The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-07-05
m McGREG0R, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1866
News and Items.

By special certificate just issued, Iowa i
allowed to locate 4,s5s acres of public lands a
an indemnity for swamp lands sold by tn
United States.
President Johnson, who has been quite un
we'll, is now improving rapidly.
1t is said the general government is indebted
to the State of Indiana in the amount of 81,
100000. ~
Gen. Hood is now in Texas. .....
| Emigration across the plains far exceeds tha
Of any previous year. During this year 4, ,00t
wagons have passed Fort Kearney, and train
continue to pass in large numbers. The emf
grants are bound for Idaho, Montana Salt Lake
California, and other places.
Between 1000 and 4O, 200 acres of land are
reported to the president as abandonedi in the
State of Virginia.
ESQ understand, Mr.. Tooke, you have al
the blackguards Of London with you," said
O'Brien to him on the hustings at w estminister
IL am happy to hear it, sir, on such gsot
authority as one of the greatest of them, said
Tooke. ... 7r- -. 4r ... g., .' r
Very many southerncrs without the pale oi
the presidents amnesty proclamation, are pray.
ing for pardon. The $40 ,OCC clause cuts off a
large number.
An obstinate old widower says marriage
should be spelled mirage.
Work is resumed on the Winona and St.
Peters railroad south of Faribault, MINI.
Kentucky and Tennessee farmers have quit
employing negro help, and are now seeking
German and Irish laborers. '
The Prussian chambers were prorogued on
the 18th inst.
When Chief.Justice Chase WAS at Key West,
he was served by an old negro, to whom he
promised clrte-de risite, and handed him one
dollar bill. "Ah!" says Sandie, snow know
you, massa; you is 'old Greenbacks."
Gen. Sibley has received dispatch from
Fort Wadsworth, stating that the Yankton
chief "The Buck had surrendered with 20
lodges.
Artemus Ward, in his letter. from Richmond
says: "Gin'ral Halleck offers me the hos ptal-
ity Of the city, sivn' me my choice of hospitals
He has also very kindly placed at my disposal
smell pox amboolance."
Gen. Vandevsr, of Dubuque, has offered his
resignation and it has been accepted.
St Paul dispatches put the next wheat crop
at the largest ever harvested in Minnesota.
"What a fine head your boy has" said an
admiring friend. "Yes," said the fond father
she's chip of the old block-aint you, my
boy" ayes, father, teacher said yesterday
was young blockhead."
The election Of Congressman and the Lecis
lators in Virginia is fixed for Oct. 18th
The stock Of cotton of the last crop yet to
be marketed, has been estimated at ! $50 ,OOO
bales.
"Ma, has aunty got bees in her mouth p
emo; why you do ask?" "'Cause Captain
Jones caught hold OF her, and said he was going
to take honey from her lips; and she said,
We'll. make haste""
Wild peppermint, if bound up with grain in
the straw, or grass in the NOW and stack. will
clean rats of your premises in double quick.
"Pa, tell US about the angry ocean; what
makes the ocean angry?" "Oh, it has been
crossed so often"
A terrible ire occurred in Quebec on the
22d instant, destroying more than hundred
and fifty houses. It was densely populated
| vicinity, and it is estimated that thouSanC
families are rendered homeless by the confa
grafton.
Labor is worth from 81 to S. a day in GOLD
| in the Colorado gold mines.
Abraham Day, a soldier of the Revolution
| and Of the war of 1912, died at Cornish, Maine,
on the l4th instant, at the age of nearly llO
years. He was born at Hack kmatac, New Jer.
sey. Oct. 90, l755. He is said to have been
the proprietor of the first iron foundry ever
established in America. He carried on that
business for many years in New York. and
| afterward in Portland, as well as in several
| small towns in Maine, until within few years
Of his death, when he was obliged, by the mfr.
mites Of age, to relinquish his post.
The ram Stonewall is at Havana. She will
probably be given up to our government.
An elderly lady is apt to think that, of all
the spots she has known in her life, that where
she met her first lover is the greenest that ever
enhanced memory's waist.
Rock Island, ILL.,, is to be the depot for stor.
ing all the artillery, arms, ordnance and other
trophies captured during the war by northern
troops.
An exchange thinks that "Mrs. Walcs," oil
England, should have credit for doing things
up without much preliminary fuss. 1t will be
| remembered that solve Branch No. l." came
in q hurry, before baby clothes could be got
ready; the second Princelet has come in some.
what similar manner, the happy mother having
attended a concert the previous evening. II
maternity is honorable, "honors are easy" with
| her. .oa ..a. ...