North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-02-23
News and Items.

News and Items.
j. w. Van Orman, Esq, has placed
in the Academy Of Sciences, Chicago,
several bones exhumed on an island in
the Mississippi, in August, 1868, and
known to be the remains of species of
rhinoceros. "A schoolmaster, suffering
from wet groceries, was found in the
gutter at Muscatine on Monday night.
......A number of Washington ladies,
under the lead of the wife of Admiral
Dahlgren, have formed society for
active opposition to the woman suffrage
movement. 1t is announced that the
payment of old mortgages in gold has
already been insisted upon, in accord
ance with the late decision.
The Buffalo Express says that the
liveliest business in that city now-a-
days is the free-lunch trade. 80. An
Illinois farmer lately killed two hum
dred and sixteen snakes which he found
alternating under one rock. 49,. The
house committee on naval affairs has
voted to give staff officers rank, which
is what they want. -. Commodore Van
derbilt denies that he has had any con.
nection with the female stockholders in
Wall street. ....An Iowa farmer lately
sent letter to the patent Office, asking
if he could get patent on ''an improv-
ed mode of'making fried cakes"
Wisconsiners are urging their legis-
lature to pass a law creating the town
ship supervisor system of county gov
eminent. Cedar Falls is. just now
without church bell and some of the
citizens set this up as an excuse for
their non-attendence. The Gazette says
their only bell is s'busted.". The latest
reports from Senator Grimes announce
substantial improvement in his health.
Last week we had authority for saying
that it was not expected he would be
able to reach home We are glad to
record better news. 1t is now report
ed that congress will not adjourn until
midsummer. lon Monday the mer-
curry worked thirty degrees below zero
in st Paul and the coolest day Of the
season in New York.
The House of Representatives at
Washington, on Monday, passed the re-
solution of Mr.. Loughridge, Of Iowa, to
increase the volume Of currency circula.
ton $50, 100000. 1t is believed that
the Senate will fail to concur.
Heavy rains are reported throughout
California -. The O'Neil wing of the
Fenians in New York city are said to
be accommodating arms for another raid
on Canada.
President Baez will submit the ques-
ton of the annexation of San Domingo
to the United States to a popular vote.
A large majority in favor of annexation
is expected. Influential parties in
Venezuela have requested Baez's help
in securing the annexation Of Venezuela
to the United States.
A father was winding his watch,
when he said playfully to his little girl,
"Let me wind your nose up" "No,"
said the child, II don't want my nose
wound up, for I don't want it to run all
day"
A mother not long since was lament
ing the loss Of a child Gone Of family
of eight, because" she said, ''there
was just enough for cotillion, and they
did dance SO prettily''
Living in Harrodsburg, KY, is an
old negro woman who is over one hun
dred years of age, and during the lapse
off century the black color Of her skin
has disappeared. Her face, hands,
neck and arms are Of pearly wilderness,
and her hair is now white, besides hav-
ing lost much Of the .kink. The old
woman says she was "born a nigger,"
and felt no little alarm when she began
to turn white.
The woman who undertook to scour
the woods has abandoned the job, owing
to the high price ofsoap. The last that
was heard of her she was skimming the
sea. Rev. E. E. Hale, in his Lowell
lecture on "Sleep,' said, 1 deprecate all
reading III the evening, except that of
the lighter and more amusing charac-
ter"
Miss Susan B. Anthony says she
never heard Of so many men in one place
being simultaneously affected with sore
threats as she found in Washington in
selecting Congressman to speak at her
Suffrage Convention.
We have reports Of horrible atrocities
committed by the troops Of Lopez in
Paragua, such as cutting the threats
of starving and unprotected women, and
leaving their bodies scattered along the
highways. Deserters report Lopez as
habitually drunk.
The Nsbula of Andromeda, just Wis
IDLE to the naked eye, is 80 distant that