The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-25
News ana Items.

"A victory of the Mcxicans over the
French troops ut Mazatalan is reported,
with a loss of $50 French in killed and
woundcd.... Mails now come and 90 across
the Kansas and Colorado plains without
an escort, and without danger from Indi-
ans......The steamer Virginia, which ar
rived at New York on the 18th, brought
about 200 cholera cases. She is kept in
quarantine, and it is hoped the spread Of
the disease may be prevented. The Dem
ocrats gained complete victory in the
election of city officers in Quincy, Ill......
A Catholic priest in Scott county, Mo-, was
recently fined $500 for solemnizing mar
riage without first taking the new consti-
tutional oath..... Hon. Henry G. Stanbury,
of Ohio, has been appointed associate
justice of the supreme court of the United
States for the South, rice Judge Catron,
deceased $500. The United States Circuit
Court, at Milwaukee, Wis.,, has affirmed
the judgment in the case of Selah Cham
berlain VS.. the eastern division of the La
Crosse railroad, for principal and interest,
amounting to 81 ,OOO,0 OO... The French
troops will be withdrawn from Mexico in
three detachments-the first next Novcm-
Der, the second in March, and the third in
November, 1867 ...... A railroad is to be
built to the top of Mt. Washington-two
and half miles long-ata cost of So 5, 900.
...... The Charleston Courier says $500
freedmen have cmigrated to New England
in three months, on contracts to work at
$50 per month, and that more will follow.
......Fourteen millions of eggs per annum
are consumed in Paris. The New York
Herald received S662, 1872 from advertising
last year......At the ball at the Tuileries
the Empress was dressed in white with fes-
toons of dead leaves. The legislature Of
Pennsylvania refused to consider the eight
hour labor question before their final ad-
journment on the 18th instant. ....A ".
circus rider jumps from his horse through
stage coach in one of his acts and alights
ON his horse. ....A scamp in St. Louis stole
the contribution box of the Sunday school
children. He got some three thousand
dollars enough, says The Argus, to pay
his way over the Styx......Hyde, the Nor
mon, was refused legal divorce in Eng
land on the ground that Mormon mar
rage is no marriage at all. A Mormon
has hitherto been considered very much
married man.
A New Haven firm has shipped car
riage to Macmillan, in Mexico, costing
S2,50O......A Roman Catholic cathedral is
being built in China, 800 feet long by $50
feet wide, with a spire that is to be the
most conspicuous object in the imperial
city,. Rev. DR.. Cheever's society in New
York is likely to be compelled to leave the
present church, the ground rent of the lot
having been raised to $4,000 per year.
The society is small and not able to build
elsewhere ...... For the capture of Alter
9th, sergeant Grinnell, of the first Della
ware cavalry, received three thousand dol
lars seven priyates received two thousand
each. Of the ten thousand dollars reward
for the arrest of Payne, Maj. II. W. Smith
received twenty-five hundred, and the bal
ance is distributed among seven others......
A writer in the Western Recorder says:
" In a southern state, l learn that there is
one preacher who has charge of four
churches, edits newspaper, is president
of. a female college, runs several peddlcr
wagons, keeps up farm, and owns sevc-
raj patent rights which he farms out. ......
In speech in support of the Presidents
veto, senator Jim Lane, of Kansas, said
"Thc Republican party, of which am a
member, is crumbling' to pieces. .....Clc-
ment c. Clay, Jr., has been released from
prison on parole of honor by the war de-
partment. The Chicago Republican says
that Jefferson Davis is the only pris-
oncr of this class who is still. held in con-
fnement. We sec no reason why lie
should not be released on the same terms
as the others, and that event will probably
not be very long postponed"
They tell of lady speculator in N. Y.
who made $500 in gold and from that net
ted $4,000, and finally by successful "bear'
operations increased the sum to 100000.
She has passion for diamonds and invests
her winnings in them. She is now watch
ing the market, ready to sail in when she
thinks the time has come......Thc Texas
convention, besides doing other good things
provided for the establishment of public
schools. There are in the state of Yer
mont "a, All children between the ages of
4 and Is who have attended no school du-
ring the past ycar......In Marquette, Wis,
there has just been discovery Of two new
veins Of silver lead. The specimens ex-
coed in richness any yet seen. The ore is
of much finer grain than any previously
taken out, and resembles the richest ores
found in Colorado. ....Jamcs Gordon Ben
nett, when a young man, wandered about
Boston seeking employment for two days,
penniless and without food, and was only
relieved by finding a shilling on the Com
mon..... Gen. Clement Evans, late of the
Confederate army, has become a pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
in Barlow county Ky......The Pajaro (CaD
Times says that the great lost silver mine
of Monterey has been discovered. 1t is q
wide belt of rich ore, thirty-fve miles long.
......Some paper having made the state
ment that butter should not be kept in a
room with kerosene oil, as the kerosene
would spoil the butter, giving it a peculiar
flavor, an exchange remarks that some of
the butter NOWADAYS is enough to spoil