The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-02-20
Neyys and Items.

N. c., that the people recently compelled
the sheriff to burn up all his writs and ex-
ecutions returnable at court, refusing to be
elected from their houses and being unable
to pay. Desolation is evident all over the
state. The legislature has passed relief
bill, postponing The payment of debts for
twelve months. 80. The Postmaster General
is engaged in preparing a new postoffce
directory. to contain list Of all postofices
in the United States, up to January first,
ls67...... Castle Thunder, Virginia, isagain
a tobacco mandatory. ....Switzerland ex-
empts its railways from taxation. The
total annual productions of diamonds is
81, 400, 600. The Academy of Music in
Milwaukee is said to be non-paying in
stitution and will be rented to the Y. M. 8
Association or made into Offices. ....It is
rumored that Horace Greeley will be ap-
pointed Postmaster General in the event Of
Randall's retirement. Mary Harris, who
shot her lover, Burroughs, in the Treasury,
two years ago, and was acquitted by the
jury which tried her, has just been COM
mitted to the Insane Asylum in Washing
ton.
Hartford the half capitol Of =" the land
of steady hadits,'' has only one grog shop
to every fifty inhabitants. William B.
.Astor has just given $4,000 to the
sAstor library, which his father founded
|. at an expense of $500, 900 and to which
the son had before given over 100000.
......Lncy Stone, in lecture in Bangor,
recently, said: ave hear of hen-peeked
husbands, but nothing at all about roos-
terrecked wives" That's true, Lucy"
says an exchange, "and the less we hear
about that the better. Minnesota owns
$2l ,652,7O4 worth of live stock. Wis
consin is to have five Supreme Court
Judg Fifteen feet of land in London
sold for S2l5, O0O.. The Minnesota legis-
lature is taking steps to call convention
to revise the state constitution. DIR.
Cheever's church in New York has been
sold to Tiffany & Co., who will erect q
store on the site.
The Kaw Indians have ceded their lands
in Kansas to the United States and are to
remove to the Indian Territory. Cabinet
changes are again rumored at Washington
......Ten thousand dollars have been ap.
propriated by the House, at Washington,
to pay the expenses of the Judiciary Com.
mittee in the impeachment folly..... Gen
Sheridan has returned to New Orleans to
resume command of the South West.....
Fifty dead bodies have thus far been taker
out of the skating park at London where
the recent great disaster occurred..... The
Chicago Epening Journals London cores
| pondent describes the restitution and suf
fering among'the poor of England as ter
rible, and bread riots are threatened
Much is being done, however, by charity
for the relief Of the sufferers. .....It is un
derstood that Gen. Grant expresses sur
prise at the intimation that he approves O
the military government bill. He deems
it unwise, as the provisions would proba
bly, bring him in conflict with the executive
his immediate constitutional superior. III
also expressed a conviction that some bill
reorganizing the civil government with tn
military to protect and aid should b'
adopted at the earliest moment. Hart L
Stewart has Withdrawn his defense in tn,
Stewart divorce case in the new trial grant
ed the plainiff. 1.-The first register o.
votes in Georgetown, D. c., shows l III;
whites to $50 colored. John G. Calhoun
old homestead in South Carolina is to b.
sold at auction on the 4th of March,.
Mr.. Davis asked leave to offer an amend
ment to Mr.. Wade's proposed one tern
constitutional amendment, for the purpos
of having it printed. Itprovides that eacl
state shall, on the first Monday in Januar.
preceding the expiration of the presen
term, nominate to congress one of it's citi
zens for the Office of president. The tw'
houses shall meet in November, and pro
coed to elect from these candidates, drop
ping the lowest on EACH ballot, and tn
1 person elected shall not be eligable for re
election. Ordered to be printed. 18th
Nelson New Zealand) Examiner, in re
porting the execution of Burgess, Leve
Kelly, three Thug-like murderers, says:
sit has been matter of dispute amongs
; medical authorities whether death in sue
cases is caused by strangulation or by di'
location of the spinal column. The neck
of the three malefactors were, therefore
; dissected by Drs. Williams and Cussacl
and it was satisfactorily proved that deaf
had resulted in each case from stranguls
: ton, the spinal column being found to b
perfect in every instance-thus setting thi
much vexed-question at rest......Calens
has written long letter in which he a
tempts to prove that the primitive chris
tians offered no prayers to Christ......I
washington writer says: While Banks wa
making his speech in the house the othe
day, member not understanding the dri
of the policy he was advocating, said
Thad. Stevens: "What does he want
"What;" said Thad., "why, he want
brains" Reports from the plains sti
Indicate prospect of Indian trouble til
J, cvming summer......From a careful est
:, : ymate made from the figures given in ne
directory the Herald fixes the 1nhabitan
of Dubuque at u ,24O......Geo. Hyer an
D. w. Fernandez have retired from tn
publication of the Madison Union whic
y will in future be proprietored by l.
Montanye, who, with Col. Calkins, a men
Der of the retiring firm, will conduct il