The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-01-23

News and Items.
Brown-colored children are now called
"fractions of republican currency. .....
Wisconsin has 1871 miles of railroad. .....
The first snow at New Orleans since 1852
fell recently. The State Agricultural
College board at their last meeting, held
Mt Des Moines on the 18th, elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: Pres
dent-Lieut. Gov. Gee; Secretary and ST.
perintcndent-H. II. Thompson of Scott !;
Architect-C. A. Durham Of Burlington
The Governor. Lieut.. Governor and Peter
Milendy are appointed committee to Wis
it other colleges and select professors.
Minnesota expects to have a population Of
100000 in 1870. 49,. Russia will spend ov-
er sixteen million roubles to arm with the
Spencer rife. -. Four tons Of Idaho silver
are being exhibited in New York.. ....Cor-
rugated iron houses are being exported to
Texas. .... Macmillan has founded a ma.
tional lottery as financial measure. ....A
young lady skating professor is paid 5000
per week in Pittsburgh.
The New York assembly have again 70
ted themselves ''dead heads''--on rail-
roads......Capt. Rogers, who made the first
passage across the Atlantic in steamship,
is still living. Congress has discovered
the law Of perpetual EMOTION" 1.-The
sea serpent has been captured and Gagged
by some French fishermen. :. Skating is
not fashionable in New York this winter.
1.-THE English language is tho ycrnacu-
lar Of seventy-fve millions Of people.
Paris is taxed ten francs Tor every Mead
ofits population. =. Philadelphia has more
Methodism than any other city. in tn
world. The radicals have dropped Gen.
Grant for the presidency. Somebody
styles congress as 1.-THE devils putty and
varnish shop. 1.-THE Pope has sent a
great number Of jewels, &c., to be deposit
ed in the Paris banks......A man in France
was fined 500 for speaking disrespectful-
ly in a stage coach of the EMPEROR. Bis
marks health and position are both very
shaky. He has gone to the south Of
France to benefit both. The election of
Roscoe Conkling for U. s. senator is n
huge nail in the coffin of Greeley.
The steamer Platte Valley recently
struck wreck below Memphis and sunk,
one hundred persons being drowncd......
The Ways and Means Committee pre- d.
vided on the Tux and gold bills. The agree
that gold should be sold in open market,
but are undecided upon the amount and
manner. The Denver News, Of the Sth,
says that FIVE hundred Ute Indians are
eamped fifteen miles from that city. Some
CONSERVATION exists, but the Indians have
made no hostile demonstrations. Glenn
ent c. Clay's property is to con6scatsd..
The sevcrest snow storm for ten years on
the Atlantic coast occurred on the 18TH
AT Boston it was three feet Deep. The
constitutional amendment has been ratified
by both houses of the Michigan Legislature.
1.-The members Of the Minnesota senate
have raised their wages from So to IS day.
......By a recent act Of the Kansas legisla-
turc no one but loyal citizens are allowed
to vote in that state......It is reported
among the New York Fenians that James
Stevens sailed from that city on Saturday
last for Europe. 1.-The embarkation oi
French troops Of Mexico is going on......
The Illinois State Fair for 1867 and 1868
will be held at Quincy. Horace Greedy
is in Washington reconstructing.....It il
reported from Washington that Senate,
roster Is to De appointed Minister to France,
in case the Senate fail to confirm Gen. Dix:
that Senator Nesmith will be appointed
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and tina,
Senator Doolittle will be appointed Minis.
ter to Russia. Senator Trumbull has
been reelected U. S. Senator from Illinois.
| 1.-THE American Church at Rome is
to be removed to some point without the
city Queen Victoria is to visit the Paris
Exposition while on her way 70 Germany
1.-THE Empress Carlotta has recovered
from her severe illness. "A bill for q
national bankrupt law is before the Senate
......It is stated that the Crctans have fought
another battle and gained complete victory
over five thousand Turks.
The Colorado river has been discovered
to be navigable to point near the boun.
dairy Of Colorado territory. The Catho-
lie Church of the United States is said te
have 1854 churches and chapels, "A theo
logical seminaries, and l ,4O4 academies
and schools, containing 100000 pupils
The Catholic population of the United
States is estimated from 4,OOO,OO to s..
600, OOO.. Secretary McCulloch is willing
to have all sales of gold belonging to tho
government made publicly......The ship
Mobile and the steamer Montgomery were
! burned at mobile on Saturday, with large
| cargocs o. cotton......A new gold field has
been discovered in Australia which prom.
Uses q rich yield. Senator Cowan, Of
Pennsylvania, has nappointcd Minister
to Austria, vice Motley recalled, and John
w. Murphy, of Michigan, is to be Govern
or of Idaho. Gen. Augur is stationed at
Omaha, with command of the forces in that
vicinity. The attorneys test oath rule
has been set aside by the Supreme Court:
A propositions is made to divide Texas into
two states before its re-admission- to tAs
Union. In three-fourths Of the year 1865
2S6, 496 persons arrived in the Uhited
States FROM foreign countries. :. The Htd]