposed, but was met with such &
storm of Kisses that it was quietly drop
ped.
Observant Frcnchmen, skilled in
medical science, report, as the result o.
much investigation and observations
that since women have loosened Their
corsets. the annual mortality has de
creased 1S1 per cent.
A beaver measuring four feet six
inches from tip to tip, and weighing
fifty pounds, was shot recently by /:
negro, two miles from Memphis. Whe1
shot his beavership was engaged il
t catching ducks.
' A New York policeman lost his nos,
t on Thursday night last, while attempt
, ing to quell a riot among gang o
f, roughs. The fellow who bit it off boasts
that it is the fifth proboscis he ha
served in the same manner.
A Squire in indianapolis married
couple last week, adapting the service
: to modern times by pronouncing then
r man and wife 'until separated by law
The value of property in Lowell
Mass, belonging to churches, charitabl
, and benevolent institutions, etc, whicl
= is exempt from taxation, is estimated a
s474, $50.
! The president will reccomend a gene
e al amnesty measure.
. The deficit of Bailey, the defaultin
j and missing United States Internal Re
!. venue Collector at New York, is abou
! $4,000
Petroleum v. Nasty is to lecture i
:, DEBORAH this week.
&C. Washburne, of La Crosse, refuse
to 60 back to Washington. No membe
of that family was ever known to dc
clare in that way before.
The Dubuque Ferry began her re
> gular trips on the 25th.
i A Washington. dispatch to the Chicag
Tribune says Allison has made himse
! the leader Of the moderate tariff men i
the House,
The contractors for building the Mic
8 land railroad in New York have contracte
q for one thousand Chinese laborers, at 81
4 q month and board, for term Of five year.
The British House Of Commons passe
4 the bill for the enforcement of the laws i
Ireland. 1t is a very stringent measure
q and trouble is anticipated.
The bill for the restoration Of Texa
passed the house on Monday and tn
senate on Tuesday.
;, The president will issue his proclama
ton Of the Fifteenth Amendment.
The cable reports that the Emperor Ma
poleon has ordered Prince Pierre Bona
D parte, the assassin, to leave France, an
J, that he will probably come to the Unite
q States; also that many ''conspirators" al
b&hg arrested in France.
: The Territory Of New Mexico apple
for admission IS State, shehaying tn