North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-12-16
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bed, Friday morning. .......It is reported
that the agents Of Queen Isabella arc STIR
ring up the insurrcctionary movements at
Cadiz.. 1.-The members Of the House OF
Commons took the oath of Office Friday.
..... The weather in st. Louis Thursday
night and Friday was colder than has been
there ia December for thirty |
years.. .Bismark said in a speech in the
Prussian Diet that the fears of war which
were prevalent during the summer have
passed away......The London papers COM
mcnt on President Johnson's message, |
favorably or unfavorably, according as
they are Conservative or Liberal. fire
at Troy, L. Y, Friday morning, destroyed
Wilson's collar factory, and injured the
store Of Van Nulkenburg & Fellows.
Loss S3S ,O00.. fire at Greenwich,
Washington county, N. Y, on Friday
morning, destroyed ii. II. Smiths store
and number of adjoining buildings.
Loss 100000. General Cushing has
been sent on special mission to Spain by
our Government The object is supposed
to be to enter into negotiations for the
purchase of Cuba. cH
The McArdlc cas-, was before the Su-
premc court On Friday, and the first Fri
day in February next was set for hearing
the argument on one of the interlocutory
questions involvcd......A Vermont editor
makes delinquent subscribers cash up by
writing their obituaries. ....Advices from
the Cuban rebellion state that there was
an engagement at Mauzanillo, o few days
since, between TIE insurgents and the
government troops, in which ten of the
former were killed. ....... Thirty thousand
Swiss subsist by cotton spinning......T
population of the United Stairs is nearly
$4,000, 0......Twelve per cent. of Eng
lish criminal are under sixteen.
plantation in Mississippi, which cost $780,
900 ten years ago, was sold lately for
1860. This years Egyptian cotton crop
amounts to l?7 coo, 900 pounds. .....Sevcn-
ty,two women have graduated from the
New England Female Medical College in
Boston. One peg factory in Burlington,
Vt, uses four cords Of wood daily in tho
mandatory of shoe pegs......About l.
100000 American postage stamps are used
daily Camilla Urso fiddles six months
in California for $4,000.
The Government troops rejected the
stirulatioss offered by tine Spanish minis
try. An engagement followed the termi-
nation Of the armistice, in which the loss
was considerable on both sides, but there
was no decisive result. The French At
lantic cable is rapidly progressing in its
manufacture. 1t cost the government
S432,79S last year to carry letters in Utah,
and only $4,000 postage was received
back. .CleYeland postofice clerks are all
women. The Union Pacific Railroad is
blocked up with snow...... Two iron-clads
and 5000 troops are to sail from Spain
on the 18th for Cuba........A young lady
has been admitted as student in the St.
Louis Law School, The steamship Cres-
cent burned at the wharf ut New Orleans
Friday night. Loss 100000. ..lIassett's
stable in Chicago was burned Sunday
morning. Four fine horses persisted in
the Aamcs......A fire at st. Louis, satur-
day, destroyed Stanberry & Co.'S saddle
and harness factory. Loss $4,000. 1T
is our mournful duty to state that George
Francis Train is released from prison and
en- route for America
The Spanish Government still postpones
the attack upon the insurgents in Cadiz,
hoping that they will peacefully surrender.
........Quartermaster Meigs has issued
another number Of The Roll Of Honor. 1t
contains the names of over 10000 dead
Union Soldiers. ....... Gen. Wynkoop, the
Indian Agent, has resigned, ostonsibly on
account of the recent attack on Black
Kettles band, who: he says, arc friendly
Indians. The Greek Government refuses
to accede to the terms proposed by the
great powers in the Cretan affair, and the
Turkish Ambassador is preparing to leave
Athens. There promises to be a large
attendance at the cunion of the armies
of the West, at Chicago, on the 18th.
Generals Grant and Schofcld with their
stats left Washington for Chicago Sunday
night. The telegraph mentions very
important railroad combination now or
foot, to establish an uninterrupted broad
guage line from New York westward, via
the Erie, Atlantic and Great Western anc
other connecting roads......The Turkish
Government is making active preparation!
for hostilities with Greece 1t is reported
that the King Of Denmark and the Prince
of Wales baye sent joint note to Kin:
George of Greece, urging him to accede tt
the demands of Turkey.
| Sally Anderson, sentenced to death fo
murder, was brought before Judge Under
!. wood, at Richmond on Saturday, on a wri
of habeas corpus, and discharged on tn
ground that one Of the magistrates VIII
presided atthe trial was disqualified undo
, the l4th amendment. title Vigilanc
f Committee Of Seymour, Indiana, earl.
Saturday morning proceeded from tina
, place to New Albany, and capturing tn
) jail, took out and hanged four others q
5 the gang who have been confined there t
, await trial on the charge of selling rail
/ way trains in that region and robbing tn
safes in the express cars. The fou
: hanged were the three Reno brothers an
a man named Anderson. Cheyenne ha