The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1867-01-16

Ter arrested him at Fortress Monroe, took
from him $4,000 in money, and other
property, and through court martial pro.
cured his sentence to ten years imprison-
ment. He was sent to Hatteras Inlet, and
kept fer many months, until released by
Gen. Grant. He claims 100000 damages,
and $4,000 for property.
Macmillan has formally consented to
abdicate......A young lad stepped Into
book store and asked what kind of pens
they had, "all kinds" was the reply. ~
will take three cents worth of pig pens"
said the youth. Hon. William d. North
end, the Democratic candidate who was de-
feated by Gen. Butler, intends to contest
Gen. Buffers seat in tho next congress-.
A California wife writes from Sau Francis
co to her husband in the interior:
"Dear Sir--It may be proper and per-
haps my dnty, to inform you that about
two months ago succeeded in getting my
divorce from you, and also that l have
married again. You may continue your
monthly remittances, as may need them
for your three children 1.-THE recruit
ing which is TO take Place in Russia from
the 9th of January to the 9th of Fcbru-
ary, at the rate of four conscripts per one
thousand inhabitants, and five per one
thousand in certain districts, will produce
$4,000 men. The Russian army already
numbers 500, 900 men under rms......The
Madison Journal says letter has been re-
ceived at the post Office in that city, ad-
dressed "To an Honest Member of the
AAembly." In one corner Of the envel-
SJe Ma note requesting the post master, in
oase tho letter is not called for within ten
days, to deliver it to the greatest scoundrcl
in that body.
Recently q man, named John Reilly,
went into BARRIERS shop in Franklin
street, New York, to prepare for attending
his wifes funeral-her dead body lying in
his house. While in the BARRIERS chair he
suddenly died from on aneurism Of the
aorta, but so quickly did dissolution take
place that the barber who was shaving
him did not know of it till he had finished
his task. ....A Connecticut pedlar asked an
old lady to whom he was trying to sell
some articles, if she could tell him of any
road no pedlar had ever travelled, ~ know
of but one, and that is the road to Heaven"
was the reply......A San Francisco paper
says that the wife of the Member of Con-
gress from Nevada, Mr.. Ashley, was re-
Gently arrested in that city on a charge of
threatening to shoot one Martha Cunning
ham. jealousy was the cause. Mrs Ash
ley gave bail. The Madison Journal says
two ladies skated across Lake Mendoza, at
that city, distance Of three miles and a
half, in fifteen minutes. lit is said that
in Newfoundland the babies are nearly all
born in the summer time. Well, the fish
ermen are absent all summer and return in
the fall, and probably the annual crop of
Juveniles is, as Tony Weller remarked,
"the consequens of that ere vancouver"
1.-THE first proclamation for a thanks
giving in Connecticut was issued in l644,
and was a model of brevity, as follows !:
ats ordered there shall be publike day
of thanksgiving through this jurisdiction
upon Wensday come fortnight"
A report has passed over the wires to the
effect that Gen. Butler had brought suit
against "Brick" Pomeroy, Of the La Crosse
Democrat, for libel, claiming damages in
the sum of 100000. The truth of the
report, however, has been denied by some
of the papers noticing it,. Kentucky is
agitating the matter of removing the state
capital. One town offers S25O,OOO bonus
for it; another, s35O,OOO another, half a
million. But the Louisville people also
want it, and the Common Council of that
city have offered $3.50, OOO.. The Colora-
do and Nebraska bills have passed the
Senate......Mr. Sumner has presented the
claims of the New England Aid Society
for 100000 damages for property des-
troyed by q mob at Leavenworth, Kansas,
last ar......The European bound steamers
from New York on Saturday took $780,
600 in specie......A majority in the Ohio
Legislature is opposed to the proposed i'm
parchment of President johnson. The
House Territorial Committee has agreed to
report back Mr.. Ashley's bill organizing
territorial governments for the rebel states.
......The cholera is developing itself at
Graytown and other points on the Isthmus.
A special quarantine has been established
in San Francisco. :. Senator Trumbull is
at Springfield working for reelection
lahore Indian depredations are reported
in the vicinity of Fort Phil Kearney.-
Cavalry and infantry regiments are being
concentrated at Fort Laramie to lie sent
against the murderous savages.
|. ,ASrct EssrUL MAcuINE.-We clip the fol-
lowing from the Dodge County Citizen,
published at Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,
which may be of interest to farmers of