North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-03-20

News and Items.
1t 10 believed in Washington that the
trial of Surratt will DO put of until the
june term Of the District criminal court.
A Washington dispatch says The expe-
ditionl against tho hostile Indiana of Kan
sas and Nebraska, under command Of Maj.
Gen. Hancock, is fully equipped and sup
piled, and will start from Fort Leayenworth
on the 10th inst. Gen. Hancock orders all
trains to be organized for defence by elect
ing captain and other officers, and organ
izing the teamsters and employees and all
others belonging to the train into one or
more companies. No trains are to be al
lowed to pass into the Indian country
which number lees than 20 wagons and 20
armed men. Whenever an attack is made
by Indians upon any train pursuing the
overland routes, the commanding officer Of
the nearest military post is directed to fur
nish prompt assistance......Th famous
suits Of Russell, Major L Waddsll, credit
ors, against the U. S., known as the Floyd
acceptance suits, are shortly to come up
again in the supreme court. IAN Illinois
wife aged Is applied for divorce. She
found out the badness Of husband il
quick time. One third of the land of
America, is covered with timber. 1t is
intimsted at the governments capitol that
the gold claimed by the Richmond banks
belonged, originally to the U. S. treasury,
and was captured in the early part Of the
rebellion......Why is prosy preacher like
the middle of wheel? Because the fell
lows around him are tired. ..Sheridan's
father, converting with him on the former
glories of the family, remarked that they
were once called O'Sheridan. ~ do not
think" returned the son, 'that wo ever
had better right to be called ore Sheri-
dan than ut present. 49,. Returns from
the recent elections in this state, show
large democratic gains. 80. Geo. w. Clarke
will probably be the United States marshal
for this State .....''It is stated that all the
new senators will vote for tho Colorado
admission bill, which will make more than
the necessary two-thirds to pass it over a
veto.
The tariff and all other important finan-
cial bills are said to be certain to 60 over
until next fall......A New York fashionable
authority says, the immense shell combs,
such as were worn fifty years ago, arc to
supersede the waterfall. DIR. Richard.
son states that iodine, placed in a box
with perforated lid, destroys organic
poison in rooms. In cases Of small pox
he has seen this method used with great
benefit. Capt. Murray, of Davenport,
is authorized to pay the veteran bounty to
the members of the Third Iowa cavalry.
49,. One week ago to-day the snow was
one foot deep at Newton, Iowa, the center
of the state, and the thermometer marked
twenty-five degrees below zero......The
damages caused by the recent floods
throughout the country was enormous
East Tennessee suffered in the amount o.
s., OOO, OO0.. 1.-THE Prince Of Wales is
writing an account, for publication, of his
visit to the United States. 80. Blanchard
Jerrod is to write guide to Paris and the
Exhibition, under the title Of ''Paris for
the English in 1867"
A bill authorizing the building of a
bridge across the Mississippi at Winona
has passed both Houses. "A grim, hard
headed old Judge, after hearing fowery
discourse from o pretentious young bar.
rfster, advised him to pluck out the feath-
eU from the wings of his imagination and
stick them into the tail of his judgment.
......Geo. Peabody burned 4 1000 letters on
his recent departure for England: these
letters were begging ones which he had no
time to read or answer. .Absinthe is
said to be playing the devil with the
French: it is said to cause apoplexy, heart
disease and mania. :. In some of the vii
lagos of Prussia, one third Of the popula-
ton will leave for America this spring.
1.-THE Ohio river is "on the rampage. y
On the levee at Cincinnati the houses are
ten feet under water !......A ton Of mer-
chandise from Liverpool to N. Y. costs
$50; ton Of letters costs 1000 times az
much. 49,. The total reduction of the U. S.
debt within single year from March /,
1866, to March /. 1867, according to the
monthly reports of the Secretary of the
Treasury, has amounted to SlSl,O76, 10.
At this rate the entire debt could be ex-
tinguished in fifteen years ...... Hiram
Woodruff, the notorious horse trainer,
rider and driver, is dead. IAN Irish
Judge, in condcmning wretch to death,
closed with the eonsoling words "and may
this be warning to you!"
The roads across the Sierra Nevada
mountains are being finally opened for
travel. The accumulation Of bullion for
the last three weeks, in the state of Nevada,
commenced arriving in San Francisco. The
quantity is enormous, amounting to many
tons. A military escort has been detailed
during its passage across the mountains.
DoN'T.-Ncyer walk fast with your lit
tie ones. We have seen parents, cngrossed,
perhaps, with business ideas, drag their