North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-09-25

News and Items.
The registry has closed in Charleston.
Eight hundred and one more colored than
white voters were registered. ..Chas.
Sumner is to open the lecture season in
Dcs Moines on the 25th of Oct. 80. Iowa
has now completed and running twelve
hundred and twenty miles of railroad.
A mob rescued two Fenian prisoners from
the hands of the police at Manchester,
I England, recently. A bloody fight ensu-
ed, in which there was considerable blood
spilled. The prisoners, at last accounts,
were still at large. The hostile Indians
on the plains of Western Kansas declare
they will not permit the Kansas Pacific
Railroad to be built beyond Fort Hays.
The railroad laborers are becoming panic
stricken, and some of them are already
leaving. ....Gen. Sickles demands court
of inquiry. Sir Frederick Bruce, Min
lister from England to Washington, died
at Boston on Thursday, of throat disease.
......A European correspondent of the
New York Times writes that Austria has
discovered by secert expeditions that Rus
STA is making extraordinary preparations
for war......It is said that the population
of New York city is now not far from a
million. The valuation of real and per-
sonal property is S726, Os6, 05s, while its
real value is about 81 ,OOO,OOO,OOO, which
is taxed every year SIG, f5o, 5677, Or over
one and a half per cent. There, is rea-
son for believing that the War Department
will soon issue an order, directing the es-
tablishment Of school for artillery prac-
ticc at Fort Monroe. There was such a
school there before the war. Whether a
similar school will be established at some
other point also, is not fully determined.
......Col. Kelly Fenian leader was ar
rested at Manchester, England, on the
10th. =. Juarez, Escobedo and Diaz are
candidates for President Of Mexico. In
England and Scotland the yield Of wheat
is below the average, while the yield Of
barley and oats is little above the aver
age. '"'
Frank Rodman, once citizen of Nc
Gregor and now secretary of state, of
Missouri, recently had an alteration with
the associate editor of the Westliche Post,
of St. Louis, in which Frank was severely
injured. The difficulty grew out of the
publication of an article which was print
ed in jefferson O. y radical paper, refer
ring to the sale Of the Iron Mountain rail-
road, and charging that over 5000, 900 in
construction bonds had been illegally pass
ed to the present owners Of that road......
According to reports Garibaldi was to at
tack Rome on last Sabbath. .... Gen. Han
cock will remain in st. I1iasevera weeks
before going to New 4 to take COM
mand of the 9Th dist7l q: -! The radical
papers are circulating report that the
Chicago Times is about to be sold, She
han, of the Post, to take charge of the
Times. It is also stated that Mr.. Story is
to have controlling interest in the New
York World. =. Gen. Pope informs Gen.
Grant that he has ordered elections in
Alabama, Georgia and Florida for Oct. 20.
This completely upsets the suggestion for
uniformity in the day of election..... The
treasury department has commenced to
pay the immense cotton claims which
passed judgment some three months ago.
The amount involved reaches as high as
$1,000, OOO..... 1T is stated that the war
Office was offered to Gen. Mcclellan when
Stanton was removed but it was declined.
Florida has had nearly three months
of rain. =. "A sale of 1000 copies of any
book is required nowadays to pay for the
expense of its publication. Before the
war 900 was suficient......Jew are now
allowed to vote on Saturday by rabinical
authority. Van Dieman's Land out of a
population of $4,000, contains bat four of
the original inhabitants......Base Ball is
coming into bad odor with the Philadel-
phians.. Gen. Diaz, one of the Repub-
lican leaders of Mexico, charges Mejia,
President Juarez' Minister of War, with
having supplied Maximilian's army with
corn during the late struggle in that eoun-
try.
WHEREAS, 1t has pleased Providence to
take from our midst our esteemed Brother,
G. NJ. COLGATE, and
WHEREAS, We would humbly recognize
the Supreme wisdom of that Divinity which
shapeth all things well therefore be it
RESOLVED, By Lincoln Lodge of Good
Templars in Lodge assembled /: That
while we deeply lament the death of our
Brother Colgate. whose kindness ST heart,
amiable manners and Christian walk, Won
our warmest esteem, and whose faithful
ness and efficiency as member Of oul
Lodge, evinced hie deep interest in the no
BILE cause in which we are engaged, We re
joice that he always manifested an abiding
Faith in the promises Of inspiration, al
earnest Hope of happier life hereafter
and boundless Charity for the short-com
ings Of those around him, these expires
sions in his life and death the triune mOtt'
our Order, FAITH, HOPE and CHARITY.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathiz
with the family Of the deceased in their al
Fiction.
| Resolred. That our hall be dressed il
mourning, and the usual badge Of mourn
ing be worn by each member for thirt.
DAYS. ms token of respect for the deceas