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

News ana Items.
Senator Trumbull has introduced n bill to
authorize the construction OF bridge across
the Mississippi River at Qajncy.-The defeat
of the Argentine vanguard by 5000 Paraguay
ans is confirmed The loss on each side was
about COO --The smugglers are making ex'
tensive preparations to run in goods from
West India Islands The two great oil pipes
from Pithole to Titusvile, distincc of nine
and quarter miles, with fall of 3il feet,
have commenced delivery with capacity of
1000 barrels a day.
A NUMBER of drafts drawn during the war
on Frazer, Trenholm & Co. Liverpool. by the
rcb:l Secretary Of the Treasury, captured by
our army during their transit to Europe, and
which our Government presented for payment
have been returned protested--A Russian
lady appeared at fashionable ball, given re-
Gently in Paris, with an outfit costing $S0O,-
OOO-A gentleman in Worcester sent
letter to brother in Mexico six years ago and
another in December; both were received by
the same mail.
It's reported by some of the English jour
nails that Omar Pache is writing ''ilte OF
Alexander the Great."-lt is said that the
ladies' have commenced adopting whirpools rs
a substitute for waterfalls. Those who wear
no false hair wear rivulets.-The wheat crop
in the southern counties of Indiana is reported
almost ruined by the severe weather during the
winter yellow hair Juror is raging in
London, and women with the darkest tresses
are dying them carrot color. Greyness or bald.
ness ia two years is the penalty.
There is blind lawyer at Stafford. N. II,
who in addition to doing comfortable law
business, carries on farm, a claim agency and
two stores, in which goods are sold annually
to the amount of about s25 ,000.--There are
25 bald heads and Is mustaches in the Ma.
tionai House of Rel resentatives. .
The Supreme court of Wis, have decided
that negroes were n rInchisc in that State by
the vote of the people on the amendment to
the State Constitution in l649 The law re
quired majority Of votes cast at a general
election in favor of such amendment. The
amendment received a majority Of votes 'for
or against" but not of the total number, and
upon this fact the decision is based The
publication Of the Memphis Dalr Tribune.
radical sheet. has been discontinued .-Du.
ring The ast year OF the war, the post Office de-
partment earned net profit of OYER $50 ),0JO
from the mail service. For tine first three
months that the latter was resumed in the
south deficiency of $50, 900 was incurred
Secretary Stanton has appointed his own
nephew sutler at Fort Sedgwick, on the plains,
notwith, ia nding the fact that Sl5,0O0 was Of
fered to the government for the commission.
----Secret,ry MeCullooh states that the May
intercs: due on the 5-aU's will be paid in gold
this moath Maj Geo. X. Lcet formerly Of
the Chicago Board Of Trade battery, has b. en-
appointed assistant adjutant general on the
staff Of Gen Grant. Coles. f.. S. Parker and
Adcm Badcau have been appointed second lien
tenants in the regular services.
The Canadian government has issued orders
that an army Of 10000 men be maintained on
the frontier as a corps of observation. The
surplus above that number viii. be mustered
out The Texas convention has reported
sent t. the erection of a new state or states
within tbs limits of Texas -Mexican ad-
vices confirm the reported liberal victory at
parras Gen. Donsy captured, with j 800
men The French have evacuated chihuahua,
and President Juarez was 70 return 'hi'""' 9"
March 20ths
Anooro h. sued an Indianapolis paper for
E s.,nn 4. for hi,al- 'nnra IL n
mos that tie head quarters Of the O'Iahony
wing of the Fenians, in New York, have beoS
robbed of $780, 600 in funds THE marble
beds Of Kansas are immense. They are reached
at depth of from 30 to 100 feet below the sur.
face throughout a large space of country
Finished specimens have been sent to Wash
ington where it is decided to be finer quality
than any io,sign marble.-Whcat is being
shipped from Chicago to Peru, LII to supply
the home demand for tou,, there being very
little or no wheat left in that part of the coun.
try.
Tom Thumb wife and baby arc at Bridg
port Con .-Thc Princess Helena is to be MAI:
ried July the 6th.-The wheat crop in Vir.
gnia is said to be very unpromisng
New York paper speaks of colors as being a
mere matter OF form ~ statue costing $l2..
coo is to be erected to the memory of Richard
Golden ut Manchester, England ----Gotts-
chalk's friends ut New York have the docu.
ments which clear up that California scandal.
The subject Of altesian wells is attracting
considerable attention in Utah The reccnt
Legislature appropriated $4,000 to aid in the
completion Of the one at St. George, and like
s~" to aid in the completion of the one started
some t''"" ago in Salt Lake City.-The mum.
Der OF divorces 80. Massachusetts for the five
years ending May l, 1905. averaged almost
263 year, and were for the folto mo causes
Desertion, ISL; criminality. 5o3; cruelty, io=,
other causes. ~; total, l,3ll.
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