The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-05-16
News md Items.

| uc oIluiti li1OtH SiiyS SSNChuy WV
miles of the Union Pacific railroad is COM
plcted. Mahoney has resigned the po-
sition of Head Centre of the Fenians and
killan, the treasurer, has been removed:
GOA girl | years old was recently mar
| ried in Detroit. 80. Gen. Schofield is in Pa
ris. The late Danish war cost Prussia
81 100000 thalers and the end is not yet.
The sth Iowa Infantry is at home. 1t
went into service in August and September
of 1S6l......A meeting of the wooligrow-
ers of this state is to take place at Oska-
loosa on the Doth inst. .....An Iowa paper
recently received gold dollar for 4 mar:
riage notice. 49,. Gen. Terry has bcfn in
formed by the Washington authorities that
the presidents proclamation has done away
with martial law in Virginia. bopcd
skirts have been put aside by the fashion-
ables of Paris. In ball rooms trails arc
worn but on the streets dresses of rtason-
able length; in either case with nothing
but moderately starched skirts. Maj.
G. NJ. O'Brien, of the eth Iowa Cavalry,
has been brcvetcd Colonel. The 81.
Louis Ne,rs says new democratic paper is
to be started in that city of which p. A.
Mahoney, of Dubuque, and ?. L. Hold
gins, of St. Louis, will be editors and
managers. :. 1t has been reported recent
ly and then contradicted that Fort Good
win, Arazonia, was captured. ....A bill has
been found against JEFF. Davis 10y the grand
jury of the United States Circuit Count in
session at Norfolk and is supposed hewill
be tried sometime in June. 80. Lieut. Gen.
Grant has instructed military department
commanders to abolish the districts under
their command as rapidly as circumstances
will permit. Every means which may be
consistent with the welfare of the country
are to be used to reduce the number of tol-
unteers in the service.
The income tax for 1864 is to be collect
| ed in the South. ;. Orders have been re
ceived at the Brooklyn navy-yard to place
the war steamers Huron, Narragansdtt,
Oneida, Iriquois and Pequot in such cen
dition that they can be sent to sea on .
days notice. ....Head Centre Stephens has
arrived in New York. 80. The loss to the
government by the recent failure Of the
Merchants National bank foots up $685.
600. Gen. Spinner holds above the amount
necessary for the redemption of the notes
Of the bank $40 900, leaving total loss
of S547 ,000.. 1.-THE captured bonds Of the
New Orleans banks are to be returned. :.
There is no truth in the report that the
president intends to issue supplemental
proclamation on the habeas corpus suspen-
sion in certain states. The warrant fer
the execution of Antoine Probst the Deer
| inc family murderer, has been received by
the sheriff of Philadelphia. The execu-
| ton viii take place on the Sth of June. -.
| An official decree from the government of
| Chilli declares that neutral vessels which
communicate with the Spanish fleet, Or
furnish them with supplies, will not be
|
| the republic. 1t is rumored in military
| Circles that an order for the Immediate dis
| charge of all volunteer general officers will
be issued in a few days by the war depart
ment.. ....Gen. Grants little son was bap-
TIED in the Methodist Episcopal church a,
Washin ston City, Sunday weck......A
Mobile, a boy scarcely fifteen years old was
| hanged for the murder Of another hoy Of
thirteen. ....Ten thousand persons in New
York make their living in the rag bust
ness, which amounts annually to $4,000,
OOO......R Recently a man, supposed to be Il
accomplice of a hickman, knocked at tht
room of Chas. Dunn, Esq, in the Gayase
House, in Memphis, and demanded hack
hire from Dunn who took cut his pocket
book to pay the demand when he received
two blows from slung-shot, telling hin
to the ground, after which he was robbed
of his pockct-book containing $500. NJ
arrest had been made at last accounts.
The president has signed the bill incor
porating the International Telegraph com
pany between the United States and Cuba
The commissioner Of agriculture ha
received from Honduras, Central America
swarm of stingless bees. These bee
are easily swarmed, and are excellent hon
ey makers. "A colored man at Cincinnati
sued the Judge at an election for refusin
his vote. He claimed $4,000 damages
and the jury gave him one cent.
ri
THE North Vest newspaper and tn
Freeport Journal have been consolidated
the former title being retained. Mr.. No
Call will be the editor Of the new institu
ton. Gen. Ankeny late principal edito
of the n. w. retires with much homo,
We value the North Vest as among tn
best conducted and best printed Of our e,
changes. Success cannot but attend abil
ty, moderation and taste.
| The Presidents veto of the bill for til
+ admission of Colorado was to have bee
! presented to the special cabinet meeting o
Monday, and then transmitted to the Sen
Q ate.
j Judge scatcs has been appointed, by ii
: President, Collector Of Chicago.
/ The body of the late Preston King Wa
found floating in the river at New Yor
t on the l4th.
: The levee laborers at St. Louis are on
y strike. The negroes commenced the tro1
:. hln and tho Irish ond Garmaps fo,lo,ro