North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-16
News and Items.

Iheio are oo,ooo clerSymen In the
United States. ....... Farley offers 16O
acres of land and $4,000 for the new
penitentary. Quartz mines in the
vicinity of Helena, Montana, are paying
better, and are in more prosperous
condition than ever before. -. Some of
the radical papers are calling for re.
duction of army salaries and as method
of reasoning publish the salaries of the
following officials: Gen. W. T. Sher-
man S1S,7S0; Lieut.. Gen p H. Sher-
idan, S14 ,803; Maj. Gen. Fl. w. Hal
leck, s9,S72; Sec. of War, Belknap,
$4,000; Chief Justice Chase, Sc, 500 ;
Vice President Colfax, $4,000. ........
Diptheria is making a tour of Ohio.
The cardinal vacancies have increased
to twenty. .... Delaware peach trees are
in blossom. IAN exchange thinks St.
Valentines Day is losing it's interest.
Not so in our city. Almost every one
has pocket full of these cupids mes
Of love and burlesque. DR.. Holmes
says that easy crying widows always
take new husbands soonest. There is
nothing like wet weather for transplant
ing cabbages OBJECTIONS
At Christmas dinner in Santa Bar
bara, Cal, sweet aud Irish potatoes,
vegetables of all kinds, lemons, pome-
granates, olives and strawberries were
served fresh from the garden, and the
table was adorned with lemon, apple,
strawberry and raspberry blossoms. 49,.
The Vienna Free Press confirms the re-
port that the protest of Austria and
other Catholic powers against the Papal
syllabus has been transmitted to Rome.
...... Eugene is ........Cincinnati is
making desperate exertions to secure
the passage ola bill by Congress making
her port of entry. A delegation has
been sent to Washington to lobby for
the measure. 90. The Presidents father
was 76 last Sunday.
James Gordon Bennett is still a Brit
ish subject. ....Sam Houston's family
are quite destitute in Texas. Victoria
thinks of visiting Germany....... The
family of King Louis of Bavaria met at
Munich to consider the question of his
withdrawal from the throne. The legis-
lative body of Bavaria has already begun
to move on the subject of dethroning
the young libertine. Unusually cold
weather is reported in Europe. Pri-
vate intelligence received at Des Moines
from ex-senator Grimes, now in Europe
is to the effect that his health is falling
fast, and that it is very probable he will
not survive the journey home.
Twenty negroes are employed as
clerks in the departments at Washing
n......Van- Buren, county, Iowa, it is
said, has an extensive bed of workable
Autograph rocks. 49,. 1t is rumored that
HeadCentrc Stephens is coming to this
country again. jeff Davis is writing
his book. -. The London Tablet says
the majority in the Ecumenical Council
favoring the infallibility of the Pope is
seven hundred and eighty-three.......
Some twenty or thirty of the great
churches and cathedrals in the City of
Mexico are deserted and going to ruin.
......A volumne of Beeeher's sermons
has been published in Berlin, in the
German language...... Over four hun
dred arrests have been made by the
government authorities at Paris during
the disturbances of the past four days.
..... Sherman, of Ohio, offered a resolu-
ton in the Senate, recognizing the
Cuban revolutionists as belligerents.
Gov. Merrill will soon issue special
message on the Wisconsin and Fox
rivers Improvement. ....Our legislature
have ordered the removal of the Nation
al Capital. .Barnum is after that Cleve-
land dog. He says the present that
Grant would not accept MUST be cur
iosity. The Mexican troubles are on
the increase. 1t is believed that Juarez
cannot hold power more than four
months longer.