The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-01-18
News and Ite1na.

. News ana Items.
$ There were 10, 2ss, 400 gallons of petro
, cum exported last year.
T 1t is said that Gen. Mcclellan will leay
for Europe during the first week in Eel
! ruary and will be absent two years.
t A theatrical representation took place O
the evening of Monday, at Dousmans Ha
, for the benefit of the Catholic Church
: Some one gave US notice of it for put
in our last issue, and we lost the MS
Sorry, but it is too late now.
Gen. Lane has been reelected to tn
senate from Kansas for six years.
On the 18th inst, the Missouri Stat
convention, at st. Louis, passed an ordn
ance Of immediate emancipation by vote
Of 60 tS4.
A Washington despatch says: ga "a q.
"Orders have been telegraphed to Den
yer for the arrest Of Col. Chvineton 70,
the slaughter of Indians near Fort Lyon
Orders have also been sent to seize ali thu
property taken from the Indians to gathe,
In the remnant who escaped the slaughter
and have them taken care of at the ey
pense of the government until disposition
can be made Of them.
The Tribune Of Chicago has grown tired
of Edmund Kirke' alias Gilmore in his
scenes at the South written for the -Atlan.
tic Monthly. This Gilmore has filled rail.
road cars with lies handsomely bound
until he supposed the greater the falsehood
the more rapidly the sale Of the book, but
his last, in the atlantic is too heavy, even
for the gullibillty of the Tribune That
influential old breeder of dissenson in
neighborhoods and in geographical sections,
thus suggests: --.. ,..-S.
Mr.. Edmund Kirke" Gilmore in the
December number will work more injury
to the reputation Of the atlantic than the
contribution of Professor Goodwin Smith
can repair. People will not believe that
white women are ravished by negroes in
the streets Of Richmond, within the hear
| ing Of sentinels, who remain dead to their
cries for help, and that they are rescued
| at last by federal prisoners, under double
guard, in the fourth story of the Spots
| wood Hotel, even when such tales are found
in the respectable columns of the atlantic
Monthly. VINES. .'a. ,sr>.r
The railroad bridge at Clinton, Iowa is
completed. -
A residence valued at $50, 900 has been
presented to Mrs. Gen. Grant by some
Philadelphians.
A Denver Colorado paper quotes
apples, small as marbles, firm (probably
frozen) at fifty cents piece, fresh oysters
minus, chestnuts s75, the bushel, or $3.50
per pound; and says cord of quartz
taken from the Fiske, yielded over a thous-
and dollars, net; salt springs have been
discovered on the Boulder, near Boulder
City and that freight, from the Missouri,
is up from twelve to fifteen cents few
winters ago, to twenty three to thirty
cents. Sass r..
A dwarf named Richebourg, died recent.
ly in Paris aged 90. He was less than
Tom Thumb, and during the Revolutions
he was used as an infant, with dispatches
and secret papers concealed in his
swadolng clothes. No one would think
of disrobng child to find contraband pa
pers ..........
The Continental Monthly is dead. Too
much ''color" in it for success.
The Amazon has recently been nayaga
ted 2 900 miles by Peruvian steamer.
This may lead to new water route to the
Pacific. ...... ... ..
A member of General Meade's staff
recently saw ragged boy with an uncom-
mon large muller about his neck. He
asked what was the matter with him, and
he replied that he had got the itch. The
officer Investigated, and found important
dispatches to Gen. Lee.
Provost Marshal Gen. Fry, has issued an
order to the effect that the quotas assigned
under the call of December 10, 1864, for
100000 men, must not be reduced except
by actual enlistments in the army, navy
and marine corps since the 1911 ultimo.
~
",he Union League of Michigan, has been
prosttuted by selfish demagogues to sell
fish purposes" Is it different in other
states?
"New York City forbids sprinkling salt
on the side walks it is believed to produce
diptheria." Why don't the Gothamites
abolish the sea, or throw the pickle off
their meat?
The new we'll in Chicago discharges
$4,000 gallons per day. Chicago needs
100000 gallons Of water.
James Guthrie has been elected q. s.
senator from Kentucky. :g.
A bill has passed the senate authorizing
the appointment from officers now connect
ed with the war department, for term of
one year, of person to be ID assistant
secretary of war, at a salary of $4,000 per
year bis duties to be prescribed by the
secretary Of war.
Emigration to Mexico from N. Y, and
Boston is increasing.
Mr.. Pendleton, late copperhead" can
didate for the Vice Presidency is aow said
by Rep letter writer's, to be "frank, courte-
Gus, able and no copperhead."
Young Indian girls in Oregon, sell at
$40 to $50, depending on looks, cleanll-
ness &c, &c. @4@+ "ss
Nevada is 800 by 800 miles in extent,
being larger than all New England.
Said Pat, after looking thoughtfully at