The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-01-30

News ana ltems.
The Fenians of Detroit offer . reward Of
81, 900 for the capture Of Organizer Sseph-
sns......An exchange, speaking Of demoo-
racy, says its prophets turned out liars, !"
and another denies it and says, "ths
prophets made . noble effort to turn them
out but tho liars were too numerous" ......
Among the distinguished arrivals in Wash
ington, on Monday, was the advent Of a
stranger in the person Of young daughter
at the house Of Secretary McCulloch......
Two moro New York banking houses,
Howard, Lapsley, Reed / Chase and F. A.
vanDyke, jr., have failed. ....An effort 10
being made in New York to obtain contri-
buttons in aid Of the people of the south.
......A meeting Of the Liberal Generals of
Mexico is to DO hold to elect General-in-
Chief. It Is thought that Ortega will be
selected. ....A woman Of Greenfield, Ohio,
has been fined $625 for destroying guam.
tity Of liquor recently. The verdict was
made BY jury composed Of citizens of
that locality......Gov. Cox, Of Ohio, has
written letter to the chairman Of the
Union State Central Committee, in which
he says he will not be candidate for re.
election. The Nebraska Republican notes
. rumor current in Omaha, that train
carrying powder to the mountain military
posts, was blown up sometime since......
It 10 said that Senator Sumner opposes
the impeachment of the president. -. The
jury in the Stewart divorce case at Chica-
20 has brought in verdict in favor of Mr.
Stewart......A report recently circulated
that Gen. Grant intended soon TO visit Eu-
rope is now contradicted.. 1t il reported
that the Minnesota Central Railroad has
been consolidated with the Lacrosse and
Milwaukee road. Rev. Joel Lindsey,
who whipped his child to death last june,
at Medina, New York, because it would
not say its prayers, is on trial for murder
At Albion, New York......At the anniver-
sary Of the Ladies Anti-Slavery Society,
in Boston, WcAdell Phillips denounced
the president Is . traitor, the supreme
court as poisoned with disloyslty, and said
Congress must absorb the government to
save it.
In Washington county, Tenn, twenty
miles northeast of Jonesboro, Is an ancient
birch tree, on the bark of which is still L.
gible the following inscription: "l77l-.
D. Boon killed . bar. The toilets Of
Madam Ristori embrace collections of msr-
chandise and jewelry to the value of
SS5, OOO......It has been decided BY the Su.
prone Court Of Appeals Of Virginia that
married woman's clothing belongs to her
husband. 1.-THE CornhiN Magazine has q
poem entitled "Love's Light" tits proba.
bly, written gas-metre. .. .Bismark bonnets
and needle-gun skirts are among the latest
whins Of fashion. Mechanics have
worked six hundred years on the spire of
the Cathedral at Strasburg. There will
be nineteen and half acres Of glass used
in the Paris Exposition building. =. Jennie
Lind is expected, probably to visit this
country again. ....A "skatorial queen" in
. Pennsylvania city turns. out to be a-man.
There were 594 fires in Philadelphia
last year, and only II false alarms. The
aggregated loss is estimated at 50, 49,, 977,
Of which $l,975,s55 was covered by in
surance.... snow storms in New
Orleans since 1900 can be counted on ones
fingers. The first was on tho first year
Of the century the next in 1917; the third
five years later, another in 1881 and the
last in 1862.
A bill has been introduced in the I'LL.
nois legislature to incorporate democrat
ic newspaper. company in Chicago, to be
known as the Chicago Age Company.
The money invested in railroads in the U.
s. amounts to $1,000. OoO, 900, of which
$50, DOC, 900 are in Iowa.. The American
gold production for 1866 is claimed at
S8l 1880, SAL. Of this, $70,032, S05 came
from the Pacific and Rocky Mountain
States. This total shows an increase over
1865 Of about sll, 600, OOO.. 1T is stated
that the receipts from the working of the
Atlantic telegraph up to the present time
have averaged fsl3 day, including Sum
days and 40 days stoppage of the land
lines. Since Nov. LIST, however, when the
price Of message was reduced from ego
to ElO, the average receipts have been
f374, or at the rate Of E2O5, 1873 yer year.
......J. G. Bennett, Jr., the successful
yachtsman, is said to be engaged to Miss
Dix, daughter Of our minister to France.