The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-01-16
News and Items.

The French papers disown Macmillan
as "a renegade and vascillating fool"
1.-THE theatcr and dances of Salt Lake
City are opened with prayer. The ten
dercst flowers in Louisiana are in full
bloom. 1.-The Dubuque Herald publishes
the lctter.list, having shown 81 more sub
scribcrs in that postofice district than the
Times of that city......M. D. Browning, of
Burlington, brother of the Secretary of
the Interior, has been appointed U. S. Dis
trict Attorney for Iowa......Thc Rev. Fa-
Their Henny,' of Dubuque, a prominent
Catholic priest, formally renowned his
faith few days since at prayer meeting
at the Clark St. M. E. Church in Chicago.
Gen. Grant has purchased his father-in-
laws homestead, 10 miles from st. Louis,
for $25, 900, as final residence for him.
self and family......In the Legislative Coun-
Gil of Idaho Territory the vote for Chap
lain, on Dec. 9Th, stood! For the Rev. Mr..
Bishop, 5; Brigham Young, L; Parson
Brownlow, /. The two latter may be con-
sidcrod complimentary votes. 49,. The larg-
est diamond in America, worth SO, 900 in
gold, is now on exhibition in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
A mob may have as many ears as a corn
field, and be as deaf to reason. 800. "A dis
tinguished London physician has been liv-
ing for 20 years on one meal day, and
enjoys the best of health. 49,. The greatest
man is he who chooses the right with in
vincible resolution; who resists the Afest
temptations from within and from without !;
who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfak
ly; who is calmest in storms; and most
fearless under menace and frowns; and
whose reliance in TRUTH. on virtue, and on
God is most unfaltering......A farmer near
Montreal says no one need tell him that
advertising won't cause big rush, for he
advertised ten bushels of grapes for sale,
and the next morning there wasn't one
left-the boys stole EN- all. "A Connect
icut boarding school teacher, instead Of
giving his pupils receipts for $50 when
their bills reach that amount, pays them
back one cent, credits them with sos
and thus saves two cent revenue stamp.
......During II months N. Y. and her Wis
itors spent 81 1862, 554 for amusement. 49,.
The thermometer was % degrees below
zero in st. Paul at Q o'clock on the 10th
instant.
The constitutional amendment was rati-
fed by the House branch Of the Kansas
legislature, by n vote of IS tot. The
Senate refused to suspend the rules for
that purpose..... Virginia legislature
voted down the constitutional amendment
by almost unanimous vote. ....A bill
posted On the walls in q country village
announced that "a lecture will be deliver
ed in the open air, and collection made at
the door to defray expenses. There is q
project among the mercantile men of St.
Louis to buy whole square of ground
near the court house at cost of 81 ,OOO,-
600 and put up building for the Board of
Trade and other purposes at cost of 49,
100000. Mrs. Saturn, one of the ladies'
in-waiting upon the sun, is said to have
been the first lady that wore hoops. High
authority for the fashion, that; and the
way the men have been gazing at her for
so many years shows that they admire
them......A Detroit clergyman received
81 200 cash from his Pensioners on New
Years. Guess it was pay day in that pnr-
ish......The census of Chill was taken last
April and has just been published. Ac-
cording to this census, the area of Chill is
$4,000 square miles the population is
2,OS4,s35; the foreign residents in the
country numbered 23,220; s32 of the in
habitants are from 100 to l4O years of age,
and 1886 are physically or mentally help
less......The New York Tribune says 1T is
not much to be republican to-day. We
take with us the drift.wood and scum. :. i.
There is an enforced exodus of Gentiles
from Salt Lake City. Young has bought
them and their property out OF IS cents on
the dollar.
A radical editor says the tendency of the
country is towards "in6delity and corrup-
tion." The assertion carries with it advice
TO its own party leaders. :. ( Colorado, if ad-
mitted, with her twenty-seven thousand
inhabitants, will have the same control over
federal legislation as New York, with her
population Of four millions. 1t is re-
ported that Gen. Phil. Sheridan and the
belle of Louisiana mediate housekeeping.
......A Toronto newsboy has fallen heir to
$500, OOO.. 1.-The Indebtedness of New
York state is 1925, OO0, OOO.. .. The repub-
lican party is like pawn-broker's shop,
full of unredeemed pledges......A New
Bedford lady says there is no trust in
God to be found in Boston, 49,. The round
trip from the United States to Paris and
back, during the Exposition, will be at the
rate of $3.50 to $3.50 in gold-on board the
Great Eastern. Mrs. General Williams,
formerly Mrs. S. A. Dougias) is among
the observed of observers in Washing
ton society this winter. ..Artemus Wara
will clear fifty thousand dollars by his visit
to England. willrequire fifty millions
of dollars to run the Freedmen's Rureau'
two years. =
The Paris press. warns the. Amlericaif-
people against the evils of impeaching the
President......The Empress Cariotta:is
much improved in health. 1T is now 6e-
lieved the French troops in Mexico willie
ready to embark by the 18th Of February.
......lIere is sample Of the way they.do
mp matrimonial matters" in HarrisOin