The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-05-19
News of the Week.

ra SSu miles OF Inc cable on board.
Russia has decided to construct three lines of
Railway between the Black and Caspian Seas.
Affairs in India are in a very unsettled state.
There being much fighting and great loss of
men on the part of the rebels.
Lord Elgin will take immediate sters to Tut
an end to the Coslic traffic.
Reports of Liverpool Market, May LIST, shows
frmness in Cotton and Groceries, but no
great change in -four or grain.
The Mormons are equipping companies to
cut off supplies and harrass the troops now
on the march for Utah.
A deadful accident occurred on the N. Y.
Central r. R. on the morning of the llth by
the crushing of bridge over the Sanquoit
creek, near Whitesboro; Eight or ten persons
are already dead, and forty or more in
jured some fatally. ri
The three volunteer Regiments for the Utah
service numbering 1880 men will cost the
Government something over a 100000 per
year.
On Monday they 10th the boiler belonging
to the Illinois stone Company on wells st.
Chicago, exploded, killing the engineer, and
badly wounding several other persons.
The steamship Arabia sailed from New
York on the IL, with ls3 passengers. and
SASS, 900 in specie.
ing heen fred into with rifles, by the British
war steamer Styx when off Key West, and af
forwards searched. ~
The schooner Star of the North left Detroit
on the 18th with cargo for Liverpool.
Rev. w. H. Lordof Montpelier VT, now re-
cci,ing salary Of $500. has declined call
of $4,000 to Cincinnati.
There is a press Of emigration to California
beyond the capacity Of the steamers now run
ming the Empire City took out 1913 paying
passengers.
Louis Napoleon completed his 50th year on
AIril Goth.
The Bank Of Central New York, Utica, has
resumed business.
1t is said that an average of only about two
and half words per minute, can be transmit
ted through entire length of the Atlantic cable,
only about one tenth as fast as the overland
lines. If the project proves successful, it will
not begin to do tic business, and others will be
speedily laid.
The peaches and strawberries have been
killed by frost in New jersey.
An officer of the steamer Georgetoun writes
from Bombay, that there it is considered a dis
grace for children to be unmarried at the age
of five years, and boy unmarried at six is an
old bachelor. Children arc married by their
parents when mere infants.
There are seventy six banks in Connecticut
with an aggregate capital Of $40 $685. 23.
Minnesota is a state, the bill for her admis-
sion having passed both houses, and her Sena-
tors and Representatives admitted to their
seats.
The Star of the West, from Aspinwall ar
rived in New York on the 18th, with Califor.
MIA Mails of April Goth, and over 81 COZ. 900
in specie. and 500 passengers Business at
San Fancisco, dull, mining and agricultural
prospects extremely fattcring.
Forrest City, Sierra Co. was burned April
10th, loss $4,000.
/ The Cal. Legislature has passed law pro.
hibiting any business on the Sabbath, except.
ing Hotels, Restaurants, Drug stores and sta
bles.
The religious revival had commenced in Sar
Fancisco.
The few remaining Mormons in Carson Yal
ley were preparing 10 leave for Salt Lake.
There is some talk Of another revolution al
Bogota.
:, The brig Robt. Wing arrived in Boston OF
the 18th, and reports that off Iroqua, a British
, cruiser fred upon her, and then sent o boa
along side and examined the b,igs papers.
The crevasse at New Orleans was abandoned
on the 10Th the water still rising.
Mayor Teman is trying to stop the sale o
"swill milk" in N. Y. City, SO called from it
being produced from cowa fed on swill from
distilleries. The cows are all badly diseased
and more than one half the deaths Of child
rem in the city, are attributed to the use of THU
unwholcsone milk.
1t is proposed by several of the European
Powers who make use of Prof. Morse's Tele
graph, to give him $lO0, 900, as bonus for hi
discoveries in electric communication.
A mammoth tent is being used in Philadel.
phia tor holding religious meetings in which
will seat some 5000 persons
1t is stated by the New York Times that
the bridge, the giving way of which caused
such frightful loss of life in the recent Rail
road accident had been unsafe for some time,
as the timbers were old and rotten, the officers
of the Road had been informed of the fact,
sometime previous, but continued to run trains
across it, until two being upon it at once, it
| gave away.
Police.-S. w. CAspENrEa, Esq, who may
be sly lied the Project of the Dubuque Police,
was in our place few days since taking an
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