North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-10-09

News and Items.
1t is rumored at Fort Ellsworth that
Gen. Butterfeld and Superintendent MUIR
ply are forcibly held by the Indians now
assembled at Medicine Lodge Creek, wait
ing the arrival of the Indian commission
ers......A novel suit is before the supreme
court at Buffalo. Nicholas Wyman asks
for 81 900 damages from a woman named
Ellen Burk, who willfully cut off two long
curls from the head of his daughter Anna,
aged II years......Col. Henry, American
consul at Quebec, Canada, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect Immediately.
......A Presbyterian church in Ohio sus-
pended one of its members because he
joined the Masons. .....A dispatch from
Ellsworth, Kan, says two desperadoes,
named Chas. johnson and Geo. Craig,
were forcibly taken from the custody of
officers, few nights ago, and hung......
The lst National Bank of Providence, K.
l.. was robbed of So, 900 in bonds on the
LIST instant. They were taken from the
cashiers desk in open daylight. RE
cruiting for the regular army, according to
returns received at the Adjutant General S
Office, is exceedingly brisk. Many of the
new regiments are rapidly filing up. .....
A company of militia called at the Office
of Mayor Brown, of Nashville, on the LIST,
and asked him to vacate. He complied,
and Mr.. Alden, the newly elected Mayor,
took possession.
A birth is found recorded in an old fam
lily Bible at West Haven, Conn.,, as follows /:
Elizabeth Jones, born on the Goth of
November, 1885, according to the best of
her recollection. Minneapolis, by re.
cent census, contains $3.50 inhabitants /;
an increase of over 1000 in one year.. ....
A young lady in a Boston school, on being
asked why, in Latin, winds came to be
called masculine, quickly replied: 81 don't
know, unless it's because they're so fickle.'
1--WE learn from the Burling ton argus
that the capital employed in the brewing
interest of that ely is 100000. 1T was
an apt answer of young lady, who, on
being asked where was her native place,
replied: ~ have none; l am the daughter
of Methodist minister" ........A Lima
letter of Sept IA says the Spanish Ameri-
can Telegraph Company has been accorded
the exclusive right for 80 years to establish
telegraph lines along the coast. "A dying
West India planter groaned out: "Ah,
Sambo, l am going on a very long jour
ney.' "Never mind, massa," said the
negro consolingly, "him all down hill"
......Thomas Il. Eldridge, the Hawaiian
minister, and native of the U. S., died
on Sept. 5, and was buried with the honors
of brigadier general. ...." William" said
teacher to one of his pupils, "can you
tell me what makes the sun rise in the
East?" "Don't know" replied William,
"'cept it be that the East makes every.
thing rise"
The branch mint at Charlotte, N. c., is
soon to be put in full operation, for essay
ing purposes only. 1t is represented that
working operations have been recommend
ed in the mines neglected during the war,
and that the receipts of gold at this mint
are on the increase, not only from localities
in N. G., but from contiguous states......
The president has ordered pardons for
Alexander H. Stevens and r. M. L. Hun
ter to be made out......A seam of pure
enthractic coal, over 80 feet deep, has been
discovered in Russian America, and trac; d
for mile near good harbor. Oak and
fir timber are abundant. There were
1000 majority in favor of convention at
tho recent election in La..... The Kansas
U. S. Senators are out in favor Of female
suffrage 49,. A one-armed soldier was
captured the other day, by the Boston
police, taken before the municipal court in
that city and fined S. for playing his hand
organ on the sidewalk before the Old
South church ..... Grace Greenwood is
visiting in Cincinnati ...... Somebody is
going to make book of Beecher's
prayers......T Arizonians ask the re-
moyal of Gen. Mcdowell; that the terri
tory be made separate department, the
commanding officer reporting directly to
Gen. Halleck, in whom they have conf
dence; and in their memorial to congress
they urge that body to authorize regi-
ment of volunteers for their protection,
without which they claim the territory
will have to be abandoned.
1t is rumored that Lord Derby will soon
resign. -. The yellow fever seems to be on
the increase in Mobile. The Russian
government is considering the question of
abolishing imprisonment for debt.... Gen.
Sherman thinks the war with the Indians
on the plains will soon be brought to a
close. dispatch from Vienna states
that Mexico will not give up the body of
Macmillan until the recognition of the
republic by European powers......It is
positively asserted that jeff. Davis trial
will commence on the 4th Monday of Nov.
Chief Justice Chase will not preside......
Rev. I. X. Beecher, of Elmira, the broth
err of Henry Ward, believes in lager beer
as an clement that should be introduced
into the temperance reform, and billiards
and bowling as means of gra :e......The
car works of the DesMoines Valley r. r.
Company, at Keokuk, Iowa, were destroy
ed by fire on the night of the 9Th instant
The Waterman of the building persisted in
the flames.