North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-06-12
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News and Items.
Gen. Meagher has raised 1000 men in
Montana end is to march with them against
the Indians..... Attorney General STAN
berry says the removal Of Withcrs, mayor
of Mobile, was illegal. ....Rev. Bcdell, the
Assistant Bishop of Ohio, has written
letter from Rome to the State Episcopal
Convention in session at Cleveland, con-
demning ritualism.. %. 1t is stated in WASH
ington that generals Grant and Sherman
and Sec. Stanton have declared that the
Indians on the plains shall be sharply
dealt with. The late reports to the Indian
bureau confirm the opinion that an Indian
war is inevitable. ... The grasshopper panic
in Kansas is subsiding......For advices
by mail give most encouraging account
of the Cretans. The army of Omar Pasha
is suffering from typhoid fever and is other
wise so crippled as to be incapable of Of
fensive movements......A darning machine
is the latest English invention. IAN at.
tempt was made on the 9th inst. to assas-
sinnatc Napoleon. He was riding in a car
riage in the Champ duMars with the Car
of Russia, when he was fired at by some
person in the crowd, but no one was hurt.
1.-THE Secretary of the Treasury is about
to send revenue cutter to Russian Amer
lea to protect our commerce there. The
Russian officers at Sitka have been instruc-
ted to permit the landing of American ves-
sells under certain restrictions. Arrange
ments are also being made for survey of
the coast.
Chief Justice Chase opened the U. S.
circuit court at Raleigh on the 9th inst.
......Tho Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has resolved to accept the provisions
of the National Telegraph Act, by which
the government can purchase the lines at
price to be determined by arbitrators,
for the purpose Of establishing postal
telegraph. There is good cause for the
belief that band Of persons was organ
lied in Penn. before the release Of JEFF.
Davis, by the governments court, who took
a solemn oath to kill him if dischar ged
without suitable punishment, which means,
doubtless, death. ....A man recently sold
horse in California for S45, O0O... ...Grcat
Britain has $4,000 blind people,. lin Chi
ma there are seven grounds of divorce, Of
which the fourth is talkativcness in women.
......New Orleans has duel daily. The
commissioners Of Agriculture report $780,
227 cattle and oxen; 245;ll3 mich cows;
1900, 425 sheep, and l,665,575 hogs in the
State of Iowa. ..Greely offers as a
justification of his responsibility for JEFF.
Davis, that lit will contribute powerfully
to the triumph Of Republican Radical)
principles OF the South" The "shop" is
always uppermost with the Radicals......
Among the many good things said by the
Louisville Courier is the subjoined:
When a mob of Northern Radicals insul-
ted and fired upon the President at Indian
apolis last year and would not let him
speak, it was considered good joke. But
when little disturbance occurs at Mobile,
caused by the intolerable insolence of a
Congressional Jacobin, it is a matter wor
thy of investigation by Congressional
Committee, backed by an army. Itmakes
difference whose OK is being gored.......
The Empress of the French, Eugene, was
Al years old on the 9Th of May. The
Empress Charlotte is no better, and con-
sultation of physicians is called in her case.
......At the children's ball, in Paris, girl
of IL, Mile. Nunez, wore 100000 in
diamonds...... HELEN Western outstrps
anybody ever seen at the San Francisco
theatres. The Menken was clothed in
comparison. ....Jeff. Davis is ut Niagra
Falls and it is said is going to England,
but will, Paris paper says, finally take
up his residence in Canada. ...A. L. Stew
arts income now is only two thousand
dallars a day......Admiral Farragut is pre-
pairing to depart to the Mediterranean to
take command of our squadron in that
part of the world. Gen. Grant is being
sounded, in view of the next presidency.
1t is said he prefers Sherman to himself.
1.-The Forrest divorce case is at last APP
preaching an end, and Mr.. F. will be com
PEELED to pay some $4,000. Legal ingen-
uity has fought this result for dozen
years, but the last resort has failed.....
"Johnnie,'' said man, winking slyly
to dry goods clerk of his acquaintance,
"you must give me extra measure; your
master is not in.'' Johnnie looked into
the mans face and replied: "lNy master is
al,cays IN !'...... 1t is reported that a new
island has been discovered in the North
Pacific one hundred and fifty degrees west
of longitude 400 and 3O> Noah Web
stcr's last words were 'zythepsary, zythum,
as reference to the Unabridged will show.
1.-THE military reserve on which the re-
mains of old Fort. Crawford stand in Pr.
du CHEN, was sold by the government
agent on the 4th and 9Th insts. The
Courier says the property sold at prices
above the appraised value. The fig crop
will be very large. VIM. B. Astor has
SCI, 100000 and the dyspepsia. Hang
ing, in Montana, is styled "climbing the
pine limb" and in Nevada, ''early rising"
1.-The first yankee institution at Ska,
will be custom house.. -. There will be
about $4,000 white and 10000 colored vo-
tiers registered in South Carolina. =. The