The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-02-06
News and Item D.

letters from Fenian agents, begging him to
assist them to return to the United States.
Skating is going out Of fashion among the
ladies in the cast......A new religious work
entitled "The Spiritual Mustard Pot" is
calculated to make the soul snceze with
devotion. 1.-The new style Of bonnets in
Paris consists OF Irvine string with dia-
mond set in the top......The clerk and
treasurer of Hancock county, this state,
are the only residents of the county seat
Of that county-their nearest neiyhbor is
eight miles away......Old navigators ut
New York say the present is the coolest
winter they have known for twenty or
thirty years. The weather in Louisiana
is reported to be now-was in january
like June in this latitude the people lux
uriating on oranges fresh from the trees.
.....July lst, 1877 is the time fixed by
law for the completion Of the Union Pa
cifc railroad. At the present rate of prog
ress, it is believed it will be completed in
five years. Three distillcrics in Black
Hawk county, were recently seized by rev.
enuc officers.
The seed of the sunhower is the best
remedy known for the cure Of founder in
horses. Immediately on discovering that
your horse is foundered, mix about pint
Of the whole seed in his food, and it will
give perfect cure......A one-eycd baby,
otherwise proper child, was recently
born at Ottawa, Canada West. The ''orb''
was situated in the centre of the forehead,
an inch and half from the root of the
nosc......A petition signed by over 800
veterans, has been presented to Congress,
praying for the payment of bounty to sold
iers who have been discharged from scrv-
ice by disability, from causes other than
wounds, and to those who have lost their
discharge papers, both classes being now
deprived Of bounty under the act of July,
1866. ..Ex-Gov. Hunt of New York is
dead ...Horace Greeley lately attended
Schuyler Collax's reception, was mistaken
by the door-keeper for hackman, and
treated with general rudcness before he
gained entrance. Though wavelet be
little wave. and flowret little flower,
yet a bullet is not little bull, nor ham
let little ham.
1t is said the Canadian Council will pay
all claims for damages from the Fenian
invasion and present bill to this govern
mcnt for payment......B Both houses of the
Minnesota Legislature have passed men,
orial to the Wisconsin Legislature, asking
that body to give its assent to building a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Wi
mona, in accordance with the act of Con-
gress of July ast......The Minnesota legis-
laturc has raised the salaries of Supreme
Court Judges to $4,000 and District Judg-
es to $500. 1t has also passed concur
rent resolutions in opposition to further
reduction of the currency of the country at
this time, and against a too rapid payment
of the public debt, until more general
prosperity shall be established among all
the es......Reports from the plains
state that $4,000 Arrapahoes and Chey-
ennes are on the war-path.. ....A party OF
American engineers are about to survey
the Isthmns of Darien with view of con.
structing ship canal. The Fenian
leaders in New York city, advertise for
sale 1000 arms, principally muskets and
Springfield riacs......A company of Gin
cinnati capitalists have been looking at
Milwaukee in view of building extensive
glass-works in the spring.
1t is announced that the Austrian troops
in Mexico do not leave that country with
the French forces. Ten Fenians are sem
fenced to be hung at Toronto, Canada, on
March 5tb..... Macmillan is at work in
the city of Mexico, arranging his private
business...... commissioner of Indian
affairs is engaged in the appointment of a
commission, to be composed of three emf
nent citizens and two military men of
prominence, to 60 to Fort Phil. Kearney,
with the view of a full and complete inves-
tigation into all the facts and circumstan-
ces connected with the recent massacre.
and to'take into consideration the disturbed
condition of Indian affairs in that locality,
and stop, if possible, the threatened war
throughout the Indian country.
Au2tria ia strongly increasing her uilta-
ry forces on the Turkish and Russian
frontier. ...Scmi-ofici journals deny
that Macmillan will be candidate for
the presidency of Mexico... The present
population of the United States is cstimat-
ted at 50, 100000.
AS six states which arc represented in
this will not be represented in the fortieth
congress, not few members urge an ear
ly adjournment, and some go so far as to
favor the repeal of the law converting that
congress on the 4th of March,. 1T is be-
lievcd that Minister Campbell will be soon
able to reside in the Mexican capital, as
minister to the Mexican republic. 80. 1t is
said the difficulties between our minister to
Bogota and the Columbian government
will be soon arranged. The bankruptcy
bill will not be passed.. Gen. II. II.
Heath has been made Secretary of New
Mexico and Milton D. Brown, District At.
torney for this state. Hon. Philip John
son, member Of Congress from Pennsylva-
MIA, is dead. 49,. New York state is in debt
Sl25, 200, O0O.. Paris is the only large
city where Christmas is not specially OBJ
served. ut is reported that the president
and certain public men of the south are
getting up new plan vf reconstruction on
the principle of impartial suffrage and
general amnesty, which is claimed will