North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-08-07
News and Items.


Track laying has commenced northward
from Cresco in this State and southwark
from Owatonna in Minnesota, the present
terminus of the Minnesota Central r. r. |
In couple pair Of years, rail connection
between Iowa and Minnesota will be per-
fectcd-Muscatine Courier"....We are au-
thorizcd to tender free ride, on Capt.
Sherwins train to Austin, Min, to pair
Of the most able newspaper men in Iowa
the Barnhart Brothers, of the Courier
sometime between this and the first fall of
snow. DO you accept, gentlemen ? The
McGregor Western will be completed to
Minnesota, in time to move the immense
crop soon to lie cut in that State. Alex.
II. Stephens weighs 81 pounds. Gen.
Grant thinks all the Indian tribes arc anx-
ious to make peace. 1.-THE Gillian Minis
ter to Brussels, M. Carvallo, died on the
LIST Observation-Disclosures grand reform demon
stration will be held in Hyde Park, Lon
don, on the 9th inst, to protest against
any amendment of the reform hill. .... Ad-
vices from Arizona contain accounts of a
fight with the Indians at Truxton Springs,
in which several were killed. Gov. McCOr-
mick has written letter to Gen. Mellow
ell complaining of the traffic by our troops
in prisoners of war. Admiral Farragut
reports to the Secretary of the Navy that
he assumed command of the European
squadron on the 14th ult., relieving Rear
Admiral Goldsborough, who will at once
return to America. 1.-THE report has
reached South America that a Spanish,
fleet has been sent to prosecute the war
with Peru and Chill, and there is great
excitement in consequence. The govern
ment of Peru is making active prepara-
tons to resist. The government of Chill
proposes to remain on the defensive, much
to the dissatisfaction of the peoplc.......
Writs for general election in the domin-
ion Of Canada, were to be issued on the
3rd......The total receipts of Internal Rev.
for the month ending July 3lst were 1884,
1876. U.s. ~@
The L. S. Treasurer has received $3.50
conscience money from Dubuque. The
writer says that he drew it for commuta-
ton Of his servants rations when he had
no servant. ."What brought you to pris-
on my colored fricnd?' "Two constablcs,
sah.' "Ycs, but mean bad intemperancc
any thing to do with it p eyes, sab, dey
was bofe Of EN- drunk The Illinois
state Fair, for this year, will be held at
Quincy, to commence on the Sd of Sept.
"A 100000 trotting track is to be completed
by that time. 1.-The Iowa State Teachers
Association will be held this year at Des
Moines, August Goth, 2lst, and 22d, 1867.
Transportation companies will carry pas
sengers at half fare The Cedar Falls
Gazette complains of the weeds in that
city becoming a nuisance. Business is a
good remedy. Gen. Sheridan has re-
moved Gov. Throckmorton, of Texas.
Everything on board the Ram Stonewall
has been completed and she will leave for
Japan sometime this week.. Widows
who have been getting pension of the
half months pay of their husbands, under
laws passed prior to the act Of July 25,
1865, are not entitled to an increase to So
per month under that act. Gen. Sheri-
dan has ordered that one-half of the com.
missioners of election in Louisiana shall
be colored men. .Adyiccs from Mexico
state that Lopez, the betrayer of Maximil-
ian, has been arrested and will be executed
......E. NJ. Pease has been appointed gov.
of Texas......The proposed purchase Of
British American territory on the Pacific
having been found impracticablc, the ne
gotiations have been abandoned. Spirit
Island, a romantic landmark in the Miss
issippi near st. Anthony, lost half of its
territory by the lato-strong current of the
recent freshets...... Mrs. Swisshelm says
there is little "sculptress'' at Washing
ton who lis as lavish in the display Of her
own bust as that Of her Congressman pat
rons.' That explains why she gets SO
many ordcrs......All the express compa-
MES, old and new, have been indicted at
Cincinnati for violation of the postal laws,
in carrying letters which ought to be sent
by mail. Southern Illinois is cxulting
in an abundant crop of peaches, Der
ries and apples, such as hardly been known
Il -.
even in that land Of plenty. 1.-THE Epis-
copalians are going to start a new monthly
paper in Milwaukee, Wis. alexis, youn-
gest son of the Car, will visit the United
States......A german chemist, with glass
magnifying twenty millions of times, sees
in drop of human blood all kinds of ami
mals-tigcrs, flies, elephants, mosquitoes,
sheep, birds, fish and cattle......A sweet
young lady says that males are of no &C
count from the time the young ladies stop
kissing them as infants till they commence
kissing them as lovcrs.......Th President
is reported to have stated that he had de-
cided to remove General Sheridan, and to
appoint either General Meade or General
Hancock in Lis place. .....It is said the
body of Macmillan has been delivered to
the Austrian authorities to be taken home
......The secretary of the treasury has de-
cided that the payment of compound inter
est notes with interest thereon will be
made only at maturity at the treasury OF
the United States and at the Offices of the
assistant treasurers at Boston, New York
and Philadelphia......T unusually large
sum ofSlO3, OOO, 900 in gold is now in the
United States Treasury, together with
S625. 100000 in currency. Santa Anna