The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-06-14
News and Items.

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The New York Tribune says "Some phi
losophers consider large debt an advantage.
Some miners near Virginia City. recent
found the skeleton Of buffalo in bed rock A
feet below the surface of the earth.
lady in Petersburg, Va, who has watche,
the signs Of the times for seventy nine sum
mers, says the house fles will be more numer
oas this summer than they have been for niue
teen years past.
Another republican paper is to be establish
ed at Independence, this state. the first issue 0
which will appear about the Goth of th
month.
All the Iowa regiments between tho lStl
and 26th inclusive, and the 30th and 35th are Il
be mustered out of service.
A two.line telegraph wire is to be completed
to Denver city from the east and to Virgins
city from San Francisco during the coming au
tumn aud the whole line in the autumn oil
1866. za
! John McDevitt, the victor in the recen,
match game Of billiards with 0oldthwait, al
Cincinnati, publishes challenge for the Cham
pionship OF America He also challenges
Kavanaugh. Of New York, to game Of fifteen
hundred points, for five to ten thousand dollars
a side
A polite philosopher once thanked lady
who had been singing to party for MI hour, by
saying, "Madame, you have wasted our time
most charmingly ~
The seventeen year locusts are re.appearing
in some places in the east.
Its now believed that in less than Eve years
the important telegraph line between New
| York and st. Petersburg will be in permanent
working oder, with branches 10 Pekin. and
connections throughout Europe.
Wheat harvesting has commenced in south.
ern Illinois The yield is said to be good.
Queen Victoria was forty.six years old on the
Path of May.
/ Mr.. Fo'ney says Congress will not refuse to
admit Senators and Representative from
North Carolina because the colored men OF
mat State have not voted in the prior elections,
and he denounces Wendell Phillips as ga very
rentric and most lmpractcable theorist"
Gerritt Smith was to lecture in Cooper Insti
ute, New York. on Wednesday evening, on
'he following bect,-"Neither legal nor
moral right 10 try the rebels for treason. The
way to q sire and en- turing peace lies not
through perhdy and vengeance but though JUS
tice and love Horace Greeley. Mayor Gun
Their, Henry Ward Beecher, aud kichard 0
G rman. were among the sgners to the cal
sole ting the lecture Charles U Connor, i,
was understood, would take the chair and in
troduce Mr. Smith to the audience.
Mrs. Lincoln and her two sons have taker
rooms for the summer IN the hotel at HYDE
Park. ta~
| A young man in Des Moines County refused
to assist couple of ladies' who were in half
drowning condition, because he had blackeC
his boots that morning
President JOhn-on's plan Of reconstruction IN
| North Carolina. is emineutly satisfactory to the
New York World and the Copperhead pres:
generaily.-Rep. Ez
The New York Times says; Mexican emf
grafton. which is bus another name Tor filibus
tering, has suddenly cooled off, both here and
on the other shore of the continent The grand
headquarters in New York is deserted-the
rush is overland nobody h rs gone to Mexico
In San francisco 1.-The charter Of the bark
Brentes has been revoked, and the Mexican
| emigrant scheme il at an end for the crescent
Williams and other leaders of the expedition
have been held to answer before the United
States grand jury tor attempted violation OF the
| Of the neutrality laws.
Rumor has It that there is prospect of an.
| other addition to the family of Gen. Tom
Thumb. 1t is also said that Commodore Mutt
| and Miss Minnie Warren are about to be mar.
red.
The La Crosse Democrat says that barber
| of that city shaved eighty seven faces and cut
| nine heads OF hair in seven hours ON Saturday
| last.
The government is now feeding 20o, 900 of
the inhabitants V'rginia,I ,OCO rations being
| issued daily in Richmond alone. Probably nine.
tenths OF these are to "loyal colored brethren -
Gen. KIRBY Smith is said to havo gone to
| Mexico when he intends making hi. home Tor
the future.
The War department is making efforts to in.
crease the regular army. .G-
Rumors Of cabinet changes are contradicted.
Lord Palmerston says that correspondence
has been going on for some time, between the
American and English governments, Oh the
prizes taken by the Alabama and other vessels
of the same kind. ! he London lines trusts
! there is nothing in the Alabama affa which
| need cause apprehensions OF u rupture between
the two countries
Reliable information from Macon and points
north of that represent the whole of Georgia in
starving condition.
The election OF a new president of Guata.
mala j. announced.
The tenth annual convention of the Young
Mems Christian association Of the United
States and British provinces, is in session in
Philadelphia - tENEF4
WE clip from the New York; Irish Ameri.
can the following Obituary Notice of veneer.
able lady whose death carries sorrow to the
hearts of many of our citizens:
Died. at the family residence in Gurtnahoe
Parish, (near New Hrmingham) county Tip.
perary, Ireland. after short illness, Mrs. Julia
uB,ien, wife of VIM. O'Brien, ST., at the age
OF 80 years.
Deceased was an amiabie woman She was
| Il good mother and kind and loving wife -
Her husband closed the eyes OF his faithful
companion OF thirty five years. A son and
three daughters joined with the venerable old
man in sprinkling her grave with the heart tears
OF love. Four sons aud two dau hters are
absent weeping in a foreign land the nited
States. She was the mother of "A remarkably
large family-fftern children-ten sons an
FIVE daughters. Born near Mulinahonc, she
pa ticipat in the sentiments of independent
nationality which characterized that portion OF
Tipperary, and for the maintenance OF which
none are more distinguished than the family
and extensive connections OF the deceas ed-
the McGratlls, tokes Crookes and Corco ans
| Her children inherited the national creed, and
they practice it. Three sons, Michael, Patrick
and Dennis, resident in Iowa, are members OF
the Fenian Brotherhood; and one, James. ia
connected with the movement in this city -
| Five of the brothers are dead. The father, a
man of giant frame, though over go, promises
to live yet many years. perhaps To- g enough to
see his scattered family all together at home
again, comforting him and enjoying the happ
ness of "a liberated mnthcrland, while mourning
Al, ,l,a. ho has al IL L.,